It’s the end of the year, so we’re cleaning our inventory and making room for new products – and we’re offering you some great savings while we do it!

We’re adding more products to our clearance rack and discounting select items from the Holiday Catalogue. (Products on the Holiday Retiring List are now discounted up to 40%.)

During the Year-End Sale, you can find ALL discounted products in one location in my online store right here.

 

NOTE: Some items are only available until December 17! You’ll find those items on the bottom half of this list here.

 

VISIT SALE

 

How exciting!!! What a great time to get a Christmas present for yourself or a crafty friend. 🙂 Make sure you let your KK know if they don’t know what to get you. 😉

Happy stamping,

 

 

Thanks for joining our Case-ing the Catty Blog Hop. If you’re making your way around the hop, you may have joined me from the very talented Jessica Williams. When you get to the bottom of this post, just click on Next and you’ll continue seeing more creations from other CTC Crew members. 

 

This week on the Case-ing the Catty Blog Hop, the team are inspired by the gorgeous Christmas trees in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalogue. From the tiny tree stamps in Jingle All The Way, to the awesome Project Life stamp sets, and even to the many delightful designs on the patterned papers… we have such a fabulous selection!

I couldn’t help combining a couple of my favourites: the tree from and the .

Shhh, I may have even sneaked in Lovely As a Tree, yes that old classic which has been around forever but is still a favourite with many new stampers. Just for old times sake 😉 

 

Here is my creation this week…

It’s sooooo hard to capture on photo, but the red is actually Red Foil paper. So shiny! It’s all set on a 5″x5″ card base made from . A layer of and a layer of grid patterned paper from the . The top left and bottom right corners are in matching Kraft.

No matter how many times I look through the catalogue I always pause on pages 16 and 17. The tags on this tree stop me every time.

And this is where much of the inspiration came for this week’s card, including:

• the colour combination – with the festive Real Red, the neutrals of Crumb Cake/Kraft, the blues of Lost Lagoon/Marina Mist and a touch of yellow in Daffodil Delight
• the die cut ‘merry’ in Real Red cardstock
• the Candy Dot tree embellishments

 

A really cool feature of the  is that some of the dies cut decorative inner details, not just the outline. It’s almost like 2-step die cutting!

One of the dies achieves a fringing look to the tree branches, and another cuts out circles to look like ornaments on the tree. A third decorative detail die (see above) cuts out a series of tiny holes within the tree to look like a line of tinsel or lights. And that’s the one I used on on my card!

Along the rows of tiny holes I threaded the lovely Gold Cording Trim.

It kind of gets lost in the photo, but in real life it’s lovely and sparkly, especially set against the shiny Red Foil paper. It’s the closest I’ve come to sewing in recent months! Hopefully you can see my ‘sewing’.

 

So there you go. I hope you enjoyed this ‘tree edition’ of Case-ing the Catty, but the fun is not over yet. Next stop on the hop is Stasia.

 

Happy stamping,

 

 

 

Christmas is fast approaching, but the new year also brings with it a brand new seasonal catalogue. Innovative tools, eye-catching stamps and awe-inspiring embellishments, all to keep us crafting well into 2016.

Would you like a copy?

I’ve ordered a stack and will be sending them out in the coming weeks. If you are in Australia and don’t already have a demonstrator I’d be happy to help you out. Just email me your request!

Of course, if you have ordered from me in the past year then you can expect your priority copy very soon.

A new catalogue means we need to make room on the warehouse shelves, so it will soon be time to say good bye to the Holiday Catalogue (aka Christmas Catalogue). The good news is, this year Stampin’ Up! have kindly given us an easy-peasy list which tells us exactly which items will be GONE for GOOD!
You’ll want to grab them while you still can. Download these lists to help you work out your wish list:

• Sortable spreadsheet of retiring products
• PDF of retiring products

 

 

I’ve listed some of my favourite retiring items. Just click on them to see more info in my shop or to order some for yourself.

Black Glimmer Paper [139605] $8.75

Gasp! Lovely for all year round projects, not just Halloween. (Above)
 

Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [139673] $15.00

Shock! Such a beautiful and popular folder embossing folder. Have you got yours? (Above)

Lighthearted Leaves Photopolymer Stamp Set [139712] $45.00

Lighthearted Leaves. Whaaaa?  Make your own colouring pages with this one. (Above)

Wonderland Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140365] $30.00

Wonderland. Noooooo…oooo…oooo. Sob. (Above)

And there are others too. Check out the full list of retiring products from the Holiday catalogue below.

• Sortable spreadsheet of retiring products
• PDF of retiring products

 

The good news (actually, it is EXCELLENT news) is that the red foil paper and the Softly Falling embossing folders are continuing, along with a few other stamps and accessories. Keep an eye out in the new Occasions catalogue for those.

 

Of course, the new year will also bring back one of our favourite events: Sale-a-bration. Free products with purchase, always a winner. I’ll make sure I pop one of those brochures in with your new Occasions Catalogue.

Don’t forget to CONTACT ME to request the new catalogue, and remember to include your current address and contact phone number. 

Happy stamping,