Seize The Birthday - No stamping, Dies Only

 Hello!  JoAnn is our host for this week's Seize The Birthday, and she's chosen No Stamping, Dies Only.

I went for a Happy Birthday die by MFT and used metallic patterned paper on a purple linen panel, matted onto a lilac linen base card.  Here's a photo with the copper metallic catching the light.

So come and join us in the Seize The Birthday gallery with your dies-only birthday creation.  Or if dies aren't your thing, you could always play along with our Anything Goes theme.

See you in the gallery!

STAMPlorations - Simple Expressions

New product alert at STAMPlorations - Simple Expressions.

Shery's got a new release in the Designer Series of stamps.  Each mini set contains a solid and outline word, along with a coordinating script phrase.  And if you pair them with a qualifying paper goods pack, you'll get 40% off the pack.

I've used Create A Life You Love, along with Comic Pop Pocket Backgrounds to create two vibrant cards in next to no time.

For the first card I literally just cut along the zigzag lines to get the yellow section to streak across the card, then stamped and coloured the focal sentiment to match the colour scheme.  I added a few red pearl gems to finish off.

For the second card, I used the remainder of the background paper, stamped the word in the gap and added a few arrow stickies.

Two cards from just one of the sheets of background paper.

They're great little stamps, and you can combine them with so many of the paper goods options.

Take a look at the selection in the STAMPlorations store, and while you're there you can get 20% of all stamps, dies and stencils if you use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY.

Seize The Birthday - Funny/Pun-y

 Hello!  Our new challenge for you at Seize The Birthday is Funny/Pun-y, chosen by Jenny.

Or if you'd rather, you can play along with any birthday project in our Anything Goes category.

I went all-out colourful with these fun stamps from PaperArtsy.  I stamped, coloured and cut all the images and created a colourful stencil background (The Crafter's Workshop).  The pun-y sentiment is part of the PaperArtsy set, the Happy Birthday is by - I can't remember.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and our surprise party guests, and join in the funny, pun-y fun!