Step It Up Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop...

Hello and welcome to the March Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop from Amanda Bates at The Craft Spa in the UK... 

Today's Blog Hop has a Step It Up theme... meaning that each project builds upon the previous... so I have 3 projects to show you today... 

So ... not only do we have a decoration progression from one card to the next... but we also have a Z Fold Card progression all featuring  - and being sized for - a Stitched Rectangles die cut... Each one a step up from the one before... 

As well as using the Needlepoint Nook papers 

And the Needle & Thread bundle... for the decorative elements... 

Along with the new Sale A Bration Co-ordinating More Than Words.... and a few other favourite greetings sets...

Starting with the Simple Z Fold.... 

With all the greetings being from More Than Words... 

Then the Joy Fold... 

Again main greeting from More Than Words... and the TO YOU being from the "Happy Birthday to You" in the Needle & Thread stamp set...

And finishing off with one of my Double Z Joy Folds... 

Which also features the fabulous Well Said stamps and Well Written dies for all the greetings... 

Spot the double die-cut shadow "happy" greeting... just a Crushed Curry "happy" stuck onto a Poppy Parade "happy"...  

And the lovely Needlepoint Nook Mini Buttons on the small flowers at the left to finish it all off...

Now I was going to go into each of the cards chapter and verse... but you would be here for a long while!!! And this is a Blog Hop after all... So instead I will be posting the tutorials for the card fold and decoration over the next week... be sure to subscribe (FOLLOW BY EMAIL OR SUBSCRIBE TO FEED down the right hand side) if you want more details...

Though... in the meantime... the tutorials for my standard A6 Double Z Joy Fold Card is here... and the US A2 version here... 

And so now it is time to pass you onto the lovely Angelique in the Netherlands... Just click on the big arrow below to go straight to her post...

Blog Hop Roll Call

1. Amanda Farlinger
2. Lisa Henderson
3. Tricia Butts
4. Anastasia Radloff
5. June Olsen
6. Amanda Bates (YOU ARE HERE)
7. Angélique Stempelkeuken
8. Jenn Curtis Charles
9. Kimberley Anne Morris
10. Lisa Ann Bernard