Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe

My old high school principal  is celebrating his 90th birthday next week.  He's a great man and I wanted to send him a card so I made this one based on the Tic Tac Toe board at the Hero Arts challenge.

I went across the middle.

Using the Hero Arts Canvas background, I stamped VersaMark Dazzle on Smoke.  The SSS balloon and MFT Big Numbers are cut from foil cardstock with the numbers inlaid. I tied on a little hemp cord and stamped the HA sentiment in black.

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Pretty in Pink

I've been adding digital images to my cards this week and having fun going through the ones I have.  I found a set of girlie ones and thought they'd look good on the Mojo Monday sketch.

I turned the sketch on it's side to make my card which is 5 1/8 by 7.

The images are from pcCrafter from a set called "Pretty in Pink" by Carol Halm and come already colored.  I cut the scalloped frames with my Cricut but don't remember what cartridge.  I don't really like to add big bows to my cards so decided to use the glove instead.  It was from the set so the colors matched as did the corner piece.  I inked the edges of all the pieces to fit in with the coloring on the large picture and popped them up with dimensionals, all except the corner piece and brown strip.  I'm really loving this card.

90th Birthday

I needed to make a 90th birthday card for a friend.  Do you know how difficult it is to find 90th birthday cards in the store?  I'm sure glad I make my own.   I had an idea for one and decided that the fancy fold challenge at Sentimenetal Sundays was just what I needed to make this card come to life.

This is a "swing" card.  There are a number of tutorials on the internet to show you how to make them.  I cut it out of burgundy cardstock and then covered portions of it with paper from a Cloud 9 specialty stack.  The XC (which is 90 in Roman numerals for those of you who didn't know) is cut from George and Basic Shapes.  This is what it looks like when it swings.

I think she is going to be really surprised when she gets it.