Seize the Birthday #297-Use Something New

Hello Crafters, Happy New Year, and welcome to our first challenge for 2025!

It's Cathy here hosting this round and I thought it would be fun to start off by using some new goodies that may be in your stash from Christmas or even earlier!

Before we get to the cards below, I want to introduce you to our next Surprise Party Guest. We have Amanda Mertz joining us for the next two months.  Welcome Amanda, we're happy to have you alongside us!

Amanda Mertz

Here is a little bit about her! 

I'm Amanda Mertz and I live in Glen Allen, Virginia, USA (just outside of Richmond) with my husband, 2 teen boys, and 2 labrador retrievers.  I'm thrilled to be joining Seize the Birthday design team as a Party Guest for the next two months! I've been stamping since 2003 and have been having a blast with it ever since!  I love participating in challenges so that I have a starting point to make me stay focused when I have soooooo many different products to choose from!  I use any reason I can to stay in my stamp room but when I do venture out I love to walk with my dogs, read, and try to complete all the NY Times daily puzzles.

Along with Amanda, we have Valerie and Denise joining us, they both were winners of previous challenges.  Happy to have you ladies designing with us too!

    

Now, let's get to the oodles of inspiration below! 

Our "Topping" option this time is...

If you're not a toppings kinda person, well...you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes" Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

Surprise Party Guests:

Amanda

Valerie

Denise

The Design Team:

Jules

Vicki

Barbara 

Ashwini

Linda

Cathy

Glenda

Shirley

JoAnn

Nancy

Challenge Rules:

1. It must be a Birthday project, however, our topping is optional.

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or online gallery. 

4. Please include one of our graphics and link back to our blog or IG account.

5. You may combine this challenge with up to 4 other challenges. 

6. When using digital images they must have been colored by hand.

7. The winner using our topping will be invited to be a guest on a future challenge. 

 Most importantly, HAVE FUN! 

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, January 21st.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners post #296 Masculine

                                                 Hello Crafters, Barb here!

 I was very happy to see so many entries for this challenge especially in this very busy time of year. Many of you even used our topping too and I hope that you had as much fun creating your entry as I had looking at them and reading your posts. Here we go! 

 

Congratulations!

Denise

and

Deborah Wheeler

You both managed to "Take the Cake" this week!

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

DENISE, Please contact Nancy at Leppeknancy@gmail.com 

and she will give you all the details about guesting with us. 

Now, this week's Runner Ups who will be receiving 

"Birthday Honours" are...

Congratulations!

Karen Walker

Marie Flyer

Jenny Martin

We hope you ALL will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

The Design Team is going to be taking a break and we wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season. 

We look forward to seeing you all on January 9th, 2025 for our first Topping of the New Year. 

Barbara 

Seize the Birthday #296 Masculine

 Hello Crafters,

 It is Thanksgiving Day and we at Seize the Birthday want to wish you a wonderful day. We have so much to be thankful for this year.  It is also our last challenge for 2024.  I am the host for this challenge, and I chose a theme that we all need, but it may be the biggest challenge for most. I know that it is for me. It's Barbara and I have decided to choose Masculine as the topping for this last challenge of 2024.

Before we get to the cards below, I want to thank Colleen for being a Fabulous DT member the past 10 years!  Today is her final post with us and we wish her well as she frees up more time to spend with her family.  I also need to thank Fran Wing for being such a wonderful Surprise Party Guest the past two months we have enjoyed having you in our line up.!  Today we have Claire joining us as she was the overall winner of our previous challenge. Welcome, Claire! 

 Now, let's see what you can do with this Topping.  I personally, made two ideas for you, please check out the inspiration from the team and guests below.  

  

Our "Topping" option this time is...

If you're not a toppings kinda person, well...you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes" Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

Surprise Party Guests

Fran

Claire

The Design Team

Barbara

Ashwini

JoAnn

Colleen

Linda

Shirley

Nancy

Jules

 

Vicki

Cathy

Challenge Rules:

1. It must be a Birthday project, however, our topping is optional.

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or online gallery. 

4. Please include one of our graphics and link back to our blog or IG account.

5. You may combine this challenge with up to 4 other challenges. 

6. When using digital images they must have been colored by hand.

7. The winner using our topping will be invited to be a guest on a future challenge. 

 Most importantly, HAVE FUN! 

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, November 10th. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner’s Post # 295-Focal One

 Hi all, Ashwini here. I saw some really beautiful, unique cards in the gallery this time. Thank you for taking the time to play and make some birthday cards! Without further ado, here are the winners of the 'Focal One' challenge -

Congratulations!

Valerie

and

Kathy

You both managed to "Take the Cake" this week!

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Valerie, please contact Nancy at Leppeknancy@gmail.com 

and she will give you all the details about guesting with us. 

Now, this week's Runner Ups who will be receiving 

"Birthday Honours" are...

Congratulations!

Lesley K

Johanna 

Jolanda

We hope you ALL will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our new Topping

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned!

Ashwini

Reminder #295-Focal One

 Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to join us for our latest challenge.  

The topping is...

If you're not a topping kind of person well, you can just

stick with our usual "Anything Goes" Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Just remember to make it a Birthday theme! 

You can just scroll down to find the challenge link!

You have until 9AM (PST) on November 26th to join us!

Happy Crafting! 

         Nanc'                

 

Seize the Birthday #295-Focal One

Hello Crafters, Ashwini here, hosting this challenge. Almost nearing the end of the year which also means nearly the end of challenges for this year. We will have one more after this one. Many of you might be busy making cards for Christmas, but how about taking a break with something you can probably make quickly?

    

Our "Topping" option this time is...

What this means is, in your card, for the focal image, use only one stamp and stamp it only once. No more stamping is allowed on the focal image. However, you are free to color it and free to do anything else with the rest of the card.

 Also, you can use a coordinating die on your stamped piece (as it will result in a single die cut.)

If you're not a toppings kinda person, well...you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes" Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

Surprise Party Guests

Fran

The Design Team

Ashwini

Colleen

Linda

Barbara

Shirley

Vicki

Cathy

Nancy

JoAnn

Jules

Glenda

Challenge Rules:

1. It must be a Birthday project, however, our topping is optional.

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or online gallery. 

4. Please include one of our graphics and link back to our blog or IG account.

5. You may combine this challenge with up to 4 other challenges. 

6. When using digital images they must have been colored by hand.

7. The winner using our topping will be invited to be a guest on a future challenge. 

 Most importantly, HAVE FUN! 

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, November 26th.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter