Seize The Birthday - Use Your Favourite Colour

 Hello, we've got a new challenge at Seize The Birthday - Use Your Favourite Colour, hosted by JoAnn.

It was hard to narrow it down to one colour, but I do always like to see and to use teal/turquoise/aqua - any variation.  I find it a very calming colour.

My card uses a Unity Stamp for the main image and a Gina K stamp for the sentiment.  I actually made the background from scratch to match this theme rather than look through my stash of mop-ups.  I used Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers, with a touch of Rusty Hinge for balance, then I ran it through an embossing folder for texture.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday website to see the favourite colours of the rest of the design team and our Surprise Party Guests and join in the fun.  If you don't want to keep to your favourite colour, you can always play along under our Anything Goes theme.

Visible Image - Love of Nature

For my Visible Image DT assignment I wanted to share this multi-layered floral card using the gorgeous Blooming Fabulous stamp set from the new collection Love of Nature.

It goes so well with Colourful Life from the February release that I couldn't pass up using them together.

I started off by stamping all three flowers several times onto white card.

Then I started watercoloring loosely (sloshing) Distress Inks over the flowers.  I deliberately went outside the lines to keep the colour random and loose but kept the colour similar on each of the smaller flowers.

With the large flowers, I painted some pink and some more orange, then cut away some of the petals on the orange flowers so that I could layer them on top of the pink ones.

I stamped the sentiment onto pink white-core card and scuffed the edges for the white to show.

A plain black card base would have been too stark so I spritzed it with Distress Spritz sprays.

The larger droplets give nice colour, but the spritzing also leaves a lovely fine mist over the card too.  Then it was just a case of putting everything together.

I tucked the smaller flowers under the larger ones, and added the sentiment block in the lower left corner.

You can get the Blooming Fabulous set and the rest of the new release from the Visible Image website.

Seize The Birthday - Food and/or Drink

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge at Seize The Birthday, and our host Glenda has chosen Food and/or Drink.

Time for another mop-up panel, this time with spritz and shimmer!  The coffee pot image is from Aall & Create, as are the blue rub-ons.  The sentiment is from Gina K.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for more fabulous food and drink inspiration from the team and our Surprise Party Guests, and play along.  If the theme doesn't float your boat, you can always play along with our Anything Goes theme.

Visible Image - New Collection

Hellooo!  Mark's been busy designing a new release, and you're going to love it!  Some of the stamp sets are in a similar style to the earlier Floral Release and they work beautifully with those stamps, as you will see from the Design Team's creations.

I've used the non-floral stamp set in the release, Soulmates, and one of the new stencils, Atmospheric, to create this anniversary tag.

I started by cutting a tag then sponging it with Distress Inks.

After blasting it with the heat gun I added texture using the Atmospheric stencil and silver paste.

While that was drying I stamped the sentiments onto white card, cut them out then ripped along the edges.

I stamped the large heart with Versamark onto black card and embossed using silver embossing powder and fussy cut the image.  The black background gives a nice contrast against the silver paste and the lighter colours of the tag.

I also stamped the two smaller hearts with Versamark and embossed with Salvaged Patina Distress Glaze for some extra sheen.

Then it was just a case of adding the sentiments, an eyelet and some baker's twine to finish off the tag.

You can see the new release over on the Visible Image blog here.