Hello everyone!! Welcome to the Celebrate Kindness Blog Hop!! If you arrived here from the talented Keren’s blog you are on the right track. If you arrived here on your own, you will want to start from the beginning at our guest of honor’s blog, the wonderful Julia.
I’m here today with a super special blog hop for Julia Altermann from Just One More Card to celebrate two things:
- Reaching 10K YouTube Subscribers, and
- to say Happy Birthday to her!!!!!!
Aren’t those two fantastic reasons to celebrate!! I think so and I feel so honored to be apart of this celebration.
Are you wondering how Julia and I met? Let me give you the story!!
I can’t remember where I saw this card by Julia two years ago but when I saw it, I was in love. I had to find out more.
I visited her blog and I feel in love with her style. She had a video to show me how to create this card and I had to try it.
She introduced me to Gerda Steiner Design, because of her I purchase so many of Gerda’s stamps. Which started a friendship with Gerda and I. Thanks Julia for that!
That’s not all, Julia has introduced me to so many other great people and crafty stuff!
Let me think:
- Prismacolor Pencils
- Purple Onion Design
- Stabilo Pens
- Kit and Clowder Online Coloring Classes
- Bloobel Digi
- Polychromous Color Pencil
- Uni-Ball Signo Broad Point Gel Pen
The most important of them is her Friendship!! Although Julia is Germany and I am in the US, we have great conversations, when time permits and I am grateful for that.
So now you know some of our background let the fun begin. I decided to case one of her cards for this hop. It only makes sense she inspires me so much!
Here is Julia’s card that I cased:
Here is my card:
Happy Birthday Julia!!
I wish you many, many, many more!!
I created another card just because Julia is that wonderful!! Clean and simple is my style so that is what I wanted to create for Julia!
Take a look:
Just for you Julia!! You are wonderful and I’m so glad to have met you.
Congrats on your successful YouTube channel and Happy Birthday!!
Wait I have one more card for you:
This card was so easy to create!! All I did was emboss on kraft cardstock. I think Julia will love this one.
Ok, ok, no more sappy stuff, LOL!! Onto the blog hop prizes!! Those are always fun. What is a blog hop without giveaways!! Take a look at the list of prizes:
A $15 gift card to Altenew
A $100 gift card to CAS-ual Fridays
A $25 gift card to Concord & 9th
A $20 gift card to Gerda Steiner Designs
A $30 gift card to Kit & Clowder
A $25 gift card to My Favorite Things
A $25 gift card to Purple Onion Designs
A $30 gift card to Pretty Pink Posh
A custom prize package from Seven Hills Crafts
A $40 gift card to Simon Says Stamp
Three custom prize packages from Stabilo
Amazing right!! Anyone can be a winner!! Everyone who leaves a comment by July 31st, 2016 by midnight will be entered into the drawing and the winners will be announced August 1 on Julia’s blog Just One More Card. There will be a total of 13 prizes up for grabs.
So what are you waiting for!!! The super talented Laura Bassen is up next!!
Go and check out everyone’s cards and leave them a super nice note!! Just in case you’ve lost your way, I’ve added all of the participants blog below.
Just One More Card
Birka Reinitz
Debra James
Francine Vuillème
Jenn Shurkus
Jessa Feig
Keren Baker
Kymona Tracey ← you’re here
Laura Bassen
Laura Sterckx
Michelle Short
Marika Rahtu
Nichol Magouirk
Nina-Mari Trapani
Sonja Kerkhoffs
Simon Says Stamp
Stephanie Klauck
Tara Cardwell
Yoonson Hur
I hope you enjoyed what’ve seen here today. I would love to hear from you!! Please let me know what you think?
Supplies used:
Thank you so much for stopping by!!
Kymona
Kreative Kymona 
Love all your cards, just beautiful!
Love the colorful backgrounds and of course the super super cute critters from Purple Onion Designs *-*
A great post! Your cards are awesome and inspiring! gorgeous work!
what beautiful cards! i can’t wait to subscribe to Julia’s youtube channel. thank you!
Love all your cards, each one is so special in its own way.
your cards are adorable!
All of your cards are just wonderful! I love the ink blending on your first one, and the embossing on Kraft for your third one.
Oh, my goodness! I just LOVE the colored background card you made. The colors, the wonky stitching, the greeting, all looks great!
Fun Cards!
& liked hearing you story!
Love the ombre background card and the penguin one!
Very cute card. Can’t wait to make Christmas cards.
Thanks for introducing me to Julia. You are right her cards are amazing. I am now a subscriber !!
Very nice cards ! I especially love the little mouse one ! So cute ! I’m sure Julia will appreciate it so much. Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.
Your cards are so beautiful and cute. Thank you so much for sharing.
Gorgeous cards celebrating 10K subscribers and to wish Julia a happy birthday!!
Great story and love all of your cards! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win.
Wonderful cards and story. Fantastic hop.
Love all your cards but mostly the one with the colorful background. Great colors!
Hugs
Claudia
I love your cards! I follow you on Instagram and I love your style!
xx Olga
Love all the cards you shared. I love the Distress Inks, and the colors you combined.
Your friendship is so beautiful! And so are the cards!!
Wow! That was a bunch of really cute cards. I especially love the Happy Birthday one and the sweet mouse one. Too cute.
Hi Kymona! Darling cards! I especially love the first one & now I want to CASE Julia, too!
Julia inspires me as well, thanks for your story!
Great cards, love the die cut frames used.
beautiful cards – both hers and yours 🙂
Beautiful cards… All of them!
Brilliant cards! My favourite is the little mouse! Julia is definitely an inspiration! I love her cards and videos!
Very special cards!
I love blending the distress inks to make beautiful backgrounds and that little owl stamp is so adorable!
Gorgeous and adorable! I love that you just kept making her cards, that’s what great friends do, lol. Thanks for sharing and inspiring. Happy Birthday Julua and congrats on reaching 10,000.
Love the watercolor backgrounds. Thanks for sharing all your cards.
That penguin is the cutest!
So many gorgeous cards. I love the little Christmas Hippo, so sweet!
What a fantastic collection of cars, love the brightness of watercolour backgrounds and white embossing and the gerder steiner stamps. All so wonderful
All three cards are great! I think some of my friends I’ve met through the Internet and crafting are the sweetest and kindest people I know. Thanks for sharing with us.
Your cards are so adorable and I love “Purple Onion” stamps. Your card designs are great and I also love the simplicity of the cards. Julie is so fortunate to have a great friend who is also talented.
Wath a great cards Collection .like your style.
Such lovely cards and how nice to hear of how your friendship blossomed.
I really love every one of these cards. And I especially love how different each one is from the other. You’re really talented!
Just one more card 🙂 What a great mix of styles.
All three are beautiful cards! Julia introduced me to many new things in the craft world as well. She caught my attention by blending Stabilo markers. I’ve been hooked ever since! Tfs!
The cards are simply stunning! I must thank Julia for getting together so many talented designers!
Your cards are wonderful. I love the bright colour combination on the first one.
Adorable cards! Love the little Santa Hippo!
Love your colourful cards, thanks
Wonderful cards. I especially love the cute Christmas hippo.
Love the little mouse in the frame. So cute.
The last card with simple embossing is great.
A lot of times “less is more”. My favorite.
thanks for sharing.
Great colors on the one you cased. My favorite is definitely the embossed penguin on kraft 🙂
Love these cards! Thanks for sharing!