Showing posts with label Summer Days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Days. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Summer Days

At the back of the annual catalogue are two lovely stamp sets which are only available to buy using Host dollars, and Summer Days is one of those. You don't actually have to host a party, unless you'd like to, but instead you could share the catalogue around your workplace, show it to friends and gather orders that way. You could order your whole wish list at the one time. An order reaching $250 earns you $25 Host dollars and Summer Days uses $22.

The stamp has several smaller images (dog, cat, rabbit, clouds) which can be used to create a picture. There are no sentiments in this stamp set, so Happiest Of Birthdays filled the spot. It's a continuation of a technique I shared recently, using ink to rubber to colour the words in different hues.

The card is longer than usual, fitting a business envelope.


 This little lass under the tree could so easily be my 7 year-old granddaughter. I dressed her in a pink cardigan, since that is Alice's favourite colour.

I've shared this card before, a masculine version using Summer Days and the birthday greeting is in From All Of Us.

If your order is $250 to qualify you to purchase this stamp set, you won't use this month's Host code, you're using it yourself. You can spend more host dollars than you've earned, they add it to your sales as 'overage' so at least add some dimensionals to your host dollar purchase, and don't leave the extra behind.
Any questions, get in touch. 



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Sunday, 2 August 2020

CTC#279 CASE-ing the Sketch On Page 72






This week at CASE-ing The Catty, the design team were instructed to use the sketch, of the card on page 72 of the catalogue. It's a lovely card, but so much easier to CASE without the distraction of seeing it using THOSE colours, and THAT stamp set.

I began by looking at the sketch and a stamped piece I'd been working on, to see how I could adapt it to fit the criteria.I had no stamping time last week and missed CASE-ing The Catty last Sunday, so I was determined to not miss out this week too.


By turning the sketch 90 degrees, I was able to place my almost-square art piece and a sentiment into the same position. The twine was added around the bottom of the label, instead of round the belly of the card. I pinched 3 little white flowers from the Boho Indigo Product Medley.


I was able to use the other part of the torn panel to decorate the inside of the card, and add the second part of the sentiment and some bokeh dots from Beauty Abounds.



This next card, using a hostess stamp, Summer Days, followed the sketch a little more closely, with a banner of card substituted for the twine and although the colour is similar, the cards are quite different I think.


I hadn't really planned on making three cards, but the stamp set From All Of Us was on my desk since I'd used the birthday sentiment for the Summer Days card, and I felt like some more colouring in. I felt so happy with the bright colours, that the creating continued. The square for the stamped image is like the original card, the card strip replaces the twine again, and the label for the sentiment has changed position.



I've stamped a partial image on the inside, maybe the child who receives this might like to colour this in.



I hope this helps explain how CASE-ing the Catty can really spark your imagination off in any direction. It can be such a help to browse the catalogue if you are short on ideas for that card you need to make, and with practice, this might become second nature for you too.

I've made a Facebook Live to further explain CASE-ing the Catty if you'd care to watch.


Next design team member along this journey is the very talented Judy May.



It would be wonderful if you decided to CASE the sketch and share your card on our Facebook Sunday Challenge. You don't have to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, you don't have to have a blog, we just ask that you use your Stampin' Up! products, current or retired.



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I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, and when you use the Host Code at check out, I will send you a gift. The items listed below were used in my projects above, and link to that item in my online shop.

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