CASEing Kelly Blog Hop
Hello Everyone, and welcome to a very special blog hop in honor of a very special person! If you are participating in the CASEing Kelly Blog Hop, then you should have arrived from Niki G.’s blog. If you are just stumbling upon the hop now, keep reading and I will tell you a little bit about it!
If you keep current with the crafting community, I am sure you have come across the amazingly talented and oh-so-sweet, Kelly Latevola on more than one occasion! Kelly’s passion for card making has no bounds; her creations and coloring skills are off-the-charts beautiful! Kelly hosts a regular feature over on her blog called “CASEing Genius”, where she selects three cards from a fellow artist and makes a card based on those three selections. Kelly does this as a way to help other people find these artists that she is inspired by.
However, today a large group of her crafters are turning the tables and hosting a blog hop in honor of her where we are all going to CASE the original Genius… Kelly herself! :)
So, of course, I had to choose my three favorites from Kelly’s blog to create a card from (wait, only three??? I love them all! haha!). After much contemplation, I finally narrowed it down to these:
First I will tell you of the inspiration that I pulled from each of Kelly’s card… I loved the clustered look of the blossoms and leaves on the first card; it framed up the sentiment so nicely! In the second card, I was immediately drawn by the Christmas theme; but more than this, I thought that the tag that Kelly made reminded me of a Christmas ornament. And finally in the third card, the gold sentiment and watercolor background just totally had me from the moment I laid eyes on that beauty!
And here is my creation… Kelly’s cards are always usually very clean and simple, so I made sure I followed that theme while I was creating.
I created an ornament from a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle die and used gold watercolor paints to do some ink blending. I clustered some floral images from Winnie and Walter (turning them into evergreen berry branches, rather than flowers), which are colored with Copic markers in the no-line style. A sentiment from Altenew and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finished off the entire design!
GIVEAWAYS!
What is a blog hop without some fun prizes?! Leave a comment by 11:59 pm EDT on Thursday, October 29th along each stop in the hop to increase your chances of winning a prize from one of our sponsors: a2z Scrapbooking, Altenew, Create a Smile Stamps, Dee’s Artsy Impressions, djkardkreations, Hero Arts, Ink Road, Lia Stampz and Simon Says Stamp,! Winners will be notified by email after October 29th.
MORE INSPIRATION
There are many other crafters participating in this very special blog hop in honor of Kelly Latevola! Be sure to keep on hopping and see everyone else’s amazing creations!
a2z Scrapbooking
Amy Tsuruta
Ardyth Percy Robb
Brandi Hall
Char Kochensparger
Cindy Chiu
Darnell Knauss
Dawn Turley
Debra James
Deepti Malik
Donna Idlet
Elizabeth Campau
Ellen Haxelmans
Heather Ruwe
Jennifer Loftfield
Joan Bardee
Kara Vrabel
Kara-Lynne
Kathy Wade
Katie Gehring
Kristie Goulet
Kristina Beagle
Kymona Tracey
Laura Jane
Leigh Penner
Lin Brandyberry
Linda Trace
Lindsay Amrhein
Lydia Evans
Maria Sabina Raita
Marika Rahtu
Martha Lucia Gomez
Michele Cunningham
Michele Ferguson
Michelle Lupton
Michelle Williams
Monica Maier
Niki G.
Nina-Marie Trapani
Rubeena Naz
Shelly Kurth
Taunya Butler
Thordis Dogg
Vera Yates
Kelly Latevola
PRODUCTS
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Altenew LYRICAL SCRIPT Clear Stamp Set AN137[/one_fifth][one_fifth padding=”5px 5px 5px 5px”]
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Gorgeous card! Thanks for all of your hard work! This hop was wonderful!
P.S. I’m going to hire you to redo my blog because I love that banner so dang much. It’s perfect.
I have no words. I will never be able to tell you how you’ve touched my heart. I know the work you put in to make this happen for me and i will be forever grateful. Your card is stunning, as usual. I love how you made it your own. Those berry branches are brilliant. Thank you so much for everything! xoxo
Oh how beautiful!!!
What a heartfelt act of kindness that you assembled. Your CASE is beautiful too =)
Tracie
Creations For Kindness
Holy cow! Your card is stunning! What an awesome CASE of Kelly’s cards!
This is so pretty. LOVE the colors yo used and all the layering!!
Your ornament card is so pretty!
Your CASE card is awesome! Beautiful details!
Nina, your ornament card is brilliant. When I read that you used a stitched rectangle die for your ornament, I paused and retread the statement. Then realized that was your second layer and you used a circle die for the ornament. Regardless, it’s a beautiful card and great hop!
What a stunningly gorgeous holiday card! Love your take on Kelly’s cards!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for this awesome hop and for all your amazing efforts that went into it!! You are a jewel!! Your card is beautifully done and it is filled to the brim with wonderful details that really make it shine!!! Such a pleasure to see!!!
I love the colors. You picked awesome and colorful cards and CASE-ed it amazingly.
Love the gold accents. Beautiful card.
Fabulous card! Love it :)
LOVE this holiday card! Absolutely gorgeous!
Take care!
Michele
Awesome card. Love the gold just amazing
Nina…. This is such a Brilliant CASE!!!
Love your work & have been an admirer since quite sometime now!!
I just knew it’s gonna be a Jaw Dropping Card & sure it was!! Even better than expected!!
Loveeee every element that u put together to create this Magical Card!!!
LOVE it !
Nina overcame your inspiration! your card is so beautiful!!! is stunning!
What a beautiful Christmas card! Love the bold sentiment and how you popped it up! Wonderful job CASEing Kelly’s cards! This is an amazing hop!
Thanks for all your hard work, organizing this amazing fun hop and great tribute to Kelly’s work!
Love this festive creation with a wow factor with wonderful ornament in gold and a cluster of floral with gorgeous red ribbon! Love your talent!
Fun blog hop. Beautiful card
Love your card and the way you transformed the inspiration!
Perfectly Festive take on all three of Kelly’s cards! Thanks again for all that you did in organizing the HOP for KELLY. Your energy and enthusiasm overflows to the success of a most LOVELY hop! Hugs to you:)
Your card is beautiful, Nina!!!!
Wow Nina-Marie, your card is stunning! Love your design and all the wonderful details! Love seeing how you were inspired by Kelly!
You certainly give tribute to the star of the blog hop.
What a great group of bloggers.
What a challenge to select *only* three favourites from Kelly’s amazing arsenal of creativity, but wow…you managed to narrow down some real treasures. Your case: simply awesome! Such a marvelous hop to put the spotlight on someone who allows so many others to shine. Heart-warming and touching!
~c
No doubt about it, You are one detailed lady! Love your interpretation CASE card to pieces!
No doubt about it…You are one Detailed lady! Love your Merry and Bright Case Card! Outstanding interpretation. Love this so much!
What a beautiful card! Love it!!
Love your card. What a simple way to make an ornament from a circle die~!
Simply gorgeous – Such a wonderful case. Love it:)
Pretty cards!
Such a gorgeous card, Nina! WOW!
Love your card CASE! beautiful!
Wow! Beautiful cards!!!
Wow, I think you did a beautiful job of incorporating the elements of each card that you spoke about, and still keeping true to your own style as well. This is a gorgeous card, CASE or no! Thank you for being part of this lovely hop honoring Kelly, I think we all admire her work, as well as who she is as a person, and I can’t imagine a nicer way to say thank you.
Oh Nina you know you’re super duper talented!!! I love every card you make :)
Absolutely gorgeous layers and I love the gold sentiment!
What a gorgeous card
Such a lovely card!
fabulous case, love the layering panel that ties in.
Nina, your ornament card CASE of your chosen three Kelly cards is beautiful enough to hang on the tree or in a window pane! It is breathtaking!! Hugs, Darnell
Nina-Marie, TFS your very pretty Christmas card using Kelly’s cards for inspiration.
What a really pretty card. Great job!
So festive!
This is such a pretty CASE of Kelly’s work! Love it!
Your card is so lovely, a very fitting tribute to the wonderful Kelly L.!!
Beautiful card!
Lovely colors and layout making a terrific CASEd tribute!
OMG your card is beautiful. You rocked the CASE.
Your card is absolutely gorgeous! Love it!
I love your beautiful Christmas card design.
Oh, wow! Love your card! Love the colors and the layout! Hugs xx
Very pretty! I see why you chose these cards to CASE they are stunning!
WOW! Love your card! It’s a stunner :)
So gorgeous!!!
Beautiful card. This card really pops. Thanks for sharing your talent. Great CASEimg blog.
lovely card, the gold is fab!
Oh, this is gorgeous! Wonderful CASE of Kelly’s work!
What a fun hop. Not only do I get to see Kelly’s work I get to see yours too. Winner winner.
How pretty! I just love this ornament! The foliage on top is perfect and love the embossed sentiment on vellum!
Awesome!! I love everything about it!!! Pinning for future CASE!! ;)
WOW! Absolutely, gorgeous CASE!!
So gorgeous!! I love the various golds throughout! What a wonderful CASE!
Your card is so pretty! Love the beautiful layering!
GORGEOUS, Nina Marie! I love all the tiny details! Thanks so much for bringing us all together!
Love, love, love this to the max! Such a cute Christmas card and perfect CASE.
Ah-mazing !! Love the gold water color edge of the circle :) such a pretty design :)
Fantastic case of Kelly’s pretty cards! Thanks for all the work you did to put this together!
WOW! You rock, Girl!
Absolutely WOW.
great card and wow what a lot of blog hoppers,, well she deserves it ;-)