Hello, crafting friends!
Yes, I have some happy news to share with you today: I have been invited to join the talented design team at the Tic Tac Toe challenge! For those of you that haven't come across it before, it's a weekly challenge which inspires you to create using options on a tic tac toe board. It's great fun and winners get the chance to become a guest designer, so do come and play along!
It's not actually my turn to submit a design team sample this week, but I can't resist playing along anyway! I chose the bottom row: Doily/checks/ice cream (see challenges below for the full board.)
Everything I used for this card was found in the snippets box! The doily had been hanging around for ages but I cut the good bits out of it and used it to peek out behind my background layer which had been stamped with Gingham by Kaisercraft for some project or other, but not used. The ice creams were a little bargain I picked up at Hobbyycraft for just pennies! I stamped and cut them out of very small snippets of card stock, and decorated them using markers and a little heart.
Finally, I added a sentiment from Clearly Besotted's Sweet Berries, stamped in versamark on black card stock and heat embossed in white, then snipped into a banner.
CHALLENGES
I'm playing for fun at the Tic Tac Toe challenge *waves hello to my new teamies*; I'm also linking up with The Snippets Playground, where we must make a card using off cuts and scraps (everything on my card was a scrap from my snippets box except the card base; I'm also joining in at Addicted to Stamps and More where they're celebrating Any Occasion.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
When my children were growing up, an ice cream parlour opened in our little market town. I am a huge fan of good quality ice cream - and the lady that ran this establishment made the ice creams by hand, using organic milk and cream, fruits in season and other luxurious flavourings. They tasted SO good! The children and I used to make an outing of it; we'd walk down to the town, spend what seemed to be hours choosing our flavours, then walk down to the river to eat our ice creams while chatting and laughing in the sun. Such good memories!
