regal repetition

It's another crafty Thursday for the Seize the Birthday team. Nancy has chosen repetitive die cuts and I *might* have bought this new die with this card in mind. ;) I must confess that I just LOVE how this turned out and sent to a good friend whose birthday was yesterday. (I did NOT love all of the gluing that was involved though - lol). The leaves are patterned paper and the colour on the petals is just some quickly brushed Distressed Oxide ink.  

Be sure to pop over to the blog to check the rest of the resplendent creations and give some love to our Surprise Party Guest Stephanie and previous winner Johanna.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

happiest of birthdays - 4¼" x 5½" 

Stamps: Sentiment from Paper Made Bakery

Ink: Distress Oxides Worn Lipstick & Mustard Seed, Versafine Black

Paper: cream, white and brown cardstock, SU! patterned paper

Accessories: Memory Box Magnolia Stem die

Lindsey's Legacy Hop

Welcome to those who've come from Tracey's blog....

Today, we are hopping in memory of our dear friend and fellow cardmaker, Lindsey Martin-Penny, who sadly passed away last year from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. 

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Lindsey’s husband Burke thought it would be a great time to sell off her many craft supplies, with all of the proceeds going towards Lindsey’s Legacy Fund for Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer Research in cooperation with The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

The purpose of this hop will be to honour Lindsey, celebrate her life and all that she loved, as well as help spread the word to raise funds for clear cell ovarian cancer research.  You can help in one of several ways!

1. Purchase a Flat Rate Mailer stuffed with loads of fabulous craft supplies.  These can only be mailed within Canada and there will be no tax receipts provided with the purchase of these boxes.  A box of craft supplies would make a great gift for yourself, a crafty friend or a child/classroom!  For details about the boxes and how you can go about purchasing one, please email lindseyslegacyfund@rogers.com with the message "Craft Box" or visit Lindsey’s original blog, Bashful Blogging.  Every craft box purchase in September will be entered into a draw and one lucky winner will win a $100 gift certificate to Scrap ‘n Stamp.

2. During the month of September, shop at Scrap ‘n Stamp using the code LINDSEY10 at checkout.  You will get 10% off your purchase (sale items excluded) and Scrap ‘n’ Stamp will donate 10% of their proceeds to Lindsey’s Legacy Fund.

3. Any donations over $15 made directly to Lindsey’s Legacy Fund will receive a digital tax receipt.

4. Repost this hop on your social media and encourage others to share!

Lindsey’s Legacy Hop begins at my wonderful friend Emily Leiphart’s blog.  If you get lost along the way, please return to Emily’s blog where she will have the entire hop list.

How to hop:

💙 Like and leave a comment at each stop

💙 Learn a little bit about Lindsey’s connection to that person

💙 Share this post and help us save lives

Emily introduced me to Lindsey as Lindsey would frequently travel to my neck of the woods to visit family.  I was so lucky to meet Lindsey and her husband Burke in person a few times and we stayed connected through crafting.  She also joined our Seize the Birthday design team.  She was such an amazing person and I feel luck to have known her.  We were known to have cocktails together when she was visiting so I made a cocktail card in her honour (and CASED one of hers). I miss her ... this hop makes me happy and sad too.

The next stop on the hop is the wonderful Carol. Please be sure to leave a comment at each of the stops where you can learn more about Lindsey’s life, loves and her legacy.

Thanks so much for hopping with us!

Glenda

p.s. I'm also hopping along as part of Color Hues so this is one of two posts today to honour Lindsey.

Color Hues - Lindsey's Legacy Hop

Hey crafty friends,

Today, I'm honoured to be joining a very special challenge with the team at Color Hues!  

In conjunction with their normal colour challenge, The Color Hues Design Team and a few guests (like me), from our sister challenge Seize the Birthday, are participating in a Blog Hop! 

Collectively as a team, we are hopping in memory of our dear friend, fellow card maker, and Design Team member, Lindsey Martin-Penny, who sadly passed away last year from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer.  

The purpose of this hop will be to honor Lindsey, celebrate her life and all that she loved, as well as spread the word to raise funds for Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer Research.  

How can you Help? You can find all the fabulous details and the start of the hop HERE!

In honor of Lindsey, the team has created a variety of cards using her favourite colour combo of Purple and Red. (I love these colours too!) Lindsey was a team mate but also a friend - was so fortunate to be able to meet her & her husband a few times in person. Miss her a lot.... I made a card in her honour that I know she'd appreciate.

Thanks so much for joining us!

Take care,
Glenda

p.s. This is one of two posts that I've done today in honour of Lindsey. Here's the other one.

fabulous fall

Welcome to September at Seize the Birthday.  Linda has chosen fall colours as our topping this week. Admittedly, fall is not my favourite season (summer lover here) but do love the colours that come with the season.  Normally I would do red, orange and yellow but decided to go a little non-traditional with this card. I was inspired by this card by Ardyth.

Be sure to head over to the blog to welcome our new Surprise Party Guest Stephanie - super excited to have her join us as I've admired her crafting for years! Also give some love to the fabulous creations that the rest of the team has created.

Another thing that I do like about fall is all the great produce - we are lucky to have lots of local growers close by where I live plus the wee bit I grow at home. Yum!

Have a terrific and a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

celebrate

Ink: Distress Oxides Villanous Potion, Ripe Persimmon, Ground Espresso and Mowed Lawn

Paper: white and brown card stock

Accessories: white paint, Tim Holtz Stencil, SU! celebrate die

marvelous music

Is anyone else finding it hard to believe it's the end of August?! This (Northern Hemisphere) summer seems to have flown by. I'm a summer lover so am hoping for the weather to stay nice as long as possible (although we definitely need some rain).

At Seize the Birthday this week, Jules has picked the theme make it musical.  I love listening to music and I know how to play a few instruments but I realize that my musical crafty supplies are not very plentiful. I found an SU! old set and used the bass clef (I wanted to use the treble clef too but just couldn't get it to work in the design). I did an Distress Oxide smoosh background, then penciled in the staff and then stamped the bass clef.  I was going to to go over the staff with a fine pen but I ended up liking how the pencil looked. After the card was done, I thought I should have separated birthday so it was more like how the Happy Birthday song goes. Oh well...

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the marvelous creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Izzy.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday to You - 5½" x 4¼"  

Stamps: Hero Arts (sentiment), SU! (bass clef)

Ink: Versafine Black, SU! Blackberry Bliss, Distress Oxide Stormy Sky

Paper: Distress Watercolour Stock, white card stock

Accessories: EK Success corner rounder punch, black dots, pencil

spectacular shapes

The latest challenge at Seize the Birthday is shape cards, courtesy of JoAnn. I pulled out my rarely used hexagon dies for this card. It's a great way to use an alcohol ink panel that was sitting around.

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the beautiful creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Izzy.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Best Wishes - 5" x 6"

Stamps: Paper Smooches

Ink: Ranger Alcohol Inks, SI Blackberry Bliss, Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers

Paper: white & black card stock, Yupo

Accessories: Hexagon dies

beautiful books

Hey crafty friends - it's my turn to host at Seize the Birthday! I'm a super avid reader and a book nerd so I picked the theme: be inspired by a book. Here's my creation - pretty happy with how it turned out.  I have to say that the blending looks better in the photo than in person (lol!).

This is the book I was inspired by.  It's a beautiful book cover and beautiful to read as well - I was lucky enough to receive it from a friend as a gift.

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the beautiful creations from the DT as well as our new Surprise Party Guest Izzy.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a beautiful day.

Glenda

Card details:

Sending Birthday Wishes - 4¼" x 5½"

Stamps: none!

Ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide inks

Paper: black & white card stock, Distress Heavy Stock

Accessories: Spellbinders hot foil plate & die (for sentiment), Memory Box die, white paint

celebratory circles

Welcome to our new circular challenge at Seize the Birthday! Our circle/circles theme this week is courtesy of Colleen.  Lots of Cs happening - Colleen's circle challenge - lol! My card this week was not an idea that I came up with on my own but it was inspired by Michelle Lupton.  Sometimes I have alcohol ink panels that don't work as a whole but they do well 'cut up'. Thanks so much for the idea Michelle and thanks for the challenge Colleen!

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the cool creations from the DT as well as our new Surprise Party Guest Izzy and previous winners Prudence & Andrea .

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Celebrate - 3½" x 8

Stamps: none!

Ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger alcohol inks

Paper: black & white card stock, Yupo

Accessories: Spellbinders hot foil plate & die (for sentiment), Tim Holtz die, circle punches

it's just a number

Happy Thursday craft friends.  I must confess that I'm writing this very last minute and I'm tired - I started a new job this week after being unemployed since February so just adjusting to my new schedule. Definitely been a bit of a hectic week but I'm excited about my new gig.

Our Seize the Birthday Challenge this week is all about number crunching courtesy of Cathy. I made a grungy watercolour background with some Distress Oxides and a bunch of random Unity Stamps (so fun to dig out a bunch of stamps I haven't used for a long time!). Age is die cut with black card stock and then I added Glossy Accents.  I don't think I will ever do that again - it was a very runny/messy process putting Glossy Accents on those letters (I swore a lot).

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the fabulous creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Bonnie. It's Bonnie's last challenge with us - thanks so much for all of your wonderful creations Bonnie!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Age - 4.25" x 5.5"

Stamps: Papertrey Ink (sentiment), Unity (background)

Ink: Versafine Black, Tim Holtz Distress Oxides, grey ink (can't remember which one!)

Paper: black card stock, watercolour paper

Accessories: washi tape, orange paint, Glossy Accents, Reverse Confetti letter dies

it's a banner day!

Barb has picked our challenge this week at Seize the Birthday - put your sentiment on a banner. I dug out a vintage Technique Tuesday stamp set which fit the challenge perfectly. I pulled out my sewing machine to stitch the pieces together. To make this process easier - I put all the pieces together on a long thin double sided tape and then ran them through the sewing machine. I put some glitter on some of the pieces but it's hard to see.  Really like how this turned out!

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the beautiful creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Bonnie and Wheels winner Denise.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

celebrate - 8 ½" x 3"

Stamps: Technique Tuesday

Ink: Catherine Pooler Designs

Paper: white and black card stock

Accessories: Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil, MS fine crystal glitter, sewing machine

make it pop!

The Seize the Birthday Challenge this week, courtesy of Ashwini, is make it pop! I popped up my die cut sentiment using some alcohol ink letters.

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the marvelous creations from the DT as well as our  Surprise Party Guest Bonnie and previous winners Lisa and Deepti.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4½" x 3¼"

Ink: Ranger Alcohol Ink

Paper: Yupo, white and black card stock

Accessories: MFT Happy Birthday Die, Sizzix Connect the Dots embossing folder

wonderful wheels

Our new challenge at Seize the Birthday, courtesy of Julie, is wheels. After much pondering, I went easy and CAS. I found ferris wheel patterned paper, inked the edges, foiled the sentiment and added some sequins.  I'm really happy with how it turned out - hope you like it too. Thanks for the challenge Julie!

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the wonderful creations from the DT as well as our new Surprise Party Guest Bonnie and our winner Alcohol winner Carol. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

Birthday Wishes - 5½" x 5⅜ "

Ink: Distress Ink - Hickory Smoke (patterned paper edges)

Paper: cream card stock, SU! patterned paper

Accessories: Spellbinders Hot Foil plate (sentiments), sequins, gold foil

bursting with balloons

Hey crafty friends! Hope you're enjoying spring or fall where you are. We might FINALLY be getting some warm temperatures here soon - can't wait. There is a joke that Canadians' favourite pastime is talking about the weather... I'm definitely feeling that lately.

This week at Seize the Birthday we are playing with balloons, courtesy of Vicki.  I had many iterations of balloon cards (that look nothing like these) before I settled on the first one. Then I was hunting through some stamps when I across a hot air balloon stamp that I had never used before so decided to make another one. Also found some patterned paper that I had been hoarding (surprise surprise) that suited the balloon well. The patterned paper is sparkly but it's hard to see. One sassy and one whimsical - do you have a favourite?

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the beautiful creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Hilary and our Things in a Garden winner Claire. This is Hilary's last challenge with us - thank you so much for all of your fabulous creations!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a terrific day! Always appreciate your comments.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

Woo freakin' Hoo - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Taylored Expressions (cat and sentiment), Hero Arts (background)

Ink: VersaMark, Versafine Claire Nocturne, Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks (for watercolour)

Paper: green and white card stock, Tim Holtz Distress White watercolour paper

Accessories: Glossy Accents, Tim Holtz water brush, MFT stitched rectangle dies, clear embossing powder

Happy Birthday - 5.5"x4.25"

Stamps: Unity (balloon), A Muse (sentiment)

Ink: Versafine Claire Nocturne, Versafine Black, Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks (for watercolour)

Paper: grey card stock, Tim Holtz Distress White watercolour paper, American Crafts patterned paper (retired)

Accessories: MFT stitched rectangle dies, clear embossing powder, Trinity Stamps bling, Tim Holtz water brush

drinks & inks

Happy April everyone! Hope all is well. Here on the west coast of Canada it is mostly feeling/looking like spring although I would always be happy with warmer temperatures.

Our topping at Seize the Birthday this week is alcohol, courtesy of Shirley - this can be alcohol inks or alcohol images or both! I did both :). I've used these dies a lot - thought they were perfect for this challenge.  The embossing folder is a relatively new acquisition for me and I quite like it. This is also one of those cards that is a random size - I sized the card to fit the design, rather than other way around.

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the awesome creations from the DT as well as our Surprise Party Guest Hilary.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a terrific day! Always appreciate your comments.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

Cheers - 6.25"x4"

Stamps: none!

Ink: Ranger Alcohol Inks

Paper: green and white card stock, Yupo paper

Accessories: Hero Arts Martini Glass die, Paper Smooches Cheers die, silver foil, Tim Holtz Dotted Embossing Folder

glorious garden

Happy Thursday crafty friends! Hope you're having a great week so far.

At Seize the Birthday, our fearless leader Nancy has pick the theme of things in the garden. I recently got this ginkgo leaf stencil and I'm loving it.  I figure there could be ginkgo leaves the garden ... hopefully Nancy agrees.  I just did random blending with a few different Distress Oxide inks and I love how it turned out - CAS but striking.

Hope you can play along with us! Check out the blog for the rest of the glorious creations from the DT as well as our new Surprise Party Guest Hilary and the overall winner from our red, white & another colour, Anagha.

Thanks for stopping by! Always appreciate your comments.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

Hope your day is magical - 5.25"x5.75"

Stamps: Ellen Hutson/Julie Ebersole Totally Random Sayings Volume 2

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxide inks

Paper: grey and white card stock

Accessories: Trinity Stamps bling, Taylored Expressions blender brushes, TCW ginkgo leaf stencil