I'm delighted to be the Guest Designer for this week's Tic Tac Toe Challenge. Here's the board for the challenge:
I chose the diagonal from top left: Stencil, Any Sentiment, Berries. I had the perfect stencil for this: Pinkfresh Studio's "Holiday Botanical Background." I actually made three versions of the card before I arrived at this one, my favorite:
I used four different green inks for the leaves and holly: PFS Fresh Pear, Key Lime, and Olive. The darkest green was Papertrey Ink's Pinefeather. For the red berries I used PFS Berrylicious and added a touch of Candy Apple. After stenciling, I die cut the panel with one of the nested dies in Hero Arts "Infinity Rounded Rectangles," and layered it onto a red card base.
Neither photo truly shows the pretty shine and dimension of the translucent Glaze that I added to the berries. The last touch was to take a white gel pen and add some details to the berries and the leaves. In fact, the photo almost makes it look like some of the gel pen was streaked across the berries--not! that's the reflection from the light. The beautiful sentiment is from Waffle Flower--a premade foiled sentiment from the set "Essential Christmas." I purchased two sets in gold and two in silver--one of the best investments for holiday cardmaking I've made so far this year.
Thanks so much to the TTTC team for choosing my card as a Designer's Pick and the honor of guesting for this challenge!
