Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop

Welcome to the August 2023 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

We all love new stuff. I HAD to have a play with my new Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. I managed to use five of the six colours – I couldn’t find a place for Garden Green.

I added some of the flowers to the insert to have the inside and outside matching.

The Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks are available in the upcoming September – December mini catalogue. You can order them on the 6th September.

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Let’s Craft Together Black & White Challenge – Sentimental Park

Thank you for joining us for our Let’s Craft Together blog hop. We are a quartet 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 we have a challenge that we use for the blog hop. This month’s challenge is:

I found this challenge rather difficult as I wanted to add a pop of colour or some bling (metallics). After a lot of thinking, this is my card:

I find the Sentimental Park and Petal Park are completely linked together, and I can’t use one without using the other as well. I heat embossed with white embossing powder on the Basic Black card stock and stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink on the white. Some stamping on the insert and my card was done!

You can click here to purchase all the products used to make this card at my online store. This will add all the products to your cart, you can remove any that you don’t want to purchase. Please use the host code on the side of my blog if you order total is under $250.00.

Hop around and see the black and white designs that the others have created.

Product List
Heat Tool
[129056]
$54.00

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop Inked & Tiled

Welcome to the May 2023 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

My card was inspired by one I saw on Facebook. In true Facebook fashion, when I went back to try and find it, I couldn’t find the photo again! If you recognise the card, please let me know so that I can give them credit for the inspiration.

You can click here to purchase all the products used to make this card at my online store. This will add all the products to your cart, you can remove any that you don’t want to purchase. Please use the host code on the side of my blog if you order total is under $250.00.

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – In Color Cheerful Daisies

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

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! This month’s tutorial bundle showcases the 2023-2025 In Colors. I have chosen to use the Cheerful Daisies bundle and all 5 of the new In Colors. If you love this suite and want 26 ideas to use it, you will want to join our Fresh As A Daisy Stamp Camp. You can find all the information about the Stamp Camp here.
Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. This is my alternative card:

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

You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list at the end of this post to help you move around all the different blogs and see all the amazing projects that will be demonstrated at the Stamp Camp. We all have our country listed – so if you are looking for a demonstrator in your country, these demonstrators would love to look after you with your Stampin’ Up!® shopping or if you would like to join our Stampin’ Up!® teams.

Meet the design team:

You can click here to purchase all the products used to make this card at my online store. This will add all the products to your cart, you can remove any that you don’t want to purchase. Please use the host code on the side of my blog if you order total is under $250.00.

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Dainty Delight Colour Challenge

I haven’t done the Colour INKspiration challenge for a while. I decided to participate in this one. This is the picture for the challenge:

I used Polished Pink for my retiring In Color.

I used the Artisan Additions dies (which is retiring and is currently discounted to $30) for the detail in the corners with the Dainty Delight Bundle. Dainty Delight is carrying over to the new catalogue, but won’t be at the discounted bundle price, to take advantage of the reduced price, place your order for the bundle before 2nd May.
You can click here to purchase all the products used to make this card at my online store. This will add all the products to your cart, you can remove any that you don’t want to purchase. Please use the host code on the side of my blog if you order total is under $250.00.

I have also done the same card using a different colour combination

You can watch the replay of my Facebook live for full instructions on how I made this card

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Nature’s Harvest

Welcome to the February 2023 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

I love pinks, so that was an easy combination for me to work with. I used all 6 colours, and florals, so I was inspired by the complete picture (although my flowers are different)!

I have recently found my masks, and find that I am loving using them

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Thanks A Bunch

Welcome to the January 2023 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

I knew what stamp set I wanted to use, (I am currently obsessed with carrots) but I wasn’t sure how all the colours would come together. In the end I landed up using all 6 colours!

This is a VW fold card, so it opens out like this:

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Oceanfront

Welcome to the December 2022 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

I used both the picture and the colours for my card, although I didn’t use all the colours

Is there something that you don’t recognise in this card? I have a sneak peek on one of the dies that is coming in the new mini catalogue. It looks like a gate or fence in this card, but it can also be used as a bridge and is from the Playing In The Rain dies which is from the Rain Or Shine suite

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

Product List
Chic Dies
[158815]
$65.00
Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad
Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad
[126951]
$11.50

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. This month’s fold is a Hexagon Box card. I hadn’t made this fold before, and had a heap of fun learning how to do it. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the 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 your order is under $250, please use the host code ZSQ9YFDV at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! There is a fantastic joining offer for October to celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35 year anniversary – You can either choose to get 35% off the usual sign up price. You pay $109.85 and can choose $235.00 worth of products in your starter kit. This is a saving of $125.15 OR pay the usual $169.00 and receive 35% more in your started kit i.e. $317.25 worth of products which is $148.25 FREE!
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 26TH October 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Winter Meadow suite. For details of how to join the Winter Meadow Stamp Camp click here. Below is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Happiness Abounds

Welcome to the November 2022 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 6 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

I didn’t manage to incorporate Pumpkin Pie into my card, but I got all the others

This was one of those cards that used lots of different products: Happiness Abounds bundle, Basic Borders dies and Eden dies. The ribbon is the White Crinkled Seam Binding ribbon that I smooshed into my Evening Evergreen ink pad. I repeated the edging on the insert

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

Product List
Eden Dies
[157831]
$61.00

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 your order is under $250, please use the host code on the side of this post.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! It costs $169 to sign up as a demonstrator and you can choose $235 worth of products for your starter kit! Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 15thDecember 2022 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features Gift Packaging Ideas. Here is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – Bottled Happiness

Welcome to the July 2022 Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You may be starting at my blog or landed here from another one.
Each month there is a new Inspirational image and colour challenge, you can use either part to create your project. Either
INK – use the colour challenge to create a project unrelated to the image -{There will generally be 5 colours for the colour challenge you may use some or all colours plus Stampin’ Up! basics range (black, white, vanilla) or
INSPIRATION – use the image subject as inspiration for your project any way you can tie them together is fine. This is the beautiful image for this month:

Sometimes when I look at a colour challenge an idea just pops into my head. other times I write the colours down on my grid paper and look at them while I am stamping until I get an idea of how to use them. This was one of the times where I had the list written down and suddenly the colours said “wild flowers”

To get the different colours on the single stamp, I applied my Stampin’ Write Markers directly onto the stamp.

You are currently visiting Tracy Held at Trace Of Creativity in Australia. Please see the list below & hop through all of the other participants to see how they were inspired by the gorgeous picture.

Product List

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! It costs you $169 to sign up as a demonstrator and you can choose $235 worth of products for your starter kit! As a Sale-A-Bration special you will receive a gorgeous planner and stamp set if you sign up during July and August. Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 20th July 2022 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. This month’s tutorial bundle showcases the Hues Of Happiness suite. Here is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle

This is the card that I contributed this month. All the instructions to make are in the tutorial bundle.