Challenge #14 Inspiration with Nora

Hello everyone!! Nora here with some inspiration for Challenge #14.

I have a confession to make, I am an avid doodler. When I was in school and taking notes, the sides of my notebooks were covered in them. In the job I do now, I often take notes for students and instead of doodling on the notebook pages themselves, I now use Post It Notes. I have oodles of them in the notebooks I use, all covered with different types of drawings from patterns to flowers. This is why I chose top row across for my card-embossing, doodling and add dimensional.

I started the card off by doodling the flowers and the jar with a pencil on white Bristol Board. 

I then colored in the images with Zig Clean Markers and outlined them with a Black Soot Distress Marker. To create emphasis on the flowers, I chose to die cut my image with a 

stitched rectangle die from Lil Inkers.

Next I embossed a piece of Basic Grey patterned paper with a We R Memory Keepers Geometric Embossing Folder. I adhered the embossed panel onto a white, A2 top folding card. I then took the doodled rectangle and adhered it over the pink, embossed background using foam to give 

it a little dimension.

For the sentiment, I used Altenew "Label Love" and stamped it on white with Memento 

Tuxedo Black dye ink.

I adhered the table to the card front with foam adhesive and added some sequins randomly around it. The last touch was to add some dots of "Black Diamond" Stickles in the middle of each flower and some "Magenta" Stickles over the tiny dotted flowers.

I hope this card encourages you to do a little doodling of your own. You still have a few days to enter Challenge #14. I cannot wait to see what you create!!

Nora

"With love" a cute shaped gift tag feat. Lawn Fawn!

Hi there! 

It's franci ( fridayfinally) here to share some inspiration with you!

Here's what i created..

I picked an old board ( challenge #6) to play with and i chose my favourite 3 elements ever: Celebrate, Clean & Simple and .. critters! Yeah i looove cute images and these snails by Lawn Fawn are some of my fave! :)

Here's how i created my little shaped gift tag: 

• First i stamped the snowglobe on some copy paper and i fussy cut it. I used it on my white cardstock to have an idea of its dimension so that i know how and where to position and stamp all the images.
• I stamped all my elements .. yeah lots of masking here! ihih! If you'd love to give this techinque a try be sure to always stamp first the image you want to be in the foreground! 
• I colored everything with my copics, i stamped my sentiment and added some twine.
• Here's it ..your cute and happy gift tag! :)

Hope you like my gift tag and thank you so so much for stopping by! 

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Have an amazing day!

franci :)

Challenge #14 Inspiration with Varada

Hi friends,

Varada here, with some inspiration for challenge #14.

I made a wedding themed shaker card using the chalk board technique and added some intricate die cuts for embellishments. Yes, as you guessed, I went with the horizontal middle row.

I started with the intricate Vintage Flourishes, Leaf 2 dies from Joy Crafts. I cut them out of some white and green cardstock. These flourishes have very tiny pieces which I poked out of the die cut using a piece of wire. Spellbinders' tool-n-one would have been very handy here :-) I also cut out one more swirly using one of Spellbinders dies. I layered all these together offsetting each of them slightly and attached a confetti butterfly on top. This became my main embellishment.

Next I cut out a scripty patterned paper to be the same size as my card front. I also cut out a black fun foam to be the same size. I positioned the embellishment in one corner of the scripty paper just to get an idea of where I want my frame to be, and die cut the frame for my shaker using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle dies. While die cutting, I layered the fun foam under the patterned paper so I could cut both the layers at the same time and get exact positioning. I did not adhere the two layers together though, as I wanted to add a layer of acetate in between.

For creating the chalk board look, I used a black card base and stamped the sentiment using Hero Arts white pigment ink. This ink tends to get really faint once it dries, so I knew I would need to add multiple layers. To help with exact positioning, I used my MISTI. I laid down the card front and the open frame in the MISTI and positioned my stamp exactly where I wanted it. Then I removed the frame (lest I accidentally smudge it with ink) and stamped my sentiment 3-4 times using the white pigment ink. I also added some faint smudges of the same ink on the black card front just to give an impression of chalk board.

I sandwiched a piece of acetate in between the fun foam frame and the outer patterned paper frame. To this shaker, I added some shiny white / silver sequins of various sizes and adhered it to my card base. Finally I added my centerpiece (or corner-piece) and called this card complete!

The chalk board part of this card really had me thinking. Mainly because my cards are usually colorful and black or chalk board color is very minimal. But I am glad I tried it out because of this challenge. I love how this turned out!!

Hope you like this card and are inspired to try something like this too. Don't forget to share with us what you make.

Hugs,
~Varada

Challenge #14 Inspiration with Channin

Hello everyone!! It's Channin here from Craft Ghetto and I'm here today to hopefully spread some Challenge #14 inspiration!

This time I went across the top and incorporated embossing, doodling, and dimension into my card. Here's what I came up with.

First I stamped a feather from Waffle Flower's Feather More set in WF's Like a Pro ink repeatedly over a panel of kraft paper. I then took a black marker and a white colored pencil and added details to all the stamped feathers. Next, I stamped a sentiment from WF's 100% Love stamp set in versafine black onyx ink and then embossed it in clear on a scrap of kraft paper. I then fussy cut my sentiment out leaving a small border. I then took my white colored pencil and colored in the "thank you." Next, I mounted the sentiment on craft foam and set it aside. 

I felt like the sentiment needed even more pop so I took my blending tool and blended white pigment ink at the center of the panel. I then mounted my panel onto my kraft card base. Lastly, I made a thread nest and then used my sentiment and glue dots to hold it in place on the card. I hope you enjoyed and were possibly inspired to give this challenge a try! 

Challenge Thirteen Winners

Good morning!

We're here to announce our winners for Challenge 13! Many thanks to everyone that joined us in our last challenge! We loved looking through all of the cards and seeing everyone's creativity! So now on to what everyone really wants to know. The winners. We used Random.Org to determine our Champion and picked a few cards that really caught our eyes. So, without further ado, here are our winners!

Our 12th Tic-Tac-Toe Champion by random is...

Yukari from Handmade By Yuki

Congratulations, Yukari! Your card is fantastic! The design of your card is amazing and looks like a lot of fun to create it! We love it!! Thank you for taking the time to share and link with us! Please email us at tictactoechallenge@gmail.com with the subject line Challenge 13 Winner. Please include your full name, address and your choice of stamp set above.

And here's our Honorable Mentions.

Ginny

Kevin Bray

Trina Pham

Amazing cards, ladies!
Thank you all for taking the time to create with us and share your talent with us!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!