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Card Swap Chain – Balloon Festoon

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 3 (close to the beginning this time) of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Danielle Edwards. I suggest starting at Nancy’s post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

Of course I had to change the shape of the split focal point. I felt like I was channeling my inner Ros when I was inking all the background balloons!

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 started with (what I thought was) an unusual split focal point. At round 5 the focus changed to the background rather than the foreground of the card.

Hop around see how 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 “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 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:

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Product Of The Month Blog Hop – Luxe Foliage Specialty DSP with Pretty Poinsettia

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 – Luxe Foliage. The colours in this DSP are rich and vibrant with beautiful gold designs. If you place an order with me and purchase the POM stamp set, I will send you a tutorial featuring projects using this DSP. This is in addition to my usual thank you tutorial bundle.

I thought that the leafy paper went well with the poinsettias. I wasn’t sure how Crumb Cake poinsettias would look, but I was happy with them once they were on the 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 “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 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:

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Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Home For Christmas

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 a tutorial bundle FREE! The tutorial has full instructions and metric and imperial measurements for 13 different “Life Events” projects. There are only three bundles a year that you cannot get free with an order or purchase and those are the Stamp Camp bundles. These are exclusively available to Stamp Camp participants. Details of how to join the Stamp Camp can be found here.
I do have an alternative tutorial bundle for orders placed between the 17th September and the 15th October.

The blog hop this month is to show the bonus projects that we will be demonstrating in the Stamp Camp. There are 13 bonus projects as well as the 13 (make ‘n take) projects in the tutorial bundle! This is a really fun collection of products that will give you a good selection of Christmas cards. My card is an X-mas fun fold:

There is lots of time to place your order and receive your products and Make ‘n Take kit before the Stamp camp. Click here to be directed to my online store to purchase your products. You will also need to have general stamping supplies and inks and blends on hand for your Make & Takes.

Here is a sneak peek of the projects in the tutorial bundle. As this is a bundle for the Stamp Camp, it has the measurements in metric and imperial, written instruction and video links for assembling the Make ‘n Takes.

This is my card that you will be one of your Make & Takes

Meet the design team and then hop around to see the projects that they will be presenting at the Stamp Camp

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 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:

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Card Swap Chain Blog Hop – Notes Of Collage

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 9 (second last card) of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Nancy Hoetker. I suggest starting at Nancy’s post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

I had to play with (what was) new stuff when I was making the cards. The background leaves are the Botanical Glow Hot Foiling bundle. The other leaves and the DSP is from the products that we could purchase for Creativity Now. I’m sure they will be available for purchase in the next couple of months.

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 chain started out as a Z-fold and stayed that throughout the chain with just the shape on the front and the decoration changing.

Hop around to see how the card evolved.

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 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:

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Festive Friday #FF0218 – Elegantly Wrapped

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:

This is an easy theme as anything goes for World Card Making day.

The inspo item that I used are Jewel Colours (I was trying for ruby, sapphire and amber), Rhinestones (that I coloured to match the jewel colours) and Special Day Sentiment. The sentiment was done using the left over hot foil sheet and the Reverse Hot Foil Die

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 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:

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Touches Of Ink – Holly Jolly Branches

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!

I fell and cracked my knee cap a few weeks ago, so everything has been hard and I haven’t been very creative for the past little while. For today’s hop I decided that I would share a card that I made3 for my upcoming tutorial bundle. We are using the Holly Jolly Branches for this tutorial. This is one of my cards in this tutorial

The Whispering Woods DSP is a match made in heaven with this bundle. If you like this card and would like the tutorial bundle, click here for all the information about it.

Next up is Sharni Green. Hop over to see what bundle she has used for this hop.
Below is the full link list if you get lost along the way

  1. derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
  2. iriStempelt – Iris Philipps
  3. gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger
  4. TraceOfCreativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
  5. The Stamping Green – Sharni Green
  6. JazzleDazzleCraft with Janice – Janice Thomson
  7. 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 “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 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:

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We Fall In Colours – Graceful Evergreen Deer

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 Blackberry Bliss, Peaceful Pine and Hydrangea Hue.

The Christmas tree is from the Graceful Evergreen Deer stamp set. The deer aren’t in the stamp set. They are in the dies and can be hot foiled and then die cut. There are two different sized beautiful Christmas trees in the stamp set.

Next up is Thea Jendhoff. Hop over to her blog to see how she has used these colours.

Here is the full hop list:

  1. derdiedasKleine bastelt – Simone Kleine
  2. IriStempelt – Iris Philipps
  3. gittisgiftcorner – Tatjana Niederberger
  4. The Stamping Green – Sharni Green
  5. Trace Of Creativity – Tracy Held <== You are here
  6. tctstempelreich  – Thea Jendhoff
  7. Basteltime mit Petra – Petra Kurth 
  8. Stempelbande – Janine Krüger
  9. 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 “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 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:

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Let’s Craft Together – Holly Jolly Branches

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 fun fold birthday card and was set by Sharni Green.

Today I am CASE-ing the new catalogue. I paged through the catalogue a few times, and eventually decided on something that is not my usual CASE. I have taken the scrapbook layout on page 35 and made it into a card!

I have been working a lot with the Holly Jolly Branches bundle and the Whispering Woods DSP (which although not together in the catalogue are a perfect team) for the Avid Crafting Collective tutorial bundle. I of course, found those products in my hand to make my card. I hope that you can see the similarities between my card and the picture.

If this combination of products is talking to you and you would like the tutorial, you can find all the information about it here.

Hop around and see how the catalogue inspired the others

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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 “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 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:

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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 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:

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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 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:

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