#1078 – STB: Kraft and Another Color

Hello and welcome to the second Seize the Birthday challenge for January. This time, our leading lady Colleen is asking us to use kraft and another color in our card. As always, our Anything Goes challenge is still in play, and you can choose to join us with without the topping, as long as your project is birthday themed.

I chose the color yellow for my card –

I started with the background. I used Altenew Flowing Drops stencil and used brown inks in a lighter and a darker shade to color in. I then die cut the panel using Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles and trimmed it and adhered it over a white card base.

Next, I used CraftAdda Flowers dies to cut out the flowers from white cardstock and Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettia dies to cut out their centers from kraft cardstock. I then colored the flowers with pale yellow, concentrating more color on the center. I also die cut the leaves from the same die set from kraft cardstock and then colored their centers too in a darker brown.

Before adhering the flowers, I had to figure out where to place the sentiment. The sentiment I chose is from Simon Says Stamp Retro Wishes stamp set, which I stamped in two colors, hoping to get as close as possible to the kraft colored cardstock as possible (it doesn’t seem so in the image, but it is pretty close!). I then fussy cut it and then added a few strips of scrap cardstock behind and adhered it together with the flowers and leaves on the card.

Also joining the following challenges with my card –

Inkspirational Challenge #460: Use Stencils

Addicted to Stamps and More #307: Die cut/Stencil

Hop over to the Seize the Birthday challenge blog to checkout more inspiration from the rest of the design team and also our guest designers.

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#1072 – Christmas Ornaments Blessings

Hello and welcome! Here’s a few more of the Christmas cards I had made for a commission. This time it’s a Christmas Ornament theme. Of course, as is obvious by the images below, I’ve used the same design and products and only changed the ornaments I’ve used for each card.

I used the two ornament dies from Spellbinders Nordic Ornaments and the one from Waffle Flower Layered Ornament for the focal. The background embossing is using Taylored Expressions Nordic Holiday embossing folder and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Christmas stamp set, gold heat embossed on the cardstock.

For the ornaments themselves, I used Dress My Craft matt gold foil paper, Brustro Iridescent gold metallic paper and Crafter’s Corner Metallic Flourish Paper. I also die cut the smaller filling pieces using white cardstock and then colored them using Zig Brush pens, doubling them up before adhering them on the ornaments.

I also used a few of Lucy’s gemstones for embellishing and then used some gold tape, which I had in my stash since a long time ago, for tying up the ornament, before finally adhering it on my card.

I’m joining these challenges –

Die Cut Divas November challenge: All About the Holidays

Inkspirational challenge #303: Seasonal

Timeout challenge #252: Winter/Holiday

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#1066 -Christmas Snowflakes

Hello and welcome! It’s time for Happy Little Stampers Watercolor challenge for the month of November and the theme this time is Emboss. Since Christmas is fast approaching, I thought of making some cards with that theme too.

And here’s what I made –

I started with the background. I used a few shades of blue and violet distress inks in lighter tones, smooshed them over an acrylic sheet, misted with water and laid my watercolor paper panel on top. After this dried I repeated the smooshing and drying process until I got enough coverage, color and texture. I then embossed the panel using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Engraved embossing folder and added some Prima wax on top.

After adhering the embossed panel on the cardbase, I noticed that there was just a tiny strip of white showing underneath. So, I added a strip of silver foil washi tape to cover it up. I then die cut a couple of snowflakes using Spellbinders Snowflake Pendant, one from vellum and another from silver glitter paper and then adhered them on the with a pearl for embellishment. The sentiment is a spare I had from last year’s, and it’s from Neat & Tangled Beary Merry stamp set, and the banner is My Favorite Things Stitched Jumbo Fishtail Banner.

Checkout more inspiration from the rest of the DT at the Happy Little Stampers blog.

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#1062 – Miss You

Hello and welcome to the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge for October. As the title suggests, it’s an Anything Goes challenge as long as some die cut is used.

And here’s what I made –

I wanted a teal color for the window, but since I didn’t have the right colored cardstock, I watercolored it using Gansai Tambi watercolors. Once it dried, I die cut a window using Spellbinders A2 Curved Matting Basics B dies. I die cut the flowers using CraftAdda Delicate Flowers dies and watercolored them using Gansai Tambi watercolors as well. I doubled up the layers of flowers to give them some stability since they were so delicate.

Before assembling, I swiped some gold pigment ink on the white background, where the window would be and then I adhered the window panel using foam tape and then added the flower die cuts as well. I then added the sentiment from Mama Elephant In My Heart on scrap white cardstock, trimmed it and adhered it on the card. For embellishing, I added a few dull gold sequins.

And that’s my card. I’m joining the following challenges as well –

Just Add Ink challenge #673: Just choose two (I chose Windows and Flowers)

Timeout challenge #248: Cancer Awareness/Friendship/Encouragement

The Flower challenge #85: Anything Goes

Checkout the what the rest of our DT created at the Happy Little Stampers blog.

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#1060 – STB: Repetitive Die Cut

Hello and welcome! Time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time, our hostess Nancy is asking us to be ‘Repetitive Die Cut‘. Of course, as always, you’re also free to ignore this topping and go with ‘Anything Goes‘ birthday project.

And here’s my creation –

I started with the die cuts, of course. I used Spellbinders Nordic Blooms dies to die cut colored cardstock. I die cut a few extra pieces to adhere together to get some dimension. I then embossed a panel of dark wine colored cardstock using my old Elizabeth Crafts Flower Mosaic embossing folder and adhered it to the cardbase of same cardstock. I then adhered all my die cut pieces. Finally added some pink pearls for embellishing the flowers.

For the sentiment, I used die cuts of Altenew Inline Alpha. However, this wasn’t showing up against the bright die cuts, so I cut out a shadow for each of the letters and adhered them behind to give them some ground. The stamped part of the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Tiny Words.

And that’s my card. It was easy to make, but time consuming to die cut so many pieces! But enjoyable. I was particularly astonished by how gorgeous the embossing was looking on the darker colored cardstock as compared to white, which I usually use – wow, what a difference! Now I know how to use all my old EFs!! 😉

Do hop over to the Seize the Birthday blog to see more inspiration from our design team and our party guests!

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