Butterflies or hummingbirds for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and our wonderful leader Nancy has chosen butterflies or hummingbirds as the theme.

Of course you can always play along with our anything goes option as long as it's for a birthday.

My team mates and our guest Deepti have some wonderful inspiration for you, so hope to see you in the gallery.

I've been making glitter paste cards for a 21st birthday in purples and blues and had a reject piece sitting on my table. I thought I'd see how it would die cut and was pretty happy with the result. I traced around the butterfly die to fussy cut a vellum layer too.

Here's a closer look at the sparkle.

And here's the stencil it was cut from, Funky Fossil brand but not sure of the name.

The sentiment was snipped from the Birthday cursive script circle.

I love the font on this die but didn't want the circle part for this card. I inked it with versamark and clear embossed it for some shine.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday, wild and wonderful. My take is wild colours!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Addicted to Stamps & More

Allsorts, something beginning with B...Butterfly!

Outside the Box, 

Supplies

Dies: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle; Memory Box birthday cursive script circle; Sizzix scribbly butterflies.

Other: Bo Bunny glitter paste; Funky Fossil stencil; versamark ink & clear ep; happy sticker; vellum.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Signs of Spring for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Lindsey has chosen signs of Spring as the theme.

Of course you can always play along with our anything goes birthday option too.

I thought of birds, butterflies, baby lambs, then settled on colourful flowers!

My team mates and our guest Deepti have some wonderful inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

I bought this stencil quite a while ago and promptly shoved it in my stencil drawer!!

I've used it lots today to make up for that lol!

This version used distress inks in saltwater taffy, squeezed lemonade and salvaged patina.

It's amazing how different the stencilling looked when I tried the same colours using oxides!

The sentiment looks a bit blurry sorry! Its layered up and clear embossed for shine.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge, Spring or Easter

I've gone with the Spring option.

Happy Little Stampers stencil challenge, anything goes

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Winter Floral stencil; distress inks saltwater taffy, squeezed lemonade and salvaged patina; Mama Elephant scripty birthday die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; versamark ink & clear ep; happy sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Thoughtful Kookaburra

 

Hi everyone, I don't usually make landscape oriented cards, but thought it had to be landscape for this one.

I'm playing along with the challenge at AAA Cards 

Along the edge and your country, (Australia) while keeping it CAS!

Kookaburras are often known for their raucous laughing call, bit I think they can look quite pensive as well.

Some distress ink blending along the edge, I diecut 2 birds and layered them for dimension and an embossed sentiment finished the card.

I'm also linking up to the challenge at Addicted to CAS

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

Sparkles Monthly Challenge, for men only

Unicorn Challenge Blog, add an animal

Supplies:

Paper Rose kookaburra on a branch die; distress inks; Happy Little Stampers sentiment die; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Night sky birthday.

 

Hi everyone, I had another piece of watercoloured card that I'd made using a technique 

from Heather Telford's winter wonderland course. I signed up in January 2021 and had a play earlier this year!! My how time flies!

This background used distress inks painted onto watercolour paper with lots of water.

I spattered on some diluted white gouache paint to look like snow and then sprayed it with dazzling diamonds for some shimmer.

Here's a closer look:

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, are celebrating their 13th Birthday, Congratulations!

Allsorts, masculine.

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

Happy Little Stampers watercolour challenge, anything goes

Aud Sentiments are celebrating their 12th birthday with a birthday sentiment theme, congratulations!

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box woodland oval; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle
Watercolour paper; distress inks in peacock feathers, chipped sapphire and black soot; Glimmer mist dazzling diamonds spray; white gouache paint; sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Retro Birthday

 

Hi everyone, I used to love spirograph when I was a kid!

This die reminds me of all the fun I used to have. 

I used an oxide blend that Kristina Werner demonstrated on her blog. Seedless preserves, salvaged patina and squeezed lemonade, just love this combination. She has loads of other blending combos too, thanks Kristina!

The sentiment die was inked with versamark and clear embossed for some shine. The stars are diecut from black glitter paper, I thought it needed them lol!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes.

Addicted to Stamps & More, I've used oxide inks to make my mark.

Krafty Chicks Challenge, anything goes

This is a new to me die, so I'm also visiting Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Supplies:

Dies: Birch Press Design string art frame; Creative Expressions stacked happy birthday die; Stars from Find it Trading congratulations set.

Oxide inks; versamark ink and clear ep; black glitter card.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Stripes for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Jules wants us to stripe it up!

Of course you can always play along with the anything goes birthday option too, it's a great way to build up your stash of birthday cards.

My team mates and our guest Deepti have some wonderful inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

The first thing I thought of for this theme was using up the diecut circles from the windows I've been cutting in cards lately!

This stencil had it's first outing with a few colours of BoBunny glitter paste.

The star is diecut from some glitter card that's a good match for the paste. (Had to add the star to cover up an oopsie with the paste!)

The diecut sentiment was inked with versamark and clear embossed, then layered for dimension.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Make My Monday, use a stencil

Supplies:

Spellbinders and Memory Box circle dies (love how narrow the black border circle is!); Papertrey Ink star die;

MFT candy stripes stencil; Bo Bunny glitter paste; Creative Expressions mini stacked happy birthday die; glitter card; versamark ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Sepia look horses

 

Hi everyone, I was asked to make a card featuring horses for a young girl.

I stamped this retired Stampin Up image onto some cardstock that had been smooshed into some tea dye and pumice stone oxide inks.

I clear embossed the image and coloured it with Prismacolour pencils.

I think it has an aged sepia look about it.

The sentiment is also retired, from Annabelle Stamps. Stamped in versafine clair nocturne ink and clear embossed.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Mix It Up Challenge playing with the anything goes option

Little Red Wagon, use embossing

AAA Cards, baby animals make me think of Spring!

Supplies:

Stampin Up Bareback stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; Annabelle Stamps sentiment; Prismacolour pencils;

Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Spellbinders circle die; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Green & White for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and JoAnn has chosen green and white as the theme.

Of course you can always play along with our anything goes theme, as long as it's for a birthday.

The design team and our party guest  have some wonderful inspiration for you, so hope to see you in the gallery.

I'm casing a card I made a few years ago when I tried the bokeh technique.

This background is darker than I wanted as I used peeled paint in the mix of greens, the white pigment ink seemed to disappear into it!

The butterfly was stamped, fussycut and coloured with Inktense pencils.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Retro Rubber

The Darkroom Door Wings butterfly stamp hales from 2012.

Less is More

I've added some gems to the butterfly body for some sparkle and shine.

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge, anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters, old rejected stamps

My Darkroom Door butterfly stamp is from 2012.

Supplies:

Darkroom Door Wings butterfly stamp;  2nd hand sentiment stamp, Stampin Up maybe; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; distress inks; white pigment ink and a bubbles stencil; Inktense pencils and a water brush.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Ocean creatures for Seize the Birthday

 

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

Of course you can always play along with the option of anything goes as long as it's for a birthday.

Our party guest is Deepti Aggarwal and she and my team mates have some wonderful inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

This circle and fish is a new to me die and I cut it from a scrap of card smooshed with blue inka gold.

I coloured the greenery, coral and urchin with oxide inks leftover on my finger daubers.

The fish are diecut from some silver card.

I thought it needed something else so created a background by spritzing some distress oxide sprays and water onto some card. Got it too wet, so placed another piece of card on top and smoothed it down to soak up some of the colour. 

When I pulled them apart I had 2 pieces with some interesting patterns!

Finally I covered a diecut starfish in versamark and then a range of embossing powders to get a textured look.

Here's a closer look at the shimmer.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, add a diecut

Addicted to Stamps & More

Darnell's NBUS challenge for new or never used goodies

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box underwater scene; Spellbinders circle; Sizzix sand dollar; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: inka gold; distress oxide inks and sprays; aged taupe embossing enamel and Ranger hammered embossing powder; Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x