Tag Archives: Stampin’ Up Birthday Cards

My Onstage swaps to celebrate Stampin’ Up’s 30th Birthday

This weekend marked the end of Stampin’ Up’s 30th Birthday year-long celebrations.  We partied all over the world from Orlando in the States, to Brisbane in Oz and Birmingham here in the UK amongst other locations!  It is traditional at Stampin’ Up! events to swap card fronts and project ideas (totally optional but fun!) and I thought I’d show you the swap I’d made. After falling in love with embossing… Read More »

Enjoy the Little Things Video Blog Hop – Masculine Birthday card

Welcome to this month’s Enjoy the Little Things Video Blog Hop where our theme is all things Masculine.  As my husband’s birthday was coming up, it was the perfect opportunity to get ahead of the game and make a Masculine Birthday card.   It’s a fairly simple card as overly fussy is not his thing, but I wanted to show you how versatile the Broadway Bound suite is.  You may… Read More »

Shadow Box Card – perfect for a little Princess!

My daughter turned 6 a couple of weeks ago and had a Princess themed birthday party.  As I’d just used the venue’s invitations, I decided to make some pretty special thank you cards for her guests.  I created a Princess shadow box card that opens up to reveal a red rose and her Thank you wishes. It was quite a simple card to create and I have to thank Danielle… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! Retiring Products Blog Hop – Cool Treats Birthday Card

I am part of a group of global demonstrators who want to showcase some last chance products for you this morning and I have chosen the fabulous Cool Treats stamp set together with the matching Frozen Treat dies for a ‘Cool’ Cool Treats Birthday Card  – see what I did there 😉  I’ve also used poor old Chocolate Chip which is one of our retiring colours this year.   When… Read More »

Stampin’ Up’s Magical Day for our Birthday Girl

Very recently we celebrated our own Magical Day, you may have seen my last post with the card I made for our Birthday Girl. Today, I wanted to show you a card that I made together with my 5 year old daughter for her big sister.  We used the absolutely gorgeous Spring Summer set, Magical Day, as what 10 year old girl doesn’t like Unicorns?! I admit to having adhered… Read More »

Picture Perfect Birthday for Our Birthday Girl

Some of you who follow me on other social media outlets may know it was my daughter’s birthday this week.  I’m still in shock that she is 10 years old – quickest 10 years ever! I thought I would share the card that I made for her together with a little gift box using the fabulous Picture Perfect Birthday.     10 candles for her 10th birthday!  They’re not perfectly placed,… Read More »

Let’s Get Hopping 6 – Bubble Over His and Hers Cards

One sketch – Two versions – that’s the challenge for the Let’s Get Hopping team and we hope to inspire you with our His and Hers card sets.  I’ve used Bubble Over from the Spring Summer catalogue to make Pink Lemonade for the ladies and a Birthday Brew for the lads using the exact same layout sketch!   So without further ado, here is my Pink Lemonade card.  Aren’t the… Read More »

Birthday Boy Skateboard Card – FREE SAB paper

Don’t you feel that everything stamps better when it’s FREE, same with Designer Series Paper – you just craft better when it’s FREE!! The Bubbles and Fizz FREE Sale-a-bration paper is no exception and makes wonderful cards – even a Birthday Boy card – not a beer bottle in sight! The recipient of my card was my second child who turned 8 today.  He had asked for a skateboard for… 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 Kick Off Sale-a-Bration 2018 with a Blog Hop!

I’m taking part in a Global Blog Hop this morning with some very talented demonstrators where we all want to show you some of the fabulous FREE stamps you could earn yourself during Stampin’ Up’s Sale-a-Bration 2018.  Every spend of £45 can earn you 1 x level One product or a £90 spend could earn you 2 x Level One products or 1 x Level Two product.  The Sale-a-Bration 2018… Read More »

Stampin’ Creative Sneak Peek of Sale-a-bration and Spring Summer 2018

Welcome to the final Stampin’ Creative Hop of 2017 where we are giving you a Sneak Peek of the upcoming Spring Summer 2018 catalogue. There are so many good things coming your way, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek of one product in particular, the Lots of Happy Card Kit. Every time I buy one of Stampin’ Up’s kits, I think they can’t top it and then… Read More »

Happy Birthday Gorgeous for #GDP096

This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project is a colour challenge and I’ve used one of my favourite sets, Happy Birthday Gorgeous.  It is such a fun set and I’m sure you will agree that this card is poles apart from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous card I showed you last week.  The versatility of this set holds no bounds! Here are the colours we are asked to use this week… Read More »

Crafting for the Weekend – Happy Birthday Gorgeous

Another week is over and I hope you get some time to pull out your crafting supplies this weekend and relax with some crafty me-time. This week, I wanted to share a fairly quick and easy birthday card using the Happy Birthday Gorgeous set.   Happy Birthday Gorgeous This is such a versatile set.  You can create soft feminine cards with all the beautiful flowers and leaves, or  young, funky… Read More »

Pick a Pattern Kid’s birthday cards for #GDP095

This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project is based around the theme of Kids! Having four of the little monkeys myself, I find myself making kid’s birthday cards pretty often as not a month goes by without two or three party invitations coming in.  In fact, my son is attending one this weekend and one next weekend. Never one to make extra work for myself, I thought I would… Read More »

Case-ing the 2017-2018 Stampin’ Up! Annual catalogue

The brand new 2017-2018  Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue is fantastic; full to the brim of fabulous products but also fantastic inspiration for crafting projects.  I want to show you how you can use our catalogue for ideas for your own projects even if you don’t have the specific sets used.  We call this Case-ing; it stands for either Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit.  We basically take… Read More »

Stamping Creative Blog Hop – Annual Catalogue Sneak Peek

5 days and counting until the new catalogue launches – excited.. much?!?! I can guarantee that you will be after you hop around all of us this morning! You may have arrived from Emma at Coastal Crafter or this may well be your first stop, either way you are very welcome at Stamp in Colour with Eimear Carvill. I’m an Independent Stampin’ Up demonstrator based in the heart of the… Read More »

Stamping Creative Blog Hop – Made for Men

Can you believe it’s almost May?! Especially with the strange weather we have had in the UK this week?! However, the end of the month means that it’s time for the Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop and this month we are focussing on male themed cards. You may have arrived from the fabulous Mikaela Titheridge – I’ll bet you loved her creations this month – if you arrived directly here, with… Read More »

Tuesday’s Tip – How to Heat Emboss in Every Colour

Today’s Tuesday tip features a very quick and easy card but also a super tip on how to heat emboss with every colour of ink you own! All you need is versamark ink and clear embossing powder! It’s so simple! Watch this video and then head straight to your craft space to try it out Here is everything I used for the three different cards. Our fabulous Sale-a-bration promotion ends on… Read More »

Crafting for the Weekend – Two-tone Flowers with Sale-a-bration’s Avant Garden

I’m back with my new series of videos to get you in the mood for Crafting this Weekend – this time we are using the gorgeous Sale-a-bration set Avant Garden to make a quick and easy birthday card.  This set is free with a £45 purchase from now until the end of March when our Sale-a-bration promotion ends. So if you like this set, do man sure you get it… Read More »

Crafting for the Weekend – Using the Confetti Star Punch

This is my new series of blog posts to get you in the mood for crafting over the weekend.  It may be a project you want to case or it may inspire you to try something similar yourself. This week, I wanted to show you how to use the Confetti Star Border Punch.  It is a great addition to your punch collection and an all year round punch, perfect for… Read More »