Crafty Creations Challenges: Tic Tac Toe

We have a "Tic Tac Toe" theme for the next two weeks at Crafty Creations Challenges. 

I'll let you in on a little secret . . . 

     I have a very difficult time making a decision when I'm told I can have or do anything I want.

 Which items do I pick? I want it all . . . 

 What do I want to do? I want to do it all . . . 

 What are my options? Am I missing anything? 

So while a Tic Tac Toe Challenge should be easy . . . it's not. At least it's not for me.

And I created the Tic Tac Toe board for Anna so you think I would have created a board with my favorites all in a row.

But I didn't. I put all my favorites on the board . . . which only made it harder for me to pick 3 . . . in a row!!

However, I was making this card for a good friend, 
so that made it a bit easier for me 

(I love making cards with a particular person in mind). 

Our Sponsor, A Creative Need, sent me the beautiful "Blossom Bouquet" digi to use.

My original plan was to watercolor the image. But . . . when I began to color it, the black ran (image on the right).  Duh, I forgot to print it on the laser printer (watercolors and inkjet printed digis don't mix well).  So, I grabbed my Copics and colored a 2nd image I had printed (image on the left).

I don't normally share my "mistakes" but I thought you would appreciate the final colored image more if you saw my original attempt also.

   

Here's the Tic Tac Toe Board. As you can see from my card, I used:

 Flowers, Embossing & Die-Cut. 

Or, Flowers, Ribbon and Digital Image. 

Or, Die-Cut, Ribbon and Circles (those are circles behind the digi image).

Stop by the Crafty Creations Challenges blog to see what the other DT members have created. Then, pick your favorite row, column or diagonal on the Tic Tac Toe board and play along.

Update: I also used a freebie sentiment from Netty's Cards (click here).  I met Annette when I won my very first challenge (sponsored by Stamp Fairy).  She has LOTS of freebie sentiments. Be sure to check out her blog.

I'm entering the above card in A Creative Need's Monthly Challenge: Anything Goes
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