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Modern Christmas Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop August ’25…

The Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Team are back with another Stamp Camp in September, during which you receive instructions in both metric and imperial to make a whopping 26 projects using the Modern Christmas suite of products. We love sharing our creativity and inspiring you to get the most out of your products. The colour scheme of this suite is Black, White and Gold, but I have injected a real pop of colour by adding Gorgeous Grape to this card, I love how it pairs with the gold for a really rich and regal look. I can’t give any instructions […]

Bright and Bold Coneflower Celebrations – Be Inspired Blog Hop Aug ’25…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where our theme this month is Bright and Bold, and I have made a card using the gorgeous Coneflower Celebrations stamp set, showcasing a variety of techniques. I hope you agree that I have met the brief!! I absolutely loved making this card, with a mix of colouring with alcohol markers, and ink blending using our brilliant blending brushes. This is a slightly larger card than usual, which I think really works well with the Bright and Bold theme! To start with I grabbed a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock measuring […]

Tri-fold Z-fold card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop August ’25…

We are talking all things fun fold this month here at Creativity Abounds and I have made a gorgeous tri-fold z-fold card for you today, using the amazing Charming Day suite of products – I am really enjoying using this suite at the moment, the flowers are just stunning, especially heat embossed in gold like I have done here. The colour scheme I have used here really isn’t my usual go to (pinks and purples for anyone wondering, lol!) but I really love how the greens and oranges work together. I went for Timid Tiger and Old Olive, with a […]

Charming Day Floral Card – Be Inspired Blog Hop July ’25…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where our theme this month is Floral Fun (my favourite!!), and I have made a card using the gorgeous Charming Day bundle, showcasing how to make a fun blended background with a bit of heat embossing added in. I used this suite in a recent class of mine and the cards were really popular, and I was on a roll with creating so I just kept going and ended up with this one – the Charming Day suite is so great for all your colouring techniques. To start with I grabbed […]

An Alternative Christmas Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop July ’25…

The Creativity Abounds Blog Hop team are focussing on all things Christmas or gift giving this month, and I have made a slightly alternative Christmas card for you all. I focussed on gift giving for our tutorial this month (which you can purchase using the links below) so wanted to do Christmas for the blog hop. Only problem – I don’t own any current Christmas sets! So, not owning any current Christmas sets, I had to think a little out of the box for this one, hence my alternative Christmas card. I had the Painterly Pears suite on my desk […]

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 […]

Floral Delight Birthday Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Jan ’25…

I have absolutely fallen in love with the new Delightful Wishes bundle, part of the Floral Delight suite from Stampin’ Up! The papers, the stamps, dies and oh, those cute as a button bees! I cannot wait for our February Stamp Camp and sharing all of our amazing projects with you all. The Creativity Abounds group come together twice a month, with a blog hop and a tutorial, and three times a year we hold the most amazing Stamp Camps. Basically what happens, if you purchase the Floral Delight suite of products (shown below) we give you 26 project ideas, […]

How to use the Colour Lifter from Stampin’ Up! – Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop Aug ’24…

I have taught many a colouring lesson over the last few years and I am often asked similar questions, one of which is how to use the colour lifter (or color lifter!) from Stampin’ Up! I absolutely love the colour lifter and I hope this post is going to help you see how you might start to use it in your own colouring too, if you don’t already. The Stamptastic Friends are a small but mighty group of Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who come together once a month to bring you lots of crafty inspiration, and this month we are […]

Using the new Country Birdhouse bundle from Stampin’ Up! – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop May ’24…

Hello, and welcome to this month’s Creativity Abounds Blog Hop where we will be showcasing the new Country Birdhouse bundle from Stampin’ Up! This is in preparation for our ever amazing Stamp Camp which is coming up on the 15th June, though everything is recorded and on YouTube so you can catch up later. If you want to know more about the stamp camp, or this beautiful bundle, please keep reading! The Creativity Abounds crew come from all over the world, and our big passion is sharing our joy of creativity with you! Stamp Camps are just one of the […]