Hop Abroad Instagram Hop - April 2026

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our April 2026 Instagram Hop.
Each month, we come together with a fun and inspiring new theme, and for this month’s hop we are chasing the catalogue.
For this project, I chose to feature an image from page 41 of the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue 2025–2026. As this catalogue will soon be retiring, it felt like the perfect time to revisit some of its beautiful inspiration and give it one more moment to shine.

Here is my version –
Pop over to my Instagram — @maheswarirajaguru — and check out the amazing projects created by the rest of the design team!

I hope you enjoy seeing how I was inspired by this page, and that it encourages you to take another look through the catalogue before it retires.
I used Blackberry Bliss as my Base Card and with the different colours to decorate the flowers. I used Florals In Bloom Suite.

I used Blackberry Bliss, Petal Pink. Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Calypso Coral and Highland Heather for this card

COLOUR PALETTE

Floral In Bloom Suite

Procedure:

Stamp the background using the tone and tone ink Blackkberry Ink and add clear embossing powder to create the background
Splatter gold embossing powder to the background to create splattering technique.
Attach the different shades of colours using glue and Dimensional.