Tic Tac Toe Challenge 271 #TTTC271

  

I love this challenge as it has so many options on what you can make with it. 

It has been a while, but I recently made a card for my friend to give to her grandmother. It was such a special card, and her grandmother absolutely loved it!

Here are the challenge options and as it states it's a tic tac toe challenge, so you choose a straight line either diagonal, up/down or across.

I chose the bottom-line Markers/coloured pencils, Embossing Folder and Flowers

I could also get away with Die Cuts, Ribbon/Twine and Embossing Folder for this one too!

Lets look at these pics a little closer

The front of the card

and inside of the card.

I made a flower planter box card, which is my own design that I made a few years ago for a tutorial group that I was in. When I designed it, it took a lot of measuring, cutting and re measuring to make the panels inside the card from one piece of cardstock not two as others have tried to copy!

  

The bottom line -Markers/coloured pencils, embossing and flowers is on the inside and outside of this card, the flowers on the front are coloured using stampin' blend markers, the embossing is the brick panel inside on the back of the card and also on the planter boxes. The flowers are self-explanatory, being on both the front of the card as well as in the planter boxes on the inside.

I used the Alphabet A La Mode dies for the number on the front and backed them with the dimensional sheet which I ran through the Stampin' Cut n Emboss Machine. A little bit of wink of stella added a bit more of a "sparkle" to the front of the card.

I put ribbon under the base part of the card and cut a small slit, so it came through to the front which ties the card together perfectly.

Yes, the majority of the flowers in the planter boxes are fussy cut! You either like it or despise it!

It is such a "wow" style card to give someone as a gift and every time I make one, 

I am so proud of how they work out.

• Stamps: Gallery Blooms and Birthday Celebration
• Ink: Memento Black 
• Card: Basic White, Basic Black, Strawberry Slush, Country Woods and Floral Impressions DSP
• Tools: Gallery Blooms & Impressions Abloom Dies and Exposed brick embossing folder with a Sampin' Cut n Emboss Machine, Granny Apple Green and Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blend Markers
• Embellishments: - Dimensionals, Wink of Stella, Ribbon (from my stash), Strawberry Slush Flat Pearls
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