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Card Swap Chain – Garden Silhouette

We have recently finished another round of the “Card Swap Chain”. It is a card version of what is called “Chinese Whispers” in Australia (we called it “Broken Telephone” in South Africa). Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE-d (Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit) the card and send their version on to the next person. The card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. We are now doing a series of blog hops for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

My card is the final one of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Sharni Green. I suggest starting at Sharni’s post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

I hope that you can see where my thoughts were going while I was CASE-ing Heather’s card. I saw a bust background with two raised images in the background that were a different colour.

Sometimes the cards change so much that if you only saw the first and the last card, you wouldn’t think that they are on the same chain. This is one of those chains. Hop through the posts and see how the changes happened.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Product Of The Month Blog Hop – Shining Stars

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 an awesome die set – 23 star dies for just $9 is a bargain! If you place an order with me and purchase the POM stamp set, I will send you a tutorial featuring projects using these dies. This is in addition to my usual thank you tutorial bundle. My card is a bright and happy one.

I’m wondering what this card will look like in Very Vanilla and gold or copper. I’m think extremely elegant. What do you think – would you like to see that version of this card?

Hop around and see how the others have used this gorgeous paper.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Touches Of Ink Blog Hop – Christmas Mice

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!

One of my friends has just gotten engaged. She is a primary school teacher, so she likes cute cards. I decided to use the Christmas Mice bundle for a card that has nothing to do with Christmas.

There is lots of significance in the card (if you know the lovely couple). When he proposed, she was wearing a dress with blue flowers on it – card had to be blue. She is a blonde lady and he has red hair which is why the mice are the colours that they are. My husband says that I will need to explain the card to them as they might not realise all the things i built into it!
Below is the replay of my Facebook live where I made this card.

Next up is Janice Thompson. Hop over to her blog to what bundles the others are sharing with us today
If you get lost, here is the complete link list:
derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
Iristempelt – Iris Philipps
gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger
TraceOfCreativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
JazzleDazzleCraft with Janice – Janice Thomson
Jungle Cards – Liane Gorny
Vickie Lou Designs – Vickie Littlewood

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Card Swap Chain – Cutest Crew

We have recently finished another round of the “Card Swap Chain”. It is a card version of what is called “Chinese Whispers” in Australia (we called it “Broken Telephone” in South Africa). Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE-d (Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit) the card and send their version on to the next person. The card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. We are now doing a series of blog hops for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

Today’s post is showing my chain. This was my starting card.

Sometimes the cards change so much that if you only saw the first and the last card, you wouldn’t think that they are on the same chain. This was one of those chains. Up until the third round, there were connections to my card, and then the focus shifted completely. If you paced my card and Sharni’s round 10 card next to each other, you wouldn’t know that they were in the same chain.

Hop around and see how this chain evolved.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Festive Friday #0220 – Notes Of Collage

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:

Nothing Halloween about my card, but some sneak peeks of new stuff that will be available in November.

The inspo items I have used are black, green, mesh and die cuts. The mesh, leaves and background stamps are from the Notes Of Collage bundle which will be available in November.

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.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Funky Folds Blog Hop _ Holly Jolly Branches Expanding Bridge Fold Card

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.

The card I am sharing today is an Expanding Bridge Fold Card. This is one of the cards I have designed for the Avid Crafting Collective Holly Jolly Branches Tutorial Bundle.

I did a Facebook live showing the assembly of this card. If you would like to purchase this tutorial bundle, you can find the details here. You can watch the assembly video below.

Hop around and see what other funky folds are being shared with us today.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Card Swap Chain – Framed Violets

We have recently finished another round of the “Card Swap Chain”. It is a card version of what is called “Chinese Whispers” in Australia (we called it “Broken Telephone” in South Africa). Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE-d (Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit) the card and send their version on to the next person. The card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. We are now doing a series of blog hops for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

My card is at round 6 of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Heather McCarthy. I suggest starting at Heather’s post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

Sometimes the cards change so much that if you only saw the first and the last card, you wouldn’t think that they are on the same chain. It was Heather’s first time swapping with us, and she did tell me that she was surprised with the final card. After my card, the focus shifted to an image inside a frame and stopped connecting what was in the frame with the background stamping.

Hop around and see how this chain evolved.

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Let’s Craft Together – Box Of Joy

Thank you for joining us for the Let’s Craft Together blog hop. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting. Each month one of us sets a challenge that we use for the blog hop. This month’s challenge is a “Treat Packaging” challenge and was set by me.

My thought was that with Halloween coming up at the end of the month, this was a good theme for this hop. Of course, everyone LOVES treats, so don’t only use these ideas for Halloween.

Having been severely limited with me knee for the past seven weeks, I decided to do some really easy treat boxes

I used the Box Of Joy dies for the boxes with the Glow Of Harvest DSP. The DSP was the August Product Of The Month and is still available for $9 when you place an order for $125. This paper is thicker than the standard DSP so works wonderfully for these boxes. The boxes are quite big so will hold a substantial amount of small treats.

Hop around and see what other ideas are being shared with us today

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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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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We Fall In Colours – Radiant Sunflowers

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 Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie and Shaded Spruce.

I have started a new venture with Diane Evens from Canada. We are crafting together to create a tutorial kit that you will receive (at no cost) as a thank you gift for orders over $75.00. This month’s tutorial uses the Radiant Sunflowers bundle. I have been playing with this bundle, so of course it is what I have used for today’s card.

One of my friends gave my a very lovely compliment when she saw the card – she was wondering how i managed to get the different colours onto the vases. It is very simple – I coloured them with with my Shaded Sprice Stampin’ Blends.

Hop on over to Sharni Green to see how she used these colours
Here is the complete hop listing in case you get lost along the way

  1. derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
  2. iriStempelt – Iris Philipps
  3. TraceOfCreativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
  4. The Stamping Green – Sharni Green
  5. herz-CHreaTive – Christine Tenk
  6. gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger 
  7. Basteltime mit Petra – Petra Kurth
  8. 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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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Card Swap Chain Blog Hop – Boutique Blossoms

We have recently finished another round of the “Card Swap Chain”. It is a card version of what is called “Chinese Whispers” in Australia (we called it “Broken Telephone” in South Africa). Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE-d (Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit) the card and send their version on to the next person. The card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. We are now doing a series of blog hops for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

My card is at round 4 of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Ros Davidson. I suggest starting at Ros’ post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

Sometimes the cards change so much that if you only saw the first and the last card, you wouldn’t think that they are on the same chain. This one kept its original form with just the decoration of the card changing.

Hop around to see the complete chain.

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 “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. 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! There is an amazing current joining offer that runs from 6th – 31st October: You pay $175.00 and receive $240 in products. This is $65 in free goodies and an ongoing discount on all your future purchases. For this offer, you will receive an additional $95 in Stampin’ Rewards that you can use for purchases within the next three months. You also get 15-20% off your orders, the opportunity 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 15th October 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:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial

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