“Framed” for Seize the Birthday

Welcome to the party! Today I am joining the design team at Seize the Birthday (#218) as their surprise party guest. The theme for this new challenge is “framed.” You can use that as inspiration when creating your card, but you also have the option to make any card you want, as long as it is for a birthday. Check out the blog for all the details!

I tried something a little new to me with this card. The dog stamp is from Gerda Steiner Designs, but in real life the image was not as big as it is on my card, so I decided to make it bigger by stamping and then enlarging the image on my printer. I have done this with digital stamps, but never with a regular stamp. Turned out to be pretty easy and gives more options for some of my smaller stamps! (I did the same thing with the cat image on the card below, that one is from Jane’s Doodles.)

Additional Challenges:

Colors inspired by challenge at Color My Heart Color Dare #450

Show Us Your Pussy Cats #68 – anything goes with a cat

Sweet Stampers Challenge #57 – birthday

Gerda Steiner Designs – July challenge

Addicted to Stamps and More #409 – any occasion

21 Replies to ““Framed” for Seize the Birthday”

  2. Love these cards Melanie. They just make you smile! Lovely papers and perfect match to our inspiration photo. Thanks for playing along with Color My Heart Color Dare. X

  3. What an amazing idea to enlarge that stamp with your computer! The ideas are limitless. This card is so much fun from the expression of the dog to the fun colors. I will need to pin this so that I remember this idea.

  6. Melanie, the striped paper is such a great combination of all the colors in the inspiration board. fun and colorful card. Thanks for sharing these cards with us at Color Dare.

  9. Both of these cards are awesome, Melanie! I just love that you enlarged it on your computer and re-printed it! I am working on a Christmas card today and the image is pretty small. I am going to steal that idea if you don’t mind! Thanks for really making our challenge site shine…your work is amazing!

  10. I haven’t done the enlarging trick with non-digital stamps for ages! Worked perfectly here – and Hooray for giving equal time to cats. 😉 Two fantastic framed cards!

  11. Awesome card Melanie, love how you’ve used all of those designer papers and combined patterns and colours! Brilliant idea to enlarge the stamped image too and I love how the pup is peering out of the frame, thankyou for being our guest, Cathy x

  12. Melanie, I love all the wonderful pattern paper you used, it makes such fabulous birthday cards and along with your very cute die cut critters! Thank you for joining us as our special guest at STB!

  13. This card is bright and cheerful perfect for a birthday card. This car just makes me smile and I’m sure your recipient will smile too. Thank you so much for joining us at CMHCD.

  14. I love all the bright colours and that cute puppy (and kitty). Love the use of the frame too. Thanks for joining us at Colour Dare Challenge, I hope you can join us again soon.

  15. What a bright and beautiful birthday card to cheer someone on their birthday. Love the mix of colours and patterns on the card and the pussy cat is so cute!
    Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM.
    Hugs
    Carol x

  16. So incredibly adorable!! The cards, both, just bring a big smile on my face! I love how you’ve used those bold rainbow pattern papers. Thank you for these absolutely incredible cards as inspiration!

  17. It’s a great idea to resize the stamped images as you want! The pets are so cute in the frames and the patterned papers you used make your cards even more cheerful !

  18. Gorgeous colourful cards, Melanie! I love the combination of the hearts and stripes papers, and the images are so fun!

  19. This little card is just beyond cute with that enlarged puppy image and those wonderful papers! I absolutely LOVE this!!

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