Thursday, January 16, 2014

Seize the Birthday

Hello, everyone, I'm so glad you could join me today!  This is my very first posting as a member of the Seize the Birthday design team.  I'm so excited to  be here!



For the 2nd challenge of January, our topping is - To make a birthday card with coloring.  I have a couple of reasons for making my card the way I did.  Take a look and then I will explain.


January has always been a blue month for me, so I wanted to change that and have a lot of color.  Did you know that there is a flower for January?  Actually, I found two. One is the carnation and the other is the snowdrop.  I am using a gorgeous carnation stamp from Gina K. Designs that was illustrated by Melanie Muenchinger.  For the topping this week, I colored my carnation with Copic markers.  The patterned paper is called Watercolor Garden.  It is a gorgeous orange paper with a red and white swirly pattern.  All of the colors I used were pulled from this paper.

Gina K. Designs Stately Flowers 4 & Birthday Duo
GKD Watercolor Garden patterned paper
GKD Pure Luxury White & Red Velvet card stock
Spellbinders A2 Floral Ribbon Threader, Labels Twenty-Nine & Ribbon Banners
Offray Ribbon

Please come visit the Seize the Birthday page and see what the rest of the team have come up with for this challenge.  I hope you are inspired by what you see, and will join us!  We would love to see what you create!

8 comments:

  1. What a gorgeous creation! Love the red carnation! Glad you told us that the carnation was a January flower also , because I didn't know that! Have a Blessed day!

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  2. Congratulations! Your card is a stunner! That dies is fantastic and your coloring is fabulous! Well done!

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  3. Beautiful card, I love these bold colors and the pretty image.

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  4. Oh, I LOVE this!!! Mostly because of the bright, cheery colors. A serious step up from the dreary January weather. And believe me I mean drearly - we rarely have sunshine this time of year. What a great die you have used, and your coloring is superb, as usual. Gorgeous my dear!

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  5. Welcome to the DT, Sharyn! This card is gorgeous..love the bright cheery colors, it will certainly give the recipient a warm glow!

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  6. Wow Sharyn...your coloring is amazing. This card is gorgeous!
    I'm so excited to happy to be creating with you and the rest of the DT at STB. :)

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  7. Well...you know how I feel about this card! Really really impressed! :)

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  8. Beautiful card and beautiful colors. Love the gorgeous carnation and the banner. So glad to have you joining our STB design team.

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Thank you for your kind comments. I always appreciate hearing from you.