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How to Make a Beautiful DIY Seed Packet Organiser with Stampin’ Up! products…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog, where today I am going to show you exactly how to make a seed packet organiser! If you joined me for Monday evening’s YouTube Live, you’ll know we had such a lovely time catching up and crafting this gorgeous 3D project together. If you didn’t get a chance to watch, why not grab a cuppa and get comfy. Sometimes it is so difficult to take decent photos that do a 3D project justice, but I hope you can see just how lovely this little folder is. As you can see in the […]

Tis the Season for Shining Stars and Christmas Crew – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop October ’26…

The creativity abounds blog hop team are showcasing all things ‘Holiday Season’ this month and I have paired the Shining Stars and Christmas Crew stamp sets to create this one! For this project, I stepped away from the classic red and green and embraced a striking colour palette of Secret Sea, Bubble Bath, Melon Mambo, and Pool Party. The card features a cheerful snowman holding a “Sending Holly Jolly Wishes” sign, layered playfully over a large, vibrant pink star. Tucked behind his sign are two sweet candy canes, while smaller silver foil stars are scattered across the sky. To create […]

How to Make a Double Page 12×12 Christmas Scrapbook Layout (Home for Christmas Kit!)

If you have been looking for an easy, stress-free way to get your festive memories into an album, you are in the right place. For our third-Monday of the month YouTube live scrapbooking session, I shared a gorgeous double page 12×12 Christmas scrapbook layout using the brand-new Stampin’ Up! Home for Christmas Scrapbook Workshop Kit. Sometimes, the best thing you can do for your creativity is to let someone else do the designing for you! The Magic of the Home for Christmas Kit Normally, I love to go rogue and mix up my patterned papers, but for this double page […]

How to Make Easy Die-Cut Christmas Cards (No Stamping Required!)

Welcome back to my blog – The Songbird Stamper where today I am sharing how to create beautifully textured, easy die-cut Christmas cards without reaching for a single ink pad. If you are looking for quick, striking festive projects, you are in the right place. These designs are all about letting your die-cutting machine and embossing folders do the heavy lifting, by relying on rich textures and beautiful layers, you can create elegant cards in no time. The Project Details For these two cards, I used the stunning Pretty Poinsettia dies to create gorgeous, dimensional white blooms. The poinsettias serve […]

Autumn Birthday Card – Color Fusers Blog Hop – October ’26

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop, where I am sharing a gorgeous Autumn Birthday card using a really lovely colour fuse, Golden Glow, Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso. This is the first time I have used Golden Glow in such a big way, and it is PERFECT! I have paired the old with the new for this card, because I like to show how we can use our stash, and the Coneflower stamp was the perfect addition to the card using the lovely papers from the Sunflower Fields DSP pack. Golden Glow and Early Espresso make […]

All about Neutrals – Be Inspired Blog Hop September ’26…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where this month we plan to inspire you with ‘All about Neutrals’ – the colour family from Stampin’ Up! Whilst I know that Autumn and Winter can be a bit dull and dreary sometimes, I wanted to celebrate the colours in our All about Neutrals colour family today, so I grabbed my Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy and Mossy Meadow, and then realised that the Welcome Noel Bundle from the Neutral Noel suite would pair perfectly with the snowy scene I was about to start making. Firstly, I stamped the sweet […]

Home for Christmas Stamp Camp – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop September ’26…

The creativity abounds blog hop team are promoting our extraordinary Home for Christmas Stamp Camp this month, and I have got a super exciting project to tease you with! If you don’t know about Stamp Camp, it is a great event where you get so much value for money. All you need to do is purchase the collection of products from me, and you get access to 26 different project ideas from demonstrators around the world! You even get materials and full written and video instruction to make 13 of them at home! The Home for Christmas Bundle really reminded […]

Fun for Fall – Color Fusers Blog Hop – September ’26

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop, and I’ve been having some Fun for Fall with this gorgeous Autumn inspired colour palette! As soon as I saw this colour combo I knew exactly which stamp set to reach for – the Orange / Yellows / Brown and a pop of deep purple were shouting SCARECROW at me, and this stamp set is perfect for a bit of my favourite colouring with alcohol markers. The background is made using some Pumpkin Pie cardstock and the Buffalo Check Hot Foil Die, with gold foil – it really catches the […]

Pretty Poinsettias – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop July ’26…

The creativity abounds blog hop team are hitting up the Christmas in July this month, and I have made a bit of a ‘wow’ card using the Pretty Poinsettias bundle from Stampin’ Up! I am not sure I will be making a whole heap of these, as there’s a lot of die cutting, but it was fun, and I love the result. We have also welcomed the wonderful Leighsa Alport to the Creativity Abounds Crew – welcome Leighsa, we are delighted to have you join us. I made this card using a pre-made 7″ x 7″ card blank, but all […]

Singing Flamingos – Color Fusers Blog Hop – July ’26

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop, and I’ve created a fun birthday card with some awesome singing flamingos! I must say, as soon as I saw this colour combo I nearly bowed out of the hop, but perserveered and was pleased with what I ended up with! Crisp Cantaloupe is one of our new 2026-1018 In Colors and I have really been enjoying using it – more so that I originally thought I would. I wasn’t sure about the pairing with Cloud Cover and Poppy Parade, but they do work, and I am excited to see […]