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 Birtheday ~ Butterflies ~

Barbara is our hostess and she asked for us to make a birthday card with butterflies!

I love butterflies, I plant flowers so that I can attract them to my yard!

This is a PTI set called Color Pop:  Butterflies!  It was a mini kit and it came with stencils and stamps and the card stock to make the above card...I just needed to fill in all the white space!

I used both stencils and stamps to complete the card, I love how it looks, so bright and festive and definitely full of butterflies!

The sentiment is a stamp and die set also from PTI called Bold & Beautiful.

We encourage you to make a butterfly birthday card, but you are always welcome to make any kind of card as long as it is always a birthday one!
Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday ~ Rainbows

Hi Crafty friends!

Over at the Seize the Birthday blog, we have a challenge with a TOPPING!

We are looking for a rainbow birthday card!

You can always make "ANY KIND OF BIRTHDAY CARD TOO", but if you want to join in the fun with the topping, then let's see some rainbows are your card!

I hope you will join us with your rainbow of colors on your birthday card!

See you in the gallery!!

Heart Hugs, friends!

MIM # 329 Creating stencils from Die cuts

A new Make It Monday is up on the blog, you can check out Melissa's video HERE.

this is what I used to make this card:

PTI Mix & Mat Pretty Brackets

PTI Pop Up Butterflies 

PTI Life is Beautiful

PTI Stemmed Sentiments (sentiment)

PPP  pink blush sequins 

We are going for another record 100 degree day friends...this is three in a row and several prior to these in the high 90's!  Too bad I have a  2 1/2 hour seminar on total joint replacement right in the middle of the day!  Otherwise I would just stay in my room with the fan blowing on me and play all day long!  Hope you all are keeping cool and safe!  Now I am off to bring a lunch and dinner to my 97 + year old dad, who by the way is still living at his home, alone!

Melissa's card:

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

May TWOFER Challenge #5 ~ Butterflies

The conundrum is which butterfly set to use?  I may have one or two or many more!

However there was a piece of paper laying on my desk that had Mama Elephants Butterfly Kisses stamp set printed on it.  And I thought I could use that one!

Here is a closer look at each one and a little story for the bride and groom.

 When my older daughter got married, we released butterflies at her reception.  It was beautiful to see all those gorgeous butterflies fly off to land on one of the many flowers blooming on the golf course.

I was thinking of her saying to me in about a month, "Mom, do you have an anniversary card I can take?"  So I stamped the bride and groom and decided to add a border of butterflies to signify that momentous day for her!

And she danced with her Dad to the song: Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle and when I saw this sentiment I thought it made a perfect birthday card and of course I highlighted the single butterfly!

I am entering these cards in the May TWOFER Challenge #5 where the code word is "butterfly"

Serendipity stamps:  Wedded Bliss
Mama Elephant:  Butterfly Kisses 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Baby blog Hop

It is a BABY GIRL BLOG HOP FOR 

Little Miss Croghan!

Congratulations Lesley and Corey!

This is the beginning of all things wonderful and what a fantastic way to grow your family  with a new human little Croghan (versus all the fur babies you have) !!!

Lesley totally took me by surprise several years ago when I received an email from her asking if I would like to join the team on Seize the Birthday!  That was something I didn't even have on my radar and boy was I excited and nervous!  But I said YES!!  And have loved being on that challenge with all those awesome girls.  Then a couple years later she wrote me again and asked if I would like to join the Merry Monday team.  OMG!!  Lesley opened doors for me and challenged me in ways she will really never know, but without her I would NOT be where I am today with my card making and I would definitely not have all the amazing friendships that have resulted because of her!  Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to design for two of your many challenges Lesley!  I pray for only the very best for you and your new little one!!  Congratulations!

I couldn't resist CASing a card from PTI for this darling Baby girl card for Lesley!

We have a Blog Hop going to let Lesley know we love her and are praying for her and her family with the delivery of this little baby girl.

We would love for you to join us in this baby blog hop.
Go HERE to play along and bring baby cards to Lesley!

Heart Hugs, friends!