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 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!
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!
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.
Happy Thursday crafty friends. So hard to believe it's mid August! Where is my summer going?!?! I'm a such a summer person - it's my birthday time, I love the warm weather & being outside, I love cold drinks on the patio and fresh produce.
Jules has picked no flowers as our topping at Seize the Birthday. I love this topping as I'm a guilty as the next person at defaulting to flowers... but it's really not that hard not to use flowers. I chose a to do a CAS card with some rich colours and using a new stencil. This stencil reminds me of RADAR, so using the 'sending' sentiment was appropriate because it makes me think of transmitting wishes, like RADAR transmits radio waves. OMG - I'm such a nerd. Sending this off to a special person, along with a book, for their birthday next week.
Happy challenge day crafty friends! Lucky me - it's my turn to pick the topping at Seize the Birthday. I was trying to be creative so I came up with a tic tac toe board. Pick a straight line in any direction (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) and incorporate those three things on your card.
Happy June crafty friends! We have a fun challenge at Seize the Birthday this week thanks to Barbara. It's double stencilling... I was nervous to try it (because I hadn't done it before) but it ended up turning out really well. If you want a demo, check out this video. I realized that a more open stencil was best underneath and a smaller/finer/more detailed one was best over top. The bottom stencil is from the Hero Arts Petals duo and the upper one is Tim Holtz Splash.
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.
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.
It's time for another Seize the Birthday challenge! This week it's all about stencils thanks to Vicki. I definitely do not have a shortage of stencils and managed to use five on this card. The one that is a little tricky to see is the stars - I did it with white ink (it's easier to see IRL). There's a little glimpse of it in the upper right corner against the black bubbles. I had a lot of fun with this as I dug out some paste and some glitter too.
Welcome to another challenge over at Seize the Birthday. Cathy has chosen stencils this week. I definitely have a bit of a stencil habit so the hard part was picking one. I went with something simple to let the flower pop. Really like how this turned out. One embarrassing thing about this card? I've mailed it already so I can't remember what I used to watercolour the flower - Distress Inks or pencils. I suspect it was inks unless I was particularly thorough at blending out my pencil marks. Oops!
Hope you have a terrific day and a wonderful weekend!
I'm thrilled that I'm able to play along with Color Hues Challenge! It's not really a matter of time - it's a matter of me just getting organized to photograph the card and do the post. I seem to be very good at getting the card done but missing the deadline. I was so determined to get a card done for this challenge that I am doing one that involves pink (and you know how I feel about pink).
I'm currently pretending there isn't a week left in October... how did it go by so fast? We are playing with textures over at Seize the Birthday - thanks to Shirley for the terrific challenge! It took me a few tries to get one that I liked... and I'm still not positive I love this one! However, I got a second opinion from Lindsey and she assures me it's fine. ;)
