More birthday cards from The Ton

I love cosmos flowers, they are so bright and so tall and pretty in a garden.

I bought my BFF the Climbing Cosmos for her birthday back in June.

We finally had a play date and I went to town using that set!

It is a stamp, stencil and die set!

I already posted one card using this set for the Color Hues Peach and Gray challenge which is going on right now.

You can find that Here and Here

 

Here are 4 more cars made with this set! 

I think this is my favorite, I LOVE the colors in the background!

the sentiment is from The Greetery Print shop spring mix.

I simply added a soft blend of blue for the sky and green for the grass.

The butterflies are from Pinkfresh: Butterfly garden.

the sentiment is again from The Greetery Print Shop Spring Mix

This one I did NOT use the stencils, I thought I would try the colored pencils and gamsol look!

My sentiment is from Altenew: Stained Glass window.

My background is from Craft Companions EF that came with my Gemini Jr. machine

I went with a very soft peachy color this time and I did use the stencils.

My sentiment is from Pinkfresh that a friend gave me!

I added a striped colored strip from PTI: melon berry pattern paper.

I am building up my stash!

Thanks for having a look!

This is what I am doing on our 90 + 100 degree days!

Good idea, right?

Heart Hugs, friends!

PRINT SHOP SPRING MIX ~ THE GREETERY

I am always a little behind the ordering on release day, I decided it was best for me to wait at least a week (and then I usually need to wait longer because things are OOS!! LOL), that way I get to actually see the product used many ways and if it is something I think I will use a lot.

Print Shop Spring Mix is one of those that I think I will use a lot.

It makes such an awesome garden bouquet of flowers and so easy to change up the colors!

And the other thing I love is that there are extra pieces to add on top of the flowers to give added dimension.  LOVE that!

So I have 5 new birthday cards!!  YEAH!!

 

My sentiments on ALL the cards are from The Greetery:  Birthday Blooms! 

 

Thanks for stopping by and having a look!

This is a stamp, stencil and die set from The Greetery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ WHEELS

Hi friends, so good to see you!

We have a new Seize the Birthday Challenge brought to us by Shirley!

She want to see "wheels" on our birthday cards!

I borrowed this stamp from my BFF, thanks Lin!

It is a Stamp of Life:  bicycle2stamp

I hope I have inspired you to play along, please see what the design team and our special Party Guest, Lynda from Loopyloocards has created for more inspiration!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ MAKE IT A BOUQUET!

HI FRIENDS! 

Welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge.  I am your hostess this time and I was thinking since the flowers are all popping out we should have a bouquet give it so someone for their birthday!

Hence, the challenge is :  MAKE IT A BOUQUET!

This is a Trinity Stamp called Blooming Bunch!

I used zig watercolor pens to color this in after embossing it.

 

I actually made three cards with this stamp I love the image and how big it is.

This one I white embossed and used zigs clear color pens, but I cut it out with the die and sponged on some blue for the background and added a butterfly!

 

 

I hope you will play along with us, I will visit you in the gallery!  And please check out the awesome bouquets from the design team and our special party guest!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ FURRY FRIENDS

Welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge!

Today our Challenge topping is Furry Friends, if you don't want to play with the topping, then you are welcome to make any kind of Birthday card. Cathy is our hostess this time.

I used a Stamping Village:  Happy Birthday and this one is designed by Hero Arts!

I have several family members who own Dachshund dogs!  I thought this was pretty cute with the cupcakes balancing on the back!

I used a PTI cover plate and added the balloons.

I hope you will join us for this challenge and please check out the furry friends inspiration from the design team and our Special Party Guest Lynda, you can find HERE as well!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ SPRING FLOWERS

Welcome to a new Seize the Birthday Challenge! This challenge is hosted by the talented TaeEun and she is looking for Spring Flowers on our birthday cards!

One of the first that pops up here in the Pacific Northwest is crocus, daffodils and tulips.  I love them all, but maybe especially the tulips, there are so many fun varieties and the colors are just gorgeous!

Unfortunately, we have deer, and they love tulips as well!!

I planted 100 bulbs in a new raised bed and the tulips have popped out of the ground, but the deer have eaten them down, we are frantically putting up posts and fence (7 feet high) to see if we can keep the deer out of our garden.  I plan to do a lot of veggies this summer...so this is a must!

I used a Penny Black stamp called Blooming tulips.

The sentiment is from a PTI set called Spring Hills

I used Tombow Dual Brush pens on the stamp and then spritzed it with some water.

I made one more Tulip card!  The stamped images are from The Greetery; the background paper is a Gina K pattern paper that my friend gave me for my birthday and the stitched and background frames are Gina K Master Layout dies!

 

Come join us with your spring flower cards!

Check out all the inspiration from the design team and our Special Party Guest

 

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ SQUARES

HI!  SO NICE TO SEE YOU HERE at SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY!

Today is JoAnn's day to host the challenge and she is looking for "squares"

on our birthday cards!

Not only did I find a pattern paper that had squares, but it is masculine (score for me!) and I am using the dies and stamps from PTI: Take Three:  Spring that are also in squares!!

Please join us over at the challenge blog and check out all the fabulous square inspiration from the team and our Special Party Guest, Linda whom you can find HERE !

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ VELLUM

Hi friends, so glad you stopped by and I hope you will join us at Seize the Birthday Challenge where Ashwini is our hostess and her prompt is VELLUM!

our Special Party Guest is Julie go see what she has created for your inspiration.

I remembered watching a video from Jennifer McGuire all about vellum, (you can use a transparency paper if you wish!).  The one I am referring about can be seen HERE.

I used Concord & 9th:  Hello Lovely

PTI:  Big Hugs die 

PTI: Especially You (smaller sentiment)

copics, embossing powder, and Nuvo clear crystal drops

This was really fun, I hope you will give this a try and I will see you in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY 2021!! "SNOWY BACKGROUND"

Welcome friends to the first Seize the Birthday Challenge of the New Year!

And may it be a Happy NEW Year for us ALL!

Barb is our hostess and keeping with a "winter" theme she is looking for a "snowy background" on your birthday card!

Here is what I used to make this BIRTHDAY card:

                Penny Black:  Snowflake Stitched Frame

MFT:  Winter Songbirds

copics for background

Dreamweaver glossy white embossing paste

stickles

      

I hope you will join us for this challenge.  Please check out the design team and our special party guest, Julie for more inspiration on our "Snowy Background" Birthday themed card!            

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday ~ 1 - 2 - 3 Style!

Hey friends, we have a fun challenge up at the Seize the Birthday Blog, go check out all the inspiration from the team and our Special Party Guest is Jules, please give her a welcome at her blog:  HERE!

The Challenge this time is:  1 - 2 - 3

1 die cut or punch, 2 colours (excluding neutrals), 3 embellishments (same or different)

If you're not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

I have two cards for you today, both with a butterfly!

 

I used a PTI Stamp-A-Fair 2017 stamp called Ever so Much.

No die, so I fussy cut it out, embossed with white and used orange and yellow zig clear water color pens.

The sentiments is PTI: Keep it Simple, Birthday

and I added three Pretty Pink Posh clear marshmallow confetti

 

My next card for your inspiration:

I MFT die cut Brilliant Butterfly

2 colors blue & green

3 nuvo drops!

The background is an Altenew dotted scales debossing plate.

So there you have it 1 - 2 - 3!!

Hope you will play along with us!

 

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

 

Seize the Birthday ~ with TEXTURE

Welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge!

Our hostess is Shirley and she is looking for TEXTURE on our birthday card!

I recently purchased this 3-D embossing folder and it is wonderful...I thought it would look great just by itself and a sentiment...so a quick and easy card to put together!

Please join the design team and our Special Party Guest:  Angie 

and make a birthday card with some texture to it!

You are welcome to make any kind of birthday card if you don't want to use the topping!

 

PTI:  Wet Paint (sentiment die and stamp)

Sizzix 3-D textured impression:  Azalea

Thanks for stopping by!

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday ~ Use scraps

Hi friends, thanks for stopping by and checking out the Seize the Birthday Challenge!

Lindsey is our hostess and the topping is using our scraps!

If you do NOT want to use the topping, you are welcome to make any kind of BIRTHDAY card!

I am positive I am NOT alone in this,  I have so many boxes of scraps that I cut or start coloring or even almost put together, but get easily sidetracked and then it gets cleaned up and goes into the box of unused 'stuff'.  I looked through the box first when the topping was "USE YOUR SCRAPS"!

I could make LOTS of cards from the scrap box!

About a month ago I made some backgrounds using shaving foam and I even had the image all cut and colored as well, so it went together pretty quickly!

I was pretty surprised that the colors were okay together!

My image is from Stamping Village designed by Studio Katia.

Please join the design team and our special party guest: Angie 

See you in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

Mix it Up Monday with Gina K

Hey friends, how are you doing?

Today I have a card from the Mix it Up Monday Gina K video series!

You can go HERE to watch the video...Gina took a new stamp set (Free to Flourish)  and colored with prisma colored pencils on kraft paper, she also used a stencil for the background to add a soft interest.  Please go check her out and join in the fun!

I used these supplies:

stamps:  Gina K Rose Peonies & Fancy Greetings

stencil:  The Greetery Berry Branch Stencil

The little bud is from a different stamp set of Gina K's called Whimsical Flowers.

It appeared to have a more solid image rather than an outline, so I thought, hmmm I will stamp it with white pigment ink and color over it with the pencils...we have done that before!

So I did, but you know, it just didn't blend in because the other images all have thick black stamped outlines.  So what I did was pick up a copic multiliner pen and drew in my own lines!!  Fortunately it kind of works because it is "sketchy"...I am no artist!

That's it for me...I can hardly wait for tomorrow night to try another technique and just have fun making cards!

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday ~ Totally Tropical

I think Shirley (our hostess) is looking forward to warm days ahead...her challenge at Seize the Birthday is Totally Tropical!  I wouldn't mind heading to a place like that right now, how about you?

I pulled out a set from PTI called Some Like it Hot (isn't that perfect for a tropical card?) And inked up some of those beautiful hibiscus flowers that are so prevalent in tropical climates (at least I know they are in Hawaii!!*wink)

So pull out some tropical stamps to make a birthday card and join us in the challenge!

Dotty from Just a Dotty Pudding is our Party guest!

Please head over to Seize the Birthday and see what the rest of the design team made for your inspiration and join us in this Birthday challenge! 

See you in the gallery!

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday ~ MONOCHROMATIC!

Here we are in the month of May with a new Seize the Birthday Challenge by TaeEun

and our Party Guest Stef of Perry Papercrafts!

Our Topping challenge is to use a monochromatic color for our birthday card!

You are always welcome to make any kind of card as long as it is a BIRTHDAY CARD!

My friend Marcia sent me several of these die cuts, I chose this teal color and added a PTI Pierced Frame around it and also a cute little cake colored up with copics from PTI  Tremendous Treats Birthday.  I added a little bit of nuvo glitter accents to make the icing look really yummy!

 I hope to see you in the gallery with your birthday card!
And please welcome Dotty from Just a Dotty Pudding as our Party Guest!
I look forward to seeing you in the gallery!!

Heart Hugs, friends!