Kids & Babies CTC#187

Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing The Catty. The crew is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project.

My eye was drawn immediately to the Petal Pink card, top centre of the catalogue picture. I'm totally into #loveitchopit now, and always cut at least half a pack of paper into ready-to-use pieces when I receive my order. This comes after years of hoarding!!!

When I cut card front-size pieces, there are strips left over which are crying out to be used. I haven't had to do much more than sort through the pieces of 'Share What You Love ' DSP to find a couple of suitable strips. This time I chose the very lightest of all the greens, Soft Seafoam to pair with these pretty patterned papers.

Abstract Impressions provided the sentiment and the embossing folder Lovely Floral has left a lovely impression beside the sentiment. Another textured embossing folder, which you might well miss in the catalogue is Subtle #143706. You can see the finish it gives card, below on the card.

Such a simple little CASE, and it could have almost qualified for my Thrifty Thursday feature.

Next hop along on your inspirational journey today is the lovely and talented Fi Cobbin.

CASE-ing stands for Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit. Either way, it's perfectly okay to do this, especially when you use our trusty and inspiring catalogue to do it. Check out pages 80-91 and see what you can CASE, then share it on our Facebook page.

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Fun Embossing Techniques

Recently 50 of us gathered in Melbourne for some team training, demonstartions and make 'n' takes. It was a hugely successful day, and some demos even flew over from South Australia for the day. My good friend Kathryn actually spent a few days staying here at my home, which was lots of fun too.

Kathryn and I both demonstrated projects to other demonstrators, and I reported on mine here. Kathryn was sharing different embossing techniques, and she left me some of her sample pieces to work with. The flower above was debossed with versamark, using the Lovely Floral TIEF and then gold embossing powder was sprinkled over.

It has a rather lovely antique effect, which I matched with Share What You Love DSP and card in Sea Foam and Mossy Meadow. The small heat embossed sentiment is part of a larger one from Stitched All Round. I masked off the part I didn't want to use before stamping into Versamark. The most important part is remembering to remove the tape before you put the stamp to card!!!!

If you order in my online shop and use the Host Code, you will receive a gift in the mail from me.

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