Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Cheryl

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 9 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.

Cheryl - Round 1

The third card that we are sharing was designed by Cheryl. I hope you have arrived at my blog following the hop around so you can see the progression of the cards between her's and mine; if not please follow the link to her hop (first in the list below). 

Monique - Round 6

I found this one a bit of a challenge, I didn't have the dies that Nancy used for her card, and eventually decided to use my Stampin' Blends to create the layers that Nancy had achieved with dies.   Its hard to see the connection when looking between Cheryl's card and my own, so it's lucky we have this hop to see the progression!

Happy Stamping

Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Carolina

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 9 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.

Carolina - Round 1

The second card that we are sharing was designed by Carolina. I hope you have arrived at my blog following the hop around so you can see the progression of the cards between her's and mine; if not please follow the link to her hop. 

My Card - Round 10

I did enjoy creating this one with all the layers and colours, it was out of my usual style. Unlike the previous hop, I joined this group of cards in Round 10, so its hard to see the connection when looking between Carolina's and my card, so it's lucky we have this hop to see the progression!

Happy Stamping

Monique

Chain Card Swap Blog Hop - Annette

At the beginning of October, Tracy started me on a fun journey with 9 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.

Annette's Card

The first card that we are sharing was designed by Annette McMillan. My suggestion is that you start at her blog post and then follow the link through which is in round order. I was the first person to CASE her card, so I think you will be able to see the progression from her card to mine.

My Card - Round 1

I decided to keep with the layout and Christmas theme of the original card, using some of our lovely Joy of Christmas DSP. Time to hop on around and see the progression in creativity as each person puts their own spin on this lovely card. 

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #462 - CASE This Sketch

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 card sketch on page 70 of the Mini Catalogue, this is a great example of how a card can be simplified into a basic sketch shape even if the original (or your) card has a different interpretation of those shapes. 

Here is a closer look at the sketch.

As you may be aware Stampin' Up! OnStage event was held in Melbourne last weekend and I was lucky enough to attend and win a prize patrol, a DSP pack from the new Annual Catalogue that goes live in May. So I thought I would share a sneak peek of Mediterranean Blooms which has some gorgeous lemon and orange images on one side of the paper, and stunning blue tile patterns on the reverse.  I love the contrast of the citrus on the blue. 

For this card I fussy cut the focal lemon image from the DSP, adding it over the top of the Night of Navy frame. Both the frame and the lemons are popped up on dimensionals, although I slipped the top of the branch under the edge of the frame to give the illusion of it poking through, not just layered on top.  Sometimes on sheets of DSP with large images, it can feel like a lot of the images are wasted when they cross the edge of the paper.  On the inside of my card is a great way to use these images, I have just lined up the straight edge of the DSP with my card insert, you would never know that it was an off-cut!

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the sketch of the card from page 70 of the Mini Catalogue 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

CTC #461 - CASE The Lighter Than Air DSP Colours

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 Lighter Than Air DSP, these are such soft lovely colours, and for this challenge you can make any project you like that includes them.

Here is a closer look at the pretty colours. 

I've just been away to OnStage, an in-person Stampin' Up! event, and what fun we had!  Among the lovely gifts we were given was one of the soon to be released Kits called Hooray for Honeycomb.  I won't give too much away but some of the sentiments are balloon shaped, and when I first saw them they made me think of Easter Eggs, and so this challenge was the perfect opportunity to see how they'd go.  Stampin' Up! includes multiple language sentiments in the kits so I used three of the balloons, covered them in adhesive and added strips of cardstock from the challenge.  For the background I tried a simple technique that I have never tried before, adding ink over the top of images stamped in VersaMark, I love how this turned out, though had to add way more ink than I thought I would to ensure the flowers were visible. 

I did want to share the original card from the kit that inspired these cute Easter Eggs, so here is the one that I made in my Make n Takes at OnStage. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of Lighter Than Air DSP to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

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

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Colour Challenge

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 is a colour challenge chosen by myself!  I just loved this inspiration image with the dark background and the pop of bright colours.  I think the Stampin' Up! colours that best represent this image are Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Pretty Peacock, and Basic Black.  You can of course add Basic White. 

Whenever I have a challenge with greens in it I always think of plants or flowers, depending on the other colours.  While the inspiration image is quite dark, I wanted to lighten the look of my card and so focused heavily on the Crushed Curry for the solid part of the flowers and tiny dots around the bunch, and just used the Pumpkin Pie for the line stamp that is part of this set's two step stamping.  I did a similar thing with the leaves, Pretty Peacock on the lines and Granny Apple Green on the fill in.  I thought the checked ribbon added a grounding element to the bunch of flowers. 

Inside the card I used some of the DSP from the front, from Fresh As A Daisy, and some additional stamping.  I hope you enjoyed visiting my blog, time to use the link below to follow the hop to the next blog. 

Happy Stamping

Monique