Wedding card

Hello everyone! Olesya here with an inspirational blog post. Today I'm happy to show you my project using three elements from Challenge two: holiday- 100% stamped- die-cuts.

I wanted to make some soft, elegant and sparkly card for my friend's wedding. Great holiday, the born of new family, isn't it?

For this card I chose neutral colors to attract more attention to the diamond in the middle. For the card base I took a piece of white cardstock ( 6"x8") and folded it in a half to make a side folding card. Then cut a panel from Teresa Collins Life Emporium 6"x6" paper pad slightly smaller than a card base and adhered it directly on top with a double-sided tape.

For the front panel I took a piece of craft cardstock. To make the card more elegant and light I heat embossed Peony Scrolls flowers from Altenew with Super fine detail white embossing powder from Ranger on vellum and fussy cut with my scissors. I think they are so beautiful and look weightless. I had a piece of Apple Blossom chipboard frame from Wycinanka that matches here perfectly.

For the sentiment I used Inkadinkado Wedding stamp set and Archival Jet Black inks from Ranger. And now the most interesting part of the card :) it's a diy die-cut diamond. I cut it with a craft knife, heat embossed with some holographic clear embossing powder. For the bottom piece of the stone I took a piece of cardstock, adhered some double-sided tape on top and added dry glitter. Rubbed with my fingers to get rid of falling glitter and adhered both pieces together with Glossy Accents. Then placed the diamond in the center of the frame with some foam tape.

I hope you like this card and hopefully some of these tips will be helpful to you!

Have a wonderful day and happy papercrafting!
Olesya.

Challenge One Winners

Hello everyone! We're here to finally announce the winners for our very first challenge! All of the entries were truly amazing! It was very hard to narrow down because each creations were very unique and special in their own way. We have decided to have one winner of the stamp set and three runner ups.

In a real Tic-Tac-Toe Tournament, the winner is crowned Champion. Since there are no runner ups in the Tic-Tac-Toe Tournaments, we've decided to create one and called it the Master. We chose to name it Master because in the real tic-tac-toe game tournament, the top contestants who made it to the championship are called Masters and Grandmasters. Also, we think the title "Masters" fit appropriately for our Honorable Mentions because we think they have creatively "mastered" and interpreted their three elements beautifully.

So let's get to our winners.
Our very first challenge Champion is:

#42 Hussena from Quill and Punch Works

What we love about Hussena Hello card is the gorgeous details and textures. We also fell in love with the color palette and how she used the embroidery hoop creatively and effectively! Congratulations, Hussena!! Please email us at tictactoechallenge@gmail.com with the subject line Challenge 1 Winner. Please include your full name, address and your choice of stamp set above.

Last but certainly not least are our challenge Masters (in no particular order):

#21 Michele from I Card Everyone

#31 Dana from Crafty Couple

#34 Flora from Pink and Paper

Your projects are all so fabulous and we love how you used the elements in our challenge so creatively! Please grab your badge and display it on your blog for all to see!

That is it for today! Make sure you come back tomorrow for an inspiration blog post by design team member Olesya! She has an awesome project for you and I am definitely sure you would not want to miss it! Have a great day!

Challenge Two

Hello! Welcome back to another Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge! We are so excited to be here with you all! What a great turnout for our first challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated! Your entries are all so BEAUTIFUL! You guys did an amazing job interpreting the three elements that you guys had chosen. We will go through them within the next couple days and will announce the winners on Monday, the 18th.

We also want to make a note about the challenge badge. Please use the Challenge Graphic Badge and not our Blog Badge in your blog post when participating in our challenge. We noticed many of you were posting the Blog Badge instead. If you are playing for the prize and using the Blog Badge, you will be disqualify. The Challenge Graphic Badge is the tic-tac-toe board that you are using as the inspiration like the one below. If you love and are a fan of our challenge, you may upload our Blog Badge onto the sidebar of your blog with a link back to our challenge blog (we hope you do like our challenge!). We're very sorry for any confusion and hopefully we had clarify this.

Now, onto the challenge. Ka took inspiration from the beautiful winter scenes in Door County in Wisconsin, where she and her husband often go for a weekend get-away. Door County is like the Cape Cod, except it's in the mid-west! It is a popular vacation and tourist destination, especially for us Wisconsinite!

For this challenge, we would love for you to take some inspiration from the challenge board above using three elements in a row of your choice! Whatever rows you chose and are inspired by is what we challenge you to create!

You are playing for one of the following 3"x 4" stamp sets. The winner will get to choose the stamp set of their choice. If you already have all three in your stash, why not play to give one of the set as a gift for one of your crafty friend? You can click on the links below to read more about each stamp set.

Avery Elle Seal-Abrate

Clearly Besotted Heartfelt Thanks

Lawn Fawn My Lucky Charm

Now it's time for some amazing design team inspiration... Are you ready??? Here we go...

Lindsey chose the bottom row across: masking, stars and critters.

Shannon chose the middle row across: holiday, 100% stamped and die-cuts.

Olesya chose the third row vertically: trees, die-cuts and critters.

Nora chose the middle row across: holiday, 100% stamped and die-cuts.

Stephanie chose third row down: trees, die-cuts and critters.

Tracie chose second column down: glitters, 100 % stamped and stars. 

Thank you for joining us in our second challenge. Please read the "Challenge Rules" tab at the top of the blog to be eligible for the prize. You have until Sunday, January 31 at 11:55pm CST to submit your entries. We can not wait to see what you create! HAVE FUN!!!!!!

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Shine Bright

Hello Everyone! Tracie here with an inspirational post for challenge one. I hope all of you are enjoying the new Stamping Smiles Designs, Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge. I am quite happy to see all of your amazing entries for Challenge One. I have created a set of cards using sparkles, embossing and new (to me).

Below is the set of cards I created. In this close up you can really see the pretty sparkle of the gold embossing. With Valentine's Day coming soon, I am in heart mode. This gave me the perfect opportunity to ink up my Heart Diamonds stamp set from The Ton. 

Here is a look at a single card. What a great sentiment, "No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart." I just love it. And I hope you do too!

Steps:

1. Make a top folding A2 card with My Favorite Things, Ripe Raspberry cardstock. Round top right corner using We-R-Memory Keepers Corner Chomper Tool, 1/2".

2. Die-cut white panel using My Favorite Things, Blueprints 22. 

3. Stamp sentiment with The Ton, Couture Color Noir Dye Ink. Use the MISTI to get preferred placement and to make it easy if you need to double-stamp.

4. Stamp layered heart using The Ton, Couture Color Peony Collection. Stamp the top layer of the heart with The Ton, Couture Color Rose Gold Pigment Ink. For the sparkle and shine coming from the heart, simply dip the tip of a watercolor brush in the ink and apply to card.

5. Heat emboss stripe below sentiment using American Crafts, Zing, Gold Glitter finish embossing powder. 

6. Adhere panel to card base with foam tape.

There are still a couple more days to enter. So, what are you waiting for? It is your turn to shine =)

Thank you and have a beautiful day!

Tracie

Challenge Guest Designer : Vicki Parson

Hello everyone!!!

Today we have our very first guest designer for our Tic-Tac-Toe challenge! Her name is Vicki Parson and she blogged over at Stamp Smiles. She’s here to share a fun shaker card using not only one row from our current challenge board, but two! How cool it is to combine two rows to create this super fun shaker! Check out her project below. It sure to blow your mind away!

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Hello friends! I'm so honored to be here for Ka’s very first challenge! I know everyone will love this concept! Here’s a little introduction about myself:

I have been an avid stamp addict for several years. I have acquired a huge collection of craft items through the years. I enjoy many different forms and styles of paper crafting. I have done the very simple CAS style as well as the fussy and fancy designs in my card making. I enjoy coloring as well as keeping things simplified on my designs, so I really couldn’t say that there is any ONE style of card making that I stick too. When I am not happily humming in my craft room, I enjoy spending time with my incredibly patient husband along with my college age boys and our pet doxie, Mocca.

So here's what I've come up with using the above board as inspiration:
(I have used the top three across as well as the three left down elements on my design.)

I think this turned out so "dog-gone" CUTE! :) Reminds me of my own beloved pet doxie Mocca! (They tend to be "proud" little critters, don't they?! LOL!)

This cutie comes from Whimsy Stamps called Dachshund Balloon. It is a set of rubber stamps that also includes the sentiment above with it! :) I have colored the image in with my Copic markers and I've also added some gold to his collar with my gold gel pen. I stamped the "Celebrate" sentiment above the pup so that it would all fit within my shaker square.

The background was also stamped with a couple of different colors using the star border image from the Clearly Whimsy Stamps Basic Christmas Backgrounds. I have a couple of different colors to match the balloons that the wiener dog is holding in his mouth. I decided to stamp the background so that I could actually use the tic tac toe board in two different ways for this challenge.

For the shaker portion of my design, I have used the MFT Stitched Square Frames and cut one out with some of the MFT Gold Foil Card Stock to make the frame for my shaker. I have also used the same die to cut out the background with my stamped doggie as well as another piece for the window of my shaker design using some acetate.

And so for the "Sparkle" portion of my design, I have added several different kinds of sequins and confetti on the inside of the shaker square that I've created. I have gold stars, sparkly clear sequins and lots of sparkly Martha Stewart confetti stars that are so fun to shake around! I have used two layers of foam tape around the frame so that the sequins had plenty of room to shake around! :)

I hope you enjoyed my creation and this new challenge! Thanks to Ka and her team for having me along! Looking forward to future challenges!

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What a fun project! It’s so cute and so much fun for a recipient to receive! Wouldn’t you agree? Thank you so much Vicki for providing some inspiration using our current challenge! We hope you had fun while creating! Don’t forget to stop by Vicki’s Blog to give her a shout out for her fabulous project she created for the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge!