Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop - Use Your Stash!






Welcomer to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop for March 2026. This is our final month of CAS(e)ing a team member to celebrate 5 years of the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop. Below is an image of the team and where they live around the globe.




I am so excited to be CAS(e)ing Kim Gibbons Fee this month. I am a huge fan of her beautiful projects and was delighted to look at her projects again to choose something to CASe. I started with the Bundle that I wanted to use from my stash and decided to choose something that I felt I had not used nearly enough.  I chose the Impressions Abloom Bundle that is currently on the Last Chance List. I love these blooms so much  i then set about to find the perfect project to CASe.




This gorgeous card popped up in her IG feed and I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I decided it was the one! Such great colours and  bright happy feel to it. I have kept the green card base and leaves in Garden Green but switched up the rest of my card.




Here is my project using Petunia Pop and Berry Burst for the blooms. Petunia Pop is one of my favourite colours. I will be sad to see it go along with all the other beautiful 2024-2026 In Colours. The blooms are larger than the one's in Kim's card, but I wanted to make the blooms in the Impressions Abloom work.




My card base is Garden Green and the Embossed mat layer is also Garden Green. I love the freshness of this colour. I embossed the mat layer using the Lovely Stripes Embossing Folder. This Embossing Folder is a great addition to your stash as it is a fun design that will work with many projects.






I stamped the three blooms in Berry Burst with Darling Duckling centres on a piece of Basic White card stock as the background layer. Then stamped three blooms in Petunia Pop with Darling Duckling Centres as well as six leaves in Garden Green and die cut them using the coordinating Dies. I arranged them on tp of the Berry Burst blooms and adhered them using Dimensionals and glue.





I tied a length of Linen Thread in a double bow and adhered it between the blooms using a Dimensional. I stamped the sentiment  on a piece of Garden Green card stock in Versamark™ ink, sprinkled it with white embossing powder and set with the Heat Tool. I adhered this using DImensionals on top of the Linen Thread. I adhered six of the Petunia Pop Flat Pearls around the blooms as Kim had in her project.

Up next is the wonderful Rochelle Laird-Smith. 
Click on the next button below to see the amazing projects from the rest of the crew.




Jan Clothier - NZ

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Marga Bultena - DE

Ximena Morales - DE

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Kelly Taranto - US

Bree Renwick - US

Cheryl Hamilton - US



Thanks for stopping by. I hope you head to Kim Gibbons Fee's socials to see her incredible projects!
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Colour INKspiration #205



Hello and welcome to Colour INKspiration #205. 

This challenges beautiful floral inspiration image was chosen by crew member Jan Clothier. 





I wanted to honour this gorgeous photo and use a floral image in my card. The closest stamp set to the stock bloom was in the 2026 Virtual Card Making Retreat stamp set. The flowers come together so easily and pack a punch in the vibrant challenge colours.



My card base and mat layer are both Basic White.  I then cut two lengths of the Berry Burst Two-Tone card stock that was left over in my Virtual Retreat Box to the same length as the base of the mat layer. I tore the top of each strip of Berry Burst to expose the white core before gluing to the base of the mat embossed layer. Then gluing the mat layer to the card base.





I die cut the label in Basic White from the coordinating Dies and then stamped the worded stamp in stamped off Basic Gray ink. Covering the whole of the label. I stamped the flowers in Berry Burst and the stem and leaves in Granny Apple Green ink on Basic White card stock. Cutting them with the coordinating dies.

I adhered the label to the right side of the card using Dimensionals. I adhered the flowers and stems and leaves with Dimensionals allowing the central bloom to be at the front of the ones at the side.

I stamped the striped stamp on a piece of Basic White card stock, trimmed it and cut one end in a banner. I adhered this underneath the bloom label using Dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in Basic Gray on Basic White card stock and trimmed with the Paper Trimmer. I tired a length of Linen Thread in a bow and adhered it to the back of the sentiment using Tear n' Tape before adhering both to the bottom of the blooms and the top of the striped strip. 

I then coloured three of the white Moody Palette Glossy Dots using the light Berry Burst Blend. Allowing them to dry before adhering them around the blooms.

I love how easily this card came together and was happy to use the products I had left over from the Virtual Card Making Retreat. I enjoyed the Virtual Retreat immensely as I learned some wonderful new techniques and the products were gorgeous.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will join in on this challenge. I hope you will look at all the projects from the Colour INKspiration Crew in the #CI205 Album on our Facebook page. There are some amazing and inspirational projects there.

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Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Customer Thank You Card



Hello friends! 


Just quickly sharing a card today that I made for a customer thank you card. I have used products from the beautiful Lovely Blossoms Suite Collection. These products are available as an Online Exclusive. 




The colour palette is Cloud Cover and Secret Sea. I love these colours at the moment and I am glad they are here for another year! 

The card base is Cloud Cover. I have used the die from the Lovely Arrangements dies to cut out the small flowers on the two edges of the Cloud Cover Mat layer before glueing this to the card base. The next layer is Cloud Cover embossed with the Lovely Stripes 3D Embossing Folder.I am in love with this Embossing Folder as it will go with any project you create!  I popped this layer up with Dimensional's.

I stamped the leaves and blooms in Secret Sea on Basic White card stock before Die cutting them using the coordinating dies. The flowers were coloured using Cloud Cover ink and a Blending Brush. I added the colour gently to the blooms. I also die cut leaves in Secret Sea card stock. I arranged them all on the card front and adhered with Dimensional's and glue.

The sentiment was stamped in Secret Sea ink on Basic White card stock. Die cut with the coordinating die. I tied a length of the Cloud Cover Ribbon in a bow and adhered to the card front using glue before adhering the sentiment on top using Dimensional's. Five of the Cloud Cover Moody Palette Glossy Dots were arranged around the blooms to finish my card.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are inspired to create too.







 

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