Welcome to this week’s CASEing the Catty blog hop.
Every Sunday night at 7pm AEST/8pm AEDT, the CTC Crew share great ideas from the latest Stampin’ Up! Catalogues.  We either directly CASE (Copy and Share Everything) a project in the catalogue, or we use an aspect like a layout or colour combo as inspiration for our own creations.
This week, we are sharing our projects inspired by pages 12 to 15 of the 2017 Sale-a-bration Brochure.

Come and join us! Make your own project and share it  in the CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge Facebook Group.  

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Tasty Trucks

Tasty Trucks is such a cute little Sale-a-bration item, and is proving to be quite popular with my customers.

That adorable truck alone is worth it!

Here is the lovely card that caught my eye for this week’s CASE-ing The Catty challenge:

 

Tasty Trucks is on page 12 of the Sale-a-bration brochure, and is a 16 piece photopolymer stamp set.

And here is what I came up with…

 

I kept everything fairly close to the original, although I did switch out the embossing folder and experimented with a touch of double embossing.

Have you tried that technique before?

Double Embossing

Simply run a panel of cardstock through the Big Shot with your chosen embossing folder, then run it through again after moving the cardstock slightly.

 

You end up with a very interesting look. I wanted the bricks to look a little smaller on my card, and I think it worked quite well.

 

 

The stamp set comes with a variety of cute little sentiments and smaller icon-type images… including:

• a cupcake,
• ice cream,
• hot dog,
• sausages,
• stack of pancakes
• and – a taco!

The taco is quite a big deal in our family. We are a fan of Taco Tuesday so that little taco has appeared in my planner more than once, and will no doubt be added to my collection of planner stamps. I’ll upload a picture of it in my planner over on my Facebook page.

The Happy Birthday was actually part of a longer sentiment, but I cut it apart as I often do if I want to get a bit more versatility out of the stamp. It saves me having to mask off the part I don’t want, and I can easily use different colours for the different words.

 

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Continue on to Kelly’s fabulous blog to see what she has in store for you today.

 

And as always, please feel free to join in if you’d like to CASE (copy & share) your own project from pages 12 to 15 of the Sale-a-bration brochure.

Happy stamping,

 

Well hello! And welcome to the 4th Colour INKspiration challenge. Each fortnight the crew inspires you with a blog hop as we unveil the new challenge colours, and you can join in on our challenge page! Come and join us. For a little bit of extra fun, each week the crew will pick a winner, and there’ll be a people’s choice winner too.  

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This time we have some big, bold, strong colours. Wow – aren’t they powerful?

Delightful Dijon, Elegant Eggplant, Crushed Curry and white.

And this is what I came up with…

Definitely a softer version of the same colours.

It uses the Basket Bunch stamp set from the Occasions Catalogue.

The greeting is from the Sale-a-bration stamp set called Any Occasion (#143348).

 

I did a touch of water colouring on Shimmery White cardstock for the daffodils.

For the tinted embossing, there were a few steps.

1. Ink the stamp with Versamark ink
2. Immediately after that ink the stamp in Crushed Curry
3. Stamp the image onto the cardstock
4. Poured the clear embossing powder on top of the stamped image, shake off the excess and let the heat tool work its magic.

The embossing created a nice raised edge, which makes the watercolouring even easier.

 

 

Thanks for visiting today. Next on the hop is the lovely Julia Quinn.

Happy stamping,

 

 

 

Images © Stampin’ Up!® – Tasty Trucks stamp set… One of the free Sale-a-bration gifts, free with a AUD$90 order

Hi friends,

Just dropping in today with some exciting Sale-a-bration news, and info about some upcoming events.

Life is busy and we all *hate* missing out on fun events due to a date clash – I know I do – so I thought you might like to know about some important crafty dates coming up.

1. Upcoming class: Thursday February 23 1-3pm

   Together we’ll create 3 lovely little projects and the cost is only $15. The class is held in Creswick, not far from the beautiful historic city of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. All welcome, but bookings are essential. Contact me to reserve your spot. (EDITED: 1 spot available)

   

   Pencil in these dates too, but spots are filling so let me know if you’d like come too.
   Thursday 23^rd March 1-3pm: Pop-Up Birthday Surprise (featuring Balloon Pop-Ups and Star Blast Edgelits)
   Thursday 6^th April 1-3pm: Birthday Card Class (featuring Cake Crazy, Big On Birthdays, Carousel Birthday)
   Thursday 4^th May 1-3pm: Cards for the Ladies – Mum, Friend, Daughter

   Can’t wait to make something with you!

2. Upcoming Craft Shows: Ballarat CraftAlive

   

   Debbie, Lorinda and I can’t wait to be back again at this event, probably my favourite of the craft shows.

   Aaaaaaaand….. (drum roll please)….. we have a new larger space and will be holding classes throughout the show from within our site!  Oooooh we are so excited about this!
   Stay tuned for more details.

3. New Sale-a-bration choices are here!

   Sale-a-bration has been going for about 6 weeks now.

   Did you know that over HALF A MILLION free Sale-a-bration items have been redeemed around the world?
   Woah nelly, that’s a lot.
   
   We know you’re loving the offerings this year, but you’re in for an even bigger treat.

   From TODAY we have 3 NEW Sale-a-bration items for you to choose from. And trust me, you’ll LOVE them.
   Don’t worry, the other ones aren’t going away. You’ll just three more to choose from!

   >View them HERE<

   

We have a fabulous pack of 6×6 Glimmer Paper that coordinate with Bermuda Bay, Sweet Sugarplum and Mint Macaroon, a delightful stamp set (soon to be my fave) called Reverse Words, and multi-layering set called Make A Medallion. Download the flyer.

We have just 6 weeks left so don’t miss out on filling the last of your wish list orders, and picking up some awesome free gifts at the same time.

We {heart} Sale-a-bration!

 

Happy stamping,