Challenge Eight

Hello and welcome back to another Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge!

For challenge 8, we added a fun color inspiration to the mix! We hope you'll like it! Whichever rows inspires you, whether it be the row with the color inspiration or a row without is what we challenge you to create! You certainly may incorporate the color combo as part of your design, if you choose to work with a row without the color inspiration. Just make sure you include the other three elements in your design. Thank you!

Here's some explanation of the elements upbove:

• 3 of a Kind - Use any 3 same items or images such as 3 enamel accents, 3 cupcakes, 3 candles and etc...
• Color - Take out your coloring pencils, Copics, watercolor crayons or other coloring mediums and color. If you are coloring an image, you are good!
• Label - You may use label stamps, label makers to create your labels or use label stickers for your project.

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 these sets as a gift for one of your crafty friend? You can click on the links below to read more about each stamp set.

Clearly Besotted Warm Solutions II Photopolymer Stamp Set

Taylored Expressions Zinnia Bouquet Cling Rubber Stamp Set

Memory Box I'm Owl Yours Photopolymer Stamp Set

Here's some AMA-ZING inspiration from our DT members to help get you started! We just love every single one of them!

Lindsey chose to do the top row: 3 of a kind, enamel accents, and square card.

Shannon went diagonal from bottom left to top right: color inspiration, color and square card.

Olesya chose the 3rd row vertically: square card, die-cut negatives, and food/drink.

Nora was inspired by the last row down: square card, die cut negatives, and food and drink.

Tracie chose to work with the 1st row across: 3 of a kind, enamel accents, and square card.

Amina worked with the diagonal row top left to bottom right: 3 of a kind, color and food/drink.

Thank you for joining us in our 8th challenge. Please read the "Challenge Rules" tab at the top of the blog to be eligible for the prize. You have until Saturaday, April 30 at 11:55pm CST to submit your entries. We can not wait to see what you create! HAVE FUN and don't forget to check back on Tuesday for our challenge winners! Until then, happy crafting! :)

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Challenge #7 Inspiration with Tracie

Hello sweet crafty friends!

It is Tracie and I am excited to share with you some inspiration for Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge #7.

My plan was to use the bottom row: Washi Tapes / Border Dies or Punches / Potted Plants. However, I ended up also using the third column: Tag / Kraft /Potted Plants.

So FUN!!

Honestly, I was a little stumped on what to create. My main inspiration was a piece of watercolored paper that I had sitting on my desk. I figured I could add a border to it and then liven it up with some washi tape. So, I was left with potted plants. I decorated the pot using washi tape and colored the plant with copics.

I again was stumped because I was not sure how best to position the elements. Then I had an aha moment and adhered the plant on a tag and used the border strip as a pocket to hold the tag. I made a cute, frilly embellishment out of twine to add to the hole of the tag. 

I really think this card turned out cute and it was lots of fun!

Supplies Used: 

My Favorite Things - Die-namics Blueprints 22 and LLD Sweet Succulents

Cas-ual Fridays - Tag Buddies

Copic Sketch - B01, BG72 and RV23

I would be really happy if I inspired you and you played along. I know all of us at the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge enjoy your creations. 

Crafty Hugs,

Tracie

Challenge Guest Designer : Amy Lee

**Make sure to check our post below or click here to see if you are a winner for our Creative Fools Blog Hop!**

Hi Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge Fans! Did you get a chance to make something for Challenge 7 yet? If you haven't gotten the chance to participate or stuck on deciding which rows and elements to go with, then take today's inspiration from Amy Lee! She have a fun story-telling card to share!

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Hello there! I'm Amy, also known as The Craft Bunny. I am from Hong Kong but now I live in Seattle, WA. It was hard to adjust to a completely different lifestyle and I was so bored at first. That was why I started cardmaking LOL. I love telling stories on cards and stretching my stamps to make unexpected scenes. I also love bright and happy colors.

For my card today, I went with the left column using the current Tic Tac Toe Challenge Board - Bunny, Decorative Frames and Washi Tapes. I love bunnies so that was an easy choice. I have used the bunnies from MFT Let's Strike Up the Band set. My card design was inspired by rock band music. I think of black and red colors when it comes to rock music. So, I used these two colors with a hint of brown/gold.

1. I first made a black plastic record with some circle dies and distress inks 
2. Using the same circle die, I created an opening in the card front. I also used MFT Wonky Stitched Rectangle 
3. Next, I stamped and colored the bunnies with Copic markers. To give them a ground to stand on, the washi tape came in handy 
4. I also stamped the music notes all over the background. The sentiment "You Rocked It" is stamped inside the card to finish the story of my card 
5. Lastly, I embellished with gold star confetti from SpiegelMomScraps

I had so much fun playing along here! Thank you for having me for this challenge! I can't wait to see what you will come up with :)

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Is this card AMAZE-ZING or what?! Amy totally "Rocked" this challenge!! Everything on her card was perfectly executed! We love it! We hope her card spark an idea or two for you too! Thanks so much to Amy for sharing this fabulous, adorable card for us to enjoy! Please stop over to Amy's blog to give her some blog lovin' for her awesome post today!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful week!

Creative Fools Blog Hop Winners

Hi everyone! We're popping in to reveal the winners to the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge Creative Fools Blog Hop. The winners are picked from the commenters on the design teams individual blogs.

From Nora Blog: #7 Taunya Butler
From Lindsey Blog: #2 Tricia T
From Shannon Blog: #17 Marianne
From Tracie Blog: #11 Anne Sturgeon
From Amina Blog: Cammy Wall
From Rachel Blog: #17 Pink Room Therapy Designs
From Francesca Blog: Lea Brawn

To claim your prizes, please e-mail your addresses to the design team members of the blogs that you won from so that they can send out your packages!!

We want to thank each and every one of you for making this blog hop a success. It was so much fun!!

Challenge #7 inspiration with Shannon

Hello crafty friends!

Shannon here today to share some inspiration with the challenge Tic-Tac-Toe board.

 For my card today I used the third row down, tag, kraft and potted plants.

I kept my card fairly simple using a white card base. I cut my tag out of kraft paper using my Cricut. I sponged a little bit of blue ink in the background so it didn't look too plain.  I stamped my sentiment from the Better Together stamp set from Neat and Tangled in Versa-mark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Now I didn't have a potted plant stamp, it's on my wish list but in the mean time I created my own. I used the flowers from the Delightful Days stamp set from Clearly Besotted and the flower pot is from the Our Friendship Grows stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I stamped my pot first and masked it off before i stamped my bouquet of flowers. I colored in with Copic markers, fussy cut out and adhered onto my tag.  I added some bakers twine on top of my card and some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh to finish of my card.

That's it for my card today! Hope you got inspired to play along and enjoyed my CAS card:)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!