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Celebrating Spring with SUO!

Spring is always a wonderful time of new growth and wonderful flowers in lots of places!! Here in the tropics we are fortunate to have flowers for the whole year - and some of the most beautiful are actually in the Winter.  But over at SUO - Stampin' Up! Only Challenges, we are celebrating SPRING!!  

Click here to see some beautiful and amazing projects from everyone on the design team!!  

For my Spring Card, I've used a Project Life card for my greeting - this one comes from Memories in the Making - and there is a gorgeous set of cards in this kit!!  My flowers are from our Sale-a-bration stamp set What I Love - and this set is only available for 2 more weeks, so be sure to get in quick so you can earn yours!!  I've added some lovely Bermuda Bay stitched ribbon, and silver metallic thread to coordinate with my silver Iced Rhinestone embellishments.  I have also given the card texture by running the Project Life card through the Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

I hope you like my card, and that you are inspired to join in our spring fun challenge too!!

Pedal Pusher on CTC #70 Sale-a-bration

Hello there!  Welcome to our Sunday Night Blog Hop again!! This week we're sharing inspiration from our Sale-a-bration goodies!!

I have cased this gorgeous layout from our new Sale-a-bration little leaflet!! 

    

My card is a little more outdoorsy than the original in the catalogue -

 but I'm still pretty happy with it!!

I wanted to use some of that yummo glitter tape too - what an amazingly wonderful Sale-a-bration freebie this is!!  I've also coloured my bike in with markers, and then added some Gold Wink of Stella highlights, but you can't really see those in the photos.........

Now it's time for you to share your awesome projects you've cased from our Sale-a-bration catalogues - and just add them into our challenge using the link below - we'd love to see your creations!!

And for more blog hop fun, simply click along to our next great projects from the design team - what a fabulous way to see some inspiring projects and ideas!!!

  

If you get totally lost, you can easily head on over to our Caseing the Catty blog to see the complete list of all our great design team with links directly to each blog!! Enjoy!!

Project Life canvas

Project Life is wonderfully versatile and the marvellous way all the card kits are coordinated really helps to make projects quite easy to put together - and they look great too!!  This is the gift to go with the exploding card box from my post yesterday - both made using the same colours of Mint Macaron and black.

Mint Macaron Number of Years

Here's my latest installment in the Number of Years exploding box dynasty!!  This card features Mint Macaron as well as silver and black.    I love all those cute greetings in Party Pants - they look so sweet stamped onto all the balloons!!

Just Add Ink Number of Years.

In my opinion, Number of Years is the PERFECT stamp set for these gorgeous exploding box cards - and I have been making LOTS!!  And look, Just Add Ink want us to Just Add Numbers - which is the ideal challenge for all the cards I've been making lately!!  

Be sure to head on over to the challenge blog and see the wonderful creations from the design team!!

This card is for my Mother-in-law who turns 80 next week and the whole family are getting together for a party!!

I've used Endless Birthday wishes and Party Pants as well on this card. 

 And if you like this card you can see my previous creations HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. 

I've also got another one on the way for my niece!!  So stay tuned for the next installment!! tee hee

Grateful Bunch CTC#69

Welcome back to our Sunday Night Blog Hop!  I hope you're enjoying the hop as we celebrate the chapter called Love Blossoms in the Occasions Catalogue - so many lovely projects and products in this chapter!!!  I've CASED the lovely projects on page 22 of the catalogue - having fun with Grateful Bunch bundle - stamp set AND coordinating punch - fun and easy peasy!!

   

I've CASED the gorgeous photo frame, and added elements of the lovely cards into the background of my scrapbook page.......

Now, I know you know that Melon Mambo is not my favourite (so not a pink girl!!), BUT, my sister's shirt (and she IS a pink girl) is perfectly coordinated with the wonderful pops of colour of my Melon Mambo flowers - I think it looks AWESOME!!!

Because I had to go with Melon Mambo, I really really had to add some of my own favourites - Crumb Cake, Bemuda Bay and of course Pool Party - I totally love these colours together!!

This was such a lovely project to CASE - and really fun to stamp and punch all those gorgeous flowers!!

And don't you think these sentiments from the stamp set work a treat with a page for sisters? 

"You are awesome and I am totally grateful"  I know I do!!

I'm sure you can make this project too!!  Pull out your supplies and give it a go, and then be sure to add your photo to our challenge!  Use the link below to jump in on the fun!!

And now it's time for you to hop on over to Helen in the reverse, or Jess forwards - I'm so blessed to be surrounded by such creative and inspirational talent!!

   

And for a complete list of all the design team members and their project for this week, hop on over to the blog for the complete list!!!

Birthday Bouquet Suite

You have to love the way Stampin' Up! coordinate our products.  I've been having a crafting spree creating a few projects - all from the Birthday Bouquet Suite in our Occasions Catalogue.

This card features Balloon Celebrations, and some delicious Birthday Bouquet DSP highlighted with the most wonderful sparkly Pool Party glitter ribbon!   I've also highlighted the raised balloon with some clear Wink of Stella brush - you'll have to look very carefully to see the shine!!

And my card coordinates with my gift box created from the Gift Box Punch Board.  The box features all the same products of my card,

My next card features the lovely flower from Birthday Blooms, and I've used the gorgeous Birthday Bouquet DSP to give me all the colours for the watercolouring (again coloured with the clear Wink of Stella brush - so lovely!!).  The fern images underneath my bloom are stamped with Mossy Meadow and Number of Years stamp set.  See that lovely Pool Party glitter ribbon again!! 

My third card is actually my daughters 13th birthday card which is coming up (shhh, it's a surprise!!).  I love the large numbers and the coordinating framelits from the Number of Years bundle, and if you follow me, you'll know this!!  These numbers work a treat with these fun 3D exploding folding box cards!!  I've also used the lovely Balloon Celebration bundle again, and some of the images from our Sale-a-bration stamp set Party Pants. 

My third card sings the praises of the lovely Birthday Bouquet DSP and the beautifil coordinating stamp set Birthday Blooms.  This time I've watercoloured onto vellum with White Stazon for my stamped image - it looks great doesn't it!!

And because this DSP is so wonderful (and it matches one of my favourite dresses!), I've used it on this scrapbook page featuring a lovely day recently when all of my children were together!!  (I miss the older ones now they've moved to the big smoke!!) 

And here are all the projects all together - don't they look lovely!!  I hope you've been inspired too!!

Easter fun with SUO

Are you getting ready for your Easter crafting yet?  I must admit, the time is creeping up very quickly when we will be celebrating new life and the Resurrection!!

We are celebrating Easter projects over at SUO at the moment!!  So, make sure you add your link to our challenge and share some wonderful Easter fun and ideas!!

Just click on the icon here and see all the amazing projects from the design team, and then add yours into the fun too!!

So, this is my planned gift basket for Easter this year - a little folded box using the Gift Box punch board in the tiniest size.  I've stapled the box together and covered those staples with the delicious glitter ribbon we have for Sale-a-bration!!  The inside of the box has the top flaps folded down on the sides to make an open box to pop in an egg or two!!  This has the added advantage of covering those staples on the inside too!!  I've also shredded some glassine sheets too, as a nest for my eggs.  

The greeting on the front of the gorgeous little Easter Basket comes from Rose Wonder, and I think it sums up my sentiments for Easter exactly!!  There are lots of amazing people in my life that I can happily give this little gift basket to, as I am blessed indeed.

Party Pants & Balloon Celebration meets Number of Years

Do you like my new exploding box card?

Don't you think they make a wonderful festive statement for a celebration!!  I really love the Number of Years stamp set for these sorts of cards - they just look amazing!!

And this card features balloons..... Lots and Lots of balloons!!  The silver foil balloons feature the stamped shading from Balloon Celebration, and the white balloons feature the greetings from Party Pants - it just looks awesome!!