Things in a Garden for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday, and our wonderful leader Nancy has chosen things in a garden for us to add to our cards.

So many choices here!

Or you can play along with the anything goes birthday option.

My team mates and our party guest Hilary have some wonderful inspiration for you so I hope you can play along. We will also have a special guest for the fortnight Anagha so hop over to the blog and take a look.

We have a bush garden, full of gum trees, although we've cleared some due to the bush fire risk!

We also have chooks, raspberries and some veggies growing, but I thought I'd stick with the gum leaves and blossom.

I was inspired by this card by Yana Smakula. 

I don't have any similar leaf stamps and used my Prismacolour pencils, (no polychromos), but I'm happy with the result! The gold embossing is really shiny in real life.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Retro Rubber, anything goes using a stamp older than a year.

I used a Kaszazz gum leaf stamp, there's no date on the package but the last time I used the stamp was

here in 2016

Cardz 4 Guyz, any colouring medium - I used Prismacolor pencils.

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Sparkles Monthly Challenge, Clean & Simple

Supplies:

Kaszzaz gum leaf stamp; versamark ink & Wow metallic gold rich superfine ep; Prismacolour pencils; Stately embossing folder; sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Card for a child at Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Linda wants us to make a card for a child.

or, play along with our anything goes birthday option.

Our party guests and my team mates have some wonderful cards to inspire you, so I hope to see you in the gallery.

A friend's little boy loves dinosaurs, so this was a good chance to try out this stegosaurus die that I hadn't used yet.

I made quite a few backgrounds by smooshing glossy photo paper in distress and oxide inks .

(I think this one was just vintage photo distress ink).

This is a fiddly die but fun!

 I layered all of the pieces onto black pieces before assembling them so that they would have some dimension. 

The background is cardstock smooshed into pumice stone and tea dye oxide inks.

I inked over some of it to create the sky, and finished it with a diecut palm tree and some greenery.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Make My Monday, tag it

Mix it Up Challenge Blog, anything goes and I'm using the optional distressing.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, tag it

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge

Edited to add:

I'm also linking up to a new to me challenge  Park Hopping My Happy Place as my Jurassic scene is a bit like the ride at Universal Studios, would love to go there one day, long way from Australia though!

Thankyou Makira for the suggestion!

Supplies:

Dies: Sizzix prehistoric;  MFT wild greenery and tag stax; Poppystamps grassland border; palm tree brand unknown;

Other: oxide and distress inks; sentiment sticker, glossy photo paper.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Green and Gold inka gold

 

Hi everyone, I'm using up some scraps of card left from smooshing inka gold paste and water on a craft mat.

Here's a closer look at the shimmer.

The die is one I bought recently although it was released in 2014.

(I do wish dies weren't retired as I'm usually slow to find them lol!)

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Retro Rubber, 

I've used the diagonal diecut, layers and smooshing as my free choice.

My sentiment stamp is a favourite from Paper Smooches - Sentiment Sampler.

There is no date on the set but sadly I think the company went out of business in 2020.

Double D, want us to use green.

(I hope using gold is ok too)

Color Hues

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge, without the option of wings.

Supplies:

Memory Box Alessandria tree outline and background dies; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die ;

Inka gold paste in jade and gold;

Paper Smooches sentiment sampler sentiment stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; 

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Inspired by a T-Shirt!

 

Hi everyone, I was asked to make a birthday card for a young man who loves landcruiser vehicles.

Needless to say, I was pretty stumped and while searching the internet for male birthday ideas I saw a t-shirt with this slogan on it.

Glad Mum was happy with it lol!

I diecut all the coloured letters then layered everything onto a black layer for dimension and a touch of shadow. Very messy and gluey. A T ruler helped lining everything up.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge, anything goes

Country View Challenge, card for a man

The Diecut Divas, anything goes

Happy Little Stampers Birthday Challenge

Can You Handle the Pressure, playing with the anything goes option

The small alphabet/number die by Charlie & Paulchen and the Taylored Expressions embossing folder had their first use for this card, so I'm also popping in to Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Supplies:

Dies: Charlie & Paulchen mini alphabet; Memory Box awesome jotted script and Parker numbers for the 18;

Other: Taylored Expressions graphic impressions birthday embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting, 

Cathy x

Red, White + one colour for Seize the Birthday

 

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

Of course, if topping aren't your thing you can play along with our anything goes birthday option too.

Our party guests and my team mates have some wonderful cards for you so pop over and have look at the blog.

I bought this sketch daisy die recently, even though it was released years ago and while 

 browsing on pinterest I found this card by Sherry Hester.

I love the soft pinks, the stencilling and her arrangement of the petals and leaves.

So I've CASEd her card in this CAS red, white and green design.

I stencilled the petals with candied apple distress ink and the Tim Holtz ornate stencil, The petal outlines are die cut from card coloured with the same ink.

The stems and leaves are die cut from green card that matches the base card. I lengthened one of the stems and added another leaf.

Versafine shady lane green ink for the sentiment, although it looks a bit black in the pic.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Inkspirational

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Unicorn Challenge, birthday

AAA Birthday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Supplies:

Memory Box sketch daisy die: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Tim Holtz ornate stencil; Candied apple distress ink;  Paper Smooches sentiment sampler stamp; Versafine Clair shady lane ink

 and clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Just to Bug You!

 

Hi everyone, I love lady beetles, but this one is huge lol!

I've inked the body and wings with versamark and clear embossed them for that beetle shine.

I've paired it with an old Stampendous stamp that's on a wooden block, not used one of those for ages!!

The sentiments are also clear embossed.

The leaves were a left over from a previous design with a dragonfly.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Allsorts, playing along with the wings option.

Country View Challenge, be sentimental

Make My Monday, all creatures great and small

The Male Room

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, emboss it

Supplies:

Sizzix funky insects die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Pink Fresh Studio leafy branch die:

distress oxide sprays;

Paper Smooches sentiment sampler stamp: Stampendous just to bug you stamp;

versamark ink & clear ep; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

CAS - Colourful - Circle! Use your initials for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Glenda wants us to use our initials for this challenge.

Or, you can play along with our anything goes birthday option to build up your stash!

Our party guests and my team mates have some amazing cards to inspire you, so I hope you can play along!

I was going to do something colourful, then thought this CAS circle design would also work! Happy my name begins with C.

The panel underneath the floral circle is a messy offcut from some ink smooshing fun!

Never throw anything away lol!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, fun with dies

Allsorts, playing along with the anything goes option

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge, anything goes

Unicorn Challenge, birthday

Supplies:

Memory Box floral ball collage die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; distress and oxide inks;

Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; hammer card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x