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Series 2 card swap chain – following Nancy’s card

Hand made card with hot pink, and blue-green colours, pink flower green leaves

Welcome to the fourth blog hop in our second 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 (although I’ve called it Chinese Whispers cards). The first card in each sequence is an original idea. […]

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop – July 2024

Welcome to the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Sharni Green from Melbourne, Australia. This is the prompt we were given for this month’s challenge. We could use either the colours (any or all) or the photo, or both as inspiration for our cards. I used Calypso Coral and Old Olive from […]

Vertical easel cards

Vertical Easel card featuring Bottled Happiness stamp set, and Abigail Rose DSP

This month’s class was all about creating Vertical Easel cards. I saw this style on Splitcoast Stampers and decided to give it a go. The trick is in attaching the floating panel to the front of the card so it floats freely. The first card features the Bottled Happiness stamp set. I stamped the bottle […]

Split card textures dies card

Card featuring split card textures dies

I created this card for a shoe box swap I did while I was away at a craft retreat with five other Stampin’ Up! demonstrators recently. A shoe box swap is where you create a card, then supply everything needed for others to re-create it. It is a great way to find out about new […]