Seize the Birthday

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! 
Just a reminder that we have gone back to a two week rotation
 of challenges and from now on, it will always be Anything Goes Birthday!
Feminine or Masculine....your choice!

However, in 2 weeks you are going to have the option of adding some
 "Toppings" to your cake!

 Your "Toppings" won't be required in order for you 
 to play along, just an option if you wish!

Who doesn't like toppings on their cake?

Now, Let's see what our fabulous Design Team 
has created for your inspiration this time:

Glenda 

Brenda

Calypso

JoAnn B

Jenny

Jodene

Macarena

Nancy 

Sheri

The design team sure knows how to celebrate don't they!  Well Done ladies!!!

Need a sketch to get you started, come and visit our sister challenge called "Seize the Sketch" and create a birthday card to link up here!

Have fun and let the celebration begin!!!

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the challenge and make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT.

2. You may link up to 3 birthday projects.

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

4. Feel free to combine other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link and graphic 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 myself.

5. As always, please have fun and make the challenge your own! All product is welcome!

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

This Week's Winners

Before I announce this week's Winners, I  would like

to take a minute to thank each and everyone of you for participating in

 our first post with the New Design Team!   

We were all blown away at the amount of cards we had linked up,

and the talent that is out there!  So making our selection was 

quite difficult as you can imagine with such high numbers!

Anyhoo...

This week's Runner Ups who
 will be receiving "Birthday Honours" are.....

Cathy Weber

Jo

Lyndal

Congratulations!

We hope you will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

Now, onto this week's Winner....

Congratulations 
Craftee Donna!!

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

Hope you enjoy your badge as well!

Stick around because in one hour, 

we will be posting our new challenge 

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned!!

Nancy

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There's still time to join the current challenge. You have until Tuesday August 27th at 9AM (PST).

  To join us click here.

Seize the Birthday

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! Starting today, we are going back to our two week rotation of challenges and from now on, it will always be Anything Goes Birthday! Exciting right!?? We are also pretty pumped to welcome our new designers to the team!!! Welcome ladies!  

Let's see how this New Team gets this party started!!

The Design Team

Glenda 

Brenda

Calypso

JoAnn B

Jenny

Jodene

Macarena

Nancy 

Sheri

Need a sketch to get you started, come and visit our sister challenge called "Seize the Sketch" and create a birthday card to link up here!

Have fun and let the celebration begin!!!

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the challenge and make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT.

2. You may link up to 3 birthday projects.

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

4. Feel free to combine other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link and graphic 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 myself.

5. As always, please have fun and make the challenge your own! All product is welcome!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, August 27th.

Meet the New Design Team at Seize the Birthday

Good morning! Lesley here! I am excited to introduce our brand new design team for Seize the Birthday! Tomorrow morning, we will be back with our first challenge!! In the meantime, here is the fabulous new team!! Nancy Leppek will be running the challenge for me each week, I am absolutely thrilled that she will be taking on this role!! Thank you, Nancy! The blog will be slowly evolving in the next couple of weeks too!

Nancy Leppek

(Challenge Administrator)

Hi...My name is Nancy and I am over the top excited to be a DT member here at Seize the Birthday!  I live on the West Coast of the Sunshine State and my hubby and I both work in the school system. We have the most amazing son a parent could ever ask for, that is currently a Jr. at FSU!  When I am not making cards or scrapbooking (if there is anything better to do) you can find me either baking, blog surfing, or attending my Pinterest Addict meetings.  :)  

Jenny Jean Lim

Hello, from sunny Singapore! I am Jenny. I usually go by "Wifey Cookie" across blog land. It has not been long since I got into card making (started in 2010) and I confess I am totally in love with it! I've amassed a stash of stamps and papers, and "Hubby Cookie" is my ultimate enabler. I am in I.T. by profession and I go to paper crafting to get away from work-related stress.  I am super excited to be part of the Seize the Birthday team and inspire fellow card makers in their quest to build a birthday card stash! :)

Jodene Tripp

Hi! My name is Jodene and I live in Perth, Australia and I am thrilled to be joining the Seize The Birthday Design Team! I've been stamping for 15 years and have been known to do a few scrapbook pages too. I have been married for almost 19 years, we have two gorgeous daughters who are 15 and 17 and two dogs and one cat complete our little family. When I'm not in my craft room, I'm either  playing chauffeur to the kids, at work (as a part time Office Manager) or volunteering at the RSPCA animal shelter one day a week. 

JoAnn Burnham

Hi my name is JoAnn and I am so excited to be joining the Seize The Birthday Design Team.  I have been doing crafts of some sort for most of my life, hence the title of my blog.  I started scrapbooking and cardmaking in 1998 and it is definitely addictive.  I enjoy making cards for family and friends.  We live in Central Florida about 60 miles from the west coast.  My husband and I are both original Floridians and moved back here after he retired from the military. We are both retired now and I enjoy my crafts and spending time with the grandchildren.

Brenda Hofstatter

Hi! My name is Brenda and I live in Ottawa, Canada. I’ve been a Stampin' Up! demonstrator for two years - I love it and am totally addicted to paper crafting! My husband and I have been happily married for 15 years and have two fabulous kids.  I am a stay-at-home mom and when I'm not crafting or volunteering at the kids' school, you can find me in the kitchen indulging in my other passion, cake decorating. I am super excited to be joining the Seize the Birthday Design Team and am looking forward to sharing this journey with all of you.

Sheri Gilson

Hello!  My name is Sheri Gilson and I'm SUPER excited to be joining the Seize the BirthdayDT!!  I live in Northern California with my husband of almost 20 years, our 14 year old son, and am currently a SAHM who loves to create.  I was first introduced to stamping just before the birth of my son by my Mom and close friend who were totally obsessed with it (at the time I couldn't figure out why...LOL).  I immediately fell in love with card making and now have an entire room dedicated to it to prove it.  I would like to thank Lesley for the wonderful opportunity...I can't wait to get started with this AMAZING design team!!

Nazeema "Calypso" Bastian 

Hola!! Calypso here and I am overjoyed to be a part of the Seize the Birthday Design Team.  

I live in sunny, beach town California with my hubby, our 3 boys and a miniature Yorkie.  Being a SAHM, I have to always be on my toes and  be prepared for just about anything.  So at the end of the day, I love to unwind by blog hoping and making cards.  I am excited to share my birthday creations with you and I can't wait to see yours as well. 

Marzena Ziuziakowska

Hi there! My name is Marzena but known as "Macarena" and I am extremely happy about being the great STB Design Team Member!!!

I live in Poland with my teen son and a big british shotrhair :-) I am a full time working as an export manager girl and love to spend my evening on crafting. There is no more fun and relax as scrapping after a hard day at work. I've been crafting since almost 2 years now and I am completely addicted :-) Thank you Lesley so much for the chance to share my cards here and being one of you :-) 

Continuing Design Team

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. I love to play with funky patterned papers and fun & bold colour combinations.

Winners and our next Challenge!

Thank you to everyone who played along with our month long challenge! We loved seeing your creations and we were blown away by the amount of participants!!

We have decided to take a week off from the challenge, and we will be back on Thursday, August 15th. I will be introducing our new team between now and then!! So excited for you to meet them!

Now onto the winners of our month long challenge. Wow! The numbers were close!!!!


The Honorable Mentions are:


Nicole


Leanne


Tracy


and our Winner is...




Jessica Esch

Congratulations, ladies! Please contact me at thepaperplayers@yahoo.ca and I will be sure to get your prizes to you. Our main winner will have first choice of the prizes and the Honorable Mentions will receive the other prizes randomly.

You have one week to claim your prize (August 15th deadline), then I will go to the next person with the most votes.

Voting Reminder!