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?
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Thank you so much for stopping by!!
Kymona
Kreative Kymona 
All the cards are fantastic!!
What fun and lovely cards you have made! Shows lots of creativity.
Great collection of cards and techniques! The hippo is absolutely adorable!
all your cards are so wonderful!
Fun cards! Congrats to Julia! She’s introduced me to much as well. Glad for her success.
Great cards. I just love the colors on the happy birthday card.
Just amazing cards!
what great cards, love the happy bday one. vibrant and lovely.
Very pretty cards!!
Great cards, the hippo Christmas card is pretty cute, I would have gone looking too! Julia is definately an enabler. In the nicest possible way!
So many wonderful things on all your cards! That mouse is adorable and I love how he is the focus of the card and your penguin looks amazing-I never thought of just beat embossing like that!
What a great friend you are!
Your cards are all so different
and so pretty and sweet!
Hi Kymona ~ You know I love your CAS style and once again you have not disappointed. I “met” Julia through Jennifer McGuire’s blog and YT channel, where Julia was a “guest”. I have been following and CASEing her cards like crazy, as frequently as yesterday. Boy, does Julia LOVE glitter!! LOL Your cards are adorable, but I especially love the 2nd one. When my son was a little boy (and he’ll be 28 in a couple of months) he used to put his hands on my cheeks and say, “Mommy, you are wonderful.” (sniff, sniff) Hmmmmm….he hasn’t done that recently, LOL. Thanks for sharing and always inspiring!! ~HUGS~
PS: #craftyfriendsarethebest
I love ALL of your cards! Thanks for the story of how you met too!
Lovely cards!
Very cool cards!!
I love that third card, so simple but so effective!
Fabulous cards…love the embossing!
Love your colors vey pretty and lovely card thanksfor sharing
What a precious moments and wonderful friendship! Your cards are amazing and beautiful!
Wonderful cards. I especially like the little mouse with the big message.
A super set of cards 😀
I’m a huge fan of her work too and I love that you cased one of her cards! All 3 are beautifully done!
Gorgeous cards – love the little mouse framed, so perfectly CAS! Thank you for spotlighting some of Julia’s other work as I’m a new follower of hers (I must have been living under a rock for so long as I didn’t know about her).
Fun, fun card. I love them. Love your clean and simple cards as always
She is quite an inspiration, isn’t she?? I will always “blame” her for my love of Purple Onion designs… Beautiful cards!
Fantastic cards!
oooh beautiful cards! 🙂
Fantastic cards! I love the distress inked background!
Beautiful inking and loving those POD stamps too!
Great cards. I love your use of color
ah yes, I took have been hooked onto so many things due to Julia like PUD, GS and Kit and Clowder. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Wonderful cards and thanks for sharing your background story with Julia.
So many cute cards! I think the Hippo Christmas is my fave.
Love your cards! How awesome to have such a friendship that started from crafting! 🙂
I love the stitch marks around the cute mouse.
love the cards…fav is the hippo… 🙂
Love all the cards, Kymona. :o)
Oh, I love the two Happy Birthday card. Great! ❤
Oh, I love the two Happy Birthday cards. Great!
Thank you for sharing all your beautiful cards. I really enjoyed reading your post!
Love the color combo on the birthday card!
Very nice cards, and especially the dots, I think Julia will appreciate those 🙂
Love to hear the story about you and Julia ! How lovely ! And the birthdays are LOVELY!
Thanks for sharing! Loved your cards!
Lovely cards! Such wonderful ideas!
Simply beautiful cards – I especially love Purple Onion Designs cards, something Julia introduced me to as well 😉 Wonderful inspiration!
Don’t you just wish that Gerda had more stamps? I just love her style. Amazing cards. Thank you.
Lovely cards, all. I especially love the distress ink background on the first card.
These are wonderful! I especially like the second one, with that cute little mouse. Thanks for sharing your talent! 🙂 ~ Andrea