Celebratory Sips 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. This month we are showcasing projects using Suites from the new Annual Catalogue or from the Online Exclusives released in May 2025.

For my project this month I am using products from the Celebratory Sips Suite. I love the happy colours included in the DSP and the images are a joy to fussy cut. 

Every now and again it is necessary to have little reorganisation in and around my desk. This serves several purposes for me: to find homes for new purchases, to put away a pile of recently used things and to reacquaint myself with things that I had forgotten I owned! On my most recent mission to tidy my supplies I found a stash of small square envelopes that I had squirrelled away. So, I decided to make some small square cards. Of course, the square cards could go in our normal, standard envelopes too.

I'm hoping to make a few square cards to use up the envelopes...I might even make a little box for them to go in so that they can sit on my desk. It's funny how your creative brain jumps from one idea to the next.

On with the cards I have made so far with the Celebratory Sips products! The first one showcases the wonderful embossing folders. They are smaller slimline style folders and I've used them to add texture to three strips which form the background on my card. Next, I added some fussy cut images from the Designer Series Paper. The coloured shape can be used to stamp tumblers on to thereby creating pretty cocktails, but I have simply added a shape as a pop of colour behind the bottle and glass. Together the drinks, the embossed white background and the Strawberry Slush card base give a truly fruity, fresh feel to the card.

The second card also showcases the small fussy cut images from the DSP. This time I've used tone on tone stamping to decorate the Berry Burst base card and layered up some squares die cut from DSP as the background. The tangle of stalks where the image is repeatedly stamped is conveniently hidden beneath the subsequent layers. The drinks are again displayed on Basic White, but this time on a die cut circle. 

Both cards feature the Gold Striped Mesh ribbon, to add an element of shine, and the dainty sentiments from the set. Simple finishing touches that add that something extra!

I hope that you have been inspired by my makes today. I am raring to make some more and I have plenty more images ready to use. Continuing along the hop to the others will provide you with even more creative 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!

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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 June, we are featuring the Online Exclusive Celebratory Sips Suite.

 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

Save BIG on Suites 

All available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalogue and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off.

When you shop the sale, the 50% off discount will apply to the lower-priced item(s). For example, if you buy a suite collection and a stamp set from a suite, the suite would be full price, and the stamp set would be 50% off.

Suite collections are available if all items are in stock; if all items are not in stock, you can still shop the available suite products. (And, they don’t all have to be from the same suite – you can buy any suite products from any suite.)

The discount will appear in your basket once you’ve added two items within the sale parameters to your basket.

Products are available only while supplies last.

See and shop all qualifying suites in my online store.

 

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:

 

Celebratory Sips Suite - All Star Video Class Bundle Blog Hop June 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 Celebratory Sips 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

Each Video Class Bundle, containing 12 exclusive video classes is created using Stampin' Up! suites (which are current at the time they are published). We will be using NEW 2025 Annual Catalogue (AC) and Online Exclusive (OE) products. We also used products from the January - April Mini Catalogue (MC) for some of the earlier months:

• January 2025 - Marbled Elegance Suite Collection (OE)
  
• February 2025 - Storybook Moments Suite (MC)
  
• March 2025 -  Mixed Media Suite (OE)
  
• April 2025 - Beautiful Bokeh Suite (MC)
  
• May 2025 - Beautiful Gallery Suite
• June 2025 - Celebratory Sips Suite (OE)

Thank you for joining me today for the All Star Design Team Video Class Bundle Blog Hop for June 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 Celebratory Sips Suite project.

The card I have created is almost entirely made from Designer Series Paper! I began with a layer of Basic White card which is embossed using the floral folder from the Glass & Gardens set and then I added pieces of DSP. There are different layers and a mixture of colours/patterns to create texture. For further interest, I used a variety of straight, torn and die cut edges to create a collaged background. To be honest, I was a little outside my comfort zone but I was copying the layout on a card my daughter created and I just rolled with it. 

There are lots of cocktails and fruit on the DSP, and they are easy to fussy cut. I selected a couple of the larger images to add to the background and popped them up on Dimensionals to raise them proud of the paper. I added shimmer to the cocktails using Wink of Stella and although you can't see it in the photos in real life it adds that little something extra!

The card base and sentiment are Cazun Craze which is a colour that I hardly ever use, so I was out of my comfort zone again! Having said that, I think that the neutral colour helped the cocktails and background to pop. As the sentiments are so skinny I felt that it was ok to have two of them, and the symmetry of their placement took me back inside my comfort zone!

I feel like I have only just begun with suite. I haven't used many of the stamps yet and I have plenty more fussy cut pieces to create with. I hope you feel inspired to create with the Celebratory Sips Suite too. 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.

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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 June, we are featuring the Online Exclusive Celebratory Sips Suite.

 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

Save BIG on Suites 

All available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalogue and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off.

When you shop the sale, the 50% off discount will apply to the lower-priced item(s). For example, if you buy a suite collection and a stamp set from a suite, the suite would be full price, and the stamp set would be 50% off.

Suite collections are available if all items are in stock; if all items are not in stock, you can still shop the available suite products. (And, they don’t all have to be from the same suite – you can buy any suite products from any suite.)

The discount will appear in your basket once you’ve added two items within the sale parameters to your basket.

Products are available only while supplies last.

See and shop all qualifying suites in my online store.

 

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:

 

Impressions Abloom for the New at SU! Crafting in Colour 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. The theme of our Blog Hop this month is Crafting in Colour as we are showcasing the brand new InColors from the 2025 Annual Catalogue.

For my card I chose to use one of the new Online Exclusive bundles called Impressions Abloom. It's a gorgeous floral bundle, which I thought was a good way to incorporate all the new InColors. First, let me introduce the new colours (you can see them on the banner above too). Their names are Strawberry Slush, Timid Tiger, Darling Duckling, Cloud Cover and Secret Sea. Secret Sea has rapidly become my favourite and I'm already into my second pack of cardstock!

Way back in March I attended OnStage in Strasbourg, which is a Stampin' Up! event for Demonstrators. As an extra you could choose to go to an evening session, called After Hours, and have the opportunity to create with brand new products, including the new InColors. It was so much fun chatting and creating alongside lots of other Demos. We had a choice of two bundle to use on the night and I chose to use the Impressions Abloom bundle - so I knew that I wanted to revisit it for this project.

Flowers come in all shapes and sizes and a multitude of colours. So, anything goes! I stamped and die cut lots of flowers and then picked a selection that were pleasing to my eye before arranging them on an embossed background.

This bundle offers multiple options for creating the flowers but my favourite way was to use tone on tone stamping on Basic White card. I stamped the solid background first using the second generation of ink and then stamped the detailed image over the top using full strength ink. This way the background is a paler shade of the detail. After stamping each of the three flower shapes in the way, you can simply die cut around the edge of the petals or, with the addition of another die, you can add extra, small indentations which give depth and texture to the petals. They are all lovely and it was hard to choose which ones to use.

I've used the additional texture die, aswell as the outline, when I cut the centres from cardstock. It adds that little something extra to them.

I surrounded an embossed layer of Basic White with a Secret Sea frame (from the Bundle) over another embossed layer, this time in Strawberry Slush. I love using embossing folders to add texture to my projects, and these two are going to be used a lot - they are gorgeous. 

I wrapped White Baker's Twine around the layer before adding the flowers. I curled the petals slightly and added them to the card with a mixture of Dimensionals and Glue Dots to give a variety of heights. So that I didn't have to introduce another colour, I have cut the leaves from Secret Sea instead of green. And, I opted for no sentiment on the front as there is already a lot going on. I think it works!

I hope that you have been inspired by my project 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 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 March, we are featuring the Online Exclusive Beautiful Gallery Suite.

 

Click HERE to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

Starter Kit Special

  Our BIGGEST Starter Kit Special is available for a limited time! From 6th May to 31st May you can pick £170 product for your Starter Kit and you pay £99.

 

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: