Happy Birthday and Warm Wishes

I have been meaning to play along with Seize the Birthday #200--to wish them a very happy birthday, but time kept slipping away from me.  Fortunately, I am slipping in before the end of the challenge with my card, which is inspired by the graphic...the colors, the balloons and the script sentiment.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday Challenge: Dry Embossing.

This next card uses a new stamp from Hero Arts called Winter Village, and I used Copic markers to color my scene.  It is almost a 1 layer card--I just cut out and popped up a sentiment.  I am entering this card at A Blog Named Hero: Clean and Simple.

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CASology Week #266: Cake

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is
CAKE.

Funny thing about cake--I actually don't like to eat cake, but I love to stamp it.  Here is a card with the prettiest cake stamp I have.  It is from PTI Just Desserts.

Now it's your turn.  How does CAKE inspire you?  I hope you play along this week.  Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

Anna

Diedre

Hannelie

Jacquie

Janet

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Rachel

Sherrie

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Weekend Recap

 

I have had a massively creative couple of days, and I thought I'd better get everything posted before some challenges end.

First up is a card mostly inspired by the photo at Fusion: Orchid Occasions.  I was inspired by the two lovely aqua vases with pink orchids.

I was inspired to pull out a very old PTI stamp, Gracious Vases for my card.  I colored the flowers with my Zigs and a water brush, and stamped and fussy cut one of the vases and then coated it with Crackle Accents.  As Gracious Vases is old as the hills in stamping time (5 years or so), I'm entering this card at Retro Rubber #35: Anything Goes.

I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #187: Make your Mark.

The challenge at Less is More #270 is White Space but not White.  That gave me the inspiration to try something I have had in the back of my mind for a while.

I stamped Ellen Hutson Mondo Magnolia in Versamark and then white embossed it.  I fussy cut a sentiment from the same set stamped in black on white.

I feel like I saw something like this eons ago, but am not sure.  If this is based on your card, please let me know and I will give credit.  I am also entering this card at CAS on Sunday #80: Flowers.

How about some birthday cakes?   I broke out my new PTI Just Desserts stamps and dies for two cards.  This first one went to my husband for his birthday.  His favorite birthday tradition is a particular birthday cake that looks just like this one--and as he was out of town for his birthday, I made him this cake on a card to tide him over until he can have the real thing.  

I used a PTI stencil for the background, and will enter this card at AAA Cards #61: Stencil and Seize the Birthday (without toppings).

I used Freshly Made Sketches #230 to inspire my next birthday cake creation.

I used a column of randomly sized score lines in the front middle of my card to represent one of the slements of the sketch.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

Last up is a card inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown #386 and the scoring techniques taught at Make it Monday #244.

I created a frame on my card front with score lines.

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