#1042 – Pop-up Card

Hello and welcome! It’s time for yet another challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time, it is my turn to choose the topping and I chose ‘Make it Pop!‘ Basically, you can use bright colors, funky images, or actually make something pop on your birthday project! If that isn’t your cup of tea, then go for the ‘Anything Goes‘ challenge and join us with your birthday themed project! Choice is yours!

And here’s what I made –

I got inspired by these cards made by Jennifer McGuire. The pop ups are in the card front, instead of the inside, which is where I have usually seen them.

I started with the images I wanted to incorporate in the card. I used My Favorite Things Piggy Pebbles (2019 stamp) and Scene Builder stamps to stamp the image on white cardstock using Versafine Onyx black ink, and colored them using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I then fuzzy cut them and set them aside.

For the card base, I chose a light blue cardstock, over which I adhered the tree & bush background and then added the pop up elements and the cute piggies. I then added a few small die cut flowers from Paper Smooches Flowers and Flowers 2 dies, colored using Zig Brush Marker pens and finally added the sentiment from Concord & 9th Tiny Tagalongs.

And that’s my pop up card! I’m joining the following challenges –

Retro Rubber Challenge #207: Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge #446: Make Your Mark

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Add a Sentiment

Checkout what the rest of the team and our Surprise Guest Designer Bonnie Klass have created for your inspiration at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1041 – STB: Wheels

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Seize the Birthday challenge. Our hostess this time is Jules, who has chosen the topping of ‘Wheels‘. The topping, as always is optional and you’re free to join as long as your project is for a birthday.

And here’s what I made –

I went with a bit of a graphic design this time, being inspired by this card by Lisa Spangler. I used the cycle stamp from Lil Inker Designs Rustic Spring, the sun from Reverse Confetti Weather It Together and the cloud dies from Paper Smooches Kite die. The stamping in the background making the sky and the cycling path are from Neat & Tangled Landscape stamp. Finally the sentiment is from Bo Bunny Sentiments stamp set.

While I intended to not have two layers, once I finished stamping and adhering all the images, I found that there was more whitespace on the right side of the card. Instead of making the whole card once again, I just trimmed the right, top and bottom a bit and mounted it on a fresh white card base.

And that finished my card! Checkout more inspiration from the rest of the design team and our new Surprise Party Guest Bonnie Klass and Carol McFarland who was our overall winner using our Topping from our previous challenge at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog.

And thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂

#1038 – Critters with Balloons

Hello and welcome! It’s the third Thursday of the month and we have a new challenge at Seize the Birthday. The optional topping this time is chosen by Vicki to be ‘Balloons‘. As always you may enter any birthday themed projects into our gallery if you don’t want to take the Toppings option.

And this is what I made –

I had these Penny Black stamps with a lot of cute critters on them, which I hadn’t used from a long time. I used a few from Every Which Way and Stuck on You stamps to create a small scene of critters holding heart balloons. I stamped them with a light grey color on Fabriano Accademia Disegno Drawing paper and then colored them using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

I then trimmed the paper down to size and stamped the sentiment from Penny Black Flower Sparks and adhered the paper over grey card base. And that’s my card!

I’m joining the Simon Says Monday challenge: Make Your Mark and Simon Says Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes with this card.

Hop over to the Seize the Birthday blog to checkout what our Surprise Party Guest Hilary Wright and the rest of the DT has created for Vicki’s challenge!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1037 – Alcohol Ink Background

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Seize the Birthday, where the Topping this time is chosen by Shirley to be ‘Alcohol‘. So you can use alcohol inks or alcohol drinks or both in your birthday project. But the topping is optional so you can always join us with any birthday project.

And this is what I made –

I had this alcohol ink on yupo in my stash, which I had made some time ago. I hadn’t liked all the browns in it then, but had set it aside. But it looked particularly good against this leaf die cut in white, so I decided to use it.

I backed the yupo paper with some grey cardstock since it was quite flimsy and then mounted it over a light grey cardstock. I trimmed the excess yupo paper off. I then cut out the leaf die cut from Dress My Craft Foliage & Leaves 5 die, adhered a few of them together for some dimension and stuck it on top of the yupo paper. The sentiment, from Reverse Confetti Simply Sentiments, I white heat embossed over the same dark grey cardstock, fussy cut it and then adhered it over the card with some pieces of scrap cardstock beneath to get some dimension. And that’s my finished card.

Checkout what the rest of the team created mates and our Surprise Party Guest Hilary Wright and the winner of the last challenge have created at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog!

#1034 – STB: Things In A Garden

Hello and welcome! It’s time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time the Topping is chosen by Nancy to be ‘Things in a Garden‘. What she means is to use words beginning with your initials to be featured in your project. If the topping is not your thing, just make a birthday related project to join!

And here’s what I made –

I used the stamp sets from Waffle Flower called Enveloper Little Birdie and Enveloper Birthday. My initial idea was to do no line watercoloring, but my stamping didn’t come out right on the watercolor paper I had chosen. Instead, I switched up. I thought since the stamp is so detailed, including beautiful solid lines, I could just stamp them in a single color to make it stand out. I would have preferred a letterpress look, if I knew how to do it! 😀

So I chose Paper Trey Ink Rustic Cream cardstock and stamped the images with a reddish brown ink. The sentiment came from Reverse Confetti Simply Sentiments.

And that finished my card! Checkout what the rest of the team created mates and our Surprise Party Guest Hilary Wright and the winner of the last challenge have created at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog!