Diva Tic-Tac-Toe, Anyone?

Hello everyone - I hope you're enjoying May! It's my day to post at Die Cut Divas for some inspiration. We Divas are having loads of fun with a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge. We're using products available at Frantic Stamper, our May sponsor, but you can use any supplies. Just remember to include a die cut or embossing folder & use a row from the board in your design. Hope to see your card in our gallery!

 Supplies: Paper - Neenah White; Paper Studio Brights;

BoBunny patterned; Tim Holtz metallic; MFT vellum

Stamps - Hero Arts Abstract Butterfly Wing Background

(available HERE at Frantic Stamper)

Stamps with Dies - Hero Arts Beautiful Butterflies Bundle

  (HERE at Frantic Stamper) & 

Friendly Messages Bundle 

Dies - Hero Arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies &

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

Other - Darice sequin; Hero Arts & Memento inks

I chose the bottom horizonal row from the board because I wanted to use bling and butterflies! Frantic Stamper carries a wonderful selection of butterfly items, including all the latest from Hero Arts as well as some hard-to-find oldies. I went with stamps from Hero's February release - a background cling stamp that I hadn't used until now, plus a butterfly clear set with coordinating dies. I stamped the butterflies on patterned paper, a popular technique for many years (see an example from 2010 before I began blogging HERE). Most of the time when I use a butterfly image, it gets bling of some sort - usually gems - but this time I popped a sequin on it.

I stamped the background in black ink and blended orange and yellow inks over it. Die cut it with a stitched rectangle and glued to an A2 card. Stamped the butterfly on patterned paper and the sentiment on white paper, then die cut. Die cut a circle from metallic card and a bigger one from vellum. Assembled and added a sequin to the butterfly. Done!

And here's a bonus using a Frantic Stamper brand flower die and the top horizontal tic-tac-toe row. I interpreted "chocolate" to be a brown color and stenciled with it. 

Supplies: Paper - Neenah white; scrap of brown;

Paper Studio pastel A2 card; Bazzill green

Stamps - Frantic Stamper Spring Bold Sentiments

(coordinating dies HERE)

Hero Arts From the Vault Cute Animals

(Here at Frantic Stamper; coordinating dies HERE)

Dies - Frantic Stamper Botanical Daffodils;

Hero Arts Thorn Tree and Grasses (Here at Frantic Stamper)

Stencils - Hero Arts Stripe (Here at Frantic Stamper)

Inks - Hero Arts Tangerine and Memento Rich Cocoa & Tuxedo Black

Other - Copic Markers; Hero Arts Sparkle Lacquer; foam tape

I took a pastel blue A2 card and stenciled some stripes in brown on the left edge, shifted the angle & did a few more, then a third angle lightly with orange. I die cut two of the FS daffodils (love these so much!) and colored with Copics. Stamped a bee from Cute Animals, colored with Copics & die cut. Added sparkle lacquer to the wings. Stamped and die cut the sentiment, plus two layers of white for dimension and a brown shadow layer. The Hero Arts Thorn Tree and Grasses die set is another oldie but goodie that's still available at Frantic Stamper - love this set! I cut two layers of grass and put one set of daffodils behind each & layered. Some flowers were popped up with foam tape. Assembled & done!

I will add the butterfly card to Darnell's May NBUS Challenge since the abstract background is new.

Thanks for stopping and have a crafty day!