Chain Card Blog Hop - Tracy

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

For our final post in this swap we have Tracy's beautiful floral gate-fold card as our starting off project. If you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card came in at round 8, so a little bit down the creative path.  Similarities that remain are the central focal image, use of DSP and floral theme; and at a stretch a fancy fold!  I really love this card and the Perennial Lavender DSP I've used, I am so happy that this is actually carrying over into the  new Annual Catalogue so I'll get to keep using it for another year!

Time to keep hopping to see how my card was interpreted

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Sharni

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

Sharni made the first card in this round, and I love the simplicity of this layout, clean elements. If you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card was fourth in this chain, and you can see how the elements of Sharni's card have flowed through into my own. Unfortunately my card got a touch of moisture so the ink has run slightly since leaving my hands.  I just loved this specialty DSP and am hoping for something similar in this year's holiday mini, not that I'm ready for Christmas just yet!!!

Time to keep hopping to see how my card was interpreted

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Nancy

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

Nancy made the first card in this round, if you haven't started at her blog I would strongly encourage you to go to her blog now and follow the hop order in the link at the end of this post so you can see the progression of this lovely card.

My card was the final card in this round and you can see that it had quite a change from the original, although it does resemble the card I was CASEing. I love all the texture on this card, from the embossed background to the layers of die-cut leaves, twine and embossed sentiment.  I think the monochromatic colour scheme really lets these other elements shine. 

If you didn't start with Nancy's card, hop on over to her blog and see the creative journey the chicken took from her to me.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Monique

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 10 other Australian demonstrators. We called it a "Chain Card Swap", a card version of what is called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia, also known as "Telephone" in the US and "Broken Telephone" in South Africa. Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) the card and send their version on to the next person. Each card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. This was such a fun journey, and so interesting to see how the cards evolved with each round. We are going to have a blog hop for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

I made the first card in this round, so hopefully you are starting off the blog hop here.  Because I made this first card late last year I was in full Christmas mode, so chose that as my theme for this faux stepper card.  This is a much easier version than the original stepper card, so I thought this would be easy to replicate around the hop.  

 

You can see here that the step is a fold at the front and then a second panel of cardstock is added to create the illusion of a stepper card. Let me know in the comments if you think this design made it to the end of the hop, and if not, how far did it get? Follow the links below to see if you are correct. 

 Happy Stamping
Monique