Product of the Month Collaboration - Fabulous Sayings

Welcome to the January 2026 Product of the Month (POM) Blog Hop!  If you've followed my blog for  while you will know that in previous years we have had a period of Sale-A-Bration (SAB) at the start of each year. Well Stampin' Up! have implemented a new initiative instead of SAB, and that is Product of the Month. For POM there is a new product released every month that can be earned for a greatly reduced cost, $9 in Australia, with the purchase of $125 in product.   So a group of demonstrators decided to help showcase these products we would run a blog hop each month to give ideas.

The Product of the Month (POM) for January is an amazing stamp set containing 10 sentiments, in the words of SU "This versatile stamping set features all-occasion sentiment stamps for birthdays, thank-you notes, love, friendship, and support cards. The mix of a handwritten script with a classic serif font pair beautifully with a wide range of card making and paper crafting styles."  You can check out some great samples in the SU on-line store here. 

I love the fonts used for this stamp set, and think this set will be a favourite of mine for some time to come. The sentiments are quite large, and you can see with the Happy Birthday they are great for cards like this one, where a piece of torn DSP and he sentiment stamped in a coordinating colour is all you need for a beautiful card. This is a great design if you need to make some quick and easy cards either at an event or to send out to friends and family.  The DSP is from the new Lovely & Beautiful pack featured in the Jan to Apr Mini Catalogue, I chose to add some Brushed Brass Butterflies which are still available in the on-line store, to finish the card. 

Time to keep on hopping and see what the rest of the team have created with this versatile stamp set, follow the links at the end of each blog post to make your way around the hop.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #553 - CASE The January Online Exclusives

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from images from the On-Line Exclusives. This is a great opportunity to check out some of these products and what the Stampin' Up! design team have created with them.

I was inspired by this card from the Lovely Arrangements Bundle, I liked the overall layout of the design, but was also taken with the use of the die cutting on the front panel. I don't often think of using die cuts in this way and wanted to have a go at my own version.

I kept with the layout and floral theme, but changed up the DSP, colours and the choice of cut out die/Here is my card. I used Nature's Symphony dies to cut the background and love how the Lost Lagoon peeks through the Pretty Peacock panel. These dies coordinate with the Nature Walk DSP so I chose one of the patterns from this pack as the basis of the colour scheme for my card, adding some of the gorgeous floral images from Beautifully Adorned Ephemera Pack. Given these lovely botanical images I had to add embellishments from the Flower Accents to match the gold.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the project samples in the on-line store for the on-line exclusives (you can find a link on my side bar) to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what the talented Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC#552 - CASE The Mini Catalogue

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from the newly released January to April Mini Catalogue. 

I was inspired by this card from page 56 of the Mini Catalogue. I love the layout of this card, and while I think the colour combination is interesting, I thought I would like to play around with the colours and make a more natural toned card. 

For the basis of my card I chose one of the sheets from the Nature Walk DSP with lovely earthy tones and pretty cursive script.  From here I chose another pieces from the same DSP pack to cut out two of the leaf dies from the Greenery Lane Bundle which gave them a lovely mottled green look.  I chose other foliage stamps from the same bundle to create the rest of the collage as well as the sentiment.  I finished off my card with some of the Brushed Brass Butterflies for a little sparkle. Let me know what you think of my version of this Mini Catalogue card. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the new January to April Mini Catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what the lovely Rochelle has been inspired to created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #551 - Farewell To The Mini Catalogue

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from the projects in the September to December Mini Catalogue as a farewell to some wonderful products. 

I was inspired by this card from page 16 of the Mini Catalogue, mostly because this was a stamp that caught my eye on my very first look at the catalogue. Having said that I do have a confession that before this challenge I had not inked it up even once! So it was a clear choice for this challenge. 

Having such a large stamp it stands on its own with confidence, not needing a lot of embellishments added to create the wow factor. I stamped in Secret Sea on DSP from the Peaceful Garden pack, which I loved because it is such a subtle pattern that lets the sentiment shine. I couldn't help using one of my favourite products from this mini catalogue the gorgeous Traditional Sparkling Sequins, and to tie them in I mounted my DSP and Secret Sea layer on a Pool Party card base. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the Holiday Mini Catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Judy has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique