TTTC176 A Kid with Class

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge, and sadly, this will be my last one as a team designer, as I am stepping down from several of my challenge commitments!  But you will still see me playing occasionally for sure!  Team X has chosen this grid for your stamping enjoyment:

I chose the bottom row across of Gingham, Back to School and Yellow for my creation today, although I have a few more of the elements in there too!

All these images, except for the apple, came from an old Cornish Heritage Farm set called Making the Grade, and it's my go-to set for back-to-school themes!  I stamped the images with Memento Black and colored them in with Blends, then fussy-cut them out.  (The worm was an after-thought!  He looks so cute peeking out from behind the tag, don't you think?)  The apple is an oldie from Papertrey Ink; I stamped it in Real Red, Garden Green and Soft Suede, and then outlined it with a felt-tip pen so that it would "match" the other images.  Finally the sentiment was diecut with a banner die and everything went on a gingham tag:

And here's the inside; the "Happy" is from Biggest Wish and the rest of it is from the same CHF set.  I think I'll tuck a little gift card inside and send this to Cassidy on her first day of school!

I am also entering this at CAS on Sunday, where they want tags!

I hope you'll play along with our grid this week...it's just in time for those fall, back-to-school encouragements notes, not just for the students but for the teachers too!  Can't wait to see what you create...share it over at Tic Tac Toe!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish, Making the Grade (Cornish Heritage Farms), Apple of My Eye (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Chicken Scratch Gingham DSP (Papertrey)
Ink	Memento Black, Real Red, Pacific Point, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Blends, Black Fine-tip Marker

Paper Players 360 - Back to School

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Thank you to all who commented on my shingles dilemma....I am still in the throes of it, but faring well.  The most frustrating part is that the worst areas are on my right hand, and of course, I am right-handed!  I can still do most things, but I do have to ask John to open things for me because I just can't grasp enough to do that!  But I am managing the rest of it okay!  

Today Claire has our Paper Players challenge, and it's always a fun one!  I am sure you can come up with some sweet ideas....I like the scrabble tiles Nance used for our inspiration photo--that would be a cool theme!

If you're like me, you take lots of photos and they sit on your phone or in your photo program and nothing ever gets done with them! So I printed out a small one from the first day of school, and I made a little photo frame for Dana to sit on her desk.  So here we go:

The chalkboard portion is made from some retired SU chalk paper from a couple years back; the wooden "frame" is from the Wood Textures DSP stack; these cute little puffy embellishments I have had forever and were perfect for the theme; and the vertical Wild Wasabi piece was embossed with a cute little Darice ruler folder:

The sentiments are from a really "vintage" Cornish Heritage Farms set, I believe it was from around 2007 or 2008, called Making the Grade, stamped in white craft ink:

And I mounted the whole shebang on a piece of cardboard backing from a pack of DSP, and I cut an easel using a Tim Holtz Small Easel die:

For my layout, I used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch #303, and since my stamps were from 2008, I am entering this at the Retro Rubber Challenge #70!

I hope you'll play along with us this week and share your creations at the Paper Players blog!  We can't wait to see them!  And be sure to check out the designers' creations as well!

Speaking of back to school, one morning while waiting for the bus, Cassidy found a slug on a piece of fungus growing on the back of one of our pine trees, so everybody had to look at it, even little Jackie:

They even found a baby one!  Despite it's "slug-ness", it is kinda cute!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Making the Grade (Cornish Heritage Farms ret)
Card stock & Papers	Wood Textures DSP, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Chalkboard (ret), cardboard
Ink	Craft White, Wild Wasabi
Accessories	Back to School Puffies (Ki)
Tools	Big Shot, School 3 Pack EF (Darice), Corner Rounder Punch (ret), Small Easel Die (Tim Holtz), sponge dauber