Baby Bear Sneak Peek - Male Vs Female

I love being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  Not only do I get to craft with amazing products but I also get to attend Onstage, an event twice a year where we get to see & bring home some awesome new products.  Stampin' Up! are very generous & give away prizes at these events in the form of stamp sets, embellishments, inks & even the New catalogue to take home. The best part about Onstage is everyone wins a prize!

Today I am sharing a very cute new stamp set called Baby Bear.  It will be very popular once the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalogue goes live on June 1st!  I was having a play with some retiring products & figured a great way to welcome the NEW is to say goodbye to some great retiring products at the same time.

I have made both a female & male version of this cute little bear, both using current & retiring products.  This stamp is a 3 step stamp & requires a keen eye to line up.  These ones are not perfectly lined up, but still look great.  I have used Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake & Early Espresso as the 3 layers of inks on the girl bear below.  I gave this bear a bit of extra dimension by cutting an extra head & raising it up on dimensionals.

Girl Baby Bear 

I have used the Itty Bitty Accents Punch pack & blushing Bride cotton ribbon (both retiring) for the bow & flower on the bear's ear. The good news is the frame for the sentiment & the flower, both from the Rose Garden thinlit dies, from the Occasions Catalogue.   The DSP is Blushing Bride from the Subtles DSP paper stack. 

 For the boy bear, I have used Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake & Chocolate Chip as the ink layers. I prefer the Chocolate chip for a softer fur feel.

Boy Baby Bear

The boy bear needs less embellishment, just his cute little bow which is included in the stamp set.  I stamped his bow in Marina Mist & Night Of Navy.  I have used the Go Wild DSP stack for the background, Night Of Navy Seam Binding ribbon & the Curvy Corner Trio punch - ALL retiring! 

I can tell this little Baby Bear is going to be very very popular come June 1st.  I have already fallen in love with his cuteness!   I have provided the links to the retiring products I have mentioned in my shop list below.  I urge you to buy what you love before it goes as these retiring products are selling out very fast, & with only a month to go, they won't last that long as they are all while stocks last!

Thanks for stopping by

Tricia 

Product List

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

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Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

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Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

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Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin' Pad

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Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

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Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

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Marina Mist Classic Stampin' Pad

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Night Of Navy 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon

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Blushing Bride 1/4" Cotton Ribbon

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Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack

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Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack

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Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

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Curvy Corner Trio Punch

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Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

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Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

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Welcome Baby for CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog, you have most likely hopped along to me from Stasia Sloma's blog.  How cute is her scrapbook page! 

CASE-ing the Catty has now become a blog hop so all you need to do is keep hopping around and you’ll see a fabulous range of projects to get you inspired and crafting all week long.  I am so excited to be joining in as a guest designer, & look forward to seeing all the wonderful creations by these amazingly talented ladies.  

Today we are casing the baby section of the Occasions Catalogue & I chose to case this card on page 38.  

I love the simple layout of this card & while I am mourning the loss of Blendabilities, I thought this was a great opportunity to try our some colouring using blender pens & ink pads. 

I'm also in pre mourning mode for the 2013-2015 In Colours - can you tell?! I love the softness of Crisp Cantaloupe as a change up from pink on a baby card.  I used both Crisp Cantaloupe & Baked Brown Sugar as they just go together so well.  I used one of my all time favourite baby stamp sets from the Annual Catalogue called Baby We've Grown with a surprise addition of the Occasions Catalogue wedding stamp set Your Perfect Day.  

I hope you have enjoyed my part of the Blog hop, now it's time to move on to the very talented Jackie Noble,  don't stop hopping! 

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Here is the list of all the participants:
Alison Barclay 
Rachel Palmieri 
Rebecca Benson 
Stasia Sloma 
Tricia Raineri  (Guest DT) <---- YOU ARE HERE
Jackie Noble  (Guest DT)

CASE-ing the Catty Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Tricia

Aviary Baby Card

One of my old friends has just had her 1st baby and after seeing her gorgeous owl inspired nursery I had an idea for her baby card.  I was just waiting for the little one to arrive before I chose colours.  Congratulations Jo & James on the arrival of little William!

It is a Clean & Simple (CAS) card using Marina Mist, Pool Party & Island Indigo.

Stamp Sets: Aviary, Out On A Limb, Friendly Phrases.
Paper:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Island Indigo.
Ink: Soft Suede, Marina Mist, Island Indigo, Pool Party.

Ribbon: Pool Party 3/8" Ruffled Grosgrain Ribbon.

Thanks For Looking,

TRICIA 

Baby Shower

Here I am again - WOW two posts in one day!  I have really missed making cards and today I was asked to make a baby shower card for a friend.  I only had a small amount of time - I really hate deadlines!!!  I would have liked to really play with it a bit more and add some ribbon and more colour but I just didn't have the time. I did pop the rompers up with dimensionals.  I knew the recipient was having a girl but I don't think she wanted others to know so I mixed it up with some blue and green.  Naww, so sad those times are over for me :(   The Slice of Life set from SU came to mind immediately - I had not used it yet so was really looking forward to it.  I dont have much "Baby style" designer paper so I had to make do with the topnote die.

I only had a half hour to come up with something so I was a bit rushed!  The little rompers are coloured with pens and the top note die was embossed with the perfect polka dots embossing folder.  

Stamp Set: A Slice Of Life (Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue), Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Paper: Bashful Blue, Pretty In Pink, So Saffron, Whisper White.
Ink: Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Pink Pirouette.
Cool Tools:  Big Shot Machine, Top Note Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Modern Label X-Large Punch, Word Window Punch.