Reminder #245-A Sketch

 Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to join us for our topping which is a SKETCH this time around!

If you're not a topping kinda 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 Aug. 30th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'               

Seize the Birthday # 245-Sketch

Hello Crafters,

Welcome to our next challenge here at Seize the Birthday! JoAnn is our hostess and she has a sketch for our topping this time!  The Design Team and our guest Karren did such an incredible job!  We hope you will be inspired to play along!  

 Also, I would like to say a huge Thanks to Karren for being such a wonderful Surprise Party Guest for the past two months, we have enjoyed having you on board immensely and look forward to having you back in the gallery when you have the time! 

Now, let's go see all the wonderful inspiration below! 

   

Use the following sketch to make your Birthday card.

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 Guest

Karren

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

Jules

Nancy

Shirley

Vicki

Have fun and let the celebration begin!

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT, however our topping is always optional.

2. You may link up to 3 projects for each challenge.

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

4. Please include one of our graphics and a link back to our blog.

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

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

7. As always, please have fun! All products are welcome!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, August 30th! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for #244- No Stamping

Hello, it is time to pick winners for this past challenge and I have to tell you that I was very impressed with so many entries using the topping of No Stamping on their cards.  Always remember here at Seize the Birthday when choosing our overall winners, we pick one using the topping and one without.  The same goes with our runner-ups, it's a mix of both in any combination. 

Now here are the five cards that caught my attention. 

Congratulations!

Stef

and

Elizabeth

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

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

"Birthday Honours" are...

Congratulations!

Bonnie

Ana

Joyce

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

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our new challenge 

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned! 

Glenda

Reminder #244- No Stamping

 Hello Crafters,

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

If you're not a topping kinda 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 Aug. 16th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'              

  

Seize the Birthday #244- No Stamping

Hello Crafters, 

Welcome to another challenge here at Seize the Birthday!  Glenda is our hostess and she picked a fun topping for us this time around.  She wants us to NOT use ANY stamping on our cards and or projects!  

We can't wait to see what you all do with this topping!

 Let's go see what the Design Team and our guest Karren have done!

  

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 Guest

Karren

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

Jules

Nancy

Shirley

(On Break)

Vicki

Before we get to the Linky...I want to remind you that we still have our Tribute to fellow Design Team Member Lindsey going on over at our Sister Challenge-Color Hues! We would love for you to join us there as well. 

You can find all the info at the link below! 

Tribute Challenge @ Color Hues

Have fun and let the celebration begin!

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT, however our topping is always optional.

2. You may link up to 3 projects for each challenge.

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

4. Please include one of our graphics and a link back to our blog.

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

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

7. As always, please have fun! All products are welcome!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, August 16th! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #243- Color Challenge

Hello,

I was given the very difficult task of selecting the winners for this past challenge.  Thank you all for participating, you all made amazing cards both with and without my three colors topping.

Let's go see whose cards caught my attention!

Congratulations!

Marcia 

and

Barb

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

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

"Birthday Honours" are...

Congratulations!

Trina

Darnell

Diane H 

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

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our new challenge 

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned!

Colleen

 

Special Tribute to Our Friend and Teammate

Hello Crafters,

We are deeply saddened to share the news that we lost our treasured friend and teammate, Lindsey, last week, following her hard-fought battle with cancer. Lindsey was well-known for her amazing creativity, witty sense of humor, and immense capacity to support and encourage her design team members and challenge participants. The crafting community will miss her shining light.

Today The Seize the Birthday Team is playing along with their Sister Challenge-Color Hues where Lindsey was also a Design Team Member. This challenge was to be hosted by Lindsey, so the Design Team wants to honor and celebrate her beautiful, creative life by sharing "Lindsey Inspired" projects using her Blue and Purple combination, along with things she loved the most, as inspiration. 

We hope that you will join us as we pay tribute to our 

dear friend and teammate.

Here are a few of her favorite things:

humor, cats

gardening/flowers

love of reading

friendship

wine

tea

*If you are a regular at Color Hues and/or Seize the Birthday you might also know that Lindsey loved Clean and Simple cards too.

We would love for you to join us and you can find all the details along with inspiration from both of the Design Teams over at the Color Hues blog below.

Special Tribute @ Color Hues

Thanks,

Nanc'