SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ FALL ITEMS hosted by Barbara

Hi friends!

Welcome to our last SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE FOR 2023!

WE WILL BE BACK IN 2024!

Barbara is our hostess and she is looking for fall items on our birthday cards this time!

It can be food, flowers, leaves...anything to do with the fall.

I went all out with my card using an old Lawn Fawn Happy Harvest!

As you can see I added pumpkins, what is fall without pumpkin muffins or pumpkin spiced tea?

Of course a corn maize is a must for harvest parties and then we can't forget the scarecrow who scares away all the birds who try to eat the corn seeds!!

This is the inside of the card!  Perfect for a fall birthday card and maybe even for a young person!

I hope you are inspired by all the cards from our DT and Special guests and will join us for our last challenge of 2023!

We look forward to seeing your card in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ NEUTRAL COLORS by ASHWINI

Hi friends, today we have a fun challenge at Seize the Birthday that Ashwini is hosting asking us to make a birthday card using neutral colors only!

I took this opportunity to make this card be a masculine birthday card!

I used a 3-D embossing folder from Sizzix:  Tropical Leaves with kraft paper.

I swiped it with a white pigment ink pad.  I let it dry and swiped it a couple of times.

Gina k:  Birthday trio die with vellum background.

The sentiment and card is cut from PTI: cocoa bean 

 

I hope you will give this challenge a try and I will see you in the gallery with your neutral birthday card.  If you do not want to play with the topping, no problem, just make sure it is a birthday card!

Please check out all the wonderful inspiration from the design team!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ ADD A SKY!

Hi friends!

Welcome to a new SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE!

Our hostess this time is Vicki and she is looking for a birthday card where you add a sky to your card!

How fun is that?

I had to use another image from the very cute set from Avery Elle:  Best of the Bunch!

First I made a stencil out of some acetate and sponged twisted citron (DOX) for grass and used an MFT Cloud stencil with tumbled glass.

I actually watercolored the images with Zigs and die cut and attached it to my card.  The sentiment is from The Greetery:  Sentiment Suite: Birthday

Pretty simple and easy and I have a blue cloudy sky to show you!!

So remember the special topping for the birthday challenge is to add a sky, if you don't want to play with the topping you are always welcome to make any kind of a birthday card!

Please check out all the inspiration from the design team and our Party Guests!

Stephanie from Ingenious Inkling is our special party guest for this challenge.

Heart Hugs, friends!

COLOR HUES # 74 YELLOW & KRAFT

HI FRIENDS!

Today I am playing with the COLOR HUES CHALLENGE  and the two colors are Yellow and Kraft!

This is a Pinkfresh stamp called Thanks for being there.

I used Dox inks for the yellow flowers and CPD for the kraft as well as a PFS ink called buff.

I have been in Florida for a couple of weeks, and I have been looking forward to getting inky!

In between playing with my grandson and doing laundry I managed to get a card done.  Now I leave for LA tomorrow to watch my granddaughter, Ellie play volleyball for USC.  She is a defense player and starts every game.  They play the Washington schools this Friday and Sunday afternoon.  I am looking forward to seeing her in person and spending some time with her.  My daughter Dina (Ellie's mom) and little Jackson (2 1/2 years) are going with us!

The design team has some great cards on the blog, I hope you will go check it out and play along with this challenge. 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ HOT PINK & LIME

Hello friends and welcome to another SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE  where the topping is a color combo of HOT PINK & LIME!   This should make for a very fun and bright birthday card and is the inspiration from Shirley!

Remember if you don't want to use the topping, then just make any kind of birthday card!

My BFF and I were shopping one day and we each picked up a new to us Pinkfresh stamp and stencil background set.  This one is called Delicate floral Print and Linda bought this one, after using it, she gave it to me to play with.  I used CPD inks, Lime Rickey and Pucker Up.  The sentiment is from MFT All About You!

We have our Special Party Guest Stephanie from ingeniousinklings joining us as well as a guest who won the challenge.  Please welcome them and go check out all the fun cards made by the DT!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ REPETITIVE DIE CUT BACKGROUND!

HELLO FRIENDS!

Our new SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY challenge is brought to us by our awesome leader, Nancy!

She is asking us to use die cuts repeatedly for the background on our birthday card.

As the logo below will say, it is repetitive die cut.

I hope you will play along and have fun with this unique challenge we have not done before!

 

I am using a Sunny Studios stamp and die set called Elegant Leaves.  Some of the leaves are outline, but a couple are solid images.  I took a sponge dauber and added two colors to each leaf.  I cut them and added them to the background of my card. My sentiment is from PTI Autumn Hills.

I used Gina K  ML #2 and also the postage die is from ML #4, I just added a frame of red behind the postage die.

Thanks Nancy for a fun challenge!

Friends, please check out the inspiration from our design team our Special Party Guest is Stephanie from ingeniousinking.
 

Heart Hugs, friends!