Hello there!
Are you ready for a new challenge at Seize The Birthday? It's time!
AND I'm hosting this challenge, my first since joining the STB Team a couple months ago. I'm excited. It also happens to be my birthday today, so a double celebration for me!
I had to choose the Toppings theme as part of my hosting gig and I chose Favorite Fall Treat. If you've been to my blog recently, you know Halloween is my favorite holiday besides Christmas and Fall is my favorite season besides spring. I love the cooler weather, leaves turning and sitting by a fire outside. I also have fond memories of falls as a teen, our church youth group would spend a Saturday picking apples at a local orchard and then making apple cider on the church parking lot with an old hand turning cider press made by one of the church members. I think the most fun was picking the apples as we got to climb the trees too. We would bottle the cider and sell it to raise money for a trip or charity. We would always end the day with pizza and a small bonfire with marshmallows. Oh, the days gone by.
SO, the Toppings is Favorite Fall Treat, which can be anything - a hot beverage, apple pie, pumpkin pie, smores, etc. I chose apples/apple cider for mine. I still love a mug of hot cider with a cinnamon stick or maybe a shot of Fireball Cinnamon whiskey too!
If you're not a Toppings kind of crafter, there's our Anything Goes challenge as well, just make sure it's a birthday card. Stop by the STB blog and check out all the other scrumptious cards created by the rest of the Design Team and our Party Guests!
Card Supplies:
Stamps: Apples - Appley Ever After (CP Designs); Sentiment- Birthday Icons (CP Designs)
Paper: Neenah Solar White 110#; Neenah Natural White; Patterned Paper - To The Orchard (CP Designs).
Ink: Rockin' Red, Cove Blue, Buttercream, Spruce, Sand Castle (CP Designs)
Extras: Mug and steam dies (MFT Stamps); Apple basket (CP Designs); Coordinating apples dies for apple stamps (CP Designs); Coordinating banner die for sentiment (CP Designs); EF - Basketweave (Cuttlebug).
Thank you for stopping by for a visit. Hope you come again soon!
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Nance
10 comments:
Such a gorgeous card Nance! Love the pp, colours and texture. I've never had hot cider, but I'd liked to! Thanks for a fun Topping:)
Before I forget happy happy birthday. I enjoyed reading about your wonderful memories of fall that you've had with your church group. This was a challenge for some people but I thoroughly enjoyed it as it brought back memories from our recent trip to Ireland. As you can see that's where I went with my card. I think your card displayed your memories very well. Thanks for the challenge
Oh, Happy Birthday Nance, hope you had a great one. Thanks for the fun topping and I love your take on it with your cute card of apple cider and a basket of apples. Sounds like a great time you had with your church youth group as a teen. I used to love climbing trees also, many. many years ago. :)
I certainly hope you had a wonderful Birthday and we are the lucky ones to have you as part of our team. Looks like this card brought back some terrific memories of your childhood. I love the mix of papers and that apple stamp is just perfect! Darling card! I hope it is a full gallery but if not, generally this time of year people are focusing on Holiday cards. So don't dismay!
Nance, thanks for the fun challenge and Happy Birthday. I was up in Seattle for my aunt's 90 birthday on the 23rd. Great card to depict a lovely memory making apple cider with your Youth Group. Lovely card. Have a nice week.
Like the sound of cider and whiskey lol! Love the pops of red in this card, hope you had a lovely birthday and got to enjoy lots of Autumn treats, Cathy x
Your patterned background is perfect for this challenge. Your basket of apples and mug of cider are awesome. Thanks for the challenge and happy belated birthday!
It looks like a treat, indeed! I love the pattern paper you've used too. I can see how they would make one nostalgic as well. It's was great challenge too! Thanks Nance!
I grew up with all of the things you love about fall too. Unfortunately we don't get that in Florida. We all went with beverages/pumpkins so it's delightful to see an apple theme. I really love your color scheme too.
I love where you went with your challenge, Nance! Mulled cider is a thing in the UK as an alternative to mulled wine - I like both ;)
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