splish splash

Happy Thursday crafty friends and welcome to another Seize the Birthday Challenge! Shirley has chosen splish splash for our challenge! I feel like you could have a variety of interpretations of this - rain theme, ocean theme, watercolouring (which has a lot of options itself)... No surprise that I chose an ocean theme.  I used some Distress Mica Spray with a stencil to make my ocean background.

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 Surprise Party Guest, Johanna Rundell,

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:

Oceans of Joy - 3.75" x 6"

Stamps: Spellbinders Typewriter Adventure Sentiments

Paper: watercolour paper, shimmer green, white, black & orange cardstock, scrap of yellow patterned paper

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Mica spray

Accessories: Spellbinders Underwater Tunnel and Marine Life dies, Tim Holtz stencil, enamel dots

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

cute critters

At Seize the Birthday this week, JoAnn is getting us to play with cute critters.  I have to admit I'm not usually a critter person but I do have a cute little shark die that I had never used and some new ocean dies... so that all made the task a little less daunting. Snagged a bunch of patterned paper and pulled together this little underwater scene.

Hope you can play along with us! Please be sure to head over to the blog to welcome our new Surprise Party Guest Karen Rogers and previous winner Darnell.  The design team has some adorable creations to check out too!

Hope you can join in the fun this week! Thanks so much for stopping by.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4¼" x 5½" 

Stamps: A Muse 

Inks: Versafine Black

Paper: Yupo silver paper, white card stock, patterned paper

Accessories: Poppy Stamps Whittle Shark die, Spellbinders Underwater Tunnel dies, circle punch

ornate ocean creatures

Those who know me well won't be surprised that I picked the Seize the Birthday challenge for this week. I have a love for all things ocean so picked ocean creatures. Another thing that shouldn't be a surprise is that I've been playing with my alcohol inks again. This was not the first try at this background (I go through a lot of Yupo paper - need to find it in bulk for cheap!) but I'm really happy with how it turned out. The jellies are done with shimmer paper but it's hard to tell.

Every time I play with ocean stuff, I remember I don't have decent size shark stamp that I love (I have a small one). I need to remedy this as I love sharks probably most of all sea creatures. Jellies are pretty cool though too.

Please be sure to give our new  Surprise Party Guest Deepti Aggarwal a very warm welcome.  She is so talented and I look  forward to seeing what she comes up with during her time with us!  Also give some love to the rest of the STB team over on the blog.

I know the world feels heavy right now but I hope you can be kind to yourself and do something you love (like craft!).

Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Glenda

Card details:

celebrate - 5"x7"

Stamp: PTI

Paper: Yupo, white card stock

Ink: Versafine Black, Ranger/Tim Holtz alcohol inks.

Accessories: Memory Box Jellyfish die, SU! word window punch, Trinity Stamps bauble

wondrous wheels

Happy Thursday crafters!  Hope you are doing well.  This week at Seize the Birthday, Shirley has given us the challenge of wheels. The possibilities are endless!  I've been trying my hand at blending... sometimes I am more successful than others. This one was successful and goes well with the water theme.

Hope you can join us this week to create some wondrous wheel creations (or just birthday of course). Head over to the blog to see what our Surprise Party Guest, Lynda and the rest of the team came up with.

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

Glenda

Card details:

happy birthday - 3.5"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches (ship wheel), Avery Elle Loads of Wishes

Ink: Versafine Black, Distress Oxides - Twisted Citron & Broken China

Paper: SU! shimmer (for background), white card stock

Accessories: Altenew Ribbon Waves 3D embossing folder, grommet, stitched ribbon