It's my turn to Tic Tac Toe with Let's Craft Together

Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months we'll be playing along with a Tic Tac Toe created by me. I got to choose the TTT layout and options - so I hope you enjoy this hop and I can't wait to see all the project variations.

Today I have created a super cool typical masculine card using the Adventurous Sky Bundle. 

Here's the challenge picture - I have gone stright down the middle here - selecting to make a MASCULINE, FAVOURITE STAMP SET & FUN FOLD.

Lets take a closer look at this card. I'e used the Adventurous Bundle and DSP to decorate this fun fold card. I've used the colours from the patterned paper to help me decide what colours to use. Cajun Craze is one of my all time favourite colours - I've used it just here and there today. 

How fun is this card! All the easel panels take it from cool to SUPER COOL card.  Cutting the DSP panels to decorate the front was the hardest part. I cut x3 4.5cm x 10cm rectangles, then I cut them in half on the diagonal. The best glue to use for those super fine triangle corners is the Fine Tip Glue. 

Heres a quick tutorial - I'd love to see what you come up with!

Thanks to Lisa Curcio for the cool You Tube tutorial on this style of card. 

The inside decorated and be sure to include some pop up elements to hold up each easel panel. Here I have stamped a fun edge with clouds and planes, and raised on a dimensional are 2 clouds and the plane in Cajun Craze. 

An awesome colour combination

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Lets go Rustic Style for May with Lets Craft Together

Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months theme is Rustic, I was super excited for this month, I think its such a cool theme.

I have created a rustic pile of 'painted wood' ready for any DIY'er to create something super cool.

For todays sentiment I double stanped in 2 colours the 'HappyBirthday' from Sweetly Scripted.

Remember the challenge was RUSTIC

Lets take a closer look at this card. Here I had already 'treated' my wood panels to some shading around the edges with Crumb Cake ink and a small blending brush. The next steps was the fun part, I wanted to use the inkpad 'SWIPE' technique to add some white ink, like a white wash of paint.  So I used a small inkspot with a tiny bit of white ink refill.

You can see here more clearly the end result of darking the edges and then lightening the fronts. I think it looks sooo RUSTIC!

My RUSTIC inspiration - I would love this coffee table

Time to finish the card with a sentiment and some tone on tone gems

For the inside I used a few 'offcuts' along the bottom edge. 

A darker pallet than I would normally for go and I love the end result.

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Circle Saying Fun Fold - Chain Card Swap for Tracy

Welcome to the LAST Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Tracy and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the blog hop at Tracy's blog and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 4th in the chain for Round 11 and have created a Diagonal Fun Fold with Circle Saying Bundle and Earthen Textures DSP. 

The rich deep earthy tones of the paper are so different to what I would normally choose...but I'm likely it!

Here's the card I CASE'd from Kayla - she created a very cool fun fold too.

Lets take a closer look at this card.

Creating this fun fold is easy, I've included a quick tutorial for you to use

Love that you can create x2 cards from 1 sheet of A4

A very on trend colour palette!

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Quilted Blanket Technique with Delightfully Eclectic DSP STACK

Who doesn't love a warm hug from a cozy blanket. Todays card reminds me of just that. I want to share a super cool PAPER technique with you. I showcased this a couple weeks ago in a video, but look at the difference the embossing REALLY makes.  Lets take these 2 Thank You cards that I made using scrap strips from the Delightfully Eclectic DSP Stack (on sale NOW as it will retire soon!)  One has been embossed using Quatrefoil Tile (also retiring!) Embossing folder and the other hasn't.  Which is your favourite? 

Love this THANK YOU from Something Fancy - which will be available when the new catalogue begins on May 1st. 

So which is your favourite? EMBOSSED or 

 

.... or NOT? 
Personally I prefer the technique WITH. Its so easy too! Simply apply your DSP to your card front or label, run it through with an Emboss Folder of your choice and see the quilted, embossed, textured, detailed look appear like magic!

This colour combo reminds me of a cozy baby blanket, warm and cuddly

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Earthen Textures - Chain Card Swap for Sharni

Welcome to the Chain Card Swap Blog Hop! This hop is all about Sharni and the CASES of her card. I encourage you to start the blog hop at Sharni’s blog and follow along to see the progression of her card through the group. Its so interesting to see the development!

I was 6th in the chain for Round 10 and have used Earthen Textures to create this card. I took inspiration from Cheryls pots below. 

Here's the card I CASE'd from Cheryl

The inside shows you the split front. 

Beautiful rich colour combo

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