gorgeous gardens

Happy Thursday crafty friends.  Linda has picked our Seize the Birthday topping for this week and she wants us to make a spring garden. I decided to go big & bold with my flowers.  I'm really happy with how the green background makes the pink & orange flowers pop.

Be sure to head over to the blog to see the glorious creations from our Surprise Party Guest Jennie M, previous winner Bonnie, and the rest of the design team.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

for you - 4½" x 5 ¼" 

Stamp: Paper Smooches

Paper: orange, pink, blue & green card stock

Ink: Versafine Black 

Accessories: Spellbinders dies

terrific tags

Happy Thursday crafty friends. Jules has picked our Seize the Birthday topping for this week and she wants us to use a tag. I just wanted to use a bunch of fun little bits ... and this is what I came up with.  The card base looked a little bare so added a splotchy stamp with Versamark ink.  I seem to have trouble putting a tag on a card that is straight up and down... always has to be at an angle.  lol.

Be sure to head over to the blog to give some crafty love to our Surprise Party Guest Jennie M, previous winner Leslie Miller, and the rest of the design team.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

best wishes - 4½" x 5¼" 

Stamp: Spellbinders

Paper: kraft & green card stock, graph paper

Ink: Versafine Black & Versamark

Accessories: tag die, SU! circle scribble die, ribbon & twine, enamel heart

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

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

extraordinary embossing

It's September... so hard to believe! I'm not ready to let go of summer yet so I'll be wearing my sandals and skirts for as long as I can ... I'm laughing because it is a running joke here in Canada that we talk about the weather A LOT! 

This week Jenny has picked embossing for the Seize the Birthday topping. It may be hard to see but I've used a Swiss dots embossing folder for the sections on this.  I got this fabulous die set recently and it was the best way I could figure out to incorporate embossing.

Hope you can join us for this fun challenge! Be sure to hop over to the blog to see the other excellent creations by the rest of the team and welcome our new Surprise Party Guest, Johanna Rundell, and previous winner Rachel.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

You Make a Year Older Look Fabulous - 5" x 5"

Stamps: MFT Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings 2

Paper: white & gray card stock

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxides

Accessories: enamel dots, ProvoCraft Swiss Dots embossing folder, Spellbinders Reel Color dies

flower free

Happy Thursday crafty friends.  So hard to believe it's mid August!  Where is my summer going?!?! I'm a such a summer person - it's my birthday time, I love the warm weather & being outside, I love cold drinks on the patio and fresh produce. 

Jules has picked no flowers as our topping at Seize the Birthday. I love this topping as I'm a guilty as the next person at defaulting to flowers... but it's really not that hard not to use flowers.  I chose a to do a CAS card with some rich colours and using a new stencil.  This stencil reminds me of RADAR, so using the 'sending' sentiment was appropriate because it makes me think of transmitting wishes, like RADAR transmits radio waves. OMG - I'm such a nerd. Sending this off to a special person, along with a book, for their birthday next week. 

Be sure to check out the blog for the fantastic creations from the design team and our Surprise Party Guest Karen Letchworth and previous winner Cassandra. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

Sending Birthday Wishes - 3 ¾"  x 5 ½" 

Paper: white & black card stock

Ink: Distressed Oxide - Mowed Lawn, Uncharted Mariner, Villainous Poison 

Accessories: EK Success corner round punch, Tim Holtz Wheel stencil, Spellbinders Mini Everyday Sentiments & die cut, frosted gems

grey & pink

I'm not usually a pink person (which most people know) but I have a new to me die set that suits pink really well. So using it for the latest Colour Hues challenge was no brainer. I found some scraps of pink paper that all went together so pretty happy with how this turned out.

Thanks to Carol for getting me out of my comfort zone by using pink.

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by,
Glenda

Card details:

happiness blooms- 4 ¼" x 5 ½"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Ink: Distress Festive Berries

Paper: grey card stock, scraps

Accessories: MFT stitched rectangles, Memory Box Fuchsia Bud Duo die, gem 

yellow & green

Happy Friday friends! Hope you've had a good week.

I've decided to use my new dies again today (see yesterday's post) and play along with Color Hues. In the background is some sparkly texture paste run through a stencil.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4 ¼ x 5 ½ 

Ink: Distress Oxides Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Iced Spruce

Paper: white & black card stock, Distress Watercolour paper

Accessories: Altenew Daisy Spray, Spellbinders Mini Everyday Sentiments hot foil plate & die, Distress Sparkle Texture Paste, Tim Holtz Leafy Layering stencil

my favourite colour is red

Happy Thursday crafty friends!  Over at Seize the Birthday, JoAnn has asked us to use our favourite colour.  Should come as no surprise that I chose red. I just got this new Altenew set from my local-ish crafty store Crafty Capers.

Be sure to check out the blog for the fabulous creations from the design team, Surprise Party Guest Karen Letchworth, and our previous winner Jenn. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4 ¼ x 5 ½ 

Paper: white, black & red card stock, A Muse zigzag paper

Accessories: MFT stitched rectangle die, Altenew Daisy Spray, Spellbinders Mini Everyday Sentiments hot foil plate & die, gems 

more red & white

I love the current Colour Hues challenge so much that I've made another one! I also haven't used this new Spellbinders die set very much so thought I would use it for this CAS card. Really quick and easy but I love how it turned out.

Wishing you a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead.

Thanks for stopping by,
Glenda

Card details:

a little note - 4 ½ x 4 ½ 

Stamps: A Muse (sentiment), Taylored Expressions Field Notes (background grid)

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxide Lost Shadow (stamped off twice)

Paper: white, black & red card stock

Accessories: Spellbinders Push Pin Die Set

birthday cheers

Welcome to July crafty friends! It's summer here which means you'll frequently find me outside with some delicious food and cold beverages.  So at Seize the Birthday this week, I've chosen food &/or drink for the topping.  No surprise that I've "poured" myself a martini for this card.  I have so many cocktail stamps and dies so thought I would make use of them. It's a little hard to see but I used an embossing folder on the martini class.

Wanted to extend a warm welcome to our new Surprise Party Guest Karen Letchworth, and our previous winner Julia Aston. Be sure to see the rest of the delicious and refreshing creations over at the blog. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

cheers - 4 ¼ x 5 ½ 

Paper: black, white, blue, green and red cardstock

Accessories: Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System, Spellbinders Confetti hot foil plate, silver foil, Hero Arts Martini dies, Paper Smooches cheers die, embossing folder

fancy folds

Welcome to June crafty friends!  Hope all is well in your world.

Barbara has challenged us to make a fancy fold card this week at Seize the Birthday.  Full confession - this is the third card I made for this challenge (I photographed both of the others and decided that they were just meh). I ended up being happy with this vertical easel card. This is a great 'bang for your buck' card and the tutorial for it is here.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner Chris. Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

I'm also entering this in to the latest colour challenge at our sister challenge Color Hues. I really love this colour combo (and just as an FYI - coral is different than pink ;) ).

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

best wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches

Ink: Versafine Black

Paper: white & coral card stock, sage designer paper

Accessories: Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug embossing folder

fabulous frames

Welcome crafty friends! Ashwini is hosting this week and has chosen frames as the topping for us this week at Seize the Birthday. I thought these underwater tunnel dies from Spellbinders would make a perfect frame. This card was also a great way to use up a bunch of scraps for the coral, fish & seagrass. 

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the fantastic creations from the rest of the team, our terrific Surprise Party Guest Wanda and previous winner, the wonderful Carol! Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but we love it when you do.

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Ink: Versafine Black

Paper: white card stock, vellum, scraps of patterned & glitter paper

Accessories: Spellbinders Underwater Tunnel and Marine Life dies

stunning stencils

Hey crafty friends!  So hard to believe that it's getting towards the end of April.  Spring has arrived here on the west coast of Canada... I'm just hoping it sticks around.  Gotta' hate 'fake spring' - lol!

Shirley has picked stencils as the topping for us this week at Seize the Birthday.  I used a new-to-me stencil from Lavinia (with 2 different white inks) and also a new-to-me Spellbinders foil plate (shout out to my local-ish craft store - Crafty Capers - where a purchased these). Confession: I made a card for this challenge back in January but looked at it earlier this week and thought "uh nope". Haha. I'm not sure if this counts as 'bokeh'? Oh well, even if not, pretty happy with how this turned out.

Be sure to head over to the blog to check out the stunning creations from the rest of the team, our Surprise Party Guest Leslie and previous winner Claire! Hope you can play along with us - using the topping isn't mandatory but I think the "challenge-chooser" gets an extra warm fuzzy when you do (I know I do!).

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

Have a terrific day and a wonderful upcoming weekend.

Take care,

Glenda

Card details:

birthday wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: none!

Ink: Hero Arts Unicorn pigment ink, Memories white

Paper: white & green card stock, vellum 

Accessories: Lavinia white orb stencil, Spellbinders Curved Everyday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die plus matte gold foil, stitched circle die, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

big birthday

Happy crafty Thursday friends! Jenny has picked 'milestone birthday' for our Seize the Birthday challenge this week. I have a set of chipboard map letters/numbers that I thought would be fun to use for this card. I tend to hoard collect travel themed stuff so found some map paper to layer in behind. I have friends everywhere from 30 to 70+ so picked the middle - figuring that someone's 50th birthday would likely come up eventually - lol.

Be sure to check out the blog to gift some crafty love to the rest of the design team, our Surprise Party Guest, Leslie, and previous winner, Renate.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a terrific day.

Glenda

Card details:

adventure awaits - 4.25"x4.25"

Stamps: Spellbinders (sentiments), A Muse (th)

Ink: Versafine black

Paper: cream, black and kraft card stock, patterned paper (can't remember the manufacturer)

Accessories: American Crafts map numbers, Prism Studio stitched square die cuts