Showing posts with label Happy Birthday To You. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Birthday To You. Show all posts

Friday, 20 March 2020

Favourite In Color?

What a crazy time we are living in at the moment! Although my family are all well, I'm feeling anxious for my daughter-in-law, who is a nurse at a regional hospital. My retirement dinner for Saturday night has been postponed and we have to cancel our Mediterranean cruise and train trip around Italy. As you know, there have been terrible scenes in stores as shoppers argue over the diminishing supplies, and shortages of the staples. Thankfully, we can still order our Stampin' Up! supplies, and I also like to indulge in a bit of fabric buying online.

SAB 2020 Thoughtful Blooms #152290 Golden Honey specialty designer series paper #152311- add one for free to your $90 order, or buy $180 worth, and choose them both

As SALE-A-Bration draws to an end, (31st March) I always do a stocktake of my basic consumable supplies. By that I mean card, ink and adhesives. There are two reasons, one is that if I have an order that qualifies for a SALE-a-Bration product, I'm happy to add to my collection, because even if I have everything I want, these products come in handy as prizes for customers, and raffles at markets.



The second reason is that in no time, Stampin' Up! will be announcing that a new annual catalogue is coming. It will actually not go live until June 3rd, but the moment they make the announcement, they will sell out of the 2019-2020 In Color collection. The colours are lovely bright primary shades, and I will not be surprised if we see some of these return at a later date. Lovely Lipstick and Blueberry Bushel are my personal favourites - do you like those or one of the other 3 colours better?


None of these products ever get reduced, but still sell out quicker than you'd expect.
I have made sure that I have ink refills, enough card to go with the designer series paper I have in those colours plus I needed new Lovely Lipstick Stampin' Blends, because I've used that colour so much. I will have links at the end to all the retiring In Colour products.


These colours will be current for another year, and there will be 5 new ones - I wonder what they will be?

Happy Birthday To You #152308 is another free pick for your $90 order. The font for the sentiments is perfect for heat embossing in white onto a darker colour.

It's worth checking how much Whisper White card you have on hand at this time. The regular Whisper White is best for stamped images, the thick is better if you are making a card base, or colouring with Stampin' Blends as they 'bleed' through the card. Also, do you have enough Dimensionals, Snail and Tombow Multi-purpose glue. It doesn't go "off" as far as I know, and we might be in isolation for a while.



I've had to set up a new Host Code, as the other one disappeared??? When you use the Host code, it groups all the orders together as if it were a party. That means that I can share samples with you, my customers. If your order is higher than $250, you will earn Host Dollars yourself (10% of your total before shipping) and should add your choice of products or exclusive hostess stamps to your order. Ask me for help if you have difficulty understanding.
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Sunday, 15 March 2020

CTC#265 Week 1




This week the CASE-ing The Catty design team are focusing on the second release SALE-A-Bration catalogue.



I've selected the sketch of the coffee cups card in the middle of the top left picture to make my 'Congratulations' card using Happy Birthday To Youone of the most popular of the SALE-A-Bration stamp sets. The elements I've used are ribbon twisted back and forth behind the die cut, central placement of the die cut, and a banner to carry the sentiment.


It then becomes a whole different card because of the colour change and a different image. The Garden Lane DSP as a background adds a different look as well. Although green is not a favourite colour of mine, this paper from the Annual catalogue has such subtle backgrounds and soft shades, it is hard to pass it up.


With the cake and flowers coloured with blends in quite soft shades, this is appropriate for a wedding, especially paired with the 'congratulations' and short verse from Beautiful Bouquet. This stamp set would possibly take first prize for thoughtful sentiments. I tried to capture the lovely shimmer of Wink Of Stella on the flowers but it is quite hard to do - you'll have to take my word for it, but its worth adding.


I have also invested in the Coordination Product Release and purchased the Birthday Dies, which cut the whole cake, flowers etc, just the flowers and leaves and two different types of leaves. That is $47, so you just need another $43 to earn the Happy Birthday To You stamp set free, until the end of March, as long as stock lasts.


You may have started the blog hop here, or have come from the lovely Julia Quinn. Whichever it is, there are plenty more samples to view, so keep on to Siobhan at Hightree House of Cards to see what she has CASE-d.




I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, use the Host Code when asked at check out, & I will send you a gift, along with a handmade card. The items listed below were used in my project above, and link to that item in my online shop.


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until 31 March


Remember that it is SALE-A-Bration until March 31st, so for every $90 you order, you get to choose a SAB item and its shipped straight to you with your order. Any questions, get in touch.


It's also a good time to join my team, either as a business or just to buy your own supplies at 20% discount. You get $235 worth of YOUR CHOICE of product for $169 including shipping, PLUS a mini guillotine, pack of assorted current 6" square DSP, and your choice of a stamp set. Make it the most expensive stamp set you want to get best value. Again, any further questions, get in touch and you can read more here.

We'd love you to CASE the Sale-a-bration second release catalogue and share your creation on our Facebook page. You have 2 weeks to make your creation.







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