Birthday Greetings From Under the Sea & Die Cuttin Diva's Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Hello Crafty Friends,

I'm blessed to be a guest designer for Die Cuttin' Divas.

This week on their blog is a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge.

Pick three boxes from any row or diagonal from the Grid below and create a project that has those three items.

I went a little crazy on my card and was tried to incorporate almost everything on this Tic-Tac-Toe Grid.   Didn't quite make it because i chose to use a birthday sentiment instead of a "Thinking of You" sentiment.

Here's a picture of some of the items I used to create this card. 

I used my MISTI to have the sentiment match the curve of the top of the oval die cut.   

Here is my final card.

It has leaves (I'm creatively cheating and calling the seaweed "leaves" :)), Sequins, Yellow in the pattern paper and twine, Orange in the twine and seaweed, Enamel Dots near the sentiment, Pattern Paper, Twine, Oval and it's a Shaker Card.  

The oval had a dotted border so I decided to stitch around it with Twine.   This took some time but it gave the card an interesting detail that I normally wouldn't have done.  So thanks to this challenge I pushed myself to do something different creatively.    

Here's some close up shots.

Card Recipe:

• Card base 5-1/2"x5-1/2"
• KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles Ocean Pearl
• I used the png file to print and cut this cutie and accented it with gel pens and Wink of Stella Glitter Pen
• The sand with coral and seaweed were cut using a metal die from the Craftin Dessert Divas Oean Border Dies set out of white paper and colored with my Copic Markers.   YG25 Celadon Green and G94 Grayish Olive for the seaweed, YR04 Crome Orange for the coral; E11 Barely Beige and E33 Sand for the sand, and C1 Cool Gray around the pearl to make it stand out a little more against the oyster background color.
• The oval of the shaker card was made with The Stamps of Life - Sizzix Oval Framelits-Dotted #661840
• Pink/Orange Twine and Yellow/Orange Twine is from Darice
• Round sequins used as bubbles in twine and inside shaker card are from my stash that I bought awhile ago at one of the Scrapbook Expos I attended.   
• The Dolphin Sequins (Splish Splash Sequins) and small Star Sequins (Starstruck Sequins) are from Die Cutting Divas
• Sentiment is from Jaded Blossom Mermaid Kisses stamp set
• Enamel Dots are from a Card Kit that I get monthly from The Stamps of Life

I hope I was able to provide some inspiration to challenge yourself creatively and gave you some ideas on what you can do on your future projects.  

Here's the picture again of Tic-Tac-Toe grid for the 

Die Cuttin' Diva's #381 Tic-Tac-Toe challenge this week. 

Use any one of the rows --- up, down or diagonally -- to create a project and link it over at the Die Cuttin' Diva's Blog by clicking HERE,

Really hope you join us in this fun challenge.

Happy Crafting!

TTFN,

Debby 

Pop Up Box Golf Birthday Card

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I'm sharing with you a birthday card I made for a 

friend who loves to golf.   

I wanted the golf cart to be more detailed than the golf cart that came with the card file so I used another golf cart file and modified the card to incorporate the more detailed golf cart.    I also added grass and extra clouds to the card. 

  I just love how this card turned out with my added elements. 

Here is the front of the card closed. 

This is the card laid flat. 

Here is the card open so you can see the dimension.

A view from the top view so you can see the tee and hole with the flag. 

I even decorated the back of the card to hide what I wrote so my friend could put this on his desk and others wouldn't see the silly message i put inside. 

Here's the silly message I put inside.  I found this saying on the internet and knew it was perfect for this card.  

Here's a print shot from my Silhouette Studio Designer program.

The top, is the the piece with the golf cart from the original file... to the right is a print shot of what the finished card looks like in the Silhouette Store.    

I used the rectangle Drawing Tool in the Silhouette Studio Designer software to crop the cart away from the long piece that has the score lines.  After I did that I copied the background piece of the detailed golf cart and welded it to the piece with the scored lines after I cropped the original cart away from it. 

Card Recipe:

• Card from the Silhouette Store - Pop Up Box Card Golf by Lori Whitlock - Design #148379 - MODIFIED!!!!!!
• Cut the piece for the golf tee and the golf hole in green to make it look like a faraway.    
• Only cut the golf ball in a solid white and then embossed it with my swiss dot embossing folder.  
• Detailed Golf Cart from Silhouette Store - Golf Cart by Lisa Norris - Design #197134
• Grass from the Silhouette Store - Grass by Silhouette - Design #1075
• Modified -- Stretched and narrowed -- 0.639 high x 5.667 long
• Extra clouds from a file I had in my Silhouette library.   Not sure where they came from since the properties does give me any info on them. 
• Used dimensional squares to pop up clouds

Hope you like the finished modified pop up golf card that I created and inspired you to not be afraid to combine files.

Have a beautiful day.

Happy Crafting!

TTFN,

Debby