Farewell Rose Wonder

Rose Wonder has been a wonderful stamp set, with such an array of sentiments for birthdays, weddings and bereavements. The framelits, if you are lucky enough to own a Big Shot, are fun, and sometimes frustrating! It was almost like doing a jigsaw puzzle, putting together this rose of many hues.

I think it would have been a big help if I'd used the Sissix self-adhesive sheets on the paper to avoid the messy glue situation!!!

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The good news is that the stamps are reduced, but only until May 31st, unless stock runs out. Rose Wonder stamp set is $32.90 and the framelits are $54.00. You will find them in my Online Shop under 'Last-chance Products'. If you choose to purchase from me, and use the host code, you'll receive a gift from me.

AWH April Blog Hop Retiring Products

Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring products from the last chance products list. There are lots of products to choose from with retiring stamp sets, inkpads and ink refills guaranteed to be available until 7 May (and all other products while supplies last). Contact anyone on the blog hop to place your last chance order today.


 I've shared some sympathy cards made with images from Remarkable You and sentiments inside and out from Rose Wonder. Both these stamp sets have been in the Annual catalogue for some time, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are retiring, but I'm sad to see them go.

These  lilies are lovely and only need the smallest hint of colour to lift them. I have grown other lilies like this with much more colour, but to my way of thinking, these suit a bereavement card best.

A little more stamping inside, but no colour added. The sentiment really conveys the message so succinctly. Rose Wonder has some lovely sentiments and bible verses included.

Most likely you've spotted the same verse inside the second card, with an uncoloured magnolia alongside. On the front, they're coloured in traditional magnolia colours, and the leaves are from Remarkable You also. I also used retiring colour Rose Red for this card.

Please continue around our blog hop. Next you'll go to the very talented Tina Gillespie in Adelaide

Catherine Proctor

Sharon Davern

Leanne Mitchell
Judy May

Caroline Manwaring

Ros Davidson 

Rebecca Jacovou

Monika O’Neill

Kate Morgan

Rachel Palmieri
Tina Gillespie

Kimberly Hern
Rachel Woollard

Alisha Watson 

Kathryn Mangelsdorf 

Yellow Roses

I've just arrived back from Stampin' Up!® Onstage, held in the Big Top at Luna Park, Sydney. It was lots of fun, and in a few days I will be able to tell you a little more. Recently I made a stack of cards using Petal Palette and this particular card just might be a favourite. It shows you the roses coloured with Stampin' Blends and in my opinion, they look great without total coverage.

Of course, there is nothing to stop you completely colouring them, but nature tends to be slightly imperfect doesn't it? This label stamp and sentiment are from Rose Wonder stamp & die set.

Petals & More Thinlets match the Petal Palette stamps, and there is the lovely, lacy  piece as well as the piece to cut the trio of roses. The card front has been half texture-embossed using one of the Petal Pair TIEF. The sympathetic verse is from Flourishing Phrases.

The sympathetic verse is from Flourishing Phrases, and it also has a similar 'With Sympathy' using a slightly different font.Petal Palette is in the NEW Annual catalogue but you will only get the 10% discount while it is bundled finishing May 31st. You can order the stamp & die bundle using the following codes

wood #145973

clear  #145974

Want to go shopping? My online shop is open 24 hours a day.Shop there and use the Host code and you'll gain a reward from me.

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SAB CTC #161

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.

With CASE-ing the SALE-A-Bration Catty, we aren't restricting it to any particular pages. However, I can see no good reason to start anywhere but the beginning and I've picked page 5, two out of three of the cards pictured at the bottom of the page.

This embossing folder, Garden Trellis is a favourite of mine, so I didn't hesitate to choose the same one, but I changed to Wisteria Wonder, even though I do love Pool Party. The Sweet Sugarplum tinsel is in the new Occasions Catalogue paired with gold. The red and silver were popular at Christmas, so I'm sure these two new colours will be too.

 There is a pack of 6 inch square glimmer paper on page 37 of the Occasions Catalogue in three colours, Lemon-Lime Twist, Bermuda Bay and I guess it might be Powder Pink. This is the softest, prettiest shade of pink and I cut some flowers from Eclectic Layers Thinlet and Rose Garden Thinlets. I thought they made a cute little bunch beside the sentiment and label from Rose Wonder.

To finish, I tucked a Christmas doiley, which I've coloured pink, just for fun.

For the second CASE, I chose the same colour as the catalogue, Sweet Sugarplum. I echoed the circle, using the Starburst Punch, because punches are so quick & easy, and so was stamping this little bird. It comes from a new stamp set, Petal Palette which has a lot of images and also a lot of sentiments. The narrow Textured Impressions Embossing Folders are from the Petal Passion Suite and come in a pair. The floral one in the catalogue is beautifully detailed, but I used the other vine-like one on vellum for something different.

A scrap of DSP cut with a label die from Petals & More Thinlets, and stamped with one of the sentiments in Petal Palette. That ornate little piece behind the 'thank you' label is another die in that set and I've used it a bit, because it is so pretty.

My youngest son bought me four of these sweet china Christmas ornaments and they also inspired my card.

Now, we want you to CASE the SAB catty and share here on our Facebook page. Don't forget to say which project you've CASE-d.

Then,  make time to pop on over to see the lovely Angela

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Rose Wonder On Special!

Rose Wonder is a stamp set for most life events - wedding, birthday, thank you and sympathy and what's more, it has appropriate verses for the inside. I'm bringing it to your attention because I just noticed that it is on special in the Year-End Sales Event.

Priced at $32.90, its a good deal, and you don't need to buy the framelits to make good use of this one. I'll share a couple of the cards I've made.

 This card (above) uses the spotlight technique. The image is stamped before a portion is selected to colour. In this case it was a large part of the image, framed with ruled lines.

For this card, the same large image has been stamped in a coloured ink and then it has had the colour drawn onto the petals with an Aqua Painter.

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Rose Wonder CTC#129

We are Case-ing our favourite project from the Annual Catalogue, which is really difficult, like picking which of your children is your favourite. You may have just arrived here from Kelly Kent, but if you are starting here, don't forget that blogs are full circle and you can check out what all the design team selected by pressing the next button at the end.

Rose Wonder is a beautiful stamp set with some wonderful sentiments and I CASE-d a card using this on page 133 of the almost retired catalogue, to make my version.

Stampin' Up!® Catalogue Sample

I was searching for something fun for my ladies to make at our next stamp class. It is often hard to decide on something which will challenge them without overwhelming and so I've made a plain sample of white on white, and then my attempt at CASE-ing the other catalogue sample.Again, I glued white to the base, and then I had fun with re-inkers and an Aqua Painter. Also used the speckles from Touches of Texture. I know I will be using Touches of Texture, and probably that particular splatter stamp a lot now that Gorgeous Grunge is retiring. Bonus is, there are some lovely flowers included in the Touches Of Texture stamp set.

I decided not to stress too much when I couldn't cleanly remove all the pieces from the die as it hadn't cut right through, I just went with what I had. Really, the problem was not using the Precision Base Plate which is suggested for more intricate dies.

If you get lost along the way or a link is broken you can get back on track here.

We always love to see what you are crafting too, so what is your favourite project from the Annual Catalogue? You can link to our Facebook site here if you'd like to share.

Now head on over to see what the talented Rebecca Scurr has made.

Happy Crafting, 

Rachel

Flourishing Musically

Flourishing Phrases is a wonderful stamp set with sentiments for both inside and outside of many cards. They cover matching and despatching, with some congratulations and thank you thrown in for good measure.





I have a customer, a music teacher, who often orders a batch of cards from me. She likes a musical theme to them and since Stampin' Up!® don't have any particularly suitable stamps at the moment, I make do with musical DSP and something else.

Last time she loved the cards with butterflies, so I hoped these flourishes would make her happy too. They are all different, and lined inside with Very Vanilla card trimmed with the musical DSP and no sentiment attached. I did make labels using the Rose Wonder stamped frame and die, plus the smaller sentiments, and my customer can attach them as she needs them.

Don't forget, there are only a couple more days of this bonus offer from Stampin' Up!®. If you make a $90 order in July, you will receive an email with a code to use on your August order giving you $9 off between 2nd-31st August. That amounts to a 10% saving, and if you happen to order a bundle, that is another 10% saving. Maybe you are planning to purchase Thoughtful Branches bundle in August. Wouldn't it be nice to get another $9 off? If you'd like to shop in my online store, don't forget to use the Hostess code at checkout and depending on the size of your order, you'll get more free stuff.

HOSTESS CODE: 9Z44PC2P

Cheers, Rachel

Spotlight On Roses CTS#176

Looking for something different to showcase the stamping side of the Rose Wonder stamps (because I think we may have already seen how wonderful the Rose Garden Thinlets are!!) it occured to me to try two-step stamping. I was planning to use it for a class, but found the ink on photopolymer is a bit hit-&-miss, if you don't use the correct technique every single time and that might be frustrating for class members. I decided to try just sketching a block with a Project Life pen and ruler, and water colouring the inside of the rectangle.
I didn't mind that the pen doesn't end neatly at the corners, but I will suggest that the girls might prefer to use a Framelit to guide them if that bothers them. I didn't think of it when I was playing!!!





The colours I used were Flirty Flamingo, Watermelon Wonder, Emerald Envy and Crushed Cucumber. Because I wanted a greeting to fit into a narrow banner, I took Birthday Blossoms and used the birthday sentiment from that stamp.
Sketch #176 by Sam Simpson at Case This Sketch actually started this inspiration, and helped me tick something off my 'to-do' list.




I'm actually still enjoying some rose blooms in my garden, even though we are in the first month of winter in Australia. We do have reasonably mild winters in my part of Melbourne. July is the month to prune here, and that will be another job for my 'to-do' list. I love being busy!

Have a lovely weekend,
Cheers, Rachel

Timeless Elegance - Papers We'll Miss

I'm on a mission to use up DSP, preferably NOW! I have an enormous pile of unopened DSP, but as well as that, I have a huge number of partially used packets. SUO Challenge seems to understand my predicament by challenging us this time to share the papers we'll miss. Well, I have to say this time around, there are so many lovely papers but this is one I actually used this week.

Timeless Elegance DSP, which I adore, has many subdued patterns which lend themselves to a little jazzing up. I had used most of the black lace to make a card and gift bag for my youngest son's girlfriend, but apart from that, only a small portion was used.

 Last week I cut a number of the sheets and mounted them on slightly larger rectangles of black card, so they are ready to work with whenever I have time. A sponge dauber into ink (Watermelon Wonder) has been used on the roses on this piece of paper, while a sentiment from Rose Wonder was stamped inside the label stamp and cut with the matching die. A few Basic Jewel pearls were added and after it was mounted on a Watermelon Wonder base, it was complete.

The colouring on the card at right was done with ink and an aquapainter. It needed a couple of light coats to get enough colour, and for a bit of fun, I've stamped some splodges of  Sweet Sugarplum (new colour) about. Gold Wink of Stella on the stamens added a lovely touch and this sentiment has been heat embossed in the new copper embossing powder onto a Sweet Sugarplum banner.

This black and vanilla stripe is another of the papers in Timeless Elegance DSP. It is a great background to show off the gorgeous flowers from Botanical Blooms. I'm stamping on them more, and shading with sponge daubers and finding that the possibilities with these dies and stamps are endless. As well as the old favourite Melon Mambo, you see Flirty Flamingo at the back and Sweet Sugarplum in front. I've just ordered some more sponge daubers for the new In Colors after realising I'd reached the end of my supply.
                                                                                                         

Do you use your DSP or hoard it like I used to?
If you live in Australia, and want to place an order you can go to my online store anytime of the day or night. The Hostess Code for this month is ZGGAABEE

Have a great crafty weekend

Cheers

Rachel

Rose Wonder Birthday

I had a couple of cards to make for friends this weekend just past, and this one has been handed over today.
My last Stampin' Up!® order contained the Rose Wonder stamp and Rose Garden Thinlets bundle - even I like to save 15%!!!




I was very inspired by last Sunday's CASE-ing The Catty Bloghop too, when a lot of the design team used this combination, with lots of different effects.

I had some fun die cutting several different colours of the smaller rose, and then putting them together in different combinations. This particular version has a Rich Razzleberry outline, and some petals, along with Blackberry Bliss, Perfect Plum and Wisteria Wonder. It has a lovely rich, jewel tone. I've kept the leaf quite basic this time - I'm liking the clean, uncluttered look of this card.

The iside has a sentiment from Happy Happenings and a strip of Bohemian DSP across the bottom. This paper is only available until May 31st, not long till we see a new catalogue now, so it's time to order any ink, paper or ribbon of the retiring In colours before the rush is on.

The colours retiring this year are Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Lost Lagoon (my favourite) , Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist.

If you need supplies and you have an Australian shipping address I'd love to be your demonstrator. You can shop in my online store anytime, and I can advise you on how to use your new products. I also hold classes at home if you're able to get to South Morang, Victoria.

Do let me know if you'd like information, catalogues or product advice.

Cheers, Rachel