This is what November's Tic Tac Toe looked like:
I knew it would be easy to put something together with those prompts. The idea is to pick three consecutive ideas (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) as though you were playing noughts and crosses!
I decided to use the rightmost column, but as it happened I included 2 other prompts without realizing initially!
Just Hanging With My Girl
I recently acquired most of the Cute Girl line by Crate Paper and you'd be forgiven for asking why someone with no daughters would need this line? Well firstly, the colours and motifs are so very me...and I have no issue using pinks or florals on boy photos sometimes (as you can tell from my previous entry to the November Challenge). I do have a couple of nieces and and my feisty (don't worry I've fixed the spelling on my layout) girl cat...And did I mention the collection features loads of cat motifs? Pink and cats? Be still, my heart!
Most of the supplies are from this line, but I think I also used a little bit of Shimelle's Starshine, Crate Paper's Hello Love and some embellishments from Maggie Holmes' Bloom Line and Cocoa Vanilla's Sugar and Spice (another little girl line)
So my three challenges according to the chart were:
Use a floral embellishment - check. I used one die cut from the die cut pack, 2 large puffy stickers from Maggie Holmes' Bloom and at least one flower sticker from the Cute Girl.
Use two different alphas - check. Actually I used three. The large silver Thickers were Shimelle's Fitzgerald and the white glittery ones a much older line. The small tile stickers were from those two-packs of flat alphas that October Afternoon was doing with their Daily Flash collections. Both die cut pack and cut apart sheet included a flash card with "G" which I knew I wanted to use as part of the title.
Do some stamping - check. I started by stamping a floral stamp on the yellow polka dot paper layer (from Starshine) so just a little shows. I used a doily border stamp in three areas, but in the end only one ended up being visible at the top of the layout
I also used some stamps on the labels from the sticker sheet - the date and a couple of sentiments from the Paper Smooches stamp set Charmed Cat Two. Miss Crafty Cat aka Ophelia was a shelter cat so the "happily homed" is just right.
Before I even started, I wanted to bust out the texture paste (I opted for Faber Castell's Texture Luxe in the Pearl finish Dried kinda silver, but that worked!).
This turned out to be one of the other challenges in the Tic Tac Toe grid (along with puffy stickers. I have puffy flowers, words and that funny heart in a circle thing)
It feels like an age since I've done a more mixed media-ish layout and it's a girly page with no whiff of boys, so I was going to go to town with the embellies and all things girly. I know my embellishment clusters are pretty full on, but it's probably no co-incidence that the Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey is my most favourite character and she describes my style in a nutshell:
So in the spirit of Lady Violet, I added acetate pieces from the die cut pack, cats either cut from the patterned paper or from the sticker sheet/die cut pack, word stickers, labels, enamel hearts and some very dimensional crystals I've had in my stash for ages, a single Cocoa Vanilla badge (exercising self control and denial here) And mist. Lots of crazy out of control mist droplets.
So there you have it - both parts of November's challenge done and dusted. Now if I can continue harnessing this unexpected burst of mojo, that would be fab since there is so much to do between now and the end of the year. Fun crafty stuff among the rest, but I still need energy and a shred of sanity to do fun stuff.
Thanks for checking out my layout and please don't forget to visit Mercy Tiara over on her Youtube channel if you haven't already.
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