Sunday, March 31, 2013

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Seize the Birthday #11 {Masculine Birthday card using our Sketch}


Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

Here is the set from Uniko
This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. They are offering the sweet set Bright Butterflies to our winner! Thank you so much to Uniko Studio for their fabulous sponsorship!!

Uniko Studio
Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market.
Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!


This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners



We are enjoying visiting your blogs each week to see the amazing birthday creations you are sharing! This week there were so many amazing entries, it was tough to narrow it down to one winner but we finally did! 

Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:
Cathy Sante 



Cathy's birthday card "Took the Cake" this week because of her amazing design! We loved the three balloons, and the music note embossed background was simply awesome! There is a party going on with this card!! Just look at the streamers!! Congratulations Cathy, you are the winner of the Uniko Studio set. Please email Rose at roseandprecious@yahoo.com so she can get your prize to you.


There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! We were blown away by your talent! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)


Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a masculine card!! We hope you will join us!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Seize the Birthday #11 {Feminine Birthday & a new Sketch!


Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we have a brand new sketch to share and we are looking for a feminine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 
Here is the set from Uniko
This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. They are offering the sweet set Bright Butterflies to our winner!

Uniko Studio
Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market.
Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.


To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.
Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a feminine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!


This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners



A fabulous week of masculine birthday cards for men of all ages!! We loved visiting your blogs to see the work that you shared. It feels so good to be building our stash of birthday cards too!!! This week was a tough choice for our main winner but we all kept coming back to this sweet card...


Blowing Wishes


Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:
Kim Singdahlsen


We loved Kim's attention to detail. The sweet embossed clouds, the little anchor on the circle and the tiny bow on the whale's tail! Congratulations Kim, you are the winner of the Uniko Studio set. I will be in touch soon!


There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)


Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a feminine card!! We hope you will join us!

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Seize the Birthday #10 {Masculine Birthday}


Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

Here is the set from Uniko

This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. They are offering the sweet set Bright Butterflies to our winner!

Uniko Studio
Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market.
Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE. 

We are happy to have Suzanne Bier Guest Designing with us this week! 
Welcome Suzanne!

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!


This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Weekly Winners



Another terrific week here at Seize the Birthday!! I love looking at my stash of birthday cards I am building! Feels amazing to be somewhat ahead of the game!! So many fabulous entries this week! WOW, you created such creative and pretty cards!!!


Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:



 45. Sheri Gilson 


Sheri's birthday card "Took the Cake" this week! Gorgeous papers and fun colours made this card a winner for us this week! Congrats Sheri! You have also won the Bright Butterfly set from Uniko Studio!! Hooray!!!


Here is the set from Uniko



There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)


Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new sketch and creating a masculine card!! We hope you will join us!

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Seize the Birthday Sketch Challenge #9-{Sponsored by Uniko Stamps} and Welcome to Dawn Easton!




Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are looking for a feminine birthday card using our sketch. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?!

This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. Uniko Stamps is generously offering a prize each week in March to our weekly winner...the prize is this stamp set called Bright Butterflies! Thank you so much to Beverly for sponsoring us for the month of March. The team has used their own stamps this week, be sure to visit their blogs to leave them some love.

Uniko Studio
Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market. Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.
Here is the set from Uniko
We are also excited to welcome Dawn Easton to our Design Team. I just adore Dawn's cards and was thrilled when she agreed to join our little team. I asked Dawn to share a bit about herself!

Hi there :) I'm super excited to be joining the Seize The Birthday Team! I've been stamping for about 8 years now and unlike all my other hobbies I haven't gotten bored of it. It's a good thing too since I've invested a lot of money into it. I'm a wife, mom and work full time for a major grocery chain here in Canada. Since I travel during the week I spend my weekends stamping away. I'm very lucky to have a supportive husband and daughter....lol
Over the years I've been lucky enough to be on several design teams and was a member of the Dirty Dozen on SCS back in 2008. Wow that seems so long ago now. I'm looking forward to playing along with all these talented ladies and seeing your creations too!
To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a feminine birthday card)

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

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.

4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!


This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.