Challenge TSOT #688 with DTC #209 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #688 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble # 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On".

This stamp is one of my favorites and thought it would be perfect for TSOT's sketch. Using Memento London Fog ink I stamped image at an angle and off the edge of a 4" x 5 1/4" white cardstock which left a lot of white space for my CAS technique. A second image was stamped to fussy cut some of the flowers to adhere with 3D thin foam tape for dimension. Recipe completed 3-layers, 2-fussy cut images, and 1-CAS Technique. 

The image was colored using Copic Sketch alcohol-base brushes in a variety of pastel colors, adhered fussy-cut florals with 3D tape, the white cardstock was bordered with a good color match of the purple flowers and then adhered to cardbase. Sentiment was stamped in London Fog. 

On the inside buttom right-hand corner of the card base I stamped the same image angled at the bottom and off the edge using London Fog with no coloring.    

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Addicted to Stamps & More #509 "Any Occasion" 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 37

Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 11 "Anything in or from a Garden" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock 

     White and Purple    

Stamps 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms" 

     2nd Image, "Butterfly Blooms" stamped and fussy-cut florals  

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "London Fog" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Variety of Pastels

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Challenge #209 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On" - I Love You

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #209 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On" and using inspiration from our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #688) which starts on February 3rd. My card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but was my inspiration of combining the two challenges to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

Don't be confused DTC's 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On" above for a CAS card. 3-Layer ingredient because it simply uses the card base as one layer, a second layer with the color background for Twisted Sister's optional twist and at least one or two die cut for a third layer, or one die and a stamped image. Make sure you look at the ingredient on the post for samples of many 3-layer CAS cards or click HERE.  

Used one of the negatives from the heart die cut in the r-h corner of the inside of the card.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there. 

NOTE:  The Craftng Duo, Holly and Sabra, our DTC Guest Designers for this Challenge are offering a second randomly drawn prize. Include a heart, or even a heart word, on your project and be eligible for another random drawing."  Using the TSOT sketch above without changing the shape is perfect to be eligible.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Cut It Up #348 "Hearts" (Must use at least one die) 

Festive Friday Inspo #202 "Valentine's Day" 

Pearly Spakles Challenge #116 "Hearts" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

    Random Stamped Background of Confetti

Cardstock

    Pink and White Cardstock     

Dies 

    IO Scribble Heart Dies DIE511-T 

    Hobby Lobby 10508094

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "London Fog" Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC Challenge #208 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next"

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #208 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next". When I saw Twisted Sister's optional twist to include a penguin, there was no question in my mind, a penguin card it would be. May be a little out of the box, but my inspiration was from our sister's challenge TSOT's sketch.

 

While looking for my CTMH penguin stamp set I came across this cute summer stamp set from Rubbernecker (aka as Brass & Bliss) which my daughter had gifted me some time ago and never used.

This stamp set needed a beach scene so I pulled out a retired stamp set from CTMH "Writing in the Sand" and stamped sea and sand on a piece of vanilla cardstock. The sea was first stamped with Peacock, moved cardstock up slightly and stamped with Sea Glass and then used Sea Glass and lightly sponged all of the sea portion. The sand portion it was stamped with Chocolate ink and then lightly sponged with the same color. Used an oval die to cut the sea/sand and adhered to a blue panel, and then to card base.  

Stamped all the images using Momento black ink, cut with my Brother ScanNCcut, colored with Copic Sketch pens, and adhered using glue and 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above January "Anything Goes" (Must use a Die Cut) 

"Critter Crazy Challenge #106 "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter"

Retro Rubber Challenge #263 "Anything Goes" Stamp Sets at least 2 years old)

Simon Says Challenge "Things with Wings" Yes, Penguins have wings "Technically,     they are wings, but functionally they are flippers, and they use them to fly                   underwater

The Neglected Stuff January Challenge" Penguin Stamp never used, in stash

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
   Personal Stamped Sea/Sand Background 
Cardstock
   Blue and Vanilla and White Daisy
Stamps
   Rubbernecker Stamps 35014  "Summer Penguins" 

   CTMH D2102 "Writing in the Sand" 
Dies
   Oval in Stash 
Inks/Pens
   Memento "Black" Ink
   Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Variety of Colors 

   Gelly Roll 08 "White"

   CTMH Inks - Sea Glass, Peacock, Chocolate 
Other
   3D Thin Foam Tape

Challenge TSOT #686 with DTC #207 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy" - Happy Birthday

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #686 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble # 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy", (3-Colors, 2-shapes, 1-sentiment). 

I needed a birthday card... decided to use Balloons as my shapes instead of Twisted Sister optional twist of two squares. The balloons, along with the squiggly strips for the balloon strings were cut from CTMH "Fresh Paint" patterned paper. 

I traced a half circle on a piece of white cardstock and adhered each of the squiggly balloon strings around the half circle and then bordered with the same patterned paper. The balloons were placed as in sketch and adhered with 3-D thin foam tape for dimension. Stamped sentiment and bordered with same patterned paper.  

I was not pleased with the white background... it needed some color. Chose several Copic colors matching the patterned paper and dotted each color randomly on the background.  Now, how cool was that... pretty cool.  

There were a few extra balloons that I had die cut so adhered them to the inside of the card on the right-hand corner. 

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there.

Also sent to the following Challenges:  

Festive Friday Inspo List #200 "National Tulip Day" - Red, Orange, Yellow, Happy Birthday.

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     CTMH "Fresh Paint" Paperpack Design Paper (retired)

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 

Stamps 

     CTMH D1629 "Just to Say"

Dies 

     Poppy Stamps #1604 "Pinpoint Balloons" 

     Squiggly Strips in Stash    

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes, alcohol-base 

        Variety of Colors for Confetti Background 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Challenge #207 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy" - Crazy 4 U

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #207 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy" and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #686) which starts on Jan 6th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

The 3-2-1 recipe was easy; but the TSOT sketch was crazy... and I definitely I went with wild and crazy and after the card was completed, I guess you could call it cool too. Had a lot of fun with this card.  

Wild:  My background was cut using a unknown wild paper from my stash and bordered with black cardstock. I didn't have any squiggly die so I used the thin strips die, cut them diagonally at the tip using the same wild paper, and adhered on a half circle of black cardstock. 

Twisted Sister and Cool:  It was easy to include Twisted Sister's optional twist of two squares. I cut three squares (one sliced off one side) in three different colors of cardstock and bordered in black. It was definitely a good fit for using the TSOT Sketch. The squares were adhered with 3D thin foam tape for a little dimension. 

Crazy:  Again, dusted off my Cricut and created the sentiment Crazy 4 U and then used my printer for the smaller sentiment "you've got me all in a spin" bordered with black cardstock and adhered to the squares.  

On the inside of the card another half circle with the squiggly strips in the bottom right-hand corner.  Just to put a little more spin on it.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Cool, Wild and/or Crazy" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

   Squiggly-like Crazy Patterned Paper from stash 

Cardstock 

   Black, Blue, Green, Orange and White Daisy   

Dies 

   Elizabeth Craft Designs "Dashing Circles"

   Pink Frest Studio "Slim Strips" 

   Cricut Sentiment "Crazy 4 U" using Text and Personally Designed  

Other 

   3D Thin Foam Tape 

Challenge #206 "Wrap It Up" using 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, Everything" - Merry Christmas

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #205 "Wrap It Up" using our 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" and Twisted Sister's Ribbon (Bow) optional twist... my comfort zone is not using ribbons, but Twisted Sister is allowing you to use a bow die cut, and that's just what I did. My 3-2-1 Recipe is 3 Layers, 2 Colors and 1-Sentiment or Image.   

You can also use our Sister Sketch Challenge for inspiration at Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #685) which starts on Nov 25th. I was inspired by the sketch but did not use it this time, but don't let that stop you from using their pretty sketch.

My son asked me to make a card for each of his Foster teens he was Christmas gifting this year through Kiwanis... and one of the gifts was to include a Gift Card of their preference. Suggested we make a card to serve two purposes, a card for their bag of gifts and a gift card holder. 

Two more cards were created as my daughter and I gifted two other teens in the same Foster home. We spent one night on the internet selecting gifts and finished it off with a shopping spree this past weekend, and of course enjoyed a breakfast and lunch together. 

Dusted off my Cricut and decided to do a snow sleigh with a bundle of gifts, a lot of piecing together. Using the Cricut saves a lot of time than running so many dies though the manual cutting machine.  The asembly for the first card took a little time; but once that was done the others went pretty fast.  Design papers were used for the packages and cardstock for the sleigh, bows and candy canes. The name of the teen was a typewriter font printed on plain paper and bordered with red cardstock. 

The background was a grey design paper from my stash.  

Here is a photo of two of the cards and a photo of the inside using the same sleigh and propped it up using 3D thin foam tape to make it a gift card holder and added one of the extra bows on the upper right-hand corner.   

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun and let's "Wrap It Up" with our 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday #685 to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe. 

Also submitted to the following challenges:  

Creatalicious Challenge - Optional Christmas with Traditional Colors 

Farm Quest Country Christmas "Anything Goes" 

I Spy With My Little Eye No. 32 "Something Festive for Christmas" 

Jingle Belles "Wrapping Up" 

The Four Seasons Winter (December) "Sleigh" 

The Neglect Stuff "December, 2025"  Cricut Images, Old Scraps Pattern Paper

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Scraps of retired CTMH patterned papers

Cardstock 

     Candy Apple, Black, Blue and White Daisy 

Die Cuts 

     Cricut Sleigh with Presents 

     Sentiment in Stash - Merry Christmas 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Challenge #205 3-2-1 Recipe "Tie One On Day" - Welcome Autumn

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #205 3-2-1 Recipe "Tie One On Day" with Twisted Sister's Ribbon (Bow) and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #684) which starts on Nov 25th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Tie One On Day" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Cozy Up Paperpack and Sticker Image

Cardstock 

     Papricka and Daisy White 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Challenge #204 3-2-1 Recipe "It's a Tall Order" - Thank You

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #204 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "It's a Tall Order" and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #683) which starts on Nov 11th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges.   

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe " " and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe. 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Crisp Air Paperpack and Sticker Page     

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 

Images 

     Ephemera Stickers from Paper Pack      

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink for Sentiment 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #676 - Wicked

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #676 using shades of Orange + 2 colors of choice... I chose Purple and yellow for Halloween card.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #676 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare. 

Also entered in the following challenges:  

Crafty Catz Challenge #703 "AG with optional twist Halloween" 

TicTacToe TTT282 (Center Column:  Enamel Dots, Free, Fall Colors)

Just Add Ink #772 "Colour and Inspiration" (Purple Orange White) 

LeighSB Designs "Halloween or AG"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     CTMH Retired Patterned Paper     
Cardstock 

     Royal, Lemon and White Daisy   

Stamps
     August SOTM "Wicked" from 2011 

     Studio-g Halloween Stamp 
Inks/Pens
     Pansey, Tangerine, Lemon Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brush Pen Y08 Acid Yellow
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Purple Sparkle Dots 

TSOT Sketch 682 with Double Trouble #203 3-2-1 Recipe "Round and Round"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday #682 and getting my inspiration from our Sister Challenge, Double Trouble # 3-2-1 Recipe "Round and Round". 

The similarity of the sketch took me to Mary Deatherage tutorial for a Side Fold Card and all I needed were the card base measurement and score lines to create the side fold. Off to my stash to find elements that meet the ingredients in Double Trouble's 3-2-1 recipe "Round and Round" (3-circles, 2-images, 1 Ribbon).  

Started with my background using a plaid paper from a CTMH paperpack that had not yet been used and then chose a complementary pattern for the smaller paneland the two outer circles. The leaf patterned paper was die cut with other circle to be used for my 2 images. Using same paper a die cut leaf which was adhered with 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  A brown ribbon adhered to the larger panel completed the ingredients, and a sentiment was added using alphabet dies to complete the sketch. 

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.  

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #112 "Pumpkins and/or Autumn Leaves

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     CTMH As You Grow 

     Fall Leaf Pattern in Stash - Unknown      

Cardstock 

     Chocolate and White Daisy 

Dies 

     Sizzix "Circle Dies" 

     Elizabeth Carft Designs "Dashing Circles" 

     Peachy Cheap  "Fall Images" 

     Art-C "Alphabet Dies"

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     CTMH Ribbon Rounds "Chocolate"