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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Umbrella Days card of support – Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop Feb ’24…

Hello and welcome to this month’s Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop where we are working on the theme of ‘Just to Say’ and I made this card of support using the Umbrella Days bundle from Stampin’ Up! The Stamptastic Friends are a small group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who just love to share their creativity with you all, check out the rest of the groups’ projects using the links at the end of this post! Sending a handmade card to someone can really brighten up there day and I wanted to tell a story with this card – I’ll let you […]

Mixed Florals thank you card – Be Inspired Blog Hop January ’25…

Hello and welcome to the first Be Inspired blog hop of 2025, where our theme is love and friendship, and I have made a gorgeous Mixed Florals thank you card, perfect for showing how much you care about someone close to you. I have made so many cards using this amazing stamp set and die bundle – you won’t find this one in a catalogue though, as it is only available to view through my online store. You can see a picture below though. I wanted to make something a bit special, and the bigger images lend themselves to a […]

A Bright and Beautiful Birthday Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Dec ’24…

If you are anything like me you are still rushing around making Christmas cards, but for those who are ahead of the game I have got a bright and beautiful birthday card to share with you all today, using some soon to be released new stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up! The Creativity Abounds group come together twice a month, once to create a tutorial which we offer for sale for £11.50 and once to provide a free blog hop, full of creative inspiration for you. This month’s theme is Birthday’s, and I’ve steered well away from Winter and have […]

An easy Darling Dinos card – Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop Dec ’24…

Hello and welcome to this month’s Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop where we are keeping it simple (or at least as simple as we can!) and I have got this easy Darling Dinos card for you, perfect for a last minute make. The Stamptastic Friends are a small group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who just love to share their creativity with you all, check out the rest of the groups’ projects using the links at the end of this post! This easy Darling Dinos card was made using one of my favourite bundles from the upcoming mini catalogue – it is […]

How to colour in a watercolour style with Alcohol Markers – Be Inspired Blog Hop Nov ’24…

I am delighted to be able to join the Be Inspired Design Team, and can’t wait to share my project with you today, where I show how to colour in a watercolour style with alcohol markers, using the cutest Christmas Friends stamp set from Stampin’ Up! You’ll likely see lots more Cute Christmas Characters from the rest of the team this month, as that is our theme and what we will all be designing around. I couldn’t resist the Christmas Friends stamp set when I saw it, and have used it a lot recently, especially as it is one of […]

Reindeer Days Treat Package – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Sep’ 2024…

Hello and welcome to this month’s Creativity Abounds Blog Hop where we are talking all things Reindeer, and I have got a cute little Reindeer Days Treat Package for you. I love this suite and was so pleased we were using it for our October Stamp Camp – why not come and join the fun with us. The Creativity Abounds Crew are a group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from around the world who bring you monthly tutorials, blog hops and three times a year a fabulous Stamp Camp. Why not have a hop around using the links at the end […]