For You

For this week's Tic Tac Toe Challenge I was the creator of Board #149. I decided to make the middle row going from left to right: Green, Friendship Sentiment, Flowers. This was a labor of love. I had this idea in my head for a long time and finally sat down to make it materialize.

(This photo appeared on Facebook this morning as a memory from a Valentine post I made several years ago. It must have been in the back of my mind all this time, because I made the card, THEN saw this photo again!)

I started my card base with the measurements for a mini slimline card, then added a little more to make the area for the sentiment on the right side. I took out my window die and cut it out twice in green, but stopped cutting just under the windows. I then put it in my paper cutter and cut the rest of the way down so it would be a solid door on the bottom half. I made door panels for the lower part of the doors and used my Scor Pal to make scored lines in those panels. After I scored horizontal lines (to look like siding) on the front panel of the card base, I cut an opening in my card base so I could have a place for vellum at the top of the door. I glued my vellum to the back of one of the green doors, then adhered it to the inside of the front of the card. Next, I adhered the other green door to the front of the card base. I punched some mirrored silver cardstock for the door knobs inside and out.

For the inside of the card, I made a bouquet with the flowers dies from the Shopping Spree set by cutting out a LOT of flowers (2 pieces per flower plus the center) in three colors of pink and coral. I punched a circle and started adding the completed flowers to it, then die cut leaves, folded them a little along their score line, and adhered them around the bouquet. I added Glossy Accents to the center of each flower. I made the body with the rest of the Shopping Spree dies and put them together. I meant to ink blend before adhering her to the card but forgot, so I carefully stenciled around her after she was already permanently on the card.

I ink blended a strip of white cardstock in pink, coral and green inks that matched the same colors already on my card. I die cut the letters and adhered them to the side of the card. I added one more flower in between the words and added some more Glossy Accents to the center. Whew! The card measures 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" closed.

I am playing along at Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies here since I used a lot of dies to make this card! And I want to share my card with the Double D Challenge Shades of Pink here.

Products I used:

Stampin' Up!: Hearth and Home Framelits (window die)

Spellbinders: Shopping Spree dies

Hero Arts: Graphic Patterns Stencil Pairs

Lawn Fawn: Oliver's Stitched ABCs

Oxide inks

Blender brushes

Vellum

Glossy Accents

Thanks for sticking around for that long explanation!

-Carol