Seize the Birthday #20

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! We have another fabulous sketch from design team member, Jen Nelson.

Our sponsor for this sketch is

Scribbles Designs

Looking for a unique image or sentiment?

Well then! Welcome to Scribbles Designs!

And welcome to Sandy's world of her funky imagination and quirky characters.Sandy's has had a pencil in her hand since she was "knee-high to a grasshopper" and started on her artistic journey with her first family ball & stick figures portrait at age 3. We'll have to find the piece of work in the family history trunk and post it...

Back to the regular scheduled program! Sandy has loved art, drawing, water coloring and doodling for many years... and with the digital image world she can now share it with all of you. Brrr (Penguin) was her first main character and her other quirky images followed not long after. We hope you enjoy the enduring images and look around and add Sandy's images to your digital stamp collections...

Our winner will receive 3 images of their choice

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

We have some of the Scribbles Designs DT members 

joining us as Guest Designers for this sketch. 

Amy Tsuruta 

Sandy (Scribbles DT)

 Sharla (Scribbles DT)

Rose Miller

Cathy Santie

Stacey Schafer

Glenda J. Wyatt

Jen Nelson

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a 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. Voting will begin on Tuesday, July 9th at Noon (PST).

Winners

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who joined in our sketch challenge for the last two weeks. In one hour, we will be posting our new challenge for the next two weeks! Stay tuned!! In the meantime, let's announce our winners from the last sketch! 

As you know, we have gone to a voting system for choosing our winners! Before I announce our winner, I would like to share our three Runner Ups, who had the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most votes!!! They received "Birthday Honours"!!! Congratulations!

Jessica

Georgianna

Becky

Congratulations!!! We hope you will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

Now for our winner of this challenge, 

chosen by her peers:

JoAnn

Congratulations JoAnn!!! Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

Thank you to everyone who played along. Our newest sketch will launch in one hour at 9am (PST), we hope you will join us and thank you to the A Day for Daisies for sponsoring our challenge for the past two weeks.

Seize the Birthday # 19 sponsored by ADFD

Rose here with another card made for our current sketch

You can link up your cards HERE :)

We are sponsored by A Day For Daisies and 

the winner will receive a 12 $ to spend at the ADFD shop!!! 

this week i have used the sweet  Just Fishing image

to make a feminine  card, last week i showed you 

a masculine card  with the same sweet image.

love when an image can be used for both sexes :)  

Week 2 Seize the Birthday 19: Eschscholzia californica (California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight, cup of gold)

Hello, it's Amy T!

I'm back with another take on the Seize the Birthday sketch!

Just a reminder that our Super Sponsor is

A Day for Daisies

See that poppy?  It's FREE on the A Day for Daisies site!

It's actually part of a cluster of poppies that I printed fairly large and cut apart from the main image.

I had the coordinating sequins in my stash, I like how it ties in the yellow.

Why don't you play along with us?

Seize the Birthday #19

Seize the Birthday #19 {A Sketch by Jen Nelson}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating birthday cards this year! The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

We are so lucky to have the sweet Sherry Eckblad as our "Sub stamper" on the team. She will be filling in from time to time for our design team. I did offer her a DT position but she has a lot on the go right now and "subbing" was the perfect solution! Welcome Sherry!

***Please note we will be going to a voting system for choosing our weekly winners...voting will happen on Tuesdays at Noon (EST) and end on Wednesdays at Noon (EST).

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Our sponsor for this sketch is
A Day For Daisies


A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 digital illustrations, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

ADFD is offering a $ 12 Gift Card to our winner!!

Sherry Eckblad
(subbing in for Lesley)

Glenda J. Wyatt

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Cathy Santie 

Stacey Schafer

Amy Tsuruta

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a 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 in two weeks, at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners and some News

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who joined in our sketch challenge for the last two weeks. In one hour, we will be posting our new challenge for the next two weeks! Stay tuned!! In the meantime, let's announce our winners from the last sketch! It was a close race!

Before I announce this week's winners, I would like to announce that Deanna Dean has decided to step down from our design team. She will be greatly missed and we wish her all the best!!  She will be playing along when she can. Thank you for all of your hard work Deanna!!!

As you know, we have gone to a voting system for choosing our winners! Before I announce our winner, I would like to share our three Runner Ups, who had the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most votes!!! They received "Birthday Honours"!!! Congratulations!

Angi Barrs

JoAnn B

Colleen F

Congratulations, ladies!!! We hope you will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

Now for our winner of this challenge, 

chosen by her peers:

TRACY MACDONALD

Congratulations Tracy!!! 

Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.

Thank you to everyone who played along. Our newest sketch will launch in one hour at 9am (PST), we hope you will join us and thank you to the Neat and Tangled Stamps for sponsoring our challenge for the past two weeks.

Voting Is Now Open!

Voting is now open!

Don't forget to vote for your favourite submissions. Voting is open to everyone, is anonymous and private. Please scroll down to the post below. Then click on the word "vote" next to the star below the thumbnail of your selection. You're allowed 3 votes. Once you've voted the stars and option to vote will not be visible. Don't worry, your vote has gone through, just privately.

Just go to the current challenge and vote on the linked up cards!

Voting will close on Wednesday at 12 noon EST. The voting results will be announced on Thursday at 11am EST and our new challenge will begin at 12 noon EST.

Thank you for participating!

Seize the Birthday 18 - Birthday Tag

Happy Monday!  Hope you had a fabulous weekend!  Glenda here with a last minute reminder about the current sketch.  I wasn't able to join in on the original challenge post (life has been crazy hectic) so wanted to make sure I played along with this fabulous sketch from Jen (see below).  I translated the stars into a tag and some washi tape and made this bright masculine birthday card.

Our sponsor this time around is Neat & Tangled Stamps.  All the guidelines for playing are here.  Hope you get a chance to play around.

***Please note we now have a voting system for choosing our weekly winners...voting will happen on Tuesdays (tomorrow - June 11th) at Noon (EST) and end on Wednesdays at Noon (EST).

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week!
Glenda

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There is still time to join us. You have until Tuesday June 11th at noon (EST).  Don't forget to come back and vote for your favorite three creations on Tuesday June 11th at noon (EST).

Week 2 Seize the Birthday #18: Sketchy Cupcakes

Hello!  It's Amy T here!

I'm back with week #2 of the current Seize The Birthday sketch:

Just a reminder about our Super Sponsor:

Neat and Tangled Stamps!

This week I used Neat and Tangled's Sketchy Cupcakes set:

Isn't that smirk thee cutest?!

 I hope that you'll play along with us and link up HERE.

Seize the Birthday # 18 Sponsored by Neat & Tangled

Rose here with another card for this weeks sketch that is sponsored by

Neat and Tangled

The winner will receive a stamp set of their choice!!

Here is our sketch

Be sure to link up HERE and then come back to vote 

for your favorite three cards on Tuesday June 11th

 

can't wait to see what you all link up!!