Helen's First Monochromatic Tic Tac Toe project.

Welcome back to my blog, where today I'm sharing a project for 
SCRAP MATRIX

The challenge is to create a project using a tic tac toe monochromatic theme.

For those of you who have not come across this before, the idea is to use any three objects from the grid, but they must be in a straight line horizontally, vertically or even diagonally. You may use any monochromatic colours you like.

Here is the chart

I've elected to use red as my colour and my three items are

Paint, Chipboard and buttons, flairs or brads.

I've watched a few mixed media you tube videos recently and came across a site recommended by my friend Margaret Mifsud, when she made some ATC's.  I was inspired to create a background with book pages, texture paste, embossing, stamping and inks.

I wanted to feature this Blue Fern chipboard, which

 comes in a square. I decided to feature the numbers

so I popped some of the squares out of the chipboard.

Then I cut the chipboard into sections and painted it with Dylusions Black paint.

Next, I heat embossed random patches of the chipboard with

Stampendous ultra think embossing powder.

To create the background of the page, I tore up some old book pages into random strips and adhered them onto a white background with Art Basic Gel

I added some plasterers tape, some Washi tape and some 

Red polka dot patterned paper.

Another layer was added with  Tim Holtz texture paste, through various stencils and

then heat embossed with Stampendous white embossing powder.

 The next layers were made with various stamps, Distress Oxides and Red Gelatos.

I added some stars and brads.

A closer look.

Some of the texture details.

Thanks for your visit today. 

I hope you've found something to inspire you and will be tempted 

to play along at the Scrap Matrix Tic Tac Toe challenge.