Winners #252-Case a DT Member

Hello, 

What an eventful year this has been for many cardmakers, and it has gone very fast for me! I hope that you had fun with the toppings and of course making the birthday cards that we send out to family and friends. We are taking the month of December off as usual, but there are 2 new changes coming to Seize the Birthday in 2023. 

Read Below! 

 The first change for 2023 is... We will be having Two Surprise Guests for each challenge.  We will have our usual Surprise Party Guest that is with us for two months and selected by Nancy and or the DT and is usually picked from people who play in our challenge often, as a thank you.  But, in addition to that, we are inviting JUST the Overall winner from our previous challenge that used the Topping to be our Surprise Party Guest. We are super excited about this addition! 

To clarify, We will still have our normal five winners. Two Overall Winners; one with the topping and one without, and our 3 Birthday Honours using any combination of with or without the toppings.

I also want to say that DT Member- Jules Peddicord will be leaving STB, but she really isn't going far, she will be sliding over to Color Hues in the New Year, and we are really excited about that. So please look for her fabulous cards over there! 

Now let's go see who our winners are along with seeing whom our first guest will be in 2023!

Paper Sweetness Elizabeth

 and

Carol

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Elizabeth-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!

Diny

 

Trina P 

Valerie 

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

On behalf of the Seize the Birthday Design Team, I would like to

wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We will

see you back here on January 12th for our next Topping 

and to recap the changes and share with you 

another small change for STB!

Take care,

 Barbara!

    

Reminder #252- Case a Design Team Member

 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 December 6th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'               

Seize the Birthday #252 CASE a DesignTeam Member

Hello, 

 Happy Thanksgiving to all of our USA followers.  We have so much to be grateful for this Holiday, first and foremost is YOU are participants.  Without you, we wouldn't be here and on behalf of the entire STB team, we thank you for letting us bring a little creativity into your life twice a month!  We have a couple little changes coming to STB in January so please stay tuned!   

This is Barbara, and I chose this topping for the last challenge of 2022!  I think you will have fun with it.  Just look back on all of the posts that we have done here at STB, pick out a card that you like, and make one similar or just like it. Your choice for this one.  I would love to see you all do the toppings, but of course, it is not necessary. 

I also need to give a quick shout-out to Asa for being such a wonderful Surprise Party Guest.  We certainly have enjoyed having you and we hope you had fun too. 

Make sure you share the card you CASED with us, we would love to see it! If you want to see the cards we cased you will have to visit our blogs as well. 

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

Asa

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

 

Jules

Linda

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,  Dec. 6th!

 This is our last challenge of 2022 as we will be taking the rest of the month off to spend the Holidays with family and friends!

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's #251- Many of Something

Hello, Ashwini here! I am back today with the winner's post for our latest topping using "Many of Something".   The gallery was full of wonderful cards both with and without our topping.  I was so pleased as so many of you used my topping this time around.  Thank you for that!

Let's go see which cards caught my attention! 

Congratulations!

  

 17. Libeeti Frenkel

Love how she made the 'many' from the sentiment - quite a twist!

and

18. Asha

What a sweet Llama! I thought the digital image was pre-colored!

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!

37. Flo Zilligen

9. Kath

 

24. Karren

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

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our LAST challenge of the year

 and you won't want to miss this one! 

So please stay tuned!

Ashwini

 

Reminder # 251 Many of Something

   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 Nov. 22nd to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'              

Seize the Birthday #251 Many of Something

Hello crafters, 

Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday!  Before I get to our next Topping, I am super excited to inform you that we have a brand new Design Team member that is joining us here at STB.  She is an avid participant and probably needs no introduction at all, but please help me welcome, 

Linda Snodgrass to the STB Team!

Here is a bit about her! 

Hello, I am Linda, and am very excited to be joining STB with all of you talented ladies.  I started scrapbooking when my boys were young and then was introduced to card making and after that card making became my go-to craft.  I created my blog in 2011 (Linked Above).  I have been on 2 Christmas challenges, but sadly both have closed down.  

I am a grandma of 9: ages from 4-30.  A set of triplets, who are 4 yrs old are in the mix.

  I lived my whole life in Washington state until about 3 years ago when my sister and I moved down to Oregon.  My youngest son moved to Oregon for a job promotion with the triplets when they were about 15 months old.  I just couldn't imagine not seeing them grow up on a daily basis.  What a joy they are as well as the older grandchildren too.  My oldest son moved his family down to Arizona about the same time we moved to Oregon.  It's really strange and sad to have family in 3 different states.  I have one nephew and two granddaughters still living in Washington, plus lots of cousins.   

My bestie is STB DT member Colleen, which was another reason I decided to move to Oregon.  It was a win, win for me.  Looking forward to working with everyone.

Now, are Topping this time was selected by sweet Ashwini! 

Let's go check it out! 

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

Asa

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

Jules

Linda

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, Nov. 22nd. 

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #250- Halloween Colors

Hello Crafters, 

We had such a wonderful response to our Halloween colors challenge!  Many thanks to all of you who chose to play along either using the Topping or just sticking with our normal Birthday card theme. 

Unfortunately, there were a few of you that were disqualified because you didn't follow our rules for our challenge.  We hate when that happens so please look them over again. You can find them in the Tab above.  

It wasn't easy narrowing down my favorites but here it goes...

Congratulations!

#14 Flo

and

 

#6 Helen

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!

#12 Tammy

 

 #20 Julie

 

#23 Julia

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!

Vicki