SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ MASCULINE CARD

Hi friends, this is our last Seize the Birthday Challenge for 2024!

We are taking the month of December off, but will be back with more challenges in January 2025!!

Today's challenge is all about making a masculine birthday card and Barbara is our hostess!

I have to admit I am not that great with masculine cards and my stash of stamps is limited!

But I decided to go with a fun kind of rainbow leaf design.

I watched a video by Gina K (HERE)showing a monochromatic card using these leaves from the Autumn Silhouette stamp set.  I changed it up by blending rainbow colors in the three circles, then stamping the leaves and following what Gina did with her monochromatic design.

 

I hope you will be joining us for this last challenge of the year!

Check out our Special Guest FRAN for even more inspiration.

I look forward to seeing your card in the gallery!!

 

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ ONE FOCAL IMAGE

Hi friends, today Ashwini wants us to stamp one image only once on our birthday card for the SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE, it is okay to add other embellishments or backgrounds, but only stamp the main image ONCE!

this stamp is MFT: Super Boy

the background paper is from LDRS:  Lovely Watercolor

I colored the boy with copics and mounted the card on PTI melon berry cardstock.

 

Please check out the designers and our guest, FRAN for more inspiration!

I look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ FEATHER

So happy to see you here friends!

Today's Challenge for SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY is from Vicki and she is looking for a feather(s) on our birthday cards!

I pulled out a Gina K sentiment from Birthday Cheer

and an older set from PTI: Year of Psalms March for the feathers.

We have awesome cards from the design team using feathers, please go check them out along with our guests for the month!

I look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

And please check out our guest FRAN

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ DOTS

Welcome to another Seize the Birthday card Challenge.

Today our hostess is Shirley and she is looking for "dots" on our birthday cards!

Remember if you don't want to play with the topping of dots, you are welcome to make any kind of birthday card!

I used a background alcohol ink that was in my stash and used GinaK Lots of Dots die, backed it with black.  also used the center black piece from the same Lots of Dots die set to white heat emboss the birthday wishes sentiment from SSS Birthday Splash.

I added some butterflies from Pinkfresh Fluttering By.

 

The design team has made wonderful inspiration for you using dots in all sorts of ways!

I hope you will be inspired to create a dots card for this challenge!

And please check out our special party guest, FRAN.

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ "CELEBRATE" is the code word!

Welcome to another challenge at Seize the Birthday!  Our challenge brought to us by our wonderful leader, Nancy, is to use the word "CELEBRATE" on our birthday card.  If you don't want to use the topping, you are always welcome to make any kind of card as long as it is a birthday card!

For this challenge I used the GinaK Wishful Florals, stamps, stencils and dies,  I already had my soft stone paper cut with an arch from The Greetery and embossed with an EF.

The "CELEBRATE" word die and shadow die are from SSS:  Boho Celebrate!

The floral images were foiled with GinaK  Deco foil, it has a very glittery silver shine to it, the picture is picking up some teal on the stamens, not sure where that color is from, but it is all silver.  I cut the word die from a piece of silver glitter paper as well and mounted it on a piece of vellum.  I think this is so pretty and what a beautiful card to celebrate a big birthday!

We have wonderful inspiration for you at the home page, including a card from our Guest Designer, Karen, you can find her here!

Thanks for joining us and I look forward to seeing your card in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~STRIPES

Welcome to another SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE!!

Linda is our hostess for this challenge and she asking to see "STRIPES"

on our birthday card!!

I colored up the SSS:  Mix & Match Butterfly Duo with copics and cut it out (with dies)

 

After coloring on some paper with two of the same copics pens, I cut the strips out using a Mama Elephant Strip Die and glued the strips at an angle.

Then I adhered the butterfly by gluing the bottom half of the butterfly and using dimensional tape on the upper wings.

So there you have my card using stripes!

I hope you will join us in the challenge.

Remember if you don't want to use the topping challenge, then you are welcome to make nay kind of a birthday card!  I will look for you in the gallery!

We have a friend joining us who has won the honor of being our Guest because her card  was chosen as the winner of a previous challenge!

Karen can be found HERE 

and our overall winner is Helen, she can be found HERE

                                                                                          

Heart Hugs, friends!