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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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.

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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

‘Love’ card for the Tech4Stampers bloghop

‘Love’ card for the Tech4Stampers bloghop

by | Jan 10, 2023 | Birthday cards, Blog, Cards

Each month a lovely group of talented Stampin’Up! take part in a themed bloghop….its a great way to share our creativity with lots of people and hope you will follow the ‘hop’ by clicking on the links below. Some months I join in, but not always…..depending on other committments.

The theme for this months Bloghop is Love

I used the sentiment from Best Butterflies stamps and dies from the Give it a Whirl set for my card, and the colour palette of Sweet Sorbet and Parakeet Party. There is a full list of products that I used at the bottom of this post.

My card is inspired by my lovely friend, who is always bright and colourful and loves her ‘bling’.

The central panel is die cut using one of the Basic Border dies on a 5 1/2cm panel of designer series paper (DSP), from the Butterfly Kisses paper selection.

The back layer is using DSP from The Tea Boutique and the gorgeous Sweet Sorbet colour which I also used for the stamping on the front, inside and on the back panel.

I also added a panel of DSP to the inside of the card, but before adhering in place, I die cut 2 hearts from the edge of the panel, and then die cut a large heart in Sweet Sorbet and a smaller heart in Fresh Freesia and once the panel was stuck in place, I inlaid these hearts into the pre-cut ‘gaps’.

I die cut more hearts to embellish the front of the envelope, and then stamped on the back of the card with one of Stampin’ Up!s copyright stamped images. ‘Made with Love’ was very apt!!¬

I do love this years In colors and in particular, the lovely vivid Parakeet Party green and Sweet Sorbet. I used some of the Parakeet Party Metallic woven ribbon to embellish with a bow. I also added some Incolor Matte dots,

I do hope you enjoyed looking at my creation and it would be great if you could leave a comment – I love to read them! Don’t forget to support other demo’s by hopping over to their blogs using the links below;

Love the products that you’ve seen me use? You can order from me here or alternatively by clicking on any of the products that I’ve used that are listed below.

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Best Butterflies Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)
£21.00
Friends Are Like Seashells Photopolymer Stamp Set
£24.00
Limited Edition Cling Stamp Set (English)
£18.00
Basic Borders Dies
£27.00
Give It A Whirl Dies
£37.00
Stylish Shapes Dies
£28.00
Tea Boutique 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
£11.25
Butterfly Kisses 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper
£11.25
Parakeet Party A4 Cardstock
£8.75
Sweet Sorbet A4 Cardstock
£8.75
Fresh Freesia A4 Cardstock
£8.75
2022 2024 In Color Matte Decorative Dots
£7.50
Parakeet Party 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Metallic Woven Ribbon
£8.50
Mini Glue Dots
£5.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue
£3.75
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
£4.00
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
£59.00