What I Love SAB CTC#64

This week at CASE-ing The Catty we are sharing another SALE-A-Bration pick, whether it be a stamp set, one of the papers or even Project Life - they're all available for you to pick when you make an order of $90. If you happen to be mad for everything in the Occasions catalogue, you can pick an item for every $90 you order ($180 = 2 items, $270 = 3 items, $360 = 4 etc). If you get as high as that, maybe you should have a chat to me about joining up as a demonstrator, Stampin' Up!® welcomes and supports all types of demonstrators from the hobby demo buying crafting supplies at a discount, through to those making it a full time business. During SALE-A-Bration you get to choose $60 extra, choose $295 of any products from the Annual Catalogue and/or the Occasions Catalogue and pay only $169. Of course, if you prefer to be a customer, you can purchase your supplies through my online shop, or by contacting me, you just need to have a delivery address in Australia.

This week I had fun with What I Love, a two-step or three-step stamp in photopolymer. I CASE-d the tag on the gift bag and came up with a little pack of four Thank You notecards. Really, it's so easy to ink up the leaf and stamp a few times with a couple of different greens onto a square of Whisper White, mounted onto a slightly larger square of Wild Wasabi.

These notecards are available in packs of 20 in Whisper White and Crumbcake with matching envelopes, and they only cost $10.50! So handy to have on hand for when you're short of time. You'll find them on page 149 in the Australian  annual catalogue, or click on the image in the supply list below.
To make the packet they're contained in, I cut a Gift Card Envelope from Crumb Cake and made a belly band from Botanical Gardens DSP, with some additional trims from Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and Mini Treat Bag Thinlets. There are also a couple of stamped banners from Choose Happiness.



My good friend and fellow crew member on CASE-ing The Catty celebrated her birthday recently. While this isn't CASE-ing The Catty,  What I Love helped me create this cheerful bunch of flowers to celebrate with Kathryn. I selectively inked up a greeting from Party With Cake. It's actually the bit about cake I left off - [chuckling]. No..... it's not that Kathryn and I don't like cake, we just live too far apart!! Kathryn is in South Australia and I'm in Victoria. Perhaps we should make a date for cake when we meet up in Sydney in April, hey Kathryn!


I wanted to fit a greeting into the oval, something that makes a statement and this sentiment seemed to fit that description. I've used Blackberry Bliss, stamped off once in some images, giving a lighter shade. The other two are Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo.
 The smaller sentiment is from Sunburst Sayings which fits nicely on a 1¼" punched circle.

If you can't wait to get some of these goodies in your hands, and you'd like me to be your demonstrator, you can shop in my online store here. Australian buyers only. My phone number if you have any questions is 0417 500 681. If your order is less than $250, it would be great if you used the Hostess code 4G296SCD when you checkout.
Starting this year we are doing a monthly challenge. If you have been inspired by any of the projects in the catalogue or on the blog hop, feel free to share with the linky tool on this post. A winner will be chosen and announced on the first post of the following month.

The email address if you're in Australia and wanting catalogues sent is rpalmieri5@bigpond.com 

If you're someone who likes to go in the reverse direction, click on 'previous, button and it will take you to Tricia at The Speckled Sparrow

but if you're proceeding forward, you'll click on the NEXT button and move forward to lovely Liz at Lilly Loves Paper

   

                                                       

 Cheers, Rachel

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What I Love CQC#326

These colours at the ColourQ Challenge this week speak to me of florals, and so I stamped out a relatively quick card using a new stamp I had on hand. So easy, as there is the bold, line image and then two others which help out a lot with colouring that image. Although I have done two-step stamping, I've then returned and casually added strokes of additional colour with a Stampin' Write Marker.

What I Love is one of my favourite stamps from the SALE-A-Bration catalogue this year. When it arrives in your order, it might be a touch surprising. There doesn't seem to be much to it, especially as it is photopolymer. I'm definitely not sorry to have it in my stash, I've been using it lots.

Butterfly Basics provided a birthday sentiment in a lovely font for this card.The 'spidery' font that birthday is written with really appeals to me, and I've noticed that the sentiments for Rose Wonder are similar. I wonder if that means I'll need to order that stamp too?






Cheers, Rachel

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Happy New Year! First Classes For 2016

Happy New Year to all!!! We enjoyed the company of two sons, one D-I-L, and the youngest grandson for dinner on New Years Eve, but Oliver needed to go home to bed quite early. My husband and I enjoyed a quiet evening, and went to bed once the neighbourhood quietened down at 1 a.m.

 Today I've spent a lot of time in my craft room getting class samples made. It's very exciting with the Occasions catalogue being available for you to order from on January 5th, and SALE-A-Bration starts at the same time.

As a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, I get to order from the new catalogues a month earlier - and that's why you're no doubt seeing lots of gorgeous new stamps, dies and papers on Pinterest at the moment. Perhaps you've been wondering what is involved in being a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I'm looking for new team members, so if you live in Australia, I'd love the opportunity to add you to my team, South'n Stampers. I'm happy to fill you in, if you let me know you're interested, there will be contact details at the end of the post.

On to class details now. My usual monthly class is the third Friday of the month, so 15th January. It will be possible to run a daytime class at 1pm - 3.30pm and an evening one at 7pm-9.30pm but I need to know who's coming so that I cut the correct amount of supplies. (Let me know by the 12th please).
I know that some of my regulars are unable to attend, so if you've been thinking about classes for a while, January might be as good a time as any to begin.


You will make three cards, two of them this month involve a fun technique, and one is a simple one-layer card. I will guide you through the steps if you need help, and you are free to choose whether you will make cards for men or women or a mix. These are all birthday cards. You will see my sample of a masculine and a feminine card for each, and you can copy them exactly or make changes to the design using the products I provide. The cost of the class is $20 and you do not need to bring anything.

If you don't already have a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, I'd be happy to supply a copy of the Stampin' Up!® Occasions and SALE-A-Brations catalogues, if you send me your name and mailing address. Australian customers only thank you.
You can email me at rpalmieri5@bigpond.com  with class, catalogue, joining team in the subject line, depending on your interest.

Cheers, Rachel