The Stampin’ Up! Last Chance Products Sale Is On Now!
The September–December 2023 Mini Catalogue is retiring soon! From now until 3 January 2024, you can stock up on your favourite seasonal products and save up to 60% on essential craft supplies. But remember, these Last Chance Products will only be available while...
The 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge: Day 1 “Merry & Bright”
Why use one type of gold when you can have three? For Day 1 of the "30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge", the theme is Merry & Bright and I’ve embraced the “bright” with gold foil, hot foiling and gold heat embossing! Against a Coastal Cabana background, these...
Flirty Flamingo Double Door Fancy Fold Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 23 of the Art With Heart Team’s 2026–27 Colour Creations InstaHop! A group of our team is working through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order, and this week we’re showcasing Flirty Flamingo. This cheerful pink is a lovely colour for a...
A Little Christmas Suite Collection Shadow Box Christmas Card
A cute Christmas mouse on the front, a whole festive scene inside! This week’s card has a little surprise waiting beneath its baker’s twine bow. Welcome to Week 22 of the Art With Heart Team’s Colour Creations hop. We’re exploring the Stampin’ Up! colours in...
Darling Ducking Pretty Poinsettia Sunflower Birthday Card
Who says a poinsettia die can’t be used to make a sunflower? Not me! Welcome to Week 21 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are showcasing Darling Duckling, a warm golden yellow that is perfect for creating cheerful sunflowers. I’ve seen a...
Heart of Christmas Week 3
A group of creative friends from the Art with Heart team are back with our Annual Heart of Christmas blog hop. Follow through the blogs each Monday night until the end of November for Christmas card inspiration. This week, I have...
Daffodil Delight Hot Foil 60th Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 20 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2026–27. This week, we are sharing projects featuring Daffodil Delight. Daffodil Delight is such a bright and cheerful yellow, and tonight I’ve paired it with gleaming gold foil to create a special...
Heart of Christmas Week 2 – Neutral Noel Single Step Card
A group of creative friends from the Art with Heart team are back with our Annual Heart of Christmas blog hop. Follow through the blogs each Monday night until the end of November for Christmas card inspiration. This week’s card is a fancy fold I designed as my "Make...
Floral Promenade Kit Cards with Crushed Curry Variation
Welcome to Week 19 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are showcasing Crushed Curry, a rich golden yellow that brings warmth and energy to any project. For tonight’s cards, I’ve used a brand new Stampin’ Up! kit: the Floral Promenade Kit. The...
Heart of Christmas Week 1
Welcome to Week 1 of the Heart of Christmas 2026 blog hop! It’s lovely to be creating Christmas cards again with the Art With Heart team, and I’m looking forward to sharing a new project each week as we head towards Christmas. This week’s card is a CASE of a beautiful...
Crumb Cake Father’s Day Card
Welcome to Week 18 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we’re showcasing Crumb Cake, one of my favourite Stampin’ Up! colours and the perfect colour for a Father’s Day card. With Father’s Day this Sunday, I’ve created a Crumb Cake and white...
Coastal Cabana Tri-fold Arched Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 17 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are creating with the gorgeous Coastal Cabana. For my project this week, I’ve made a tri-fold arch card using the stunning Valley in Bloom Suite Collection. I love the way this card opens...
Three Lovely Arrangements Cloud Cover Cards
Welcome to Week 15 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we’re creating with Cloud Cover, a beautiful soft blue-grey that works wonderfully with Secret Sea. For my projects this week, I’ve paired Cloud Cover with Secret Sea, Old Olive and Basic...
Pretty Poinsettia Interlocking Triangle Gift Box and Christmas Card
Welcome to Week 15 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop! This week we’re creating with Cherry Cobbler, a rich, classic red that is absolutely perfect for Christmas. For my project this week, I’ve made a coordinating Interlocking Triangle Gift Box and...
Calypso Coral Lovely Celebration Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 14 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop! This week we're celebrating the vibrant and cheerful Calypso Coral. For my project, I created a simple easel card featuring one of the gorgeous new stamp sets from the forthcoming Stampin' Up!...
Cajun Craze Bike Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 13 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop! This week we're celebrating Cajun Craze, one of Stampin' Up!'s rich, earthy colours that works beautifully for masculine cards, autumn projects and vintage-inspired designs. For my project, I...
Bubble Bath Lovely Arrangements Birthday Card
Week 12 of our Art With Heart Colour Creations Insta hop is all about Bubble Bath, one of those beautifully soft pinks that works for almost any occasion. Delicate without being overpowering, it's perfect for creating elegant floral cards with a subtle, feminine...
Blueberry Bushel Painted Skies Birthday Card
This week the Art With Heart Team is celebrating Blueberry Bushel and my original plan was to use the Scenic Coast 6" x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Designer Series Paper, but as it's currently out of stock I thought I'd showcase another option. Instead, I've chopped up one...
Blackberry Bliss Begonia Belle 90th Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 10 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop, where we're working our way alphabetically through the Stampin' Up! colour collection. This week we're celebrating the rich, elegant shade of Blackberry Bliss. This week's card is especially...
Berry Burst Extraordinary Flora Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 9 of our Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop, where we're working our way through the Stampin' Up! colour collection in alphabetical order. This week we're celebrating the rich, vibrant Berry Burst. Berry Burst is one of those colours that...
Basic Gray Wild Bunch Birthday Card
When you think of Basic Gray, you might immediately picture masculine cards, industrial themes or elegant monochrome designs. But this week's Colour Creations project proves that Basic Gray can also be soft, sweet and perfect for birthdays. For my Week 8 Colour...
Balmy Blue Waterside Retreat DSP Cards
Welcome to Week 7 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop, featuring Balmy Blue, one of my favourite blues in the Stampin' Up! colour range. When I started planning this week's project, I discovered I only had half a sheet of the seagull pattern from the...
Azure Afternoon Sunset Coast Fun Fold Card
Welcome to Week 6 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop, featuring Azure Afternoon. This bright, cheerful blue is one of the colours in the stunning Scenic Coast Designer Series Paper and I've also used the lighthouse die from the gorgeous Sunset Coast...
Peaceful Pine & Pretty Florals Card
This week for the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Insta Hop we're featuring Peaceful Pine, one of the beautiful new 2026–2028 In Colours. This slightly dusty, sage green colour sits somewhere between the bluer tones of Lost Lagoon and the purer green tones of...
Hydrangea Hue & Heirloom Boutique “Hello Friend” Card
This week for the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop we are featuring one of the beautiful new 2026–2028 In Colours, Hydrangea Hue. This is such a soft and stunning shade of lavender blue, similar to another retired InColour, Seaside Spray. Here's how it...
Scalloped Blooms Golden Glow Sympathy Card
This week for the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations InstaHop we are featuring another one of the fresh new 2026–28 In Colours, Golden Glow. This warm mid yellow/brown shade sits beautifully between yellow, light brown and orange shades. My card design was...
Crisp Cantaloupe & Hobby Haven Mother’s Day Card
Welcome to Week Two of the brand new AWH Colour Creations series for 2026–27. If you haven't joined us before, we hop through all 50 Stampin' Up! colours, beginning with the five new InColours and then the core colours in alphabetical order. This week we are featuring...
Barely Blush Artisan Sketched Garden DSP Birthday Card
Welcome to the brand new AWH Colour Creations series for 2026–27. If you haven't joined us before, we hop through all 50 Stampin' Up! colours, beginning with the five new InColours and then the core colours in alphabetical order. This week we are featuring Barely...
AWH Colour Creations Week 50: Summer Splash
It’s hard to believe we’ve reached Week 50 of our 2025–26 AWH Colour Creations hop, finishing with one of the retiring 2024–2026 In Colours Summer Splash. I wanted to create something a little interactive, so I made a side latch card featuring the beautiful Florals...
Soft Sea Foam Birthday Card
This week for the Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop we’re celebrating the soft and soothing Soft Sea Foam, one of those colours that pairs beautifully with just about anything, but really shines when combined with neutrals and soft florals. For my card this...
Smoky Slate & Beautiful Gallery DSP Sympathy Card
Confession time… this week didn’t quite go to plan 😅 I finished my first card and thought “love it!”… then realised I hadn’t actually used Smoky Slate at all. Oops. That one ended up using a DSP that featured Gray Granite and Basic Beige! So… take two! Card...
Shy Shamrock Capturing Smiles Hello Card
For week 47 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations we’re celebrating Shy Shamrock, a soon to be retired 2024-26 InColour. I’ve paired “something old” (the soon to be retired Shy Shamrock cardstock, Shy Shamrock ink and the Beautiful Patterns 3D Embossing Folder) with...
Double Pop-Up Step Card with the A Wonderful Match Suite Collection
Week 46 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations features Shaded Spruce, and I couldn’t resist using the brand new Online Exclusive A Wonderful Match Suite Collection from Stampin’ Up! The A Wonderful Match Suite Collection was the perfect excuse to create something...
Week 44 Real Red – Two card designs for using up your Designer Series Paper
Two card designs ideal for using up your designer series paper (DSP), even the scraps! This week for the Art With Heart Colour Creations we’re celebrating Real Red ❤️ and I’ve set myself a little challenge… use up some Designer Series Paper instead of...
Week 44 Pumpkin Pie Nests of Winter DSP Card
This week for the Art With Heart Colour Creations we’re celebrating Pumpkin Pie, a colour I rarely use but really love. And as I was slightly time poor I’ve created a card that lets the beautiful Nests of Winter 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper do most of the...
Week 43 Pretty Peacock and Stampin’ Up! Kits
This week I wanted to show two different ways you can use Stampin’ Up! kits. Firstly, by making them up exactly as intended as a relaxing and creative way to quickly build up your stash of cards. And secondly, by using elements from the kits as components in your own...
Week 42 Pretty in Pink floral hello card
This week for Colour Creations we’re celebrating Pretty in Pink and I've created a soft floral hello card using hand made masks to create shading for the background layer. This gorgeous pink 2024-26 InColour is retiring at the end of April so stock up now if you love...
Week 41 Help Me Grow Poppy Parade Card
This week for Colour Creations we’re celebrating Poppy Parade, and I’ve created a layered garden scene using three brand new Online Exclusives that will be available to order from Tuesday 3 March: Help Me Grow Bundle Garden Poetry 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper Wood...
Week 39 Petunia Pop Flowers Fair Card
Week 39 of the Art With Heart Colour Creations InstaHop is all about Petunia Pop and I could not resist going bold and floral to celebrate this gorgeous colour. This all-purpose card was the perfect excuse to play with two exciting new goodies. I used the brand...
Week 38 Petal Pink & Very Vanilla Birthday Card
For Week 38 of Colour Creations, we are playing with the beautifully soft and versatile Petal Pink, and this week’s project is a birthday card that I’ve CASED from myself! The layout is based on a card I made three years ago using the Abigail Rose DSP paired with the...
Week 37 Pecan Pie – A cosy bookcase card for book lovers
I have worked in publishing all my life, and whether books are found in libraries, bookshops or stacked at home, they bring me an enormous amount of comfort, inspiration and joy. So for Week 37 of Colour Creations I knew I wanted to create something that celebrated...
Peach Pie and Secret Sea Hello Card
Welcome to Week 36 of Colour Creations, where we are playing with the soft warmth of Peach Pie. For this project, I paired Peach Pie with a Secret Sea card base to create strong contrast and visual depth. These two colours work beautifully together. The Peach Pie...
Old Olive Nature Walk DSP – A Scrapbook Page from Our New Zealand Adventure
Welcome to Week 25 of Colour Creations, where we are working with the ever versatile Old Olive. Old Olive is my favourite green and it seems to be the most "natural" of all of the Stampin' Up! greens, along with Mossy Meadow. This week’s creation is a scrapbook page...
Night of Navy On Display Bundle Birthday Card
Welcome to Week 25 of Colour Creations, where we are working with the timeless and elegant Night of Navy. It was my mum's birthday on January 1 and I decided to use the gorgeous On Display Bundle, an Online Exclusive that combines detailed bookshelf dies with...
Heart of Christmas Week 13
Tonight's our final Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2025 AND it's only a month to Christmas? Have you made your Christmas cards yet? I've got six cards to share with you tonight, all made using the Calm & Bright Kit. You get everything you need to make nine cards,...
Lemon Lolly Ephemera Card
Lemon Lolly is such a soft and gentle shade of yellow, however I must admit I really struggled with my colour combination for Week 29 of our AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop. I ended up creating a card that looks a little like spring and yet uses a sentiment that works...
Heart of Christmas Week 12
Can you believe this is our penultimate Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2025 AND it's only five weeks to Christmas today? If you feel like the silly season is already in full swing and you won't have time to make your Christmas cards this year, don't panic as I've got...
Lemon Lime Twist & Friendly Foliage Thinking of You Card
I've been away visiting stunning New Zealand but I'm so excited to be back to blogging with the Art With Heart Team for our Colour Creations Insta Hop. A big thank you goes to my dear friend, Kate Morgan, who ensured the AWH Colour Creations Insta Hop went smoothly...
Heart of Christmas Week 11 – Sending Christmas Joy
I’ve been away overseas on holidays for the past few weeks, but it feels so good to be back in my craft room again! And can you believe it’s nearly Christmas already? Time is flying, and after tonight there are only three more Heart of Christmas blog hops left for the...
No Stamping Granny Apple Green Cards
A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order and week 25 is all about Granny Apple Green, a bright green that adds freshness and life to a project. You could say that my “no stamping” cards this week have been...
Heart of Christmas Week 8 – Season of Elegance
When time is short but you still want that handmade touch, there are plenty of ways to create quick and easy Christmas cards. You can use card kits, add ephemera pieces from specialty paper packs, or mass-produce one simple design. Today I have used another favourite...
Lights of Aurora DSP & Scenic Adventures Gorgeous Grape Card
A group of the Art With Heart Team is hopping through the Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order and week 24 is all about Gorgeous Grape, a rich and vibrant purple from the Regals family. For this project, I created a Father’s Day card using the stunning Lights of...
Fast & Festive “No Stamping” Garden Green Christmas Cards
This week’s AWH Colour Creations challenge features Garden Green, a rich, classic Christmas green that pairs beautifully with reds, golds, and whites Instead of reaching for my stamps, I decided to create three no-stamping Christmas cards that are quick, easy, and...
Fresh Freesia “Card in an Envelope” Card
Welcome to week 22 of the Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Blog Hop. This week we are featuring Fresh Freesia, a soft and versatile colour that works beautifully in both feminine and modern designs. For my project, I’ve created a “Card in an Envelope” fancy fold...
Heart of Christmas Week Five
For week five of the 2025 Heart of Christmas blog hop I've made three more cards using products from the gorgeous gold foiled Traditions of Christmas Suite. All three cards are a simple fancy fold created by cutting a sheet of A4 cardstock in half lengthways,...
Extraordinary Floral Birthday Card
This week the Art With Heart team is showcasing Flirty Flamingo and I've made a feminine birthday card. My card features a beautiful floral detail, created with the Extraordinary Flora Bundle (includes the Extraordinary Flora Stamp Set and coordinating dies) along...
Heart of Christmas Week Four
It's week four of the 2025 Heart of Christmas blog hop and just over 13 weeks until Christmas. Have you started making your Christmas cards yet? For this week's card I wanted to create a card that highlighted the gorgeous variety of patterns in the Christmas...
Early Espresso Country Christmas Card
This week the Art With Heart team is showcasing Early Espresso, the richest brown in the Stampin’ Up! Neutrals family. I love how this deep, warm neutral can work as a strong base colour while also adding contrast and depth to lighter shades. For this card I've paired...
Heart of Christmas Week Three
Are you ready for some more Christmas crafting inspiration? It's week three of the 2025 Heart of Christmas blog hop and our Art With Heart team have plenty more inspiration for your Christmas projects. My Christmas card this week combines products from the Peaceful...
Sunrise Sailing & Happy Place Birthday Card
This week we're showcasing Daffodil Delight, a sunny, happy yellow from the Brights family. As soon as I saw the "Happy Place" stamp set in the new September - December catalogue I knew it would work perfectly with the Sunrise Sailing bundle! To create my sunrise...
Heart of Christmas Week Two
It's week two of the 2025 Heart of Christmas blog hop and hopefully our Art With Heart team will provide you with plenty more inspiration for your Christmas projects. This week I've created two gatefold cards using products from the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection....