The Paper Players #391: A Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge from Joanne

Woohoo!  It's the fifth Sunday of the month over at The Paper Players Challenge and that means it's Tic-Tac-Toe time!

Since I struggle a bit with grown-up "guy" cards, I went with the middle row across for my DT card:  Birthday, Ribbon, Masculine.  This birthday card will be going to my brother, a true car buff.

  

First, sorry...foil is a bit difficult for me to photograph.  I was doing some spring cleaning in The Dog House and found some Dazzles that I bought ages ago at a local craft show.  I placed the car Dazzle on watercolor paper, fussy cut, and watercolored the image.  The Dazzle sentiment was placed on a watercolor paper scrap and mounted on a gold foil die cut oval over a rust colored ribbon scrap.  The DSP is from a 6x6 paper pack by Prima.  Notice the gears in the lower left corner?  

Have fun picking a row (or all of them) and check out the other DT members' blogs for inspiring ideas!

The Paper Players Design Team

• Claire
• Joanne 
• Jaydee
• Laurie
• LeAnne
• Nance
• Sandy
• Elizabeth 
• Jan

And just a few rules:

1. Create a new paper project.
2. Upload your project to your blog with a link back to The Paper Players.
3. Provide a direct link to your blog post for your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than FOUR challenges (including ours).

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your week!

Thank You Home Depot!

Happy Friday!  It was cold today but the sun was out and it's lookin' good for the weekend too.  I spent some time in "The Dog House" this morning hoping to play with some challenges and make an anniversary card for my son and DIL.  Their wedding was beautiful and GREEN!  Perfect for a March wedding and a few of the challenges out there this week.

I'd like to play along with:

Tic Tac Toe #38 (On Diagonal: Green, Sparkle, Happy)

The Card Concept #88 (Monochromatic Green)

And here's my card:

Special thanks to Home Depot for the Green Paint Sample Swatch that I used as the background 😊  I heat embossed the sentiment (Stamps of Life) in Ranger Gold EP on the swatch.  I die cut the Memory Box Blushing Bouquet and used a Ranger Embossing Pen on the flower centers so I could heat emboss them in gold also.  I added sparkly gold metallic thread on the bouquet and layered onto a Neenah Solar White card base.  I added sparkly gold glitter cardstock strips along each side to finish it off.  

I always make the kids a green anniversary card.  You only have to see one of my favorite pics from their wedding to know why!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and if you are looking for more GREEN fun, the Cards in Envy Challenge is still going strong.  Come play!

Love and Joy

Hi there!  Our football team is off today so I went to play in the Dog House aka My Happy Place.  I came upon a challenge I had never played before from the Paper Craft Crew and thought I'd give it a whirl!  

I needed a masculine Christmas card for a very dear friend.  He's definitely a minimalist so I thought the first row down would work well - Holiday Celebrations, Natural Elements, and Favorite Stamp Set:

On a Kraft card base, I layered a brick embossed (Tim Holtz) stitched rectangle that I had swiped with Simon Say's Barely Beige and MFT's Kraft ink pads.  The tree die cut (Concord & 9th) was from a piece of handmade paper from Mexico that is made with natural wood fibers.  I've hoarded it forever...but it didn't hurt too much when I cut it!  I die cut a burlap star to top the tree.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment in Catherine Pooler's brown ink called Icing on the Cake.  The handwritten Christmas sentiment stamp set is one of my all time faves this season.

I hope this fits the bill for the challenge :)  Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a fantastic week!

In All Things Give Thanks

Hi there!  A card today for a few challenges with Thanksgiving in mind. 

I'd like to link this up to:

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge (Top row across - Sentiment, Fall Colors, & Twine))

Words 2 Craft  By #47:  Abundance

Fusion: Grateful (Inspired by the wreath in the photo)

I love this digi wreath image and sentiment from Power Poppy.  I colored all those tiny berries and leaves with Prismacolor pencils, adding some Nuvo Golden Sunset drops randomly on some of the berries for a little sparkle.  The cardstock is Neenah Desert Sand and the twine is one of my absolute faves from May Arts.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Merry Merry Merry

Happy Monday!  I had some rainy crafty time this weekend but almost forgot to post!  The first card was for the latest Tic Tac Toe Challenge:

I went with the diagonal - stripes, ribbon, and layers.  I used Freshly Made Sketches #311 as a jumping off point (but was too late to enter...story of my life!):

Check!  Another Christmas card for the pile!  I stamped the Peppermint Twist background (Catherine Pooler) in Rockin' Red ink, layered on a sweet image from Pink Cat Studios colored with Prismacolor pencils, and added a sentiment (The Stamps of Life) tag with a snippet of gingham ribbon. 

The second card is for the Live Love Cards membership challenge featuring LEAVES.  It also fits for the new Cards in Envy Challenge that started today where the sentiment or words are the focal point.  Come play with us!

The background was stamped with Catherine Pooler's Counting Blessings stamp set and inks.  The sentiment was white heat embossed on one of MFT's tag builder dies.  May Arts green twine was the final touch.

I hope you have a fantastic week and thanks so much for stopping by!

The Paper Players #368: Tic-Tac-Toe from Jaydee

Hello again and welcome back for another fun challenge over at The Paper Players.  We have a fifth Sunday this month so you know what that means...Tic-Tac-Toe!  Jaydee has come up with a great one this week:

I'm still trying to get a jump on the Christmas card stash, so I went for the middle row across: Christmas - Die-cut - Wreath:

Here are the products I used for Santa's Workshop:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White; Slate Grey
Stamps/Dies - Hero Arts Santas Elves & Santas Door Accessories, Hero Arts Paper Layering Wooden Door, Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders, MFT Wooden Plank BG
Other - Martha Stewart Gooey Drip Border Punch, Copics, Prismacolor Pencils, Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella, Frosted Lace Stickles, and small red ribbon scrap

We hope you'll play along with us this week!  Check out the other DT members' blogs for some fantastic inspiration:

The Paper Players Design Team

• Claire
• Joanne 
• Jaydee
• Laurie
• LeAnne
• Nance
• Sandy
• Deanne
• Jan

Thanks for visiting ~ I hope you have a wonderful week!

Peace on Earth

Hi there!  This morning I thought I'd make a Christmas card and decided to try a new challenge (to me) over at the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge blog.  My teamie, Claire, over at The Paper Players just joined their DT so it's gotta be a fun one!

I like Tic-Tac-Toe Challenges because they're like a buffet.  You can pick what you want to eat play with!  This time I went with the diagonal:  Peace, FREE, & Rhinestones.

On a smooth white card base, I white heat embossed some older stamps from Inkadinkado.  I've always liked that angel and try to use it every year.  I added a little snow flurry stamp escaping from her horn.  The panel was then blended with Distress Oxide Salty Ocean ink and misted with water.  I added the navy blue die cut sentiment from Tim Holtz and itty bitty rhinestones on the snow trails.  To finish it off, I used Wink of Stella on the sentiment.

That's it for today...time for the football game!  Hope you're having a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.   

The Paper Players #355: Tic-Tac-Toe from Laurie & Joanne

It's a new week and time for another challenge over at The Paper Players.  This time, Laurie has come up with a fun Tic-Tac-Toe challenge and Joanne is hosting.  Just pick a row, across, down, or diagonally and build your project for any occasion:

For my card today, I went down with the center row using a banner, heart-shaped enamel dots, and an animal:

On a rainy day, I had colored up a bunch of Tim Holtz' Crazy Dogs to look like my fur kids :) Meet Gilda Girl, the 15-1/2 year old Mini Schnauzer.  She's a sweet old girl and although diabetic, blind, and almost deaf (selectively), she does just fine getting where she needs to go!

The backgrounds were put together with MFT background stamps (Paw Prints & Small Brick Wall) on SSS's Fog cardstock using SSS's Fog ink for a tone-on-tone look. The banner's sentiment from SSS's You are Pawesome stamp set was heat embossed with Ranger's white fine detail embossing powder.  The enamel hearts and Glossy Accents to shine up the eyes and her wet nose were the finishing touches.  

We're anxious to see your Tic-Tac-Toe projects in the gallery this week.  Please check out the other design team members for some fun inspiration:  

The Paper Players Design Team

• Claire Broadwater
• Joanne James 
• Jaydee
• Laurie Schmidt
• LeAnne Pugliese
• Nance Leedy
• Sandy Mathis 
• Deanne K
• Jan Clothier

And just a few rules:

1. Create a new paper project.
2. Upload your project to your blog with a link back to The Paper Players.
3. Provide a direct link to your blog post for your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than FOUR challenges (including ours).
5. HAVE FUN!  

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.  I hope you have a "pawesome" week!

Wishing You...

Hi there!  This morning I was able to play along with a couple of challenges:

The Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge 

I went with the middle row, down, using green, die-cut, and leaves.

First I stamped the leaf panel with Catherine Pooler inks and Altenew's Free Form Greenery stamps.  After adding the Wishing You sentiment from Mama Elephant, I die cut the stamped layer, nesting a smaller rectangle die inside a larger one (MFT Blueprints 31).  The result was a thin, stitched frame and then I was able to pop up the center portion on fun foam.  I added the teeny black sentiment strip and a few Nuvo drops in Apple Green and Sea Breeze to finish it off.

The second challenge I had to play along with is CASology's:

With a cue of "Flow," I should explain a bit what I was thinking.  Not water, electricity, etc., but traffic.  Yep, traffic flow!  I worked in Seattle for many years and, if you didn't know, Seattle has some of the worst traffic in the country.  I spent many hours sitting in traffic which usually didn't "flow" at peak commuting times.  I could have used this sentiment then!

The only traffic flow I have to worry about now is stopping when the beautiful deer are crossing the road.  I don't mind that at all!

For this card, I stamped the image from Altenew (Sketchy Cities America 2)  with Hero Arts Pool to Navy Ombre ink and the sentiment with Gina K.'s In the Navy on a Neenah Solar White 110# card base.  I added a little sequin on the Great Wheel and that was it!

Hope you're having a good week ~ thanks so much for stopping by!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Happy Thursday!  A quick post today for The Paper Players latest challenge:

I went with Red (scarf), Glitter (Stickles on snowflake centers), and Snowflakes (stamped background):

The polar bear is a die from Memory box, cut 3 times so I could inlay the white and red pieces within the gray outline.  I did hang his "you know what" over the edge and then cut it off so the card would fit in an envy :)  He didn't feel a thing!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

The Paper Players Challenge #280: Tic-Tac-Toe

Happy February!  I still don't know what happened to January but I'm lovin' making Valentines cards for my family and friends.  This card was put together for The Paper Players Challenge #280:

I went with the middle row across - die cuts, pink, and girly.

And...The Card Concept Challenge #48 {Sweet Hearts}:  An elegant layout inspired by those yummy hearts.

The pink background is a Distress ink watercolor wash with Festive Berries.  I die cut the heart out of the middle and used it as an embellishment with a gold foiled die cut heart.  The negative was layered over a piece of cardstock that was stamped with text and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  The edges of the panel were swiped with VersaMark and also heat embossed with the same Ranger gold embossing powder.  A few sequins were sprinkled on and the entire panel was layered on to Bazzill ivory cardstock.  I want to give credit to this gorgeous card by Amy Kolling over at My Favorite Things for inspiration.  I thought it was amazing!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you're having a great week :-)

The Paper Players Challenge #247

The sun's out today so what better way to celebrate than with a flip flop card!  The Paper Players Challenge #247 is Tic-Tac-Toe:

My card is going across on the bottom:  Die cut (sun and flip flops), patterned paper (on flip flops and button), and any shade of yellow (sun and flip flops). 

 

Stuff I Used:  MFT Kraft Cardstock, Neenah Solar White, Handmade cloud stencil & Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, Sun and Flip Flop dies from the Stamps of Life, Lawn Fawn hill dies for sand dunes, Martha Stewart button punch, The Twinery blue/white twin, Great Impressions sentiment, VersaFine Sepia Ink. 

 

Now I'm off to find my flip flops!  Thanks for stopping by ~ have a great day!