Rick Adkins : hand-letter prose dies

Hello and welcome to my blog! This week the Paper Craft Crew's weekly challenge is a Tic Tac Toe Challenge. From the challenge image I had to go with sponging and fall as two of the main elements for my card today. I have a love of all the colors in Fall and actually my inspiration for my projects came from my very own front door. I pulled inspiration from the Fall wreath that we have hanging. Here's a look at my card.

Here's the inspiration image for this weeks challenge. You can play along just like the game of tic tac toe we played as kids. I went with the bottom row straight across.

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I started off my card with a piece of Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock cut at (You guessed it 4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2). I used post it tape and my grid paper to mask off lines in different colors in one direction so that I could use my sponge daubers and create the ink blended plaid background. Once I had all the lines in different sizes going in one direction I came back and did it again going to opposite way to create the plaid. I used Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, and Crushed Curry Inks for this.

I then stamped three leaves from Gather Together Stamp set and colored them with my colored pencils. I used a little oil painting solvent to blend the color pencils you can also use baby oil. I then let that dry and cut them out using the matching die. While I was die cutting I used the Hand letter Prose dies and cut out the word Fall from some so saffron cardstock. So while I still had my die cutting machine out I cut out the largest stitched nested label die from a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock and sponged around the edge with some Crumb Cake ink.

Once everything was cut out I popped up the large stitched nested label on my card and cut off a little that was hanging off the side of the card front. I then added one of the leaves popped up on Stampin' dimensionals and the letters that spelled out Fall. I then tucked the other two leaves under this. To finish off the card I added a double bow made with the Cajun Craze Linen thread from the holiday catalog Come Gather Ribbon Combo Pack and added a few rhinestones I colored using my dark Cajun Craze stampin' blend.

Thanks for dropping by I hope that you like my card today, and that you will give making your own plaid background a try. If you don't you can get the Wrapped in Plaid 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper for your Holiday crafting in my online store.

Happy Stampin'

Rick Adkins

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