On Friday I held my annual Holiday Catalogue Launch Party to kick of the start of the festive season. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed seeing and having hands-on exploration of new 2016 Holiday Catalogue products, participating in games, winning spot prizes, prize draws and more!

Fathers Day Cable Knit Chocolate Box

2016 Holiday Catalogue

Father's Day is next week! Have you created a card for your Dad? Here's the Father's Day card that everyone created at the Creative Stamping Workshops this month. It uses the awesome Always An Adventure stamp set and coordinating Outdoor Adventure Framelits Dies...

The Thoughtful Branches Bundle is only available for one more week! This gorgeous stamp set and die bundle is only around for August, and only while stocks last.

You may have seen on the Creative Stamping Facebook Page at the start of this month that I attended an awesome training day in Auckland. This is one of the benefits of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator; with the fantastic perks being... gathering with like minded people, learning new approaches to crafting and running a small business, sharing creative ideas and (of course) stamping and creating!

Welcome to the Around the World Stampin' Up! Blog Hop, featuring trees and flowers, in honour of this month's limited-time Thoughtful Branches Bundle. Around the World Stampin' Up! Blog Hop

This month, Stampin' Up! have released a limited-time stamp set and dies - it's the Thoughtful Branches Bundle. At first glance, this gorgeous stamp set and dies are a lovely way to add beautiful trees to your paper craft creations. But they are so much more! My favourite is using the tree leaves and coordinating dies to create hydrangeas. Here's a thank you card I created with this in mind and inspiration from Allison Okamitsu's gift tag...