Krafty Chicks Challenge #749: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

I am having so much fun on the Design Team (DT) for the Krafty Chicks Challenge that I signed on for another year. Let me give you a small bio: we are a team of 4 designers dedicated to bring you inspiration on weekly challenges. We've changed things up a bit for 2025. Our goal is to keep paper crafting simple with these themes: BIRTHDAY, CHRISTMAS, CAS (Clean And Simple), and MASCULINE. Ok maybe the last one isn't so simple... if you're me. We all need these cards in our stash anyway, so why not have a fun challenge to play along with. We hope to see you in the gallery. Now let's get started with challenge:

#749 BIRTHDAY

What's the first thing you notice about this card??

I see purple! If you know me, you know I've been saying for years that I'm not a fan of any shade of purple with the exception of flowers. Yet purple seems to get thrown at me at every chance. And lately, I've been okay with it! So moving forward, I will be embracing the purple in my life.

For this BIRTHDAY card, I'm using Layout #16 from page 22 of Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalogue. I love that they have included these card designs to inspire us paper crafter who sometimes get stuck on where to begin.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: You Are Amazing (Retired)
  
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159299), Wisteria Wonder (Retired)
  
• DSP: Have A Cuppa (Retired)
  
• Ink Pads: Wisteria Wonder (Retired)
  
• Accessories: Triple Banner Punch (Retired), Detailed Birthday Edgelits (Retired), Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins (164970, coming January 7th FREE in SAB brochure)
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside of the card and the envelope. Keep it simple with a little DSP and/or coordinating image.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for BIRTHDAY week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Love To Craft Challenge Blog

 Good day my Crafty friends! I hope you all had a swell holiday season. I sure did, with my family. It was all about the great company, the great fun, and the great food!

So I did a thing! I was invited to join a new challenge group. And I accepted!! EEKKK!!! I am a new member of the Design Team (DT) for Love To Craft Challenge Blog. It's a wonderful group of crafty people creating and motivating the viewers to participate in the easy Anything Goes challenge every other month. You have six weeks to make time in your craft space and play along. I can handle that! Can you??

For my first card of the year (yeah it's already 2025), I kept a winter theme with these adorable polar bears.

This Anything Goes challenges runs from today, January 1 to February 15th. Plenty of time to get inky!

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Beary Cute (retired), Mountain Air (retired)
• Card Stock: Mossy Meadow (133676), Crumb Cake (120953), Basic White (159276)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Mossy Meadow (147111)
• Stampin' Blends: Gray Granite (154886)
• Accessories: Brushed Metallic Dots (retired), Nested Dies (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Kept it simple with a few stamped trees.

Hope you enjoyed my card today and that it motivates you to get creative. We all need a little me time, why not get crafty?? Upload your project for this week's Anything Goes theme on the Love To Craft Challenge Blog.