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

Card Swap Chain Series 4A - CASE-ing Julia

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. 

Julia's Card

This chain started with this lovely fun-fold card from Julia, I love how she used the scenery DSP on the front of her card. You should start this hop at Julia's blog so you can see the progression of the card, you can find it first in the blog hop list at the end of this post.  

I was ninth in the chain, and it is great to see that the fun-fold has continued through the chain. My choice of DSP was the lovely Modern Christmas collection, as was the sentiment. The layered labels were cut using the Traditional Labels dies.

This is a look at the inside of the card, I used trees stamped and cut using the Ornamental Christmas Bundle, using gold embossing powder to keep with the very Lux look of the card. The writing panel is on the back, and left blank to leave lots of room for a nice Christmas greeting. 

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 #542 – CASE The Colours of Autumn Toile DSP

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 colours of the Autumn Toile DSP

Here is a better look at the colours for this challenge: Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Gray Granite, Mossy Meadow, and Very Vanilla. I will be honest, these are not colours I reach for often, at least not together and it took me a while to work out what to do with them.

When I struggle with colours, I often reach for my Aquapainter and Watercolour paper as it lets me play around with the colours, getting lighter shades and blending different ones together.  I chose the flowers from Charming Day and used all the main colours except Early Espresso and Very Vanilla to colour the flowers and leaves. The sentiment from Sweet Blooms seemed to pair well with the design and the floral images.  The twine is a newer addition to my stash from the Black and White and Gold Baker't Twine from the Modern Christmas Suite Collection. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use colours in the Autumn Toile 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 the lovely and talented Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique