Guest Designing for Tic Tac Toe

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I'm excited and honored to be Guest Designing today for the

Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

This time of year is my favorite with the leaves changing, smells of fall, and cooler, 

crisp days.

There was this panel of embossed leaves on sitting on my table that was perfect

for this time of year.

I added some die cut and watercolored leaves.  Some were cut and colored already.

Some were done just for this card. 

A little twine and I thought it was done.

Then I thought maybe some Nuvo drops would look good.  But I got a glob

and in trying to rub it away, it left some sheen on the leaf.  So I did the same to

the other leaves.

Here's the Tic Tac Toe board.

I used the column in the middle: Leaves/Foliage, Thank You, Die Cut(s)

I hope you'll check out the inspiration cards the Design Team has done and play along

over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

Challenges:

Four Seasons - ATG Fall

Just us Girls #748 - Word Week (Leaves)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Scripty Sayings (GKD)

Ink:   Cajun Craze

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Neenah Desert Storm, Watercolor

Other:  Re-inkers for watercolor, Leaves Dies (LF), Layered Leaves (MFT), Autumn Serenade EF (SB)

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Thankful Pumpkin

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I'm still enjoying this pumpkin die.

This time I cut it from orange cardstock and sponged and darker orange ink on the edges.

The leaves are even cut from the orange.

The background was embossed and (mis)stamped.  The pumpkin was a good

way to cover that up.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Dry embossing using the option of a sentiment

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Inky week (the pumpkin as well as my fingers)

Tic Tac Toe - Middle Column (Orange, Embossing, Fruit) (pumpkin is a fruit)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Perfect Pairs Essentials (PTI)

Ink:   Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Soft Suede

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Pumpkin Pie

Other:  Into the Blooms Pumpkins dies (PTI), Autumn Serenade EF (SB), Thankful die (CP), Linen Thread (SU)

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Fall Blessings

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Today is Craft Group day and our theme for swaps this month is Fall.

I thought I'd show you what the gals will be getting from me.

The pumpkins are quite large so I made A6 size cards.

The bottom natural layer was embossed with my Burlap Embossing Folder.

The layered pumpkins were cut from So Saffron cardstock and colored with finger

daubers and ink.  The leaves were cut from some snippets of the natural cardstock and

colored the same way.

I broke out this NBUS alphabet dies and discovered that the set has two W outlines

and no outline of the O.  A reminder that I need to check out things before stashing them.

The little curls on the stems are very narrow strips cut from the Saffron cardstock and

curled with tweezers.

Challenges: 

Four Seasons - Fall

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #256 - Left hand column Fall/Embossing/Layers (Each pumpkin has 4 layers as well as leaves and stems)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Take Care (ret SU)

Ink:   Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Brown Sugar

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Primitive Cream (MFT), So Saffron, Soft Suede

Other:  Into the Blooms Pumpkins, Tasteful Texture EF (SU), Twiggy Alphabet (MB), Stitched Shapes Die (ret SU)

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Guest Designing at Tic Tac Toe

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I was honored and excited to be asked to Guest Design at

Tic Tac Toe #254.

Here's the Tic Tac Toe board.

I used the middle row: Birds, Free, Dry Embossing.

I had colored a whole flock of hummingbirds when I got the die set so I picked one

out and embossed flowers on a piece of watercolor paper for him to visit.

It was very QACAS.  It's probably the quickest card I ever made!

I think it took longer to pick a sentiment than doing the rest of the card.

Now it's your turn to pick a row.  Don't forget to go over and

check out what that fabulous Design Team has done at 

Tic Tac Toe #254 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Pawsitively Saturated Ink Cubes (Greens, Lemonade), Primrose Petals, Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (TH)

Other:  Delicate Florals Hummingbirds Die (SB), Peony Bundle 3D EF (SSS)

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Seaside Wishes Mini Slimline

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The background was embossed and lightly rubbed with white pigment ink.

The sand dollars were stamped, die cut and embossed.  I watercolored a little pink over the

 beige in homage to the mood board. And do you see the beach girl's legs on this card?

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use embossing

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - 4th week of the month-ATG

Just Us Girls #736 - Bobby's Mood Board

Tic Tac Toe #252 - Betty's Board (Center Column - Die Cuts, Free, Any Sentiment)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Seaside Wishes (SU), BP Plate It's Your Day (SB)

Ink:   Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Betterpress Black, Saltwater Taffy, Rusty Hinge (DI)

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Coastal Cabana

Other:  Seaside Wishes Dies (SU), So Swirly EF (SU)

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Cosmos Bouquet

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This Cosmos die has been hanging out in my NBUS box for far too long!

When I saw Vicky's Tic Tac Toe board, I knew it was time to get it out.

I die cut three cosmos and used three colors of ink for the flowers; yellow, darker yellow, 

pink, and a combination of them for the third flower.

I thought they needed some greenery for contrast and die cut my favorite SSS

leaf die to go with the flowers.  I ink blended three shades of green on them.

The little bee was sitting on my desk, leftover from a previous card and he

buzzed over to check out these flowers.

Burlap embossing and a bit of twine finished this card.

Challenges:

Tic Tac Toe #250 - (left hand column Friendship, Die Cuts, Ink Blend)

NBUS - (Never Before Used Schtuff)

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week one Ink (Did ink blending on the die cuts)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Sunbeam, Citrus, Guava, Pearfection, Field Pine)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Daffodil Delight

Other:  Cosmos Stem, Privet Branch (SSS), Burlap EF (Honeybee)

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Hopping By

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After trying many coloring mediums to find the perfect one for a class, I had

a lot of frog samples left over.  This is one that I stamped on a scrap oval die cut.

I love plaid paper.  It's fun and seems to pair with this jaunty frog perfectly!

Teen cards are hard for me and I'm trying to get some together for the grandkids to

take with them to birthday parties.  This will go in that stash.

Challenges:

AAA Birthday #62 - Cute

Penny Black Saturday - ATG Penny Black option of Happy Birthday

Tic Tac Toe 249 -left hand column (layers, die cut, patterned paper

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Toadily (PB), Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Christmas Plaid PP (MFT), Christmas Pine (GKD)

Other:  Double Stitched Oval STAX die (MFT), Fluted Oval die (Spl), Ohuhu Marker (Gy3), Pink, Black Ultrafine Sharpies, Sequins (?)

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New and Not so New

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I'm playing with a couple of challenges today and pulled out a new to me

die set that was recently bought on whopping good sale.

It made a great background for these older dies (probably not available anymore) 

from Memory Box.

I die cut the watering can from light gray cardstock and inked it a bit with some 

Distress Ink and a finger dauber.

The flowers were die cut from watercolor paper and also colored with ink.  

I touched them with a damp waterbrush to give them a watery look.

I did have a bit of trouble cutting this background piece.

I ended up using a dryer sheet with 80 lb paper and a new cutting plate.

I think it was worth the trouble and the $5.00 that I paid for it.

Here's a closer look.

The inside die cut piece is doubled for a bit of depth and the watering can was cut

a second time from a snippet of dark gray to offset with the lighter gray front.

I used my tiny circle punches to cut the centers for the flowers and dots on the

watering can.

The sentiment was computer generated.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #725 - Color Challenge (Peach, Lavender, Gray)

NBUS #62 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Background Die)

Tic Tac Toe #246 - (Diagonal Flowers, Free, Die Cuts)

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:  Peachy, Sherbet (SSS), Wilted Violet, Hickory Smoke (DI) 

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Watercolor Scraps, Black

Other:  Scrolled Punch and Pierce Plate (Spl), Vintage Watering Can, Long Stem Lavender, Darling Viola Dies (MB)

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Hello Friend

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I have a stack of Betterpress designs waiting to be colored.  It seems like there's

always something else that needs to be done and coloring gets put aside.

With a color choice of peach and green, I had to push life out of the way and

get my brush wet!

It was so much fun coloring this with Arteza Twi-markers.

After coloring the image, I usually  do a wash with blue re-inker.  Since Color Hues 

wants us to use just the two colors and any neutrals the blue was out.

The drop of Brushed Corduroy Distress re-inker in my dish came in handy.  I added a drop

of water to that and using the wet on wet technique, I dropped a bit around the bouquet.

I'd seen that stenciling was a part of a couple of challenges and thought a little random

stenciling with what was left of Brushed Corduroy in a thumb dauber would add some to

the design without making it too busy.

I'm happy with it and I hope you like it too.

Challenges:

Color Hues #84 - Peace and Green

Stencil Fun Challenge - Use a stencil optional theme Spring Flowers

Tic Tac Toe #244 - Middle Row (Spring Colors, Free, Stencil)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  A Friend Like You Pressplate (Spl)

Ink:   Betterpress Black, Brushed Corduroy (DOX, RI)

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Kraft

Other:  Arteza Twi-markers (Peach, Sage Green, Lime Green, Caramel Brown), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils, Texture Mesh Stencil (MB)

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Chocolate Bunny

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Hippity, hoppity, Easter's on it's way.

Challenges:

Four Seasons - Spring

Memory Box #105 - Spring

Tic Tac Toe #243 - Silke's Board (used left hand column (Easter Eggs, Pastel Colors, Grass)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Springtime Fun (PS)

Ink:   Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, PP (MS), So Saffron, Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green (SU), Milk Chocolate (MFT), Granny 

Other:  Wishful Bunny (MB), Woven Basket (MB), Grassland Border, (PS), Stitched Egg Medley (PS), Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS), Bunnies & Bows (ret LI)

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Easter Crocuses

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I am so blessed!

A very sweet and dear friend recently shared some of her stash with me.

Among the MANY things she sent were these Crocus Dies that I had been

drooling over wanting for quite some time.

I went right to work with them...

I had some scraps of Fresh Freesia cardstock laying around.

I die cut the two largest crocuses and a couple of buds from the Freesia and

again from green since the leaf dies are connected to the flowers.

(Personally I think they should be separate so there wouldn't be as much waste.)

Just sayin'.

I sponged some ink on the die cuts and shaped the flowers a bit before

putting them together.

The frame die was in the same gift box and I was delighted to see that these

sweet images of spring fit in there perfectly.

And a twofer....

This time I CASEd the layout from another friend's card that I have been enjoying.

Challenges:

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Die Cuts

Double D - First Signs of Spring

Inkspirational #311 - CAS (didn't use the option of balloons.

Tic Tac Toe #242 - Diagonal CAS, Free, Favorite Color

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Fresh Freesia, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Fresh Freesia, Wild Wasabi

Other:  Botanicuts Crocus (Grtry), Script Easter (SK), Dainty Diamonds EF (ret SU), Fun Floral Sidkick Frame (PS)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Indescribable Gift (ret SU)

Ink:   VersaMark, Fresh Freesia, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Fresh Freesia, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Other:  Botanicuts Crocus (Grtry), Spring Leaves Coverplate (Honey Bee), Stitched Circles (PB), White EP

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