Thursday, June 30, 2016

Seize The Birthday - Birds, Bees or Butterflies


It's time for a new Seize The Birthday challenge, and this time our topping is Birds, Bees or Butterflies.

I've been in Distress Ink background mode lately, mainly due to catching up on my Tim Holtz Summer of Creativity homework.  For this background, I used a piece of mixed media paper torn from my pad, smooshed and dipped it in Distress Inks, then adhered it to the card front.  The butterfly was smooshed and dipped after it was cut out, but the happy was smooshed and dipped first.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the design team, then add your birthday creation to the gallery.  If you don't fancy doing birds, bees or butterflies, you can still play along provided it's a birthday creation.

17 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Love the beautiful smooshed background ... the colours are fantastic and love the torn note page edge. Your butterfly is so pretty. Awesome card Shirley! xx

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  2. Such vibrant colours, love them. Very artsy and fabulous x

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  3. your colors are awesome ...so vibrant ..thanks for sharing

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  4. What a beautiful butterfly and background!!!!! The colors are fabulous! I love this!!!

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  5. love the look of this beauty mf...
    hugs,
    K

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  6. LOVE the vivid colored background!!

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  7. Gorgeous colors! Love the ripped notebook paper - adds such a whimsical feel to your stunning creation!

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  8. Love the wonderful colors in your smooshed background and that gorgeous butterfly!

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  9. Love the wonderful colors in your smooshed background and that gorgeous butterfly!

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  10. Another gorgeous card Shirley! I always love what you do with your backgrounds, and the patterns on that butterfly are stunning :)

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  11. Bold, birght, beautiful, Shirley ... gorgeous colours! Hugs, Anita :)

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  12. Very pretty again, love the color combo and the splatters.

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  13. A+++ and a position at the top of the class for this homework! Again, in awe...
    Hugs~c

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  14. I don't think my smooshing and dipping would ever turn out this well! LOL This card is sensational. Sorry I am so late commenting I just got back from Seattle! Hope all is well with you!

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  15. Wowie!! Is this ever stunning!

    Patti

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