Flowers for Mom

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you are enjoying some fine, spring weather.  We've had quite a bit of rain lately, but as I type this, the sun is out and shining!  It's time for a new challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week we have a fun tic-tac-toe board:

Now, you only have to choose 3 items in a row for the challenge, but you can used as many as you want, even using the ENTIRE board like I did on my card!  Here it is:

 Obviously, you can see how I used almost all of the items on the board to create my card.  I say almost because I forgot to color my image with colored pencils, but after I realized that it was on the board, I got them out and used them to create some extra shading in my image.  They really helped define the inside edges of the petals on the tulips.  And in real life, it gives a fun waxy/matte finish to the image.  I used a white gel pen to highlight tips of petals and leaves and then used a white colored pencil over top of it to help blend and highlight even more.

I'm not saying I will use this coloring technique all the time, but it did give a different look than was achieved with just markers.

I popped up the frame panel with foam tape to give it some distinction from the background.  And I masked the sentiment stamp before inking it up so I could have just the word "Mom" which fits perfectly on that adorable, little tag!  I really love how this card turned out!  If you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my discount coupon in my left sidebar.  And make sure you hop over to The House blog to see what elements the rest of the team used from our board.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Tulip Bouquet" and "Mom's like you . . ."

Dies: Spellbinders "Filigree Delight" and "Charmed, I'm sure"

Challenges:

Time Out #82--flowers with the optional twist of kissing (I did not use the kissing)

Fussy & Fancy #186--anything goes

Creative Fingers #129--anything goes

Aurora Wings #49--Frame it

Craft Dee BowZ--anything goes with a handmade bow

Unicorn Challenge #21--special occasion (Mother's Day)

Cards Galore--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Paper Nest Dolls #5--anything goes

Crafting With an Attitude--anything goes

Creative with Stamps #14--flowers

Divas That Cut--May flowers

Dare 2B Artzy--girly

Crafty Calendar--flowers

Dies R Us #72--flowers

Power Poppy--frame it up

The East Wind #71--Celebrate women

Just For Fun--a mother's love

Crafter's Cafe #172--feminine

Sugar Pea Designs #51--sketch

Cute Card Thursday #276--anything goes

Brown Sugar #249--Mother's Day

Hiding In My Craft Room NSD #2--May flowers

Retro Rubber #62--May Flowers (I got both stamps in January of 2016, so they are 16 months old)

Die Cuttin' Divas #316--Mother's Day/feminine
Creative Inspirations #274--blooms & bows