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...
AWH Heart of Christmas Night Divine Christmas Card
I've been missing in action the past month, but I was determined to join in the hop this week as it is the very last Heart of Christmas hop for the year. Sharon has done an amazing job hosting our Christmas blog. Thank you Sharon! After attempting to make a fancy fold...
Lemon Lime Twist Sweet Citrus Thank You Card
Welcome to week thirty of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Lemon Lime Twist, a vibrant yellow green. I couldn't resist using the Sweet Citrus bundle to showcase this colour in all its fluro glory! I've combined Lemon...
Highland Heather Around the Bend Thank You Card
Welcome to week twenty nine of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Highland Heather, a lovely soft purple colour from the subtles family. Can you guess the other colours I've paired it with on my thank you card? There are...
The Stampin’ Up! Three Day Seasonal Sale Starts Today
Have you had your eye on any basics from the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue such as cardstock, ink pads, ink refills, paper, cards and envelopes and markers? Well you won't want to miss the Stampin' Up! Three Day Seasonal Sale! It starts today and finishes midnight...
Grey Granite Twist & Pop 60th Birthday Card
Welcome to week twenty eight of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Grey Granite, a brownish grey that is part of the neutrals family. Gray Granite is a wonderful colour for masculine cards or nature scenes and today I've...
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 8 Christmas Letters
The challenge for Day 8 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is called 'Christmas Letters'. I've used the gorgeous letter box from the Stamped with Love Stamp Set, stamped in versmark onto Real Red card stock and heat embossed with gold emboss powder. The Joy of...
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 5 Sketch Challenge
The challenge for Day 5 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is the following sketch. I've used the Deckled Circles dies and the Handcrafted Elements Dies to create three Christmas ornaments. The background of this card has been created using a blending brush and...
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 4 Night of Navy, Pool Party & Lemon Lolly
The challenge for Day 4 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is the following colour combination: Night of Navy, Pool Party and Lemon Lolly. Night of Navy is such a great neutral for making other colours pop, so I've used it for my card base and created a...
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 3 Rockin’ Around
The challenge for Day 3 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is 'Rockin' Around'. The Rocking Horse Bundle is such an obvious choice for the theme, 'Rockin' Around'. I actually bought this bundle to use for new baby cards, however it is a Christmas bundle....
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 2 Frosty Air
The challenge for Day 2 of the #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is 'Frosty Air'. Can you get any more frosty than a family of polar bears relaxing on an ice shelf with snowflakes falling? This simple, no stamping card uses the Stargazing Designer Series Paper for...
Granny Apple Green Thank You Card
Welcome to week twenty seven of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Granny Apple Green, a vibrant clear green colour that sits somewhere between Old Olive and Parakeet Party in depth of colour saturation. I've used the...
30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge 2023 – Day 1 Shining Brightly Specialty Designer Series Paper
The #30DayChristmasCardMakingChallenge is a global challenge hosted by UK Artisan Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, Martin Stone, and the challenge for Day 1 is “Shining Bright”. I’ve taken today’s challenge very literally, creating a Night of Navy and Gold card that uses...
Gorgeous Grape Forever Forest Watercoloured Christmas Card
Welcome to week twenty six of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Gorgeous Grape, a vibrant purple colour that is now in the regals family, however I still consider it to be a bright! I've made a watercolour Christmas card...
AWH Colour Creations Garden Green Meandering Meadows Fancy Fold Cards
Welcome to week twenty five of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Garden Green and I've made some cards using a stunning new online exclusive designer series paper called the Wandering Meadows DSP, which was hand drawn by...
AWH Heart of Christmas Beary Christmas Memories & More Christmas Cards
Your Christmas countdown continues - it's exactly 10 weeks today until Christmas Day! I've been missing in action the past few weeks, so I'm super excited to be back this week with a couple of super quick and easy 'no stamping' cards that use the Beary Christmas...
AWH Colour Creations Fresh Freesia Cards
Welcome to week twenty four of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Fresh Freesia, one of my favourite Stampin' Up! colours. Fresh Freesia was originally an In Colour, however this year it was added to the subtles family in...
AWH Colour Creations Flirty Flamingo Card
Welcome to week twenty three of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Flirty Flamingo, a bright pink colour from the brights family. I've taken my colour combination inspiration this week from this gorgeous sheet of Les...
Early Espresso Perched in a Tree Christmas Card
Welcome to week twenty two of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Early Espresso, a a rich dark brown from the neutrals family. Early Espresso is a wonderful neutral that really makes other colours pop. It's also fabulous...
AWH Heart of Christmas Radiant Light Fancy Fold Christmas Card
Your Christmas countdown continues - it's exactly three months or 13 weeks today until Christmas Day! This week's Christmas card is a fancy fold card - I'm not 100% sure of the name, however think it could be called a peek a boo flap card? Here's a short video to show...
Daffodil Delight Construction Zone Birthday Slider Card
Welcome to week twenty one of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Daffodil Delight, a sunny yellow from the Brights family. Have you seen any of the cards that use the Construction Zone stamp set, creating a "high vis"...
Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks Crushed Curry Card
Welcome to week twenty of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Crushed Curry is such a rich golden yellow, the ideal shade of yellow to use for sunflowers! I bought a bunch of glorious sunflowers this morning to give to my friend Rachel for her...
AWH Heart of Christmas Week 6
Your Christmas countdown continues - it's 15 weeks today until Christmas Day! This week's Christmas card couldn't be simpler. I've used the new Fragrant Forest stamp - a background stamp that's quite frankly just too gorgeous to cover up! I've stamped this stamp in...
Forever Forest Crumb Cake Father’s Day Card
Welcome to week nineteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are using one of my most used and absolute favourite colours: Crumb Cake! Unfortunately, I just didn't have the time to really do this colour justice. I had so many ideas in...
AWH Heart of Christmas Week 5
Your Christmas countdown continues - it's 16 weeks today until Christmas Day! And in even more exciting news, it's only two days until the Stampin' Up! September December Mini Catalogue goes live and you can purchase the Merry & Bright bundle. Sometimes the dies...
Art With Heart Colour Creations Coastal Cabana Card
Welcome to week eighteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! It's Father's day this coming Sunday and as my husband loves to surf (am I allowed to say "lives" to surf?) I was super excited to see that the new Trucking Along stamp set includes a...
Cherry Cobbler Curved Occasions Card
Welcome to week seventeen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week I'm using another new product from the forthcoming September - December mini catalogue, the Curved Occasions bundle. This is such a versatile bundle for all year round and...
Stampin’ Up! Joy Of Noel Christmas Card
The Christmas countdown continues - it's 18 weeks today until Christmas Day! Have you started making Christmas cards yet? This week I was short of time so I'm following the example of my friend, Tina Gillespie, by creating a 20 minute card. It was this beautiful One...
Stampin’ Up! Christmas Kits
The Christmas countdown continues - it's 19 weeks today until Christmas Day! Have you started making Christmas cards yet? Tonight I'm sharing some ideas on ways to use some of the Stampin' Up! Christmas kits as they are all discounted for the month of August, so now's...
Cajun Craze Let’s Go Shopping Watercolour Card
Welcome to week fifteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Cajun Craze is our colour for this week and as it's a colour that always makes me think of terracotta pots or brick walls I decided to use the Let's Go Shopping stamp set to make a...
Stampin’ Up! Merry & Bright Christmas Card
Are you ready for 17 weeks of Christmas inspiration? Yes, I know it's still 20 weeks today until Christmas, however time does fly and it's also less than a month until the Stampin' Up! 2023 September-December Mini Catalogue (AKA the Christmas Catty) goes live on 6...
Blueberry Bushel Bluey Birthday Card
Welcome to week fourteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week's Blueberry Bushel card was made for my niece's birthday - she adores Bluey! I originally got the idea to make a Bluey punch art/die art card from a card I saw by a USA...
Blackberry Bliss “It’s a Science” Pinwheel Tower Birthday Card
Welcome to week thirteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Last week was my dad's birthday and as I gave him some science books for his birthday it only seemed appropriate to make a science-themed card using the "It's a Science" stamp set. I...
Berry Burst Just My Type Paper Florist Card, Gift Box and Tag
Welcome to week twelve of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Last weekend our Art With Heart team combined with Michelle Grech's team and were lucky enough to be the only Australian teams to be one of the 35 for 35 events, celebrating 35 years of...
Basic Gray Stamped With Love Card
Welcome to week eleven of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Basic Gray, which is a colour I rarely use, so it was a bit of a challenge! The darker gray is a good colour for natural elements such as stone or animal...
Balmy Blue Nested Friends Bird Card
Welcome to week ten of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing Balmy Blue, which is a really lovely soft blue. My card is a CASE (copy and selectively edit) of these gorgeous Nested Friends cards, created by an amazing Dutch...
Les Shoppes Pecan Pie Birthday Card
Welcome to week nine of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing another new core colour, Pecan Pie. It's a soft mid brown, very similar to the recently retired Soft Suede. As the Designer Series Paper sale sends this Friday...
Lemon Lolly Sweet Citrus Card
Welcome to week eight of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Lemon Lolly is a soft and pale yellow that's in the Subtles family, sitting somewhere in between Daffodil Delight and Very Vanilla. I just had to use the Sweet Citrus bundle for my Lemon...
Free shipping for 24 hours – 21st June!
Stampin’ Up! is offering FREE SHIPPING on orders of $65 for ONE DAY ONLY on Wednesday, June 21st (tomorrow)! The FREE SHIPPING offer is only for 24 hours on June 21 - don’t miss out! You can order online here and use my current Host Code to...
Bubble Bath Delightfully Eclectic Paper Quilt Cards
Welcome to week seven of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! Bubble Bath is a gorgeous light pink that's in the Subtles family, sitting somewhere in between Fresh Freesia and Moody Mauve. My three Bubble Bath cards are all paper quilt cards that...
Azure Afternoon On the Ocean Birthday Card
Welcome to week six of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing a brand new colour in the Brights family: Azure Afternoon. Azure Afternoon is gorgeous blue that sits somewhere between Tahitian Tide and the recently retired...
Stampin’ Up June 2023 Offers and New Products
Happy first day of winter! Is it chilly where you are? I'm away in Yamba this week, 7 hours drive north of Sydney and it's a bit cool at night but lovely and sunny and warm during the days. Perfect weather for crafting! Instead of sending out a newsletter, I've...
Wild Wheat Beautiful Balloon Side Stepper Card
Welcome to week five of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing our fifth 2023-25 In Colour: Wild Wheat. Wild Wheat is a warm mustard gold colour, similar to a previous In Color, Delightful Dijon. Here's how Wild Wheat...
Pebbled Path Wanted to Say Dies Birthday Card
Welcome to week four of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing another brand new 2023-25 In Colour: Pebbled Path. Pebbled Path is a warm mid-tone gray, similar to a previous In Color, Tip Top Taupe. Here's how Pebbled Path...
Moody Mauve Textured Floral Wreath Birthday Card
Welcome to week three of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing another brand new 2023-25 In Colour: Moody Mauve. Moody Mauve is a warm, soft dusky pink with a slightly purple undertone, similar to a previous In Color, Rococo...
Crafting With You & Countryside Corners Trifold Shutter Mothers Day Card
I hope you had a happy Mother's Day! My mum is an amazing paper quiller, knitter and paper crafter so the new Crafting With You bundle was just perfect for making her Mother's Day card this year. There are so many cute crafting elements in this stamp and die set. I...
Copper Clay Earthen Elegance Suite Collection Fancy Fold Card
Welcome to week two of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! This week we are showcasing another brand new 2023-25 In Colour: Copper Clay. Copper Clay is a rich copper brown, similar to the 2020-2022 In Color, Cinnamon Cider. Here's how Copper Clay...
Boho Blue Countryside Inn DSP Never Ending Card
Welcome to week one of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop! We have a brand new blog hop header and next blog button - thank you to my friend Sharon Davern for creating these for our AWH Colour Creations 2023-24 blog hop! This week we are showcasing a...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Colour Creations Soft Suede Card
Tonight is week fifty, the very last week of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop! I Next week we start afresh on Wednesday, 3rd May, featuring the five new In colours every Wednesday in May, followed by the four new core colours in June and then the...
Stampin’ Up! Soft Succulent Framed Florets Card
Welcome to week forty nine of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. Next week is our last week for the 2022-23 Annual Catalogue before we start again on Wednesday, 3rd May, with five new In colours, four new core colours and seven returning colours!...
Stampin’ Up! Soft Sea Foam Celebrate Sunflowers Card
Welcome to week forty eight of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop - only two more weeks to go! This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring...
Stampin’ Up! So Saffron Petal Park Card
Welcome to week forty seven of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop - only three more weeks to go! This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are...
Classic Letters Stamp Set Alphabet Sampler
Have you seen Stampin' Up!'s new online specials? You won’t find these products in any catalogue as they are exclusively online. Today I wanted to share a project with you that used two of these online exclusives - the Classic Letters Stamp Set and one of the kits,...
Stampin’ Up! Retiring Colours and Products, New Core Colours and 2023-24 In Colours!
Hi crafting friends! Stampin' Up! have just announced a colour refresh that includes: 15 Core and In Colours retiring 15 new Stampin' Up! colours - 10 new or returning core colours and In colours, as well as 5 new In Colours They've also announced: The retiring list...
Stampin’ Up! Smoky Slate Centre Step Elephant Parade Card
Welcome to week forty six of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop - only four more weeks to go! This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring...
Stampin’ Up! Shaded Spruce Tropical Cards
Welcome to week forty five of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Shaded Spruce from the Regals...
Stampin’ Up! Sahara Sand Origami Men’s Shirt Card
Welcome to week forty four of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Sahara Sand from the Neutrals...
Stampin’ Up! Rich Razzleberry Loveliest Layers Decorative Masks Card
Welcome to week forty three of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Rich Razzleberry from the...
Stampin’ Up! Picturesque Birthday card
Last Friday my husband, Pete, celebrated his birthday and one of the books I gave him was the Lonely Planet Epic Surf Breaks of the World. I knew Pete would love adding more surf breaks to his bucket list - as I type this blog he is surfing down the south coast - and...
Stampin’ Up! Real Red Around The Bend Dies Card
Welcome to week forty two of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Real Red from the Regals...