Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Gathering Together Treats for the New at SU! Blog Hop



Hello and welcome to my blog. Today, I am participating in the New at SU! blog hop. We are a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators from around the world who are full of creative papercrafting ideas to share with you to get you crafting. We are showing off fun ways to gift treats! Treats come in all different shapes and sizes, and boxes can be made any size too!


My treat boxes are sized to accommodate a gift card, or a simple bag of sweet treats or biscuits. All of which look amazing when presented in a box. These will be filled with sweets and presented as table gifts for my class attendees. These boxes can easily be scaled up for larger items.


The Gathering Together Suite has been parked on my desk for a while now - it's a suite that is particularly apt for the time of year. Days have a cooler, fresher start. Pretty rustic colours and crisp fallen leaves accompany me on my walk to work. It must be Autumn.


The design of my boxes is the same, but I have decorated them in three different ways. On the first, I stamped a selection of leaves on Crumb Cake, the second has a white base with stamped leaves using the same colours and the final one is decorated with DSP. 

The tops were decorated with a die cut label from the Traditional Labels Bundle stamped simply with Your friendship means the world to me and some Gold Striped Mesh ribbon. The label could be placed directly on top of the box as the lid fits over the base and as such the boxes are self closing. However, I wrapped the boxes with a belly band, for extra security, because the sweet treats I added were quite thick and I didn't want the boxes popping open!


These boxes turned out to be quite cute and I can already think of several other things to fill them with. I hope that my project has inspired you today. Continuing along the hop to the others will provide you with even more project ideas - you are currently with me, Furry Cat Designs by Karen Henderson - but before you hop on to the next post, please take a moment to leave a comment. We love reading your comments!

Blog Hop Index

Do you need any of the products used for today's boxes? If you live in the UK please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,


If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator.
To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. The products I have used on today's project are linked from the images shown below.

All Star Video Class Bundles 

The Video Class Bundles have 12 AMAZING video tutorials to inspire you each month. For September, we are featuring the Gathering Together Suite. 
 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

  

Starter Kit Offers


Throughout October Stampin' Up! are offering a choice of two outstanding Starter Kits. You pick the products you want for your Starter Kit. Which will you choose?
 

 

Stampin' Rewards Program 


When shopping, remember to opt in to Stampin' Rewards on orders over £20.

Click on the images of the products I have used today to purchase them in my online shop:









 









Saturday, 11 October 2025

Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop - A sketch challenge


Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I am taking part in a blog hop with some fellow enthusiasts who love sharing their creative talents using their Stampin' Up!® products.

This month in the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop we are creating projects inspired by a sketch.


Sketches are such a useful tool and a great starting point when creating a card. They can be interpreted quite literally, using exactly the same placement for the elements. Alternatively, they can be also be used merely as a starting point. Although I have rotated the orientation to landscape and placed my elements less uniformly than on the sketch I have still included all of the components on my card.


I have used the Christmas Tags & More Designer Series Paper and the Greetings For You Ephemera packs to create a fun card that is quick and easy to produce. Using the Perennial Postage dies and some of the cut apart elements from the DSP I have created some over sized postage stamps as the focal point on the card. 

The middle stamp is raised on dimensionals which accommodates the knot of the double stranded Baker's Twine bow. These elements sit on top of the uniform snowflake pattered paper, a layer of Garden Green and then on to a Basic White card base. The colours are traditional and so fresh looking. The greetings in the ephemera pack are self adhesive, but I opted to use dimensionals instead so that the sentiment is at the same height as the middle stamp.


This was so much fun but so unusual for me to create a card with zero stamping! Please continue along the hop to see what the others have created too...enjoy the projects! We would love to hear from you and so if you have been inspired, please leave a comment.


 


 Mo Rootes  ●  Leonie Stuart  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Jan Musselman  ●  Karen Henderson

Do you need any of the products used on today's cards? If you live in the UK please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,


If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator.
To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. The products I have used on today's project are linked from the images shown below.

All Star Video Class Bundles 

The Video Class Bundles have 12 AMAZING video tutorials to inspire you each month. For September, we are featuring the Gathering Together Suite. 
 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

  

Starter Kit Offers


Throughout October Stampin' Up! are offering a choice of two outstanding Starter Kits. You pick the products you want for your Starter Kit. Which will you choose?
 

 

Stampin' Rewards Program 


When shopping, remember to opt in to Stampin' Rewards on orders over £20.

Click on the images of the products I have used today to purchase them in my online shop:









 









 

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Gathering Together Suite - All Star Video Class Bundle Blog Hop October 2025



Hello and welcome to my blog. I am delighted to be part of the All Star Video Class Group. We create a Video Class Bundle with
exclusive tutorials complete with photos, video directions and a supply list that includes both Metric and Imperial measurements, and we also hop together each month sharing another project using the same suite.


This month we are using the Gathering Together Suite and this
is a sneak peek of the projects included in this month's bundle of video tutorials.


Here is a closer look at the sneak peek of my project in the tutorial bundle.


To enjoy the video class bundle of tutorials you have several options:

  • shop with me -  if you order from my online store you will receive that month's bundle for free
  • purchase - buy the bundle for £11.50 
  • Join my Team - team members will receive the tutorials for free

During this six month block of tutorials we will be using current Stampin' Up! Suites to create a Video Class Bundle, each containing 12 exclusive video classes. We will be using a mix of current and upcoming Online Exclusive (OE) suites together with suites from the Annual Catalogue (AC) and the new September to December Mini Catalogue (MC):

  • July 2025 - Florals in Bloom Suite (AC)
  • August 2025 - Floral Impressions Suite (OE)
  • September 2025 -  Painterly Pears Suite (OE)
  • October 2025 - Gathering Together Suite (OE)
  • November 2025 - Lights of Aurora (MC)
  • December 2025 - TBC


Thank you for joining me today for the All Star Design Team Video Class Bundle Blog Hop for October 2025.
At the start of each month, each of creates another project using the featured suite of products to give you even more inspiration. Here is my additional Gathering Together Suite project.


Crunching through fallen leaves and enjoying beautiful autumnal days has been the order of the day here! I feel quite quite at home with my pile of die cut leaves and acorns!

I selected a variety of images for my card from the prepared pile. I used various cards and inks to create different hues for the leaves and acorns. The acorns are so adorable and I love how the tone of the ink changes subtly depending on which surface it is stamped on to. 

Then, I set about creating a wreath. The images in this suite are a little too large to create a complete wreath on a standard sized card, so I opted for part of one. I was inspired by a sheet of the Christmas Tags & More DSP which illustrates a section of a wreath.

To start off with I embossed a layer of card using the Traditional Wreath 3d embossing folder which provided me with an outline to follow and added texture beneath my die cut leaves. I curled the leaves and acorns between my fingers and bone folder to add dimension, then scattered them around the embossed image tucking them in and overlapping each other. Initially they were adhered using Glue Dots and then I went back in with a few dimensionals to aid the texture.


The sentiment is simply stamped and then cut using the Traditional Labels dies and secured over a twist of Linen Thread. The Cajun Craze & Gold Dots are the perfect finishing touch!

As I had an abundance of leaves I tried exactly the same card on a different card base. Instead of using Basic White for the background colour, I used Crumb Cake. What a difference that makes. I can't decide which one I prefer.


I have plenty of images left to create with in my pile! Hopefully, you are feeling inspired to create with this beautiful suite.  Let me know what you think in the comments below. If you would like more ideas using this suite you can purchase the tutorial bundle (along with previous tutorials) HERE

Thank you so much for visiting today. Click on the names below to hop around and see all the other amazing projects. Enjoy! If you live in the UK you can purchase these products below.

Blog Hop List:

Do you need any of the products used on today's cards? If you live in the UK please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,


If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator.
To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. The products I have used on today's project are linked from the images shown below.

All Star Video Class Bundles 

The Video Class Bundles have 12 AMAZING video tutorials to inspire you each month. For September, we are featuring the Gathering Together Suite. 
 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store  

Starter Kit Offers

 

Throughout October Stampin' Up! are offering a choice of two outstanding Starter Kits. You pick the products you want for your Starter Kit. Which will you choose?

 

 

Stampin' Rewards Program 


When shopping, remember to opt in to Stampin' Rewards on orders over £20.

Click on the images of the products I have used today to purchase them in my online shop: