We have a special challenge for you today. Seize the Birthday is celebrating its 200th challenge.
Woohoo! We are so grateful to all of you that have helped us reach
this milestone. So for this challenge, we are offering 2 Twenty-Five Dollar Simon Says Gift Certificates to both of our Top Winners.
Best of luck!
Let me explain our topping.
For this
challenge we want you to make a card and/or project that is inspired by
the graphic below. Whether it be the colors, the balloons, the
watercolor vibe, or the numbers etc... Whatever sparks your creativity.
However for this challenge only, we are asking you to explain in your
post how exactly you were inspired!
And because I love those colors, I do like my background card and even added the two balloons. I die cut the balloons from vellum and colored the back side of them with copics.
DOX used: twisted citron,picked raspberry,wilted violet, mermaid lagoon
Sentiment is from PTI: Birthday Cheer (including the die)
PTI: Balloon Bash (balloon dies!)
And then because in the back of my head I was picturing butterflies fluttering in the sky with all those same beautiful colors, I made one more card! And I LOVE how this turned out too!
I heat embossed the images, then using the same DOX inks, I painted them in and also added my splatters.
Altenew: Painted Butterflies
PTI: Birthday Balloons (sentiment)
And to add to the fun... we have 4 Mystery Design Team Members that have prizes up for grabs on their blogs. However,
the requirement to win ANY of those prizes is, you must go to ALL of
the Design Team's blog and leave each one of them some love! We all need a little love in our lives these days.
See you in the gallery! And thanks to Angie our special party guest for playing along with us in our 200th challenge!
Heart Hugs, friends!
You over achiever you! I love your fist card as it looks so much like mine, and then you when and created more. Wish I did too. Love them both.
ReplyDeleteReally love both of these. So very pretty. I think my favorite is those butterflies--amazing job adding color to them.
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are lovely! The butterflies are so pretty with the colors and wings in flight.
ReplyDeleteLook at you! You made a fabulous background and it reflects are graphic perfectly and then your butterfly card is just beautiful. Love the partially raised panel too! Well done Colleen! Your link isn't working but I will go and fix it!
ReplyDeleteOH Colleen these cards are both absolutely beautiful! LOVE the 1st card ... mimic the logo so well and your 2nd card with the butterflies just makes me smile! GREAT job and wonderful inspiration! I sure hope I get time to join in the fun!!
ReplyDeleteTwo FABULOUS cards Colleen! They both totally look inspired by the graphic...loving the beautiful colors and the water colored look! Congrats on the 200th challenge...what a milestone!! Hugs. :0)
ReplyDelete2 gorgeous cards Colleen, love your take on the graphic for them both. My fave though are those beautiful butterflies, Cathy x
ReplyDeleteLove both of your cards Colleen. The first one is a perfect take on the graphic with the balloons. My favorite is the lovely butterflies fluttering over your card in the perfect colors.
ReplyDeleteSuch an inspired idea to make the balloons from vellum! They are perfect against your background. And then the butterflies! They are so very pretty. Two wonderful cards!
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are so pretty! DOX inks give such a great effect don't they?
ReplyDeleteoh my, Colleen...those butterflies are gorgeous. LOVE the colors and your sweet design. Thanks for the awesome inspiration in the Seize The Birthday challenge. I'm excited to play along.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Karen L
www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com
I love both cards! Fantastic design in the fist card with the perfect sentiment! The butterflies are gorgeous:)
ReplyDeleteYour colorful background and vellum balloons are so festive and fun, Col! And the butterflies are jaw dropping! I think that butterfly set is in my "to get rid of" box. Maybe I should pull it out and ink it up? Great job, my friend!
ReplyDeleteLove how you used the same colors for both the cards. So gorgeous
ReplyDeleteYour background card is so pretty using those colors. The sweet butterflies flying off to celebrate are making me happy. Two great cards for the 200th challenge celebration, Colleen.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous fluttering bflies! Love the colors :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards. Love the overlapping balloons and the butterflies are delicate perfection. Hugz
ReplyDeleteTwo lovely inspired designs - your butterflies are absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful cards! Great use of the colours. I really like the pretty butterflies. - Charlotte/Lady Joyful
ReplyDeletethe butterflies are so different . whole card is very pretty
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are turned out beautifully, Colleen! I love that you blended two or more colors to color each butterfly! They look fabulous!
ReplyDeleteCograts on the 200th challenge and wow you have made two cards, difficult ot say which one is prettier..I love the background and sentiment on the first and those butterflies of the second card are so pretty too, hugs Blankina
ReplyDeleteOh I love both these cards, the butterfly one is my fav, the soft colours really work well with them. Hopping on by via Seize the Birthday, Hazel xx
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteLove the butterflies. It's getting more and more like autumn here in the Netherlands. Love the layout too.
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They’re both fabulous, Colleen! The butterflies are beautifully coloured.
ReplyDeleteLovely card. Love the way you placed the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteWowie!! Loving both of these cards, Colleen! Loving the mish mash of the colors in the first one; and of course, the balloons too! And in the second one, the butterflies look so charming! Thank you so much for using the logo colors so skillfully!
ReplyDeleteI love how the balloons are colored through the back of the vellum and those butterflies ... Super!
ReplyDeleteI love the soft wash of color over the butterflies! So pretty!
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful card using the graphic as your inspiration, Colleen!! The colours are so happy! xx
ReplyDeleteSo pretty. Love the butterflies. The background with the balloons is gorgeous
ReplyDeleteBoth beautiful cards. The colours are so soft and pretty. Love the movement achieved in the butterfly card.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful butterflies and I love how you have them "flying" off the page so to speak. Very nice!!
ReplyDeleteLove that you created two very different cards. Love the butterflies.
ReplyDeleteI like the second card best with the butterflies and the spatters! The colors are so fun!
ReplyDeleteExcellent interpretation of challenge colours and theme on both cards.
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Both cards are gorgeous Colleen! I too love Ashwini's graphic and love the way you used it for your background in the first card. The rainbow butterflies in the second are just beautiful! Vicky x
ReplyDeleteBoth of these are fantastic! I love that you did the balloons in vellum - looks so great with the gorgeous background. The butterfly card is so wonderful - love the layout.
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