Thoughtful Moments – Celebrate

Welcome to Sunday and the newest Paper Players (#696) challenge.  This week, Anne-Marie has given us a Tic Tac Toe Board to work with.  Lots of possibilities with eight different combinations.  I selected the left-side down: Stars/Stipes, Birthday, and Twine.

Additional inspiration: Festive Friday (#162) selecting a number of the possible elements; Just Add Ink (#708) choosing Embossing and White.

Bringing it all together, I selected the As You See It (#326) Sketch.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Accent Mat: (5¼” x 4”) Basic White cardstock dry-embossed with the retired Splatter 3D Embossing Folder.
• Background Panel: (4½” x 3½”) Blueberry Bushel Gingham patterned piece of paper from the retired Glorious Gingham Designer Series Paper pack.
• Shape – Star: Real Red cardstock scrap.
  • The retired Canvas Background stamp was inked with Versamark ink, and the cardstock piece was pressed onto the large stamp.  The design was then heat-set with White Embossing Powder and die-cut with the (2”) Star die from the retired Stars Framelits Dies set.
• Sentiment: (3½” x 1½”) Basic White cardstock scrap.
  • The word: Celebrate on the inside top of the Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Embossing Folder was inked with Real Red ink.
  • The coordinating Thoughtful Moments Hybrid Die was set in place over the cardstock piece and then the folder was closed and passed through the Cut & Emboss Machine resulting in the Real Red outlined embossed die-cut.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  A triple Linen Twine Bow was tied and added to the Star.

An all-American Summer Birthday card!

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today and I hope you will consider joining us with this week’s Paper Player’s challenge.  I would love to see what you will create.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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I will be taking a vacation break and I elected to share this card with Seize The Birthday (#286), keeping in mind that for Paper Players you can only enter your project into three other challenges for a maximum of four to be eligible for wining consideration.