very vellum

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.

Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to stop by the blog to give some crafty love to the design team, our Surprise Party guest Kathy and previous winner Kerry.

Hope you have a terrific day and wonderful day.

Thanks for stopping,

Glenda

Card details:

just for due -  4½" x 5 ¼"   

Stamps: AlteNew

Paper: navy & white card stock, yellow patterned

Ink: SU! Night of Navy

Accessories: Lawn Fawn dies, gems, vellum

sweet treat

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.

Hope you can play along with us! Please check out the blog give some craft love to Surprise Party Guest Kathy, previous winner Stef, and the rest of the design team.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting,

Glenda

Card details:

sweetest day -  4½" x 5 ¼"   

Stamp: Unity

Paper: cream, espresso and kraft card stock

Ink: Distress Vintage Photo

Accessories: Spellbinders dies

cute critters

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.

Hope you can play along with us! Please check out the blog and welcome our new Surprise Party Guest Kathy Schweinfurth and previous winner Tracey.  Also give some crafty love to the rest of the design team.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting,

Glenda

Card details:

celebrate -  5 ¼" x 4½"  

Stamp: Paper Smooches

Paper: green, blue & white card stock, green & blue shimmer paper, sparkle paper, scrap patterned paper

Ink: Versafine Black 

Accessories: Spellbinders dies

gorgeous gardens

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.

Be sure to head over to the blog to see the glorious creations from our Surprise Party Guest Jennie M, previous winner Bonnie, and the rest of the design team.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

for you - 4½" x 5 ¼" 

Stamp: Paper Smooches

Paper: orange, pink, blue & green card stock

Ink: Versafine Black 

Accessories: Spellbinders dies

terrific tags

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.

Be sure to head over to the blog to give some crafty love to our Surprise Party Guest Jennie M, previous winner Leslie Miller, and the rest of the design team.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

best wishes - 4½" x 5¼" 

Stamp: Spellbinders

Paper: kraft & green card stock, graph paper

Ink: Versafine Black & Versamark

Accessories: tag die, SU! circle scribble die, ribbon & twine, enamel heart

glorious green

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.

Be sure to head over to the blog to give some crafty love to our new Surprised Party Guest for March and April, Jennie M (welcome Jennie!), previous winner Valerie (congrats on winning my challenge!) and the rest of the design team.

I'm also entering this into our sister challenge, The Color Hues Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

celebrate - 3⅛" x 5 ⅜"

Stamp: Spellbinders

Paper: Yupo, white and green cardstock

Ink: Ranger Alcohol Ink Limeade, Versafine Black

Accessories: Tim Holtz/Sizzix Artsy Leaves dies, gold marker, ProvoCraft embossing folder

wonderful wings

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?

Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to check the blog to see what our Surprise Party Guest, Helen, previous winner, and the rest of the design team came up with! This is Helen's last week with us - thank you so much Helen for your wonderful creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Always appreciate the comments,

Glenda

Card details:

new day, new adventures - 5½ x 4¼

Stamps: Spellbinders (sentiment), SU! (image)

Paper: white & yellow card stock, patterned paper

Ink: Distress Oxide Broken China

Accessories: Tombow marker, enamel dot

CAS + dies

It's the first challenge in February for Seize the Birthday and it's my turn to pick the challenge.  If you visit me a lot, you know one of my favourite styles is clean and simple (CAS). I decided to spice up the CAS topping by adding dies. Used some abstract shape dies and one of my favourite colour combos for my card.  Hope you like it!

Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to check the blog to see what our Surprise Party Guest, Helen, previous winner Valerie, and the rest of the design team came up with!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Always appreciate the comments,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4¼ x 4¼

Stamps: Ellen Hutson/Julie Ebersole Totally Random Saying Vol. 3

Paper: white, red, kraft and black cardstock

Ink: Versafine Black

Accessories: Swiss Dots embossing folder, Tim Holtz Abstract Elements dies

radiant rainbows

Happy Thursday crafty friends! Hope 2026 is treating you well so far. Cathy has picked rainbow of colours for our Seize the Birthday challenge this week.  I love colour and putting together a rainbow always puts a smile on my face. I know this doesn't technically say birthday on it but I know I would love a glittery bag of rainbows & unicorn farts on my birthday!

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see the fantastic from our Surprise Party Guest Helen and the rest of the team.

Wishing you a terrific day and wonderful upcoming weekend.

Thanks for stopping by, always appreciate it.

Glenda

Card details:

Rainbows & Unicorn Farts

Stamps: Unicorns ‘N Rainbows By Julie Ebersole, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps

Paper: white and black cardstock

Ink: Versafine Black, Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxides

Accessories: TCW Cosmic Swirl stencil, Prism stitched rectangle die, gems

sparkly snowflakes

Happy 2026 craft friends!  I'm a bit late joining the team for Seize the Birthday this week... hopefully that's not how the rest of my year is going to go!

Barbara has chosen the topping "make your own snowflake background" for us.  I'm happy to say that I haven't seen a significant amount of snowflakes around here this year yet! Fingers crossed snowflakes stay in the background here.  I went CAS with my card this week - just some snowflake dies with sparkly paper and a simple sentiment. This is definitely one of those cards that looks better in person than in the photo!

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see what the rest of the team came up with and give a welcome to our new Surprise Party Guest Helen and previous winner Stephanie.

Wishing you all the best for 2026!

Thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

Have a Cozy Birthday  - 4 ¼ "x 5 ½"

Stamps: Altenew Hellow Winter

Paper: white and blue cardstock, sparkle paper

Ink: Versafine Black, SU! Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: red pearl, Spellbinders snowflake dies

Christmas supplies?!

It's our last challenge of the 2025 at Seize the Birthday and Ashwini has challenged us to use Christmas supplies. It's a doozy for me! My creative brain only wants to use Christmas supplies for Christmas cards - lol. So I had to make it easy on myself - sorry Ashwini! I grabbed a Christmas stencil that is easily used for other occasions and made a CAS, single layer card.

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see what fabulous creations the design team, our Surprise Party Guest Johanna, and previous winner Liz, have come up with!

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend. It's been a fun year and I look forward to what we create for Seize the Birthday in 2026!

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday  - 3"x 6"

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: kraft card stock

Ink: Versafine Balck, Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Ink Antique Linen (edge), white pigment ink

Accessories: red pearls, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Sparkle Fade stencil, EK Success corner rounder punch

twist on a treat

Nance (happy birthday to you!) has chosen Favourite Fall Treat for the Seize the Birthday topping this week. I'm taking a slightly differently take on this! I'm in a lot of denial about fall because I am 100% a summer person... but one of my favourite things to do in autumn is to walk and kick my feet through big piles of leaves. So that is my favourite fall treat ... I have to find something positive about autumn! I used my Artsy Leaves dies with some smooshed Distress Inks for this leafy card.

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see what fabulous creations the design team, our Surprise Party Guest Johanna, and previous winner Stephanie, have come up with!

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 to You - 4.25"x 5.5"

Stamps: Waffleflower Sweet Lattice

Paper: watercolour paper, white card stock

Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip, Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Inks

Accessories: Tim Holtz/Sizzix Artsy Leaves

splish splash

Happy Thursday crafty friends and welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge! Shirley has chosen splish splash for our challenge! I feel like you could have a variety of interpretations of this - rain theme, ocean theme, watercolouring (which has a lot of options itself)... No surprise that I chose an ocean theme.  I used some Distress Mica Spray with a stencil to make my ocean background.

Hope you can join us for this fun challenge! Be sure to hop over to the blog to see the other excellent creations by the rest of the team and Surprise Party Guest, Johanna Rundell,

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:

Oceans of Joy - 3.75" x 6"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Paper: watercolour paper, shimmer green, white, black & orange cardstock, scrap of yellow patterned paper

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Mica spray

Accessories: Spellbinders Underwater Tunnel and Marine Life dies, Tim Holtz stencil, enamel dots

stencilling CAS

It's our fearless leader Nancy's turn to pick the topping at Seize the Birthday this week!  She is a woman after my own heart by picking CAS & stencilling. I love both and I love how this card turned out.  I have used this design a lot lately, in a variety of ways, to pull together quickie, 5 minute cards.

Hope you can join us for this fun challenge! Be sure to hop over to the blog to see the other excellent creations by the rest of the team and welcome our  Surprise Party Guest, Johanna Rundell, and previous winners Milla and Bonnie.

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 - 4¼" x 5½"

Stamps: CZ Designs

Paper: white and black card stock

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn

Accessories: enamel dot, Tim Holtz/Sizzix Thinlits Artsy Flowers, Simon Says Stamp stencil, EK Success corner rounder and washi tape

extraordinary embossing

It's September... so hard to believe! I'm not ready to let go of summer yet so I'll be wearing my sandals and skirts for as long as I can ... I'm laughing because it is a running joke here in Canada that we talk about the weather A LOT! 

This week Jenny has picked embossing for the Seize the Birthday topping. It may be hard to see but I've used a Swiss dots embossing folder for the sections on this.  I got this fabulous die set recently and it was the best way I could figure out to incorporate embossing.

Hope you can join us for this fun challenge! Be sure to hop over to the blog to see the other excellent creations by the rest of the team and welcome our new Surprise Party Guest, Johanna Rundell, and previous winner Rachel.

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:

You Make a Year Older Look Fabulous - 5" x 5"

Stamps: MFT Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings 2

Paper: white & gray card stock

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxides

Accessories: enamel dots, ProvoCraft Swiss Dots embossing folder, Spellbinders Reel Color dies