Flowering Desert - Joy Of Sets Tic Tac Toe #JOSTTT005

Hello, I'm back again hopping with the Design Team for the Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  We are a group of crafter's who just love to share our passion for paper crafting. 

This is our challenge grid for this month - chosen by me!  I put the grid together several months ago; I must have had some sort of plan in my head but I have no idea what it was!!

I choose to use flowers, tree and yellow for my project this month.   I am using cacti in place of trees as they are often know as the trees of the desert!

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that my daughter Rosie celebrates her birthday on the 1st May.  You may also know that she has a thing for llama's and always asks for a special box card each year!

I bought Flowering Desert with this project in mind - I also used a retired stamp and framelits set called Birthday Fiesta for the smaller cacti and the llama.

If you need a tutorial to make one of these cards you can find one HERE that I made way back in 2015.

Once the basic box card has been constructed you can have so much fun decorating them.

I cut panels for the three sides 5mm smaller and then added some stamping.

Here is the panel I stamped for the reverse of the card - its official; my daughter is awesome!

For the inside front panel, I stamped a llama and added a decorative blanket, coloured with Stampin' Blends.  I had to trim the rear of the llama so he would fit flush with the edge of the panel.  The llama has been adhered with dimensionals.

I then stamped another llama and some cacti - the smaller ones were fussy cut out.  I had great fun deciding where to place everything.

Here's a view from the top.

I also stamped the envelope - I might just have got a bit carried away with myself!

Here is the completed card and envelope - yes it does fold flat to fit into the envelope!

Head over the the Joy of Sets Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have made of this fun challenge HERE.

If you haven't tried a Tic Tac Toe challenge before or a box card why not give it a go; if you are stuck in a rut or suffering from crafter's block you might just find it useful!  You can also enter our challenge and share your project - there is a chance you could be our next guest designer and hop along with us next month! 

Happy crafting.

Susan xx

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