Chain Card Swap Series 5 – following Nancy’s card

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 can 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 fifth blog hop for this series, we are following Nancy’s card. I was the ninth 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).

I was making my card while crafting with two friends, one who owns the Cutest Crew bundle, which I had been wanting to play with. I die cut lots of cats, each of the three separate dies from Crumb Cake. Basic Black, and Basic Beige, so I had plenty to play with to get the balance right.

I stamped around my Crumb Cake card base using Crumb Cake ink with the paw print stamp. The three strips of paper are from the Mixed Up Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack. I have adhered them to a mat of Mossy Meadow. The three Old Olive cardstock circles were cut using a die from the Stylish Shapes die set. I have embossed a strip of Crumb Cake cardstock using the Lovely Stripes embossing folder for the centre strip. A bow tied from twine was adhered using a glue dot under the central image.

The inside Basic Beige mat was stamped using a sentiment from the same stamp set, in Crumb Cake ink. A line of paw prints was created using a die from the bundle, cut from Basic Beige, then adhered to a strip of Crumb Cake, then onto the mat.

If you haven’t started from Nancy’s original card, please click on the first link below, otherwise continue on through the progression of Nancy’s card by clicking the link after mine.

Happy crafting!