Beachy Little Christmas

Christmas and the summer holidays are advancing rapidly so after finishing the assembly of my Beachy Little Christmas cards last night, I thought I'd better package them up for sale at work. I was in such a rush, I hadn't even taken a photo, so these pics were snapped on a desk at work with my phone.

I'm so glad I did, because they were snapped up by the first two people I showed them too, and although I don't believe this stamp set is carrying over past 03/01/2018, for us here in Australia, it is so appropriate to our situation at Christmastime, you might need to grab this one before it 'retires'.

Beachy Little Christmas is on page 19 of your Holiday catalogue, and the clear mount stamp retails for $35.00. I couldn't resist adding Santa to the scene using some of the pieces I had pre-stamped and die cut back when I was making cards with Santa's Suit.

The little beach shacks can make a cute birthday card too, with a change of sentiment and there is a glimpse of Santa's Paws there too, and all of those sold out today too. One happy little stamper here, off to make some more cards! Don't forget to contact me if I can help with crafty questions, how to... etc.

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Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop Week 24

I love joining in with the other team members from Art With Heart whenever time allows, and I have something worth sharing. Recently I was reading the blog of Angie Juda, also known as Chic And Scratch. In 2015 she became a Stampin' Up! Million Dollar seller and was able to design a stamp set to celebrate. Her stamp set is Bella and Friends, which I love and have used for many occasions. Like many Stampin' Up! demonstrators, Angie shares her creativity freely and the gift bag she made had Bella wearing a Santa hat! Oh, that's way too cute!

Santa's hat is from the Santa's Suit stamp and fits Bella's head perfectly. Santa's Suit is another of the very cute stamp sets on offer in the Holiday catalogue, and you are able to dress Santa in a couple of different ways. It is also available in a bundle with the matching dies for a 10% discount on the total, or the dies and stamps can be purchased separately.

At the beginning of October, for 10 days there were some new-release stamps at a discount too. They were part of suites which included patterned paper (DSP) which was on special for the whole of October. If you want to be kept informed of these promotions, make sure you sign up to either my newsletter or your demonstrator's newsletter. Demonstrators get to take advantage of these specials too, so I bought the Brightly Lit Christmas stamp. I might not have bought it otherwise as I haven't any plans to use it in a class, although if you'd like an in-home party, we could make one of these cards with your guests.

I didn't want my cat-loving friends to say I was favouring dogs, so I've made a feline version too. This stamp set is Pretty Kitty, and I do love this one too. Which is your favourite, the dog or the cat? And is that only because that is your preferred pet?

The link below is our team leader Claire, if you'd like to check out what the other Art With Heart team have made for week 24 of the Christmas blog hop.

Claire Daly

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Favourite Big Shot Project CTC #150

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. This week we are featuring our favourite Big Shot projects from the Holiday catalogue.


There are just so many to choose from and I can't wait to do the blog hop and see what the rest of the crew like. I know there are a lot of people out there who aren't as keen on Santa for their Christmas cards, but I have decided that this is suitable for my non-Christian-gift-giving friends. Even they take an opportunity at the end of the year to say thank you, and kids like gifts no matter what the family philosophy is. So, my choice to share for this log are two fairly simple cards featuring Santa's Suit!

There aren't too many versions on Pinterest of Santa face-on, using Santa's Suit. I've come to the conclusion that there might be two reasons for this. The first probably is that it involves many more staeps to add the face, beard etc. The second reason might be that it seems to change the shape of Santa, into a somewhat taller and thinner version.

 The card still 'needed' something so I stamped presents from Happiest of Days and scattered some Metallic Enamel Shapes about - they're very suited to Christmas!

It was such fun to make this card! A few days ago I had a session stamping and diecutting these shapes so there actually is a handy little container of the pieces for me to choose from. The set has the outline of the garments, and then separate stamps to put the colour on, and what's more, they were super easy to line up. I found that 2 stampings of red gave a more intense colour, which I prefer. I used some texture paste on his hair but it is tricky to see. The clothes line was stamped across the white circle & card base, before the red stitched circle was added. Washie tape held it in place as I stamped, and the red circle hides any bump in the line.

Stampin' Up!® are hoping/planning to add alcohol markers called Stampin' Blends to the range before the end of the year, and demonstrators are trialling them, and providing feedback at the moment. Old olive in light and dark coloured Santa's underwear, and I'm thinking of making some more of this card with underwear in different colours! We have Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight to name a few - won't that be gorgeous?

I'd love to know what you think of these cards, leave a comment if you have time. Now let's hop on over to see my friend Monique's favourite Big Shot project.

The CASE-ing The Catty Crew love to see your interpretations too. You don't need to have a blog, or be a demonstrator, just a Facebook presence, but if you do have a blog, you can share a link back to it. One photo of your project to be posted at the Facebook link below in the picture.

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