Use the word Celebrate for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, our wonderful leader Nancy wants us to use the word celebrate on our birthday cards this round.

Or play along with our anything goes birthday option

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

I am still swatching my distress mica stains and making backgrounds while I have everything out.

These flower heads were diecut from some of them.

Here's a closer look at the shimmer.

The background embossing die has been in my stash for quite a while but this is it's first outing!

I love the stitched detail.

The sentiment is layered up for dimension and the top layer is cut from glossy black cardstock.

(So much easier than embossing the sentiment with versamark ink & clear powder!)

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz, any colouring medium

I've used mica spray stains and diecut the flowers.

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Word Art Wednesday, anything goes

Supplies:

Dies: Simon Says Stamp cosmos stem; Waffle Flower celebrate word; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle;

Stampin Up stitched greenery; 

Other: Distress mica stains in flickering candle, fortune teller & harvest moon; 

peeled paint distress ink;  Lawn Fawn reveal wheel friends & family sentiment stamp; versafine nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Stripes for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Linda has chosen stripes for this turn.

You can always play along with our anything goes birthday option too.

Our party guests Karen and Helen along with my team mates have some wonderful cards to inspire you on the blog. Hope you can play along!

I wanted to do something a bit different and also use this build a barn die that I bought on sale recently.

I got some inspiration from the Lawn Fawn blog, and decided to add stripes to some

 red cardstock for the barn. More stripes from a sunshine stencil.

These cute farm critter stamps were bought to go with the barn.

(I never used to do "cutsie" cards, but I seem to be drawn to them the older I get lol!)

I coloured the critters with my chameleon alcohol markers (amazed they still work as they've been neglected for so long!). Then stencilled some grass to ground everything...😉

Such a busy card, I didn't think the sentiment fit anywhere. Luckily I had some tiny sentiment stickers that fit on the barn eaves.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday, stamp it for Stamptember

Alphabet Challenge, L is for Landscape

Stencil Fun Challenge, playing along without the optional fall theme

Dragonfly Dreams, Happy Birthday

Supplies:

Dies: Lawn Fawn build a barn and reveal wheel add on (for window frame); Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle; Lawn Fawn build a house spring add on (for the fence); Tiny farm; Memory Box stitched circle layers (for the sun)

Other: MFT grassy edges and sunrise radiating rays stencils; Altenew classy stripes stencil; 

Lawn Fawn tiny farm stamps; chameleon pens; Memento black ink; 

oxide inks in greens and yellows.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x