A Clubhouse Birthday Celebration – Tic Tac Toe Challenge #64

by Shannon Jaramillo // May 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

Hello Friends! Woot, Woot! I’m excited to share a new Tic Tac Toe Challenge Board with you today! The wonderful Joanne James (from over the pond) is our featured designer this week and has come up with a board that has lots of masculine items on it but could easily be re-construed without the masculinity if you wanted:

I had a card in mind the minute I saw the board – I LOVE when that happens! It popped into my head immediately, so if it looks scarily like someone else’s card (which I hope it doesn’t), I’m going to apologize ahead of time and please let me know who you are so I can give you credit – (whoa, that was a long sentence!) – this is what popped into my head!:

I went with the middle row: twine, patterned paper and masculine.

Measurements:

Night of Navy Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Granite Gray Card Stock Layer: 3 3/4″ x 5″
Clubhouse DSP Layer: 2″ x 4 5/8″

Details:

One of the things that I Most Love about Stampin’ Up! is their coordinating products. They make everything so EASY. Today I am working with the Clubhouse Cling Stamp Set and the Golf Club Dies which can be purchased together as a bundle for a 10% savings!

and the Country Club Designer Series Paper:

I adore the clean classic lines of this set and think it is one of the best golfing sets I have seen out in the market. If you agree and would like to add them to your collection, they are on the list to retire as of June 2, 2020, which means once they sell out, they will not be re-stocked, so get your order in before they’re gone!

I matted the Night of Navy base with a piece of Granite Gray card stock that I ran through the Big Shot with the Subtle Embossing Folder. Again, crisp, clean lines. {love}
Added a strip of DSP to tie back to the card base and really show off the stark white die cut golfer. My hubby is a golfer, and a no frills kind of guy, so I knew he would not want the image colored. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and left it alone, simply popping it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
So at this point in my card design, I have the pattern paper and the masculine down pat, but how to incorporate twine? …After some thought, I decided a simple strip of Mossy Meadow twine would be a perfect anchor for my die cut sentiment. Easy!
Somehow or another, this bitty tuft of grass die cut worked its’ way onto the card. Not sure how that happened (sneaky little things, dies), but I think it’s a wonderful accent!

I thought this ‘inside’ sentiment was PERFECT for this theme so I added it, but again, crisp and clean. Hubby is always in my mind design-wise (and, well, really all things-wise). I use his preferences as my guide and I think he would approve this card 🙂

So that’s how I interpreted today’s Tic Tac Toe Challenge Board, I can’t wait to see how it inspires you! And of course, for more inspiration please visit the Tic Tac Toe Challenge, lots of great ideas there!

Thank you SO much for stopping by, I really appreciate each and every visitor to my blog and to the challenge blog, take care, and please, be safe out there!

Blessing to you,

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Night of Navy, Smoky Slate; Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White (110 lb)

DSP: Country Club

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Clubhouse

Coloring Tools: None

Dies: Golf Club Dies

Tools: Big Shot

Embellishments: Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack – Mossy Meadow Thread

Other: Whisper White Envelope

Birthday Greetings – Tic Tac Toe Challenge #60

by Shannon Jaramillo // April 30, 2020 // 3 Comments

Hello there my crafty friends! It’s Thursday and that means it’s time for another Tic Tac Toe Challenge, this time Amy has created our super inspiring challenge board:

I chose to use the far right column, incorporating grass, a square (or two ;), and layers (I LOVE layers) to create a clean masculine birthday card:

Measurements:

Gray Granite Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Pretty Peacock Card Stock Layer: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
Botanical Prints DSP Layer: 3 5/8″ x 4 3/4″

Details:

While browsing online for inspiration, I came across a card made with this jaw-dropingly gorgeous geometric pattern paper from the Botanical Prints product medley. I just KNEW I had to pull it out and create something with it myself! BTW, this amazing medley of products is on clearance right now, down from $70 to only $42 – isn’t that an AMAZING price for all of these goodies?!?

I began this project right after going through the retiring items list from Stampin’ Up!, and I had seen quite a few items retiring that I hadn’t even pulled out yet to use, so with that in mind I reached for the Animal Outing stamp set. Such a darling rhinoceros! (I never ever thought that I would use the word ‘darling’ to describe a rhinoceros, but here we are!)
I stamped him in with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then quickly die cut him with the coordinating die; popped him up with Stampin’ Dimensionals onto a Pretty Peacock die-cut square, and then adhered both to a Gray Granite die-cut scalloped square.
I loved the sizing distance between the Pretty Peacock square and the Gray Granite scalloped square so I mimicked that in the sizing of my base layers, keeping a 3/8″ distance between the two. It leaves a nice glimpse of all of the colors.
I then tried really hard to add twine to my card, but just couldn’t quite pull that trigger – I was trying to use the center column of the challenge board (die-cut, twine, animals) but the twine just seemed to insubstantial next to all those thick layers. I then reached for this Pretty Peacock 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon which I to be honest, prior to now, hadn’t given much thought to but it was what I had in Pretty Peacock so I wrapped it around my layers and tied it into a knot, and – WOW! it is SO stunning! I will need to reach for it more often!

At this point I realized that I had not left space for a sentiment! (eek!), but after some pondering I found this darling sentiment in the Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set (it’s an awesome set!) and realized that I would be able to continue with the “square’ theme of my card! Perfect! I just stamped it in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, die cut it with the smallest square in the Stitched Shapes die set and using Stampin’ Dimensionals, adhered it to my card at a fun angle!
By now I’ve realized that the twine just will not be making an appearance on this card (I had been holding out hope for it), so I had to go back to the challenge board and decided to move to the far right column and add some grass to my card. This image from the Animal Outings stamp set, stamped, die cut, trimmed down, and tucked behind the sentiment looks to me like tall African grasses!

I loved the clean look of this card so decided to STOP and not add anything else. Tall order, but I did it! 🙂
For the last step, I added some fun elements to the inside of the card, as well as adding randomly places grasses to the envelope flap using the same stamp I used for the grass around the sentiment:

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s post, I had a blast creating this card and, as always, LOVE the mental stimulation of using a challenge board! We would LOVE to see what you’ve created using this week’s inspiration! Please pop on over to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge to see more inspiration from our talented design team!

Side note: I have been using this time of social isolation to sort through, organize, price and sell craft items from another crafter’s estate, as well as packing up my own house as I will be moving out of state in the next two months, so I want to share that I miss you, and miss my craft time, but will be posting more frequently toward the end of summer.

Take care of yourselves, stay healthy and safe, and make lots of pretty things!

Blessings!

Supplies:

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Gray Granite, Pretty Peacock; Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White (110 lb)

DSP: Botanical Prints

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Animal Outing, Itty Bitty Birthdays

Coloring Tools: None

Dies: Animal Friends Dies, Stitched Shapes, Layering Squares

Tools: Big Shot

Embellishments: Pretty Peacock 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon

Other: Whisper White Envelope

A Walk in the Park – Tic Tac Toe Challenge #60

by Shannon Jaramillo // April 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

Hello there, my peeps! It’s Tic-Tac-Toe Thursday once again! Yay! This week’s challenge board was designed by yours truly, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have! I opted for the far right column this time – “Butterfly, Vintage, Button”. And here is my design!

Measurements:

Neenah Solar White Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Walk in the Park (Pink Pattern) DSP Layer 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″
Basic Gray DSP Largest Stitched Rectangles Die
Flowered Pattern DSP Layer Second Largest Stitched Rectangles Die

Details:

I combined four of the delightful patterns in Stampin’ Up’s 2009 Designer Series Paper “Walk in the Park” for today’s design. Here is a peek at all of the 12 designs in that DSP:

The butterfly I used is from the Butterfly Beauty Dies. The die cuts a pretty card front with a total of five butterflies, but I snipped off the four around the main butterfly to leave just the one large butterfly. It’s so exquisite!
I die cut the butterfly out of Basic Gray card stock and then inked up a tiny leaf flourish stamp from the A Little Lace stamp set with Versamark Ink and repeatedly stamped the image on the butterfly to create an abstract design on it.

I found this pretty lacy ribbon in my stash – I’m very pleased with the way it adds to the daintiness of the design, wrapped around the DSP and tied of in a simple knot.
The sentiment from the A Little Lace stamp set was inked up with Versamark Ink, stamped, and then heat embossed with white embossing powder onto Basic Gray card stock. I snipped the ends into a simple banner.

A simple (long retired) button in Blushing Bride completes my design!

As I write my post, the weather has morphed from a week of never-ending rain into beautiful blue skies and a soft afternoon breeze. It has lifted my spirits and is reflected in today’s design. Hope springs eternal that we will be soon on our way past the initial stages of the pandemic and moving into recovery stages. Though the recovery make take a long time and have setbacks along the way, I have faith that all things must end and have optimism and hope for this world of ours.

I hope you have enjoyed my Tic Tac Toe challenge board and that you are inspired to play along!

Blessings to you all…

Supplies:

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Basic Gray; Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White (110 lb)

DSP: Walk in the Park (retired)

Ink: Versamark

Stamps: A Little Lace

Coloring Tools: None

Dies: Butterfly Beauty; Stitched Rectangles

Tools: Big Shot; Heat Tool; Embossing Buddy; Whit eEmbossing Powder

Embellishments: Twitterpated Button in Blushing Bride, Wink of Stella, lace ribbon unknown

Other: Whisper White Envelope

A Flowery Hello – Tic Tac Toe Challenge #58

by Shannon Jaramillo // April 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

Welcome! It’s Thursday and time for another Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge! I LOVE the design possibilities the challenge board offers and LOVE to see how YOU use it! This week Felicita is the featured designer – her board is SO awesome!! I went with a diagonal, from right to left: Layers, Ribbon, Stripes:

Measurements:

Coastal Cabana Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Pineapple Punch Card Stock Layer 3 5/8″ x 4 7/8″
DSP Layer 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″
Call Me Clover Card Stock Layer 2 13/16″ x 4 1/8″
White Card Stock Layer 2 5/8″ x 3 3/4″

Details:

When I first looked at the challenge board, I was going to use the far left column: Vibrant, Circle, Stripes. With that in mind, I reached for this long retired DSP, Best Year Ever. I have always loved it, especially those big blue watercolored stripes! With “vibrant’ in mind, I looked online for color combinations. Ultimately I went with one I came up with myself: Coastal Cabana, Call Me Clover, Pineapple Punch and Lovely Lipstick. Something to keep in mind if you like these colors together – all of the colors I have used with the exception of Coastal Cabana will be retiring June 2nd, so grab some now while you can!

The vase image comes with both an outline/design image and a solid color image so I combined the two. I stamped the one in Memento Tuxedo Black and the other in Coastal Cabana. I didn’t ink up the solid image perfectly, but I love the varied shades of blue as the result, it’s lighter in the middle and I think that’s perfect! I then colored the leaves in the vase with Call Me Clover – SO pretty!!
The flowers image was colored in Pineapple Punch with Lovely Lipstick centers and a bit of Wink of Stella on the petals. I do want to mention that there is a stamp image that will color in all of the flowers, I just chose to color it this time instead.
I was having trouble lining up the vase image with the flowers image so I reached for the coordinating Vase Builder Punch and just punched that vase out! 🙂

I pulled the sentiment from the Varied Vases companion stamp set, Varied Vases, for a super simple design. And it works well for me as I have been sending cards out to family and friends, just to check in during these ‘social distancing’ times.
I played around with colors in my layers, ultimately settling on Call Me Clover and Pineapple Punch. But my finished card needed just a bit more Lovely Lipstick in it to balance everything out. Alas, I don’t have any Lovely Lipstick ribbon or Baker’s Twine, but…I DO have my Stampin’ Blends!! Stampin’ Blends to the rescue again!! I found this darling Whisper White Organza Ribbon in my retired stash – never even opened! I attached my itty bitty bow with a few glue dots.
As you can see, my completed card has NO circles on it – oh no!!! But after reviewing the board again I realized that I DID have all of the elements for the diagonal row Layered, Ribbon, Stripes – whew!! And that is what is so fun about the tic tac toe board – SO many options!!

I reached for more coordinating images from the Varied Vases stamp set for the interior of the card. Doesn’t it look sweet stamped in Pineapple Punch?
I have a confession to make. I always take, and share, a photo of the interior of the card because if I don’t, 90% of the time I won’t finish the interior! Eek! It’s true, I have a tendency to finish the front and want to call it ‘good’. And if I don’t finish the interior, then I won’t be bothered with stamping my ‘stamped by’ stamp on the back, and it will be anarchy in my stamp room!! Cards laying half finished everywhere!! I know, it’s a terrible thought, so this is my way of keeping order, lol 🙂

And that’s it folks!! I truly hope you have been inspired to pull out your inky tools, but for even MORE inspiration, be sure to check out the designs by the rest of the talented Tic Tac Toe Challenge design team! Thank you SO much for stopping by my blog today and I can’t wait to see YOUR creations in the gallery over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge!!

Blessings to you!!

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Call Me Clover, Coastal Cabana and Pineapple Punch; Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White (80 lb)

DSP: Best Year Ever (retired)

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Pineapple Punch and Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Vibrant Vases and Varied Vases

Coloring Tools: Stampin’ Blends – Light & Dark Call Me Clover, Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick and Light & Dark Pineapple Punch

Dies: Stitched Rectangle Dies

Tools: Big Shot; Vases Builder Punch

Embellishments: 1/4″ Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope

The Nicest Things – The Paper Players 482 & TGIF Challenge 255

by Shannon Jaramillo // March 20, 2020 // 5 Comments

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Hello there and Happy Friday, my peeps!! It’s been raining here again in Southern California and the perfect reason to pull out some darling paper and an even more darling-er (if that’s possible) stamp image!!

Measurements:

Purple Posy Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
White Card Stock Layer 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
DSP Layer 1 3/4″ x 5 1/2″

Details:

I recently acquired this stamp set, The Nicest Things, secondhand. It’s vintage Stampin’ Up! and so, so sweet. Those little girls – oh, I just can’t even!
Tons of coloring today so let me break it down for you
- The dress on the right is Light & Dark Purple Posy with a Light Mint Macaron Apron with Light Pretty Peacock detailing on the apron. The base for her hair is Dark Daffodil Delight with additions of Light & Dark Crumb Cake and Bronze
- The dress on the left is Light & Dark Mint Macaron with Light & Dark Daffodil Delight for the trim and the blouse. The base for her hair is Light So Saffron with additions of Dark So Saffron and Light & Dark Daffodil Delight
- The basket is Light & Dark Crumb Cake
- The grass is Light & Dark Old Olive
- Three of the flowers are Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick; the fourth flower is Light Mint Macaron and Light & Dark Pretty Peacock
- The girls’ skin tone is Light & Dark Petal Pink.

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To keep with the inspiration sketch, I added three Basic Rhinestones Jewels and colored them with Pretty Peacock and Blackberry Bliss.
The intricate detail cut to the left of the focal image was achieved by using the Delicate Lace Dies. I have been itching to try them out, I love it! What do you think? Yay or Nay?
I used two different patterns from the Best Dressed DSP line and incorporated the colors from that DSP when coloring my little darlings.

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The inside sentiment is from the Beautiful Friendship stamp set and pairs so well with the saying on the front. I can’t wait to send this out!

Two different challenges inspired today’s project, the first was the CAS (Clean and Simple) Flowers challenge over at The Paper Players (and I’m sneaking in just under the wire!) and the sketch challenge over at the TGIF Challenge. Thank you to both design teams for the awesome inspiration!!! XX

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Mint Macaron and Purple Posy; Neenah Solar White Classic Crest Cover 80#

DSP: Best Dressed

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: The Nicest Things and Beautiful Friendship

Alcohol Markers: Purple Posy, Mint Macaron, Pretty Peacock, daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Sa Saffron, Lovely Lipstick, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Ivory and Bronze

Dies: Delicate Lace

Tools: Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer (both retired)

Embellishments: Rhinestone Basic Jewels; Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope