Thursday, January 9, 2025

Seize the Birthday - Use Something New

 Hello friends.  Hope you all had a good start to the New Year - 2025.  This is Seize the Birthday's first challenge of the new year and Cathy wants to see something new on our cards.


My new items are Altenew  Perfect Gift stamp & dies, and Altenew Basic Plaid 3D EF.  Love the background texture from the EF.   I stamped the flower in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with SU Rococo Rose (ret.) and Granny Apple Green Blends. I added a light yellow center and used my black Micro pen to go over the stamen dots.  I mounted the flower with foam tape.  I used Memory Box Happy Birthday Debut Script die for the sentiment and cut a black layer and a white layer with just the top die layer.  I did not use the shadow die, instead I glued the layers together off setting them for a thin shadow effect.

Be sure to check out all the fabulous cards by the team, and our party guests, using something new on their cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,
JoAnn

11 comments:

  1. Happy New Year, JoAnn! Hope Santa was good to you also and your birthday was nice. Love your first card of the year. Of course your flowers always look great and I love the shadowed greeting. Well done.

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  2. A simple card made special with the use of a fabulous embossing folder and lovely colored flower. Great job, JoAnn!

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  3. Pretty card - I love that embossed background also

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  4. With a lovely EF like this one, all you need is to add a beautiful flower and a sentiment. This is your signature card and I love it.

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  5. Pretty card, JoAnn! The big bold flower looks great against the diamond embossed background. Great way to do the sentiment too.

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  6. JoAnn, I knew I could count on you to come up with a beautiful floral card. So pretty with that great EF. Happy New Year.

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  7. Happy New Year JoAnn. Gorgeous floral and I love the ef, such a pretty card, Cathy x

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  8. Another beautiful floral to start off 2025! Hope this year is good to you. Happy Birthday to all of your January family!

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  9. It's great to see another lovely flower, JoAnn! I love the soft pink and I agree - the embossing looks great!

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  10. Love how you did the sentiment and that textured background is perfect for the flower. Great card!

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