Seize the Birthday - Rainbows

Hey Gang, It is time for another challenge at Seize the Birthday!  This is the third one for this month and it will be for two weeks, as always.  Boy, this summer is going fast and  soon school will be back if not already.  So lets get to it, we have a topping with this challenge.

Our "Toppings" option this time is..Strips

If you're not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!  

 

I have to tell you that this card was sort of an accident.  I made the rainbow panel and stamped the flowers and sentiment on it.  Then let it lay on my workbench.  I got another idea to make a rainbow of colored hearts, and after doing that, it just fell on the top of the first card and I loved it.  This is what I went with. 

 Suppies to make this card: Watercolors, GKD a Year of Flowers 3, Stately Flowers 8 for the sentiment and Simon Says die, Heart Parade 

Be sure to check out the other design team inspirations for you too at 
 Seize the Birthday. 

And Our Surprise Party Guest Trina Pram  

I hope to see you on the blog this challenge and I do appreciate your wonderful comments.  

Creative Confetti - Get in Shape

This is the last challenge for this month at Creative Confetti.  There was a different suggestion each week and they all when into one monthly challenge.  I entered every week!  Just because I love to color the images that Marcie designs and the team certainly challenged me.  How about you?  

There is still time to enter.  For this week we are to put a shape into our card.  Julie describes how to do that with the digital images.  You can see that Here.

I did do a digital image and the sentiment as well, but I think my method was a bit different from Julie's, but it worked.  Not telling you how I did mine.  But it did involve a digital eraser.  Lol

Ok, enough talk here is my card. 

 I printed the digital Geraniums and used the sentiment from Flower Bomb.  I hand drew in the border on the rectangle shape.  Since I got this to work quite quickly, I didn't want to take a chance on losing it.

Using my favorite Copic markers for pinks and greens, I began to color it.  I took me an hour of fun and relaxing to complete it.  Then I added it to a base of GKD Fresh Asparagus cardstock and a border that a friend sent to me.  It was the outtake from a PTI die.  I use everything.  A bit of gold GKD cord on the side.  I used the techniques that I learned from taking the Kit and Clowder classes.  

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Creative Confetti

I'm catching up here with the fun at Power Poppy.  

Creative confetti is a new challenge that will last for a month and each week, 

there will be a different challenge.  

The first week was You're a Gem, let the color of your birthstone inspire your next creation.   

I just had a birthday and for the month of August the birthstone is Peridot. 

Here is my card inspired totally by the peridot.

 I printed out this digital Sunflower Power stamp on my laser jet printer.  That means that I can send it through a laminator and use foil on it.  That is just what I did using green foil. Then I stayed in the monotone and colored it with green markers like my Peridot. I die cut some frames and a Lattice edger to add to the front panel. 

 Here you can see some of the shine. This baby shines like the gemstone that it was inspired by.  

I will be entering this in the Creative Confetti - You're a Gem.  

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.  I do appreciate that very much. 

 

 

Creative Confetti - Back to School

Dig into your kiddo's school supplies and use at least 3 items on your card.  That is the challenge for this week.  And here we go.  My kiddos are grown and don't live at home anymore.  But I do have two grandchildren that live close and I keep a drawer of crafting supplies for them at my house.  I flew over to the drawer and pulled out some things that may help me on this one. 

 I found a pack of papers and I pulled out the one that you see here.  

I used the frame from the top of the sheet. 

These are the other supplies that I used on this card.  Markers, Gell pens, and water color paints. 

Here is what I got! 

I stamped the Short Stacks on to watercolor paper and colored it with the markers, and watercolor paints.  Then used the gel pens to color the designs on each cup.  They really sparkle, wish you could see it in the picture.  I may have found a new media.  A border of blue that matches the base and a few pearls from my stash finished the project. 

I am entering this in the New Power Poppy Creative Confetti - Back to School challenge

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

This is the second challenge in the month of August, it is for two weeks, that means there will be another one this month. What fun, three times to create for us this month.  

Here is my card, it is fun to just go with anything that you that you want.

 I got a new embossing folder and it was what I started with for this card.  It is the Sizzix 3-D Botanical.  After embossing it, I ran a Tourquise Sea ink pad over it.  Then die cut some flowers and leaves from the Stamp up Botanical Builder in Vellum and silver papers.

 The sentiment is from two different sets, GKD Stately Flowers and MFT Adorable Elephants. Heat embossed on a vellum tag.  I added a matching envelope from GKD and finished the inside too.  I should have taken a picture of that. I had extra flowers and leaves that I didn't want to waste.  

Be sure to check out the other design team inspirations for you too at Seize the Birthday. 

And Our Surprise Party Guest Trina Pram  

I hope to see you on the blog this challenge and I do appreciate your wonderful comments.