Stampin' Up! Archives - The Stamping Green

Rustic card challenge – Let’s craft together blog hop

Welcome to the Let’s Craft Together blog hop featuring Australian Stampin’ Up! demonstrators who share crafting inspiration. Each month, a different demonstrator sets a challenge or theme, and other participants create projects based on it, showcasing a variety of styles and techniques. This month, the prompt is Rustic. As it’s not a style I tend to use, […]

Cute as can Bee floating hexagon card

Handmade fun fold card with bright pink cardbase, flowers and bees on printed paper and a large stamped bee in the centre

Thank you for joining me for my first blog hop with a new group – the Fun/Fancy Folds team. I love making fun and fancy fold cards and most of my classes usually involve teaching these, so I was very happy to be invited to join this team. This is one of the cards that […]

Bling it up

This month, the challenge from the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop team is Bling It Up! I was away at a craft retreat with a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators when I was working on my card. We had a bit of a discussion about what qualifies as ‘Bling It Up’ – some saying it […]

Launch party for 2025-26 Annual Catalogue

I held my launch party for the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue on Saturday, joining with a fellow demonstrator, Tracy Held – Trace of Creativity. Here is the room, all set up ready to go. We gave each of the attendees a bag with a ‘New Catalogue Survival Kit’ which contained the following: BANDAID – […]

Pretty Florals done with new In colours

Handmade card with yellow, orange and pink flowers

Welcome to the Stamping Green. This month’s challenge in the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop was to use the new 2025-2027 In colours. At first I wasn’t sure if I could use them all as I feel they are in two groups – the Strawberry Slush, Darling Duckling and Timid Tiger go well together, then […]

Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop – Mother’s Day cards

Handmade card in white and yellow. Octagon cut out from white may, with a sprig of yellow flowers and green leaves

Welcome to my post for the Let’s Craft Together Blog hop. This month’s challenge was to create something pretty for Mother’s Day. In Australia, Mother’s Day is in May so this is a timely challenge for us. My mother is a keen gardener so I always end up making her a card with flowers on […]

Ink & Inspiration March Blog hop – sketch challenge

Handmade card in hot pink with two squares of printed paper and a diamond square with a cake stamped on it

Thank you for visiting my blog for this month’s Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. This month, we were given a sketch challenge, which are always lots of fun. This is the sketch we were given As soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to use Designer Series Paper for the two smaller […]

Let’s Craft together March Blog Hop challenge

Handmade card with dark brown woodgrain background and flowers in a milk can

Thanks for dropping by for another Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. This month, we had a photo inspiration challenge. Here is the prompt we were given. Last week I was involved in another card challenge, to make a corner fold card, and decided this card would be perfect for this photo inspiration challenge as well. […]

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – February challenge

Handmade card with coral and fish in bright colours

Welcome to February’s Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here after Tracy’s. Each month there is a new Ink & Inspiration challenge. This month we have an inspirational image and colour challenge. We can use either part to create our project. Here are our instructions. INK – […]

Lets craft together February sketch challenge

Handmade card with yellow flowery paper and three images - sun. bee, flower

The Let’s Craft Together challenge for February was to use one of the sketches provided on page 12 of the Stampin’ Up! mini catalogue. Using sketches is a great way to find a layout that you can use many times and still get very different results. Changing the papers, the images, the colours and […]

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Jan colour inspiration

This month for the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop, we have a colour challenge. This is actually a photo that I took while holidaying in South Korea in November last year! It was taken in the Suncheon Bay Garden and I took it because I loved the colours of the flower. So when I was […]

Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop – Jan 2025

Green and white card featuring a heart made from vines

It’s time for another Let’s Craft together blog hop. This month, our theme is Love is in the Air, in preparation for Valentine’s Day next month. If you are looking for a card design to make for that special someone, I hope you can get some inspiration from the blog hop. I have used […]

Ink & Inspiration December Blog Hop – Sketch challenge

Handmade card with a cartoon pug dog wearing a party hat, a cake with pink icing and lots of candles

Welcome to the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Sharni Green from Australia. This month, our challenge is based on this sketch: I am giving you a sneak peek at a new stamp set being released in the Jan-Apr 2025 Mini catalogue, called One More Year. Because I didn’t want the […]

Series 2 card swap chain – following Cheryl’s card

Photo of a handmade card with pink printed paper and a feature of flowers and leaves

Welcome to the tenth and final blog hop in our second series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter (although I’ve called it Chinese Whispers cards). The first card in each sequence is an […]

Let’s Craft together blog hop – October

This month’s Let’s Craft Together challenge is a sketch challenge, set by Maheswari. This is the image we were given: I decided to keep the floral theme but change my colours to pinks. I’ve used the Regal Flora stamp set. I stamped the flowers using Berry Burst ink, and the leaves in Shaded Spruce. The […]

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