Joyful tree

Hello, crafting friends!

 

There's a new board at Tic Tac Toe Challenge today and I've had the privilege of putting it together!

 

 

I do hope you'll find some ideas to inspire you here - especially if (like me) you have lots more festive cards to make! I've come up with a CAS design using a layered tree die  - not sure who makes this but any tree die would work.

 

I cut the layers from offcuts of white card and sponged them with inks in three shades of green. To these I added white kraft ink to the edges, glued them together and decorated the tree with gold glitter glue 'lights'.

 

For the background, I masked off a crisp diagonal on the front of a thick card base and used Salty Ocean distress oxide ink and a sponge dauber above it to create an organic shape representing an evening sky. I dotted this liberally with my Posca white acrylic paint pen to conjure up a nice wintery snow storm. The tree was glued to the background and a sparkly punched star added to its top. The card was finished with a sentiment from Hobbycraft, die cut from a tiny snippet of red card.

 

Okay, it's over to you! First, hop over to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge blog and check out the beautiful cards the design team have made to inspire you; Next, choose a column, row or diagonal from the board and use the ideas to create your own card; Finally, use the blue Linky button at the bottom of the challenge post to link up your creation with us - we can't wait to see what you make!

 

CHALLENGES

I'm off to the Snippets Playground with this snippety card; I'm also linking up at Inkspirational where the challenge is Layer It and I'm hoping my layered tree die cut counts :)

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I am delighted that one of our favourite walks has become available again after the farmer has moved his livestock.  The golden girls are fans because there are different terrains: a wooded area for hunting squirrels, a lane for sniffing in the hedgerows, fields for playing chase and having zoomies in, AND (drum roll!) not only a river to swim in, but also a stream to splash about in chasing sticks! Pupperino Paradise! I am keen because there is often a lot of mud around at this time of year and the rivers and stream come in very handy to turn a duo of muddy vagabonds into a pair of demure blonde princesses, albeit rather damp ones! 

 

Here's an exhausted Lulu, arranged on a sofa, having been dried off and plied with Choice Viands! Look at the crossed paws!! A princess indeed!

Sending hugs,