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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]