Tic Tac Toe Challenge TTTC144 – Featured Designer Joanne

This week at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge, I worked with the center column: BIRTHDAY, CAS, SPARKLE.  My card is very sparkly, I used various colors of Mirracard atop black cardstock.  I die cut the sentiment 5x out of 5 colors of Mirracard, and assembled the bits and pieces on a black cardstock panel before adhering to a cardbase.

Enjoy.

Project Details
Stamps	My Favorite Things Happy Birthday Party
Paper	100lb Accent opaque cardbase Black cardstock Scrap Mirracard in pink, blue gold, purple and blue
Ink
Embellishments
Tools	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive

FUSION - It's a New Year!

This week at FUSION, we are working with a PHOTO inspiration featuring a bokeh celebration, and a sketch with two small elements above a centered banner.  I used a combination of the sketch and photo in my card.  I took Jeanne's lead with her DT card by depicting bokeh with sparkly sequins in a shaker card.  I created the shaker with the fabulous edge-to-edge technique.  I sealed a panel of black cardstock with packaging film, and filled the shaker with a gold, orange and red sequin mix.  The sentiment is die cut from gold Stardream cardstock. I added two large gold star sequins above the sentiment.  To finish the "stars", I added a gold dot over the sequin hole.

Enjoy.

Project Details
Stamps	My Favorite Things Celebrate die
Paper	100lb Accent opaque card base Gold Stardream cardstock black cardstock
Ink
Embellishments	Little Things by Lucy's Cards Packaging film 2 Gold star sequins and dots
Tools	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Tonic Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive Scortape

Color Throwdown #675

This week at the Color Throwdown, we are working with the COLORS red, gray, blue and green.  I used a Concord & 9th turnabout stamp to incorporate the colors, mounting the stamped panel on a Stardream cardbase. The sentiment was die cut 3x, layered and adhered.  The final touch was several water drop gems.

Enjoy.

Project Details
Stamps	Concord & 9th Lovely Blossoms Turnabout Hero Arts Infinity Rectangles Simon Says Stamp Big Hello
Paper	Navy Stardream card base 80lb Neenah Solar Crest Scrap cardstock
Ink	Simon Says Stamp Blue Violet Simon Says Stamp Lucky Simon Says Stamp Smoke Hero Arts Lemon Drop
Embellishments	Papertrey Ink water drops
Tools	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Tonic Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive

Freshly Made Sketches #518 - A Sketch by Judy

This week at Freshly Made Sketches, we are working with a CAS sketch.  One central, circular image in the bottom right of the card.  My nutty pair is stamped, Copic colored and fussy cut. The wood grain panel was die cut with a circle die, the opening backed with kraft paper. The sentiment was white embossed. The image was adhered between the two layers.

Enjoy.

Project Details
Stamps/Die	Neat & Tangled My Favorite Nut Hero Arts Infinity Circles
Paper	100lb Accent opaque cardstock Woodgrain white cardstock Kraft paper Scrap cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black Copic markers Versamark
Embellishments
Tools	Hero Arts white embossing powder Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Tonic Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #535

This week at Cupcake Inspirations, we are creating cards featuring my favorite beverage, COFFEE!  In keeping with a New Year goal to learn and be more comfortable in making interactive cards, I have made a pop up gift card.  This card was made easy with the use of a Karen Burniston set.  I followed along with Karen's YouTube video... and presto, a pop up!  It folds so nicely and yet has so much dimension. Just amazing. All the pop up elements are from the set.  The front of the card is simply a stamped sentiment.

Enjoy!

This past week LeAnne Pugliese taught me how to create a table in blogger.  I am going to play around with this table and make it work for this blog.

Project Details
Stamps	Karen Burniston Coffee Cup Pop Up Altenew Coffee Talk (sentiments)
Paper	80lb. Neenah Desert Storm card base Scrap cardstock
Ink	Versafine Vintage Sepia
Embellishments
Tools	Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Tonic Tim Holtz Stamping Platform Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive Scortape

Just Us Girls #615 -- COLOR Week

Lisa Kind is hosting this week's COLOR challenge at Just Us Girls.  Lisa is challenging us to make cards using LIGHT BLUE, WHITE and SILVER.  I decided the colors called for a snowy collage.  The card base is Paperandmore (OOB) striped silver cardstock. The central wreath is Memory Box' Frostyville Wreath, die cut from silver Mirracard.  The light blue, die cut snowflake is the Simon Says Stamp Eliza snowflake.  The corner snowflake spray is from Memory Box, die cut from silver criss cross embossed cardstock.  The sentiment is from Savvy Stamps, die cut and layered 3x, from white cardstock.  The final touches are small pearls, light blue gemstones and star sequins.

Please remember we have two fabulous guest designers for the month of January, as well as two new design team members.  Please be sure to stop by, check out their posts, and leave them a little love.

• GD Stef Perry, Perry Papercrafts and
• GD Chrissie Stokes, Simply One-of-a-Kind
• DT Carol McFarland, Saw it. Had to make it. and
• DT Lisa Elton, My Paper Tales

Enjoy!  Looking forward to your creations in the gallery!

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge January 2022 Anything Goes

This month at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, the mood board features lots of PURPLE and BLACK.  I made a simple one layer card.  I distressed the card base in Wilted Violet, Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves.  I stamped one of the ghosts from Picket Fence (Not scared? You should be) in Memento Tuxedo Black.  The sentiment is white embossed, from Impression Obsession Try Not to Lose Your Head.

Enjoy!