CTC#104 Stampin' Up Inspiration from Petals & Paisley

Hello and Welcome along to our Sunday Night Blog Hop where we CASE the Catty and you get to hop through the entire design team for inspiration and creativity.  

This week, we are featuring the lovely Petals and Paisley Suite from our Holiday Catalogue, and I have CASED (Copy and Selectively Edited) this project from page 46.

I've kept the same layout, and changed some of the colours and stamps.  I've used the lovely Irresiistibly Floral Specialty Designer Paper and sponged over the top with Smoky Slate, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay using our lovely sponge brayer.

The stamped greetings and the framelit edging are a little sneak peek from our upcoming Occasions Catalogue - from the Falling in Love Suite.  One of the wonderful benefits of being a demonstrator is going along to our Onstage training event and then getting to see and use products before everyone else!!  I'm so grateful my friend Naomi encouraged me to join Stampin' Up! 10 years ago!!

Now it's time for you to continue your hop through the whole design team.  I really love seeing the wonderful projects and ideas that our whole team shares!!

   

  

And when you've been through everyone, make sure you join the fun and add your project into our monthly challenge using the link below.

If you get lost along the way, head on over to our blog and you'll see links to all the projects from the whole design team.

Thank you for visiting, and we hope to see you again next Sunday evening for some more great inspiration!!

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It's all about the giving to each other.

Stampin' Up! demonstrators are a creative lot!!  But you already know that!

They are also a very giving and sharing breed too.

When we go away for a Stampin' Up! event, one of the gorgeous traditions is to create 'pillow gifts' for our roomies.  I stayed with 4 other delightful ladies who are very dear friends, and these are my gifts I gave to them.

I used all of my favourite images from the Serene Scenery paper stack and make bookmarks, 

and also create a 'book-like' gift box full or yummy choccies.

You'll have to visit again another day when I show you all the gorgeous gifts I received in return!!

If you would like to create some gorgeous gifts like this to give to your friends (Christmas is looming rather quickly!!), please call me so we can make a date to create!!!

My swaps for Onstage Brisbane #Onstage2016

One of the most wonderful parts of any Stampin' Up! event is 'swapping' cards, ideas, and getting to know other demonstrators.  I'm part of a couple of different groups, so I was able to participate in 3 different swaps!!  This Father Christmas Card is actually an ATC trading size card - 3" x 4".  You'll have to visit again another day to see all 30 of the ATC swaps that I collected - they look fabulous!!

This Touches of Texture card is the swap I used to get to know new people at OnStage.  I tried to swap with some people who were experiencing a Stampin' Up! event for the first time - there are just so many lovely lovely people who all love to create and share their inspirational ideas!!  

And my final swap is the one I made for the CASEing the Catty blog hop team (CTC) and we swapped full cards featuring products from the current Holiday Catalogue.  I chose to feature Star of Light in Non-traditional Christmas Colours.

I hope you like all my swap ideas, and that you are inspired too!!  Please call me to make a date and we can create some (or all) of these gorgeous ideas with your friends!!

Time to show YOU!

For the past few weeks, I've been working on some NEW goodies which feature in our upcoming Occasions Catalogue.

All of these projects feature stamps, framelits and accessories from the Sending Love Suite.

From 4th January 2017, you'll be able to purchase some of these gorgeous new products.

And you'll be totally prepared for Valentines Day........

or any other time when you need to send love to your family and friends....

The suite features some lovely Real Red and Whisper White designer series paper in a 6" x 6" stack.

The stamp set features lots of little hearts, 

floral images,

and some lovely greetings which a gorgeous font.

The suite has coordinating framelits for the hearts,

and also some cute little notelets.

Another gorgeous accessory in this suite are the lovely Wooden sending love embellishments.

There are 36 pieces in all - 6 each of 6 designs - hearts and flowers.

I'm sure you'll agree that this is a really versatile Suite!!

And, you'll find lots of opportunites to use all these cute little goodies!!

Call me to get your catalogue, and you could soon be creating some gorgeous projects too!!

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Let's Celebrate with SUO!

We are CELEBRATING at SUO this week!  For our challenge we want to show of Celebrations of All Kinds.  

If you click on this link, you'll see all the awesome ideas from the design team, AND the link for you to add your project and join in the fun!

For my card, I've dusted off a lovely stamp set that hasn't been inked up for such a long time!!!  Birthday Blooms has some gorgeous greetings and these lovely flowers which coordinate with the Pansy Punch.  I've stamped and then watercoloured with Bermuda Bay - adding lots of watery blobs and blotches to give a really splotchy cool watery look which is amazing in this glorious blue!!

I've added lots of sumptuous silver details and a couple of Petite Petal vellum flowers for the centres.  And all this is on our lovely shimmery white paper for some extra pizzazz!

I truly hope you've been inspired, and that you will join the fun of the challenge too!!

For any supplies, shop here at http://www3.stampinup.com/ECWeb/default.aspx

How Exciting!! Some awesome specials for November.

The stitched look is very on-trend at the moment, and now you can get that look without going anywhere near a sewing machine, needles or thread. The Stitched Shapes Framelits will be in our 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, but Stampin' Up! are letting us order them NOW. 

At the same time, you can get 25% off select stamp sets. There are 9 sets to choose from, and they are from both the Holiday Catalogue and the Annual Catalogue, so there's sure to be a couple of your favourites on the list. 

Greetings From Santa Wood-Mount Stamp Set [142069] $47.00 $35.25	Greetings From Santa Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143269] $33.00 $24.75	Hang Your Stocking Photopolymer Stamp Set [142114] $37.00 $27.75	Christmas Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set [142049] $61.00 $45.75
Merry Mice Wood-Mount Stamp Set [142142] $40.00 $30.00	Merry Mice Clear-Mount Stamp Set [142145] $30.00 $22.50	Tin Of Tags Photopolymer Stamp Set [142180] $37.00 $27.75	Suite Seasons Wood-Mount Stamp Set [142206] $49.00 $36.75
Suite Seasons Clear-Mount Stamp Set [142209] $35.00 $26.25	Oh, What Fun Photopolymer Stamp Set [140386] $37.00 $27.75	Baby Bear Photopolymer Stamp Set [141859] $45.00 $33.75	Blooms & Wishes Photopolymer Stamps [141784] $37.00 $27.75

The 25% off stamps sets ends 30 November, however you will still be able to get the Stitched Shapes Framelits after that date. 
Don't miss out!

CTC#103 Ronald Macdonald House Stamp Set - My Hero!

Welcome back to another Sunday Night Blog Hop!!  

This week we are CASEING (copy and share everything) from page 209 of the Catalogue - the LAST page - where the feature stamp set is My Hero - the Ronald Macdonald House Charities fundraiser stamp set ..... did you know that Stampin' Up! will donate $3(Australian) with every sale of this lovely stamp set?

The lovely cards illustrated in the image are few in number, but I think the amazing talents and creativity of our design team will inspire you to look again at this great stamp!! There are lots of different and lovely greeting in this set (12 of them actually!!) and they cover a great range of occasions!!  

I've chosen to use the Merry Christmas stamp and CASE the project which features it too.

I've kept the same circle detail for the greeting, but added a scallop layer in gold behind it.  I've used some lovely gold satin ribbon (that was actually lying on my desk waiting to dress up a project!) instead of the flag, and kept the gold glimmer strip over my diagonal stamping and washi tape (which replaces the striped DSP).

Oh, and I've made a card instead of a gift bag!!

Now it's time for you to continue your hop.

    

And then, join in the fun of our monthly challenge by adding your link here -

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