Hooray! It's Your Day

Spending the day today making more birthday cards to have on hand.  I'm sitting here for the third Saturday in a row watching the snow fall as I craft.  Crazy!

I am playing along today with Seize the Birthday challenge. I love these challenges because it's always birthday with a little something added if you want.  This challenges toppings is "Stamping Only" This is hard for me lol.  I love layers and little embellishments. I did do one layer (I couldn't help myself).

Here is my card. I love this circle stamp set.  So many different things you can do with this! I did use my stamp positioner tool to help get the circles just right.  I love using it as I can get a deeper inked image. 

Extra Special

I used the following challenges to create this cute birthday card. I haven't done a lot of just one to two colors in a while so it was a bit of a challenge not to add more.

Teal and White

This is what I came up with...

Birthday Coffee? Yes Please!

I found two great challenges to do today and decided to combine them.  I did Freshly Made Sketches and Seize the Birthday.

I really wanted to incorporate the coffee challenge from Seize the Birthday into the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge.  So I swapped out the "start" with my coffee cup.  I haven't really had an idea of how I should use the coffee set so this was the perfect challenge to get me to think outside my comfort zone.

Coffee or Tea

Here is what I came up with. I colored the mug with colored pencils and then used a blender pen to take out some of the harshness.

Warm Birthday Wishes

I'm totally in love with penquins.  My family laughs at me because every time we go to the zoo I just have to see the penquins.  If we don't I'm just not a happy camper.  They are always doing the same thing and in the same place but I HAVE to see them. 

 

So it's no surprise that when I saw this new stamp set from Sunny Studios I just HAD to buy it.  I mean what could be cuter? It's got penquins and you can "bundle" them up!!

 

 

The sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches is perfect for this set.  I love that the image area is smaller and will fit this cute little penquin perfectly.

 

 

 

 

I'm also entering this to Seize the Birthday

 

 

 

Here is my finished card.  

 

Here's a look at the inside.  I've really gotten into "designing" the inside to give a little added flare.



 

Supplies: bundled up set and dies-Sunny Studios, grey, pink and white cardstock-Stampin' Up, tag stamp and die-The Stamps of Life

Happy Birthday!

Here is another card I've made using two more awesome challenges.  Freshly Made Sketches, Color Throwdown and Seize the Birthday. I am really enjoying myself today.  In between cleaning and doing laundry I get to get some much needed craft therapy.  I'm loving my new scrap room and find it so much easier to be creative.   

 

 

"Lots of Leaves"

 

 

And here is what I came up with.  This took me a bit.  I really wanted to add in the leaves and birthday wish but was having a really hard time.  Then I remembered I had these great leaf dies! Presto!!

 



Happy Birthday!

Good morning.  I finally finished up over 80 birth announcements for a girlfriend and just felt the need to create a birthday card! This card is created for the challenge over at Seize the Birthday.


Every challenge on their site is a birthday challenge but I love adding the "toppings" if possible.  This challenge topping is "Make the Sentiment the Focal Point"

 

and here is my card

 

 

Another Year Wiser

I have so many birthdays coming up that I have to really start working on some cards.  I used two great challenges to get this nerdy girl birthday card done today.  If I can, I always love to do the toppings at Seize the Birthday.  I just received a great heart splatter background stamp from Your Next Stamp and couldn't wait to use it on this card.

Seize The Birthday

 

The Paper Players

 

 

Supplies:

SS: heart splatter (your next stamp), nerdy girl

INK: tuxedo black, su blendabilities, real red

CS: basic black, real red, calypso coral, neutrals dsp

ACCESS: whisper white taffeta ribbon

 

LIGHT 'EM UP!

One of my co-workers/friends birthday is coming up this week and I just couldn't wait to make a card for her. I love surprising these ladies with fun cards and they don't ever expect them. 

I used the challenge over at Seize the Birthday for her card and am pretty happy with how it turned out.  What I love about this challenge site is that the challenge is always birthday.  With "toppings" added in if you so choose to do it.

This weeks "topping" is a sketch.  I haven't seen them do a sketch before so I had to do it lol.

I recently purchased some new stamps for Stampin' Up! and thought that their new set Balloon Bash  was perfect.  The larger sentiment stamp is so my sense of humor that I had to use it on the inside.

This is the inside. 

Supplies:

SS: balloon bash

INK: night of navy, bermuda bay, mossy mellow, tangelo twist, calypso coral, crushed curry markers, mossy mellow & crushed curry ink pads

CS: bermuda bay, crushed curry, mossy mellow, calypso coral, whisper white, birthday bash dsp

ACCESS: angled tag punch, bermuda bay taffeta ribbon