Square card & non white base at Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Glenda wants us to use a square card with a coloured base.

Or play along with our anything goes birthday option.

Our party guests and my team mates have lots of inspiration over at the blog, so I hope you can play along.

I don't often make square cards, although I do often use black bases.

I've seen lots of ideas on pinterest for florals on a black base and love how the flowers pop, so that's where I went with this card.

I coloured some card with oxide inks for the flowers and used a green card from my stash for the greenery. The embossing folder is new to me, I like how it matched the blooms!

I tossed up between a black on white sentiment, but gold on black won.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters, Flowers

Tic Tac Toe, I went with the middle row, any colour, free & sentiment.

Try it on Tuesday, Summer Blooms

Supplies:

Altenew piped floral lace 3D ef; Spellbinders be bold blooms dies; Poppystams banner sentiments stamp & die; scraps of gold card; oxide inks.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

One or More Numbers at Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's my turn to host the challenge at Seize the Birthday and I've chosen numbers for this fortnight.

Or make any birthday card to add to your stash with our anything goes option.

Our party guest and my team mates have some great inspiration for you, so hope you can play along this round.

I made a card similar to this a while ago, and when my sister in laws birthday was close thought I'd make this design for her too.

I stamped the confetti stamp in silver and embossed with silver ep to add some shine.

The sentiment and numbers are diecut from gold cardstock, layered up for some dimension.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Word Power

Unicorn Challenge, no design paper.

Supplies:

Catherine Pooler hooray for confetti background stamp; silver ink & ep; Poppystamps happy birthday poe script die; Charlie & Paulchen small alphabet dies; unknown brand number dies; gold cardstock.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week,

Cathy x

Seascape & Magicals Leftovers

 

Hi again, I had a background strip leftover from my previous card,

 and  it was wide enough to use here.

I had stamped the seashell background onto Bristol smooth card, inked with Versamark and embossed with white fine detail ep. I sprinkled on some Magicals in blues, teal and lime, spritzed with water, and moved the colour around with a paintbrush. The shimmer is lovely IRL.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Inkspirational

The Sisterhood of Crafters, fish, sea creatures.

Sparkles Monthly Challenge, masculine

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, at the beach

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, anything goes

Supplies:

Whimsy Stamps seashell background stamp; Versamark ink & Wow fine detail white ep; Lindy's Magicals; sentiment sticker .

Thanks for visiting, and have a great week,

Cathy x

Seascape watercoloured with Magicals

 

Hi everyone, it's been ages since I played with Lindy's Magicals. 

This Whimsy stamp has been in my stash for a long time too and this is it's first outing.

I stamped the image in versamark and embossed with white fine detail powder. I sprinkled on some magicals in a few teal, blue and lime colours, spritzed on water and moved them a bit with a paintbrush.

Here's a closer look at the shimmer, (still a bit hard to see but so pretty IRL).

I diecut the sentiment from blue metallic card and layered it up for some dimension.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

AAA Birthday

Alphabet Challenge, E for embossing wet or dry

I've chosen wet embossing.

Dragonfly Dreams, masculine

Krafty Chicks

Moving Along With the Times, Use your favourite stamp die or tool.

My fave tool is my misti, I had to stamp this background twice for good ink coverage, and there's no way I could have done that without it!

Simon Says Stamp Monday, at the beach.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

The Neglected Stuff Challenge

Supplies:

Whimsy Stamps seashell background stamp; Versamark ink & Wow fine detail white ep; Lindy's Magicals; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Creative Expressions happy birthday die.

Thanks for visiting, and have a great week,

Cathy x

Blue, Pink & Yellow for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Barbara has a colour challenge for us this round.

Or add to your birthday stash with our anything birthday option.

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

I've had this cover plate for a while, and it was next on my hit list to play with!

It's an American size cover plate so I need to rejig my brain with measurements for the card base as I'm used to Australian sizes.

I inked up some strips of card with oxide inks and spritzed them with some sparkle shimmer craft spray, so pretty IRL!  I stacked a white and black layer from the cover plate with a slight offset to give a bit of a shadow outline. 

The party hats are coloured with Chameleion pens. (Some slightly bigger ones would have been good but I'm not buying more stuff lol!)

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Addicted to Stamps & More

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Supplies:

Whimsy Stamps happy birthday coverplate die; Oxide inks in picked raspberry; squeezed lemonade and salty ocean; Imagine sheer shimmer spray-sparkle; Lawn Fawn all the party hats stamp & die; chameleon alcohol pens.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week,

Cathy x

Use vellum or acetate for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Ashwini wants to see us use vellum or acetate on our birthday cards for this fortnight.

Or play along with our anything goes birthday option.

Our party guests Kathy and Kerry, along with my team mates have some great ideas to inspire you, so I hope you can join us in the gallery.

I've had these goodies in my stash for ages and since I'm trying to use everything (at least once!!) I thought I'd try acetate in the glasses.

Here's a closer look. I cut a piece of acetate to fit the larger frames.

The frames are dicut from metallic card and the birthday diecut from glossy black card, layered up for dimension.

I masked a Penny Black stamp for the word spectacular and used a tiny Lawn Fawn sentiment as well.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, add a sentiment

Aud Sentiments, playing along with the birthdays option

Supplies: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle and birthday girl dies; unknown brand glasses dies;  Penny Black perspective stamp; Lawn Fawn reveal wheel holiday sentiments stamp; verafine clair inks & clear ep; metallic cardstock.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week,

Cathy x

Sweet Treats for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Shirley wants us to use sweet treats for this round of birthday cards.

Or add to your birthday stash with our anything goes option.

Our party guests and my team mates have some wonderful inspiration for you on the blog, so I hope to see you in the gallery.

I've had these heart shaped cake pop /lollipop dies for ages and thought it was time to give them a go.

I used coloured metallic card, and some card I'd painted with lunar paste to diecut the pieces.

The sentiment is a combination of stamps from Lawn Fawn and Waffle Flower, I masked part of each stamp to remove the extra words.

A quick and easy card, although a bit fiddly to put together!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Allsorts, anything goes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge, trios - 3 of anything

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Supplies:

Cake pop dies brand unknown; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; metallic card and lunar paste painted card; Lawn Fawn shutter card holiday sayings - I masked the word holiday; Waffle Flower elegant sentiments - I masked the word happy; 

Versafine Clair nocturne ink & clear ep; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week,

Cathy x

Animal Focal Point at Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Nance wants us to use an animal for this round.

Or add to your birthday stash with our anything goes option. 

Our party guests and my team mates have quite the menagerie to inspire you, so I hope you can play along.

I'm using some goodies that have languished in my stash for ages! I saw a video a couple of years ago by Jennifer McGuire and was inspired to buy distress spritz and a hummingbird die. So I thought I'd try the technique in this card. 

I sprayed the spritz ;) on black cardstock and diecut the bird pieces from it. I added some extra spritz colour where I thought it needed it. It's so shimmery IRL! Here's a closer look.

I kept the background simple with a 3D floral embossing folder and the sentiment is diecut from glossy black card.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday, things with wings.

AAA Birthday, Congrats on 7 years!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, Use craft dies

Simply Clean & Simple, things that fly

Supplies:

Dies: Simon Says Stamp exquisite hummingbird;  Creative Expressions stacked birthday; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle;

Other: Spellbinders beautiful blooms 3D embossing folder; Distress spritz peacock feathers, picked raspberry and fossilized amber.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week,

Cathy x