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We fall in colours – May

Handmade card featuring die cut white and yellow flowers, with dark green leaves on an leafy embossed paler green mat

This month, the We Fall in Colours team is featuring one of the new In Colors – Golden Glow, teaming it up with Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon, which are lovely shades of green/blue. To make this card, emboss a mat of Lost Lagoon with the Paradise Garden Hybrid Embossing folder. Adhere this to your […]

April 2026 Fun/Fancy fold card

It’s time for another Fun/Fancy Fold card blog hop! Last month I went to the Stampin’ Up! convention, OnStage, in Sydney. I was part of an organised fun fold swap and got this cute card from Frances Searle. She got the instructions from Carey’s Creative Table. I loved it so much I had to make […]

We fall in Colours – April challenge

Handmade card, with a bunch of three roses in a frame

I’ve been invited to join a new blog hop, called We fall in Colours. We have been given the following colours to use for our project this month. Grey Granite      Granny Apple Green       Calypso Coral As soon as I saw the colours, I knew I wanted to use the Gallery Blooms […]

February Product of the Month – Painted Illusions DSP

A handmade card with two large squares of printed paper diagonally opposite each other and two strips of a floral printed paper next to these

Welcome to the February blog hop for the Stampin’ Up! Product of the Month – Painted Illusions Designer Series Paper. This craft paper features soft watercolour gradients in pink, green, blue, teal, and yellow, with white patterns that flow over the background. Colours included are Darling Duckling, Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green, Lost Lagoon, Misty […]

Angled gatefold card using Floral Impressions DSP

An angled handmade gatefold card with floral printed papers

Thank you for visiting me at The Stamping Green to join in the Fun/Fancy Folds Blog Hop. I love making fun fold or fancy fold cards and also teaching others how to make them! For this  month’s blog hop, I have made an angled gatefold card, using the Floral Impressions DSP. Once again, I saw […]

Launch party for 2025-26 Annual Catalogue

Paper bags with a floral image

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 – […]