Seize the Birthday #336-Double Frame

Hello Crafters,

Nancy here, and I am happy to be your hostess for the next topping here at STB! What I want you to do is put a Double Frame on your birthday card. You will see many ways to achieve this look below! 

Remember, our Topping is ALWAYS optional; if you prefer, you can always make any type of Birthday card or project. You will not be able to be chosen as our winner, but that doesn't mean your card can't be featured on our winners post. 

Before we see what the Design team has done with this Topping, I would like to give a warm welcome to our other guest designer, Denise. She won our previous challenge.  Denise, we are happy to have you guesting alongside Stacey today! Thanks for being here!  

    

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

Denise

The Design Team

Barbara

Ashwini


Jenny

Linda

JoAnn

Shirley

Cathy

Glenda

Jules

Nancy

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 20th. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #335-Use Fall Colors

 Hello Crafters! 

This is Linda, and I want to thank you all for playing with us for our Fall Colors Challenge along with our Anything Goes Challenge.  We had so many lovely entries; it was hard to pick the winners, but here they are!   

Congratulations!

Winner with the Topping

Irene 

Winner without the Topping

Hansi 

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Irene, 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...

Priya

Darnell

Kath

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!

Linda

Reminder#335-Use Fall Colors

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 October 6th to join us!

Happy Crafting!  

Nanc'      

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