Just because

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  This week we have a fun Tic Tac Toe board for you:

Here is what I created for your inspiration:

I chose the middle row: Stitching, black and white +1 other color, and ribbon/twine.  My whole color scheme was influenced by a bit of bright orange ribbon I had in my bits and pieces stash.  I planned to use it for the band across the center of the card.  But I adhered it with sticky tape and I didn't quite get it on right, so I tried to peel it off to re-align and it created all sorts of pulls in the ribbon.  So, I trashed that and went on creating my card using a strip of card stock instead.  After I got all finished, I realized that the row I chose had to include ribbon and I hadn't used any and didn't really have any place to use it!  Uggghhh . . . Luckily, I had a tiny piece of the ribbon left, so I used it to create a little ribbon pull along the side of the image panel.  Phew . . . disaster averted!  I used a black nuvo glitter pen on all the black elements of the image and clear Wink of Stella on the colored portions.  You can see the sparkle (mostly on the black) in the photo below.  The patterned paper also has some sparkle in the black lines, so this is quite sparkly in real life.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Flower Power Background" and "Because"

Dies: Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles"; Verve "Classy Labels"; PTI border die; MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle

Challenges:
30 Day Coloring Challenge--anything hand colored
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #127--anything goes
Unicorn Challenge #52--flower power
Pattie's Challenge #168--anything goes
Power Poppy Creative Spark--just color
Penny Black--spring flowers
Creative Craft Cottage #127--for the girls
CRAFT Rockets #68--flowers
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2--sketch (it's a little bit of a stretch but it was the basis for my card)

Incy Wincy--hand colored image
Crafter's Cafe #237--anything goes
Penny's Challenge--anything goes
Aud Sentiments #246--feminine