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Touches of Ink blog hop – July 2026

Handmade card featuring a silhouette of a yacht in a circle, with a sunset on the printed paper behind

Thank you for visiting my blog today for this month’s Touches of Ink Blog Hop!  We can choose any suite or bundle currently available from Stampin’ Up! I have used the Scenic Coast Suite, which includes the Sunset Coast bundle, and the gorgeous Scenic Coast Designer Series Paper pack. I have die cut the yacht […]

Touches of Ink – Boutique Blossoms bundle

Welcome to The Stamping Green! Today I am joining the Touches of Ink blog hop for the first time. You can also find us on Instagram! This team runs a blog hop once a month, to feature a bundle of our choice. I have chosen to feature the Boutique Blossoms bundle. I usually prefer bright […]

Chain card swap Series 5 begins! Let’s follow Ros’s card

front of a handmade card featuring floral images

The team have just finished our FIFTH series of our fun chain card swap! If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blogs before, Tracy Held decided to organise a group of Australian Stampin’ Up! demonstrators for a fun card swap idea. Each member in the group creates an original card, then sends it on […]

Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Monique’s card

A handmade card with pink printed paper with small white flowers. Three yellow bees punched from cardstock are the feature

Welcome to the ninth card in the fourth series of our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a team to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was time for […]

December’s Product of the Month – True Blue Florals DSP

The inside of a handmade card, with two blue flowers adhered to the bottom

Welcome to the brand new Product of the Month Blog Hop! Each month we will be using the Product of the Month from Stampin’ Up! to create samples to inspire you. To earn the Product of the Month, you need to reach a particular value in your order (in Australia it is $125), then you […]

Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Ros’s card

Handmade baby card, with three onesies - pink, purple then pink

Welcome to the seventh card in the fourth series of our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a team to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was time for […]

Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Danielle’s card

Handmade card with 6 panels

Welcome to the fifth blog hop in our fourth series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was Dannii’s […]

Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Carolina’s card

Handmade card

Welcome to the fourth blog hop in our fourth series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was Carolina’s […]

Series 4 Chain Card Swap – following my card

A handmade card featuring a comical bee

Welcome to the third blog hop in our fourth series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was my […]

Series Card Chain Swap – following Mandy’s card

Handmade Z-fold card - standing

Welcome to the second blog hop in our fourth series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was Mandy’s […]

Series 4 Card Chain swap following Julia’s card

Welcome to the first blog hop in our fourth series for our Card Swap Chain. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter. The first card in each sequence is an original idea. For this blog hop, it was Julia’s […]

Stepped triple Z-fold card

An image of a handmade card in pale pink and pale purple, with three z-fold pieces,

Welcome to my post in the Fun/Fancy Fold Blog Hop for October. I have created a Z-fold card with a difference – I’ve made it a triple! The card base and front sections were easy to work out, the middle section took me a bit longer but I’m really happy with how it turned out. […]

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – September Sketch Challenge

Photo of a handmade Christmas card featuring a stamped and die cut Santa image on a pale blue circle

Thank you for joining me for the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. This month we have a sketch challenge to create a card for. Here is the sketch we were given. I decided to create my card using the new Online Exclusive bundle – Festive Friends.  This set has some cute figures in it. I […]

Christmas themed hexagon floating panel card

Hexagonal floating panel card featuring a red Christmas bauble

Thank you for visiting my blog for today’s Fun/Fancy Fold Blog Hop. I’ve done another Hexagon Floating Panel card, this time using Christmas products. I created this card to teach in a class next month at our local papercraft show, Picture to Page Sandown. I have used the Traditional Christmas Wreath embossing folder for the […]

Let’s Craft Together – Old meets new

Handmade card featuring three trees, the centre one with gold stars

Thank you for joining us for the Let’s Craft Together blog hop. We are a group 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. Each month one of us sets a challenge that we use for […]