Series 5 of our Chain Card Swap – following my 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 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!

This is the final round, and it just happens to be my card we are following, so I’m the first in the list!

To re-create my card, you will need a piece of 13.0 x 9.5cm paper – I used one from the Florals in Bloom Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack.

Place a pencil mark 2cm down from the top left corner, and 6cm up from bottom right corner. Also mark at 4cm along bottom from right hand side.

Cut from top left mark to mark on opposite side, and from bottom edge mark to top left mark. You will be left with three pieces.

Use the Damask Designs embossing folder on a 10.0 x 14.4cm piece of Fresh Freesia card stock. Repeat the instructions for cutting as for the DSP. You will need to keep the piece with the corner. (the pieces not used for this card can be used to make the same card but reversed).

Cut a 1.0cm strip of Berry Burst cardstock, and adhere to the edge of the diagonal cut of your DSP, with edges overhanging. Carefully trim in line with the edge of the DSP. Repeat for your second piece of DSP.

Adhere your embossed piece of Fresh Freesia onto a standard 21.0 x 14,9cm Berry Burst card base, folded at 10.5cm, so that it sits 0,5cm from the bottom and right edges of the card base.

Use dimensionals to adhere your two pieces of DSP into place, allowing 0.5cm from all edges.

To create the focal point, cut three petals from the Pretty Florals die set from Fresh Freesia card stock. Use Bubblebath card stock for the stems and leaves die. Die cut a circle using a die from the Stylish Shapes die set. Adhere the top of the stems to the bottom of the petals. Use Dimensionals to adhere this piece onto the white circle – you may need to cut them into smaller pieces to support the leaves and stems.

Adhere the circle into place, using glue for the parts that will touch the DSP pieces, and Dimensionals to support the rest.

Finish off with three rhinestones, placed in a triangular pattern.

For the inside, use a 1.0 x 10.0cm strip of the same DSP used on the front, and adhere towards the bottom of a Basic White 10.0 x 14.4cm mat. Adhere the mat into place.

Please use the links below to see how my design progressed.

Blog Hop Index

Happy crafting!