Seize the Birthday Challenge #307 Fancy Fold

Hello Crafters! I am your host for this next challenge. I picked a fancy fold for the topping. 

If you are not into toppings, you can just make it a birthday theme.

 

But remember if you use the topping, you have a chance to be a guest designer with us. 

Here is my inspiration for you. 

Supplies for this card:

Pink Fresh Folk Edge Circle

Altenew Fragrant Peony

GKD Radiant Roses greetings

Stampin Up ink Tangerine Tango

Distressed Oxide ink Rustic Wilderness

PTI design paper

I was inspired by Libby and you can find that site below. 

But remember there are tons of examples out there for fancy folds on YouTube. 

Our Surprise Party Guest is Wanda Cullen  https://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Double D Challenge - Frames

Hello Crafters! This next two weeks at Double D Challenge we will be looking at frames. How ever you want to display them frames is it. 

Diane has prepared this lovely inspiration board for you. 

If you enter, you have a chance for this prize as it is a random draw. 

This is how I did my frame. 

I made a frame from white card stock with Hero Arts dies in two rectangle shapes.

 By layering two of those rectangles together

 I was able to make a thin black frame on the top. 

The flower is Honey Bee die Lovely Layers Cone Flower 

that I had already completed.

The sentiment is from Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers

I hope to see you at Double D! 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Color Hues winner!

I was so surprised to hear that I was a winner at Color Hues! It was a good day when I had some extra time to join in the fun. Today I am here as a Guest Designer and I am thrilled to show you my example. 

These are the colors for this challenge. 

As soon as Nancy sent me these colors, I thought they 

would be perfect for a floral image. 

I just got a new set of stamps, stencil and dies from Pink Fresh

 that I used on this project. 

It is called Be Fearless! I added the 

Decorative Frames letter press and die too. 

Every single layer of that die is cut individually. 

Therefore you can add dimension on any layer. 

Notice the inside, where I used the largest layer. 

The inks that I used to get close the the Color Hues theme are:

Gina K Medium Spruce and Dark Carnation and Altenew Coral Berry.

The silver gems are from Pink Fresh. 

Thanks to the team at Color Hues for inviting me to play along! 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Pink Fresh Challenge for May

This is my entry for the May 2025 Pink Fresh Challenge. 

Supplies are: 

Nested hexagons dies

Be fearless stamps, stencil and die

Sentiment is Spellbinders Press Plate Cheers to you.

Inks, Turquoise Sea, Ocean Mist, Jelly Bea Green,

Lemon Drop and Sweet Corn, Soft Stone, Light and Medium Carnation.  

(that is a lot of inks)

I forgot to take my stencils from Florida when we left last week, so I had to rely on what I have here. The soft gray stencil is an old one and I have no idea where I got it. I love the soft colors on this card and I think the stencil works. 

Check out the challenge. 

Pink Fresh Challenge for May

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Seize the Birthday Challenge #306 - Use a Frame

Our next challenge at Seize the Birthday is hosted by Ashwini. She has selected as the topping for this challenge to use a frame. Of course if you are not into toppings, you know that anything goes as long as it is a Birthday theme. 

If you choose to use the topping, you have a chance to be a Surprise Party Guest! 

Here is my example for you. 

Supplies for this card:

GKD card stock Turquoise Sea 

Pink Fresh Sweet Blossoms Die

Notched corner rectangles

Simon Says falling hearts stencil

GKD Radiant Roses Poly glaze sentiment. 

Wanda Cullen  https://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Double D Challenge - May's Birth flower or stone

Theme:  May's Birth Flowers
(Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn)

and Birthstone is Emerald

Be inspired by any of the three.

I found that this challenge was really a challenge for me. I didn't have a single stamp or die that was a Lilly of the Valley. I investigated that other option of flower and did my best to come up with a Hawthorn Flower. Here is what I did.

Using The Greetery Botani Cuts Geranium die, I shaded it with the colors in the inspiration photo. 

Then added the small stamens that I saw with Nuvo Pearl Gold drops. 

The inks are GKD Tomato Soup, Coral Reef and the new Sunkissed Coral

Simon Says Small Die Hello cut twice for the sentiment. 

Embossing folder by Sizzix, Textured Expressions

A strip of gold glitter paper on the black band

White dots on the leaves with White Posca pen (should have left that out)

I like how it turned out.

 

 I hope to see you at Double D! 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Seize the Birthday Challenge - #305 Flowers

Our leader,Nancy is our hostess for this challenge and the topping is flowers. 

Of course you can just make it a birthday card and still enter. 

But what fun it would be to use the topping for a chance to be a guest designer with us! 

Here is how I started my card. This is a sheet of 6X6 design paper from Spellbinder Woodland Tales. It actually looks like it had wrinkles in it, but it is just shading. 

By just adding more dimension with die cut flowers and leaves, this card came together quickly. 

A close-up picture. 

Supplies for this card:

Spellbinders Woodland tales design paper

Layered Anemone die

The Greetery Botani Cuts Palm die

Gina K Designs the Northern Woods for the sentiment. 

We have a Surprise Party Quest with us for the next two months. I am sure that you have seen her work before as she is not new to paper crafting. We are happy to have her. 

Give her some love!

Wanda Cullen  https://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Double D Challenge - Designer Paper

Hello Crafters! It is another challenge at Double D and it is a fun one. Diane has chosen Designer Paper! I am sure that you have some tucked away and now you can use it on your project. 

Here is some inspiration for you. 

Diane is our Host,  has noted that it is also National Scrapbook month. If you into scrapbooking, feel free to a scrapbook page. 

Prize

I had a 6X6 designer pad that was almost used up I loved the papers in that pad and decided to use them in the challenge. They are from Moda Scrap 

Other supplies are: GKD ML 1 and 4

Base cardstock is Jellybean Green

The sentiment is from Gina as well called A Little Love. 

I used gold foil to separate the sections and for the LOVE die

I fussy cut the butterfly for the leftover designer paper. 

 I hope to see you at Double D! 

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Anything goes featuring Gina K 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Thanks, and using dies

This card will be entered in the Pink Fresh May 2025 Inspiration Challenge 

and 

A Cut Above for May anything goes

I started out with a stencil by Pink Fresh called Geometric Tile in the colors in the challenge. Then I die cut many Pink Fresh Nested Hexagons in white. layering them for demension. I used a small and a larger die to make a frame. The flowers were done with Pink Fresh Sweet Blossoms die and stencil. I chose small ones to place in each hexagon and reserved the third one for my sentiment. That is Pink Fresh You are Next Level Amazing stamp. A few gems from my stash. I like the thin black border on the front panel too. 

I am also entering this card in a new challenge. Stencil fun. 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

STB #304 Stenciling

Shirley Is the hostess for this next challenge at Seize the Birthday. I really when overboard with the stenciling! Not a surprise! I stenciled the background and the panel. I wish that I had used less ink the background, but I am anxious to see what you do. This is an opportunity to add to your collection of birthday cards. 

Remember if you are not into toppings, just make sure it is a birthday card. 

But ifs you use the topping, you may have a chance to be a guest designer on our next challenge. 

Here is my example for you. 

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Supplies for this card are:

Gina K Master Layouts 2, Fancy Floral Layering Stencil bundle

Moonlit Fog ink on the background stencil

A script stamp from my stash

Gina K inks

Grass Green, Lovely Lavendar, Wild Lillac 

White and Black Gina K card stock

Greeting is Radiant Roses Greeting

 Leslie is our Surprise Party Guest for this challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

Double D Challenge - Springtime Flowers

It is that time of the month for another Double D Challenge! 

Here is my card for Springtime flowers. 

For your inspiration, our mood board made by our host Darlene. 

My Card 

                                                   The Greetery Market Basket Medium 

(from a friend, Donna Phelan)

I cut the back from holographic paper

Botani Cuts Crocus

Botani Cuts Pussy Willows,  buds cut from felt for more realistic pussy willows. 

Spellbinder Embossing folder called Tufted 

Sentiment and bird Colorado Crafts

GKD Master layouts 3 

There is a Prise for a random winner. 

Come over to the blog to see the team ideas for more inspiration 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!

STB - #303 Layer it!

Nancy is the host for this Challenge and I had a lot of fun with it. I sure hope that you do too. 

I was inpsired by these colors! 

After die cutting the hexagon images, I sponged some color on them. 

                                    Then I arranged them in my background how I liked them. 

This is my card! I really liked how it turned out. 

Supplies for this care are many

Altenew Cosmos die

Pink Fresh nested hexagon double stitched die

Sentiment Gina K Fancy Phrases

Inks used on the background and flower are

Altenew Peaches keen, Lemonade stand

 Crimson, Blush, Rouge, Eucalyptus, and Jade. 

Vellum paper

 Leslie is our Surprise Party Guest for  this challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by and I always appreciate your comments!