Festive Season themed card for the Build & Bloom bloghop

Festive Season themed card for the Build & Bloom bloghop

by | Oct 14, 2025 | blog, Cards

Oh, my goodness…how can Christmas be coming so quickly. I don’t know about you but I’m far from organised. I’m trying, but the days seem to whizz by and before we now it Santa will have been.

The theme for this months bloghop is Festive Season.

I don’t know if you’ve looked at the September to December mini catalogue, but along with online specials, I think this is one of the best ranges of Christmas products available this year from Stampin’ Up!

So, for this bloghop I’ve used the Delicate Pines photopolymer stamp set, the Traditional Labels stamps and dies and the Merry Christmas stamp set.

Using a single sheet of A4 card, I trimmed 1cm off the top and side of the card and then measured and drew a cross in pencil, making sure not to press too hard, through the centre of the card (lines from top to bottom and side to side).

Starting with the largest snowflake from the Delicate Pines set, I stamped in the centre of the card where the two lines crossed.

I continued to stamp the other images from the stamp set in different colours along the horizontal and vertical lines, ensuring that I went above, below and either side.

The colours I used were Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam and Early Espresso for the pine cones.

Once I was happy that I hadn’t got gaps and it all looked nice and even, I cut the card into 4 equal layers.

I used the Traditional Labels stamps and dies on two of the layers, the Merry Christmas stamp on another and the sentiments from the Delicate Pines set on the fourth. Mounting them onto different coloured card bases to make them pop.

I then used these four layers to create 4 different cards and embellished with Traditional Sequins and ribbons. Of course I didn’t forget to stamp the insides with sentiments and foliage images too!

Hope you’ve felt inspired to give this technique a go – its a pretty easy way to make lots of cards at the same time!

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Please hop along to the next hop on the blog and see what others have created.

Its been a while…..

Its been a while…..

by | Sep 8, 2025 | blog, Cards

In fact, it’s been a very long while! I always start the year with good intentions and then life just gets in the way. Earlier this year, I lost my father and along with it quite a lot of my mojo!

I continued to run my weekly Coffee and Card group, but all other things just went well and truly out of the window. The workshops i had planned just didn’t happen.

Fast forward to last week and I attended a Stampin’ Up! ™ event in Lincoln. It was a great day of crafting and catching up with people, some who I had never actually met in person. It was a fab day.

During the day, we had the opportunity to swap cards with others – great way for new inspiration, and we also had 2 demonstrators share a project each with us.

The first project was shared by Cheryldiana Taylor and used two-tone card stock and the Prairie Grass stamp set.

designed by Cheryldiana Taylor

And the second was by Caroline Heslam, who gave us all the 1st card as her swap and then helped us all to make the second card, once again using 2 tone card and the Prairie Grass stamps.

All this inspired me to use this technique fro my Coffee and Card ladies, but also to use all the offcuts from making the original design card to make 2 more cards. This was the result;

Many of the stamps used at Coffee and Card were retired, but are available on my shop.

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Blue and White themed Thank You card

by | Mar 11, 2025 | blog, Cards, General, News from Stampin' Up!

For March, the theme set for the Tech 4 Stampers blog hop is ‘Blue and White’.

I designed my card using lots of new Online Exclusive products. Check out all online exclusives here.

To make this card;

To create my card I used the colours Misty Moonlight and Basic white throughout.

The card base is a standard base (half an A4 sheet, folded at 10.5cm. Using the new Mini Corrugated 3D embossing folder on a piece of 10×14.4cm basic white card orientating the stripes to go vertically on my card. I mounted it flat onto my card base using Stampin’ Seal – I find this stick better than wet glue on uneven surfaces. (There is certainly nothing ‘mini’ about this embossing folder – it is a 6″x6″ folder!!)

I then took a smaller piece of basic white card (8×12.9cm). Again using the corrugated embossing folder, I took my Misty Moonlight ink pad and this time I swiped it along the top section of the inside of the embossing folder, thus applying a layer of ink to it. I then placed my basic white card onto the bottom section of the embossing folder, ensuring the stripes would now run horizontally. Carefully I closed the embossing folder and ran it through my cut and emboss machine. This then puts ink into the ‘divots’ of the card but leaves the rest of the card white.

I mounted the blue and white striped layer onto a layer of Misty Moonlight card measuring 8.5×13.4cm, again using Stampin’ Seal and then then ran some bakers twine around the centre of this layer before I mounted it. I then used Dimensionals to adhere the blue and white striped layer at a jaunty angle onto the plain white corrugated base.

Framed Scenes stamps and Dies

The Lighthouse comes from the new Framed Scenes cling stamp set (online exclusive), and was stamped onto a small piece of Basic White card with Misty Moonlight ink. I used the smaller of the 2 ovals from the co-ordinating Framed Scenes dies to cut out the stamped image, and then used the larger oval dies from the same set to cut a Misty Moonlight card layer to mount the stamped image on.

The simple ‘thanks’ was from a set from the annual catalogue called Best Family Ever. (This stamp set is one that I’m sure I will keep long after its retired from the annual catalogue!) I’m often in need of a ‘Thank you’ card, so the opportunity to use this as the sentiment for my card was perfect, so, I stamped the ‘thanks’ in Misty moonlight onto a strip of white card and then snipped the end at a jaunty angle before adding dimensionals and adhereing it to my card base.

To finish I took some Iridescent Basic Pearls and using a Misty Moonlight blender pen, I coloured 3 of the pearls and then I left them to dry for a few minutes before adding them to my card front. I also added a white insert into the centre of the card.

Hope you have enjoyed my project and hope you will click on the link to see what others who have taken aprt in this Blog Hop have created.

Product List
Framed Scenes Cling Stamp Set
£23.00
Framed Scenes Dies
£18.00
Mini Corrugated 3 D Embossing Folder
£10.25
Best Family Ever Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
£23.00
Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad
£8.50
Misty Moonlight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
£10.25
Pearl Basic Jewels
£5.75
Baker's Twine Essentials Pack
£10.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock
£13.00
Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock
£10.75

Springtime Thank You Card for Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

Springtime Thank You Card for Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

by | Feb 11, 2025 | blog, General

This months Tech4stampers bloghop uses the theme ‘Springtime’

Its been a while since I participated in a blog hop. But I’m back and I’m taking things a month at a time and not promising this will be regular occurrence.

Some times the theme doesn’t jump out or appeal to me, but sometimes it’s good to get out of your comfort zone and give it a go.

So, I sat and thought about Springtime… a time of year I love. All the new shoots emerging, bulbs starting to flower, birds becoming more and more vocal as they pair up prior to nesting. Its a great time of year.

And then I considered what stamps, dies and papers I had that talked to me of Spring, and stalled! I have many floral stamps, but non that particularly made me think of Springtime, particularly current stamps.

Searching my dies was no more inspiring! Then I got to my papers (DSP) and found the Mediterranean Blooms papers. I love the lemons and oranges printed on these papers, but then spied this gorgeous small printed floral design that reminded me of daffodils….I don’t think that is what they are supposed to be, but hey…they remind me of them!

So, here’s what I made

The colours for me just had to be Lemon Lolly and Garden Green, such gorgeous springtime colours.

I used the Link Together dies to cut an opening in my floral layer and then used the same die to cut the white stitched edged piece to stamp my sentiment on. A Thank You card is always a great card to have in your stash, so I decided to use that sentiment, from the online exclusive Irresistible Blooms stamp set and stamped it in Garden Green. I used the ‘splodge’ stamp from the same set in Lemon Lolly to create a little interest too.

Using the Linked Together dies, I cut both foliage pieces in Garden Green and the flowers in Lemon Lolly.

I offset the sentiment slightly to one side of the opening to allow some Garden Green to show through and also raised it on dimensionals to help it ‘pop’.

I attached the die cut foliage and flowers around the sentiment and finally added some retired gems from my stash to the centre of the flowers.

And finally I used the diamond shaped section that was cut from the centre of the DSP, cut it in half, trimmed it down and added to the front of my envelope.

I’m really happy with the way it has turned out and look forward to posting it out!

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Lemon Lolly A4 Cardstock
£10.75
Garden Green A4 Card Stock
£10.75
Mediterranean Blooms 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper
£11.75
Irresistible Blooms Cling Stamp Set (English)
£24.00
Linked Together Dies
£32.00
Lemon Lolly Classic Stampin' Pad
£8.50
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad
£8.50
Coffee and Card

Coffee and Card

by | Feb 2, 2025 | Blog, Cards, Uncategorized

Have you ever been curious about what Coffee and Card is?

Its a very social event that I run on most Mondays, thanks to the support of The Mallard, Westwood Lakes, Frampton, who allow me to use there premises to deliver this to a lovely group of ladies and provide delicious hot drinks (and cakes should you wish to purchase some!)

Each week we make 2 cards. Many are Birthday, but we also do Thank You, Sympathy, Good Luck and every third Monday of the month is CHRISTMAS! Yes, Christmas! That means that by December you already have a bunch of homemade Christmas cards.

All products are provided…stamps, inks, die cutting, card, envelopes etc, and during the time there we also share a hot drink together and have a good old chat! And all this for just £8.50/ week (drink included in price).

Most of the products I use for Coffee and Card are from a company called Stampin’ Up! and are available to purchase through me or from my website http://www.thestampingbooth.co.uk/shop now. You do NOT need to live local to me (Boston, Lincs), to purchase from me as you can order yourself for delivery to your home address, or I can post items out to you.

There is no obligation to come to Coffee and Card every week, Just pop along one Monday (11.00 til 1pm), or email me for more details [email protected]

January

Below are images of the cards made during January.

Currently there are some fabulous offersfrom Stampin’Up!…spend £55 and get your choice of free product (from a selection in a brochure), or join Stampin’ Up! for £99 and get either £160 worth of product, or pay £99, get £130 of product and 2 packs of Stampin Write markers (worth £70 and a stamp set for free. You choose the products you want, so get exactly what you would like! No commitment necessary!

If you would like to find out more about Stampin’ Up! or my classes and events, please contact me [email protected]