Weekly Deals - Second Last Week 6th - 12th April

We received word yesterday that the Weekly Deals are coming to an end. Of course that is disappointing news but of late there has been less and less on offer, so it was a huge surprise this morning when I checked to find such a great array of products. You can pop straight over to see them in my Online shop, or read on to the end and I'll add another link. You'll be able to see the prices more clearly there, but I've shared photos of some of my big faves.

The punch is from the Occasions catalogue (still current) and co-ordinates with Grateful Bunch stamp set. I've used it a lot, because the stamp with three flowers matches exactly with the position of the spaces on the punch. If you decide you need both, you'll be better off buying the Bundle and Save combo at 15% off. (Item # 140801)

On this recent card I've stamped the background leaves from Grateful Bunch, heat embossed the group of daisies onto the teapot, and punched out some more to hold the banners. It's a versatile punch too, even without the stamp set as you can punch three sizes of flower, to use as is. Here is another one from earlier this year in mauve, combined with Timeless Textures.

Next, is Remarkable You, a red rubber stamp which is included in the Weekly Deals in both formats. Clear mount for those who like to use clear blocks with their stamps or wood mount for those who like to mount stamps ready for use all the time.  This set is current in the Annual catalogue and has lovely, bold, floral images, great to leave plain or watercolour. There are some magnolias and waterlillies on my work table that I'm still working on using this stamp set, love 'em! This is another using the lily.

Two more of my favourite photopolymer stamp sets listed are Vintage Leaves and Snow Place. You can't go wrong with leaves, and last year I shared this swap card using Vintage Leaves at the November Onstage in Melbourne. This one combined the Vintage Leaves with Gorgeous Grunge.

My 25 year old son used Snow Place to make a very cute birthday card for his girlfriend last year.

 I made a few Christmas cards and held a class using Snow Place too.

My grand-daughter is mad for penguins, so this was her birthday card.

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Check out this fabulous card kit in the Clearance Rack too. There are clear mount stamps, a couple of little 1 inch square ink pads and 20 cards and envelopes, all for $20.78. Wouldn't it make a great gift for someone who dabbles in craft, a teenager, your mum?

Hey, I do hope you find something you want, and don't forget to use the Hostess Code when you check out.
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Cheers, Rachel

Christmas Trees -CTC#57 - Season Of Cheer

Since it's Sunday night, it must be time for CASE-ing The Catty. We are a team of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators who love to use the catalogue to Copy and Share. You may have come from Emma's blog, Vintage Graffiti. Wasn't her project lovely? Now you're with Rachel, on my blog Stampinpals. Make sure you click on the links at the end of each blog, so you visit each of the design crew.

Catalogue sample

Our theme for this week is Season Of Cheer, so some more Christmas cards I think. I visited with my team leader a couple of weeks ago, and she had a stamp set that I don't have - yet! I hadn't bought Peaceful Pines because it was "another tree stamp." However, while using the framelits, I discovered that these aren't just trees, they're trees with a twist. See how there are little 'sticky out bits' on the tree? Well, the framelit does that!!

It's a bit hard to know what to stamp and die cut when you're at someone's house and not actually putting a card together, but I did come home with quite a few little pieces. So using the cards on page 30 of the Holiday Catalogue as inspiration, mainly the mint card, I began to create. I cut the oval to include a tree I had stamped on a rectangular scrap, and made it more festive with gold foil, to surround. The greeting on a banner is also inspired by the mint card, which has a sub-title sentiment on a banner. It came from my Snow Day stamp set, love the exclamation mark!

While the pieces were out, I put together another similar card but broke out the Christmas Greetings Thinlets dies and cut a very glittery red 'merry'. The red tree was cut from foil, as was the gold and there's those 'sticky out bits again'! The co-ordinating stamp set, Holly Jolly Greetings has a number of words and a rather lovely snowflake/star. The good news is that both stamp sets, Holly Jolly Greetings and Peaceful Pines, and their matching thinlets are going to be available after January 4th when the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue finishes up. That probably makes me more inclined to add this to my collection. It really is a good time to check through the Holiday Catalogue and see what you might be needing, before its gone. I'll have a link to that section before the Goodbye, Adieu, Auf Wiedersehen banner.

 If you get lost anywhere along the blog hop you can head to the CASE-ing The Catty Blog and find all the links listed.






In the meantime, why not hop off over to Alison at Gothdove Designs - she'll have something fabulous to share too.

Shop the Holiday Catalogue before it's too late.

Lighthearted Leaves is a stamp set that will retire, I'm surprised by that. Festive Fireplace was another surprise, and the Sleigh Ride Framelits, Woodland Textured Embossing Folder and of course all the ribbon. There are no reductions at this stage (and probably won't be many as Stampin' Up!® don't import much more than they estimate they'll sell in the Australian market).

Cheers, Rachel

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