CASE-ing the Catty - Sale-a-Bration 2025

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

The brand new 2025 January - April Mini Catalogue is now LIVE,  together with the annual Sale-a-Bration promotion. In the Stampin' Up! terms this is the most wonderful time of the year because during Sale-a-Bration you get FREE product when you shop! Sale-a-bration commenced on 7 January and runs until 28 February 2025. Click on the image to see the FREE product offerings you can choose from.

During Sale-a-Bration you can:

• Earn FREE product when you place orders over $100 AUD (before postage) in one transaction. You will receive FREE product for each additional $100 you spend in a single order as well. 
• An additional bonus is an extra $50 AUD in Stampin’ Rewards (which makes it $110 AUD all up) when an order reaches over $500 AUD (before postage). You still receive upto 5 FREE product gifts of your choice from the Sale-a-Bration brochure as well. You can host an online or in person party, combine orders with friends or simply shop your Wish List to achieve this total.

There are two levels of gifts available:

• If you spend $100 in one transaction (or multiples of), you can choose one of the Level 1 gifts of which there are 10 choices.  
• If you spend $200 in one transaction, there are three Level 2 gifts to choose from (or you can choose 2 of the level 1 choices instead). 
• You can claim your FREE gifts when you view your cart, prior to check out.

If you've come from visiting Rochelle, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

This week we're CASE-ing projects from the Sale-a-Bration catalogue and I want to show you some of the fabulous choices available. 

This is the sample (above) from page 13 of the Sale-a-Bration Brochure that I chose for my inspiration today. It's a simple layout using the pretty Heart Shaped Bundle, which is one of your Level 2  choices (requires an order of $200 AUD or more before shipping).

For my version, I chose a Petunia Pop card base to start with and the pretty Petunia Pop floral design from the Bloom Impression 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper that is a Level 1 option (requires an order total of $100 AUD or more before shipping). I added a tiny border of white so it would pop from the background.

I chose to use the largest pierced circle from the Stylish Shapes dies to host the vine heart and I added a little soft ink blending with Fresh Freesia ink to soften the background.  The vine heart shape was cropped from Blackberry Bliss card stock to coordinate with the darkest of the little flowers in the paper and adhered it to the circle. I cropped 3 of the little flowers, also from the Heart Shaped Dies to create a cluster around the greeting as well as the flower and foliage sprigs from Basic White.  This flower is the perfect size for little embellishments and the extra detail in the petals is lovely. The greeting is from the Spring Corners stamp set, a new one from the January - April Mini Catalogue, stamped in Petunia Pop ink and cropped with the label die that is also from the Heart Shaped Dies. I finished with a bow using the gorgeous soft Fresh Freesia 3/8" Seam Binding Ribbon (a Level 1 option from page 9 of the brochure) and the smaller Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments in the centre of the flowers for a bright pop of bling.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Spring Corners
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petunia Pop, Blackberry Bliss, Bloom Impressions 12 x 12 DSP
Ink	Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop
Accessories	Fresh Freesia 3/8"Seam Binding Ribbon, Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments
Tools	Stylish Shapes Dies, Heart Shaped Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

 

We would love to see your CASE from the  2025 Sale-a-Bration Brochure this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - New Mini Catty!

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Happy New Year and welcome back to CASE-ing the Catty for 2025!

The brand new 2025 January - April Mini Catalogue goes live on Tuesday 7 January together with the annual Sale-a-bration promotion. I look forward to sharing lots of the fun new products with you over the next few months. If you are in Australia and do not already have an active Demonstrator, I'd love to send you a complimentary copy of the new Mini Catalogue and Sale-a-bration brochure. You can fill in your mailing details over on my Contact Me page.

If you've come from visiting Kathryn, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post.

Because the Mini Catalogue is not LIVE to customers yet, we can only show you the front cover, which you can see in the photo above. So tonight, I'm taking my inspiration from the gorgeous products from the Wildflower Birthday Suite, which is on pages 42-45 of the Mini Catalogue if you have your own copy already. After creating with holiday products for the past months, the soft, pretty colours in this suite are such a breath of fresh air.

I've taken the basic layout from the project on the front cover (which I think is a box) to create my card. I started with a Basic White card base and chose one of the floral designs from the Wildflower Birthday 12 x 12 Specialty Designer Series Paper with gold accents for the background. I added a tiny border of Pretty in Pink to help it pop from the white background.

On the reverse side of the floral design is the sweet Pretty In Pink gingham design. How often does it happen that your favourite designs are back to back? It seems to happen often for me and makes it SO hard as you always use them up quickly! I have added a mat of Basic White for the gingham panel with a tiny border and adhered it on a angle. The pierced border pocket shape is cropped from Basic White with the Birthday Celebration Dies and I popped it up on the gingham panel.

The Wildflower Birthday Speciality DSP has a sheet of coordinating pre-cut images that you can pop out for super quick embellishments on your projects. I have popped up the banner across the panels and used a variety of the floral elements to embellish the bottom corner of the pocket. Under the floral elements I have used some ofthe Gold 1 1/2" Open Weave Trim to add some texture. I have a cut a piece of the trim in half to create separate pieces that make it a little easier to place. The greeting from the Birthday Celebration stamp set was stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink and then fussy cut and popped up. I finished the front with a few of the coordinating Party Dots.

I have used a leftover strip from the front of the card to create a border for the writing panel on the inside of the card. Another greeting from the Birthday Celebration stamp set was stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink in the centre and I added the pre-cut cupcake and flower embellishment in the corner to finish. 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Birthday Celebration
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	gold 1 1/2" Open Weave Trim, Party Dots
Tools	Birthday Celebration Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals

 

We would love to see your CASE of the front cover of the  2024 January - April Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - Splendid Autumn Belt & Buckle Fun Fold

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. 

If you've come from visiting Andrea, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post. 

This week we are CASE-ing from the new 2024 September-December Mini Catalogue that is now LIVE to customers. We are free to choose any project from the Mini Catalogue, so I thought I'd take a break from holiday projects by using the pcard above for inspiration (although you could totally use the layout for a holiday card, too). 

This card uses the pretty Spendid Autumn 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper and I really like that the reverse side has coordinating colour in a soft wash style that makes it super easy to create with.

My card is rectangular rather than square, but hopefully you can see the key elements I've taken from the layout. I've changed it up a bit by making mine into a Belt & Buckle Fun Fold card that uses almost all of the 6" x 6" sheet of paper.  I started with a Fresh Freesia card base with the fold at the left side and cut 1" (2.5cm) off the right side. I chose the pretty mauve floral design and cut 1/4" (6mm) off the top (sky) and then the remainder off the bottom to fit my card base with a narrow border. Cut the narrow strip from the right edge and then the larger piece, to keep the design flowing across the card. 

Before adhering the narrow strip of patterned paper, I attached the 'belt' to the right edge. It is a 1" (2.5cm) strip of Fresh Freesia card stock that is cut to an arrow shape at the end. To make the belt more flexible I used my Bone Folder to stretch and soften the fibres so it wouldn't crack when flexed. The 'buckle' is a label cropped from Whisper White using the Nested Essentials Dies and the greeting from the So Sincere stamp set was stamped with Mossy Meadow ink. I cut 2 strips from the edge of a sheet of Dimensionals and placed them each side of the label, so the 'belt' could go through the centre.  The label was embellished with flowers and foliage cropped with the Country Birdhouse and Country Flowers Dies and I chose Petunia Pop and Garden Green to add contrast and pop. I added Irridescent Pearls to the centre of the flowers and finished with a couple of Brushed Brass Butterflies.

For the inside, I have a Basic White writing panel with a little spray of flowers from the Labeled With Love stamp set stamped in the corner in Garden Green and Petunia Pop ink. The narrow strip at the bottom is the reverse side of the 1/4" strip I took off the top of the sheet. You can see on the right I added a strip of the patterned paper to the reverse side of the 'belt', which adds extra strength as well as being as being decorative.

The card will stand nicely with the belt slightly open as shown above.

 

Project Details
Stamps	So Sincere, Labeled With Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop, Garden Green, Splendid Autumn 6" x 6" DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Garden Green, Petunia Pop
Accessories	Irridescent Pearls, Brushed Brass Butterflies
Tools	Country Flowers Dies, Country Birdhouse Dies, Nested Essentials Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

 

We would love to see your CASE from the 2024 Sep - Dec Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - Layers of Beauty

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week. I'm pleased to be back creating after a 6 week break for our holiday in Finland, Sweden and Norway. I'm feeling very rusty though and still working through the jetlag.

If you've come from visiting Courtney, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post. 

This week we are taking inspiration from an Embossing Project from of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue. Embossing covers both the heat and dry embossing options.

I chose the project above for my inspiration, as I was looking for a simple layout and this one certainly fits the bill!

I started by stamping the large rose from the Layers of Beauty stamp set in Basic Gray ink and used the coordinating masks to colour the image with blending brushes using Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve ink. I chose to fussy cut the images, as I wanted to include some extra details that would have been cropped by the die. 

I used the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder for the background panel and added it to a layer of Moody Mauve cardstock with a narrow border and then onto a Bubble Bath card base. The greeting from the Friends For Life stamp set was heat embossed in white on Moody Mauve cardstock and popped up over the images.

For the inside, I have a Moody Mauve mat for the writing panel and I added another of the ink blended roses in the corner and trimmed the excess.

 

 

Project Details
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Friends For Life
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve, Old Olive
Ink	Versamark, Basic Gray, Bubble Bath, Moody Mauve, Old Olive
Accessories	Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Tools	Layering Beauty Dies, Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Bunles pages of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

 

Thanks for visiting today!

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CASE-ing the Catty - Layers of Beauty Bundle

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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.

If you've come from visiting Rebecca, then welcome!  If you're visiting me, I appreciate you stopping by today! You can continue your journey to see the other inspiring creations from the CTC Crew by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post. 

This week we are taking inspiration from the Bundles on pages 57 - 73 of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue.

The Layers of Beauty Bundle captured me from the time I saw it at OnStage in March. I love roses and the masks that are included in the bundle make it so easy to look amazing at colouring without much effort! The sample above is very lush with two full images displayed on the card and the outline has been heat embossed in white.

I've gone in the other direction with my card. I've stamped the floral image in Basic Gray as it isn't as bold as Memento Tuxedo Black and used Highland Heather to create the 3 layers of shading. The smaller flowers are coloured with Lemon Lolly and Pumpkin Pie for the centre and the leaves are Granny Apple Green. You can of course use different colours together, but I think a single colour gives a very natural, elegant look. 

After cropping the image with the coordinating die, I cut it into 2 pieces and placed them against the top and bottom edge of a Basic White panel that I dry embossed with the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder. I added the panel to a Highland Heather Mat with a narrow border and wrapped the Silver & White Sheer Ribbon around the panel and finished with a bow on the left.  The finished panel was popped up with Dimensionals on a Thick Basic White card base. The greeting from the Layering Leaves Stamp set was heat embossed in white and cropped with a circle die from the Spotlight on Nature Dies and popped up over the ribbon. I finished with a little Silver Glimmer heart cropped with the retired Well Written Dies and a trio of Purple Shimmer Gems.

For the inside, I have a Highland Heather mat for the writing panel and I partially stamped the large rose in the corner and coloured it with the masks.

 

Project Details
Stamps	Layering Leaves, Layers of Beauty
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Highland Heather
Ink	Versamark, Basic Gray, Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lolly, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Silver & White Sheer Ribbon, Purple Fine Shimmer Gems
Tools	Layering Beauty Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder, Well Written Dies (rretired),  Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, White EP, Heat Tool

 

We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Bunles pages of the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog. 

You can head over to  Rochelle to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.

 

Thanks for visiting today!

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