Case me a Christmas Card with Susan Opel

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2021 - a Christmas Card blog series! 

From October to December, I will link to a series of guest cardmakers on my blog. I will CASE one of their cards, and they will CASE one of mine! CASE stands for either Copy And Share Everything, or Copy And Selectively Edit. It's about getting inspiration from cardmaking friends, but making a new card that is our own. And, of course, the card we each make has to be a Christmas card!

Background

In November 2016, I started this a little series on my blog. It started with me wanting to challenge myself to step outside my comfort zone with my Christmas cardmaking, so I asked friends to challenge me to do something different. 2016 challenges included using embroidery thread on a card, making a food themed card, making a geeky Christmas card (it had the Tardis on it) and making a dinosaur themed card. 

In 2017, I asked some of my cardmaking friends to join me with these challenges. Then, in 2020, I changed things up a bit by asking each of my guests to CASE one of my cards and I would CASE one of theirs. Ardyth Percy Robb made a video in 2020 (linked here) of a 5 step process that I use all the time when I am making a CASE of anybody's card, so I encourage you to check out her video!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Susan Opel. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE. 

Some of the products I used are discontinued - I used a Merry Christmas die from CASual Fridays, and the Peace Love Joy 6x6 paper pad from Lawn Fawn.

 This is the card I Cased: 

Susan also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

Thanks for visiting :)

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Jeanne Jachna

Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2019! I have asked cardmaking friends to join me in the lead up to Christmas by challenging me to make a card using a specific style, theme, technique or product.

My guest for today is Jeanne Jachna of "A Kept Life".  She has challenged me to make a card with only diecutting - no stamping!!

You can check out her take on the challenge HERE. 

Here's what I came up with:

I used the Fresh Pine Curved Border by Memory Box to create the layers. I sprayed the navy blue layer with Perfect Pearls in water to give some shine and to make it look a bit like a night sky. The sentiment is from CAS-ual Fridays.

 Thanks for visiting :)

Die cuts from yupo

This card came from the card I posted yesterday - the "friend" die cut is from that card.

The friend die cut is from CAS-ual Fridays, as is the stamped sentiment below. The border die is from Hero Arts, cut from a different yupo panel.

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Happy birthday, friend

I made this card on the same day I made a Valentine's Day card that I posted a couple of weeks ago. I used exactly the same technique, just different colours and a different sentiment.

Thee flowers are from Altenew, the die is from CAS-ual Fridays, and the stamped sentient is from Simon Says Stamp.

I'll be sharing this at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "Anything Goes". 

Thanks for visiting :)

Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to my project for the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop! 

Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but is more common among pregnancies that do not survive to full term. That is why Turner Syndrome Females are considered MIRACLES!

I teach University Biology students about Turner Syndrome every year, and what surprises many students is that Turner Syndrome is not always diagnosed at birth, or even in early childhood. In fact, some women with Turner Syndrome don't realise they have it until they reach maturity. 

Nineteen caring Sponsors and eleven DT Members have partnered with us to bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public. For details on how you might win any of these fabulous prizes, please see Lori's TS home page. Thanks for learning About Turner Syndrome. 

My TS related project uses a few colors from the TS official color board:

Here's what I came up with using this colour scheme:

I used stamps from CAS-ual Fridays, Wplus9 and Lil' Inkers Designs.

Make sure that you visit the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop page to become eligible for prizes!

HOW TO WIN:

• Leave a comment on the TS Awareness Home Blog Post stating at least one thing you learned about Turner Syndrome. Our Tab titled About Turner Syndrome has a pictorial explanation of many of the symptoms or limitations faced by TS females.
• Leave a comment on one or more DT blog hop posts. 
• Prizes will be awarded randomly from the comments left on 19 of the DT blog hop posts + by 11 of the designers who are awarding prizes of their own. So the more posts you visit and comment on, the more likely you are to win a prize. Don't forget! You must also leave one comment on the Home Blog, too.
• We hope this will bring an awareness not only about Turner Syndrome in females, but that if any human being seems a bit out of the ordinary, there could be a health-related or genetic reason for it, and it would be nice to give everyone the benefit of the doubt in our daily lives.

I'll be sharing this at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "Anything Goes". 

Thanks for visiting :) 

Favourites of 2018

Welcome to my annual post of favourite cards for 2018.

I'm not sure if you noticed (ha!), but I started a love affair with alcohol inks this year:

 


I still love my Zig clean color real brush markers too, especially with white embossed background stamps

I quite enjoy colouring florals, using whatever combination of media seems like fun at the time:

Here are some random cards I particularly liked this year

And I always love making Christmas cards

Thank you for everyone who has supported my card-making hobby throughout the year, in a multitude of different ways. Extra thanks to Hero Arts and Lisa and Jess at A Blog Named Hero, Michele Gross and Alanna Moses at CAS-ual Fridays stamps, Karren and all of the ladies at Fusion challenge blog and Susan Opel at Simon Says Stamp. A special thank you to Jennifer McGuire for her kindness and encouragement (and all the inspiration!), and to all my lovely guests for my Challenge me a Christmas Card series. And thank you to everyone who has left a kind word or suggestion in the comments, and all my wonderful followers on Instagram and Facebook - I really appreciate your support!

Thanks for visiting :)