Gift Packaging – Trace Of Creativity

September 18, 2025September 17, 2025

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Modern 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.

The Modern Stamp Camp is being held on the 25th – 26th October. For more details about the Stamp Camp and what you need to do to join click here.

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 an elegant, monochromatic suite with an exciting pop of gold- I’m sure you will love all the card in the Stamp Camp.

My bonus project is a gift box that looks like a closed book. It has a detachable hoop decoration and room inside for a small gift.

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. Don’t forget to add a pack of the Iridescent Foil Gems to your order. These aren’t part of the suite, but you will need them to add bling to your projects.

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 will be in your make & take kit

If you don’t live in Australia, you can sign up through one of the other members of the design team

Hop around to see the other projects that will be demonstrated at the Stamp Camp

Product List

Ornamental Christmas Bundle (English) [166001] $90.00	Modern Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [165990] $29.00	Black & White & Gold Baker's Twine [166005] $15.00	Large Gold Hoops [166004] $23.00
Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $8.75	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $25.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [166781] $25.00	Iridescent Foil Gems [162842] $14.00
Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75	Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder [165678] $37.00

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. (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:

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

Festive Friday #FF0172 – Attention Shoppers

Thanks for joining us for another Festive Friday. 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 challenge obviously revolves around Black Friday and shopping. The inspo items that I used are red, masking technique and shopping cart.

In keeping with the shopping theme, the inside has a pouch for a gift card.

Join me for my Facebook live at 10:00 on Sunday morning and I’ll show you how I made this card.

Hop around and see which elements in the list inspired the others.

Product List

Attention Shoppers Bundle (English) [163644] $69.25	Reindeer Fun Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [164167] $35.00	Regal Distressed Patterns 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [164037] $17.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $8.75
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $23.00	Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock [121681] $20.25	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $20.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $14.00
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $15.75	Wild Wheat Classic Stampin' Pad [161651] $15.75	Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill [147277] $18.50	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $19.25
Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904] $19.25	Wild Wheat Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [161661] $19.25	Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154880] $19.25	Adhesive Sheets [152334] $20.25
Stampin' Up! Masking Paper [155480] $12.25

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.

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:

July 18, 2024July 17, 2024

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Golden Greenery

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! The theme for this month’s tutorial bundle is a little bit different as it features different techniques and has a video for each technique.

Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle is “Christmas In July” I have used the Golden Greenery bundle for both my tutorial project and for this blog hop.

I have created a little gift box with a matching card.

You can click here to view 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.

If you love this bundle and would like more inspirational ideas to use it, why not sign up for the Season Of Green & Gold Stamp Camp? You can find all the details about the Stamp camp and how to sign up here

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

Hop around for more Christmas in July ideas or to get an early start on your Christmas cards.

Meet the design team:

Product List

Golden Greenery Bundle [164117] $99.00	Greetings Of The Season Dies [164112] $56.00	Scalloped Gift Card Boxes [161751] $12.25	Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock [150886] $20.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $23.00	Lost Lagoon A4 Cardstock [133686] $20.25	Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] $20.25	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [161678] $15.75
Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083] $15.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75	Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder [165678] $37.00	Metallic Enamel Effects Basics [161610] $27.00
Silver & White 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Sheer Ribbon [162149] $15.75	Heat Tool [129056] $56.00	Palette Knives [142808] $8.75

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.

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:

November 16, 2023November 15, 2023

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Ferrero Rocher Gift Box

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! This month’s tutorial bundle showcases Christmas or Gift Packaging. I’m sure you will get lots of use from this tutorial – change the DSP and you can adapt the packaging for any occasion.

Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. My tutorial project is a single Ferrero Rocher holder. Continuing with the theme, I have made a bigger Ferrero Rocher gift box for this blog hop.

It closes up to make a compact box that can be held closed with a bow

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

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

Beary Cute Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [162016] $44.00	Nested Essentials Dies [161597] $60.00	Very Vanilla 12" X 12" Cardstock [144239] $15.00	Shining Brightly 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [162378] $17.50
Night Of Navy & Gold 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Glittered Ribbon [162011] $15.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $32.00	Heat Tool [129056] $54.00

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.

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:

July 20, 2023July 19, 2023

Birthday Blog Hop – Les Shoppes Suite

Thanks for joining us for today’s blog hop. The theme for today is Birthday. These are the most common cards that are given. Les Shoppes on page 30-31 of the annual catalogue is such a fun suite and perfect for birthday cards.

More exciting than the front, is when you open the card – you have a pop up shopping bag perfect for a gift card!

I presented this card at a virtual event last weekend. Below is the video of my presentation

Hop around and see the new products everyone else has used.

Product List

Let's Go Shopping Bundle (English) [161333] $83.50	Les Shoppes 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161322] $21.75	Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] $17.50	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.50
Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock [161726] $17.50	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107] $15.75	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $11.50	Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154891] $17.50
Wild Wheat Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [161661] $17.50	Water Painters [151298] $23.00

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.

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:

April 14, 2023April 13, 2023

Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop – Pretty Pillow Box Wedding Favours

Thank you for joining us for another Stampin Dreams blog hop. The theme for today’s hop is “Anything But A Card”.
Sometimes life and blog hops line up perfectly – I spoke to a dear friend’s son over the weekend who is getting married in June. We discussed party favours for them to give away. This is a sample that I made as an idea for them

Most of the products that I have used for this are retiring (so if you want the heart punch pack, heart pearls, or matte black dots you need to order them ASAP). At the time of writing these products are available in Australia and are discounted to fantastic prices! The Pretty Pillowbox dies are moving to online exclusive while stocks last and are currently discounted to $24.00 (This is less than half the original price!)

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

Product List

Pretty Pillowbox Dies [156321] $60.00	Heart Punch Pack [151292] $68.00	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $32.00	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] $16.25
Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Matte Black Dots [154284] $12.25	Heart Pearls [159190] $14.00
Starry Sky 1/8'' (3.2 Mm) Metallic Woven Ribbon [159198] $15.75

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.

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:

April 3, 2023

Playing In The Rain Treat Pouch

It is amazing how fast time seems to go by. It seems like I have just finished making Christmas cards, and Easter is already here! If you missed my Facebook live on yesterday, I made these cute treat pouches for the Maltesers Easter bunnies

These are really fun to make and come together easily. You can make a whole heap of them in a very short time. I would suggest that you use non-directional DSP as this will make things a whole lot easier. I used the super cute Playing In The Rain bundle. The bunny is perfect for Easter (or any other occasion). The stamp set and dies are carrying over to the new catalogue, but won’t be available as a bundle. If it is on your wish list, be sure to place your order to take advantage of the bundle discount.

If you missed the Facebook live you can watch the replay below.

I do a Facebook live every Sunday at 10:00 am. Please come and join me and see what I am getting up to!

Product List

Playing In The Rain Bundle (English) [160551] $96.25	Celebrating You Cling Stamp Set (English) [158028] $42.00	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00	Dry Brushed Metallic 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [160837] $14.00
Soft Suede A4 Card Stock [119982] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $14.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50
Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $15.75	Soft Succulent Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155521] $15.75	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154893] $15.75	Soft Succulent 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155780] $12.25

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.

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:

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022

Count Down to Christmas – Santa’s Delivery Treat Bag

Following in the Christmas tradition of sharing and caring, I have collaborated with an international group of talented demonstrators, and we have come up with 40 tutorials for Christmas cards. For day 23rd before Christmas, I am sharing a treat bag created by Dianne Evans from Stampin’ With Dianne in Canada

To download the tutorial, click here. 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

Product List

Clear Medium Envelopes [102619] $10.50	Santa's Delivery Bundle (English) [159590] $85.50	Basic Borders Dies [155558] $51.00	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00
Santa Express 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159582] $21.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $16.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50
Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $15.75	Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154903] $15.75	Basic Black Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154843] $15.75	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $15.75
Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154897] $15.75	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154893] $15.75	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $12.25

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.

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:

November 26, 2022

Cottage Wreaths easel Card with Matching Gift Bag

I participated in a Black Friday (or Saturday) virtual event this morning. I made a Cottage Wreaths easel card with a matching gift bag.

The gift bag is made using the Mini Pocket Envelope dies. I CASE-d this from Sharon Burkitt, an extremely talented lady who is part of the Creativity Abounds tutorial group.

You can watch the Facebook replay of how to make both projects below:

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. The Cottage Wreaths stamp set and dies are in the July – December 2022 mini catalogue and will be carrying over, but won’t be available at the bundle price at the end of the catalogue. If you want this bundle, place your order before the end of the year to save 10%.

Product List

Cottage Wreaths Bundle (English) [159659] $91.75	Mini Pocket Envelope Dies [159167] $51.00	Double Oval Punch [154242] $34.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00
Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $16.25	Polished Pink A4 Cardstock [155711] $16.25	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $14.00	Polished Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [155712] $14.00
Loose Flower Flourishes [155808] $13.25	Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon [151326] $13.25	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $9.25	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. 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:

November 17, 2022November 16, 2022

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Design A Treat Box Bundle

Welcome to our November 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 tutorial bundle show cases gift packaging ideas.

I was in Sydney for OnStage last weekend. One of the fun parts of convention is swapping. If you would like to see what my swap was, click here. I am CASE-ing one of the swaps that I received for our blog hop today. Unfortunately, the lady who swapped with me didn’t put her name or contact details on the swap, so I don’t know who to credit for the inspiration. If you swapped with me or happen to know who made this swap, please let me know and I will add their name to this post.

The little boxes inside the holder are so easy to make using the Design a Treat Box bundle.

If you would like to make some of these cute little gift caddies, join me for my Facebook live on Sunday morning at 10:00am AEDT and I will show you how I made them. Place an order with me this month, and I will send you a copy of the tutorial bundle as a thank you.

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

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

Meet our fabulous design team:

Product List

Design A Treat Bundle (English) [159895] $85.50	Boughs Of Holly 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159600] $21.00	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $14.00	Gold 3/8" (1 Cm) Shimmer Ribbon [156470] $14.00