Happy New Year and Happy New Catalogue Launch!
Happy New Year to you all! Were you able to catch up with family and friends over Christmas and New Year? Unfortunately, like so many others, Covid put our Christmas, New Year and the birthdays of several family members on hold, but fingers crossed, we will hopefully...
Stampin’ Up! Misty Moonlight – Week 29 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 29 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Misty Moonlight, a soft blue from the 2020-22 In Colour family. Misty Moonlight is such a beautiful blue and one of my all time favourite Stampin' Up! colours - I will be so sad to...
Stampin’ Up! Mint Macaron – Week 28 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 28 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Mint Macaron, a light green from the subtles family. Although I start making my Christmas cards in July, I always have a last minute panic this time of the year. Have I made enough?...
Stampin’ Up! Merry Merlot – Week 27 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 27 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Merry Merlot, a rich deep red wine colour that rather surprisingly sits within the neutrals family. I love pairing Blushing Bride with Merry Merlot – for this card I've added in...
Stampin’ Up! Heart of Christmas Words of Cheer
Hello crafters – welcome to our last AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2021! I've loved being inspired by the incredible creations in our Art with Heart Team. With less than four weeks to Christmas have you got all your Christmas cards made yet? Have you even...
Stampin’ Up! Melon Mambo – Week 26 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 26 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Melon Mambo, a vibrant pink from the Brights colour collection. Inspired by the colour combination I loved on some now retired Designer Series Paper, this week I've paired Melon...
Stampin’ Up! Heart of Christmas
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 21 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. It's hard to believe that it's less than five weeks until Christmas and after tonight's blog hop we only have one more Heart of Christmas blog hop left this year! I don't know about you, but...
Stampin’ Up! Mango Melody – Week 25 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 25 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Mango Melody, a vibrant orange from the Brights colour collection. Although the dominant colour on my card is Mango Melody, as they say on Sesame Street, "This card is brought to...
Stampin’ Up! Ever Eden Christmas Crackers
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 20 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week I'm using a stunning new product, the limited release Ever Eden Cotton Paper. This soft, delicate tissue-like paper offers a unique way to add dimension and visual interest to any...
Stampin’ Up! Magenta Madness – Week 24 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 24 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Magenta Madness, a hot pink from the 2020-22 InColour collection. Whenever I'm not sure how to use a particular colour in a card I turn to nature for inspiration. Take a look at the...
Stampin’ Up! Delivering Cheer & Welcoming Windows Christmas Card
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 19 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week I'm combing a new stamp set and bundle that both work so perfectly together to create a Christmas scene card: the Welcoming Window bundle and the Delivering Cheer stamp set. I love...
Stampin’ Up! Just Jade – Week 23 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 23 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Just Jade a mid teal green from the 2020-22 InColour collection. Do you enjoy watercolouring? I find it very relaxing and I love the way Stampin' Up! products make me feel like an...
Stampin’ Up! Tidings & Trimmings Christmas Card
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 18 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week I finally used a bundle I've had for ages – I don't know why it took me so long to open it up! The Tidings & Trimmings Bundle includes the Tidings & Trimmings Stamp Set and...
Stampin’ Up! Highland Heather – Week 22 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 22 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Highland Heather, a soft purple from the Subtles colour collection. I know I'm a bit late to the party, but this week I finally tried the Stampin' Blends alcohol technique. Oh my...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 17
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 17 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week I decided to CASE the Stampin' up! July-December 2021 Mini Catalogue. If you don't know what CASE stands for, it means to Copy And Share Everything. The Stampin' Up! catalogues are a...
Stampin’ Up! Gray Granite – Week 21 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 21 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Gray Granite, a really versatile gray from the Neutrals colour collection. This week I didn't have a lot of time to craft so I opened up one of my Stampin' Up! kits: the For the...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 16
Hello crafters! Welcome to Week 16 of our AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop. This week I have another two Christmas Bauble cards, made using the Delicate Baubles dies and Bright Baubles stamp set from the Bright Baubles Bundle. I've used some of the Stampin' Up!...
Stampin’ Up! Granny Apple Green – Week 20 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 20 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Granny Apple Green, a vivid green from the Brights colour collection. It's such a cold, wet and windy day here in Sydney – the sort of weather that calls for a bright and happy...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 15
Hello crafters! This week I've made a Christmas Bauble card using the two stamp sets from the Painted Christmas Suite Collection: Christmas Season (a stamp set with images) and Christmas to Remember (a sentiment stamp set). To create the bauble shape I used the...
Stampin’ Up! Gorgeous Grape – Week 19 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 19 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Gorgeous Grape, a bright purple from the Brights colour collection. I made a card and I wasn't sure it worked. So I made another card and I still couldn't decide which one to post...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 14
Hello crafters! It's a long weekend here in Sydney, Australia and Saturday was World Cardmaking Day. Did you make a card? Normally, I love to host an open house on World Cardmaking Day, however, as we are still in lockdown I enjoyed a couple of online craft and chat...
Stampin’ Up! Garden Green – Week 18 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 17 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Garden Green, a mid green from the Regals colour collection. As SALE-a-bration ends tomorrow night I decided to bring together three of my favourite products from SALE-a-bration for...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 13
Hello crafters! It's the last week of SALE-a-bration so I decided to make a Christmas card that uses my favourite SALE-a-bration item. Yep, you guessed it, it's the Be Dazzling DSP! I'm also using a punch bundle that I initially overlooked in the July - December 2021...
Stampin’ Up! Flirty Flamingo – Week 17 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 17 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Flirty Flamingo, a vibrant pink from the Brights colour collection. The starting point for my card today was the beautiful Flirty Flamingo striped paper from the Pattern Party...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 12
Hello crafters! I had planned to make just one card this week, but a simple mistake and a desire not to waste my craft materials actually led to three cards instead. I think I'll claim that as a win instead of a loss! Originally, I intended to make a shaker card using...
Stampin’ Up! Hats Off Nippers Card
Hello Crafters, Today I'm sharing another card I made for the "G'day Fri'yay' Card Making Challenges" Facebook group, a fortnightly Card Making Challenge with Aussie Themes. The last few times I forgot to add the banner for this group, so here it is. The theme for...
Stampin’ Up! Early Espresso – Week 16 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 16 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Early Espresso, a rich, dark brown from the Neutrals colour collection. Our talented Art With Heart team leader, Claire Daly, recently shared some cards she made using a 6x6 One...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 11
Hello crafters! I've got two cards for you this week that use a great technique for crafting with scraps of DSP. I was inspired to revisit this "paper patchwork" technique after seeing a Sweet Symmetry DSP paper patchwork card made by Martin Stone, one of the very...
Stampin’ Up! Daffodil Delight – Week 15 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 15 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Daffodil Delight, a bold yellow from the Brights colour collection. I really wanted to make a daffodil card for our Daffodil Delight blog hop, however as we only use current...
Stampin’ Up! Forever Fern Wattle Card
Hello Crafters, Today I'm sharing another card I made for the "G'day Fri'yay' Card Making Challenges" Facebook group, a fortnightly Card Making Challenge with Aussie Themes. The theme for this challenge is "Spring" and for me nothing announces the start of spring in...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 10
Hello crafters! For my cards this week I'm using the Whimsy & Wonder DSP and the Seasonal Swirl dies again, this time pairing them with the Well Defined stamp set and matching embossing folders. I've also created my own matching embellishments using the leftover...
Stampin’ Up! Counting Sheep Floating Gatefold Card
I love sheep! Growing up in the country, we always had a pet poddy lamb in our backyard. Poddy lambs are what lambs are called if they have either been orphaned or rejected by their mother and the local farmers would give them to us to hand raise as pets. My brother...
Stampin’ Up! Crushed Curry – Week 14 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 14 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Crushed Curry, a rich bold yellow from the Regals colour collection. Do you have any colours that you rarely use, but when you do, you wonder why you don't use them more often?...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 9
This week I was inspired by a beautiful card made by a Dutch Stampin' Up! demonstrator called Berdien Weideveld. I loved the way her square card featured the Whimsy & Wonder DSP. Berdien's card also used a variety of retired products as well as several products I...
Stampin’ Up! Surf’s Up! Penguin Playmates DSP Card
Hello to all my crafting friends! I'm back with another entry for the "G'day Fri'yay' Card Making Challenges" Facebook group, a fortnightly Card Making Challenge with Aussie Themes. The theme for this challenge is "Surf's UP!". My husband and my sons are all obsessive...
Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake – Week 13 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 13 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Crumb Cake, a very useful colour from the Neutrals colour collection. Crumb Cake is my favourite Stampin' Up! colour because it is so incredibly versatile and it just works so well...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 8
When I was a child my mum had a box of vintage Christmas cards that I used to love looking at and tonight I've combined a few different stamp and die sets to try to recreate this vintage vibe. This style of card making is a lot of fun but also a little bit risky as I...
Stampin’ Up! Coastal Cabana – Week 12 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 12 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Coastal Cabana, a colour from the Brights family. Did I hear you say "step away from the Be Dazzling DSP, Catherine"? Well, sorry, not sorry, I just can't seem to stop using this...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 7
Do you use your Stampin' Up! catalogues for inspiration? I find them such a wonderful source of ideas and this week I've taken my inspiration from the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue. The 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue had very clever instructions on how to...
Stampin’ Up! Birthday Caravan Card with Sweet Stockings Christmas DSP.
Hello to all my crafting friends! Have you ever tried to use Christmas paper to make a birthday card? Today I'm sharing a custom birthday card I made using Stampin' Up!'s new Christmas Designer Series Paper called Sweet Stockings. It might seem strange at first to use...
Stampin’ Up! Cinnamon Cider – Week 11 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 11 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Cinnamon Cider, one of 2020-22 In Colours. I've gone a bit berserk with the "Feels Like Home" stamp set today, making not one but four different cards. This stamp set is a free...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 6
This week I've used a sentiment stamp set from the new July-December 2021 Mini Catalogue that could be easily overlooked, but I was lucky enough to win from my upline Claire, the Well Defined stamp set. I'm not sure why I hadn't used this stamp set before as I love...
Stampin’ Up! Punch and Die Art Koala Card
Hello to all my crafting friends! Do you enjoy being challenged with your crafting? I certainly do! Today I'm sharing my entry for the inaugural "G'day Fri'yay' Card Making Challenges" group, who are hosting fortnightly Card Making Challenge with Aussie Themes. The...
Stampin’ Up! Cherry Cobbler – Week 10 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 10 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! Tonight we are showcasing Cherry Cobbler, from the regals collection. I normally use Cherry Cobbler to make Christmas cards, however, as I'm already making a Christmas card every Monday for our Heart of...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 5
The new July-December 2021 Mini Catalogue and SALE-a-bration catalogues go live tomorrow so I'm sharing another card that uses some of these beautiful Christmas products. I'm not really a sparkly girly girl at all but I just can't stop using this FREE Be Dazzling...
Stampin’ Up! Calypso Coral – Week 9 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 9 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! We are showcasing Calypso Coral, from the subtles collection. My Calypso Coral card showcases a FREE product from the upcoming SALE-a-bration catalogue, available from 3rd August. The Summer Shadow dies are...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 4
I'm loving the challenge of creating a Christmas card each week and I hope you're being inspired to create some too. If you enjoy colouring techniques the Happy Holly-Days stamp set from the forthcoming July-December 2021 mini catalogue is a must! Both this bird stamp...
Stampin’ Up! Cajun Craze – Week 8 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 8 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! We are showcasing Cajun Craze, from the regals colection. Cajun Craze is not a colour I reach for very often but the stunning In Bloom Suite and Welcoming Window bundle made it super easy to create with this...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 3
Are you ready for some more Christmas inspiration? It's pretty cold here in Sydney at the moment so I've made a very wintery card for you today using a new bundle from the forthcoming July-December Mini catalogue. I have to confess this card wasn't meant to be this...
Stampin’ Up! Bumblebee – Week 7 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 7 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! We are showcasing Bumblebee, a 2020-22 InColour. Have you ever made a one sheet wonder? I've never made one before but as Stampin' Up! has nine different packs of DSP on sale at the moment I thought it was a...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 2
With our Art with Heart Team Christmas blog hop providing Christmas card inspiration for you every Monday night I should have all my Christmas cards made by December - I just need to remember to send them in time! My pre-order of Christmas products from the...
Stampin’ Up! Blushing Bride – Week 6 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 6 of our 2021-22 Colour Creations blog hop! We are showcasing Blushing Bride, a pale pink colour from our subtles family. This week I was inspired by the colour combination the lovely Vicki Boucher used for our Basic Gray blog hop. Vicki paired Basic...
Stampin’ Up! AWH Heart of Christmas Week 1
I know it's only July, but in this house it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!!! Why, you may ask? Well firstly, it's Week One of our Heart of Christmas blog hop for 2021, yeah! And secondly, as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator I've already got my hands on the brand...
Stampin’ Up! Blackberry Bliss – Week 5 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 5 of our 2020-21Colour Creations blog hop! We are showcasing Blackberry Bliss, a rich, deep colour from our regal family. One of the most beautiful suites in the new Stampin' Up! Annual catalogue is the Pansy Petals suite. I love this suite so much...
Stampin’ Up! Bermuda Bay – Week 4 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to the week 4 of our Colour Creations blog hop format for 2020-21. This week we're showcasing the bright and beautiful Bermuda Bay. Because I'm away this week I needed a quick, easy and portable crafting solution and the You Are Amazing Stampin' Up! kit came...
Stampin’ Up! Basic Gray – Week 3 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to week 3 of our Colour Creations blog hop format for 2020-21! Today we are showcasing a very dark neutral - Basic Gray - and I've teamed it with other neutrals to make an all-purpose masculine slimline card. I've deliberately left the inside blank so I can...
Stampin’ Up! Balmy Blue – Week 2 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
This week we're showcasing Balmy Blue for week two of our Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop 2020-21. Balmy Blue is a lovely soft and powdery blue and part of the subtles family. It is available in the following products. Classic Stampin' PadBlue Adhesive-backed...
Stampin’ Up! 2021-23 In Colors – Week 1 AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop
Welcome to the very first week of our new Colour Creations blog hop format for 2020-21! From today we are reverting to a traditional blog hop format, starting with a showcase of ALL FIVE 2021-23 InColours, followed by the rest of our beautiful Stampin’ Up! colours in...
Stampin’ Up! Soft Suede – Week 50 AWH Colour Creations Showcase
Welcome back to our 50th week of Colour Creations Showcase for 2020-21! Today we are showcasing Soft Suede, and it is our final week in this present Colour Creations Showcase format. But don't worry - we'll still be sharing weekly colour inspiration with you, going...
Stampin’ Up! Soft Sea Foam – Week 49 AWH Colour Creations Showcase
Welcome back to our Colour Creations Showcase as we continue our showcase of over 50 beautiful Stampin’ Up! colours in alpha order. This week we are showcasing Soft Sea Foam, the palest green in the Stampin' Up! colour range. I'd love to claim credit for the idea for...