The theme at Seize the Birthday is to create a Birthday card with no stamping.

One of my favorite ways to papercraft without stamping is to use paper and ephemera from a single paper collection. Today's cards feature October Afternoon's Public Library Collection. Since I reminisced on ice cream yesterday, today I'll reminisce on the public library.
Growing-up, our local Carnegie Public Library was one of my absolute favorite places to be. The children's library was in the basement, with the stairway right inside the first set of doors (up a small flight of stairs, were the doors to the adult floor, which seemed like an off-limits sanctuary.
I loved the children's librarian. She would ask how I liked the books I was returning and would recommend others she thought I might like. I had two book rules - nothing about animals or Indians. I have no idea how I developed those rules, but I held pretty stead fast to them.
For my cards, I cut up a piece of Card Catalog paper for my card base. I remember graduating to using the card catalog in 7th grade when I wrote my first term paper on Paris and its role in high fashion. I loved the magic of those wonderful little drawers.

I added ephemera from the collection on top of the little drawers. I added a yellow Happy Birthday sticker to this one and pulled in some yellow stars to tie it together.
I remember the joy of graduating to the adult library for my reading. Our 8th grade Language Arts teacher Leota Phipps had her own paperback library in her room. You could read any of the books on her list and take a quiz for extra credit. It was an amazing collection, and I still remember many of them ... The Bell Jar, The Robe, Animal Farm, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Same theme on card number two combining ephemera with the Happy Birthday sticker.
I would check out the allowed amount of books (6 or 7 I believe) and curl up in my blue bean bag beside my open window and read my summers away.

And one more card with the same combination. These theme will help you pull lots of cards together quickly with this fun, quick collage style.