Welcome to Day 6 of The Stamping Lounge 12 Days of Christmas Challenge! You can follow along and see all the challenges on The Stamping Lounge Facebook page here. Today we’re heading into the night with a challenge inspired by Christmas after dark. Think twinkling stars, snowy landscapes, glowing windows and the magical feeling of Christmas Eve!For my project, I…
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12 Days of Christmas – Day 6: Christmas at Night
12 Days of Christmas – Day 4: Christmas Characters
Welcome to Day 4 of The Stamping Lounge 12 Days of Christmas Challenge! ✨Today’s challenge is all about Christmas Characters — think Santa, elves, snowmen, reindeer, angels and all those fun little characters that instantly make a project feel festive! For my project, I decided to have a little fun with the Stampin’ Up! Merry Mischief Bundle and created this…
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12 Days of Christmas with The Stamping Lounge | Day One: Merry & Bright
Welcome to Day One of The Stamping Lounge 12 Days of Christmas! 🎄Over the next 12 days at The Stamping Lounge, we’re bringing you a little Christmas crafting inspiration, a daily challenge and plenty of excuses to get into your craft room and play! You can follow along with each and every day of the challenge by going over to…
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Handmade Mini Album | A Creative Way to Use Your Stash
I love a project that gives me an excuse to pull out all those little treasures hiding in my craft room… and this handmade mini album definitely did that! This album was a special custom project I created for someone who wanted a handmade album for their daughter’s upcoming birthday. I made the entire album from scratch — from the…
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Double Flip Book Fun Fold Card – Use Your Stash!
Better late than never… right?! 😂I’m finally sharing another project I created during Session Two of the Online Stamping Retreat back in May 2026, where I joined a class with Gina Hawley.This project is called a Double Flip Book Fun Fold Card, and I absolutely loved creating it! I also created it using a suite of products that called out…
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Pop-Up Expanding Pocket Fun Fold Card – Stampin’ Up! Nature Walk Suite
Okay, so this card has been sitting in my “must share” pile since May… and I figured it was probably time I finally let it out into the wild! I created this Pop-Up Expanding Pocket Card during Session 2 of the Online Stamping Retreat, in a class with the lovely Kylie Bertucci, and it was such a fun project to…
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Ready, Steady, Craft! | Celebrating 2 Years of The Stamping Lounge
We recently celebrated a pretty special milestone at The Stamping Lounge — our 2nd birthday! … and of course, we couldn’t celebrate without getting crafty! For our birthday party, we brought back one of our favourite challenges — Ready, Steady, Craft! The concept is simple… we spin the crafting wheel and let fate decide what we have to create! For…
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Glow of Harvest & Hot Foil Magic
There’s something about new crafting products that makes me want to drop everything and play..and my latest live video on my Facebook & Youtube channel was the perfect excuse to do exactly that. For this video, I created two completely different cards using the gorgeous Glow of Harvest Specialty Designer Series Paper — August’s Stampin’ Up! Product of the Month…
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Two Cards, One Beautiful Stamp Set: Begonia Belle
There are some stamp sets that you look at and immediately start imagining all the cards you could make with them… and Begonia Belle was definitely one of those sets for me! This beautiful Stampin’ Up! stamp set was our July Product of the Month at Stampin’ Up!, and after playing with it, I can absolutely see why it was…
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Hot Foil Butterflies: A Little Touch of Gold ✨
There is something about hot foil that makes a handmade card feel just a little bit extra—and I am completely hooked!For this card, I played with the new Stampin’ Up! Hot Foil System, combining beautiful purple tones (that I generally don’t tend to gravitate towards) with the Garden Silhouette Hot Foil Die and Butterfly Flight Hot Foil Dies. I finished…
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Christmas in July Card Inspiration with The Stamping Lounge
What an incredible weekend we had celebrating Christmas in July at The Stamping Lounge!It was wonderful to spend time crafting with so many paper crafters from around the world as we created festive projects, shared inspiration and got a head start on our Christmas card making. There was plenty of creativity, lots of laughs and, of course, beautiful handmade cards….
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