A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday, 4 February 2016

Christmas Tic Tac Toe at Happy Little Stampers


I love Tic Tac Toe challenges and that is exactly what Happy Little Stampers is offering as its Christmas Card Challenge for February:

 

 

I chose the diagonal line of gold, sentiment, and white, and came up with this card for my Design Team contribution:

 

I decided that, since "sentiment" was one of the Tic Tac Toe options I chose, the sentiment should be a prominent part of the card.  Also, I was on a roll of making cards with a musical theme for the January Christmas Card Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.  I'd run off several embossed musical score backgrounds and had this one leftover.   It seemed perfect to go with the Whimsey stamp that is a line from a Christmas song.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment stamp in gold.  I wanted to border the image with gold cs but none of my gold cs matched the gold of the heat embossing so I cut a rectangle, edged it with the same ink and embossing powder as I used on the stamp - a wonderful tip I learned from Gina K to get a perfectly matched cs!

I embellished with a wooden snowflake that I burnished with gold metallic rub-on.

Come and join us at Happy Little Stampers for a chance to win a discount at the Happy Little Stampers shop!







Supplies:
Stamps - Whimsey sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cuttlebug music embossing folder, SU wooden snowflake, gold metallic rub-on



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4 comments:

  1. MaryH4 February 2016 at 18:06

    Love your take on the tic tac toe challenge. The pristine white embossed music score looks really splendid with the gold gleams. A very pretty design and great colors too. TFS & Have a great wkend.

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  2. Inkyfingers5 February 2016 at 03:47

    What a gorgeous card Susan and I love the tip on embossing the edges to get matching cardstock!I'm going to have that song going through my head all day now!

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  3. Loll5 February 2016 at 08:03

    LOVE your large lyrics sentiment that works perfectly with your musical score background. Great design Susan! And love the pretty gold-rubbed snowflake. xx

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  4. BożenA8 February 2016 at 09:47

    Beautiful and elegant card according to Tic-Tac-Toe. I love the combination of gold and white - is so Christmas.
    hugs,
    BozenA

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