Big, Exciting Changes Happening at Seize the Birthday!!!

I decided the challenge blog needed a face lift! I hope you like our new look! We have some exciting changes happening around here!

Our beloved design team members are leaving and we are welcoming new members to our team. We are sad to be losing Kay Miller, Lynn Hayes and Dawn Easton. They have been wonderful members of our team from the beginning. Best of luck to you ladies, we hope you will join us from time to time!

We are thrilled to welcome our brand new design team members....these ladies are all talented and absolutely lovely to work with!!! Welcome to Cathy Santie, Amy Tsuruta and Glenda Wyatt!! I asked each of them to share a little about themselves.

Cathy Santie

Hello - I am so excited to be part of the Seize the Birthday Challenge Team, and work with such outstanding talent!  My name is Cathy Santie, and I live 25 miles West of the "Windy City" - Chicago, Illinois. I have two adult children; a daughter who graduated with her Masters in Forensics and will be getting married this June, and a son who gave me my first Grandson , January 2010. I have a wonderful, supportive husband who actually gave me a nudge in the direction of this wonderful world of paper! Seven years ago, after watching me for a few months dabble in card making, I asked for a sewing machine for Christmas. He and my daughter had a bet going that this interest in paper wouldn't last for more than a few months. Well, as you can see, I received my sewing machine and after hundreds of cards later.....they lost! Thank you for visiting my blog, and for all your wonderful comments - they are greatly appreciated!

Amy Tsuruta

Hi, It's Amy! I'm so excited to be part of the Seize the Birthday team!  I live in Washington State. I'm the proud mother of two lovely kids and am engaged to "thee most spectacular guy" who supports my crafting obsession. I work full-time, have been blogging since 2007. I absolutely love being part of this crafting community!!

Glenda J. Wyatt

Hey there!  I'm Glenda and I'm really happy to be here at Seize the Birthday.  First off, I must confess, I am a big geek!  Science geek and crafty geek! I’m a marine geologist by day and a stamping addict by night.  I have a great group of crafty friends here, there and everywhere who keep me inspired, entertained and enabled.  I’m also lucky to have a supportive hubby, who never asks how much I spend on my addiction, I mean, hobby!  My paper crafting style is generally clean and simple, although I do stray off in random directions sometimes. Being on this team is perfect for me as I love playing with sketches (and have a hard time coming up with my own). I also love to play with funky patterned papers and fun & bold colour combinations.

Welcome to the team ladies!!!

****Please Note this EXCITING change!****

Starting with our May Sketches, we will be going to a two week challenge rotation!! We want to give you an extra week to join the fun! You can create as many birthday cards as you like with our sketch...feminine or masculine in the two week period!!! From now on, you will be free to create whatever type of birthday card you need for your stash using our sketch!!!

Don't forget to play along with our current sketch!!! There is a wonderful prize up for grabs!!!

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There is still time to play along with this week's sketch.
To join us click here.

Seize the Birthday #15 {Sponsored by SKdigis}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

This is our last week with three of our amazing design team members. They are all going to be missed! Thank you to Lynn, Dawn and Kay for their amazing work over the last 4 months!! Best of luck to you ladies and I know you will play along with us from time to time. 

This is our second week to be sponsored by Sonia from SKdigis. Thank you Sonia!

She has a prize: $6 USD voucher code to redeem at her store for our winner this week!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Sonia from SKdigis

Lesley Croghan
(off this week)

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson
(off this week)

Stacey Schafer

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners

What a fantastic week here at Seize the Birthday!!! Thank you to everyone who played along with us! We enjoyed seeing your creations! Each week is become more difficult to choose a winner!!! Thank you to everyone who is joining in the fun and getting those birthday cards made!

Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:

Sharyn Polesel

Sharyn's birthday card "Took the Cake" this week!  Congratulations Sharyn, you are the winner of the gift certificate to SKdigis. Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a masculine card!! We hope you will join us!

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There is still time to play along with this week's sketch.
To join us click here.

Seize the Birthday #14 {Sponsored by SKdigis}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the a brand new sketch, only this time we are looking for a feminine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

For the next two weeks, we are thrilled to be sponsored by Sonia at SKdigis! She is offering a prize: $6 USD voucher code to redeem at store each week!!! Yippee!!! Thank you Sonia!

Hello everyone!  I want to start thanking Seize the Birthday for having me as a sponsor and for inviting me to design along the fabulous DT, it is an honor and a pleasure.

My name is Sonia Kertznus, owner, operator and graphic designer at SKdigis digital stamps company. 

High quality cartoonish/whimsical digital images hand drawn and digitized by me at 300 dpi line art for a perfect crisp print and delivered in both .jpg and .png formats.

SKdigis are wonderful for card makers and scrapbookers, priced affordably and with the convenience of immediate downloads.

In addition to the digital stamps, I also have a vast collection of digital sentiments and digital papers.

Still, my priority is my family and my "real" life, therefore, I only add new images to the store, If I have had the time to draw, color and create  samples.  

I try my best to upload at least 5 to 10 new images per month, so come on visit my store and follow by e-mail... you do not miss the new additions.

I also want to invite you to visit and follow SKdigis blog and play along our very talented design team at Sketchy Friday, where you can win SKdigis.

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Sonia from SKdigis

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a feminine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners

What a fantastic week here at Seize the Birthday!!! Thank you to everyone who played along with us! We enjoyed seeing your creations! Each week is become more difficult to choose a winner!!! Thank you to everyone who is joining in the fun and getting those birthday cards made!

Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:

Sherry Eckblad

Sherry's birthday card "Took the Cake" this week!  Congratulations Sherry, you are the winner of the Paper Pretties Gift Certificate. Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a feminine card!! We hope you will join us!

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There is still time to play along with this week's sketch.
To join us click here.

Seize the Birthday #13 {Masculine Birthday}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

For the next two weeks, we are excited to be sponsored by Debbie Marcinkiewicz from Paper Sweeties™ LLC. She is offering a $10 gift certificate to the shop for each week! Thank you so much Debbie!!

Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers hand drawn, high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps.  Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiments, labels and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Now onto this week's design team samples!! 
The ladies have created such gorgeous projects and Debbie has joined us this week!! 

Welcome Debbie!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Debbie from Paper Sweeties

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!

This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners

Good morning! It appears that Inlinkz which is our linky system, is down and not appearing on blogs. We use Inlinkz to display our winners and for linking up challenges. Hopefully the linky will appear sometime today. This is something to do with Inlinkz and not us, we hope it will be corrected soon.

What a fantastic week here at Seize the Birthday!!! Thank you to everyone who played along with us! We enjoyed seeing your creations! Each week is become more difficult to choose a winner!!! Thank you to everyone who is joining in the fun and getting those birthday cards made!

Our winner who "Took the Cake" is: TORICO

Torico's birthday card "Took the Cake" this week!  Congratulations Torico, you are the winner of the Paper Sweeties Gift Certificate. Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a masculine card!! We hope you will join us!

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There is still time to play along with this week's sketch.
To play along click here.