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

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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