Card Swap Chain Series 5 - CASE-ing Ros

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. 

This chain started with this lovely card from Ros. I love her choice of colours with this card and the coordination between the stamped and DSP images. 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, and follow its transition through the hop.

I was the last card in this round, so as expected there are a few differences between mine and Ros's card, though you can see they are related. I chose the lovely online exclusive Lovely Blossoms DSP and let the DSP do all of the work, not even adding a sentiment. I love the printed panel that creates the feature on the front, this is part of the DSP pack, so no stamping required!  I finished off with co-oridinating embellishments.

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 #562 - CASE A Scrapbook Layout

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 scrapbook layouts in both catalogues. Now don't be put off by this challenge if you don't scrapbook, you can use the elements of one of these catalogue projects to inspire your own card or 3D item.  That was my initial intention, however I had a sudden burst of inspiration and created my first scrap page in about 3 years!!!

I was inspired by this card from page 9 of the January to April Mini Catalogue, I was drawn to the use of the DSP strips on the background and thought this would be fun to recreate. 

Now, because I make mostly cards, I decided to make my scrap page to fit our 6"x8" albums, this meant it was more like a large card front than a scrap page, so way less daunting! Its all about how you think about things!!!  This was so easy to make, the strips of DSP are 1"x6" staggered along the page, and then I added a 3"x4" matt of Secret Sea Here is my card. I was going to leave it with a white panel to add a photo later, however once I chose my sentiment I knew exactly which photo I wanted to add to the page. This was a picture of my daughter, her new baby, and my dad on what would be his last visit with us before he passed about a month later. We had no idea at the time what these memories would mean to us.  I haven't added journaling to this page as I think I will make this a two page spread with more of the photos from this lovely day out we had. For now though the sentiment and photo hold all the words. 

This page was made using the gorgeous on-line exclusive Delicate Dreams Specialty DSP and the sentiment is from Beautifully Celebrated stamp set. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any of the scrapbook pages 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 #560 - CASE A Project Featuring Animals

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 projects that feature animals, these can be from the Annual Catalogue, or from the January to April mini catalogue, and trust me there are some very cute projects that meet this brief.

I was inspired by this card from page 51 of the Mini Catalogue, although I do not have these cute little sheep in my collection I did like the card layout so decided to recreate it with other products. I don't in fact have any animal stamps in my collection so that made decisions easier!

I used the gorgeous Lovely & Beautiful DSP as the starting point for my card, adding Garden Green to the foil sheet using my Blending Brush. The flowers are cut using the Simply Beautiful dies and the leaves are cut using the Lovely Arrangements dies. I am really happy with how the layers on this card came together, and when looking for a sentiment the Happy Easter seemed appropriate.

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use any project featuring animals 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