If you haven’t seen our chain card swap blog hops before, Tracy Held decided to organise a group of Australian Stampin’ Up! demonstrators for a fun card swap idea. Each member in the group creates an original card, then sends it on to the next person on their list. They then have to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) this card, then send it on. The sending lists are random, so you are not sending to the same person each time. Once the card has been to everyone, it goes back to the designer – who may not even recognise it as their own design!
Once the round is completely finished, we blog about the cards, with each blog hop following one of the cards from the original design to what was sent back to the designer. This is the fifth series we have completed – I love the challenge of making each design my own!
For our ninth blog hop for this series, we are following Dannii’s card, shown here.
I was the fifth in this round. To see the progression of each card, I suggest you start at the top of the list of links below my post (if you haven’t already).
To recreate my card, the paper is from the Turtle-y Cute Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack. Cut two strips of your first paper at 14.9 x 2.5cm, and one strip of a matching paper at the same size.
Adhere a strip of the first paper 0.5cm down from the top of a standard Poppy Parade card base (21.0 x 14.9cm), folded in half at 10.5cm. Next, adhere the strip of the second paper 0.5cm below this. Finally, adhere your remaining strip of the first paper under this, using the same sized gap.
Stamp your greeting (from the Simply Said stamp set) in Versamark onto the bottom right corner of the card base. Cover with white embossing powder and heat set.
Cut a 9.0 x 12.5 mat of Basic White card stock. Use the second largest die from Nested Essentials dies to remove the centre of this mat. Adhere into place using Dimensionals, over the strips of paper, so that a small amount overhangs at the top and bottom.
For the focal point, dies from the Pretty Florals dies have been used. Die cut your large flower image from Timid Tiger cardstock, and the overlay from Peach Pie. Adhere the overlay into place on the larger piece. Die cut the two different leaf pieces from Pool Party. Adhere these pieces into place, using glue or tape where it touches the white mat, and Dimensionals where they need support.
Finish the front with three Timid Tiger embellishments from the 2025-2027 In Color® Flat Pearls.
For the inside, adhere a narrow strip of one of the printed papers you used on the front of your card towards the bottom of a 10.0 x 14.4cm mat of Basic White cardstock. Adhere inside your card base.
Now it’s time to keep hopping on through the links below to see the progression of Dannii’s card.
Happy crafting!
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Such a lovely card. Glad you liked my original.