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!

DOUBLE D CHALLENGE: SUNFLOWERS!

Hi friends, it has been a minute, hasn't it?

I have had a fun and busy summer!

I am ready to start getting inky in a serious way (especially for Christmas cards!)

But today is about Sunflowers!  That is the theme and the mood board for Double D challenge and I believe this is the first time I have played with this challenge!

I discovered I have about 9 stamps that would qualify for a sunflower card!

I chose this one because it makes such beautiful big blooms!

It is a four step flower stamp and a three step leaf stamp.

I used a SSS gingham stencil for the background and a

Pinkfresh sentiment: Basic Banners: Celebrate  

 

Here is the mood board for your inspiration

 Thanks for stopping by!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY~ TIC - TAC - TOE

Hi Friends!

Our challenge at Seize the Birthday is hosted by Glenda and she has a TIC - TAC - TOE board to use for your inspiration!

I chose to go diagonal for my tic-tac-toe card!

I started by adding stripes at a diagonal,  I kept it pretty Clean Simple and then my sentiment definitely does not have the word "birthday" in it, but you know that it is meant for that celebration!

 

 

 

So how about joining us for some fun with your birthday cards this time?  If you do not want to play tic-tac-toe with us, that is fine, just be sure it is a birthday card!

And please check out all the great inspiration from our design team and our party guest Julia!

 

MFT: unforgetable birthday stamp

SSS:  Diagonal stripe stencil

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ ADD A FRUIT TO YOUR BIRTHDAY CARD!

Welcome friends to another SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE! 

It is my turn to choose a topping and I thought, what do we have fresh in the summer months that we do not have in the winter months?  FRUIT!!  So I thought our topping this time should be any kind of fruit on your birthday card...strawberries, apples, lemons, watermelon, you get the idea!

I have two cards to inspire you!  The first uses The Greetery:  Lemon Blossoms!  Who doesn't love lemonade in the summertime?  A big Pitcher (also from The Greetery:  Pitcher-esque) of lemonade too!!

 

 My second card uses a Penny Black stamp:  Berry Fairy!

 

I colored her with copics and mounted her on a piece of pattern paper from Scrapbook.com pack: berry sweet!  Isn't she just the sweetest and wishing the birthday person a sweet birthday!  I love juicy sweet strawberries!

 

I hope you will join us with this challenge, if you do not want to make a card with a fruit on it, that is fine, you are welcome to make nay kind of card as long as it is a BIRTHDAY CARD!

Julia from Create with Me is our Party Guest again this month, be sure to check out her card for more inspiration as well as the design team members!

 

See you in the gallery! 

Heart Hugs, friends!