Ronald McDonald House Charities CTC#103

You may have come here from Kelly Kent's blog or perhaps you have started the blog here, but either way, make sure you use the links at the end to hop on over to the next blog until you have gone full-circle. This week at CASE-ing The Catty we are CASE-ing the Ronald McDonald House Charities stamps, My Hero, on the inside back cover of the back cover (page 209). Did you know that $3 of every set you purchase is donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities? Stampin' Up! and their demonstrators support the charity in other practical ways too.

Many make cards which are then available for guests at Ronald McDonald House to use, since it is often difficult to go shopping while you are supporting a sick child.
I was inspired by the splashes of Melon Mambo, and the writing on the heart and umbrella, so picked Peaceful Pines, the only current stamp I own that shares that feature, it has two trees with writing on them.
The Fancy Frost white embossed 12" X 12 " paper in the Holiday catalogue has some lovely patterns, and this starry one was perfect for my project. Because you can never have enough bling. I studded it with rhinestones!
There are also the two supporting trees in Blushing Bride and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper.

Next I was inspired to make a child's birthday card using a retired hostess stamp Silhouettes & Script. My daughters-in-law are always needing birthday cards for the myriad of parties my grandchildren attend. They certainly all lead very active social lives, but I love to help out with a bunch of cards from time to time.




The confetti comes from Party With Cake, as does the greeting next to the hat on the inside. Again, all inspired by the script on the images in the My Hero stamp set.

Come back tomorrow and I'll share CASE-ing The Catty Crew catching up in Brisbane last week.

 Cheers, Rachel

Now head on over to Krissy Buck

and if you'd like to link your creation at CASE-ing The Catty, this is the link for November.

Painting The Town {Any Colour You Like!}

 We are nearing the end of the Occasions catalogue, just another fortnight until it ends and Stampin' Up!® will also launch the NEW Annual Catalogue. A few weeks back I was working with this English Garden DSP and had been focused on the lovely florals in the pack. However, the reverse of these papers are equally stunning and more masculine, or at least gender-neutral. I love the colours in this paper, and it spoke to me of paint brush strokes. What do you think? The Hostess stamp set in the Occasions catalogue is Love You Sew. It has some quirky little sayings, and I do have an urge to add RED at the end of 'Let's paint the town' but of course there's no red on this paper. 

Lots of Labels Framelits provided a perfect spot for the stamping and I added in the 'Happy Birthday' from Party With Cake to make it clear why we were painting the town. It wasn't a perfect impression but I decided to leave it alone.  The good news is that Party With Cake made it into the new catalogue, so if you love those sentiments that look like they've been typed with a genuine old typewriter, this could be one to add to your collection.You could use almost any shade of brown, blue or green with this paper and I settled on Soft Suede, Old Olive and Lost Lagoon. We say goodbye to Lost Lagoon in a fortnight, so if you love it, make sure you've ordered some.

When I made this card I wasn't sure what I had in mind for it, but I do need to have ANOTHER 40th birthday card for my son to give to one of his mates in a fortnight. Although this man is a plumber, and I had intended using the tools in Guy Greetings, he is also in the process of renovating an old weatherboard house. Maybe this will, indeed be a suitable card for a renovator!

Retiring at the end of May......

English Garden DSP #138440 $19.25

Lost Lagoon A4 card #133686 $12.25

Lost Lagoon ink pad #133644 $11.50

Love You Sew #141012 $24.00 hostess dollars (you need to make an order or have a party with friends to the value of $240 to earn this)

May Hostess Code  -  ZGGAABEE

You can shop anytime in my online store, and don't forget to look at the retiring and clearance lines while you're there.

Cheers,

Rachel

     

Farewell To Some Sale-A-Bration Items

Most of you are probably aware of the Stampin' Up!® annual promotion which always takes place in the New Year. It's the reason I joined up as a hobby demonstrator nearly 5 years ago. (My anniversary is February 28th) and every year I've loved the SALE-A-Bration collection, and usually hang onto the stamp sets. They often have great sentiments and images, and because they are only on offer with a qualifying purchase (for less than 3 months too) they are a little bit different.

Two stamp sets, and one Designer Series Paper are leaving the collection early - Monday 15th January will be the last day to add them onto your qualifying order. $90 if you want one, $180 for two or $270 for all three!

It's hard to pick a favourite out of the three. I've enjoyed using The Sky Is The Limit a lot. I used it for my January class and loved the way each of the ladies put their own spin onto my sample. They're a clever lot, those girls!





It's a great masculine stamp set and it fits in rather nicely with Traveler and Going Global stamp sets, so I will hang onto it. I made another pair of cards this week so you could see the DSP, which comes in six shades, 2 12" x 12" double-sided sheets per pack.




Now these neutrals don't really do the paper justice, but I'm sure when you see the pink, which is Melon Mambo one side and Blushing Bride the other you'll be more impressed.
Quite a contrast, isn't it? This is the other retiring stamp set, Hello.


As well as the word 'hello' in a large clear script, there are 4 sub-titles: Little Sunshine, Birthday Girl, Birthday Boy and My Friend.
For the Melon Mambo version, I've used only stamps from Hello. The little party hat is also part of it, along with a smiley face and a sun. They're designed to fit on the 'e' or the 'o'. The Blushing Bride card has some flowers from A Whole Lot Of Lovely, which was out because I was making a card to send off to a team mate who is unwell.

I couldn't resist putting a card together for a Birthday Boy as well, using Boys Will Be Boys for the Lego and Balloon Builder for a balloon, but of course there are so many balloon stamp sets around at the moment, it could come from anywhere. If you have boys under 10 in your life, Boys Will Be Boys is a 'go to' stamp set too. The different coloured Lego were water-coloured using ink and an aquapainter, easy enough, and the background lego were just stamped out in matching ink.

The inside of this card was a bit of fun too! This time the lego were stamped in 4 different colours, there is some brightly coloured washi tape at the bottom and two sentiments from Party With Cake.
You can see the little smiley face here too, but I haven't yet used the sun or Little Sunshine. I bet they'll fit into the Sunburst Sayings range rather nicely though. So which of these SAB items do you NEED in your stash?



Want to Join?


Another thing I'd like to remind you of. During SALE-A-Bration is a great time to join Stampin' Up!® especially if your wish list is a long one. The joining special is "pay $169, but order $295 retail of Stampin' Up!® products". There's no shipping to pay on that order, and you have until end of June to make your $440  quarterly minimum. Not sure what I'm talking about? Email me with a question, or a phone number and suitable time for me to call you and maybe you'll join the Stampin' Up!® family too.


It's totally okay to join for the discount, maybe you'll take your hobby further but Stampin' Up!® (nor me) will ever pressure you to do that. One of the unexpected bonuses for me has been the fun friendships and support I've received from other demonstrators. Oh, I'll just share the card I've posted to my team mate too. Its so pretty in shades of Smokey Slate and soft, subtle pastels.

I am an Australian demonstrator, living on the outskirts of Melbourne. My team, the South'n Stampers, is small and friendly. We try to meet up every couple of months to stamp together, sometimes a bit hard with work commitments and family, and I hold a class once a month. Email me at rpalmieri5@bigpond.com if you need to know more. If you have a long list from the Occasions Catalogue and Annual Catalogue ready to go now, you might want to click on the link to read terms and conditions.

Cheers, Rachel

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What I Love SAB CTC#64

This week at CASE-ing The Catty we are sharing another SALE-A-Bration pick, whether it be a stamp set, one of the papers or even Project Life - they're all available for you to pick when you make an order of $90. If you happen to be mad for everything in the Occasions catalogue, you can pick an item for every $90 you order ($180 = 2 items, $270 = 3 items, $360 = 4 etc). If you get as high as that, maybe you should have a chat to me about joining up as a demonstrator, Stampin' Up!® welcomes and supports all types of demonstrators from the hobby demo buying crafting supplies at a discount, through to those making it a full time business. During SALE-A-Bration you get to choose $60 extra, choose $295 of any products from the Annual Catalogue and/or the Occasions Catalogue and pay only $169. Of course, if you prefer to be a customer, you can purchase your supplies through my online shop, or by contacting me, you just need to have a delivery address in Australia.

This week I had fun with What I Love, a two-step or three-step stamp in photopolymer. I CASE-d the tag on the gift bag and came up with a little pack of four Thank You notecards. Really, it's so easy to ink up the leaf and stamp a few times with a couple of different greens onto a square of Whisper White, mounted onto a slightly larger square of Wild Wasabi.

These notecards are available in packs of 20 in Whisper White and Crumbcake with matching envelopes, and they only cost $10.50! So handy to have on hand for when you're short of time. You'll find them on page 149 in the Australian  annual catalogue, or click on the image in the supply list below.
To make the packet they're contained in, I cut a Gift Card Envelope from Crumb Cake and made a belly band from Botanical Gardens DSP, with some additional trims from Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and Mini Treat Bag Thinlets. There are also a couple of stamped banners from Choose Happiness.



My good friend and fellow crew member on CASE-ing The Catty celebrated her birthday recently. While this isn't CASE-ing The Catty,  What I Love helped me create this cheerful bunch of flowers to celebrate with Kathryn. I selectively inked up a greeting from Party With Cake. It's actually the bit about cake I left off - [chuckling]. No..... it's not that Kathryn and I don't like cake, we just live too far apart!! Kathryn is in South Australia and I'm in Victoria. Perhaps we should make a date for cake when we meet up in Sydney in April, hey Kathryn!


I wanted to fit a greeting into the oval, something that makes a statement and this sentiment seemed to fit that description. I've used Blackberry Bliss, stamped off once in some images, giving a lighter shade. The other two are Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo.
 The smaller sentiment is from Sunburst Sayings which fits nicely on a 1¼" punched circle.

If you can't wait to get some of these goodies in your hands, and you'd like me to be your demonstrator, you can shop in my online store here. Australian buyers only. My phone number if you have any questions is 0417 500 681. If your order is less than $250, it would be great if you used the Hostess code 4G296SCD when you checkout.
Starting this year we are doing a monthly challenge. If you have been inspired by any of the projects in the catalogue or on the blog hop, feel free to share with the linky tool on this post. A winner will be chosen and announced on the first post of the following month.

The email address if you're in Australia and wanting catalogues sent is rpalmieri5@bigpond.com 

If you're someone who likes to go in the reverse direction, click on 'previous, button and it will take you to Tricia at The Speckled Sparrow

but if you're proceeding forward, you'll click on the NEXT button and move forward to lovely Liz at Lilly Loves Paper

   

                                                       

 Cheers, Rachel

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February 40th CTD#377

One of my spare-time activities, is to scroll through various challenges, checking out colour combinations or sketches for inspiration. I need to make a masculine 40th birthday card, for my son to give to a friend for his February 40th. The Sunburst Thinlet Die was out on my table while I was working on some class projects. After spotting this colour combination at Color Throwdown, I knew exactly what I was going to do for the 40th!

 Two sunbursts, one in Delightful Dijon, the other Smokey Slate are laid on top of Tip Top Taupe, just slightly askew. A little trimming is required to remove the overhang. The type-written phrases are actually stamps from Party With Cake, also in the Occasions Catalogue. The sentiment inside the card is one of the larger ones from Party With Cake, partially masked so I could use just the section I wanted.

The four and zero were cut three times each and glued together with the fine-tip glue pen which almost gives the impression of coaster board. There's lovely dimension to them. They've been grounded on a silver foil star outline, cut using two consecutive framelits, a few swirls of silver cord (retired now) and then three more tiny silver stars ar scattered amongst the sentiments. It must have met with my son's approval, because he's given me a list of all the 40th's he and his wife are going to this year!!

Cheers, Rachel

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