Guest Designing for TTTC100

 Hello!  This is my second post of the day, and I am excited to share that I am guesting over on the Tic Tac Toe Challenge blog this week for their fun 101 challenge board.

What a fun board! I was instantly drawn to the top left diagonal row down: cute critter, dots, hugs/miss you.

Hug Me card

I die cut, stenciled and ink blended 

a lot on this card today.

To create the ink-blended blue brick wall, 

I blended my Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow ink over heavy white cardstock. Once it had a good coat of the ink, I blended my blue over the top of the white.  After I achieved my desired shade, I heat dried the panel.  It is silky smooth to the touch and the blue is so beautiful.

I have blended the blue, that I used on this card, on a piece of cardstock below to share the difference.  On the left I blended just the blue ink and on the right, the cardstock had a layer of fresh snow and then the blue over the top. (I heat set it for a minute, but you could always leave it while you work other parts of your card)

(click picture to see it larger) 

I cut and blended my heart using the same technique and Distressed Ink Picked Rasberry.  I die cut my bear, masked off his top half so I could ink blend some pants on him.  I used a dot stencil to create his scarf.

I stamped the beautiful The Greetery flower and die cut it using the coordinating dies. I can't get enough of this set, there are so many uses for those "Lovely Blossoms".

 I then adhered the top of my bear with some mounting circles and the bottom directly to the brick panel, so it feels like the bear is coming away from the card to hug someone. 

This was sure a fun challenge and I look forward to seeing what others create for the challenge and how the board inspires them.

Thank you for stopping by today!  

TTTC100 it's your day

Good morning!  I was really excited to come across the challenge @ Tic Tac Toe challenges because several of the rows connect to yellow and yellow has always been one of the colors I haven't reached for often.  I don't know why because I really love the results and happiness I feel when creating with it and so I need to work on my hesitation.

 I chose the left top diagonal down: yellow, free and gingham

I stamped my gingham using The Stamp Market Just Checkin In stamp set (discontinued) and Memento Rose Bud stamp pad.  

I stamped the flowers and sentiment using Ink to Paper Birthday Bouquet stamps and dies.

Thank you for stopping by and letting me share today.

Scrabble pun

Hello!  I am back and participating in another challenge 

this week.  I saw this cool challenge on my friend LeAnne's Blog and 

was intrigued to participate (I need more masculine cards!)

Here is the cool challenge on the Tic-Tac-Toe blog

I chose the right row down:  punny sentiment, masculine and a punched shape (tab).

I decided to create a "Scrabble-themed" Father's Day card for my FIL because he

loves to play Scrabble every day.  I am really happy to have found this challenge

 this week because I wasn't sure where to start

on several masculine cards and this makes it really fun, thank you!

Father's Day Scrabble Pun card

(click pictures to enlarge)

Sentiment reads:  

Suspect there will never be an edible version of Scrabble, 

but if there is, I'll eat my words.

The silverware set was cut from glittered silver paper so they add a bit of

sparkle to my masculine card without embellishments.

Thank you for a fun challenge and for visiting!