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As the year comes to a close, I thought I would take a look back at some of 2022’s biggest cardmaking and papercrafting trends in the Stampin’ Up!® world.
Looking back, there were several stand-out themes which appeared time and time again, not just in my own projects but in those created by our fabulous Stampin’ Up!® Artisan Design Team and talented demonstrators worldwide.
Here are the top cardmaking and papercrafting themes which I have identified from the past year.
A while ago I asked my Stampin’ Up!® customers and Facebook followers what was holding them back from crafting – and I was shocked that many of them said it was inspiration.
This surprised me because there’s LOADS of inspiration out there. Blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, the Stampin’ Up!® catalogue... and that’s when it struck me:
The problem isn’t a lack of inspiration but information overload.
So, with the Christmas holiday looming and possibly the chance to do some crafting over the break, how do you narrow down all that amazing inspiration into something you can actually MAKE with your Stampin’ Up!® supplies?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas... so it’s time to bring out some Christmassy crafts.
Every year I try to create a Christmas decoration from my Stampin’ Up!® supplies and this year is no exception, with this delicate white and gold heart ornament.
When it comes to Christmas cards, you cannot beat the traditional Stampin’ Up!® colours of Garden Green and Real Red.
Today I have two Christmas projects which use these fabulously festive colours and the gorgeous Christmas Season stamp set, while showing a couple of fun tips to take your projects to the next level.
Are you ready for 25 Stampin' Up!® card ideas? They all use the Ringed With Nature stamp set... well most of them do. I do have some cards to show you which used the coordinating Rings of Love Designer Series Paper, which is no longer available as it was a Sale-a-Bration freebie back in the summer, but it seems a shame to miss them out.
Foxes and trees and bears, oh my! Could there be a more suitable Stampin’ Up!® product suite for me than the Happy Forest Friends Suite? It’s also perfect for my friend Donna, who shares my love of woodland creatures and all things arboreal.
Do you want to know how to save money on your Stampin’ Up!® projects? I
am here to help you get the most out of everything you buy, and already
own.
As the cost of living crisis deepens worldwide and, it
seems, particularly here in the UK, I want you to know that I’ve got
your back. I have lots of ideas to help you make your Stampin’ Up!®
supplies stretch further, based on years of being a frugal crafter who
hates waste and wants to save the planet.
Today I want to show you my zero waste shaker card and matching tags. Other than the card base itself, everything you see here is made from scraps of Stampin’ Up! cardstock and Designer Series Paper, leftovers from other projects or kits, or actual waste.
Today I have two Stampin' Up!® projects to show you, both on a harvest theme, both using the same design, but with very different stamp sets. I CASEd a beautiful Nature’s Harvest card to make one of my own in a different colour scheme, then CASEd the same project again to make it using the Apple Harvest stamp set, which you can see later in this blog post.
I’m a relative latecomer to the Spruced Up bundle from Stampin’ Up!® but
then I’m a relative latecomer to Christmas cardmaking this year.
But
after being seduced by all the gorgeous samples on Instagram, I was
excited to receive my stamps and dies last week and got to crafting
immediately.
I’ve been seeing lots of gorgeous projects using Apple Harvest from
Stampin’ Up!® so I just had to pop it on to my last order. It’s a
beautiful stamp set but I confess there is one thing about it which
irritates me... and that’s that you would never get an apple tree with
fruit and flowers at the same time! Still, that’s artistic licence I
suppose.
I created two cards using the Apple Harvest stamp set,
one with green apples and one with red. Both were coloured using
Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers.
I love using my Stampin’ Up!® supplies to branch out into other
techniques so have been having lots of fun creating cool backgrounds to
go with the Let’s Set Sail bundle.
I’ve always been a fan of
nautical and seaside-themed products so this stamp set with matching
punch really floats my boat. (See what I did there?)
The Splendid Day Suite from Stampin’ Up!® is for everyone who loves a
bit of elegant glamour. The foil finish and leafy designs are truly
beautiful and will add a touch of class to any project.
This is
why I have chosen this Suite as the focus for my All The Trimmings Kit
of the Month for August available to anyone in the UK. Please keep
reading for details of this kit (or click here if you can’t wait that long).
Do you love free products? Even after nearly 15 years as a Stampin’ Up!®
demonstrator, I still get excited to earn free cardmaking products.
I tried to resist the Happy Forest Friends Suite in the Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue but it was inevitable that I would give in sooner or later. Bears, foxes, owls, trees and toadstools... this suite is very much ‘on brand’ for All Things Stampy!
The Tea Boutique Suite from Stampin’ Up!® is a fantastic showcase for our new In Colors, so everyone who attended my Craft-Tea Day Out event earlier this month received some of these beautiful Tea Boutique Cards & Envelopes.
I’d asked those who had one to bring their Stamparatus so each table could set themselves up to make these five fun cards quickly and efficiently using their Cup of Tea bundles. I love the bright pops of colour from the cups, the flowers and the cards themselves.
I am in full Tea Boutique mode, preparing for an all-day in-person craft event this weekend.
Crafters everywhere are loving our new Stampin’ Up!® In Colors so I
wanted to show them off using a brand new stamp set called Cup of Tea.
This
is from the new Tea Boutique Suite from the new Annual Catalogue which
goes live today. I will be using this suite at my Craft-Tea Day Out in
June.
As soon as I saw the gorgeous In the Moment stamp set, I knew I wanted
to run a class with it. In fact, I am running not one but three different classes
with it, as I transition into my new system of showcasing a stamp set
each month.
My first event was a fun evening on Zoom combining
this fab set with the technique of paper piecing and beautiful
Expressions in Ink Designer Series Paper (which is retiring and I
believe has now sold out).
As a Stampin’ Up!® demonstrator, I’m often told that card design is a
struggle and some people can only get results they are happy with by
copying. Well I’m here to help!
In today’s blog post – and on my Facebook and Instagram posts all week – I will be sharing foolproof tips for
designing cards, along with sketches, colour coordination and even a
little bit of maths.
Sometimes it’s fun to revisit old designs with newer Stampin’ Up!® stamp sets and this is exactly what I did for my Crafty Friday class this month, by making a flowerpot pocket card using the Simply Succulents stamp set.
It’s retiring time! Stampin’ Up!® is having a massive clearout of the warehouse to make way for brand new craft products! This means hundreds of products – stamp sets, punches, dies, papers, ink pads, ribbons, embellishments and more – are on the last chance list, many of them reduced by up to 50%.
We all need more rainbows and glitz in our lives, don’t we? And I love the addition of this Summer Shimmer paper to create these subtle yet glamorous rainbows using the Rainbow of Happiness bundle from Stampin’ Up!®
As a Stampin’ Up! UK demonstrator, I get to see new products early, so
I’ve been lusting after this Grassy Grove bundle since way back in
December.
Finally I can show them off – so here are 12 projects using the Grassy Grove stamp set and Grove Dies. I haven’t included tutorials – please appreciate that these projects were exclusively created for the guests at my event. Nevertheless, I hope you love them as much as I do!
We began with this light-up card, which fits in a standard postage mailing box and will send in the UK as a Large Letter. This is the project I had in mind from the moment I laid my eyes on the Grassy Grove bundle.
I’ve used tiny fairy lights within a box, covered in vellum and surrounded by white cardstock die cut with Grove Dies.
Inside the box is a background of Designer Series Paper. Check out the video to see how it looks simply by changing the colour of this paper. The yellow really makes it glow with a lovely sunset-like warmth.
Our second project was this fancy fold which is so easy to make. Again, simply changing the Designer Series Paper can give the card a completely different look.
This is a really simple fun fold which is simply made from two card bases. One is cut slightly smaller and inserted into the first with the fold on the right. So, as you can see in the video, you just open the card as normal to reveal the next layer, then open the ‘backwards’ card to reveal the message inside.
The deer are die cut from Designer Series Paper and sponged/brushed with ink to darken the silhouettes. This meant everyone could make their deer match their projects, without me having to send out lots of scraps of different coloured cardstock.
The Grassy Grove bundle is perfect for creating “scene” cards like this one. I used a sheet of Designer Series Paper as a background then overlaid the various elements on top.
I’ve stamped these in Old Olive and Mossy Meadow, two of
my favourite greens, with a Soft Suede deer, all finished off with some
linen thread.
To mix things up a little, I made another version of this card using New Horizons Designer Series Paper. This wasn’t available when I was planning my projects, but I have it now and don’t like making the same card twice so created this one on the day.
Whatever events I run, I always start with the most complicated projects and work my way down to the simplest. This means we get the difficult crafting out of the way early on and can relax into the day. It also means if anyone has to dash off early, they have had help on hand for the challenging bits and can finish off their projects unaided.
So the next few projects are nice and simple, so everyone could chat and craft at the same time.
This is actually a variation of this Christmas card I made last December – and I don’t think anyone noticed!
A simpler version is this card, with no die cutting at all, just stamping...
This would be really quick to turn out, especially if you used the Stamparatus for the grasses and deer, and just stamped the trees freehand.
I hope you have enjoyed my Grassy Grove projects and are inspired to make your own. While the Simply Marbleous paper is no longer available as it was a Sale-a-Bration freebie, I highly recommend the New Horizons Designer Series Paper to coordinate with this bundle and many other products you are sure to have in your craft stash.
If you are in the UK and would like to order these or any other products, please
visit my store and, if you use the current host code UDVDUXFH, I’ll send you a thank you gift in the following month.
