more red & white

I love the current Colour Hues challenge so much that I've made another one! I also haven't used this new Spellbinders die set very much so thought I would use it for this CAS card. Really quick and easy but I love how it turned out.

Wishing you a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead.

Thanks for stopping by,
Glenda

Card details:

a little note - 4 ½ x 4 ½ 

Stamps: A Muse (sentiment), Taylored Expressions Field Notes (background grid)

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxide Lost Shadow (stamped off twice)

Paper: white, black & red card stock

Accessories: Spellbinders Push Pin Die Set

birthday cheers

Welcome to July crafty friends! It's summer here which means you'll frequently find me outside with some delicious food and cold beverages.  So at Seize the Birthday this week, I've chosen food &/or drink for the topping.  No surprise that I've "poured" myself a martini for this card.  I have so many cocktail stamps and dies so thought I would make use of them. It's a little hard to see but I used an embossing folder on the martini class.

Wanted to extend a warm welcome to our new Surprise Party Guest Karen Letchworth, and our previous winner Julia Aston. Be sure to see the rest of the delicious and refreshing creations over at the blog. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

cheers - 4 ¼ x 5 ½ 

Paper: black, white, blue, green and red cardstock

Accessories: Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System, Spellbinders Confetti hot foil plate, silver foil, Hero Arts Martini dies, Paper Smooches cheers die, embossing folder

TCH #113 - red & white

Happy Monday crafty friends! Over at Colour Hues, they are doing red & white!  Couldn't resist as red is my favourite colour (and it's in honour of Canada Day).  Thanks Tracey!

I used just part of this die (a little more challenging that expected) but I like how it turned out.  I blended some Distress Oxide on a piece of paper and then die cut it.

Hope you're having a great July so far. See you back here on Thursday for the latest Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Have a great week,

Glenda

Card details:

all the hugs - 4 ¼ x 5 ½ 

Stamps: Waffeflower Sweet Lattice

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxide Candied Apple

Paper: white card stock

Accessories: Impression Obsession Floral Background die, white pearls

swanky sihouettes

Welcome to Seize the Birthday crafty friends.  Cathy has chosen silhouettes for our topping this week. I was a little stumped on this one but I was looking through some of my stash and found this background. I thought it would go well with one of these funky flowers. I snuck a little heart in between the happy and birthday - it blends in a bit but thought it was a fun accent.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner Chris. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the swanky creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner Rachel. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday

Stamps: Trinity Stamps

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxides

Paper: watercolour paper, black & green card stock

Accessories: Tim Holtz/Sizzix die, washi tape, enamel heart, sparkly spray mist (for splatter - don't remember the brand)

fancy folds

Welcome to June crafty friends!  Hope all is well in your world.

Barbara has challenged us to make a fancy fold card this week at Seize the Birthday.  Full confession - this is the third card I made for this challenge (I photographed both of the others and decided that they were just meh). I ended up being happy with this vertical easel card. This is a great 'bang for your buck' card and the tutorial for it is here.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner Chris. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

I'm also entering this in to the latest colour challenge at our sister challenge Color Hues. I really love this colour combo (and just as an FYI - coral is different than pink ;) ).

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

best wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches

Ink: Versafine Black

Paper: white & coral card stock, sage designer paper

Accessories: Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder

fabulous frames

Welcome crafty friends! Ashwini is hosting this week and has chosen frames as the topping for us this week at Seize the Birthday. I thought these underwater tunnel dies from Spellbinders would make a perfect frame. This card was also a great way to use up a bunch of scraps for the coral, fish & seagrass. 

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the fantastic creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner, the wonderful Carol! Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Ink: Versafine Black

Paper: white card stock, vellum, scraps of patterned & glitter paper

Accessories: Spellbinders Underwater Tunnel and Marine Life dies

fantastic flowers

Happy May crafty friends! Hope this month is treating you well so far. Nancy is hosting our flowers topping for us this week at Seize the Birthday. I bought this gorgeous foil plate in January and my first try with it ended up as this card! I have made several others like this - foil on patterned paper with a simple sentiment. Definitely a winner design in my mind.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the stunning creations from the rest of the team, our new Surprise Party Guest Wanda Cullen (welcome!) and previous winner Tracy! Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Ink: Versafine Black

Paper: SU! Real Red & Very Vanilla card stock, typed pattern paper

Accessories: Spellbinders Hot Foil system, Glimmering Peonies Glimmer Plate and red foil;  SU! Word Window punch

stunning stencils

Hey crafty friends!  So hard to believe that it's getting towards the end of April.  Spring has arrived here on the west coast of Canada... I'm just hoping it sticks around.  Gotta' hate 'fake spring' - lol!

Shirley has picked stencils as the topping for us this week at Seize the Birthday.  I used a new-to-me stencil from Lavinia (with 2 different white inks) and also a new-to-me Spellbinders foil plate (shout out to my local-ish craft store - Crafty Capers - where a purchased these). Confession: I made a card for this challenge back in January but looked at it earlier this week and thought "uh nope". Haha. I'm not sure if this counts as 'bokeh'? Oh well, even if not, pretty happy with how this turned out.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the stunning creations from the rest of the team, our Surprise Party Guest Leslie and previous winner Claire! Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but I think the "challenge-chooser" gets an extra warm fuzzy when you do (I know I do!).

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

birthday wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: none!

Ink: Hero Arts Unicorn pigment ink, Memories white

Paper: white & green card stock, vellum 

Accessories: Lavinia white orb stencil, Spellbinders Curved Everyday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die plus matte gold foil, stitched circle die, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

lovely layers

Welcome to April at Seize the Birthday! Nancy has picked "layer it" as the topping this week. I'm always afraid that I'm going to overdue it when it comes to layers and it's going to get too cluttered ... so I just decided to dive into head first and embrace it. I love these cone flower dies so did four of them!

Be sure to check out the blog to gift some crafty love to the rest of the design team, our Surprise Party Guest, Leslie, and previous winner, Nance. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

beautiful birthday - 5.5"x5.5"

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Versafine black

Paper: yellow, black and kraft card stock, 

Accessories: Honey Bee Stamps Cone Flower dies

big birthday

Happy crafty Thursday friends! Jenny has picked 'milestone birthday' for our Seize the Birthday challenge this week. I have a set of chipboard map letters/numbers that I thought would be fun to use for this card. I tend to hoard collect travel themed stuff so found some map paper to layer in behind. I have friends everywhere from 30 to 70+ so picked the middle - figuring that someone's 50th birthday would likely come up eventually - lol.

Be sure to check out the blog to gift some crafty love to the rest of the design team, our Surprise Party Guest, Leslie, and previous winner, Renate.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

adventure awaits - 4.25"x4.25"

Stamps: Spellbinders (sentiments), A Muse (th)

Ink: Versafine black

Paper: cream, black and kraft card stock, patterned paper (can't remember the manufacturer)

Accessories: American Crafts map numbers, Prism Studio stitched square die cuts

anything that flies

Hey crafty friends... welcome to March at Seize the Birthday! Our first challenge of the month is anything that flies courtesy of Linda. I was thinking a little differently and went with airplanes. I never seem to have enough belated birthday cards and it's good to have some on hand. This layout is a Case from this card from the wonderful Kristie Goulet.

Please head over to the blog to welcome our new surprise party guest Leslie Miller and previous winner GerJanne. Be sure to give some crafty love to the rest of the design team too.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

belated birthday wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches

Ink: Versa fine black

Paper: white and blue cardstock, patterned paper (can't remember the manufacturer)

Accessories: ScorBuddy, black gems, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

stamp free

Today Jules has a super fun challenge for us at Seize the Birthday - no stamping!  I feel like I can do no stamping without thinking about it but when I have to think about it - feels like way more pressure (LOL). I decided to just focus on the sentiment and pull out some alcohol inks.

Hope you can join us! Please be sure to check out the blog and give some crafty love to our Surprise Party Guest Amanda and previous winner Chris.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Always appreciate your comments.

Have a wonderful day,

Glenda

Card details:

Celebrate You - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: None!

Ink: Ranger alcohol inks

Paper: white & black card stock, 

Accessories: gems, SU! dies, Provocraft embossing folder

birthday heart

It's JoAnn's turn to pick the topping at Seize the Birthday and she wants us to add at heart to our card. I have a couple on mine.  The hearts are both dark purple but as usual, it's hard to photograph.

Be sure to check out the blog for the rest of the lovely designs from the rest of the Design Team as well as our Surprise Party Guest Amanda and previous winner Julia.

Hope you have a terrific day.

Take care and thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

Birthday Love- 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: CZ Designs

Ink: SU! Blackberry, Versafine black

Paper: white & black card stock, SU! Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: gem, Tim Holtz/Sizzix heart die, embossing folder

color hues: red & pink

Happy February! I just got back from a crafty retreat with my friends - so nice to just chill and craft for a few days. Decided to play along with Color Hues again... I struggle with pink but thought I would give it a shot. Thanks to Tracey for challenging me! In love with these dies so decided to use them again. 

Edited to add (thanks Carol!) - also joining in for the Inkspirational Challenge (also red & pink).

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

wishing you happiness - 4.25"x4.25"

Stamps: Stampin' Up

Ink: SU! Real Red, 

Paper: white & black card stock, SU! Real Red and Pretty in Pink

Accessories: enamel dots, Spellbinders Fresh Picked Anemones dies

red & kraft

Lucky me!  It's my turn to pick the topping at Seize the Birthday and no surprise, it incorporates red! Our topping is red & kraft. The other exciting part of today is we have a new design team member, Jenny Martin!  So excited to have her join us. Welcome Jenny!

Red is my favourite colour and red & kraft is one of my favourite colour combo.  I recently got these new dies and they suited the colour combo well. I inked up the 'behind' section so it would look a little darker.

Be sure to check out the blog for the rest of the radiant designs from the rest of the Design Team as well as our Surprise Party Guest Amanda.

Hope you have a terrific day.

Take care and thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU! Real Red, Distress Ink Aged Mahogany

Paper: white & black card stock, SU! Real Red card stock

Accessories: black enamel dots, Spellbinders Fresh Picked Anemones