Well, I have to admit, I am feeling pretty special!! My dear friend, Kylie Bertucci from Australia along with her team of demonstrators choose me to CASE (Copy And Share Everything) for their blog hop! What an honor!! Kylie and her team are amazing stampers and I can’t tell you how cool it is that they like my work on another entire hemisphere!! I don’t want to toot my own horn, but being revered in 2 hemispheres is pretty cool! 🙂 All kidding aside, I am incredibly honored that they wanted to CASE my work! Now, the really hard part was to pick a card of my own and CASE it!!
Your work can be like your kids: You love them all equally, right? NAAAAAH!!!!! I totally have cards that I love and other cards that I think to myself, “what made me think that was a good idea?” or my personal favorite, “that is bad. do not share.” Luckily those don’t ever make it to my blog, but I am always surprised at what people think is amazing vs what I think is amazing. I cannot wait to see what everyone picks in the hop! I am giddy just thinking about it! 🙂
After a LENGTHY decision process, here is what I came up with:
I made this card a few weeks ago for a challenge (and I LOVED this card–especially the colors!) You can see the post and video tutorial here. I knew I was not done with this concept, and so I used the layout and came up with this:
I LOVE the Pretty Petals DSP Paper Stack-It is so pretty and has some great color options. Plus it has black in it–HELLO!?!?! That is so my fav!
I used 3/4″ strips on the card (they were 1/2″ on the card I was CASING). I picked patterns with a darker/solid color to them–vs the ones with lots of “white space”).
I toyed with a lot of options for what to stamp in the “white space” area. I settled on a Butterfly that was sitting on my desk. I love the look! I used Wink of Stella on the Calypso Coral butterfly and then added the Black detailed butterfly on top with a Blushing Bride flower (from the Tree Builder Punch) on the top with a pearl. The Greeting is from Remembering Your Birthday. I added some gold thread behind the butterfly.
I just love how the card turned out and I hope you liked it, too! Please check out the other fabulous blogs and their CASEd projects–I am so excited to see what everyone picked!
I hope you’ve enjoyed all these fun projects! For my VIP Rewards members, I have another video and more cards posting on our FB page! If you have loved these projects and can’t wait to get some of the things I’ve used, I would be so grateful if you would purchase them through my online store! Every time you order through The Creativity Cave, my heart soars, and I think of more ways to inspire you through my awesomeness and amazing stamping projects! It means so much to me that you let me into your craft rooms and devices! 😉 I love that I can share my passion with you! But don’t forget, there are lots of perks for ordering from The Creativity Cave!! I have a fabulous VIP Rewards program that I cannot wait to welcome you into! Lots of great things that go with it. You can read about it here. Don’t forget to use May’s Hostess Code YFVSXRJH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT–I am so grateful for each of you!! Happy Stamping!
And one more thing–don’t forget to share this post on your favorite Social Media Platform! I would be so grateful! Happy Stamping!
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Gorgeous card Dena. I love the colour combo and butterflies. I am super excited to be hopping with you today 🙂
Love your cards Dena! Thanks for hopping with us Crazies! Xx
What a lovely take on your original! I particularly love the little flower on the butterfly. Thanks so much for hopping with us Crazy Crafters!
Oooh, I don’t know which one I like best Dena. They’re both adorable! Thank you for hopping with us today! We’re so excited and so glad you said yes! xoxo
Love both cards Dena!! Thanxz again for allowing me to CASE you for the hop.
Stunning – I love what you’ve done!
Thank you so much for doing us the honour of joining our Blog Hop and also for the inspiration you provide so generously – not just for this Hop but always.
They’re both beautiful cards Dena and love the designs. Thanks so much for hopping with us and allowing me to case your fabulous cards. You’re truly inspirational. 🙂
Awesome card Dena. Thank you so much for hopping with us Crazies
Thanks for taking part with our blog hop Dena!! We are totally honoured you said yes! You have so many gorgeous projects to inspire us. You made it so easy for us to make incredibly amazing looking cards! xx
Gorgeous card dena!!! All your work is gorgeous was hard to pick just one to case!!
Thank you for joining us
Thank you so much, Bree! You are so sweet!
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Awesome, this card was one of my favorites, I had so much fun making it a while back! But, like many others, I do love all of your cards Dena. You are fabulous!!! And so is Kylie Bertucci, I love so many of her projects. Yeah, thanks for posting more cards! Alex.
Thank you so much, Kylie!! I loved being an honorary Crazy Crafter today!!
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Thank you so much, Angela!!
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You are so kind, Juana!! Thank you!!
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Just stunning Dena! no surprise that I love any hint of Pink, combined with black and white it is always a winner – I can’t choose which I prefer, they are both winners in my eyes. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us
Oh Stephanie–you are just the sweetest!! Thank you–the honor was all mine to be able to join you!! BTW, I LOVE your blog header! 🙂
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Thank you so much, Katen!! So glad to be a part of your hop!!
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Thank you so much, Gail!! So honored!!
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I think I like the 2nd one better. It’s hard to say, they are both great cards! Congratulations!
Really beautiful cards, Dena. Thank you for the great inspiration and participating in the Crazy Crafters blog hop. I had a really hard time to choose which card to CASE. Your cards are all amazing.
Thank you for hopping with us. Really enjoyed looking through your work. Love the colour combination you’ve chosen.
These are both beautiful cards Dena, I perused all of them before I ran out of time to join in on the hop. All of your creations are amazing!
Awesome CASE Dena, we hope you had fun! Let’s hop again soon 🙂
Oh my gosh! I didn’t realize that you were going to be the feature artist of a CASE blog hop. Without even knowing it, I also CASEd you this week. Here is my post where I featured you: https://stampwitchblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/party-animal/
Congratulations! Thanks so much for being a constant source of inspiration! You are amazing!
I love both of these cards. Gorgeous! Thanks so much for letting us CASE your cards and taking part in our Crazy Crafters blog hop!