You Did It

 Hi!  I had some time yesterday to make a card for a few challenges - which doesn't happen very often!  I was inspired by the gorgeous sketch at Sunday Stamps and for a theme I decided to go with the Tic Tac Toe board and the Just Us Girls Back to School photo inspiration.  I'm also linking up to Krafty Chicks All Occasions where I went with a Congrats card.  For Tic Tac Toe, I started out with Alphabets/Letters-Embossing-Yellow but in the course of making my card, I pretty much brought in everything except gingham!

For my background, I white-embossed a Carabelle image called Notebook onto a panel of Bristol Smooth.  I then ink-blended over it with yellow inks and set it aside to dry.  Once it was dry, I die-cut it with a stitched rectangle die.  For the long vertical element in the sketch, I had the idea to use a notebook page, so I took some patterned paper and die-cut it with the Notebook Edge die before stamping the sentiment.  I also die-cut a paperclip out of silver foil cardstock and adhered that to the notebook and the background panel.  

I was in the mood to do some Copic-colouring and I always love colouring Birdie Brown images, so I pulled out Class Act and set to work.  Once coloured, I cut with my Scan n Cut and adhered to the card.  The black strip was added in keeping with the sketch and also to add some black as I'm a fan of having black somewhere on my cards.

Thanks so much for visiting!  I had so much fun making this card.  Now to carve out more time in my week for stamping for other than design team commitments 😄

Products used:

Stamps:  Class Act (MFT), Notebook (Carabelle)

Ink:  Versamark, Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black, Citrus Burst, Fresh Lemon (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Bristol Smooth, X-Press It, Off The Grid (MFT), Silver Foil

Dies:  Stitched Rectangle Stax, Notebook Edge (MFT), Notebook Journal Card (SugarPea Designs)

Accessories:  Copics, White Embossing Powder

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout-out at Just Us Girls, Sunday Stamps and Tic-Tac-Toe