Tic Tac Toe Snowflakes

The latest Tic Tac Toe challenge has a line "snow, free, and blue".  And the Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge has shades of blue with snow.   I made this card:

First I made the background by sprinkling various blue Brushos on a snowflake stencil and spritzing with water, then pressing the stencil onto mixed media cs to create a stencil monoprint.

I trimmed the panel, made a frame for it with a regular rectangle die and a stitched rectangle die, die cut some snowflakes out of various blue glitter cs, and added a white heat embossed sentiment on a strip of navy cs.

Off it goes to Tic Tac Toe for the centre vertical line:

And the Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge:

And Diane and Darlene have a new challenge - Stencil Fun - anything goes as long as you use a stencil.

Supplies:
Stamps - Northwoods sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white
Paper - mixed media, cream cs, scrap of navy cs, scraps of various blue glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - snowflake stencil (made by a friend for me from a Cricut), blue Brushos, small snowflake dies, white embossing powder, Spellbinders rectangle die, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

Horses in the Woods

Since The Male Room challenge is asking for "Animals" this time, I'm indulging my love of horses for today's card.

I followed Loll Thompson's video "Stencilling with Brushos" and created my background with the birch tree stencil and black Brushos (love all the colours the black Brushos give you).

I stamped the horses on the background in black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I used a Versamarker pen to scribble in the "ground" and then heat embossed it with a mixture of different green embossing powders.

I trimmed the panel, bordered with black cs, popped it up on fun foam, and added Tim Holtz clippings stickers in place of a sentiment.

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Local King Rubber Stamp horses
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Versamarker pen
Paper - cream and black cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - black Brushos, clear embossing powder, a mix of green embossing powders, TCW stencil, fun foam, TH clippings stickers sentiment stickers

Fuzzy Flowers

Less is More is challenging us to create something "Out of Focus".

 

That lends itself perfectly to a couple of techniques I love - sprinkling brushos through a stencil and spritzing with water, or inking up a stamp with markers and spritzing with water.  For this card, I used the first:

For info on how to do the flowers, see this video.  I love the watercoloured, out of focus look!

The panel is then cut diagonally with a small diagonal strip of the image completely removed - just wide enough for the sentiment that is stamped on the card base between the two sections. See this video for details.

The two sections are then popped up on fun foam.

I hope to come back tomorrow with another card for this challenge done with the second technique I mentioned.

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TH wildflowers stencil, purple and green brushos, fun foam