Hey y’all – it’s Sunday, which means I’ve got another fun challenge for you from the Paper Players – it’s a TicTacToe challenge (one of my favorites!) from our own talented JayDee this week and it’ll for sure jump-start your creative mojo! I hope you’ll come and play along. 🙂
If you were able to join me yesterday for my Facebook Live video, I appreciate you spending some of your weekend with me! If you weren’t able to watch the live version, but you’d like to see the replay on YouTube…here ’tis!
I turned to the beautiful Many Layered Blossoms bundle – stamp set AND dies – for this one. And set the blooms atop a Christmas Layers bough and an Ornate Floral 3D embossed panel! Take a look-see:
And here’s this week’s Paper Players TicTacToe challenge! Hope you’ll join the fun and show us your projects! I can’t wait to see what you create!
I went across the top – down the right column – and across the diagonal left to right. I’m pretty sure that’s YAHTZEE! 😉
And the layout was (sort of loosely!) inspired by the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week!
I started by cutting the bough from the Christmas Layers die set from a piece of Just Jade card stock, which would form the basis for the flower spray on the card front.
Using the small flower dies in the Many Layered Blossoms die set, I cut three small and two large flowers from Silver Foil. Then I adhered them to a piece of the Magenta Madness paper in the 2020-2022 In Color 6″ x 6″ DSP. I roughly fussy cut the flowers.
I cut the outline flowers from Misty Moonlight and used Liquid Glue to adhere them (only using glue in the middles of the flowers) to the flowers I’d just created.
I laid out the bough and the flowers on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. Once I knew where it would all “land”, I stamped the Blossoms in Bloom sentiment in Misty Moonlight. Then I embossed the panel in the Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder.
I adhered the panel to a Magenta Madness mat and then adhered the Just Jade bough across the panel with Liquid Glue.
Using Stampin’ Dimensionals – I added the five flowers. Under the fourth flower – I used a Glue Dot to adhere a simple bow tied from a length of Misty Moonlight/Silver Baker’s Twine from the new Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack.
I added a Bumble Bee enamel dot from the 2020-2022 In Color Enamel Dots to the center of each flower and the card front was done.
On the inside, I stamped the two small flowers from Blossoms in Bloom in Misty Moonlight on a Whisper White panel. I stamped little flower centers in Melon Mambo (I don’t have Magenta Madness Ink yet – but it’s a good way to show the difference in the two colors!). I added a Just Jade enamel dot to each flower.
I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to a Magenta Madness mat and into my Misty Moonlight card base, popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!
My Whisper White Medium Envelope got more Misty Moonlight and Melon Mambo flowers on the front…
…and more of the Magenta Madness 2020-2022 In Color 6″ x 6″ DSP on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! No way around it, is there? This bundle – whether you use the Blossoms in Bloom stamp set with the Many Layered Blooms Dies together or just one of the other – is a stunner!! The stamp set – in addition to the beautiful blossoms – covers a lot of ground in the sentiment department!!
I’m also a huge fan of the new designs in the 2020-2022 In Color 6″ x 6″ DSP, aren’t you? When the new catalog comes out next week (whoo-hoo!!), each color collection will have a new pack of DSP with these designs!
Yep – that’s WOODGRAIN!! 🙂
I hope you like – and are adding all these goodies to your gotta-have-it list!
And I can help you get this bundle – after 3 June you might pick this for your FREE BUNDLE when you join the Stampin’ Up! team during our Kickoff Celebration (see the deets down below), or you might consider my Online Host Club! or you could get it in my All About the Flowers Special Bundle!
If you want to recreate this card – all the Stampin’ Up! products you need are listed down below along with the card cuts!
Now – before you reach for your ink and papers, check out what our amazing team has created to inspire you this week:
The Paper Players Design Team
- Jaydee
- LeAnne Pugliese
- Claire Broadwater
- Joanne James
- Laurie Schmidt
- Anne Marie Hile
- Ann Schach
- Allisa Steinlicht
- Stef Perry
- Mary Deatherage – you’re here right now!
TTFN
M
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Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog Kickoff Celebration
Starts on 3 June!
The brand new 2020–2021 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog is going live on 3 June 20, and Stampin’ Up! is having a celebration!
Anyone who places an order of $250+ or holds a party with $250+ in sales during the month of June will receive $25 in extra Stampin’ Rewards!! So, THAT means that you’ll earn $50 in Stampin’ Rewards with any order or party of $250+ that is submitted between June 3 and June 30! Yay!!!!
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Get the Stampin’ Up! Products Used in This Project:
Card Cuts Used in This Project:
Misty Moonlight Card Stock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, scored folded at 5 1/2″); Many Layered Blossoms die cut flowers
Magenta Madness Card Stock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (mats for card front and for inner liner)
Whisper White Card Stock: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (card front and inner liner)
Silver Foil: Many Layered Blossoms die cut flowers
2020-2022 In Color 6″ x 6″ DSP: Many Layered Blossoms die cut flowers); envelope flap
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Finn Fan Fix
The other day, Finn had gone outside for…you know.
Business. 😉
He started barking (not at all unusual) and I looked out the kitchen window to see what it was….the last time he did that we had a visitor.
I couldn’t see anything but he was definitely letting me know SOMEthing was up…
He’d barkbarkbark and then…look to see what, if any, effect he was having…
Finally, I guess he decided it just wasn’t worth the effort and he laid down to rest…
Turns out…which I discovered when I went to feed…I’d left the back pasture gate open that morning.
The girls had been taking a turn thru the barn – checking the sawdust barrels, perusing the hay room, and finally finding the clover patch behind the barn.
So…there WAS something to bark at.
THIS time!
Ever heard of the Aussie who cried wolf?!?
TTFN
M
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Sweet card! Love the clean design! Poor Finn…he can’t win for barking… 😉
No. No he can’t. It’s a pretty sad thing… 😉 Thanks! 🙂
love your stories Mary.
Awww – thanks, Jean! 🙂
Pretty way to use those florals, and I love that embossed background! I think that’s one of my favorite EFs ever! And I guess you should listen to Finn, right?!
Well – he needs to not cry wolf!! LOL! Thanks, Leanne – and yes, it’s a gorgeous folder! 🙂
I lòve those sweet flowers and am impressed with your comination of sets, using the boughs base. (Where are the links to the store? I need to check that bough out!)
“Mom, Mom, Mom. I’m trying to tell you something!” The girls are glad you didn’t understand and cut their wandering short! 😃
Fixed the product link! Sorry – and thanks for letting me know! Yep – they were quite content! 🙂
Love your design, colors and believe it or not, all the white space. That is sooooo not you! Did you ever think you’d be doing FB lives, You Tube lives, on a Design Team and having the team you have AND the upline you have? I predict you are a million dollar star too! Cute story about Finn’s antics. He is NOT a wolf in Aussie’s clothing 😉
No! No, I did not! Now it sort of feels like I’ve been doing those forever! 🙂 Thanks much, Karen – and no – it’s really NOT me! 🙂
Pretty card, great video. Uh, Mary….dogs bark. And, usually there is some reason for it. WE might not think so, but they do. 🙂
Wait. Dogs…Bark?!? Why am I just hearing about this now?!? On the flip side – if I investigated every “alert” – I’d never get anything else done! LOL! But – he IS a good guard dog. And he sound ferocious as can be! Thanks much, Julie! 🙂
Mary, I love the colors you chose for your card and you showcased this set beautifully. I love the textured background, too. thanks for rocking the grid this week
hugs
jaydee
Thanks, Jaydee – I do love a Tic-Tac-Toe! Appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Mary, this is so pretty! I love that embossed background and the way your little flowers just pop off the white! I hope you have a great week!
Thanks so much, Claire! Appreciate you coming by! 🙂
Beautiful card and such a clever take on the sketch! Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.
Thanks, Karren! Appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Love your pretty blooms and the textured background! So gorgeous!
Thanks so much, Laurie! 🙂
The spray you created is so pretty and all the layers, including silver, really make this a special card! Love the textured background and the addition of a bit of linen thread with a pretty bow. Lovely CAS card, Mary!
Thanks, Stef – appreciate it! 🙂
Such a fun card, love how you carried the theme into the inside as well.
Thank you, Allisa! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful, Mary! I love the embossed background…so much yummy texture!
Thanks, Ann – appreciate you coming by! 🙂
Your chain of flowers is so pretty Mary and a unique way to use this set. It reminds me of a daisy chain! Love the embossed background too.
Thanks, Joanne! Appreciatae you stopping by! 🙂
Love how you added the flowers to the Christmas bough! It really pops on the embossed background, too. Gorgeous!
Thanks so much, anne Marie – appreciate you stopping by! 🙂