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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.

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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 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 – Painted Illusions DSP

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 beautiful Designer Series Paper. I am using this DSP to make my swaps for OnStage next month. I am making little treat bags for a single Tim Tam biscuit. The design is fairly economical, I can get twelve bag fronts out of one sheet of DSP.

I made the bag in my Facebook live. You can watch the replay below. This bag is much easier to make using imperial measurements. I do have metric, but they are really awkward. I’m going to give the imperial measurements in this post. If you do want the metric, contact me and I will send them to you.

Measurements:
Bag back (card stock) 5 ½ x 4”.
Score the short side at 1 and 1 ½”.
Score the long side at ¼, 1 ¼, 4 ¼ and 5 ¼”.
Score the long side at ¾ and 4 ¾ up to the first score line.
Score the diagonal lines to make the triangles.
Bag base (card stock) 3 x 1 ½” scored at 1” on the short side.
DSP (Painted Illusions) 3 x 3”.

Hop around and see what other projects are being shared with us using 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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Card Swap Chain Blog Hop – Christmas Greenery

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 last one in this chain. The first card was created by Julia Quinn. I suggest you start at her blog and then follow through until you land back here to see how the cards changed.

Below are the pictures of the card closed and the writing panels on the back

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 is original form with just the decorating changing as it went along.
Hop around and see everyone’s version of this fun card.

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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 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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Creativity Abounds Modern Christmas Stamp Camp

Are you looking for inspiration to make your Christmas cards? If the answer is yes, this Stamp Camp is what you need. This time we are using the Modern Christmas suite which consists of only 3 colours – black, white and gold. Combine for beautiful, elegant cards!

These products are available tomorrow (3rd September). 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 Ornamental Christmas bundle, Modern Christmas DSP, Black & White & Gold Baker’s Twine, Large Gold Hoops and the Iridescent Foil Gems. 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 22nd .

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 set 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 3rd September. Be sure to order early to avoid disappointment if anything sells out.

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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Paper Crafting Blog Hop – Prairie Grass

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators. Fellow demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA and Australia are participating. We have a wide array of fun projects and design styles to share with you! This month’s theme is “Thinking Of You or Get Well Soon”

My card was inspired by one made by Jan Clothier and uses the new Online Exclusive Prairie Grass stamp set with bokeh style blending.

You can watch the replay of my Facebook live which will show you how I made this card below:

Hop around and see what the others are sharing with us today

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 #FF0187 – Notes & Totes

Thanks for joining us for the another 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.

The theme for this fortnight is World Chocolate Day – which has to be one of the best days EVER!! My card used brown, cream, foil and chocolate from the inspo list.

There isn’t much stamping in this card. The sentiment is from the Notes & Totes and goes extremely well with a slab of chocolate. If you would like to make your own chocolate card, join me on my Facebook page at 10:00 on Sunday morning and I will show you how to do it.

Hop around and see what other delicious inspiration is being shared 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 “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 Florals Surprise Pop Up Card

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.

When the card is closed it looks like a standard pretty card.

The WOW! happens when the card opens and a piece pops up!

I participate in a monthly fun fold tutorial group collaboration. Each month we have one fold with instructions and 12 different samples of that fold. This is this month’s fold.
You can find out more about the tutorial subscription here.

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

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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Save The Date For The Celebratory Sips Stamp Camp

The new Online Exclusive products will go live on the 6th May! The Creativity Abounds team have been very busy planning our next Stamp Camp. This is happening on the 28th – 29th June in an exclusive Facebook group.

Joining the Stamp Camp is easy. Click here to go to my online store to order your products (available from the 6th May). This will place the order for the Cheers & Sips bundle, Glass & Gardens Embossing Folders, Celebratory Sips DSP, Gold Striped Mesh Ribbon and the Holographic Resin Dots. 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 22nd .

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 set 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 6th May. Be sure to order early to avoid disappointment if anything sells out.

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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Botanical Textures Stamp Camp

We are busy designing our projects for the next Australian Crafting Collective Stamp Camp. This will be happening on the 29th March at 10:00 (Australian Daylight Savings Time).

This time we are using a new Online Exclusive Suite called Botanical Textures. This suite has two DSP packs in it, and we are using both! We are also adding the Elements Of Text stamp set into the mix. This one is already available for purchase. The Textured Notes bundle can be purchased from Tuesday (4th March).

We have a number of options for you to choose from to join the Stamp Camp:
1. The Ultimate Package: This comprises the Textured Notes bundle (stamp set and coordinating dies), the class kit (all the card stock to complete the nine projects in the tutorial plus four 6 x 12″ pieces of the Woven Teztures DSP, six 6 x 6″ pieces of the Botanical Textures DSP, a pack of the Neutral Matte Dots, one and a half metres of the White ribbon and envelopes for all the cards, the PDF tutorial with full instructions and metric and imperial measurements, and access to the Facebook page where we will show you how to assemble the cards. The cost for all of this (including postage) is $155.00.
You will also receive $10 off your next order.
2. The kit package: This option gives you the class kit (all the card stock to complete the nine projects in the tutorial plus four 6 x 12″ pieces of the Woven Teztures DSP, six 6 x 6″ pieces of the Botanical Textures DSP, a pack of the Neutral Matte Dots, one and a half metres of the White ribbon and envelopes for all the cards, the PDF tutorial with full instructions and metric and imperial measurements, and access to the Facebook page where we will show you how to assemble the cards. The cost for all of this (including postage) is $85.00
The above options are only available to Australian residents. If you love all the projects and would like to make more than 1 set of the cards, additional kits are available for purchase for the discounted price of $60.00
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 metric and imperial measurements, and access to the Facebook page where we will show you how to assemble the cards. The cost for this option is $35.00

Click here to complete an online registration form. My last day for ordering products will be the 17th March to allow time for them to get to me, get cut and packaged and sent off for you so that you receive them before the Stamp Camp. I would suggest that you register ASAP to avoid disappointment if any of the products sell out.
Looking forward to you joining us for this amazing event

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Festive Friday #0178 – Hearts & Hugs

Thanks for joining us for the another 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.

The theme for this week is National Pink Shirt Day which represents anti-bullying.
My card is a fun fold card. The inspo items I used are pink, glossy dots, words of kindnesws, hugs and of course fun fold. When it is closed it looks like a standard card

When it opens it has a panel inside which flaps up to reveal the writing insert.

Join me for my Facebook live at 10:00 on Sunday morning and I’ll show you how to make this style cards.

Hop around and see what the others used for their inspiration

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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