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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 – July hop

Handmade card showing a beach theme, with yellow sand at the top and a white and lime green beach umbrella top, and blue waves with white foam at the shore

Thanks for visiting my post for this month’s We fall in Colours blog hop. This month, the colours we can use are Lemon Lime Twist, Misty Moonlight and Daffodil Delight. I have used the Rolling Waves bundle to create my card. To give the card a more textured look, I have stamped the Daffodil Delight […]

June Product of the Month – Wild bunch

Handmade card featuring a cartoon koala, sitting amongst leaves

Welcome to our Product Of The Month (POM) blog hop. Every month Stampin’ Up! release an exclusive product. To get your hands on the product, all you need to do is place an order above $125 AUD then you can add the Product Of The Month to your order for only $9 AUD. The product […]

Let’s Craft Together Challenge – Black, White and Bright!

A fancy fold handmade card, with a black card base, red mats, and black and white floral paper

This month, the Let’s Craft Together team has a Black, White and Bright challenge, set by Nancy. One of my favourite colours to team with black and white is Real Red. I am involved in a tutorial group that creates a monthly Fancy Fold for subscribers. Last month, the instructions we got were for this […]

Background techniques for the Let’s Craft Together team

Front of a handmade card. The mat has been stamped multiple times with a flower image in the same colour, them a flower ribbon and leaves added

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

A landscape handmade card, with three strips of printed paper across the card, and a white mat with a die cut removed from the centre over this.

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

Front of a handmade card, with stamped images of penguins in a row across a landscape 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

Handmade triple Z-fold card in pink

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

Floral handmade fun fold 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

Handmade card,mainly in green and brown, featuring three die cut cats

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

Front of a handmade birthday card featuring two balloons.

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

Image of a handmade book fold card, featuring a cartoon turtle playing a piano accordion

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

Image of a fancy fold handmade card featuring pink flowers

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

A handmade card with two red and black hearts slightly overlapping and the sentiment Hugs & Kisses

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. […]