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A Spring Inspired Birthday Card – Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip Achievers Blog Hop Dec ’23…

Hello and welcome to my blog, where today I am hopping with the Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip Achievers and I am sharing this beautiful Spring inspired birthday card with you, perfect for the coming months. I am so delighted to be able to take part in these blog hops this year, with a wonderful group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from around the world that earned the Stampin’ Up! Incentive trip for the 2022/23 Stampin’ Up! year . Only about 1% of all the Demonstrators earn this trip every year and in April, we will be going to Mexico and staying […]

How to make my easy table favours – Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop – Dec ’23…

Hey everyone, the Stamptastic Friends are blog hopping again and this month we are talking gift wrapping, so I have got a tutorial for how to make my easy table favours, perfect for those small gifts or for adorning the Christmas table. I love making little 3D projects like this easy table favour, and this one is so quick and easy to make you will have no problems doing multiples for your friends and family. They make lovely little thank you gifts for those Christmas parties that might be happening this week too. All you need are two small pieces […]

Easy Christmas Table Favour – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Nov ’23…

Welcome to the November Creativity Abounds Blog Hop where our theme is all about Christmas packaging, Christmas gift and of course, an easy Christmas table favour! We love getting together twice a month to bring you lots of creative inspiration for your papercrafting adventures. I made these table favours as gifts for a big Winter event that I ran, and everybody loved them so much that I have decided to share the instructions with you all, so you can make them for yourself too. You can easily switch out the papers and colours and sentiments to suit any occasion as […]

Beary Christmas Fun Fold Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Oct ’23…

Welcome to the Creativity Abounds blog hop, where this month we are focussing on all things Holiday season, and I have got a fabulous Beary Christmas fun fold card for you, using the Beary Christmas Memories and more cards. The Creativity Abounds blog hop team are a group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from all over the world who love to share their love of papercrafting with you. I go live on YouTube once a week, when I am not working, on a Thursday evening at 8pm UK time, and this card was one of many I made during a recent […]

Cute Christmas Gift Bag – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Sept ’23…

Hello and welcome to this month’s Creativity Abounds Blog Hop where our theme is the AMAZING Winter Meadow suite and I am here to show you this cute Christmas gift bag made using one of my favourite sheets of paper from this new product line up. The Creativity Abounds blog hop team is a group of 13 Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who come together each month to bring you creative inspiration and tutorials for your cardmaking and papercrafting. October is our Stamp Camp month, and this time we chose to work with the Winter Meadow suite of […]

Rainbow Celebration Card – The Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop August ’23…

Ooooh, I have received some new craft products, super exciting, and this Rainbow Celebration Card basically sums up how I feel about all the new stamps, dies, papers and embellishments in the new Stampin’ Up! Sep-Dec Mini Catalogue! Our theme here this month at the Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop Team is Celebration, and I reckon new goodies is always a reason to celebrate! If you want more inspiration around the theme of celebration, why not check out the links at the bottom of the page! The card itself is a standard DL card, so 21cm x 21cm scored in half […]

Suspended Book Fold Card – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop August ’23…

Our theme for this month’s Creativity Abounds Blog Hop is ‘Fancy Folds’ and I have got one for you that I have never seen before, a suspended Book Fold Card. I saw this card on Pinterest and the tutorial was from Jan B, using some lovely summer papers, but I decided it would look fabulous as a Christmas card, so I have chosen some brand new products to play with. The Creativity Abounds crew are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who love to share ideas and inspire creativity – please do have a hop around […]

Easy Peasy Fun Fold Card – Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop July ’23…

Now, I am not normally a fan of fancy folds, but this easy peasy fun fold card was actually really enjoyable to make, and I am giving you all the measurements you will need to be able to make one for yourself, too. And I am sure you will find lots more fun fold inspiration if you hop through the rest of the blogs using the links at the bottom. All you need to make one of these easy peasy fun fold cards is a piece of cardstock measuring 14.5cm x 21cm, a piece of the same colour card measuring […]

Good Colour Combo for Masculine Cards – Stamptastic Friends’ Blog Hop April ’23…

The theme for this month’s blog hop is ‘Cards for Men’ so I thought I would share a good colour combo for masculine cards, as I think colour is one of the most important things when making those difficult cards for the special guys in our life. The Stamptastic Friends are a wonderful group of Demonstrators who come together every month to bring you the very best of Stampin’ Up! Please do have a hop around the rest of the team’s posts using the links at the bottom of the page. For my card today, I decided to work with […]

New Colours from Stampin’ Up!…

I don’t know about you, but it normally takes me a year or so to really get into any new colours from Stampin’ Up! but this year I have vowed that I will introduce them more quickly into my crafting, and I think the key is learning which colours go with each other, to make gorgeous colour combos. I did a little bit of exploration this week, trying to see which colours paired with each other, and focussed my efforts on the new In Colours. I created this fun chart, to help me see which colours might suit which others, […]