Seize the Birthday: 2025

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Reminder #309-Food and or Drink

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The Topping is an easy one- Food and or Drink. There are many fabulous cards in the gallery if you need more inspiration.

We hope you will consider joining us too!

If you're not a topping kind of 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 July 22nd to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Seize the Birthday #309-Food and or Drink

Welcome to July Crafters! Glenda here. Hope everyone is having a great month so far. Summer (my favourite season) is in full swing in my neck of the woods and I love sitting on a patio with cold drinks and tasty snacks... so that's what prompted my topping this week! Looking forward to seeing your tasty creations.

Before we proceed to the cards below, I would like to introduce you to our next Surprise Party Guest. We have Karen Letchworth joining us for the next two months.

Welcome, Karen! We're so happy to have you designing with us.

Here is a little about her!

Hello, creative friends, new and old! My name is Karen Letchworth, and I've been cardmaking and crafting since I was a little girl. I've been married to my BFF for 40 years this Summer, and we're blessed to be the parents of three amazing adults and the grandparents of six adorable little ones. My blog is called My Cup Runneth Over, and that pretty much sums up my life. I feel blessed every day, and I'm honored to be the Surprise Party Guest here at Seize the Birthday for July & August. I hope that you'll be inspired by some of my art, and I really hope that you will take a moment to FOLLOW me on social media. I'm happy to do the same for you - I love making new creative friends. Happy crafting and creating, everyone. I can't wait to see what you create!

Along with Karen, we have Julia Aston joining us; she won the previous challenge using the Topping. Welcome, Julia!

Our "Topping" option this time is...

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 Guests

Karen

Julia

The Design Team

Barbara

Jules

Ashwini

Linda

JoAnn

Nancy

Glenda

Cathy

Shirley

Jenny

Challenge Rules:

1. It must be a Birthday project, however, our topping is optional.

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

4. Please include one of our graphics and link back to our blog or IG account.

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

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

7. The winner using our topping will be invited to be a guest on a future challenge.

Most importantly, HAVE FUN!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, July 22nd!

Winner's Post #308-Add a Silhouette

Hello Crafters, Cathy here!

Our gallery was full of gorgeous birthday cards again this fortnight, both with and without my Silhouette Topping.

Choosing our winners wasn't easy, but here they are.

Congratulations!

Jenn

and

Denise - The Crafty Den

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Jenn, 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!

Dena J

Jennie

Hansi

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

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our new Topping

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned!

Cathy x

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Reminder #308-Add a Silhouette

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The Topping is to Add a Silhouette. There are many fabulous cards in the gallery if you need more inspiration.

If that Topping does not interest you, remember that you can always stick with our 'Anything Goes' option, as long as it's a Birthday card.

We hope you will consider joining us!

You can just scroll down to find the challenge link!

You have until 9AM (PST) on July 8th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Seize the Birthday #308-Add a Silhouette

Hello Crafters, It's Cathy here with my choice of silhouettes as our theme this fortnight. I hope you can play along and have fun with it!

Before we see all the inspiration below, I want to take a moment and thank Wanda for being with us the past two months. The team and I have really enjoyed having you and we hope we will see more of you and your wonderful work in our gallery again soon.

I would also like to welcome Rachel B. She was the overall winner from our last challenge, and she is also with us today. Welcome, Rachel! We are happy to have you with us, too!

Now, let's go check out the cards below!

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 Guests

Wanda

Rachel B.

The Design Team

Barbara

Shirley

Challenge Rules:

1. It must be a Birthday project, however, our topping is optional.

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

4. Please include one of our graphics and link back to our blog or IG account.

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

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

7. The winner using our topping will be invited to be a guest on a future challenge.

Most importantly, HAVE FUN!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, July 8th.

Winners post #307 Fancy Fold

I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to each one of you who participated in our challenge. I am also grateful to those who tried the topping and got out of their comfort box. After all, this is a challenge. Now, onto the selection of winners. I am grateful to you for taking the time and effort to play along with us.

Stay tuned for future challenges, and keep crafting.

Congratulations!

Julia #16

and

Danica #15

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Julia, 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!

Jolanda #13

Johanna #4

Renate #10

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

Now, stick around because in one hour

we will be posting our new Topping

for the next two weeks!

So please stay tuned!

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Reminder #307-Fancy Fold

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The Topping is Fancy Fold! There are many fabulous cards in the gallery if you need more inspiration.

If that Topping does not interest you, remember that you can always stick with our 'Anything Goes' option, as long as it's a Birthday card.

We hope you will consider joining us!

You can just scroll down to find the challenge link!

You have until 9AM (PST) on June 24th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Seize the Birthday #307-Fancy Fold

Hello Crafters, Barb Here!

I am the host for this next challenge and I have decided that we should put on our thinking caps and do a fancy fold. It does not have to be intricate, there are so many fancy folds out there to see. Just take a look at YouTube for suggestions. That is what I did.

Our team and the Surprise Party Guests have some wonderful examples for you!

I am excited to see what you do.

Our "Topping" option this time is...