SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY ~ Signs of Spring

Hi friends, Welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge!

Lindsey is our hostess looking for signs of spring on our birthday cards!

Here in the PNW Tulips is definitely the sign that spring is in the air...along with rain and winds!

It seems as soon as the tulips pop out with all their vibrant colors, the spring rains also come and beat them down!  I have two cards for you today!

This card was made for my friend's Mom's 90th birthday!  

And since I was pulling out tulip stamps, I ran across this one and I believe it is designed by Betsy as well as the one above.

Our Special Party guest is Deepti and you can find her spring inspiration card HERE.

Please check out the rest of the design team to see a sign of spring in their part of the country.

First Card:

The Greetery:  Flower Market

The Greetery:  Picture-esque

The Greetery:  Sentiment Suite: Birthday

Second Card:

I used an older PTI set called Tulip Time 

The bow from The Greetery:  Fit to be Tied

The Greetery:  Crimped Frame

The Greetery:  Sentiment Suite:  Birthday

 

 

 

I hope to see you in the gallery!! 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday! "SPRING"

Hi friends, I know I have been missing and I feel bad about that...too much on my plate I guess.

However I have a card for this challenge and it is an easy one, the host is looking for a spring card for our Seize the Birthday Challenge!  The topping is spring, but you are always welcome to make any kind of a birthday card!

I think nothing says "spring" more than blooming
tulips in the yard!  This is PTI Tulip Time stamp set.

While I had them out, I went ahead and made two more birthday cards.  The last card I got a little bit in a hurry and before my nuvo drops were dry, I touched it!  GASP, I spread the nuvo drops across the stems with my finger.  Now in real life it doesn't show up very much, but boy take a picture and it sticks out like a sore thumb!

I hope you will join us at Seize the Birthday for this challenge!

Inspired by all the Little Things

 

This card is for "Inspired by all the Little Things Challenge"

I was inspired by the flowers and decided to have a group of tulips, I can hardly wait for mine to bloom, although it seems every year when they come up, we get heavy rains and the blooms are destroyed!  At least I can enjoy these blooms on paper!  *wink

 

PTI Tulip Time

Sizzix thinlits ~ Tim Holtz four dies

CPD Faithful Flutterings (sentiment)

Liquid Pearls 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Playing with my Friend

First I wanted to share with you all a picture of Greta, Linda and me meeting for the first time.  We had a delightful time and Greta is just the sweetest thing.

We could have been friends forever, that is how easy she was to talk to and of course it helps having something like this hobby in common!

I hope we can get together again!

She is only a little over an hour drive away from me.

When we got home, Linda and I started getting creative.  I knew I needed some sympathy cards because a lady from our church just passed away with ALS and lots of cards will be needed by my bible study ladies.

I pulled out Tulip time since I haven't used it yet and made a couple of cards and also an Easter Card:

 I used PTI lemon tart, bright buttercup for the flowers

My leaves were stamped with spring moss, then I sponged on pinefeather, but then used the second layer for the leaves and stem and stamped them directly with pinefeather.

I also used the tip top die and the bright buttercup paper.

The sentiment is from PTI Spring Woods.

I pulled out some WPlus9 inks this time!

Wild Mango, Miami Spice and Sweet Nectar

I love how these colors layered up on the flower.

I used the same colors for the leaves (all done with the Misti...sure made it easy!)

The sentiment is from PTI Botanical Silhouettes.

And I also used the outer part of the new PTI Cover Plate Frame Die.

My last card made for Easter was made with HA Soft Lilac, SSS lavender and SSS Hydrangea...so pretty and thought for sure this looked like a beautiful Easter card...I used a sentiment form the Spring Birds.

the top layer was cut from an MFT wonky stitched rectangle.

Since this is a NBUS stamp I will enter this over at Darnell's blog!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Stamping and heart Hugs!!