Paper Players 139
30 March 2013
Hi Everyone
It's my pleasure to host the Paper Players challenge this week and I have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. Hopefully you will be able to find lots of options to play along with us this week.
I actually made three cards, simply because I couldn't quite make up my mind what to do! So many choices!
For this card I went with the upper left and lower right combo: Spring; a Tag; Pink and Green.
Once again, I looked to MDS for an image. I wanted a floral image and found some fabulous flowers amongst the Green Tea digital stamp set. I used the leaf image first, coloring it with two slightly different shades of green and got that ready to print. Next, I chose the floral image and made 3 slightly different sizes of flower and got those ready to print. I printed them out and colored the flowers with Copic markers. I then fussy cut around them and dipped them in glitter. I know it's a little hard to see how shiny it is, but it does look pretty in real life.
Once I had the elements ready, I ran the leaf image through my Big Shot and my tag die. I then mounted the colored and glittered flowers to the leaf tag base. I knew that I wanted to put the tag on a DSP base, so went to my Patterns Pack and chose Pink Pirouette. I rounded the corners and then ran the DSP through my big shot with the zigzag embossing folder. I rounded all of the corners, to echo the corners of the tag and adhered the DSP to the Pretty in Pink base. I had also rounded the corners of the card base, too.
Before I adhered the tag, I stuck a piece of very old polka dot ribbon through the hole in the die and stamped the sentiment. Of course, it had to be a spring sentiment to fit the challenge! Luckily, I had a set delivered recently from PTI that had a spring sentiment.
Once all of this was done, I was ready to adhere the tag to the base of the card. Here's what I made
The design team took this challenge in so many different directions. I really hope you will check out their fabulous inspiration cards. Of course, I also hope that you will play along with us!
You can check out the design team cards on their blogs below and you can play along with us here.
On a personal note:
Spring is on her way. Yes..... definitely... it got into the 50s today! It was unbelievable. It's getting back down into the 30s on Monday, but I will take these warmer temperatures for the next couple of days!
Lou treated me to a facial and a pedicure today. It was wonderful. Really wonderful! I was so relaxed at the end of it that visiting with our accountant to do the taxes afterwards... well, it didn't feel too bad!
I hope you all have a blessed Easter and, for my Jewish followers, a Happy Passover.
Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight. Prayers especially for the Madiba himself, Nelson Mandela.
Have a beautiful Sunday
Hugs
Jaydee