Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends March Blog Hop Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Stamping With Friends March Blog Hop Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends March Blog Hop and this month we have a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge to help spark our creativity. We get to choose 3 in a row either horizontally, vertically or diagonally to help us create our project designs. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their ideas and projects to help inspire you to give this challenge a try.

For my card design, I started with the left vertical side to create a Thank You card with embossing and Designer Series Paper but then I realized that I also had the elements for the right vertical side as I also included a butterfly, with floral designer series paper and vellum accents. So I guess you could say I have a 2 for one design. Now that we are in the month of March, Spring is approaching fast, so I decided to create a pretty Spring card design using a color that I don't use very often, Bubble Bath. I am not really a pink girl, so this was an additional challenge for me and I must admit, I do like how it turned out.

Products Used:

Go To Greetings stamp set (item #15873)

Thoughtful Expressions Dies (item #162821)

Perennial Postage Dies (item #162607)

Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Paper (item #161640)

Paper Butterfly Accents (item #1621612)

Bubble Bath Cardstock (item #161718)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Vellum Cardstock (item #101856)

Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154902)

Bubble Bath Classic Ink Refill (item #161670)

Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush (item #141897)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Sheer Ribbon Combo Pack (item #161635)

Pastel Adhesive Backed Sequins (item #160387)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Bubble Bath Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Matte Label die cut with the Thoughtful Expressions Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Layer 1 - 5 3/8" x 4 1/8"

Sentiment Label die cut with the Perennial Postage Dies

Delightfully Eclectic Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" Center die cut out with the Thoughtful Expressions Dies

Vellum Cardstock

5 sets of Leaves die cut with the Thoughtful Expressions Dies

This pretty card design is a little more over the top than I would normally create. I loved the Bubble Bath and White striped pattern of the designer series paper and the reverse side had a pretty floral that coordinated perfectly with it. I die cut the center out of the designer series paper card front using one of the Thoughtful Expressions Dies and then flipped it over and so that the floral side was facing up. I then attached it to a Bubble Bath matte layer one size larger, also cut using the Thoughtful Expressions Dies. I attached the striped side of the designer series paper to the Basic White cardstock layer and added a piece of the Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon around the center, attaching the ends to the back. I then added this layer to my Bubble Bath card base. I added the focal panel to the center of the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals so that it covers the hole in the card front.

For the butterfly, I colored the die cut using one drop of the Bubble Bath Classic ink refill with the Clear Wink of Stella to give the butterfly a pretty pink shimmer. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image from the Go To Greetings stamp set with Gold embossing powder onto the Basic White sentiment label and attached it to the bottom of the focal layer with Stampin' Dimensionals. I then added the butterfly die cut above the sentiment label, centering it on the focal panel. For the vellum leaves, I colored them with the Dark Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Marker to add some soft color and then added them to the card front so that the ends tucked underneath the center panel, arranging them at the top left corner and the bottom right corner. For a touch of bling, I added some Pastel Adhesive Backed Sequins to finish off the design. I really love how this pretty card turned out and I had so much fun with this Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore the options in the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge this month to help you create your own beautiful card design. There are so many options to explore.

Please take a trip along our blog hop and visit with the Design Team members to see what they created with this month's challenge. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to find your way. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.