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February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

ESAD Sale-A-Bration Blog Hop- Beautifully Happy

Thanks for joining us for another ESAD blog hop! If you are wondering what ESAD means, here is an explanation.

The theme for this hop is Sale-A-Bration. I always say that Sale-A-Bration is the happiest time of the year. It is where you get free goodies – the type of things that money can’t buy. The only way to get them is to put in a qualifying order, and get them free! We are into the last few days of this promotion. After the 28th of February you will no longer be able to get these products. I have used the level 2 item- Beautifully Happy for my card.

The embellishment in the centre of my flower is a sneak peek of the Loose Frosted Dots embellishments that will be available from the beginning of March as an online exclusive product.

Thanks for stopping by today. Next up is Sharon Dalton. Let’s hop over and see what fabulous project she has created for us.

If you get lost along the way the way, here is the full hop listing:
Lou Kitzelman
Nicole Wilson
Denise Buetler
Cheryl Algie
Bronwyn Eastley
Tracy Held <== YOU ARE HERE
Sharon Dalton

Product List

Beautifully Happy Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [160804] $47.00	Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock [133682] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $14.00
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089] $14.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50

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 TQVE4CK3 at the checkout.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! You pay $169.00 to sign up, and choose $235.00 of products to kick off your Stampin’ Up! adventure.
Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 20th April 2023 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme of this month’s tutorial bundle features the Fancy Flora suite. Here is a sneak peek of the projects in the bundle.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

February 16, 2023February 15, 2023

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – Rain Or Shine

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 “New Mini Catalogue”.

Over the weekend I participated in an online Stamp Camp and we had a sketch challenge. This is the sketch that we were working with:

This is my interpretation

It was difficult to get a photo of the colour of the foil sheet – it is the Rose Gold Specialty Paper
Be sure to hop all the way around and see what products the others have used from the mini catalogue. Please leave comments for us – we love getting feedback about our work!

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. If you love the Rain Or Shine suite and would like inspiration to use it, sign up to join our Stamp Camp. You can join the stamp camp from any where on the world. to find out how to join click here.

Product List

Playing In The Rain Bundle (English) [160551] $96.25	Deckled Rectangles Dies [159173] $53.00	Metal Plate 3 D Embossing Folder [160766] $17.50	Rose Gold 12” X 12” (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [159139] $17.50
Rain Or Shine Specialty 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160540] $27.00	Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock [141421] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50
Linen Thread [104199] $8.75

This is the project that I contributed this month:

February 16, 2023February 15, 2023

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – By The Bay

Welcome to our February 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 By The Bay suite. We held our Stamp Camp over the weekend. Today’s blog hop will show you all the projects that were demonstrated at the Stamp Camp. These are different from the projects in the tutorial bundle – this gives you 26 ideas for using your suite. I do still have a couple of the kits on hand, so if you would like to join the Stamp Camp please contact me. You can see more details about the Stamp Camp here.

This is my original sample of the card I demonstrated at the Stamp Camp

I decided to play with colours and the one that I did live used a Night Of Navy card base

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 below to help you move around all the different blogs and see all the amazing projects that were 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:

This is the project that I contributed this month:

February 10, 2023February 9, 2023

Stampin’ Dreams – Dainty Delight

Thank you for joining us for another Stampin Dreams blog hop. The theme for today’s hop is “Reduce, reuse, recycle”. I have created my card using the window sheet that comes backing the photopolymer stamp sets.

I used the Dainty Delight bundle and combined it with the beautiful Dainty Flowers
Sale-A-Bration DSP.

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 Dainty Flowers DSP is a level 1 Sale-A-Bration reward, so don’t forget to redeem it at the checkout.

You can watch the replay of my Facebook live where I made this card below:

Hop around and see what everyone else has been recycling in their projects.

Product List

Dainty Delight Bundle (English) [160675] $96.25	Go To Greetings Cling Stamp Set (English) [158763] $42.00	Dainty Flowers 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160834] $21.00	Window Sheets [142314] $8.75
Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Fresh Freesia A4 Cardstock [155614] $16.25	Parakeet Party A4 Cardstock [159260] $16.25
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50	Old Olive Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154892] $15.75	Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154898] $15.50	Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels [158130] $13.25
Loose Flower Flourishes [155808] $13.25

This is the project that I contributed this month:

February 7, 2023February 6, 2023

Technique Tuesday

Thank you for joining us for our Technique Tuesday blog hop. The technique that we are sharing this month is masking. I have used the Two Tone Flora Dies to make my own mask. I also got two cards for one amount of effort.

Use the die cut as a mask and apply colour with your blending brushes.

Then use the piece that you are using as a mask to make a second card

If you want to see how I made these cards, join me foe my Facebook live at 10:00 on Sunday morning (12 February). You can find my Facebook page here.

Be sure to hop all the way around and see what masking techniques everyone else has to share with us

Product List

Two Tone Flora Bundle (English) [160414] $98.00	Something Fancy Bundle (English) [160425] $81.00	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $16.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00
Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $14.00	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089] $14.00	Polished Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [155712] $14.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $21.75

This is the project that I contributed this month:

February 4, 2023February 3, 2023

Let’s Craft Together – Rain Or Shine

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. Today we are focusing on the super cute Rain or Shine suite.

I have used this layout (or variations of it) on a number of cards recently, and I LOVE it! I posted a card for a blog hop a couple of weeks ago and had a number of people messaging me and asking for the measurements. If you missed that card, you can have a look at it here. The measurements are fairly simple. The DSP strips are 5.0 cm (2″) wide. The left one is 10.0 cm (3″) long. The right one is 5.0 cm (2 1/4″) long. They don’t meet in the middle, but that is covered up by your focal point piece.

If you love this suite, and would like more ideas on using it, we are having a Stamp Camp on the 4th March. There are a number of options available to join us, and you can participate even if you aren’t in Australia. Click here for all the information about the stamp camp.

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.

Hop around and see what cuteness the other ladies have to share with us

Product List

Playing In The Rain Bundle (English) [160551] $96.25	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $53.00	Rain Or Shine Specialty 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [160540] $27.00	Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] $16.25
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105] $14.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50	Loose Daisy Embellishments [160555] $12.25

This is the project that I contributed this month:

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

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

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: