Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Simple card making with Toadstool Gardens Designer Series Paper

Stampin Up With You in Mind Toadstool Gardens Saleabration
 

I just HAD to have this Toadstool Gardens Designer Series Paper because my daughter loves fungi and everything related to them. I knew I had to make her birthday card with this gorgeous Stampin’ Up!® paper.

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Card and scrapbook ideas using Storybook Garden Patch from Stampin’ Up!®

Storybook Garden Patch Stampin Up
 

As soon as I saw the Storybook Garden Patch stamp set in the new Stampin’ Up!® Mini Catalogue, I knew my gardening customers would love it.

Storybook Garden Patch has a great selection of vegetable images, flower pots, a trug and some gardening tools. Worried about fussy-cutting? Worry no more as there are coordinating dies to take the strain.

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Three fun card ideas using Friendly Seagulls

Friendly Seagulls stampin up card ideas
 

It’s the final blog post of 2024, but I’m looking ahead to a fabulous new Stampin’ Up!® stamp set – Friendly Seagulls – which is released in a few days.

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Merry Christmas from Allthingsstampy

Christmas All things stampy stampin up UK demonstrator

I’m taking some time off for Christmas so just want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Here’s to another year of crafting!
 
 
Does your wish list come to more than £99? Please get in touch and I will help you get more for your money and unlock discounts all year round.  
 
 


Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Quick Christmas cards and last-minute treats with Humble Home from Stampin’ Up!®

Quick Christmas cards Humble Home Stampin Up
 

There are two types of crafters in the Stampin’ Up!® world, I find. Those who have sorted all their Christmas projects and are now thinking ahead to 2025. And those like me.

I was convinced I had enough Christmas cards left from previous years and from this year’s events, but it turned out the box contained some 3D projects which were making it look fuller than it was.

What I DID have was quite a big pile of stamped and punched Humble Home houses which I’d made for some 3D treat boxes. However, while making them, I got distracted and stamped FAR more than I needed.

So I quickly set aside what I needed to make the required treat boxes – more on those later – and used the remaining house fronts on Stampin’ Up!® Note Cards and Envelopes to make REALLY simple cards.

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

My pick of the Stampin Up!® discount craft kits sale

Stampin Up discount craft kits sale

Are you looking for a Stampin’ Up!® bargain? Some amazing Christmas gifts? Some crafty inspiration? Look no further than the Last Chance sale at my Stampin’ Up!® store.

Last time I checked there were no fewer than 20 discount craft kits in the sale. Most of them are reduced by an amazing 50%. They would make fabulous Christmas presents – easy to wrap, too!

Stampin’ Up!® craft kits are great for:

  • Taking on holiday (just add scissors)

  • Gifting (see above)

  • Beginner crafters

  • Busy crafters

  • Reawakening your mojo!

  • Adding to your card stash quickly and easily

  • Turning into EASY scrapbook pages

Take a look at some of the Stampin’ Up!® kits available and be quick because there’s free shipping until 11pm Wednesday when you spend £60 or more.

Here are some of my favourite discount craft kits in the Stampin’ Up!® Last Chance sale...

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Winterly Tree Tops Christmas ornament

Winterly Tree Tops Christmas ornament

I love to make my own Stampin’ Up!® Christmas ornaments to hang on the tree, on door knobs, or even use as gift tags. This year’s Christmas decoration has a bird theme, thanks to the gorgeous Winterly Tree Tops bundle of stamps and dies (164066). 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Fun Christmas cracker tutorial

Stampin Up cracker tutorial Reindeer Days
 

Today I have a Christmas gift idea using your Stampin’ Up!® cardstock and Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. And if it looks familiar then I will remind you that there’s no such thing as a new idea... and certainly not in my head at the moment. We are having building work done and the stress and mess of it all has sapped my mojo.

But what is one of my best tips for a missing mojo? Remake something you’ve made before. In my defence, a quick glance through this blog shows me that it’s been three years since I last made this half cracker gift box for a Stampin’ Up!® Zoom class during the pandemic.

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Rustic new home card using Stampin Up!’s Humble Home bundle

Stampin Up Humble Home rustic card idea

The Humble Home stamp set and coordinating punch from Stampin’ Up!® are so versatile. 

I’ve already used them for three very different cards for Christmas and thank yous. 

It goes without saying that this useful Stampin’ Up!® bundle will also work for birthdays.

For today’s blog post, I have used the Humble Home bundle for a new home card, which is perhaps the most obvious choice.

The small print

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