More from the Storybook Moments Suite - CASE the catalogue

  Hello & welcome to my blog,

My name is Alison & I live in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. For those of you who have previously visited my blog & are now returning, thank you. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome!

 Here's a little bit about me. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP and Wednesday evenings when I highlight a technique, fun folds or tools & tips. I would love to hear from you if you have any questions or suggestions & my email address for that is craftedbyalison@gmail.com.

Stampin' Up® 's Annual Catalogue was released last year with a very different format & it's a beauty! It's set out quite differently to previous catalogues but there are benefits to that. They now have sectioned it to have beginners, which is a step by step collection of materials in kits, then there is quick & easy where you select base materials & packs of pre-printed or diecut materials plus some stamp sets then there is create your way where you choose all the materials, stamps etc yourself & create your way! In the quick & easy section Stampin' Up® have also provided some inspiration with a colour wheel & information of various ways to use colour combinations. I explored this in a bit more detail in my 1/1/25 mid week blog. The new mini catalogue was launched on January 7th with lots of lovely stamps, dies & papers to ooh & aah over. If you would like a copy of this new catalogue then please contact me at craftedbyalison@gmail.com. Stampin' Up® also have products available only online. These are called Online exclusives & have no end date, when the stock is sold out, that's the end of it.

Today I am sharing more of the delightful Storybook Moments Suite. It is such a gorgeous suite with garden critters, plants & frames. There is beautiful DSP full of the critters & produce plus, 2 sheets of pre-cut images to use on your projects plus there is a 6"x6" pack of checks & plaids to co-ordinate with it all. There are two stamp & die bundles in this suite - Storybook Friends & Storybook Garden Patch. In previous blogs I have shared a funfold made with the DSP & a selection of cards made with the DSP with a little bit of the stamps from Storybook Friends.  

Here are two cards that I have CASE'd from the Mini catalogue which feature some of the images from Storybook Garden Patch. I hope you like them!

Let's start with the card on the right.

On a Basic White base I added a matte of Wild Wheat check DSP from the Timeless Plaid pack. 

The ground for the veggie patch is Pecan Pie & was created with one of the dies that cuts out the shape of the dirt mounds but also adds some slits for your veggies to pop up out of! Very clever idea. 

Before joining the two pieces together I heat embossed the sentiment in white directly onto the 'dirt'.

The carrots are diecut from Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral & Cajun Craze with a little bit of trimming to shape them and the tops are diecut from Wild Wheat, Old Olive & Mossy Meadow  & adhered with a tiny bit of glue. 

The pots are Calypso Coral & Cajun Craze & the watering can is Boho Blue & Night of Navy. The final piece of diecutting is the little trowel which is Pebbled Path.

To assemble the card I adhered all of the two tone pieces to make separate images then placed the two pieces of the veggie patch earth, trimming parts that weren't quite right and being careful to apply glue only to areas where the carrots did not poke through. The carrots & trowel were poked through & kept in place with liquid glue, mini glue dots & dimensionals. Here's a closeup which shows the slits.

Next was adding the pots & watering can, again with mini glue dots & dimensionals plus a few Antique Pearls to finish it off. Viola! 

The second card took a little longer to create as it involved colouring with blends. I didn't mind at all though as I find the process quite relaxing. I set out a large selection of colours on the table when I was crafting with friends & coloured each of the images in as we chatted. 

This time I used Basic Beige for my base & added a plaid matte slightly smaller than the base. The images were stamped in Memento black onto Basic Beige & I made sure that there was room for the small sentiment to be heat embossed in Copper. On to the colouring! The colours used are:

Lemon lime Twist

Parakeet Party

Granny Apple Green

Real Red

Sweet Sorbet

Peach Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Pebbled Path

Smoky Slate &

SU500, 600, 700 & 900 in the skin tones.

The finished scene was adhered to the base then I splattered some SU100 across the whole of the card front for a 'dirty' effect. To create the splatter, simply place the brush end of your blend just inside the lid & flick it outwards. Easy, peasy.

That's it for this creative episode. I hope you enjoyed seeing these gorgeous, whimsical images. I'm so in love with this suite & I will be featuring some creations made with the Storybook Friends stamps & dies in future blogs but for now I'm taking a little break from this beautiful suite to share some fun creations from the Online Exclusive, Filled With Fun bundle. This will help to set up lots of birthday cards, ready for the coming year.

But now I'd like to share some of the latest news from Stampin' Up®.

Stampin' Up® has a number of ways to purchase their lovely products. You can look through their physical catalogue or browse through the catalogues online but there are also some products that are only available exclusively online that don't appear in any catalogues. These products are called the Online Exclusives & are only available under the Online Exclusives section of the Stampin' Up® shop. Check out the online exclusives in my online store. Stampin' Up® adds more product items to the online shop so don't forget to keep checking the store to see what's new. There are some lovely new products now available including kits, embellishments, stamps, dies & embossing folders. Something for everyone! If you would like a copy of the catalogue please send me a message at craftedbyalison@gmail.com or on my Facebook page, craftedbyalison. 

There is also another Sale-A-Bration happening right now from January 7th to February 28th where you get free stuff, just for ordering product! YAY for free stuff!!!! There's also a great new joining offer inside the Sale-A-Bration catalogue.

NEWS & REMINDERS: 

1. Stampin' Up®'s Annual Catalogue is a beautiful piece of artwork as well as an amazing resource for crafting. It's very different to any other catalogue that I've seen from Stampin' Up®. They have changed the front cover from featuring cards or supplies to a casual stamping picture as well as a radical change to the layout of the contents. There are still lots of beautiful pics of the products & ideas aplenty, it's just set out differently. I think you'll love it. If you would like a copy of the Annual catalogue then send me a message at craftedbyalison on Facebook or email me at craftedbyalison@gmail.com & I'll send you one. 
2. The Mini catalogue was launched on 7th January! Woohoo!! There are lots of gorgeous new items ready to inspire your creativity. If you would like me to send you a copy, send me a message on my facebook page or email me. 
3. Some of you may know that Stampin' Up® purchased a quantity of scrapbooking materials when Close To My Heart folded. They have taken on any CTMH demonstrators that wanted to cross over & have slowly been including scrapbooking products into our supplies. They now have a dedicated digital mini catalogue, exclusively devoted to scrapbooking products available here at my online shop. There are a number of kits available if you'd like to start your scrapbooking journey or if you already scrap then check the kits out! Here is a link for the new scrapbooking brochure that launched on January 7th.
4. Don't forget the Online Exclusive products with new products added and available now. Check out my online shop here. Stampin' Up® release a new items regularly. The last release date for a new selection of products was on November 5th and there are some gorgeous new products to tempt you. Why don't you check them out?

Stampin' Up® have a great range of Kits including crafting, card making & gift giving. Click here to check them all out in my online shop. As Stampin' Up® have so many beautiful kits available I will be featuring a different kit in each blog so that you can see the range. 

This week's featured kit is a little different. It's called Birthday Bash & is for birthdays but is not cards! It creates gift bags, gift card holders & gift tags & co-ordinates with the Brightest Birthday kit. 
Both of these are new to the range.

Here's how Stampin' Up® describes the kit...

If it’s time to celebrate a birthday, you’ll want to have the Birthday Bash Kit! This kit includes four gift bags and four gift card holders with special gift tags and coordinates with the Brightest Birthday Kit. The cheerful, bright gift packaging in this kit will make any birthday a celebration! 

If you feel that you need to add this to your list then click here to purchase one from my online store. 

If you shop with me then don't forget to use this month's host code DXK2BBSD. This will allow me to pass on any hostess benefits to customers when the sales reach the required qualifying amount.

Lastly, there have been lots of great items added to the clearance rack which is now called Last Chance items so make sure you check them out using this link to my online store.

If you would like to purchase any of my creations that I feature in my blogs they can be found in my FaceBook shop at craftedbyalison or you can order something unique. 

I hope you've enjoyed today's post. I certainly had a lot of fun playing around with the beautiful images from this stamp set. If you would like me to send you a copy of the current Annual catalogue or the new mini  then please message me via my FaceBook page, Crafted by Alison or send me an email at craftedbyalison@gmail.com.

That's all I have for you this week. My next blog is on Wednesday with a colour challenge. 👏👏 Colour challenges are lots of fun & help to extend your creativity, often combining colours that you wouldn't normally put together.

As mentioned previously, my next Sunday my blog will feature the Filled With Fun stamps & dies. I hope you can join me for both of them.

Well, that's it for another week. I hope you enjoyed this post & come back for more. 

Til next time, take care & keep creating! XX Alison.

Here are some links to the products I used today & some craft room essentials.

Shop with me

Stamps, Dies, Embossing folders & punches

• Storybook Friends stamp set
• Storybook Friends dies
• Storybook Friends bundle Save 10%
• Storybook Moments suite 

Cardstock, DSP & paper goods

• Basic White cardstock
• Basic White Thick cardstock
• Basic Beige cardstock
• Storybook Moments DSP
• Timeless Plaid DSP
• Wild Wheat cardstock
• Old Olive cardstock
• Mossy Meadow cardstock
• Cajun Craze cardstock
• Pumpkin Pie cardstock
• Calypso Coral cardstock
• Boho Blue cardstock
• Pecan Pie cardstock
• Night of Navy cardstock

Inks & Markers

• Versamark pad
• WOW Basics embossing powders
• Metallics WOW embossing powders
• Lemon Lime Twist Stampin' blends
• Granny Apple Green Stampin' blends
• Read Red Stampin' blends
• Peach Pie Stampin' blends
• Pumpkin Pie Stampin' blends
• Pebbled Path Stampin' blends
• Stampin' blends light combo pack
• Stampin' blends medium light combo pack
  
• Stampin' blends medium combo pack
• Stampin' blends medium deep combo pack
• Stampin' blends deep combo pack

Embellishments

• Antique Pearls 

Adhesives

• Multipurpose liquid glue
• Tear and tape
• Dimensionals
  
• Mini Dimensionals
  
• Foam adhesive strips
• Mini Glue Dots
• Adhesive sheets

Tools

• Paper Trimmer
• Take Your Pick tool
• Paper Snips scissors
• Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine
• Water painters
• Heat tool
• Blending Brushes