Category Archives: Stampin’ Blends

A Good Man at the Beach

Monday is my day for Facebook Lives – I’m not a natural at going live, but I do love the interaction of those watching. This week was a bit of a cheat as I recreated almost exactly the “A Good Man at the Beach’ project I made the night before t my team Creative Challenge.  I was going to have a practice at a new card idea I had in… Read More »

Sweet and Simple with Sweet Strawberry

On my weekly Facebook Live, I chose to use the Sweet Strawberry bundle which is my featured set for my March Cards and a Cuppa class series. Here is the first card I’ve made with it, keeping it sweet and simple with Sweet Strawberry. Instead of using the infill stamps for the strawberry, I wanted to use the Stampin’ Blends.  However, I opted for the normal infill stamps for the… Read More »

Quite Curvy Spring Wreath

During my Sunday night team challenge, we decided to focus on the theme of ‘Creatures’; think Donkeys, Turtles, Birds, Sharks etc etc. I decided to crack open a set that I purchased in a promotion before Christmas but had yet to ink up. There are the cutest little bird stamps in the set.  So I made a Quite Curvy Spring Wreath.   I coupled this set with the gorgeous Hydrangea… Read More »

Christmas Gift Card Holder with the Night Before Christmas Suite

I’m back with a quick and easy video tutorial for this Night Before Christmas Gift card holder. It is super easy to make and uses the fabulous Night Before Christmas suite which includes the Holly Jolly Christmas bundle. Don’t you just love that Santa Claus? He looks so jolly! In fact, where you’re from is he Santa Claus or Father Christmas – he’s always been Santa Claus to me! I… Read More »

Stampin’ Creative Festive Treats with Holly Jolly Christmas Bundle

Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog hop where we are exploring the wonderful world of Festive Treats – is your mouth watering yet?  Hopefully the little treat I have rustled up will whet your appetite to get creative in the craft room.  I thought after a hard night travelling round the world Santa may be a little tired of mince pies and might fancy a little champagne truffle instead… Read More »

New Product Blog Hop with Animal Outing

Today, I am taking part in a blog hop organised by the lovely Janet Wakeland of Remarkably Created with demonstrastors from all over the world. We are showcasing some of the new products available in the brand new Stamping’ Up! catalogue.  I chose to showcase the gorgeous rhino from Animal Outing. I’ve already shown you the giraffe, so today is the rhino’s turn to shine – and how about that… Read More »

Hold on to Hope Congratulations Card for Onstage 2018 swaps

If you’ve seen my last few posts, then it’s no secret that I love the Hold on to Hope bundle – but how about a Hold on to Hope Congratulations card?  I just had to use my current favourite for my Onstage 2018 swaps.  I had used a sponged background recently for team swaps and also for an Easter card that I posted a few weeks back. This effect is… Read More »

Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop – From the Garden

Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where we are bringing you Inspiration from the Garden. I have used all the L’s in my project today with the Lots of Lavender FREE Sale-a-bration set and gorgeous texture with the Layered Leaves Dynamic Embossing Folder. You may well have arrived from Mikaela – weren’t her objects just gorgeous? –  or this may well be your very first stop, but either… Read More »

Tis’ the Season to say Thank you

We had a family tradition whereby every Boxing Day morning, the Basildon Bond notepaper would be presented on the dining table and it was time to write our Thank you cards.  I have continued this tradition with my own family. We do wait, however, until our return to our own house so we can get stuck in with my craft supplies and make the whole Thank you experience a bit… Read More »

Let’s Get Hopping 5 – Celebration Time!

  We have some fabulous sets coming your way in Stampin’ Up’s brand new Spring Summer 2018 catalogue and Picture Perfect Birthday is no exception.  When Jen announced Celebration as the theme for this hop I really wanted to use this set. We received it during our Onstage gathering in April and I especially love this sentiment . It was used as a table decoration at our Silver Elite and… Read More »

Let’s Get Hopping 4 – Working with Small Stamps

Welcome back to the December round of Let’s Get Hopping where are theme is working with small stamps.  These can be tricky to work with but I’m sure once you’ve hopped round us all, these will be the first stamps you reach for in your collection.  You may have arrived from Verity Biddlecombe at Pretty Little Button or this may well be your first stop, but either way you are… Read More »

Picture Perfect Birthday for Inspire Create Challenge #5

It’s been a long time since I took part in a challenge but my lovely Stampin’ Creative teamie, Emma Goddard has recently joined the Inspire Create design team and as I had yet to play along, I thought I would give it a go.  I needed a family Birthday card and had yet to play with any of my pre-order goodies, so out came ‘Picture Perfect Birthday’. I used the… Read More »

Weather Together makes a fun Christmas card

In today’s post, I wanted to show you a twist on my swap for our recent Onstage Event in Solihull, you can see the original swap here.  Like my swap I am still using Weather Together and I created a fun little Christmas card by simply changing the colours. This time, I used our fabulous Stamping’ Blends to colour in the three gifts. So very easy to do and the… Read More »

Onstage Solihull 2017 – what a blast!

We wait for 6 months for these events to come round and before we know it, they’re over!! But Onstage Solihull 2017 was amazing – thank you so much Stampin’ Up! – it was a blast!! We kicked off the beginning of Stampin’ Up’s 10 year anniversary in the UK with the Centre stage event.  This is an exclusive event for Silver Elites and above and it is truly an… Read More »

Stampin’ Blends are here

  I am so excited about the new Stampin’ Blends!!! If you love the look of alcohol markers but maybe find Copics too expensive, or have struggled to find the co-ordinating Stampin’ Up! colours in your current “other” alcohol pens, then help is on it’s way! These pens are artist quality alcohol markers in 12 exclusive Stampin’ Up! colours! Just in time for your Christmas cardmaking, these fabulous new markers… Read More »