Welcome to my series of blog posts where I will be sharing some fun cards from a chain card swap series that I took part in recently. I had never participated in anything like this before and it was so much fun.
What is a chain card swap? A group of people participate and it is similar to Chinese whispers where cards get sent around the chain of people and you CASE the card and send it on so that when it gets sent back to the original creator it may look completely different to the original – how fun is that?

For this first blog post share, part one we are all sharing our cards that we CASE’d for Annette McMillan’s card. See below for a list of all the blogs and the beautiful cards where you can hop along and see where the card started and ended. It is very cool to see the progression of a card along one of these chain card swap series.

sharni green’s card that i case’d

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Here is a look at Sharni Green’s beautiful card that I CASE’d for my card. Sharni’s card had a beautiful Christmas theme but I decided to stick with CASE’ing the beautiful layout design.

my finished card using the nature’s sweetness suite

Here is a look at my finished card. If you can see the idea behind the thinking of where I got my idea I kept with the main background with a strip going up the left hand side. I loved the gorgeous gold foiled Designer Series Paper in the Nature’s Sweetness Suite and so used this as my whole background adding some light blending with a Blending Brush and some Wild Wheat and Lemon Lime Twist Ink.

The ‘strip’ up the left hand side is cut with some Crumb Cake Cardstock which I have actually die cut with one of the suite’s corresponding dies which has a beautiful notebook style edge, it was perfect for this design. I added a fun vintage style effect by adding some blending along this edge.

the colour palette

a close up look at the finished detail

I added one of those beautiful big leaf/flower images which has been die cut from the Designer Series Paper! No stamping required. I added some colour with a mixture of Wild Wheat and Lemon Lime Twist Inks and added some extra die cut images from the gorgeous coordinating dies.

Some additional embellishments like the Cork Rounds, Natural Sequins and gorgeous Faux Leather Trim really helped to finish this beautiful card.

a pretty inside

I added some detail to the inside of the card with some light blending and some additional stamping which I have added in Gray Granite Ink. The stamps are just gorgeous for collage style stamping. I added some Gold Foil and Wild Wheat Cardstock to really help to finish it off.

I had so much fun CASE’ing what really was a basic layout but a great design!

Be sure to hop along and see the next gorgeous card in the chain card swap – this is really where the magic is and seeing where the design goes next….

blog hop list

Until next time, stay tuned for part two of the chain card swap series. Happy crafting. xx

There are two upcoming amazing events with The Stamping Lounge run by myself, Maheswari Rajaguru and Rochelle Laird-Smith. We will be running an online class using the brand new Stampin’ Up! Gingerbread Man Bundle and we also have our next Virtual Retreat quickly approaching that is open for registration now featuring the Stampin’ Up! Elegant Pine Snowflake Suite of products. Click the images or links to find out more and enrol OR sign up to The Stamping Lounge membership to get our monthly classes which are included in the membership.

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supply list

Product List

Lovely & Sweet Bundle (English) [162627] $91.75	Notes Of Nature Bundle (English) [162640] $81.75	Adhesive Backed Cork Rounds [162643] $11.50	Gold 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Faux Leather Trim [162644] $15.75	Nature's Sweetness 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [162616] $29.00
Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $8.75	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $14.00	Neutrals Adhesive Backed Sequins [161627] $13.25	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [147145] $15.75	Wild Wheat Classic Stampin' Pad [161651] $15.75
Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165] $15.75	Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad [147118] $15.75	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $15.75	Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665] $15.75	Blending Brushes [153611] $23.00
Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] $17.50	Wild Wheat A4 Cardstock [161734] $17.50	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $17.50	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] $15.75	2023–2025 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [161695] $31.25