Tic Tac Toe Santa with the Paper Players

Happy Sunday and welcome to a new Paper Players challenge!  This week, the fun and fabulous Claire has brought us a fun and fabulous tic-tac-toe board to inspire you:

I went down the left side *and* across the bottom, hitting white - Christmas - die cuts - trees - sparkle.  I had pulled out the Festive Glimmer Paper for my bear card earlier this week and I thought hey, I can make some sparkly trees with this!  And here is where I ended up:

If you haven't already, definitely pick up a pack of the Nests of Winter DSP that's in the annual catalog.  The coordinating Winterly Tree Tops stamps and dies may be retired, but as you can see the paper still makes for a fun Christmas card!  I chose two Pool Party patterns as a backdrop for this cute Santa and some very sparkly trees.

Once again, I took pictures in several places in my house, with various lighting conditions, and I tried going outside for natural light and *still* it's so hard to make the glimmer paper show up looking anywhere close to the way it does in person!  The trees are cut out of both the Granny Apple Green and Garden Green glimmer papers and I switched the colors of the inner tree trunk/branch part to make them more interesting.  I have adhesive sheets and I should have used them because gluing in those itty bitty skinny pieces was quite fiddly, but I always forget that I own the adhesive sheets and in fact they have been sitting unused in my craft room for at least six months.

I think it's funny that I had at first resisted buying the Festive Friends bundle and now I think it's my favorite of this year's holiday offerings.  Ha!  Anyway, I had so much fun with Claire's tic-tac-toe board and I hope you do too.  Don't forget to upload your card on the Paper Players blog, and keep these rules in mind:

1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

you are here --> Christy Stanford

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Festive Friends
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, Pretty in Pink
Paper:  Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Festive Glimmer Paper, Nests of Winter DSP
Accessories:  Festive Friends dies, Dimensionals, Glitter Sequins

Magical Elf

Happy Friday, y'all!  How was your Thanksgiving?  We are enjoying our time with friends and I have a fun card to share today:

I tried to resist the Festive Friends bundle, I really did, but these little dudes are SO CUTE!  There was a color challenge awhile back with Lemon Lime Twist and Strawberry Slush and I didn't get to play along at the time, but I just had to try the combo for my little elf today.  And he has Timid Tiger hair : )

This time I did actually stick to the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

And now I want to make even more Christmas cards with these colors together, I think they're so fun and bright and cheery.  A nice twist on the classic red and green, am I right?

I will not be braving any Black Friday sales in person, though I might check out Amazon's offerings.  After I have pie for breakfast.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Festive Friends, Jolly Delivery
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Lemon Lime Twist, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist, Strawberry Slush, Pretty in Pink, Petal Pink, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Lemon Lime Twist, Strawberry Slush, Thick Basic White, Strawberry Slush DSP
Accessories:  Festive Friends dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Strawberry Slush Gems

A Colorful Challenge from SUO Challenges

Mornin' y'all and guess what?  It's time for a new challenge at SUO Challenges!

And without any ado whatsoever, here it is:

Okay I have to say that my brain kept thinking it was an inspiration challenge rather than a color challenge, but I like to use the colors I see on inspo challenges anyway so it worked out and I got to ink up a couple of new stamp sets!  Here's what I made:

Looking at the picture, I saw Cloud Cover, Darling Duckling (or gold, but I opted for Darling Duckling), Strawberry Slush, and Garden Green.  The adorable snowman is from Festive Friends and the trees are the coordinating Festive Friends dies; the greeting comes from Branching Out, which I just *had* to buy because of Cynthia and all the pretty cards she's made with it.

I kept a lineup similar to the challenge graphic, and to give the trees a bit more texture I scrunched up plastic wrap and used it to dab ink on the die cut trees.  Such an easy technique and it makes the trees match the DSP background.  A few Strawberry Slush gems and done!

We hope you'll join in the fun at SUO Challenges.  Don't forget to use only Stampin' Up! supplies and link up your card at the challenge blog.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Festive Friends, Branching Out
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Darling Duckling, Garden Green, Stampin' Blends in Cloud Cover, Soft Sea Foam, Darling Duckling, Strawberry Slush
Paper:  Cloud Cover, Darling Duckling, Garden Green, Thick Basic White, Cloud Cover DSP
Accessories:  Festive Friends dies, Dimensionals, Strawberry Slush sparkle gems