PCC233 Tic-Tac-Toe Shabby Chic Card!

Hey Friends!   What a rainy messy couple of days we've had here in Middle Tennessee.   For some reason when it's rainy, I always want to be at home so I was super happy to get home from work, put on comfy clothes, and make a card!   As soon as I got in on Tuesday, I fed the dogs and then went straight into the craft room.  I realized after about 20 minutes that all 3 dogs had followed me in there.  They don't like storms and there had been some lightning so I guess they wanted to stick close to their Momma!   I think we have one more rainy day but at least my Hubby will be home with them tomorrow while I'm at work!  

Since it's Wednesday, it's time for another Paper Craft Crew Challenge and this time we have a Tic-Tac-Toe for you!

For my card I decided to go straight down the middle column with Shimmer, Shabby Chic, and Flowers.  I hope this was Shabby Chic enough.  What do you think?

I used a retired Our Craft Lounge stamp set for the flowers called "Pretty Petals".  I wanted to gold emboss my flowers and watercolor and that seemed to be the only flower set I had that I felt would work.  Many of my floral sets are multi-layering sets that don't have the outline portion of the flower.  Note to self.. I need more flower stamp sets!!!  I started with an 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" SU Soft Suede Cardstock base that was scored at 4 1/4".  The top layer is a piece of Whisper White that measured 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" to completely cover the Soft Suede base.  I sponged the edges with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I added some splatters of gold and black Fun Stamper's Journey Silks.  I made a nest of some Gold Metallic thread in the middle, adhered with SU Dimensionals.  The sentiment  was stamped in Stampin' Up! Early Espresso Ink and is from the Stampin' Up! Dragonfly Dreams stamp set.  I just love the font of the sentiments in that set!  After embossing the flowers and leaves in gold on Watercolor Paper, I watercolored them with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.  I fussy cut everything out and used my bone folder to give them some dimension. The flowers and leaves were adhered to the card front over the gold metallic thread with a combination of multipurpose glue, Stampin' Up! Dimensionals and Foam tape.  I added some Pretty Pink Posh Gold sequins because all cards need sequins.  LOL

To finish this one out I added some sparkle with some Clear Wink of Stella!  This card is for my Mom for her 83rd birthday!  I hope she loves it as much as I do!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

  

OSAT Shabby Chic Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to the July 2016 One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop!  If you've already been hopping then you landed here from my sweet friend, Megan Thompson's blog and you should know that we have a Shabby Chic theme this month!  I can tell you that this is my very first Shabby Chic card and project but I had a lot of fun making it so let's take a look and see what you think....

Here's a better look at the card..

I used an A2 Crumb Cake cardbase.  I added a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" piece of Chocolate Chip Cardstock on that for a thin layer.  The top layer is a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Blushing Bride cardstock that was embossed with a Woodgrain Embossing folder and sponged with Crumb Cake ink.  I added some Crumb Cake splatters as well and then I distressed some of the edges by peeling them back.  I added a Brown piece of Seam Binding along the left side of the top layer before adhering it to the other layers.  I attached a Brown Seam Binding bow and some Linen Thread loops to the bowl.  I used my Lots of Label Framelit Dies to cut a Crumb Cake Label and a larger Chocolate Chip Label.  I stamped the Crumb Cake Label with the leave stamp from the Grateful Bunch in Crumb Cake and then added the sentiment "You are loved (A LOT)" stamped in Chocolate Chip Ink.  I sponged the edges of the labels Tone-on-Tone.  I glued the labels down and then added flowers stamped with the Grateful Bunch stamp set in Soft Suede onto Very Vanilla and Blushing Bride Cardstock.  I sponged all of the edges and then used my Bone Folder to curl the edges up.  I layered them using glue dots and adhered them with glue dots as well.  I added basic pearl jewels in the middle of the flowers and even scattered a few on the card front.

Here is the inside of my card.. I decided to keep the inside simple.  

The inside was a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I stamped two of the leaves in Crumb Cake Ink and added the butterfly in Blushing Bride.  Both of these images are from the Grateful Bunch Stamp Set as well.

The frame was just a $1.00 craft frame from Michael's and I love the way it turned out.  I will probably add a picture of my new little granddaughter, Blakely Addison Rose!

I  used Modge Podge to cover the craft frame with Tip Top Taupe DSP from the 2015-2017 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack.  After the glue had dried I sponged the edges and distressed it some with Soft Suede Ink.  I used some Brown Seam Binding along the left side with a bow and some loops of Linen thread.  My flowers from the Grateful Bunch were stamped in Soft Suede Ink and punched from Very Vanilla and Blushing Bride Cardstock.  I also added a Pansy Punch cardstock layer behind some of the flowers and sponged it as well as the other flowers.  I also used my Bone Folder to curl up the edges of all of the flowers before assembling with Dimensionals.   The leaves from the Botanical Blooms stamp set were stamped Tone-on-Tone with Mint Macaron Ink and Cardstock and sponged with Soft Suede Ink.  The flowers were added onto the frame with Foam tape and the leaves were adhered with glue dots.  I finished off the flowers by adding more Pearl basic jewels in the center!

Next up on the hop is the Amazing Melissa Davies!  Just click the next button and you'll be there!

Here's a list of all of our fabulous bloggers in case you've lost your way!

1. Megan Thompson
2. Tina Rackley Riddle - That's me!
3. Melissa Davies 
4. Sara Levin
5. Renee Ondrajka
6. Maria Willis
7. Wynne Grob 
8. Alisa Tilsner
9. Pam Staples
10. Dena Rekow
11. Justin Krieger
12. Andrea Tracy Tucker
13. Jeanna Bohanon
14. Kelly Acheson
15. Marisa Gunn
16. Lori Mueller