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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 […]

Series 4 Card Chain Swap – following Cindy’s card

A masculine handmade card featuring a hammer, shifter and paint brush on a peg board

Welcome to the sixth 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 Cindy’s turn […]

Easy masculine birthday card using Sunrise Sailing bundle

Handmade masculine birthday card in blue shades with a yacht

Thank you for visiting me at The Stamping Green. Today the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop team theme is Masculine Birthday. A lot of people find masculine cards harder to make than for females, so I actually ran a Masculine card class last month, and managed to create four cards using four different stamp sets […]

Launch party for 2025-26 Annual Catalogue

Paper bags with a floral image

I held my launch party for the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue on Saturday, joining with a fellow demonstrator, Tracy Held – Trace of Creativity. Here is the room, all set up ready to go. We gave each of the attendees a bag with a ‘New Catalogue Survival Kit’ which contained the following: BANDAID – […]