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Festive Friday #FF0217 – Butterfly Flight

Thanks for joining us for this Festive Friday challenge. Have you ever played along with Festive Friday? There is a new challenge every second Friday. The challenge has an overall theme plus an inspiration list. You choose at least three of the inspiration elements and make a project. Your project can be a card, 3D item, or scrapbook layout and can reflect the main theme or just use the inspiration elements and have nothing to do with the theme. This is the inspiration list for this fortnight:

We always have to play with new stuff, this time I used the Copper Foil Rolls, Tile Garden dies and Thinking Of You stamp set which will be available on the 1st September.

I used orange, copper, strength sentiment (sort of) and banner from the inspo list.

If you would like to join the challenge, visit the Festive Friday Challenge page to add your link.
Hop around and see how the others used these inspo items.

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Holly Jolly Branches

Welcome to another Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational challenge. This month is a sketch challenge.

I am very busy designing cards for the next Avid Crafting Collective Tutorial Bundle. This one is a Christmas theme and uses the Holly Jolly Branches bundle and Whispering Woods DSP. I had to use these products for today’s card.

The sequins and embossing folders are also sneak peeks that will be available on the 1st September. If you would like more information about this tutorial bundle, click here.

Hop around and see what the others have done with this sketch Challenge.

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Holly Jolly Branches Tutorial Bundle

The Avid Crafting Collective is busy designing our next tutorial bundle. This is a Christmas theme bundle using Holly Jolly Branches which will be available on the 1st September. There are 9 projects in the tutorial – 6 standard cards and 3 fancy folds with video presentations. We will each do assembly presentations of all 9 projects on our own Facebook pages starting on the 5th October. No measurements will be given in these presentations – you will need the tutorial for the measurements. Once we have completed the presentations, video links will be added to the written tutorial.

We have a number of options for you to choose from for this tutorial:

1. The Ultimate Package: This comprises the Holly Jolly Branches bundle (stamp set and coordinating dies), the tutorial kit (all the card stock to complete the nine projects in the tutorial plus six 6 x 12″ pieces of the Whispering Woods DSP (there are only three double sided designs in this pack, so it is a full sheet of each design but cut in half for easier postage), a pack of the Adhesive-Backed Sparkle Sequins, 1.5 metres of White Textured ribbon and envelopes for all the cards) and the PDF tutorial with full instructions and both metric and imperial measurements and assembly videos for the cards.) The cost for all of this (including postage) is $150.00. You will also receive $10 off your next order.

2. The Kit Package: This option gives you the tutorial kit (all the card stock to complete the nine projects in the tutorial plus six 6 x 12″ pieces of the Whispering Woods DSP (there are only three double sided designs in this pack, so it is a full sheet of each design but cut in half for easier postage), a pack of the Adhesive-Backed Sparkle Sequins, 1.5 metres of White Textured ribbon and envelopes for all the cards) and the PDF tutorial with full instructions and both metric and imperial measurements and assembly videos for the cards.) The cost for all of this (including postage) is $90.00

The above two options are only available to Australian residents. If you love all the projects and would like to make more than one set of the cards, additional kits are available for purchase for the discounted price of $70.00.

3. The Virtual Package: If you live overseas or don’t want to purchase the products, you are also welcome to join us. This option gives you the PDF tutorial with full instructions and both metric and imperial measurements and assembly videos for the cards. The cost for this option is $35.00.

Click here to complete an online registration form. My last day for registering for one of the the kit options will be the 20th September. I will place my order on the 21st September to allow time for them to get to me, get cut and packaged and sent off for you so that you receive them before I start my daily presentations on the 5th October. I would suggest that you register ASAP to avoid disappointment if any of the products sell out.

These are the three cards that I have designed for this tutorial bundle

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Save the date for the Creativity Abounds Home For Christmas Stamp Camp

The Creativity Abounds team have been very busy planning our next Stamp Camp. This is happening on the 24th – 25th October in an exclusive Facebook group.

Joining the Stamp Camp is easy. Click here to go to my online store to order your products. This will place the order for the the Home For Christmas bundle, Timeless Christmas DSP and Sticker Sheet, Adhesive-Backed Christmas Berries and White (1cm) Textured Ribbon. (Remember to add the Product Of The Month for only $9.00) You will receive the kit which contains all the card stock to make the 13 projects in the tutorial at no cost – all you pay is $10.95 postage.

You will also need general stamping consumables – ink, adhesives, stamping tools which aren’t included in the kit.
Once you have placed your order directly with Stampin’ Up! for the products, I will send an invoice for the postage on the kit. I will post the kit containing the card stock to make all the projects in the tutorial bundle and send an invitation to an exclusive Facebook group. The tutorial bundle (which will have video links included for all the projects) will be uploaded to the Facebook group for you to download.

At the event, we will each demonstrate a bonus project using the suite. You get 26 projects (13 in the tutorial and 13 bonus ones from the blog hop) with video instructions or Facebook live demonstrations and lifetime access to the event page. You can see all the bonus projects that we will be making at the event in the blog hop that goes live on the 17th September .

If you already own the products (perhaps you are a demonstrator who purchased them on pre-order), you can still join the Stamp Camp. Simply place an order with me for $151 (equivalent value) and let me know that you have done the substitution for the Stamp Camp.

I hope that you will join us. The ladies in this group are extremely talented, and the people who joined our previous Stamp Camps have LOVED them! Click here to order your suite of products. I’ll get you kit into the post closer to the date of the Stamp Camp.
Remember that you can only order the suite from the 1st September. Be sure to order early to avoid disappointment if anything sells out.

Please contact me if you have any queries about this Stamp Camp

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Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Butterfly Flight

Welcome to our Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire your creativity.

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! The tutorial has full instructions and metric and imperial measurements for 13 different cards. The tutorial bundle can be purchased for $25. Please email me if you would like to purchase the bundle.

Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. This month’s bundle is a fun fold bundle. My card in the tutorial uses the Balloon Festoon bundle.

My project for this blog hop is the same fun fold, but using the Butterfly Flight bundle to decorate the card. It looks pretty when the card is closed

The wow happens when you open the card

I hot foiled the butterflies onto Vellum and Basic White with the Gold Stampin’ Hot Foil Rolls. I used the masks to colour the butterflies with Secret Sea and Peaceful Pine ink. I coloured on the reverse side of the vellum with the masks also flipped over.

Here is a sneak peek of all the projects in this month’s tutorial bundle.

Hop around and see the other folds in the tutorial bundle

Meet the design team:

Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Product Of The Month Blog Hop – Glow Of Harvest DSP with Butterfly Flight

Welcome to our Product Of The Month (POM) blog hop. If you haven’t heard of POM yet, this is what it is all about. Stampin’ Up! has started a new monthly promotion. Every month there will be a new product. To get your hands on the product, all you need to do is place an order. If your order is $125 (in Australia – the $ amount will differ depending on your market) then you can add the Product Of The Month to your order for only $9. We won’t know in advance what the POM will be. It could be a stamp set, embellishments, ribbon, dies or any other paper crafting product. No matter what it is, paying $9 is a bargain!

This month’s POM is a pack of DSP – Glow Of Harvest. The colours in this DSP are soft and pretty and the Very Vanilla background has a gorgeous shimmer. It is one sided, and is thicker than the double sided DSP. This will work really well with 3D projects. If you place an order with me and purchase the POM stamp set, I will send you a tutorial featuring projects using this stamp set. This is in addition to my usual thank you tutorial bundle.

The butterfly and leaves are from the Butterfly Flight bundle. I didn’t use the hot foil dies this time – I used the cutting dies and the masks. I have also added some sneak peeks from the new September – December catalogue. The embossing folder is called Softly Woven and the centre square is from a new set of dies called Tile Garden dies. These are amazing! The are the same as the Spotlight On Nature dies, but square.

Hop around and see what the others have done with this gorgeous paper.

Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Festive Friday #FF0216 – Fern & Flora

Thanks for joining us for this Festive Friday challenge. Have you ever played along with Festive Friday? There is a new challenge every second Friday. The challenge has an overall theme plus an inspiration list. You choose at least three of the inspiration elements and make a project. Your project can be a card, 3D item, or scrapbook layout and can reflect the main theme or just use the inspiration elements and have nothing to do with the theme. This is the inspiration list for this fortnight:

My plan was to use one of the new stamp set that is coming in the September – December catalogue, but when I had it in front of me, it wouldn’t work, so I had to pivot. This is the new vision:

The new Product Of The Month, Glow Of Harvest DSP was the perfect colour palate and I combined that with the Fern & Flora bundle. The inspo items in my card are neutral colours, texture (this is a sneak peek of a new embossing folder – Softly Woven that is coming in the next catalogue) and jungle leaves (ferns might be more rain forest bit I’m going with jungle!)

If you would like to join the challenge, visit the Festive Friday Challenge page to add your link.
Hop around and see how the others used these inspo items.

Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Touches Of Ink Blog Hop – Butterfly Flight

Thanks for joining us for this month’s Touches of Ink Blog Hop. This is a fun hop – it focuses on suites and/or bundles. We don’t discuss what we are going to be using for the hop which means that everyone will use something different, or we might all decide that we want to use the same products!

For today the bundle I have chosen is one of the Hot Foil bundles – Butterfly Flight.

This is a different bundle because it doesn’t have a stamp set in it. Instead it has a set of masks for colouring the butterflies. I LOVE colouring with masks, so this is perfect for me. You can either hot foil the outline of the butterflies and the add colour, or use the masks on their own. I did both!. I used Silver Stampin’ Hot Foil Rolls on Vellum (which didn’t photograph very well) for the butterfly outlines which I die cut. I used the masks to colour the butterflies and the stuck the die cut vellum on top of them.
If you would like to see how I did this, join me for my Facebook live at 10:00 on Sunday morning.

Hop over to Tatjana Niederberger to see what bundle she is using today
If you get lost along the way, here is the full link list

  1. derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
  2. iriStempelt – Iris Philipps
  3. TheStampingGreen – Sharni Green
  4. TraceOfCreativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
  5. gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger
  6. JazzleDazzleCraft – Janice Thomson
  7. Vickie Lou Designs – Vickie Littlewood
Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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We Fall In Colours

Thank you for joining us for another We Fall In Colours blog hop. Each month we are given three colours and use those colours (together with neutrals) to make our cards. The colours for this month are Crushed Curry, Pool Party and Calypso Coral.

I love the Balloon Festoon bundle and these colours worked together to make a happy card.

Next up is Thea Jendhoff. Head off to see how she has used these colours.

If you get lost along the way, here is the complete hop list
derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
iriStempelt – Iris Philipps
gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger
The Stamping Green – Sharni Green
Trace Of Creativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
TCTStempelreich – Thea Jendhoff
Basteltime mit Petra – Petra Kurth

Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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Funky Folds Blog Hop – Pretty Poinsettia

I am excited to be participating in this month’s funky folds blog hop. I LOVE fun folds and this is a group of like-minded paper crafters with same same passion for making cards with
funky folds.
Funky actually means “modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way” This hop features cards that are not the usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style.
All Blog Hops have an ‘anything goes’ theme using any type of ‘funky’ card fold.

I am part of a monthly collaboration called Fantastic Fun Folds. Each month we have a tutorial for one fancy fold card and 12 different samples using that tutorial. The tutorial for August was a”Triple Diamond Card”.

This is a “me” type of card – one that looks complicated but is a quite easy to make. The important thing is to measure (twice) and then score and cut accurately.
The card looks good from the back as well, when the writing panels are displayed.

I showed the assembly of this card in my Facebook live last Sunday. No measurements are given in the live. If you would like to subscribe to the tutorial bundle you can find all the information here.
The replay of the live is below

Product List

Do you love fun fold cards and want a new project to complete every month? Sign up for a Fantastic Fun Fold annual subscription. You can find all the details about this fun collaboration here. (Once you have filled in the subscription form I will send you an email. If it seems like you haven’t heard from me with a day please check your junk mail folder).
This month’s fold is a “Cascading Panels” card. I have made a one sided version of this card this card before, but I love the double sided one! – Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! The current joining offer is as follows: You pay $169.00 and receive $235 in products. This is $66 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. You also get to see new products before everyone else, me as your leader, and access to a tutorial bundle that I contribute to each month for added inspiration.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 17th September will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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