Kraft & Red for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Glenda has chosen a colour theme for us.

Or play along with our anything goes birthday theme and build up your birthday stash.

We have a new team member joining us, welcome Jenny!

 Looking forward to seeing your lovely cards.

Our party guest Amanda and my team mates have some wonderful inspiration for you so I hope to see you in the gallery.

I pulled out my packs of kraft card and found a range of colours, from light kraft right through to a very dark one! I used the more traditional kraft for the card front and a lighter one for some of the stars.

I added a range of reds for the other stars.

The inlaying of the stars took a while but was fun. I diecut the star panel in each of the colours so will have enough stars for a few of these cards!

 The hardest thing was trying to get the card base curved to match the rounded edges of the starry card front...hmmm. (My corner punch only manages lightweight card or paper.)

I diecut the top layer of the sentiment from glossy black card for a bit of shine.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Unicorn Challenge, birthdays

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Both the rounded star panel and the sentiment are from my stash of unused goodies!

Supplies:

Waffle Flower rounded star panel die; Creative Expressions birthday wishes mini shadowed sentiment die; scrap of black gloss card.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Something new for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

It's time for us to start off the year with our Seize the Birthday challenges again and I am the host for this first one in 2025.

I thought it would be good to use some new goodies - I'm hoping to use more of my existing stash this year!!

Or play along with our anything goes challenge to add to your birthday card stash.

Our party guests Amanda, Valerie, Denise and my team mates have loads of inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

I made this card for my sister's birthday.

She's a fan of roses and red so hopefully she likes it!

The die is new to me from Memory Box. I added ink to the rose base with a finger dauber and the background is designer paper. Love it on the hammered card base.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

AAA Cards, without the optional twist

Double D, congrats on your 9th birthday!

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Monday, something new.

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box scribble rose trio & background; Spellbinders standard circles; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: Craft Consortium ink drops rose designer paper; picked raspberry distress ink; Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Thanks with artsy leaves and spray stains.

 

Hi everyone, I hope your festive season was a happy one.

We spent the time resting up at home. Sometimes that's what's needed! I'm on holidays from work for a few more weeks, so looking forward to more of the same with some card making thrown in!

Always a bit late to the party with new goodies, this Sizzix Artsy Leaves die was a Christmas present to myself. I had some scraps left over from projects using distress spray stains and managed to diecut quite a few of the leaves.

I sprayed the leaves with some gold glimmer mist to tie the look together, it's a bit hard to see in the photo, but they have a lovely subtle shimmer.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

The Male Room

Simon Says Stamp Monday, something new

Moving Along With the Times, Thank you

Mix it Up Challenge Blog, playing along with the anything goes option

AAA Cards, playing along with the anything CAS goes option

Supplies:

Dies: Sizzix artsy leaves; Birch Press Design handwritten thanks; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: scraps of gold card and scraps of card sprayed with distress spray stains; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Last Christmas card for 2024

 

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the festive season. 

I was asked to make a more traditional Christmas card that represented "the reason for the season".

That sent me digging through my unused stash of second hand retired Stampin Up goodies and pinterest for inspiration.

I found this one by Nora Marin and changed it up a bit.

I masked my base using a rectangle stencil and ink blended with distress inks in antique linen, tumbled glass and chipped sapphire. Then added a starry sky with spatters of finetec silver paint.

I stamped and clear embossed the image and sentiment, and added a diecut star.

I'm linking up to a few challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

I chose the technique /stash theme from May 2024 and went with the diagonal star, favourite colour (Blue) and diecut (star)

Dragonfly Dreams, Christmas

Fab n Funky, anything but square

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

The Male Room, anything goes

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin Up wise men from afar; Waffle Flower elegant christmas sentiments

Other: distress inks; Crafs 4 U stitched rectangle die; Memory Box star of wonder die; Finetec silver paint; Darkroom Door small rectangle stencil; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Snarky Christmas Cheer!

 

Hi everyone, the pace is picking up as Christmas gets closer!

Everything is busy but I needed more cards and took some time out in my craft room...wish I could stay here lol!

I love these grumpy bears and mixed and matched a few stamp sets and dies to create this scene.

I used an MFT stencil for the grass, Taylored Expressions for the bear and slogan, Tim Holtz for the gifts and hat and Waffle Flower for the sparkly die cut.

Coloured him with prismacolour pencils and chameleon pens for the hat and gifts.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Addicted to Stamps & More

Allsorts, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Krafty Chicks, stamps

The Male Room

Simon Says Stamp Monday, make it sparkle

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions big grumpy stamp & die and big grumpy christmas stamp; versafine clair inks & clear ep; MFT grass stencil and mowed lawn oxide ink; Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous crazy things hat & mini crazy things gift stamps; Waffle Flower merry christmas print die; prismacolour pencils; chameleon pens; diamond stickles; glitter cardstock; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting and Merry Christmas,

Cathy x

Chocolate gold gilded bauble

 

Hi everyone, I still have a few Christmas cards I need to make and thought I'd pop this one into a few challenges.

A while ago I bought some gilding flakes and the colour is chocolate!

It's a bit hard to see in the pic but there is a lovely mix of brown and gold in the flakes!

I added some flitter glue to some cardstock and attached the gilding flakes. When dry I diecut the ornament, top and bow. The background ornament is diecut from white shimmer card.

The sentiment is stamped and embossed in gold  and the embossing folder that frames it all is called Stately by Craft Concepts.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to CAS

Addicted to Stamps & More

Double D Challenge, ornaments

Dragonfly Dreams, Christmas

The Male Room, anything goes.

I think brown and gold make this more of a masculine style bauble.

Supplies:

Cosmic Shimmer chocolate gold gilding flakes; flitter glue; Poppystamps avondale ornament and clarissa background ornament dies; Memory Box Crisp Bows die; Craft Concepts stately embossing folder; gold ink and Wow gold embossing powder; linen cardstock.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Masculine for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Barbara has chosen a masculine theme for this fortnight.

or build up your birthday stash with our anything goes option.

Our party guest Claire along with my team mates have some great inspiration for you so I hope you can play along.

I still have my old typewriter, although it's rarely used these days.

 I love how detailed this die set is with the cute little sentiments!

I diecut it from scraps of black, blue and white card and coloured the silver parts with a jelly pen.

The background is embossed with Stampin Up's time worn type, and the sentiment was cut from black, inked with versamark and clear embossed.

The blue mat is a brushos scrap. So I've used up a bit from my scrap basket with this card!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Supplies:

Sugarpea Designs just my type stamp and die; Stampin Up time worn type embossing folder; Creative Expressions stacked happy birthday die; silver jelly pen; versamark ink & clear ep; versafine clair nocturne ink.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Snowflake Sparkle

 

Hi everyone, this was a quick and easy Christmas card to make.

I diecut a Sizzix snowflake from white card, inked it with versamark and sprinkled on some Wow vintage peacock embossing glitter. I layered it up on another diecut snowflake for dimension.

Hard to photograph, but so sparkly in real life!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks, CAS

52 Christmas Card Throwdown, 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, sparkle & shine

Simon Says Stamp Monday, emboss it

Moving Along With the Times, sparkle

Cardz 4 Galz, texture

Supplies:

Sizzix Flurry #3 die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; versamark ink & Wow vintage peacock embossing glitter; retired Stampin Up sentiment stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x