Charming Birds CTC#168

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.

Pages 22 - 27 are the target for CASE-ing this time, beautiful choices on these pages. I had just finished making a card with Charming Cafe, and decided to CASE the blurry image just above my card and marry it with Bird Banter. I really enjoy mixing stamp sets around, so next I chose a sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday. You will find all of those in the Occasions Catalogue, which is current until May 31st.

There isn't a whole lot of Petal Garden DSP left in my pack, but if you love this floral paper, you'll find it on page 187 of the Annual Catalogue, either online or available from your Stampin' Up!® demonstrator.

All images were coloured using various shades of Stampin' Blends, the new alcohol markers. So easy to use and pretty colours matching the Stampin' Up!® colours.

Time for you to see what the AMAZING Jackie Noble in New Zealand has created

Now, we want you to CASE the catty, remember pages 22 - 27 of the Occasions, and share here on our Facebook page. Don't forget to share which project you've CASE-d.

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Don't forget that SALE-A-Bration only runs until March 31st, right in the middle of a busy Easter weekend too, just over 3 weeks to go. If you have been thinking of putting in an order and collecting some free stuff, don't leave it too late. If you are anywhere in Australia, I'd be happy to be your demonstrator. You can ring/text me (0417500681), or order online 24/7 by clicking on the Host code icon. By using the Host Code you are participating in my monthly 'Virtual Party' and I will share the rewards with you according to the amount spent. If you spend $90 you can choose from selected SALE-A-Bration items. Some of them require a spend of $180, check with me or at your online order for more details.

All your SALE-A-Bration choices.

SALE-A-Bration Step-It-Up CTC#165

 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.

This week we are CASE-ing the SALE-A-Bration Catty again, you might notice that is happening every other week. The card I am CASE-ing has been done before but it's a great little sketch on page 7 of the SAB catty.

 It's the peacock card in Lemon-Lime Twist with the  medallion from Eastern Medallion Thinlet Dies and the full length strip running from top to bottom behind the medallion. Then because the reverse of the Petal Garden DSP is so pretty, I couldn't resist adding a strip of that across the card. It's okay to make these changes when you're CASE-ing as it makes your project more original.

Seeing the photo, I'm not so sure about the black die cut pieces, but they seem less obtrusive in real life.

The lovely sentiment is from a stamp set in the Annual Catalogue, Beautiful Bouquet. I bought this photo polymer set, purely for the sweet sentiments, but I do get a lot of use out of the flowers and dies also.

Next talented design team member to visit is Elizabeth Gross

Join us with your CASE of any project from the SAB catalogue, including the new leaflet if you've seen it.

Holidays and Birthdays.CTC#138

Welcome back to another blog hop with the crew from CASE-ing The Catty. Do keep on hopping along, to see what else the crew are sharing. Our challenge this week is to CASE from the NEW Annual Stampin' Up!® catalogue, Holiday section, from page 112-125.

Although I'm holding Christmas classes in July, I haven't really got into the mood for Christmas cards as such yet. I had no difficulty CASEing page 118 of the catalogue for another birthday card. You've Got Style recently arrived in my studio, and the first stamp I used was the sentiment on this card. Love it! "Hope your birthday is as bubbly as you are! Happy Birthday!"

Bubbles from Playful Backgrounds decorate the art piece, with a section left clear for the flute glasses, which are from a retired stamp set, Making Spirits Bright. If you're after something current, Mixed Drinks (page 60) has a single flute, a wine glass, beer mug and one of those jars you put a straw into. Just a whisper too, the new Holiday Catalogue has another stamp set which includes different types of wine glasses, flutes etc. Let me know if you'd like a Holiday catalogue when I get my hands on them. They go 'live' on September 1st.

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack (that means there are 48 6 inch square sheets of pattern paper) has some really unusual colour combinations. Rich Razzleberry with Pool Party and Calypso Coral with Pool Party and Old Olive are a couple which I find really striking. I used a sheet as the background on my card, and then chose ribbon and card to tone.

These Glitter Enamel Dots are so pretty. You can almost catch the glimmer, but I had no luck picking up the Wink of Stella champagne!

The card I CASEd is the red & white stripe one. First I tried to put the banner across the middle of the art piece but it just didn't work. I did however CASE the ribbon behind, which I wouldn't normally do. I'm great at buying ribbons and all things pretty but a bit hopeless at using them.

Next stop along this blog hop is the very clever Fi Cobbin. She has CASEd the same card as I did, but put her own slant on it. Such a cute reindeer.

Seventy Birthday Wishes CTC #137

Welcome back to another blog hop with the crew from CASE-ing The Catty. Do keep on hopping along, to see what else the crew are sharing. Our challenge this week is to CASE from the NEW Annual Stampin' Up!® catalogue, Artistic Expressions pages 132 - 181. I have a lot of stamps from this section, but so far not this one right at the start of the pages. You may have arrived here from Kelly Kent, do make sure you hop around to see what all the crew are sharing from the Stampin' Up!® Annual Catalogue.

I've CASEd the bottom left card, the one with the Stampin' Up! insignia partly covering it. I've taken artistic liscence with it, as we are inclined to do, but some basic design similarities are echoed. The new Ruffled 3D Dynamic TIEF was my choice for the back ground. The birthday sentiment, from Happiest Of Days was stamped toward the bottom of the white card, which was trimmed to size. I wanted maximum exposure of the gorgeous textured background. The sample also had a smaller panel to show off more background.

Since the sentiment says 'birthday wishes' I could see no reason not to simply place the copper foil '70' above it, and there you have '70 birthday wishes'. If you own a Big Shot, an essential purchase is the Large Number Framelits. The leafy swirl and small flower are all part of the sentiment, and I coloured them lightly with an aqua painter and some ink in the lid of my ink pads. The tiny leaves were coloured with a quick stroke of the Stampin' Writer - so easy! The larger flower stamp is a single stamp, which seemed to balance the composition. Instead of the folded ribbon behind the art piece, a copper foil piece from the Swirly Scribbles Thinlets was cut, again on the Big Shot.

Inside has been finished with a layer of Blackberry Bliss (retired) card, a layer .5cm smaller of Petal Garden DSPS, one of the packs with 48 6" X 6" squares of pattern paper. Then another smaller square of Whisper White with another sentiment from Happiest Of Days.

Another quick look at the inside to see how the Rich Razzleberry flowers tie in with the base of the card. I love the 'pop' of Pool Party, to give it a lift. This card will be needed next weekend, but I'm pretty certain that it is safe to share it here.

Now it's time to hop off to Megan Lenske

Happy crafting, Rachel