These cute little flip top boxes are adorable and can fit small gifts or yummy treats.  They are easy to make from cardstock and can be decorated with any Designer Series Paper, stamps and die cuts.  For my flip top boxes I have used products from the Wildflower Birthday Suite Collection. To decorate the box I used the Wildflower Birthday Designer Series Paper and some of the die cut ephemera pieces from the Designer Series Paper. I also used the Gold Open Weave Ribbon and Party Dots to embellish the box lid. Below is the template with metric measurements for A4 cardstock that ..read more

Thank you for joining us for this month's Let's Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Stampin' Up!® Demonstrators from Australia who have developed a wonderful friendship through our love of stamping and admiration of each other's creativity. Each month, one of us takes turn to set a blog hop challenge, where we share our creativity with others through our blog hops. Be sure to hop along to them all, for lots of creative inspiration. You will see the list below. This month it was Michele Jutrisa who chose the theme of our challenge and she has chosen a Photo Inspiration Challenge based ..read more

Fruit Salad, Yummy, yummy! I love a good fruit salad. Don't you? This FREE Fruit Salad Designer Series Paper from Sale-A-Bration 2025 was just so yummy that I had lots of fun creating a series of these quick and easy Thanks cards, using this paper.  I kept the layout very basic with layered rectangles to showcase the beautiful bright and fun papers.  I added a simple die cut sentiment tag, popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals, a coloured strip which I die cut from the Something Fancy Dies and added Wink Of Stella Glitter to give it some sparkle and lastly I added some fun embelli ..read more

I was so excited to see the Storybook Moments Suite Collection when Stampin' Up!® released it recently in the 2025 January-April Mini Catalogue. It reminds me of the Beatrix Potter books, which I used to read to my children when they were little.  I have kept their collection of Beatrix Potter books and I have recently pulled them out of storage for inspiration in creating with this gorgeous suite.  We also still have a ceramic breakfast bowl that was given to our first child by her grandparents when she was little. These are special treasures that I hope to be able to pass on to t ..read more

Fun fold cards are a lot of fun to create and to recieve, but some can be overwhelming to create. Not this one, though! This Easel Fun Fold Card is so easy to create with minimal supplies. So long as you have cardstock, a Paper Trimmer with cutting and scoring blades, then you are good to go. Then you can embellish as you wish. The front layers can be created with different shapes, but I kept this one simple with rectangles. First stamp your chosen stamp in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto the Basic White cardstock layer and allow the ink to dry. I have used the Sale-A-Bration Handmade Designs ..read more

     Thank you for joining us for this month's Let's Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Stampin' Up!® Demonstrators from Australia who have developed a wonderful friendship through our love of stamping and admiration of each other's creativity. Each month, one of us takes turn to set a blog hop challenge, where we share our creativity with others through our blog hops. Be sure to hop along to them all, for lots of creative inspiration. You will see the list below. This month it was Sharni Green who chose the theme of our challenge and she has chosen a Sketch Challenge ..read more

Recently I held a fun Catalogue Launch Party, to celebrate the release of the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalogue. As part of the event, my guests created two beautiful Make 'n Take projects. You can see the new Mini Catalogue on my Blog Home page or click HERE. This simple, yet elegant card below is one of the Make 'n Takes and uses the very pretty Floral Delight Suite Collection from pages 33-37 of the January-April 2025 Mini Catalogue.  With some two-step stamping and easy layering you can create this gorgeous card too. The floral image has been stamped twice - once up the correct ..read more

There is something really cute about a toadstool image or mushroom for that matter. Whether it be an image on clothing or in this case on stamps and papers. They are just too cute.  The Terrific Toadstool Stamp Set and Punch Bundle from the 2025 January-April Mini Catalogue are fun to create with. Teamed with the FREE Toadstool Garden Designer Series Paper from the 2025 Sale-A-Bration Brochure they are the perfect match. For my card I used one of the tag sketch layouts on page 12 of the Mini Catalogue and created a cute scene card.  First I stamped the grass in Granny Apple Green in ..read more

You know the Christmas Stockings filled with chocolates or lollies that you find in the shops at Christmas time? Well, several years ago I found a pattern for a paper Christmas Stocking online and so I made one for each of my children for Christmas. Ever since then, instead of buying over-priced chocolate Christmas stockings each year, I fill these with small packaged lollies (candy), lolly pops, wrapped chocolates, or similar lollies. These stockings can also be used to hold other goodies, such as small gifts, or gift cards.  TIP: If what you are adding inside the stocking is too small ..read more

The other day I was searching Pinterest for some fun gift packaging and came across these cute self-closing boxes that had been created a few years ago by Dawn Griffiths of The Glitter Pit in the USA. These cute self-closing boxes are super fun to create. There is a large and small version. I have already created these three sets and just want to keep creating more. I'm looking forward to filling these with some sweet little gifts this Christmas. Snowy Scenes Self-Closing Boxes These two Self-Closing boxes use the Snowy Scenes Designer Series Paper. You can find the templates for both ..read more