wonderful wings

Thanks again to all of those who play along with my CAS+dies topping last time at Seize the Birthday.  It was a wonderful gallery!

Sticking to a CAS mode again this week for Jenny's anything with wings challenge.  I love travelling so 'wings' always makes me think of flying, hence the airplane! I used some patterned paper for the background and just coloured in the hearts. Edged the white panel with some of the blue ink just to make it stand out a bit better.  Figure this sentiment would suit well for a birthday... what do you think?

Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to check the blog to see what our Surprise Party Guest, Helen, previous winner, and the rest of the design team came up with! This is Helen's last week with us - thank you so much Helen for your wonderful creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Always appreciate the comments,

Glenda

Card details:

new day, new adventures - 5½ x 4¼

Stamps: Spellbinders (sentiment), SU! (image)

Paper: white & yellow card stock, patterned paper

Ink: Distress Oxide Broken China

Accessories: Tombow marker, enamel dot

CAS + dies

It's the first challenge in February for Seize the Birthday and it's my turn to pick the challenge.  If you visit me a lot, you know one of my favourite styles is clean and simple (CAS). I decided to spice up the CAS topping by adding dies. Used some abstract shape dies and one of my favourite colour combos for my card.  Hope you like it!

Hope you can play along with us! Be sure to check the blog to see what our Surprise Party Guest, Helen, previous winner Valerie, and the rest of the design team came up with!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Always appreciate the comments,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4¼ x 4¼

Stamps: Ellen Hutson/Julie Ebersole Totally Random Saying Vol. 3

Paper: white, red, kraft and black cardstock

Ink: Versafine Black

Accessories: Swiss Dots embossing folder, Tim Holtz Abstract Elements dies

sparkly snowflakes

Happy 2026 craft friends!  I'm a bit late joining the team for Seize the Birthday this week... hopefully that's not how the rest of my year is going to go!

Barbara has chosen the topping "make your own snowflake background" for us.  I'm happy to say that I haven't seen a significant amount of snowflakes around here this year yet! Fingers crossed snowflakes stay in the background here.  I went CAS with my card this week - just some snowflake dies with sparkly paper and a simple sentiment. This is definitely one of those cards that looks better in person than in the photo!

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see what the rest of the team came up with and give a welcome to our new Surprise Party Guest Helen and previous winner Stephanie.

Wishing you all the best for 2026!

Thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

Have a Cozy Birthday  - 4 ¼ "x 5 ½"

Stamps: Altenew Hellow Winter

Paper: white and blue cardstock, sparkle paper

Ink: Versafine Black, SU! Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: red pearl, Spellbinders snowflake dies

Christmas supplies?!

It's our last challenge of the 2025 at Seize the Birthday and Ashwini has challenged us to use Christmas supplies. It's a doozy for me! My creative brain only wants to use Christmas supplies for Christmas cards - lol. So I had to make it easy on myself - sorry Ashwini! I grabbed a Christmas stencil that is easily used for other occasions and made a CAS, single layer card.

Hope you can join us! Please check out the blog to see what fabulous creations the design team, our Surprise Party Guest Johanna, and previous winner Liz, have come up with!

Always so grateful for the comments.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend. It's been a fun year and I look forward to what we create for Seize the Birthday in 2026!

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday  - 3"x 6"

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: kraft card stock

Ink: Versafine Balck, Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Ink Antique Linen (edge), white pigment ink

Accessories: red pearls, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Sparkle Fade stencil, EK Success corner rounder punch