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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Water and Some Wonderful News!

Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday!
I am going to get right to it as this post is full of lots of News today!  Before we get to the topping this week, I would like to welcome TWO new Design Team members to the Seize the Birthday Team! Yeah!!!
First, I would like to welcome my birthday sister Barbara Campbell to the team. Barbara and I became friends a few years ago thanks to this wonderful hobby of ours and we have had the pleasure to meet one another in person too! She is a fabulous card maker and so sweet to boot and will be a great addition to our team. 
Here is a little bit about Barbara!
Hello, I am so excited to be asked to join this creative team of ladies at Seize the Birthday.   I live in Wisconsin, but I am an official "Snow Bird" as we enjoy winters in Florida.  I am married to a man who understands my need to create. Yes, that means that I bring as much of the crafty things to Florida that I can get in the car. Since retiring, I have had time to pursue the paper craft that I love. I enjoyed my 28 years as an Emergency Department nurse, and now we love to travel. I have been to some amazing places.  We have 5 children and 7 grand kids and enjoy having them in our lives.  
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Here is her blog!
Next, I would like to welcome Vicki Dutcher to the team and I have to say Vicki is the one person I have to thank for starting me on this crafting journey, as she is the one that believed in me enough to allow me to join my first design team. (Just Us Girls) I will also say that her card making style is so versatile, there is nothing she can't do or hasn't tried. If you haven't come across Vicki in blog land
 I would be very surprised!
Here is a little bit about Vicki!
Hi all, I have been stamping for a lot of years at this point.  It all started with a SU party and has grown from there.  I have been a designer for many companies and currently am designing for 3.  I love stamping - it is the best hobby out there!  I also work at Starbucks part time.  I love my job, I love my hobby - can't get any better then that except.... being on this fun Team with Nancy and the rest of the girls. Thanks so much for having me!  I'm looking forward to this new gig.
 Here is her blog!
 http://allidoisstamp.blogspot.com (which is so true). 
Welcome ladies!
 I am so excited to have you both joining the team!
Before I go I would also like to thank Jacquie Southas for being such a terrific Surprise Party Guest these past two months! We have enjoyed having you Jacquie and look forward to seeing more of your fabulous work among the gallery in the future!
Now, onto today's challenge!
Our "Toppings" option this time is...
" Water"
Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!
If you're not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

The choice is yours!

Surprise Party Guest
Jacquie Southas

The Design Team



Sharyn  


The design team has created such awesome samples haven't they?

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the challenge and make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT.
2. You may link up to 3 birthday projects.
3. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.
4. Feel free to combine other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link and graphic 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 myself.
5. As always, please have fun and make the challenge your own! All product is welcome!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, April 5th.


Winners!

Thanks everyone for all of your wonderful creations over the past couple weeks, we sure do appreciate each and everyone of you
joining us and inspiring us with your talents!

Shall we get right to the winners?

Congratulations!
81. Mac-Daisy

and

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!

and


and



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,
along with some very SPECIAL announcements!
So please stay tuned!!
Nanc'

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Reminder!




There's still time to join in our latest challenge here at STB!!

You have until Tuesday, March 22nd @ 9AM (PST).

Just Click HERE or scroll down!

Hope to see you in our Gallery!
Nancy

Thursday, March 10, 2016

The Great Divide along with a Goodbye!

Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday! Boy did you really knock our socks off with our last challenge!  WOW!
I can't wait to see what you all do this time!
Our "Toppings" option this time is...
"The Great Divide"
What does that exactly mean?
 Well, we would like for you to divide your focal point of your card and 
or project into thirds, fourths... etc. 
Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!
If you're not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!


The choice is yours!

Before we get to the Design Team's fabulous cards!  I need to say thanks and farewell to one of our design team members!  Anni is stepping down as one of our Designers so you won't be seeing her on this side of the gallery anymore, but she assures me that it won't be the last we see of her amazing talent, as she hopes to play along with us as often as she can!  Thanks for your hard work and amazing dedication to the team Anni and we wish you the best of luck with the next chapter in your creative life!  
We can't wait to see how it unfolds!

Now onto our Designers!

Surprise Party Guest
Jacquie


The Design Team





Sharyn  


Have fun and let the Birthday Celebrations begin!




Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the challenge and make a BIRTHDAY PROJECT.
2. You may link up to 3 birthday projects.
3. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.
4. Feel free to combine other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link and graphic 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 myself.
5. As always, please have fun and make the challenge your own! All product is welcome!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday,


Winners!

Thanks everyone for all of your wonderful creations over the past couple weeks, WOW, were we ever blown away by the number of participants we had! We had over 200 fabulous entries so picking our winners was exceptionally hard! Who am I kidding...picking winners is always hard because we have such a fabulous creative following!

Anyhoo...Let's get to it!

Congratulations!


Toni at FHC

You 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!


and

and


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!
I think you are really going to love it!
So please stay tuned!!
Nanc'

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Happy Birthday!

Just popping in today to wish a very happy Birthday to 
one of our designers!



Hope you have a wonderful day Brenda 
and a fabulous year ahead!

See you back here on Thursday, March 10th 
for a new Challenge and a New Topping!
Take care,
Nancy

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Birthday and a Reminder!




The STB Team and I would like to wish a 
Happy Birthday to our Design Team member

and to remind you...

There's still time to join in our latest challenge here at STB!!

You have until Tuesday, March 8th @ 9AM (PST).

Please scroll down for our

 latest Anything Goes Challenge!

Nancy