Buckle up - there's lots happening today! The wait is over - the new May-August 2026 Catalogue is here! You will find a permanent link to the new catalogue on the right hand side of my blog but for today you need look no further than the picture below which will take you straight to the new catalogue: 

This latest release marks the start of a new catalogue strategy, with three non-overlapping catalogues each year:

• May – August
• September – December
• January – April

Each catalogue introduces great new products while still including your go-to essentials including:

• Basic tools and adhesives
• Colour collections
• Essential punches and dies
• Classic embellishments
• Envelopes and everyday staples

The new catalogue is fantastic, with lots of new products to choose from. I've sent paper copies to everyone who has shopped with me in the last 6 months; a digital copy of the new catalogue can be accessed via the image above and it will be permanently linked via my blog on the right hand side if you don’t have a paper copy and wish to browse. If you have your paper copy and just want to go straight to the shop to place your order, click here - and remember to opt in to take advantage of the Stampin' Up! Rewards Programme.

There is also a great joining promotion that goes live today to coincide with the launch of the new catalogue:

It’s always exciting to be able to invite people to join our community of crafters and creators. And right now it’s even more exciting because when you sign up between 5 and 31 May to become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, you'll get our new 2026-28 In Color Classic Stampin' Ink Pads FREE! Don't need ink? You can add an extra £35 of product to your starter kit instead. That's £165 worth of products of your choice for only £99 + free business supplies + free shipping + all the fun being a part of Stampin’ Up! 

I would love to chat with you about the benefits of joining my team and being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator; as always, you can always find the link to join my team on the right hand side of my blog page; alternatively it's right here if you fancy jumping right in!

What would you put into your starter kit? There are all those lovely new annual catalogue products for you to choose from, but that's not all: today sees the launch of another wave of Online Exclusive products too! 

You can check them out here.

Finally, there are two new kits that have been added to the Kit Collection. The first is the Serene Scenes Kit:

The second is the Pretty Party Kit:

You can see more details and order both of these kits in the online store here where you can also access the full range of additional kits available to purchase.

There's also a new product of the month for May that can be yours for £5 when you place an order of £70 or more:

Registration is also open now for the Paper Mixer class that will be held on the 21 May.

That's a lot of information for one post; if I were you I would put the kettle on, put your feet up and get comfy and settle down with your new catalogue for a browse and start creating that all-important wish list!

Back tomorrow with a creative post featuring some of those lovely new products; until then, happy shopping!

Today I'm sharing a card that was inspired by those pretty floral clothes pegs and the the layout over at Inspired By this week:

I wanted to use up a few more of those Easter time Mix & Match Ephemera pieces, so chose some in similar colours to the florals on the pegs and set to work. Take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I used my Lovely Arrangements circle panel die for the lines, by diecutting it into separate rows (I used retired Mint Macaron for this), then layered the ephemera on top and stamped my thank you sentiment between the rows directly onto my white card base:

A few co-ordinating twine bows and some gems complete my thank you card. I really love that Lovely Arrangements die that I used to create my rows - it really is so versatile.

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

LOVELY ARRANGEMENTS BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (£45.75)

AZURE AFTERNOON CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)

FLIRTY FLAMINGO CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)

BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)

Today it's Sunday and time for this week's new challenge over at The Paper Players! It's the turn of the fabulous Jaydee to host this week and she has a theme challenge for us to work with:

We are all about cards for the ladies this week! I toyed with going pink and delicate for my card, but instead decided to go with something bright and colourful using Jen M's layout over at Freshly Made Sketches this week - take a look:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I still had some of the Easter Time Mix & Match Ephemera left and wanted to use them up, so my starting point for today's card was the pretty watering can filled with flowers. For my layered panels, I used a piece of Daffodil Delight gingham from my stash and an Azure Afternoon panel cut with that Lovely Arrangements circle panel die (adjusted to make a bigger panel). I added a double twine bow and a simple sentiment from the same bundle:

A few enamel dots finish my super simple design. I love bright colours - not everything feminine has to be pink and delicate right? That said, I made two more cards whilst I was in my craft room making this one and they all have a floral, feminine theme so you have more inspiration on this theme to come this week!

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my Product and 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Before you reach for your ink and papers, check out what our amazing team has created to inspire you this week:

Enjoy your day; the youngest of the James Junior is home from uni this weekend and is playing cricket today, so we are hoping that the dry weather continues and rain doesn't stop play! We might even manage another BBQ this evening - fingers crossed! I'll be back in a couple of days with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used: 

LOVELY ARRANGEMENTS BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (£45.75)	RAINBOW ADHESIVE-BACKED DOTS (£5.10)	AZURE AFTERNOON A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)	DAFFODIL DELIGHT A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)	AZURE AFTERNOON CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	BASIC WHITE A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)
BAKER'S TWINE ESSENTIALS PACK (£10.25)

It's Tuesday and time for a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches. Our final challenge of the month is a colour challenge: 

This trio of brights is right in my wheel house, but I decided I wanted something a little more subtle for today's card so I grabbed the sketch over at Just Add Ink for my layout and set to work - take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I wanted to have another play with my Forever Florals bundle, so I stamped a sentiment onto my label (I used Basic Grey as opposed to black just to soften it slightly) and then added some Lemon Lime Twist ink and a blend of Flirty Flamingo and Pumpkin Pie inks to some white cardstock with a blending brush to soften the colours, before diecutting three floral clusters and framing my sentiment label with them:

Mindful that I used the large circle of the sketch for my sentiment and therefore hadn't used the sentiment strip, I added a small tab of ombre Lemon Lime Twist ribbon to the back of my label so that it is still in keeping with the layout but without spoiling the overall clean and simple feel.

I'm also linking today's card up over at TicTacToe Challenge (I went across the top of the board with CAS/diecut/floral) and over at CAS On Friday where the challenge is 'sympathy' - this thinking of you sentiment in the Forever Florals set, along with a couple of the others, make for lovely sympathy cards.

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

As a reminder, for our colour challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colours. You may also use neutral colours; however, the challenge colours should be the most noticeable ones featured on your card. We use Stampin' Up! colour names for reference, but you are welcome to use any other companies' products as long as you match the challenge colours as closely as possible.

Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

FOREVER FLORALS BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (£46.75)	BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)	BLENDING BRUSHES (£14.00)	BASIC GRAY CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	FLIRTY FLAMINGO CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	PUMPKIN PIE CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)
LEMON LIME TWIST CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)

Happy Monday everyone - a new card for a new week! Today I'm sharing a card that uses Jen T's fabulous layout over at Freshly Made Sketches:

I do love a good sketch and as soon as I saw this one I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it! Take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

My eye was immediately drawn to the vertical rectangle in Jen's sketch and I thought it would be perfect for the main image in the Friendly Foliage bundle. Once that decision had been made, everything else flowed from there! I chose some light and summery retired Floral Delightpapers for the background (perfect for the uplifting sentiment) and picked out the colours for both my stamping and layers that make up the rest of my card. I did tweak the sketch slightly (I hope Jen doesn't mind) as I wanted the circle to be my sentiment, so in order to keep things balanced I stamped a decorative line where the sketch sentiment banner would have been - you can see it more closely below:

I also added a little additional stamped detail to the inside of my card to finish:

This is a great layout that can be used in lots of ways - a keeper for sure that I will undoubtedly use again.

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Enjoy your day; I am off to my Pilates class and then home to tackle today's to-do list! I'll be back tomorrow with another project for this week's new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

FRIENDLY FOLIAGE BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (£36.75)	STYLISH SHAPES DIES (£28.00)	LEMON LOLLY A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)	VERY VANILLA A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)	DAFFODIL DELIGHT A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)	OLD OLIVE CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)
LEMON LOLLY CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	RAINBOW ADHESIVE-BACKED DOTS (£5.10)

Today it's Sunday and time for this week's new challenge over at The Paper Players! It's the turn of the fabulous Stef to host this week and she has my favourite, a sketch challenge, for us to work with:

I was tempted to go down the designer paper route with this sketch, but in the end decided upon some stencilling and another entry over at Just Us Girls and a final farewell to all 5 of the 2024-26 In Colours for my entry to the current challenge over at Colour Inkspiration. - take a look:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

2024-26 In Colo(u)rs - Now I could have chosen my favourite of this set of in-colours for my Colour Inkspiration entry (hands down it would have been Pretty In Pink and Friday's card was most definitely my homage to that), but instead I decided to create a card using all 5 colours. This doesn't always work with all 5 in colours, and options are often limited if there is no green (as in the 2025-27 set), however this collection works quite well together. If you haven't stocked up on inks, refills and cardstock by now this is your final reminder - some such as Petunia Pop are already discontinued here in the UK and they will all be gone for good by the end of this month!

Cheerful Flowers - My Kristina Werner Cheerful Flowers stencils by Concord & 9th were just what I needed for the main panel of my card, as they allowed me to use all 5 colours across the layers. I love the bold pattern of these stencils. I used a piece of Shy Shamrock for my border but decided to try something a little different for this card. I aligned the stencil to my stamped image, then used it with my embossing mat to emboss a continuation of the pattern onto the cardstock for some added visual interest:

It's quite difficult to see on the photographs, but it looks lovely in real life and I'm really please with how it came out.

Final Touches - A stacked sentiment from the Big Type Greetings dies, also my Christina Werner and Concord & 9th, along with a trio of matte enamel dots complete my card.

What will you create with this week's sketch? There really are so many possibilities!

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my Product and 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Before you reach for your ink and papers, check out what our amazing team has created to inspire you this week:

Enjoy your day; I am spending the morning in Milton Keynes for this month's Aqua Paddle with the hubby and his paddlers. Despite the lovely sunny weather of the last few days, I'm still not ready to venture out onto the water yet so am once again going to be the official event photographer. At least this month the paddlers shouldn't need their bobble hats like last month! Then I'm home to a late lunch and aiming to enjoy the rest of the day's sunshine. I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used: 

BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)	SHY SHAMROCK A4 CARDSTOCK (£11.20)	PRETTY IN PINK CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£7.65)	PEACH PIE CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£6.80)	SHY SHAMROCK CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£6.80)	SUMMER SPLASH CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£6.80)
BLENDING BRUSHES (£14.00)

Happy Saturday everyone! Today I'm sharing the card that I promised you yesterday! This one uses the layout over at Try A Sketch On Tuesday and goes down the middle column of Jolanda's TicTacToe Challenge board (diecut/dry emboss/layers)

I have been quite a few clean and simple cards later, so this one is something of a departure with lots of layers! It uses a new-to-me bundle called Forever Florals - take a look:

 Here's the low-down on today's card:

My lovely teamie Ann over at The Paper Players persuaded me I 'needed' this bundle but I didn't take much persuading: the dies are so pretty and I love scripted fonts in the stamp set. I wanted to use the floral frame as the top layer, so I tweaked the TSOT sketch slightly to make the base layer square in order to fit everything in! I added a white base embossed with the Soft Waves embossing folder, the for the next layer used the large round floral cluster die, with just the edges showing on each side. The next layer is a piece of Painted Illusions designer series paper; this was February's Product of the Month but is still available whilst stocks last - you can get a pack for just £5 when you place an order of £70 or more. I love the soft pinks and the ditsy floral design works well with the Forever Florals Dies. Next I added the rectangular floral diecut frame, with a sentiment label in the centre, embellished with another cluster of pink flowers: 

I also added in some shimmery ribbon and enamel dots and finished the card inside with the other half of that lovely sentiment and some leftover diecut pieces:

Isn't that just so pretty, even if I say so myself?! Not one for posting as there's too much dimension, but a special card nonetheless.

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Enjoy your day; the sun is shining here so I am typing this in between gardening and making the most of the good weather whilst we have it. I'll be back tomorrow with another project for our new challenge over at |the Paper Players. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

FOREVER FLORALS BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (£46.75)

PAINTED ILLUSIONS 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER (£5.00)

SOFT WAVES 3D EMBOSSING FOLDER (£7.17)

BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)

BLENDING BRUSHES (£14.00)

FLIRTY FLAMINGO CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)