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A Quick Card for 4th July – Color Fusers Blog Hop – July ’25

Thank you so much for stopping by today, the Color Fusers are back with another colour challenge, and these colours really worked for my quick card for 4th July. When I see a colour challenge (especially one that is a challenge!) the first thing I do is look through my stamps and see what calls out to me. As I was browsing my sets, I saw the Round We Go stamp set (currently on the Last Chance sale for just £9.50) and my mind went to fireworks and the 4th July. Now, I am not in America, and it is […]

Vintage Style Card – Be Inspired Blog Hop June ’25…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where our theme this month is Techniques, and I have made a Vintage Style Card, showcasing how to make a more vintage look to your project I used the lovely Gallery Blooms stamp set for this card, I really love the images in the set, and how they looked when I stamped in Smoky Slate and then coloured in with some of my lighter Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. To me it looks almost watercoloured, what do you think? I started with a Smoky Slate card base, and blended some Smoky Slate […]

Masculine Themed Birthday Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop June ’25…

The Creativity Abounds Blog Hop team are focussing on all things masculine this month, and I know a lot of you like getting lots of inspiration for these more difficult projects, so please do have a hop around using the links at the end of this hop. Firstly, my apologies for the slightly shorter than usual post this month, I am having all sorts of technical difficulties at the moment, but I hope you will still be inspired by my card today, I actually made this one for my boyfriend’s birthday – he said he loved all the layers! I […]

Outdoor Themed Scrapbook Layout – Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop June ’25…

Hello and welcome to this month’s Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop, where our theme is ‘outdoors’, and I have got a wicked outdoor themed scrapbook layout for you! I recently took part in a fantastic ‘Wolf Run’ challenge, with lots of mud and obstacles, and really wanted to capture the memories of this amazing day. I had recently purchased the Weekend Adventures Scrapbooking Workshop Kit, and the papers and die cut elements went perfectly with my photos, and fit this theme too. I had a great time creating this double page spread, using the kit as inspiration, though it doesn’t look […]

Feathered Fun – Color Fusers Blog Hop – June ’25…

Oh I love this month’s colour challenge, and as soon as I saw it my mind went straight to a fab new stamp set called Feathered Fun – I have popped a picture of it below for you to see the whole set. I love a bit of colouring with my Stampin’ Blend alcohol markers and my favourite colours are pinks and purples, so this stamp set and colour choice is perfect for me! I may have actually cheated a teeny tiny bit on this challenge (shhh, don’t tell anyone!!) because I have used Secret Sea as my base colour, […]

Celebratory Sips Fun Fold Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop May ’25…

This card is just perfect for the weather we have been having here in the UK lately, lots of cocktails or mocktails sat outside in the sunshine. The Celebratory Sips suite is the one we have chosen for next month’s Stamp Camp, which you can find more about below should you want to come and join us. Stamp Camp is a brilliant event that the Creativity Abounds crew put on three times a year. We choose a suite, you purchase it from one of us (£74.75) and you get to come and join us for free (you just pay the […]

Stampin’ Up! 2025 – 2027 In Colors – Color Fusers Blog Hop – May ’25

With the launch of the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue just around the corner, we had to choose our new 2025 – 2027 In Colors as our inspiration for this month’s hop. I am really excited to see all of the ways that these new colours have been used by the team today, so please do have a hop around using the links at the bottom of this page to see what everyone has created. I decided to have a go at watercolouring with the new 2025 – 2027 In Colors, to see what they looked like when used in […]

How to sand Two Tone Cardstock – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Mar ’25…

Our theme at Creativity Abounds this month is ‘techniques’, and I want to share how to sand two tone cardstock. This is a really simple yet effective technique using one of our newer product lines from Stampin’ Up! The Creativity Abounds group come together twice a month, with a blog hop and a tutorial, this month you will get 13 different techniques with full written instructions in both metric and imperial if you purchase the tutorial. You will find limited instructions here, but you can get the tutorial by clicking the button below. I have used an upcoming Embossing Folder […]

Beautiful Butterflies – Color Fusers Blog Hop – Apr ’25

We are really into Spring here in the UK and these colours are just perfect for the weather that we have been having, so sunny and warm, just the weather for some beautiful butterflies too. I chose to work with the aptly named bundle from Stampin’ Up! this month, I just love how the stamps, dies and embossing folder all co-ordinate together. Because the embossing folder is a 6″ x 6″ one, I opted for a large card, using a pre-made 7″ x 7″ card base and envelope. You could make your own, but I had some on hand, so […]

Beach Day card – Be Inspired Blog Hop March ’25…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where our theme this month is Ocean Fun, and I have made a fairly clean and simple card using the Beach Day stamp and die sets from Stampin’ Up! These sets have been out for a while now, but they are new to me and I had a lovely time stamping and colouring the elements for the front of my card, with the colours inspired by a card from my Color Cube from Sarah Renae Clark – I love having all that colour inspiration on hand and these work so beautifully […]