gorgeous green

Welcome to March crafty friends! It's heavy birthday months like this when I'm happy that I'm on a birthday card challenge design team. ;)  We have a challenge this week that is perfect for those of us who are wishing for spring to arrive... it's basically here for us so we are pretty lucky.

The challenge for Seize the Birthday this week (courtesy of Vicky) is touch of green. I love 'splash' challenges and green is an easy one for me.  I ended up doing two cards - couldn't decide which one to post so have added them both!

This first one has green in the centre of the leaves (coloured with a Copic) but it may be hard to see. There are also tiny pearls in the centre of some of the flowers.

The second one came together at the crafty retreat I went to at the end of January. A friend has these poppy dies and I kind of went wild with them.  I used the negative of the poppy die and really like the effect. It's also stamp free! I used to be surprised when I didn't stamp on a card but not any more - it's fun when a card comes together without any stamping.

Hope you can join us for this challenge! Check out the blog for the rest of the glorious green creations from the team and give a warm welcome to Stef Perry, our Surprise Party Guest for the next couple of months!

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

Glenda

Card details:
Happy Birthday- 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: PTI
Ink: Versafine Black
Paper: black cardstock, SU! Peaceful Poppies patterned paper (green) and Golden Honey patterned paper (floral)
Accessories: EK Success corner rounder punch, rectangle slot punch, A Muse ribbon & pearls, Copic marker

celebrate - 4.25"x5.5"
Paper: white cardstock, SU! LIime
Accessories: SU! poppy die & celebrate die

floral CAS

Happy Thursday crafters!  I'm always amazing how quickly two weeks fly... here we are again with another Seize the Birthday challenge.  It's 'anything goes' this week... I made this one at my crafty retreat last month.  Really loving this colour (of course) so you may see it pop up fairly regularly here.... stayed pretty clean and simple with it.  I used a blender pen for some tonal variation and decided to go out of the lines to go along with the doodle flowers. Hope you like it!

Be sure to stop by the blog for all the rules & regs and to give some crafty love to our Surprise Party Guest Julie and the rest of the team.  

Thanks so much for stopping by...hope you have a terrific day and a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:
Happy Birthday - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: Papertrey Ink (sentiment) & Stampin' Up! (flowers)
Ink: Versafine Black, SU! Merry Merlot
Paper: SU! glimmer paper and Merry Merlot
Accessories: SU! enamel dots, blender pen

Playing with colour

I love bright colours and Color Throwdown has a bright & cheerful colour combination this week.  Kept it pretty CAS with this card.  Really like how this turned out.  May have to play around with this layout using some different colour combinations.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: Versamark

Paper: white, black, yellow & green card stock, Simple Stories Sn@p Color Vibe blue polka dot paper

Accessories: Stampin' Up! Swirly Scribble dies, Stampin' Up! enamel dots, Stampin' Up! black fine wire, washi tape, Tim Holtz tiny fastener

Splash of red

Happy Thursday crafters!  It's colour splash time at Seize the Birthday - black, white and one other colour.  Predictably, I've chosen red. ;)  

Colour splash is our option/topping this week - as always, birthday has to be the main theme of the card.  The rest of the challenge rules can be found over at the blog.  Be sure to drop by and give some love to the rest of the design team too.

Be sure to check out my new Instagram account just for my crafty stuff! 

Always appreciate you stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful weekend.
Glenda

Card details:
happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"
Paper: white, black & red card stock
Accessories: Lawn Fawn happy birthday die, SU! scalloped tag topper punch, Cuttlebug chicken wire embossing folder, SU! Swirly Scribble dies - flower & leaves, black baker's twine
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