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How to make a centre step card – Be Inspired Blog Hop Nov ’25…

Hello and welcome to the Be Inspired blog hop, where our theme this month is Feeling Festive, and I am going to show you how to make a centre step card – the best bit is that you get to choose how to decorate it! I have gone for a bright, fresh, wintry snowflake card, but you could just as easily switch this up for beautiful florals too. The centre step card is such a fun one to make, and really quite easy too, especially if you have the metric blade guide on your Stampin’ Up! Trimmer. All you need […]

Soft Subtle Snowflakes – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop October ’25…

The Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Team are back with projects made with products from the recently released Online Exclusives or Mini Catalogue – and this soft, subtle snowflakes Christmas card is made using a real mix of new goodies. I had a lot of fun making it. The main set I used here is the Snowflake Kisses bundle, it has a great mix of dies and some lovely wintery sentiments too. I also brought in the Delicate Pines and Branching Out dies. The Delicate pines dies have a lovely looking pine branch snowflake and the Branching Out dies have a […]

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 […]

Autumn themed cards – Color Fusers Blog Hop – September ’25

Hello and welcome to this month’s Color Fusers Blog Hop where we are focussing on Autumn themed cards working with the colours Garden Green, Cajun Craze and Basic Beige. As soon as I saw this colour scheme I knew which stamp sets I was going to be playing with, and hope you like the end result. These are definitely not my go to colours, but sometimes it is good to go out of our comfort zone, and they are perfect for those autumn themed cards, so I tried to embrace it and see where I ended up. I loved using […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]