Say Cheese & Smile (DTC 183)

Here's a summary of Double Trouble #183, "Say Cheese and Smile," a biweekly challenge running through Sunday, February 2, 2025.

Thing 1: Trouble Maker 

says, "Try our 3-2-1 Recipe below and create a fun project."

Say Cheese and Smile

Servings - Unlimited Portions of Fun!

Ingredients

     3  Images of your choice (Newton, party hat, and cat-shaped taco)

    2  Patterned papers (gingham in green and yellow/orange)

     1  Sentiment that makes you smile ("Taco 'bout awesome!")

Thing 3:  Twisted Sister 

says, "I love cheese more than a mouse does! My option is to include either a mouse or a favorite food that tastes good with cheese."  (I chose tacos as a favorite food with cheese.)

Thing 2: Double Dare

says, "My optional dare for you is to use the current sketch below at our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch On Tuesday #662, beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (I used the sketch.)

Alternate Challenge: I elected to play along at Ellie's Critter Crazy Challenge #94, "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter" for January.

How peculiar that I don't have a stamp or die of a mouse! So I decided to go with the option to include a food item that goes with cheese, using my feline friend, Newton, who is enjoying a taco. This stamp set has a coordinating die set, but I don't own the dies and chose to fussy-cut the images.

The three images were stamped, colored, and fussy-cut. Newton was adhered to the largest circle using foam tape. The party hat image was placed on Newton's head, and the cat-shaped taco image was adhered to the top circle. The sentiment was placed across the bottom circle.

By the way, did you ever notice that T-A-C-O C-A-T spelled backward is still T-A-C-O C-A-T?  Crazy, right?

The card was completed by decorating the inside with another image of a party hat placed in a black circle and a bit of the same patterned paper, leaving sufficient space for a personal message.

Stop by the DTC #183 Blog to view the Design Team's cards and to play along with the challenge. Thank you for stopping by.

Melanie

Materials

Stamps: Newton's Nook "Newton Loves Tacos" & Frantic Stamper "Taco Sentiments"

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Copic Alcohol Markers

Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Basic White & Basic Black

Patterned Paper: Sunny Studio "Pastel Gingham"

Dies: Honey Bee Deckle Edge Circles

Misc.: SBC foam tape & Honey Bee gem stickers