Background techniques for the Let’s Craft Together team
This month, the Let’s Craft Together team has a background challenge. The instructions were – show us how you make the background of your cards more interesting. You can use anything you like – embossing, tone-on-tone stamping, scoring, splatter, smooshing, weaving strips or surprise us with a new idea! This card has been made by stamping […]
Series 5 of our Chain Card Swap – following my card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Series 5 of our Chain Card Swap – following Dannii’s card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Series 5 of our Chain card swap – following Genna’s card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Chain card swap Series 5 – following Cheryl’s card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Chain Card Swap Series 5 – following Julia’s card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Chain Card Swap Series 5 – following Nancy’s card
If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops 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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy […]
Chain Card Swap series 5 – following Carolina’s card
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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy And […]
Chain Card Swap Series 5 – following Tracy’s card
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 to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy And […]
March 2026 Fun/Fancy fold blog hop
It’s time for another Fun/Fancy fold blog hop. This month I found a card I hadn’t seen before, created by Lisa Curcio. She has called it a Pivot and Flip Panel card. You can see her various versions plus download the measurements and watch her video here. I have adapted it from her Imperial measurements […]
Let’s craft together – February colour challenge
This month it was my turn to set the challenge for the Let’s Craft Together team. I decided rather than limiting the team to Valentine’s Day, to make the theme RED. They can also add black, white, silver and gold. My husband doesn’t like to celebrate Valentine’s Day – he thinks its way too commercialised. […]
Ink & Inspiration – colour challenge for January
Thank you for visiting me for the Ink & Inspiration blog hop for this month. The colour challenge is actually taken from a photo I took of a sunset at a lake my family has been going to for over 30 years. This one was taken over the Christmas/New Year break. To create my card, […]
Shadowbox fun fold card using Fragrant Layers
Welcome to another Fun/Fancy Fold Blog Hop. This month, I have created a Shadowbox card, after seeing one done on YouTube. Of course, it was in Imperial so I had to convert it to metric for my Australian sized envelopes. I have used the Fragrant Layers bundle, an Online Exclusive released this month. I’ve stamped […]
Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Tracy’s card
Welcome to the tenth 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 […]
Ink & Inspiration December Sketch challenge
For the last blog hop of the year for the Ink & Inspiration team, we had a sketch challenge. This is the sketch we were given: I have kept my card very true to the sketch, using the rectangle and circle, although I have added an extra mat under my circle. I have used Pretty […]