Seize the Birthday ~ Nothing but Neutrals!

 

 

Yeah!  It is another Seize the Birthday Challenge !

This time around for our "toppings"  we are looking for 

NOTHING BUT NEUTRALS.

I had several ideas and laid out a couple different designs...didn't realize how difficult it is to just use "neutrals!  *wink  Although I really do like how this card turned out using just plain neutrals without any "real" color!

  My card base is PTI soft stone.  I embossed a WPlus9 lattice frame in white card stock.  I took PTI's Frilly flowers and die cut and stamped each of the three with PTI fine linen, kraft and soft stone inks.  The "happy" is a PTI die cut from Phrase Play #5 ~ die cut two times and glued together.  The birthday is stamped using PTI's Keep it Simple: Birthday collection.

I hope you will play along with this challenge, I am anxious to see all the different ways you come up with using neutrals for your birthday cards!  

I was just thinking...neutrals would tend to lend themselves to "masculine cards", but nope...nothing like frilly flowers for a girl!!

Happy Day friends!

MIM # 214 Stamping with Neutrals

Dawn has a really pretty card video over at the 

PTI Blog for another Make It Monday...

Stamping with Neutrals!

I stamped my background with Background Basics:  Tin types and then used a very tiny dot from Bold Bouquet for the little dot in the center.  I stamped the background with soft stone and the dot with dark chocolate stamped off once.

My flowers are from Frilly Flowers.

I used a sentiment from Keep it Simple:  Sympathy

I loved Dawn' background and now feel like I better buy that stamp!

Talk about enabling!!  * wink *

Heart Hugs

MIM # 204 Water color or "Smooshing"!

I think this is my fifth card with this technique!  Betsy makes it look so easy, but seriously some of my "smooshes" left a lot to be desired!  ha ha!  I do like this one a lot and I also incorporated the  "doodling" technique from the week before.

If you want to watch the video and play along, go  HERE and be inspired by Betsy!

 

Stamps:  Frilly Flowers, Keep it Simple: Thanking of you

inks:  summer sunrise, hibiscus burst, simply chartreuse

misc:  sequins from the Shaker Market Kit.

These are just a couple of the other ones I made using this smooshing technique.