Happy Thursday crafty friends. Our topping this week, courtesy of Jules, is adding a sentiment strip. I do love sentiment strips and don't use them often enough. I pulled out my hot foiling machine and pulled together this CAS card.
Happy crafty Thursday friends. Can someone tell me how it came to be the end of August?!? Wasn't it just May?
Thanks for stopping by for our Seize the Birthday Challenge. JoAnn has asked us this week to just use dies, no stamping. Well, I just got this new Waffleflower Happy Submarine die set as a gift from a friend so thought it was a great time to use it. I don't have a lot of word dies for birthdays (not sure why) but thought this celebrate worked well.
Happy Thursday crafty friends. It's funny/punny time at Seize the Birthday. Thanks to Jenny for this topping! I'm not really a punny person and for some strange reason I don't have many funny sentiments either (really should remedy that!) but I managed to pull together this colourful card. I do love a cocktail so finding some drink dies was definitely not a problem!
Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to stop by the blog to see the fun creations from our design team and welcome our Surprise Party guest Lynda and previous winner Cassandra.
I seem to decide to play along with Colour Hues when it's a colour combination that I hardly ever put together! Maybe it's my subconscious telling me I need to get out of my comfort zone! LOL. I do love how these colours came together - thank you Karen for the challenge.
Used some Distress Oxide inks on the stencil and then a hot foiled sentiment. The enamel dots are navy (even though they look black in the picture).
Happy challenge day crafters! It's my turn to pick the topping at Seize the Birthday and was trying to think "not too difficult but a little bit different. So, I went with two things that I really like but don't do often - a square card and a non-white card base. Even though I love kraft card bases, I hardly ever do them so I did two of them for the challenge.
Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to stop by the blog to see the spectacular creations from our design team and welcome our Surprise Party guest Lynda and previous winner Rachel.
Happy Thursday crafty friends! Hope you're having a good week.
The topping this week at Seize the Birthday is numbers (one or several) courtesy of . I have been clinging to this piece of patterned paper FOREVER and finally broke down and used it. I just love the font of the numbers.
Happy Thursday crafty friends! Hope you're having a good week.
The topping this week at Seize the Birthday is blue, pink and yellow, courtesy of Barbara. I like how when they blend together, it gives you a rainbow (learned this from my super smart & crafty friend Jenn Shurkus). Kept this CAS to let the colours shine!
Hey crafty friends and happy official summer to those in the northern hemisphere! Just a quick hello to go along with this yellow and black card for Color Hues #135. Went clean, simple and bold for this one. I always want to be bold when I put black and yellow together - lol. I really like tone on tone but it's not always easy to see in photos.
Happy Thursday crafty friends! Hope you're having a good week.
The topping this week at Seize the Birthday is vellum or acetate. I have a new daisy chain die from Lawn Fawn and I thought I would layer some vellum daisies on top of the white daisies. A bit hard to see but it looks cool in person.
Shirley has chosen Sweet Treats for our Seize the Birthday challenge this week. I love this martini die but I've never used it to make an espresso martini so thought it would be a good time to use it - I definitely think of espresso martinis as dessert! The tone on tone cream looks better in real life - especially like it with the embossing in the background.
Hey crafty friends! Apologies for missing the last challenge and for not commenting over the last while - had a card done (really!... most people know I'd happily skip a pink card) but life happened. Happy to be back.
Nance has chosen Feature an Animal for our Seize the Birthday challenge this week. I've had this turtle for a while but not sure I've ever used it, so i thought it was time.
Happy Thursday crafty friends. Linda has picked our Seize the Birthday topping for this week and she wants us to make a spring garden. I decided to go big & bold with my flowers. I'm really happy with how the green background makes the pink & orange flowers pop.
Happy Thursday crafty friends. Jules has picked our Seize the Birthday topping for this week and she wants us to use a tag. I just wanted to use a bunch of fun little bits ... and this is what I came up with. The card base looked a little bare so added a splotchy stamp with Versamark ink. I seem to have trouble putting a tag on a card that is straight up and down... always has to be at an angle. lol.
Happy Thursday crafty friends. JoAnn has picked our Seize the Birthday topping for this week and it is Use Green as Your Main Colour. Green is one of my faves so really enjoyed this JoAnn. (Full confession - this is my second card for this challenge. Wasn't completely happy with the first one - lol). Got out my long neglected alcohol inks, put on a wee bit of gold and this is how it turned out. There is a close up just to see the gold on the edge and the texture on the leaf.
Thanks again to all of those who play along with my CAS+dies topping last time at Seize the Birthday. It was a wonderful gallery!
Sticking to a CAS mode again this week for Jenny's anything with wings challenge. I love travelling so 'wings' always makes me think of flying, hence the airplane! I used some patterned paper for the background and just coloured in the hearts. Edged the white panel with some of the blue ink just to make it stand out a bit better. Figure this sentiment would suit well for a birthday... what do you think?
