PP152: Tic Tac Toe

This is my the first time this year I have submitted a card to The Paper Players’ challenge. I’ve been a Guest Designer on the team since January – alas, all good things must come to an end. (Unrelated side note: I am happy to report that terrible things must also come to an end.) My time with The Paper Players was wonderful – what a talented and skilled group of designers – and I will be forever grateful for those experiences.

The challenge this week is a Tic Tac Toe challenge by LeAnne Pugliese. The challenge is to design a card using three elements in a tic tac toe fashion. Here’s my card:

And here’s the Tic Tac Toe challenge:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Tic Tac Toe.  If you haven’t figured it out already, I chose the bottom row: embossing, friendship and ribbon.  I dry embossed the background piece of Crumb Cake paper AND heat embossed the sentiment in Tangerine Tango.  Do I get extra credit for that?  I also decided to use the ribbon as an accent – more extra credit, please.
• Layering the Sentiment.  As soon as I saw “friendship,” I knew I wanted to feature the wonderful sentiment from my World Treasures.  I embossed the sentiment and trimmed it very close around the edge of the border.  I then layered it on Baked Brown Sugar that I cropped with one of the framelits from Apothecary Accents.  I then popped those with dimensionals for additional emphasis. 
• Mimic the Shapes.  The embossing folder is an accent on this card, but I wanted to mimic the tall, rounded shapes from the embossing folder.  The Deco Labels gave me a soft “pssst” from the shelves of my craft room.  They begged, “pick me! pick me!,” and I listened.  They make a great accent for the sentiment.

Check out the other cards for this Tic Tac Toe challenge at The Paper Players.

Stamp Sets:  World Treasures  Inks:  VersaMark  Papers:  Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla  Accessories:  Tangerine Tango Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder, 3/8″ Ruffle Stretch Trim, Deco Labels Collection Framelits, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Brian

Tomorrow.  I’ve got a special surprise for you tomorrow.  Demonstrators get to start ordering from the Holiday Catalog today.  I’ll be sharing a project I made with a brand new accessory from that catalog.  You are going to LOVE this!

One-for-One Swap.    Did you want to participate in the Springtime One-for-One swap?  Time’s running out.  Make something today and drop it in the mail today.  While I established a deadline of July 5 (Friday), I’ll wait until Sunday to sort through them and mail them back out.  Woo hoo!  I’ve already received some beauties, and you don’t want to miss out.  Click the picture below for more information.