Fresh Starts & Creative Beginnings | Stamping Sunday Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog! If you’re new here, my name is Ruth, and I live in Wales, UK. You may also know me on social media as Artful Stampin. Today I’m delighted to be taking part in the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop, and we’re kicking off the new year with a beautiful theme:

Fresh Starts & Creative Beginnings

Exciting News from the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop Team

When this theme was chosen a few weeks ago, we didn’t yet know some lovely news that I can now share with you. The Stamping Sunday Blog Hop team is merging with the Creation Station Team!

From next month, we’ll be revealing our new name and logo, but for now, you can enjoy hopping around to discover even more creative inspiration using Stampin’ Up! products from a group of incredibly talented demonstrators.

Faith Journalling with Stampin’ Up! Stamps and Ink

For this month’s project, I decided to put stamps and ink to paper and create a set of personal faith journalling prompts. I designed the prompts with the help of ChatGPT and printed them onto Stampin’ Up! Basic White cardstock. Then I set about doing some Collage Style stamping.

To make them practical as well as pretty, I formatted the document so that four pages printed on one A4 sheet, making them the perfect size for my Personal Filofax.

Creative Stationery for Journals, Diaries & Desk Calendars

The gorgeous Stampin’ Up! stamps and inks were ideal for decorating the prompts, with a few designs feeling subtly seasonal. I absolutely loved how they turned out.  If you would like to print your own here is the link for A4 , and the link for 8.5x11 - on the print settings, set it to print 4 to a page.

Whether you’re looking for:

• Journalling prompts

• Handmade stationery ideas

• Desk calendar decorations

• Diary or menu card designs

there are so many Stampin’ Up! stamp sets and colour combinations to choose from, allowing you to create stationery that’s completely unique and personal.

Here is the video of my process

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Please go and have a look at the other wonderful creations provided by this month's hoppers

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here

B O O K   on to my online classes here

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there on the left.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

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F A C E B O O K     A R T F U L S T A M P I N   S P A C E

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J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases.

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Suite on You - Sweet Symmetry

Hi there and welcome to the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop, this month we are focusing on the Suites of products that Stampin' Up! create to make it easier to choose what we love.

I have chosen to focus on 

Sweet Symmetry 

it contains some very pretty papers, with patterns in the style of folk art, also an extremely versatile stamp set and punch.

I decided to create 3 cards.

The first one is made with just ink, card and paper, by making use of the symmetrical patterns in the stamp set, it was so easy to create this pattern using Calypso Coral, Polished Pink, Bumblebee and Night of Navy.

In the second card I wanted to use a piece of the beautiful paper, but also wanted to show off some of the stamps by using Night of Navy on the delicately patterned yellow paper.  By mounting it onto the matching card stock it really shows it off.

For the final card I wanted to show off the colourful paper and the leaf punch.

To watch my process here is a video

                                

Do check out the other bloggers and their wonderful creations

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there on the left.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

F A C E B O O K    P A G E

F A C E B O O K     A R T F U L S T A M P I N   S P A C E

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I N S T A G R A M 

P I N T E R E S T

J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases.

Stampin Sunday Blog Hop - Peaceful Poppies Suite

Welcome to this week's Stampin Sunday Blog Hop.  We are featuring products from the Peaceful Poppies Suite.  It has already proved popular amongst demonstrators and customers, and I have found the Painted Poppies stamps to be really easy to use, especially loving the splatters.

I created 2 sheets of one sheet wonders.  The first I used to create this bag.

The other sheet was used to make these cards, the first one would be easy to make by a beginner crafter. It shows off  the stamping and has a minimal amount of extra embellishments, I particularly liked these as they were FREE, during Saleabration this lovely pack of embellishments can be yours after a qualifying purchase.

Using the die set, the stamped poppies can be cut out, and other shapes can be cut to embellish your card.  Do you spot the leaf wth the white detail?  That leaf is actually from the Peaceful Poppies Elements kit, it's perfect for people who don't have a die cutting machine as there are lots of precut elements that can be popped out.  Some are white embossing on watercolour paper and can be coloured.  The leaf below was inked with Blackberry Bliss to match the cardstock,

This card shows off a few more of the flowers from the elements kit.

Here is a video of my process

Enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed visiting my blog, please check out the other bloggers here

To view the catalogue click here

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here 

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

F A C E B O O K    P A G E

F A C E B O O K     A R T F U L S T A M P I N   S P A C E

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I N S T A G R A M 

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J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases.

{Stamping Florals and Geometricals on a One Sheet Wonder}

I've been having lots of fun over on YouTube doing what is called "lives".  It's been really fun getting to know viewers from all around the world as they're able to comment and ask questions as I stamp.  If you use YouTube please subscribe to my channel, and click the bell button to get notifications on your device of when I go "live".

Here is a long video of a process that took about an hour, I ended up stamping 3 sheets and making 8 cards from them.

 STAMPS USED: First Frost, Painted Glass, Lilypad Lake, Beautiful Friendship, Waterfront (splatters)
 COLOURS USED: Sea Side Spray, Purple Posy, Pretty Peacock, Blueberry Bushel, Granny Apple Green, Mint Macaron   

If you haven't got time to watch the long version please watch the shorter version below.

Here are the cards I ended up making.

I thought you might like to see the full sheet before I cut it up.

My usual card size is A6, however because I wanted to show off this stamping I made 2 A5 cards.

Hope you enjoyed looking at these.  If you have been inspired by what you see and would like to share your creations with others then please join my Facebook group Artful Stampin Space here.

Don't forget, if you would like a copy of the new Autumn/Winter catalogue you can drop me a line and I'll pop one in the post to you.  If you can't wait that long, you can see it here.

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here 

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

F A C E B O O K 

Y O U T U B E

T W I T T E R 

I N S T A G R A M 

P E R I S C O P E 

J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases  

{One Sheet Wonder - Masked Circles}

The idea for this has been floating around in my head for a while.

It finally decided to burst out when I was meant to be going to bed!

Anyway, the results were very pleasing, and after you see the video I'm sure you will be inspired to think about how else you can use this technique with stamps you may have.

The only additional items you need are some sticky notes and something to cut out a circle with, scissors will suffice if you don't have a punch or dies.

This stamp set is particularly helpful for this effect

Here is the sheet before I cut it up.

Then the cards that were made from it.

I had another play on a YouTube live, here is that video.

Don't forget, if you would like a copy of the new Autumn/Winter catalogue you can drop me a line and I'll pop one in the post to you.  If you can't wait that long, you can see it here.

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here 

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

F A C E B O O K 

Y O U T U B E

T W I T T E R 

I N S T A G R A M 

P E R I S C O P E 

J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases  

{OSWW tutorial with Magnolia Blooms and Very Versailles Stampin Up sets}

Have you noticed a pattern?  I used this gorgeous Magnolia stamp last week.  I just love it, and I'm only just getting started, I've not even had a go colouring it yet!

Anyway, here I've paired it up with the divinely gorgeous Very Versailles.

I used Seaside Spray cardstock with Black ink and Seaside Spray ink.

Yes, just 2 colours.

Enjoy the video!

The current catalogue is available now and can be viewed here

S H O P for Stampin' Up! products here 

To ensure you get a free gift for shopping with 

Ruth Trice, Independent Stampin' Up! Demontrator

please remember to use the following hostess code when spending up to £149.99, it's on the top right hand side of my blog.  If you are viewing on your mobile then switch to web view and it will be there.

To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

and to see more inspiration from  

UK Independent Stampin Up demonstrator Ruth Trice please go here

F A C E B O O K 

Y O U T U B E

T W I T T E R 

I N S T A G R A M 

P E R I S C O P E 

J O I N For free products and discounts on further purchases  

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