Card Swap Chain – Balloon Festoon

We have recently finished another round of the “Card Swap Chain”. It is a card version of what is called “Chinese Whispers” in Australia (we called it “Broken Telephone” in South Africa). Each of us designed a card (round 1) and sent it off to one of the other participants. That person CASE-d (Copy And Share Everything / Copy And Selectively Edit) the card and send their version on to the next person. The card made its way around until finally a version came home to the maker. We are now doing a series of blog hops for each of the card designs to share the fun and amazement at the evolution.

My card is at round 3 (close to the beginning this time) of this chain. The first card in this chain was created Danielle Edwards. I suggest starting at Danii’s post and then hopping through so that you can see the card progression.

Of course I had to change the shape of the split focal point. I felt like I was channeling my inner Ros when I was inking all the background balloons!

Sometimes the cards change so much that if you only saw the first and the last card, you wouldn’t think that they are on the same chain. This one started with (what I thought was) an unusual split focal point. At round 5 the focus changed to the background rather than the foreground of the card.

Hop around see how how the changes happened.

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This month’s fold is a “Twisted Step” card. I have made this card before, and I love the design. Here is a sneak peek of the samples included in the tutorial:

This is a photo of my sample for this tutorial

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Any orders placed by the 15th October will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. The theme for this month’s bundle is “Fun Folds”. Here is a sneak peek of the tutorial projects.

This is the project that I contributed this month:

I am starting a new project with Diane Evans in Canada. Any orders over $75 will receive a card kit and tutorial to make four cards. This month’s kit uses the Sunflower Fields suite and has two standard and two fun fold cards. If you don’t have the Radiant Sunflowers bundle you can use any floral bundle and sentiments to complete your cards. If you have a demonstrator but would like to purchase the kit, it is available for $60 including postage. Send me an email on TraceOfCreativity@outlook.com and I will organise to send it to you. This is a sneak peek of the cards in this month’s tutorial