TICTACTOE #290

This week's board is by our DT member, Rosanne and offers many fun ways to design your card.  My card has all the elements if you count that the flower is in the shape of circle.

For the background I used a very old SSS stencil (2013) and used white heat embossing with it.  The magnolia die is also an oldie.  I used Altenew nimbus cs for the background and nimbus ink for the shading in the flowers.  The embellishments are Altenew's tranquility enamel dots.

Our challenge is open for two weeks beginning today so pick a row, any row and join in for an opportunity to be one of our guest designers!

Crafty hugs,  

 

 

 

ALCOHOL INKS REVISITED

How long has it been since you've used your alcohol inks?  For me, I think it's been at least 4 years!  The activity Director where I live is doing alcohol ink on a ceramic tile tomorrow and I'm helping her with the class and then next Saturday we're doing an alcohol ink on Yupo paper and making a card.  Here are the cards I've designed as inspiration.

It's sort of positive and negative - die cut from their piece or use it as a background.  I used an old SSS leaf die and various TH alcohol inks. Then added bits of gold with Deco-foil.  I'd forgotten how much fun it is to play around with these inks.

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COREOPSIS

TicTacToeChallenge #288 is up today and I'm here with a monochromatic card.  I chose to go down the right side with spatter, die cuts and embellishments.

I used Altenew's coreopsis dies cut out in white and inked with their nimbus ink.  The base cardstock is also in nimbus.  I spattered the background with some white acrylic paint.  The center of the flower is filled with Altenew's tiny sequins and then I added a few larger ones around the sentiment.

 I am also entering my card at SimonSaysStamp's IG challenge (#SSSIGChallenge) where the theme this month is monochromatic.

Our challenge runs from March 12 - 26 - plenty of time to create with this board!  So please join us!

Crafty hugs,

 

TULIPS

My creativity fairy has been on vacation and so I'm trying to lure her back by entering some challenges.  My card today was inspired by the colors in CAS Colors and Sketches (yellow, navy and apple green) and the theme at Die Cut Divas (spring).

After die cutting all the tulip parts from white cs, I used DO to color them.  I die cut a pocket and embossed it with a brick folder - then swiped navy DO to show off the texture a bit more.  Added a navy background to a white card base and then finally arranged my bouquet.  I didn't have any yellow ribbon so made my own by swiping yellow ink onto some seam binding.

Crafty hugs,

 

TICTACTOE CHALLENGE

Our challenge at TicTacToe is a little slow in starting up for 2026 but we are all set with some new team members, themes and assignments - we're good to go!!  Rosanne has started us off with a Valentine theme and I chose down the left side with hearts, floral and texture.  My card also goes across the middle with floral, ink blending and sentiment strip.

I made a Z fold card and used some old dies (Altenew) and an embossing folder (Spellbinders) - neither available any longer.  I ink blended the flower parts and leaves (DO shabby shutters, picked raspberry and kitsch flamingo) and then arranged them into a sort of bouquet.  Next, I glued my bouquet to the left side of the Z fold card. To add a little pizzazz, I added some sparkle spray and some gold spatter.  Glued on the little sentiment and done!!

Our challenge runs from February 12th to the 26th. That's two weeks of time to create and post on our website (https://tictactoechallenge.com).

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Crafty hugs,