Favourite Big Shot Project CTC125

Welcome back to CASE-ing The Catty. This week we are CASE-ing our favourite Big Shot project from the Occasions Catalogue. The only problem is that on the 11th April, the Retiring List was released and most of my chosen suite has SOLD OUT! The wood mount stamp set in Nailed It is still available, but no clear mount stamps, nor framelits. You can still get the Urban Underground designer series paper.

The minute I saw this suite at the Onstage last November, they were in my shopping basket! My husband and 3 of my sons are in trades, plus all enjoy a bit of tinkerin' on the weekend, so why wouldn't I grab this one? Added to the fact that my carpenter son had my make a 21st card for one of his employees a few years back and I had to hand cut the hammer and saw!!! So much easier with dies and a Big Shot!

This card was made to show how you can use the stamp set when you don't have a Big Shot. Colouring the various tools was so relaxing with the watercolor pencils, just like using a child's colouring book with these big, clear images. It could also be a really cute card/gift if you left the images uncoloured and tied 3 or 4 pencils onto the card. The big greeting in the middle is from Suite Sentiments, another retiring stamp set, available in woodmount or clearmount.

Because there are small faces included in the stamp set, I challenged myself to find a way to include them. It didn't take too long to come up with this birthday card for a boy, using primary colours and a bold sentiment. Birthday Bright is another stamp which hasn't carried over into the Annual Catalogue, but is still available. I found it hard to understand why Nailed It hasn't carried over into the new Annual catalogue, as it fills a gap in the masculine market but the lesson learned from this is, don't wait too long to order something.

You might like to CASE your favourite Big Shot project form the Occasions Catalogue and share it with us on Facebook.

Next it's time to hop on over to Mel Pagano, I wonder what her favourite is?

Cheers, Rachel

Tasty Trucks Fiesta CTC#117

Another Sunday night at CASE-ing The Catty and we've returned to the Sale-a-bration catalogue. You may have arrived from the amazing Julia Quinn, but if not, you can pop back to see her fabulous trucks. Otherwise, complete the circuit and you'll reach Julia at the end. This week we are focussing on pages 12-15 and I've gone straight to page 12 and the Tasty Trucks. I've had such a lot of use from this stamp in the short time it has been available. This super-cute stamp set can be added to your $90 order at no additional cost, and it has lots of variations of goodies for the truck to sell. Tacos, cupcakes, pancakes, cupcakes and hotdogs are some of the choices. You can see others I've made here and here and heaps more on Pinterest. Remember there is only another month before SALE-A-Bration is over for 2017.

On page 12 of the SAB catty is a sample in So Saffron. I've changed the orientation from portrait to landscape and used a different colour (Flirty Flamingo) and Textured Embossing Folder. I did mount the truck on a circle, toward the right-hand side of the card. I also grabbed the Urban Underground specialty designer series paper to cut my truck in both my cards. I have cupcakes instead of pancakes, and a pretty white sheer and satin ribbon for the feminine touch.

The truck is layered on dimensionals so it stands out slightly from the base, and the canvas awning is yet another layer. I seem to use the Stitched Shape framelits on nearly every card I make at the moment, the stitching does add such a nice finish.

The 'happy birthday' sentiment which fits rather nicely along the panel of the Tasty Truck is from another SAB stamp, Designer Tee. Even if you don't order the Tee-shirt bundle from the Occasions catalogue, it might be useful to add this free set to a $90 order before March 31st also. I've used it a number of times, with or without the tee-shirt. Did you know that I have an online store, available 24/7 if you want to browse these items and replenish your stash?

Often when I CASE a card, my imagination begins to tick over with all sorts of other possibilities. Tacos triggered thoughts of the Birthday Fiesta stamp set. It was fun to add the streamers, cactus and "Fiesta like there's no manana". The truck is still positioned toward the right edge of the card like the original.

Although the same polka dot paper from Urban Underground has been used on the Taco Truck, the colours were bolder and brighter. For fun, I added a layer of Emerald Envy polka dots, and skewed it slightly (so you could actually see some dots!)

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We'd love you to share your CASE of these pages in the SAB catty on our FB page. You don't need a blog to join in, just post a pic and comment.

Next crew member on this hop is Elizabeth Gross

Cheers, Rachel