March Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello everyone. It's the second of the month, which means it's time to reveal all of the cards that were exchanged in the Card Chain Challenge for March. And since I neglected to post last month's card, I will share it here as well.

My March card went to Gail in Canada.

As always, there were different inspiration options to choose from. This month, I went with the Theme options of Africa and Friendship. 

This card panel was in my UFO box, and it was just perfect for this month's theme option of Africa. The image stamps are by Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, and I paired them with a sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays/Catherine Pooler.

I'm also linking up this card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Allsorts - Anything goes

In February, my card went to Linda in Michigan, USA.

For this one, I used the Theme option of Hearts & Flowers and the Product/Technique option of Die cutting. I used a flower panel die from an older Tonic Card Kit to create a stencil and used that to stencil the design onto PTI rustic white cardstock. The sentiment stamp and die are from the same Tonic card kit.

Do check out the other cards that were exchanged in March and February at the Card Chain Challenge.

You have until the 6th of the month to sign up for the April Card Chain Challenge.

Two Christmas cards

Hello everyone. I have two new Christmas cards to share with you, one in traditional green, and one in pink. I do love to vary between traditional and non-traditional colours for my Christmas cards. How about you?

For my first card, I used my NBUS Ink & Flip stencil from Uniko (Layering Geometric Christmas Tree). I started by blending the light green, and then flipped the stencil to blend the darker green. There's also a background stencil in the set, but I have not used it yet. 

I'm linking up this card at:

Jingle Belles - Green Christmas

NBUS - #72

SSS Wednesday - Fun with stencils

For my second card, I started with a very old 12x12 paper and paired it with a few snowflakes from my UFO box (2 of them are by SSS, not sure about the 3rd on the right). The Christmas tree (Marianne Design) also came from my UFO box. I adhered 3 trees together and then decided I wanted to add a little shimmer. So I heat embossed it using Wanderlust embossing powder (WOW/Catherine Pooler).

I'm linking up this card at:

Allsorts - #819 Feminine

Christmas Kickstart - #96 Not the norm

Rudolph Days March - AG goes

CCC January 2025

I'm back with a card that I created for the January 2025 Card Chain Challenge, and it's time for the reveal today. I had to skip a few months but it feels good to join in again. This also goes to show that participating in the Card Chain Challenge is always optional. You don't have to commit to each and every month. You only sign up for the current month. So if you're still on the fence about joining, just give it a try and see how it works out. Just sayin'...

Anyway, this month my card went to Greta in the US.

I used the colour palette for my inspiration: walnut, lavender and jade.

To create my background, I first inked up the inside om my NBUS 3D embossing folder (SSS) with brown distress ink and coloured in the rest with Copic markers after the embossing. The gorgeous foiled greeting was a gift from one of the CCC participants last year.