Card Swap Chain Series 4C - CASE-ing Sharni

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Back in May 2025 we started the fourth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea is the we each made a card and sent it to another person in the chain. That person would CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit) the card and send it to the next person who would in turn CASE it and send it on. There are 10 of us in this chain so quite a few variations between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

Sharni's Card

This chain started with this bright and cheerful card from Sharni, I love this little bee stamp and the coordinating papers and at times regret not adding it to my stash! If you didn't start the hop with this card then pop on over to Sharni's blog to see the progression of her design.

I was third in the chain for this card so my card holds fairly true to the original, even down do the embossed panel, use of DSP and contrasting strips of colour around the image and DSP. I used Celebratory Sips paired with Mossy Meadow Two-Toned cardstock, with a sliver of Secret Sea peeking out from under the DSP triangles.  Keeping with Cindy's card (the one I received) I cut my focal images out of one of the sheets of DSP, adding the sentiment from the coordinating Cheers & Sips stamp set. Even though the embossing folder is from a very different suite of products I think it adds a touch of elegance to my card.  

I thought I'd share the inside of my card too as it uses a little trick of mine (not exclusively mine but I do use it frequently). You know how some images are incomplete on a sheet of DSP as they run over the edge of the paper?  Well I use those to decorate the inside of my cards, or sometimes on a front panel, aligning the cut off edge to the edge of my panel so it looks intentional. You would never suspect this glass could have been thrown away as scrap! I love that it matches the one on the front cover. 

Time to keep hopping to see how this card was interpreted for the rest of the chain, and if it is still recognisable by the end of the chain.  What elements do you think made it all the way down the line?

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #545 - CASE The Online Exclusives

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from the projects from the Online exclusives, you can find a badge with a link on the right side of my blog.

I was inspired by this card from the projects made with the Friendliest Foliage stamp set from the On-line Exclusives.

I used the sketch and general concept of the original card to make this Christmas version, using the lovely die cuts from Branching Out dies. I usually struggle a bit with lots of layers like this card has, but I just kept popping them behind the sentiment until I was happy.  That's right, I adhered the frame first with single layer of Dimensionals, and then the sentiment with a double layer of Dimensionals and then adhered the die cuts with glue dots. 

Here's a close up, you can see I added some cute berries to the branches using Red Enamel Effects, and then because I was on a roll a little bit of Gold Enamel Effects to the edges of the leaves, and Copper to the edges of the pine cones.  I am so disappointed that these products have retired but I just couldn't help using them. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use On-Line Exclusives to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Kathryn has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Card Swap Chain Series 4B - CASE-ing Mandy

Back in May 2025 we started the fourth series of the Card Swap Chain, arranged by the lovely Tracy Held. The idea is the we each made a card and sent it to another person in the chain. That person would CASE (Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit) the card and send it to the next person who would in turn CASE it and send it on. There are 10 of us in this chain so quite a few variations between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

This chain started with this lovely floral fun fold card from Mandy, I love the colours she has chosen for this card. You should start this hop at Mandy's blog so you can see the progression of the card.  

I was last in the chain for this round and it is again a little surprising how so many features of the first card have followed through to my final CASE.  Not only have we kept the fun-fold going but I also returned to the floral theme with my version.

Here you can see the card opened so you can see how I decorated the inside panels with more fussy cut flowers from the Charming Day DSP. I absolutely love the colours I chose for this card, it looks so regal and perfect for a special birthday.

Time to keep hopping to see how this card was interpreted for the rest of the chain, and if it is still recognisable by the end of the chain.  What elements do you think made it all the way down the line?

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Non-Traditional Christmas Product

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month was to use a non-Christmas product to make a Christmas project!  This was a fun challenge and it had me scratching my head for a while, I did think I could do floral images coloured in Christmas colours but that didn't really grab me.  I flicked through my stamp sets for inspiration and came to Darling Dinos and knew they would be perfect.

I planned out a card with the dinosaurs on each side of the sentiment "Roar means ... in Dinosaur" knowing I'd add a Christmas sentiment in the middle.  As the card evolved I added the cute little Christmas eggs cut from Christmas Tags & More 6"x6" Specialty DSP pack sponging the edges so they stood out from the green and red dinosaurs. I also used some of the pre-cut images from the DSP pack for the gifts between the two dinos.  I was initially disappointed to find that I didn't have any Christmas sentiments that would fit, then I remembered the Greetings for You Mix & Match Ephemera Pack which had the perfect sized sentiment. To make it stand out I added Real Red with my blending brush and popped it up on Dimensionals.  A few stamped-off fir trees in the background and I think it all came together really well.  I know my grandson will love it!

Time to hop on over to the next blog in the hop, just follow the link in the list below (if I am last in the list just go to Carolina's blog at the start and keep hopping until you get back to where you started from.

Happy Stamping

Monique