Double Gate Fold Open Ocean In the Sky - Chain Card Swap for Julia

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Julia and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the beginning and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 3rd in the chain for this round and have created a super awesome Ocean in the Sky, Double gate fold card. I'm so proud of this card, its exactly how I wanted it to turn out. 

Lets take a closer look at this card. The whale and dophin images are from Along the Lines stamp set, which when I first saw it, I knew immediately I needed this set in my stash. I have white embossed them onto the coloured cardstocks to match the (retired) Everyday Skies DSP background - which reminds me of a beautiful heavenly sky.  The sentiment is from the Kintsugi suite.

One of my most favourite cards to create this chain swap. 

A sneak peek of the inside panels also covered with DSP from Everyday Skies, leaving the middle panel with plenty of writing space. 

View from above, this fun fold is made up of 2 pieces

Back panel - 1/4 A4 sheet, 10.5cm x 14.9cm

Double gate fold panel - 1/2 A4 lengthways cut at 10.5cm x 28cm, scored at 5cm, 9.5cm, 18.5cm & 23cm

I have thoroughly enjoyed using this stamp set, I'm sad to see it go! Make sure you grab a copy before it sells out,

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Pamper Panel Card - Chain Card Swap for Nancy

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Nancy and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the beginning and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 8th in the chain for this round and have created a PAMPER card.

Using the Hobby Haven DSP pack I choose a die cut to use for my main focal point and then matched the DSP for the background panels. 

Lets take a closer look at this card. I used the Dotted Circles Emboss folder on the Soft Sea Foam card base, it reminded me of bubbles.  Next up was the Pecan Pie panel and DSP panel, cut into 3 panels, I mixed the order to make it a little more eclectic. 

I really loved picking the colours and am so happy with the colour combination - Soft Sea Foam, Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow and Petal Pink.

A little love for the inside the match the front. 

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Collage Stamping with Cheers and Sips - Chain Card Swap for Carolina! Thats me.

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about ME and the CASES of my card. I encourage you to start here, at the beginning and follow along to see the progression of this card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

This is my round and I have created a Collage of images using nearly every single image in Cheers and Sips. Although this Suite has recently retired - you can recreate this look with any stamp set that has at least 3 images. Its fun, colourful and easy to do!

Lets take a closer look at this card. I darkened up the edges of this front stamped panel with some Crumb Cake ink and my large blending brush, Its a subtle . I tore a piece of Masking paper (item 155480) to protect where I was going to stamp my sentiment "Cheers Cheers Cheers"

I had so much fun stamping ALLLLL those images in all my favourite colours.

Have you tried this technique before? Did you love or hate it?

 I continued the theme to the inside, masking the bottom and stamping along the bottom of the card.

I loved using this Suite -thank you Cheers & Sips!

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A Flag card for Lets Craft Together Blog Hop

 Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months theme is Favourite Holidays or Celebrations. Well, I think they're all my favourites to be honest, birthdays are always fun, Christmas is hectic but also rewarding and Easter is all about the chocolate but theres one celebration above all others I want to acknowledge.

Today I have created an Aboriginal flag card. NAIDOC week is one of my favourite Australian celebrations, I think its one of the most important times in the year and this year NAIDOC week celebrates 50 years! 

To find out more check out https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/naidoc-theme

After cutting my 'flag' pieces in Basic Black, Poppy Parade and Daffodil Delight I ran these panels thru the Dotted Circles 3D Embossing folder to give the card texture but more so, this embossing folder has always reminded me of Aboriginal dot art, so it was fitting to use it on this card front.

The Mini Alphabet dies is perfect to add your own personalised greeting or sentiment, I spelt out NAIDOC in the flag colours. 

For the final touches I added some little dots to the inside panel with my Stampin Blends

Dotted Circle Embossing Folder is on the LAST CHANCE, grab a bargain or 2 whilst stocks last!

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A Book Fold card - Chain Card Swap for Tracy

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Tracy and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the beginning and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 9th in the chain for this round and have created a Book fold card. I have used DSP and pre-printed die cuts featured in the Hobby Haven Suite.

Lets take a closer look at this card. I have tried to recreate as many of the elements as I could. The Timid Tiger ribbon on the "book spine", foliage in the background, my plant focal image and part of a circle element (Timid Tiger - my new fav!)

I love rich earthy tones and had a lot fun playing with Cajun Craze, Timid Tiger, Garden Green and Coastal Cabana.

I love how you get a surprise on the inside (left side) with that dynamic diagonal cut, to tie the inside together I stuck a little pre-printed die cut plant to the corner.

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Hello Panel Card - Chain Card Swap for Monique

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Monique and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the beginning and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 3rd in the chain for this round and have created a DSP Panel card.

I'm loving using Cloud Cover right now, so I embraced a monotone-like approach with patterns from  Peaceful Garden DSP pack.

Lets take a closer look at this card.

Although the papers are from a christmas pack, the reverse patterns can adapt to any occasion.

"Hello" is from the Everyday Arches Bundle (retired)

The "leaf" die cut is from (retired) Christmas Greenery 

Keeping the inside very simple with just a simple strip of DSP

A great panel card that could be remade in all the PAPERS!

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