Seize the Birthday #335-Use Fall Colors

Hello Crafters, 

This is Linda, and I am your host for today's challenge. I certainly hope you will join us with a birthday card using Fall Colors.  It's always nice to have a stash of birthday cards on hand, and if you need some inspiration, check out the fabulous cards by the Design Team and our guest, Stacey, below!  

    

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

Stacey

The Design Team

Linda

Barbara

Jenny

Ashwini

Shirley

Nancy

Cathy

JoAnn

Jules

Glenda

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, October 6th! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners Post #334

Hey Seize the Birthday Players.  It's time to announce the winners of Challenge #334.  Our Topping was to Add a Sentiment Strip.  I hope you found it as easy as I did to tackle this one.  

We say this every time but it's really difficult to narrow down a few select winners from our gallery.  I did my best and here are the cards I've chosen to highlight today, both with and without our Topping.

Congratulations!

Denise

I was really drawn to her color combination

 and her beautifully designed interior.

Stacey

I adore her bright colors, design and the combination 

of Halloween and Birthday occasions.

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Denise, 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!

Heather

A trio of birthday flamingos?  Yes please!!!

Sara

I love the coloring and textures of this wonderful CAS design.

Tracy

I love how she used tone-on-tone in both her panel as well as her 

focal cluster.  It makes for a beautiful arrangement.

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!

Jules

Reminder #334-Add a Sentiment Strip

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. 

 We hope you will consider joining us!

The Topping is... 

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 September 22nd to join us!

Happy Crafting!  

Nanc'     

Seize the Birthday #334 -- Add a Sentiment Strip

 Hello Crafters!

It's Jules and I'm your host for this next round of Seize the Birthday.  Before we get into the heart of this fortnight's post, I'd like to publicly thank my team for pulling up my slack these past six months.  For those who may not know, we recently relocated from Florida to North Carolina to be closer to our kids and their families.  Moving from a home that you've lived in for thirty years is not for the faint of heart and I'm just now at a point where I can slow down a bit and do the things I love.  So just a shout-out to Nancy and her entire team for being so patient with me.  I've missed all of you.

A couple of mentions before we get to fabulous inspiration below.  We'd like to welcome our most recent winner, Chris Dring, to our blog.  We also have a new Surprise Party Guest joining us for the next few months.  Please welcome Stacey!  She will be finishing off the year with us and we couldn't be happier.   

Stacey from Stacey's Creative Corner

Here is a bit about her! 

I have been cardmaking for about 17 years....Whoa, I can't believe it's been that long! I started out scrapbooking but stumbled upon cardmaking during one of my husband's deployments. I fell in love with the process of making cards, and scrapbooking slowly took a back seat. My cards will almost always have patterned paper and an image that I colored with my Copic markers. I find coloring so calming and relaxing, at least until one of the markers leaks lol! When I am not papercrafting, you can either find me sewing, quilting, cross-stitching, or spoiling & playing with my 2 adorable grandsons.

Now on to the business at hand.  

For the next two weeks I'd like to challenge

you to add a sentiment strip to your birthday card. Easy enough, right?  

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

Stacey

Chris

The Design Team

Barbara

Jenny

Ashwini

Linda

Cathy

Jules

Shirley

JoAnn

Nancy

Glenda

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, September 22nd. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #333-Dies Only

 Hello Crafty Friends!

It's JoAnn here, and time to announce the winners from my "No Stamps - Dies Only" challenge.  We had a lot of fantastic cards using dies only and also with our "Anything Goes" option.  It was difficult to choose just the few winners, but here they are. Thanks to all who played along with my challenge; I certainly appreciate it. 

Congratulations!

Nelleke  (with topping)

Ellie (without topping)

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Nelleke, 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!

Rachel

Fran

Wanda

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!

JoAnn

Reminder #333-No Stamping Dies Only

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. 

 We hope you will consider joining us!

The Topping is... 

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 September 8th to join us!

Happy Crafting!  

Nanc'     

Seize the Birthday #333-No Stamping Dies Only

Hello Crafters, JoAnn here, and I am happy to be your hostess. 

For my Topping, I want you to put away those stamp sets and make a Birthday card using just die-cuts. For those of you who can't make a card without a stamped sentiment, we will let you do that too, as long as the sentiment is then cut out with a die.

Remember, if you don't care for the Topping, any Birthday card will do! 

Before we take a look at the cards below, I want to take a moment to thank Lynda for being such a wonderful Surprise Party Guest over the past two months.  We have certainly enjoyed having you on board and hope you enjoyed yourself, too. 

    

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

Lynda

The Design Team

Barbara

Jenny

Linda

Ashwini

Cathy

Nancy

JoAnn

Shirley

Glenda

Nance

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, September 8th.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter