Tic Tac Toe Poinsettia

I really enjoy Tic Tac Toe challenges so am happy to be posting a card for The Paper Players.  I chose the row that reads "foil / embossing / embellishments".

I ran a piece of red foil cs through my Cuttlebug using the TH 3D poinsettia embossing folder.  I then sanded off some of the raised area to bring out the design.  I cut a thin diagonal strip out of the panel, put the two sections on fun foam, stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the recessed section between the two sections of the panel, and added lots of tiny gemstone embellishments to the centres of the poinsettias.

The Paper Players "Tic Tac Toe"

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, red foil cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TH 3D poinsettia embossing folder, small clear gemstones, clear embossing powder, fun foam

Penny Black Irises

The August Penny Black and More Challenge is "Say It with Flowers".  I've gone with irises, one of my favourite flowers and made two variations using the same stamp.

For this one, I stamped and watercoloured the iris, then split it diagonally and cut out a small section of it, lined it up on the card base and stamped the sentiment, and then mounted the two sections on fun foam.

Here's the other variation:

Again, it's stamped and watercoloured but with quite different colours and popped up on fun foam on a coloured card base.  I added a bit of black splatter for interest.

Same image, two cards - which one do you prefer?

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black iris, unknown sentiments
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - mixed media, white, and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Green Mistletoe and Canadian Olympic Team Colours

First up today for the Double D Challenge, they are offering the option of a St. Patrick's Day theme or a green, white, and gold colour theme.  I have no need of St. Patrick's Day cards so went with the colours.  And they are ideal colours for a Christmas card (of which I have need of many).

I stamped and watercoloured the mistletoe branch on mixed media cs and then carefully cut two narrow strips out of the panel on a diagonal.

I bordered each of those three pieces with dark gold cs and added fun foam to the back of each of them.

I carefully lined them up on the card base and drew pencil lines between them, then took them off and set them aside. I put the card base in my MISTI and stamped the two sentiments between my pencil lines. When the sentiments were dry, I erased the pencil lines and added the three image sections to the card base. Last step was adding some Stickles to the berries.


And another colour theme challenge is over at the Male Room where they are asking for team colours.  I went with the Canadian Winter Olympics Team's colours of red, black, and white.

This stamp seemed ideal since it mentions "winter".  I'm not a big sports fan but I do watch a lot of the Winter Olympics.

A very CAS card - stamped, watercoloured, bordered in black, and popped up on fun foam.

Thanks for stopping by today.  More CAS Christmas tomorrow!

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - white and dark gold cs, mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Stickles, watercolour paints, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stamplorations
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam