Card Swap Chain Series 2 - CASEing Kayla

Back in April we started our second 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, who would CASE it and send it on to the next person. Once we had all CASE'd the card the final version came home to the original creator.  Now its time to share the journeys our cards went on. Each hop will start with the original creator so we would recommend you start the hop at the beginning to see how the card progressed. There is al list of the blogs at the end of this post. 

The first one for this round is from the lovely Kayla, who started the round with this stunningly vibrant card.  Often ocean scenes have blues and greens, especially in the background and I love how Kayla has used the warmer tones on her card. 

My card was fourth in the progress of this CASE, and I am happy to see some of the key elements are following through, the overall layout, folded corner and embossed background are all present.  What has changed are the colours, with my choice of more botanical colours of greens, browns and pinks. 

Time to keep hopping to see how Kayla's design progressed through the process. 

Happy Stamping
Monique

Card Swap Chain Series 2: CASEing Genna

Back in April we started our second 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, who would CASE it and send it on to the next person. Once we had all CASEd the card the final version came home to the original creator.  Now its time to share the journeys each of our cards went on with a series of blog hops, where the hop will be in the order of the card's journey.

The first one is featuring the card Genna started off her round with, this  lovely layout is so versatile and easy to replicate for any occasion.

If you are hopping along you will know that my card is the 7th along, so toward the end of the hop so it is nice to see that the main elements of the card have carried through. The biggest difference is that the main panel on Genna's card has a slight tilt to it. Let me know in the comments if you see any other layout changes. 

Time to keep hopping to see how my card was interpreted by Sharni.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #484 - CASE The Annual Catalogue

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 any of the projects in the Annual Catalogue!!!  How exciting is that, there are so many to choose from from colour combinations to layouts, cards to gift packaging! What will you choose?

This card from page 111 of the catalogue caught my eye, I love these cards and envelopes and have not used them enough.  I also love the simple elegance of a gold and white card where the interest is added with texture and layers. 

For my card I used the floral image and sentiment from Thoughtful Expressions, both stamped in VersaMark and embossed in gold (thought it is hard to see that from the photo).  I added these to one of the circles from Spotlight on Nature and layered them all over the botanical die cut leaves from Mediterranean Blooms.  I did cut the die cut in half so I could position the leaves better, the cut is well hidden by the other layers.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the projects in the Annual 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique