This week the CASE-ing The Catty crew are having some more Sale-a-bration fun. You may have come from Rebecca’s page, or you may be starting here. I hope you enjoy our little bit of weekend inspiration and that you are inspired to get crafty today too.

 

My inspiration this week came from the fun shaker frame card on page 10 of the SAB brochure. Gotta love a card you can shake AND it’s shiny with gold foil prints!

 

I use the same gold printed window sheet from the Project Life ‘Memories in the Making’ card collection, along with the Perfect Pairings stamp set.

But a few minor changes ended up making a very noticeable difference!

Here is what I ended up with:

I switched out the pastel Mint Macaron patterned paper for a striking black and white sheet from the Everyday Chic designer series paper stack.

I love the bold combination of black, white and gold. Definitely not my usual style… but that’s why I love these sorts of challenges. They really do get you out of your comfort zone and that is so good for soul!

 

Would you like to play along too? We’d love for you to join our linky challenge here. The CTC crew are tickled pink to visit and comment on entries, so jump on board.

Next stop on the hop is Jackie Noble. Enjoy!

          

Happy stamping,

 

 

What a day! Today marks the halfway point of Sale-a-bration 2016 (SAB) and also the release of 3 NEW free Sale-a-bration products (view them here). To celebrate, I’ve joined up with some of our Stampin’ Up! team members – the EurekaStampers – to share what we’re doing with all the lovely free SAB goodies.

You may have come here from Sarah’s I Heart Stamping page – if so, welcome! – or you may be starting here.  Either way, I hope you enjoy what we’ve got to share with you today. 

 

For my project, I chose the very popular Flowering Fields stamp set. So many of my customers have chosen this one as their free gift with a $90 purchase, so I thought I’d make up some more simple layouts that work with it and also the matching Wildflower Fields paper.

I only intended to make one card, but these coordinating products are so easy to work with that I got a little carried away and ended up making four!

 

 

Apart from a few extra embellishments, you only need two sheets of A4 cardstock and one sheet of patterned paper to make the foundation of these cards.

 

 

This stamp set doesn’t include any greetings, so I used the wonderful wooden Expressions Natural Elements. They stick quite well with just a few dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Best of all, you can dress them up by applying ink or even the gorgeous Wink of Stella brush-on glimmer.

 

 

Stella is sooooo hard to photograph – have you noticed? You can just kind of see it at the end of the wood where it catches the light.

 

I stamped on a panel of vellum on this card. The translucent cardstock vellum is from the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum pack – also one of the free SAB offerings.

So there you have it from me! A ‘Flowering Fields’ celebration…

I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop.  I’m so proud of all of the team members who are participating this week, as well as all the other EurekaStampers from right across Australia.  I love Stampin’ Up! products, there’s no doubt about that, but it is the amazing people I’ve met through my involvement with ‘SU’ that has been quite simply life changing. If you have ever wanted to be part of a community of like-minded people, this may just be what you’re after too.  #blessed

 

 

 

For more inspiration, continue on to visit Janine Rawlin’s here or click on one of the arrows below.  Janine is the person who first introduced me to Stampin’ Up! so I’m sure she’ll inspire you today, just as she inspired me 8 years ago.

 

      

And if you get lost along the way you can always refer to this list…

1. Rose Packer

 2. Carly Middleton

3. Julie Cocks

4. Linda Whalley

5. Lauren Meiklejohn

6. Heather McCarthy

7. Mel Pagano

8. Sarah McCallion

9. Simone Bartrum <— YOU ARE HERE

10. Janine Rawlins

 

Happy stamping,

 

 

The theme for our CTC Blog Hop this week is Sale-a-bration! I decided to CASE (Copy and Share Everything) a card on the front cover of the Sale-a-bration brochure. You can’t miss it – it’s the one with the heart. Very appropriate for today and Valentine’s day, don’t you think?

Here is the original version:

 

 

And here’s mine!

I used the Memories in the Making Project Life Specialty Card Collection, just as in the original.

The heart and the red dots are in fact two different acetate sheets!

 

 

Those printed acetate sheets, a half-sheet of Night of Navy cardstock, a stamped greeting and some embellishments are all you need to make this card.

 

 

I love this Project Life card collection – so handy for card making, scrapbooking, as dashboards in your planner, and of course in your Project Life albums too.

And best of all, the whole card collection is free with any purchase of $90 or more before the end of March.

 

Here’s a 4 minute video that shows you all the cards in the set and a few tips on how to use them.

(If you’re viewing this via your inbox, you may need to click here first)

 

The acetate layers were adhered to the card base with some carefully positioned glue dots behind the red dots on the acetate and a few candy dots.

 

So there you have it! Thanks for joining me today, and I hope you continue on the hop to see Julia’s version of this card here, or just click on the buttons below.

  

Happy stamping,