April Showers Thinking of You Card

Welcome to the first Tic Tac Toe Challenge of April. I had the pleasure of designing today’s board and hope that you’ll find some of the elements spark your creativity and share a project with us. Here’s the board… …and here’s my card There were several ways that I could do a tic tac toe. First, left diagonal down: Slimline, Free, Border. Second, left column down: Slimline, Pastel Colors, Encouraging Sentiment. Third, middle row across:…

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Cheerful Get Well Card for the CC2C

Here we are again…Creating Coast to Coast. This month we’re beginning the journey here on the East Coast with me in PA and traveling West to Karen Hallam in CA. Our direction this month was to follow a sketch. Sketches are a great starting point when creating a card. The bones of the card are already there but there’s lots of room for creative interpretation. Let’s take a look at today’s sketch… Since Karen and…

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Back Fold Mystery Fun Fold

Here’s another fun and easy fun fold courtesy of Jeanie Stark’s Mystery Monday Fun Folds. You can find all the directions, dimensions and details on Jeanie’s blog HERE for this week’s card. Today’s card, although very easy to create, makes a very pretty impression. In my ongoing effort to use patterned paper from my stash, I pulled out a random 6 x 6 pad that may have come from the Target Dollar Spot some years…

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Subtly Soft & Pretty Encouragement Card – #tttc287

It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday and Team O has a challenge board full of lovely inspiration. I choose the middle row across: Layering, Encouragement, Enamel Dots/Sequin Here’s how I was inspired… I, like so many of us paper crafters, have a wonderful collection of papers. For today’s card, I decided to use a 6 x 6 pad from the company, P13 called Birdhouse. I’m sure I’m not alone in seeing an ad on Instagram or…

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