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