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Series 6 Chain Card Swap – following Tracy’s card

Handmade Christmas card, with holly leaves and berries in the background. and a comic wombat dancing with colouring lights in its hands

Welcome to the fifth hop in Series 6 of our Chain Card Swap. The Chain Card Swap came about when Tracy Held decided it would be interesting to see if a card would change much from the original if it was sent to a chain of people. Each chain is different so we don’t get […]

Series 6 Chain card Swap – following Heather’s card

Handmade card with the outline of a flower stamped repeatedly over the front, with only one flower coloured in. Apricot tones

Welcome to the fourth hop in Series 6 of our Chain Card Swap. The Chain Card Swap came about when Tracy Held decided it would be interesting to see if a card would change much from the original if it was sent to a chain of people. Each chain is different so we don’t get […]

We Fall in Colours – October colour challenge

the front of a handmade card using a floral die cut with paper piecing

We Fall In Colours blog hop The colours for this month’s We Fall in Colours challenge are Shaded Spruce, Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake. I’ve used a set that is on the Last Chance list – the Fragrant Layers dies, using the top left die. I love being able to cut this in several colours […]

Series 6 Chain Card Swap – following Ros’s card

Welcome to the third hop in Series 6 of our Chain Card Swap. The Chain Card Swap came about when Tracy Held decided it would be interesting to see if a card would change much from the original if it was sent to a chain of people. Each chain is different so we don’t get […]

Series 6 Chain Card Swap – following Dannii’s card

Handmade card with squares of printed paper in green and in pink, with a circle of vellum and a die cut of a fern frond

Welcome to the second post in Series 6 of our Chain Card Swap. The Chain Card Swap came about when Tracy Held decided it would be interesting to see if a card would change much from the original if it was sent to a chain of people. Each chain is different so we don’t get […]

September 2026 Product of the Month – Luxe Foliage DSP

Handmade card featuring three panels of Luxe Foliage sDSP and a

The Product of the Month for September 2026 is this gorgeous Luxe Foliage Specialty Designer Series Paper (sDSP). Four sheets of each design, with Pecan Pie, Peaceful Pine and Secret Sea, all with gold foiling. I couldn’t decide which piece to use, so I’ve used them all to create an easy card. The base is […]

Series 6 Chain card swap – following Nancy’s card chain

Handmade card with flowers and leaves - fully closed

We’ve just finished Series 6 of our Chain Card Swap so it’s time to show you how each ‘chain’ progressed. The Chain Card Swap came about when Tracy Held decided it would be interesting to see if a card would change much from the original if it was sent to a chain of people. Each […]

Touches of ink September blog hop

Inside of a handmade shadow box card, with a Lily of the Valley as the focal point in the shadow box

Welcome to The Stamping Green for my post in the Touches of Ink blog hop. This month, I have used the Lily of the Valley bundle and the coordinating Valley in Bloom Designer Series Paper (DSP) to create a shadow box card. I created this for a tutorial group I am part of, and was […]

We Fall In Colours – September 2026 blog hop

Handmade card

We fall in Colours This month, the colours to use for our projects are Blackberry Bliss, Peaceful Pine and Hydrangea Hue.  I had just ordered the cute Joyful Friends stamp set, a Christmas stamp set full of Australian animals so decided I could use the Peaceful Pine for the gum leaves, and the Blackberry Bliss […]

CASEing the new catalogue using the Home for Christmas bundle

Stampin’ Up! have a new catalogue for Sept-Dec 2026 which went live three days ago. Our challenge for the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop team this month is to CASE the catalogue. If you don’t know what that means, CASE stands for Copy And Selectively Edit. This can be anything you like – maybe use […]

Ink & Inspiration blog hop – August 2026 sketch challenge

Thanks for visiting my blog for the Ink & Inspiration blog hop. This month we have a sketch challenge. The papers used are from the Moonlit Flora Designer Series Paper pack. The card base and the die cut are Peaceful Pine cardstock. The leaves die is from Nature’s Symphony, and the sentiment is from Elegant […]

Glow of Harvest DSP – August 2026 Product of the Month

A handmade puzzle slider card made with printed papers in brown, yellow and orange colours

The Glow of Harvest Speciality Designer Series Paper is the Product of the Month for August. It has a lovely subtle shimmer to it. I think it definitely has an autumnal feel to it – not quite right for those of us down in Australia heading into Spring! For my card, I decided to make […]

Touches of Ink – using the Butterfly Flight hot foil bundle

Welcome to another Touches of Ink blog hop. This month, I’ve made my card using the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil bundle – part of the new Stampin’ Hot Foil System. This bundle comes with hot foil dies, cutting dies and masks. I used the gold foil with the hot foil die on vellum, then flipped […]

We fall in colours – August 2026

Handmade card with squares of three colours - Crushed Curry, Pool Party and Calypso Coral

Welcome to the Stamping Green and my post for this month’s We fall in colours blog hop. Usually I look at the colours and try to work out which stamp set to use, but this time, I’d been making a card for my Chain swap challenge using DSP, and my friend suggested I use the […]

Ink & Inspiration blog hop – July 2026 colour challenge

Handmade card with a focal point of a blue vase with red tuplips and green leaves, on a fancy die cut, layered onto an embossed mat of Real Red, then on a black card base

Welcome to the Stamping Green for my post in the Ink and Inspiration blog hop. This month, we have a colour challenge, using a photo that one of my friends took. I ended up making two cards for this challenge, because I just wasn’t happy with the first card I made. It had all the […]