Up Coming Events and when to shop for them

The chance to earn bonus day coupons is almost over – you need to shop by the 31st. For every $90 that you spend you will receive a $9 coupon which can be redeemed against purchases made in August.

I want to give you the information about upcoming classes so that you can purchase the supplies now and earn the coupons. (If you aren’t in Australia you won’t be able to buy the products from me, but you can purchase the tutorial and sign up for any of the classes).

Registration is closing soon. Click here for full details of the class and to sign up. You can place the order for the bundle at my online store. Click here to go shopping.

We are going to be using Designer Series Paper from the new mini catalogue. This will give us a completely different look from the samples in the annual catalogue. The colour palate that we are working with is Poppy Parade, Wild Wheat, Calypso Coral, Mossy Meadow, Garden Green and Pretty Peacock. The class will be four different fun folds and we will show you how to make them with the different stamp sets. I can’t show you any of the samples until I get the DSP. Stay tuned I will share them with you as soon as they are ready so that you can see what you will be making. If you missed the last class you can click here to see what it was all about. If you want to register early click on the photo above.

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

Welcome to the July 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:

Whenever I see a beach photo that I am using for inspiration, I can’t use anything other than the Oceanfront stamp set. I added the So Refreshing bundle and cut the picnic blanket down a bit so that it didn’t cover too much of my stamping.

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:

International Highlights Winners Blog Hop – Dainty Delight on a blended background

I am super excited to be part of the International Highlights Top Ten Winners Blog Hop hosted by Kylie Bertucci. I was invited to participate in this hop because my card was voted in the top 10 of the entries in the International Blog Highlights. Thank you to everyone who voted for my Color & Contour thank you card.

My card for today uses the Dainty Delight stamp set on a blended background.

You can watch the video below to learn how to do the blending.

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.

Below is the link list. Hop around and see what the other winners have created.

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:

Paper Crafting Blog Hop – Cheerful Daisies

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! This month’s theme is “Flowers Galore”. Although it is an easy theme, there are so many gorgeous floral stamps it is difficult to decide which one to use. I eventually chose Cheerful Daisies.

Be sure to hop all the way around and see the floral inspiration the others have to share with us. 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. 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:

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Reach For The Stars

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 Masculine cards. These are usually the ones that we find the most difficult to do. There is a large selection in the catalogue the help make easy masculine cards.
Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. I attended a 35 For 35 Stampin’ up! event last weekend. There was a display of fun fold cards. I was blown away by a card that was designed by Michele Taylor. I took a photo pf the card and got my husband working on figuring out how the pop up works, His solution is different to Michele’s mechanism, but I am THRILLED with how it works. This is the front of my card:

The WOW happens when you open the card and the astronaut pops up!

If you would like to make this card, join me for my Facebook live on Sunday at 10:00 am (AEST).

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:

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

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 new products everyone else has used.

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:

Sale and Bonus Coupons

From midnight until midnight tomorrow night all the stamp sets in the annual catalogue are 15% off!!  If there are any stand alone stamp sets that are in your wish list, tomorrow is the day to order.

Two of my favourite stand alone stamps at the moment are Coffee With Friends (I wonder why???) and Sweet & Precious

I am doing a fun fold class with Maheswari Rajaguru using these two stamp sets.  We have already started, but I have two class kits that are left over.  If you would like to join you are welcome to purchase a kit and order your stamp set.  You will be joining late, but we have a Facebook group so you will be to watch the assembly videos on replay.  Click here to visit my blog for details about the class and a video where you can see the cards that we are making. Please send me an email (TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com) if you would like to join this class.

But wait – there’s more!

If you place an order for $90 (or any denomination of $90) you will receive a $9 voucher that you can redeem in August.

You can visit my online store to place your order.  Remember, Bonus Days are on until the end of the month, but the stamp sale is tomorrow only.

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:

Les Shoppes Stamp Camp

Have you looked at the Les Shoppes suite on pages 30-31 of the annual catalogue and thought “This suite looks like it is such fun and it is so cute, bit I’m not sure what to do with it”? If you have, I have the solution for you – join us for a Les Shoppes Stamp Camp!

This is a collaboration with myself and 3 other amazing Australian demonstrators – Maheswari Rajaguru, Julia Quinn and Kayla Renee.
This Stamp camp will be on the 26th August. The event will take place in an exclusive Facebook group.
We will each design two projects – a standard card and a fun fold or 3d item. In the event each of us will take you through making our projects. You can watch live or at any time that suites you. You will have lifetime access to the group, so you can go back and re-watch the presentations if you need a refresher on assembling the cards.

We have a number of options for you to choose from to join the Stamp Camp:
1. Purchase the suite, and you will get the tutorial bundle free. (Click here to order your suite). If you choose this option and you would like the kit to make the cards you can purchase that directly from me for the discounted price of $30.00 (including postage). The kit comprises all the card stock and to complete the eight projects in the tutorial and is valued at $55.00.
Please note, the suite will be purchased directly from Stampin’ Up! but the add on kit needs to be bought through me.
2. If you don’t want a full pack of DSP, ribbon and embellishments, but you want the everything else, you can buy a product share plus the kit (see above) for $70.00 (including postage). The product share comprises a 1/4 pack of the Les Shoppes DSP, a 1/4 pack of the Loose Silver Sequins and 1.5metres of linen thread.
(You can purchase the Let’s Go Shopping bundle by clicking here. The bundle can be purchased directly from Stampin’ Up but the kit and product share will have to be purchased directly from me)
The above options are only available to Australian residents.
3. If you live overseas we would love to have you join us. You can purchase the tutorial for $22.00. The tutorial will be emailed to you and you will receive an invitation to join the Facebook group.

Click here to complete an online registration form.

If you prefer in person classes (and live in Melbourne) I will be doing this as an in person class on the 27th August. Please send me an email at traceofcreativiyt@outlook.com if you would like to attend in person as places are limited.

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:

Online Exclusives Blog Hop – In The Moment with One Horse Open Sleigh DSP

I’m sure that you know that there are new Online Exclusives that were available from the 6th July. We are sharing ideas for using the new products in our hop today. If you haven’t already seen the products, you can view them in my online store by clicking here. As soon as I saw the One Horse open Sleigh DSP I knew I had to have it! The DSP is beautiful and has gorgeous snowy scenes on the one side and pretty patterns on the other.
I CASEd a card made by Annette McMillan that she presented at our last Global SU Share Fair (I did ask Annette if I could use her design and she has given her tick of approval on my version of her card)

I demonstrated this card in my Facebook live on Sunday and you can watch the replay below. Please be kind when you watch this – it wasn’t a smooth run. I started off late because I had technical issues. This threw me and I was flustered and off my game so the card making didn’t go as well as I would have liked!

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 new products everyone else has used.

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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. 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:

Technique Tuesday – Dainty Delight

Thank you for joining us for our Technique Tuesday blog hop. The theme this month was a bit of a challenge for me – it is vintage which is not my usual style of card making.

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 what vintage cards the other participants have made to share with us.

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: