Card Swap Chain Series 5 - CASE-ing Danielle

Back in November 2025 we started the fifth 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 definitely opportunity for a few variations to sneak in between the first and last card, and these blog hops take you on the journey through the CASEing process. 

Danielle's Card

This chain started with this cute Christmas card from Danielle, who has used a great technique, cutting the tree image from a Memories and More card to let the strips of DSP show from behind. If you didn't begin this hop with the first blog, I would recommend you pop back there to start the hop and learn a bit more about the original card. 

My card was second in the chain, so there aren't many differences between Danielle's and my own card. I didn't have any Memories and More cards to use so stamped tree images onto a piece of 3"x4" of Basic White, and then cut a slightly different Christmas tree images. To create more of a contrast with the green trees I chose reds and golds for the strips behind the focal image.  I stamped the sentiment straight onto the base card which always makes me nervous that I won't stamp it straight!! Are you like that?

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

Product of the Month Collaboration - April's Eyelet Blooms Die

Welcome to the April 2026 Product of the Month (POM) Blog Hop!  If you've followed my blog for  while you will know that in previous years we have had a period of Sale-A-Bration (SAB) at the start of each year. Well Stampin' Up! have implemented a new initiative instead of SAB, and that is Product of the Month. For POM there is a new product released every month that can be earned for a greatly reduced cost, $9 in Australia, with the purchase of $125 in product. So a group of demonstrators decided to help showcase these products we would run a blog hop each month to give ideas.

The Product of the Month (POM) for April is the Eyelet Blooms Die, what a great option for only $9, this die is so pretty and can be used in a number of different ways. In addition to the lovely samples our Design Team has created you can check out some great samples in the SU on-line store here, and place an order to earn yours today. 

I decided to use the die to create a pretty background behind one of the cut apart panels from Lovely Blossoms DSP which I have mounted on a piece of Secret Sea cardstock. This die creates such a soft and lacey background, and to add interest I have cut mine from a panel of DSP.  The printed panels in the Lovely Blossoms pack make it so easy to create a beautiful card, all I needed to do was stamp the sentiment on a strip of Basic White and then add some embellishments and it is ready to pop in the post. 

Time to keep on hopping and see what the rest of the team have created with this versatile stamp set, follow the links at the end of each blog post to make your way around the hop.

Happy Stamping
Monique

CTC #566 - CASE The Colours of the Nature Walk 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 Nature Walk DSP, which you might know from last week is one of my favourite packs in the current offering. The colours are Old Olive, Pretty Peacock, Cloud Cover, Secret Sea, Night of Navy and Pecan Pie. These are some of my most reached for colours so I am really happy with this challenge. 

Here are those colours, aren't the neutral tones just beautiful? I always find it easier to do a colour challenge by seeing the colours on their own, not as part of the DSP. Sometimes I do this with the ink pads or cardstock swatches. Seeing them like this also works, so I hope it helps. 

I took what I consider to be an easy route with this challenge, choosing pieces of the Nature Walk DSP with each of the colours and trimming them into irregular strips, narrow at one end and wider at the other. These are then layered onto a piece of Basic White bigger than I needed for the card to allow me to trim off the uneven edges. I find it easier to add adhesive to the base piece and add the strips randomising the colours and shapes. Next step was to add the sentiment from Scalloped Blooms, part of a bundle in the upcoming May to August Catalogue. 

Here you can see the sentiment and backing panels are both raised on Dimensionals with the collection of leaves slipped in behind them. To give the leaves more dimension I used Blending Brushes to add coordinating ink to the ends of the leaves; and with the Pecan Pie leaves used Dimensionals to raise up the three leaves.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the colours of the Nature Walk 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 Julia has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Product List

Nature Walk Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet (English) [166935]	Nature's Symphony Dies [166925]	Beautifully Celebrated Dies [166974]	Linen Thread [104199]	Hues Of Blue Flowers [165930]
Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad [165285]	Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Basic White A4 Cardstock [166781]
Cloud Cover A4 Cardstock [165293]	Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock [161726]	Old Olive A4 Card Stock [106576]