Sale-A-Bration – Trace Of Creativity

January 30, 2023January 29, 2023

Share It Sunday Blog Hop – Playing In The Rain Valentine’s Day Card

Thank you for joining us for our Sunday blog hop (of course in Australia this goes live at 3:00am Monday morning, but it is a great start to the working week when we wake up!) There is no theme for this hop, it is for each of us to choose what project we want to share.

Some cards are super fun to make, and this is one of them. I couldn’t stop laughing while I was working on this.

This is one of those cards that combines a few different bundles and stamp sets. 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. The carrot stamp set is a level 1 Sale-A-Bration reward, so don’t forget to redeem it at the checkout.

Below is the replay of my Facebook live from Sunday morning

Hop around and see what everyone else was doing over the weekend.

Product List

Playing In The Rain Bundle (English) [160551] $96.25	Love For You Bundle (English) [160406] $81.75	Thanks A Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [160816] $31.00	Dandy Designs 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160836] $53.00
Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $14.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $14.00	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [147086] $14.00	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $15.75	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154893] $15.75
Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154830] $15.75	Basic Black Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154843] $15.75

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! There is currently three fantastic Sale-A-Bration joining offers to choose from:
1. You pay $210.00 and you get $315.00 worth of products of your choice plus a limited edition Boho Blue Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine valued at $110.00.
2. You pay $210.00 and you get $315.00 worth of products of your choice plus an original white Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine valued at $110.00.
3. You pay $169 and get $315.00 worth of products of your choice.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 16th February 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features Fun Fold card ideas. Here is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

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

Thanks A Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [160816] $31.00	Dandy Designs 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160836] $53.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $61.00	Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay [131286] $16.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $14.00	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $14.00	Tahitian Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [159210] $14.00
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $14.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50	Blending Brushes [153611] $21.75

This is the project that I contributed this month:

January 19, 2023January 16, 2023

Paper crafting Blog Hop – Beautifully Happy

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators. Fellow demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia are participating. We have a wide array of fun projects and design styles to share with you! Our theme this month is Sale-A-Bration, or as I like to call it – The Happiest Time Of The Year!

I have used all sale-A-Bration products in this card. The DSP is Dainty Delight which is a mega DSP pack – it has 48 sheets in the pack, 4 sheets of 12 double sided designs. The stamp set is Beautifully Happy. This is a two step stamping set which suits me perfectly as it saves me from colouring the flowers!

Be sure to hop all the way around and see how the others have used their Sale-A-Bration freebies. Please leave comments for us – we love getting feedback about our work!

Product List

Beautifully Happy Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [160804] $47.00	Dandy Designs 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160836] $53.00	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00	Double Oval Punch [154242] $34.00
Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock [124392] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $14.00	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $16.25
Iridescent Pastel Gems [160429] $14.00	Brushed Brass Butterflies [158136] $17.50

This is the project that I contributed this month:

January 19, 2023January 18, 2023

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Fragrant Flowers

Welcome to our January 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 show cases fun fold cards. These are the cards have the WOW factor, but are sometimes quite easy to make even though they look complicated. We have 13 ideas for this occasion. Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project.

I demonstrated this card at a virtual event last weekend using a different sheet of the Favored Flowers DSP.

Below is the replay of my Facebook live. Apologies in advance for the poor quality of the video. Facebook has decided that it will only allow me to download my videos in low quality. I have a fix foe next time, but unfortunately I didn’t know this until I downloaded the presentation!

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.

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

Meet the design team:

January 10, 2023January 9, 2023

Fragrant Flowers Spot Light

I am happy to be taking part in Kylie’s Monthly International Blog Highlights again.
The theme for this hop is “Thank you”. Many people forget those simple words. I have seen people’s days brightened because someone said a simple thank you to them.
Show your appreciation to people in your lives who have inspired you, helped you or supported you by sending them a thank you card.

When I first got the Fragrant Flowers bundle I was a bit unsure about whether or not I like it. Once I started using it, I quickly came to the realistaion that I LOVE it! When I realised that the dies coordinate with the Favored Flowers DSP, I loved it even more! If you want to see how I made this card, join me foe my Facebook live at 10:00 on Sunday morning (15 January). You can find my Facebook page here.

If you like this card, please vote for me by clicking on the button below

Product List

Fragrant Flowers Bundle (English) [160460] $85.50	Beautifully Happy Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [160804] $47.00	Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $61.00	Favored Flowers 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160833] $21.00
Fresh Freesia A4 Cardstock [155614] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $16.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50
Flat Adhesive Backed Pearls [160449] $15.75

This is the project that I contributed this month:

January 9, 2023

Favored Flowers Decorated Note Book

During my Facebook live yesterday, I demonstrated how to convert a boring note book into one that you will love writing in using the Sale-A-Bration DSP papers.

You cannot buy this DSP. If you spend $90 you can choose to get the Favored Flowers DSP free. If you spend $180, you can choose the Dandy Designs DSP (this is a mega pack which contains 48 sheets of DSP – 4 sheets of 12 double sided designs). I had a lovely discovery when I realised that the Fragrant Flowers dies cuts out one of the sheets of the Favored Flowers DSP.

If you would like to purchase the products to make this card, click here. This link will take you to the project at my online store that has a list to all the products to make this card so that you can add them to your shopping cart. If you already have some of them, you can just remove them from the cart. Please use the host code on the side of my blog if you order total is under $250.00. Remember the DSP cannot be purchased, it can only be redeemed! You can watch the replay of my Facebbok live below.

Product List

Favored Flowers 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160833] $21.00	Dandy Designs 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160836] $53.00	Fragrant Flowers Dies [160459] $54.00	Hive 3 D Embossing Folder [157955] $15.75
Brushed Brass Butterflies [158136] $17.50	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $12.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00

This is the project that I contributed this month:

December 29, 2022December 27, 2022

Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop

Thank you for joining us for this month’s blog hop. This month we are giving you a preview of the items that are available for Sale-A-Bration. I feel a bit mean doing this as we are showing you fun stuff that you can’t order yet! However, Sale-A-Bration starts on the 5th January, so it isn’t too long to wait. As you go through this hop, you can start drawing up your wish list! I am using two Sale-A-Bration items in my card – In The Country and Sending Support stamp sets

The other detail on the card comes from the Ringed With Nature bundle. this gorgeous bundle is carrying over from the July – December 2022 mini catalogue, but will no longer be available at the discounted bundle price. If this is on your wish list, be sure to order it by the 4th January.

Hop around and see what has inspired the other ladies in the Sale-A-Bration offerings. Below is the link list:

Product List

Ringed With Nature Bundle (English) [159889] $93.50	Floral Gallery Dies [154316] $60.00	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] $16.25	Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686] $16.25
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] $18.00	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $14.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75	Brushed Brass Butterflies [158136] $17.50
Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $32.00	Heat Tool [129056] $53.00

This is the project that I contributed this month:

August 29, 2022August 28, 2022

Share It Sunday – Hippest Hippos

Thank you for joining us for our Sunday blog hop (of course in Australia this goes live at 1:00am Monday morning, but it is a great start to the working week when we wake up!) There is no theme for this hop, it is for each of us to choose what project we want to share.

Sadly Sale-A-Bration will soon be ending. Today is my sister’s birthday and she LOVES the Hippest Hippos! I had a whole pile of cards so that everyone in the family could give one to her. Here all the hippo cards that I have been working on. The first two are the same but use different paper from the Sale-A-Bration Silver and Gold DSP.

The next 2 are also the same design, but use different colours and different little shapes from the Hippo dies:

The last one uses the 2022-2022 In Color Assortment DSP and the Basic Borders Dies

my sister was really excited with all her hippo cards. If you want this stamp set and matching dies be sure to place your order by 31st August.
Hop around and see what everyone else was doing over the weekend.

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 by the end of August. Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 15th September 2022 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle is “Anything But Christmas”. 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.

August 18, 2022August 17, 2022

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – July-August Sale-A-Bration DSP

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators. Fellow demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia are participating. We have a wide array of fun projects and design styles to share with you! Our theme this month is “Congratulations with a DSP spotlight”. There are so many different reasons to send a congratulations card – I have chosen one for a new home.

I used a number of the Sale-A-Bration items in this card. These are only available until the end of August, so if you want any of them be sure to get your order in and redeem them for free before they are gone for good! The circles are from the Rings Of Love DSP, the background is the Wonderful World DSP and the little flowers are from the Hippo dies. The sentiment is from the Happiness Abounds stamp set. I fussy cut some of the houses from the DSP and used them to decorate the insert

If you want to see how I made this card, join me at 10:00 on Sunday morning (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on my Facebook page.

Be sure to complete the hop to see all the wonderful ideas that we have to share with you. The next stop is Terri Stewart I can’t wait to see what she has created this month!

If you get lost along the way, here is the full hop list:
Shirley Merker
Sue Boerner
Julia Quinn
Joy Nelson
Annette McMillan
Julia Mazur
Tracy Held <== YOU ARE HERE
Terri Stewart
Maureen Rauchuss
Krissi Hannahs

Product List

Happiness Abounds Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [159238] $41.00	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00	Hippo Dies [159928] $0.00	Rings Of Love 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159939] $0.00
Wonderful World Bundle (English) [159918] $0.00	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $16.25	Evening Evergreen A4 Cardstock [155575] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00
Poppy Parade A4 Cardstock [121694] $16.25	Pale Papaya A4 Cardstock [155669] $16.25	Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock [121680] $16.25	Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad [155576] $14.00
Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] $10.50	Paper Snips [103579] $19.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $7.50

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.

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

August 16, 2022August 11, 2022

August Thank You Cards – Wonderful World

Thank you for joining us for our Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrator Monthly Team Blog Hop! We are so happy that you could join us today for this blog hop for ideas and creative inspiration. We are a group of Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from around the world that are taking part in training that is helping us to build a successful Stampin’ Up!® business and reach some goals we have set. We really appreciate your support.

If you place an order with me during August, I will send you one of these cards as a thank you as well as a copy of the latest Creativity Abounds tutorial bundle.

Once again I used the Wonderful World DSP. This paper makes it so easy to make beautiful cards, and is only available until the end of August. You can redeem it as a level 2
Sale-A-Bration reward. Add the Go To Greetings stamp set and the Split Card Textures dies and your cards are made!

I hope that my cards have inspired you. We have an amazing line up of Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators, and we know you are going to love all the creativity that is being showcased today. Remember you are currently on my page – Tracy Held. See who is below me to know where to go next.

Product List

Wonderful World Bundle (English) [159918] $0.00	Go To Greetings Cling Stamp Set (English) [158763] $42.00	Split Card Textures Dies [159162] $49.00	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $16.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $14.00	Fine Sparkle Adhesive Backed Gems [159967] $13.25

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.