Wednesday, September 12, 2018

SEPTEMBER 2018 TIC, TAC, TOE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello there House fans!  

It's Wednesday/challenge day from The House That Stamps Built and this week it's a Tic, Tac, Toe Challenge.  


My card uses RI Stamps #207-G "Cardinal" , #2708-M "Pine Branch" and the sentiment is #4025-F "Deepest Sympathy".  

On a separate white cs scrap, I stamped the pine branch in a dark green dye ink. Using my MISTI, I positioned the cardinal stamp over the branch where I wanted him to sit and stamped him in a dark red dye ink.  On the reverse side of the vellum, I colored the cardinal with Copic Markers.  I then ran the vellum through a Swiss dot embossing folder for a snowy texture.  

Both the vellum piece and the white cs were die cut with an oval frame die and adhered together.  I created the background panel by dragging white pigment ink and then a blue ink over a neutral colored card stock layer which gave it a distressed "wood" like appearance.  Using the same oval die set, I used the die one size bigger to create the frame for the image. 

For dimension, I mounted the cardinal oval on a foam layer before layering it against the frame.  



The items I chose from the Tic, Tac, Toe board to create my card are the diagonal from the top to bottom:  Use Dimension, Vellum, and Sympathy.  

I hope you found some inspiration here today.  You'll find tons more on my team mates blogs.  Here are their links:

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther Shirley  

Come on over and join our challenge.  You can jump in on last week's, this week's and each week for the rest of the month and each time you do, you'll get a chance to win a $25 gift certificate for Repeat Impressions Stamps at the end of the month.  What's more....if you use an RI stamp, you'll get 2x the chance to win.  Check out all the details at THE HOUSE.  

Thanks for stopping by!  











8 comments:

craftieodmae said...

Absolutely gorgeous!!

Donna said...

Wow Cheri, what a fabulous snow effect you achieved, great idea on this card, it is amazing! Good choice on your background.

Ina G said...

Gorgeous card SS. Love the soft touch of vellum and that super swiped background. Must try that.

Heather said...

Another absolutely gorgeous card, Cheri!! The cardinal is so beautiful and that background is awesome!! It looks like so much more than swiped ink!

Shirley hotop said...

Beautiful love the vellum overlay and how you used the cardinal.

joy said...

What a pretty card! I love the cardinal - my mom's favorite bird.

Esther Asbury said...

What a beautiful card, Cheri! I love the way the background makes you think of something frosty! Perfectly paired with your lovely image!

Laurie Unger said...

Wow, Cheri. this is fabulous. Love the vellum technique with the swiss dot EF, and your wood like background is wonderful as well!

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