Seize the Birthday 200th Challenge with PRIZES!

We have a special challenge for you today.  

Seize the Birthday is celebrating its 200th challenge.  Woohoo!  

We are so grateful to all of you that have helped us reach this milestone. 

MAKE SURE you read the entire post so you will understand the rules for this challenge! 

So for this challenge, I ( Nancy) am offering ...

2 Twenty-Five Dollar Simon Says Gift Certificates 

to both of our Top Winners. 

And to add to the fun... we have 4 Mystery Design Team Members that have prizes up for grabs on their blogs.  However, the requirement to win ANY of those prizes is, you must go to ALL of the Design Team's blog and leave each one of them some love! We all need a little love in our lives these days.

Also for your post, we are asking you to explain how exactly you were inspired by our graphic!

So you have 6 chances to WIN!

Let me explain our topping. 

 For this challenge we want you to make a card and/or project that is inspired by the graphic below.  Whether it be the colors, the balloons, the watercolor vibe, or the numbers, etc. Whatever sparks your creativity. 

 Remember for this challenge only, we are asking you to explain in your post how exactly you were inspired!

  Our "Topping"

So we are NOT having an option of Anything Goes

 for this challenge only!  

Surprise Party Guest

Angie

The Design Team

Ashwini

 

 Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

Lindsey

Nancy

Shirley

TaeEun

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, October 6th.

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #199-Die-cuts

 Thanks everyone for all of your wonderful creations over the past fortnight. The gallery was full of amazing die-cuts and other inspiring cards!

Choosing the winners was not easy, but

here they are...

Congratulations!

Fran,

and

Ana

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!

Melissa

and

Debi B

and

Karen Walker

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!!

Cathy

Seize the Birthday Reminder #199-Diecuts

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

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 make it a Birthday theme! 

You can scroll down to find the challenge or click HERE!

You have until 9AM (PST) Sept. 29th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Seize the Birthday #199- Die-cuts

 Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday! It's Cathy as your host this time and I've chosen one of my favorite techniques as the topping.  Before I get to the topping it's time to welcome our next Surprise Party Guest. 

Welcome, Angie Cimbalo!

Here is a bit about her! 

Hello! I’m a semi-retired school music teacher living in Texas with my wonderful husband and my sweet Goldendoodle pup.  When I’m not crafting, I’m having tons of fun helping music students and their directors in schools in the area. My husband and I have 4 adult children, 5 grandchildren with 1 more on the way.  My card making style is mostly clean and simple but I also love trying new techniques.  I’m thrilled to join in the Seize the Birthday as the surprise party guest and look forward to sharing my projects with you over the next two months.  

Now, onto our topping!

Diecutting, with the option of a stamped sentiment.

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!

The design team and our party guest have some wonderful inspiration for you.

Surprise Party Guest

Angie

The Design Team

Ashwini

 

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

  

Glenda

JoAnn 

Lindsey

Nancy

Shirley

TaeEun

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, September 22nd.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for #198-Add Gold

 Thanks everyone for playing along with us over the past couple weeks! You were so creative and I loved to get lots of inspiration from you! I had to choose our winners as I picked the Topping. Not an easy job at all :)!  

Here are the winners...

Congratulations!

Jenny Martin

The floral cluster is beautifully colored and I love the colors she used along with gold! 

and

Kylie

What a cute CAS design!  I love that Babe, the sweet piglet is looking towards the white space! 

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!

Steph

and

Loopyloo

and

Joyce M

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!!

TaeEun

Reminder # 198-Add Gold

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

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 make it a Birthday theme! 

You can scroll down to find the challenge or click HERE!

You have until 9AM (PST) Sept. 8th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Seize the Birthday #198-Add Gold

 Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday! It's nearly the end of August and it's hard to believe that fall is right around the corner.  You would think being home so much would make the days go on forever, but they still fly by.  Speaking of flying by, it's time to say farewell to Jen our Surprise Party Guest. This will be her last card with us but we have really enjoyed having her along!  Thanks so very much Jen, and please come back and visit us soon!

Here is our next topping that was chosen by Tae Eun!

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

Jen

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

  

Glenda

JoAnn 

Lindsey

Nancy

Shirley

TaeEun

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 noon (EST) on Tuesday, September 8th.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter