Seize the Birthday #241- Summer Activities

Hello, and I hope you are doing well!  

Welcome to the next topping here at Seize the Birthday! Barbara is our fabulous hostess and she picked a fun topping that has tons of room for interpretation.  She wants us to theme our cards and or projects to Summer Activities. 

 

Before e get to all the inspiration below, It is time we say thank you and farewell to our Surprise Party Guest, Lorraine!  We have enjoyed your cards immensely and hope you have enjoyed your time with us as well! Take care and we look forward to having you back in the gallery again soon! 

Let's go get inspired! 

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

Lorraine

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn 

 Jules

Lindsey

(On Break)

Nancy

Shirley

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!

NOTE:  We ask that ONLY birthday cards be uploaded to the gallery.  We have been seeing many cards that, while lovely, don't fit our birthday theme and therefore are not considered for selection.  This also includes entries linked to more than five challenges total.  Any card not adhering to our rules is subject to removal from the gallery.  We appreciate all of you and thank you for understanding our guidelines!

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, July 5th!

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's #240-Favorite Technique

Hi crafty friends! I am happy to share with you the winners of our last challenge featuring those that used our Topping of  "Your Favorite Technique" along with those that stuck with our Anything Goes Birthday. It was certainly fun to see the variety of cards that make us all "Our Own Cardmakers", which in turn makes this great hobby of ours so diversified. 

Let's go see which cards caught my attention!

Congratulations!

#21 Loll

and

#31 Warmest Wishes B Bliss

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!

11. Prudence 

#38 ElizStewart

#26 Valerie

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!

Ashwini

 

Reminder #240-Favorite Technique

Hello Crafters,

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

If you're not a topping 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 just scroll down to find the challenge link!

You have until 9AM (PST) on June 21st to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'              

 

Seize the Birthday #240-Favorite Technique

Hello friends,  

Ashwini is our hostess for this challenge and she has a great topping for us. She wants us to showcase our Favorite Technique!  

For example, is it...paper piecing, sponging, embossing, coloring, die-cutting, stenciling, foiling...and the list goes on and on!  

We can't wait to see what your favorite technique 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 Guest

Lorraine

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

Glenda

JoAnn

(On Break)

Jules

Lindsey

(On Break)

Nancy

Shirley

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!

NOTE:  We ask that ONLY birthday cards be uploaded to the gallery.  We have been seeing many cards that, while lovely, don't fit our birthday theme and therefore are not considered for selection.  This also includes entries linked to more than five challenges total.  Any card not adhering to our rules is subject to removal from the gallery.  We appreciate all of you and thank you for understanding! 

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday, June 21st.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners for #239 Stencil

It's time to announce the winners of our last Seize the Birthday challenge, with the optional topping of Stenciling!  We had such a nice array of cards using the topping and some wonderful non-topping birthday cards as well. 

Any cards in the gallery could have been chosen as my winners, but here are the ones that caught my attention...

Congratulations!

 

Melissa Miller #3

and

 

Sue #21

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!

 Deb Wheeler #9

and

Amanda #13

and

 

#34 Marja

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!

 

Reminder #239 Stencil

Hello Crafters,

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

If you're not a topping 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 just scroll down to find the challenge link!

You have until 9AM (PST) on June 7th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

       NANC'              

 

Seize the Birthday #239-Stencil

Hello and welcome to our next challenge here at Seize the Birthday.  I think the topping that was selected by Vicki is an easy one that you are really going to love.  I'm certain, that if you are anything like me, you have at LEAST a handful of these in your stash of supplies, but if you don't have any you can always make your own with a die-cut or two!   

    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 Guest

Lorraine

The Design Team

Ashwini

Barbara

Cathy

Colleen

 

Glenda

JoAnn

(On Break)

Jules

Lindsey

Nancy

Shirley

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!

NOTE:  We ask that ONLY birthday cards be uploaded to the gallery.  We have been seeing many cards that, while lovely, don't fit our birthday theme and therefore are not considered for selection.  This also includes entries linked to more than five challenges total.  Any card not adhering to our rules is subject to removal from the gallery.  We appreciate all of you and thank you for understanding! 

This linky will close at 9am (PST) on Tuesday,  June 7th.  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter