Tic Tac Toe

Good morning everyone and a Happy New Year!

I haven't been around for a while even though I scheduled some posts at the end of last year as I went on a big adventure for four weeks. We went to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, how lucky am I? I had an absolute blast. But I really missed crafting. Then we had a some not so nice events in the family, one being us losing one of our 18 1/2 year old fur babies. She got ill while we were away and we tried everything to save her but it was too much for her at her age bless her, so on Christmas eve sadly we had to say our goodbyes to our beautiful little girl Belle. She will now be reunited with her best mate Smokey at the Rainbow Bridge. Sweet dreams my little angel.

Now I have been so glad to get back in my craft room to take my mind off of things and my first make of the year is for the Polkadoodles challenge, and it is Tic Tac Toe. What is that I hear you ask. Well you choose a line from this little Tic Tac Toe board and make your creation based on that.

So I have chosen the left hand vertical line so my make had to include, a die cut, stitching and polka dots and here is my make.

I have used the Octavia Bird in Hand digi from the store, and she is coloured with my Graph'It markers. The papers I have used are from the fabulous Dollie Daydream Girl Talk collection which is available as a CD or a digital download! The die cut sentiment is from Tattered Lace and the stamped and die cut flowers are from Sizzix. As you can see I chose to use faux stitching on this make.
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A frame for me!

After doing all those 3D frames I decided to do one for myself. This isn't really a photo frame it was bought as a picture. I've never seen so much polystyrene, glue and double sided tape holding a picture in! After spending ages taking the thing apart I finally got into it and managed to add my art, and this is the result:

I've used Stampin Up papers again and the Sizzix Graffiti alphabet. I've also cut our first names out in vinyl on my Silhouette Cameo and stuck them onto the mirrored part of the frame (which you can see my craft room reflection in).

3D frame

After seeing the baby frames on Facebook a friend asked me to make one for her friend who is due to have a baby this month. She asked for purple and sparkly and this is what I did for her:

For the name I've used a the Sizzix Graffiti alphabet which has a shadow behind the letters. I've done the shadow in silver mirror card. The papers are from Stampin Up and the flowers are from a Marianne die. I've also added some corners on the frame and added a few buttons.
I love these frames I think they are so different and no two people will have the same!