Seize the Birthday: January 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Seize the Birthday #298-Kraft and Red

Hello Crafters! Hope you are settled into 2025.

Glenda here and I've picked one of my favourite colour combinations for the topping this week. However, before I get to the amazing cards below we have a new Design Team member started today! I would like to welcome Jenny Martin to the team. Welcome Jenny, you have landed in a lovely space.

Here is a little bit about her!

Hi there! It’s Jenny here from My Paper Epiphany. I’m from Melbourne, Australia, but we also have a house at Queenscliff, which is a seaside town 2 hours from home. I spend a quarter of my time there and it’s where I do most of my crafting. I began sporadically card-making 30 years ago, but many years later I became hooked when I discovered the wonderful online community and challenges. I love dabbling in all styles of card making, although I’d say the majority of my cards could be defined as ‘Clean and Layered’. I’m super happy to be joining the Seize The Birthday team.

Our "Topping" option this time is...

Please also feel free to use neutrals; black, white, grey, or dark brown!

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

Amanda

The Design Team

Jules

Vicki

Ashwini

Glenda

Shirley

Cathy

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, February 4th.

Winner's Post #297-Use Something New

Hi everyone, thank you for playing along with our something new challenge. Just a reminder too that our guidelines limit the number of challenges entered to 5 including ours.

There were so many fabulous entries using new goodies! Choosing our winners was not easy but here they are.

Congratulations!

Julia

and

Milla

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Julia, 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!

Wanda

Lorraine

Leslie

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!

Cathy x

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Reminder #297-Use Something New

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The gallery is full of amazing cards, and we hope you will join us, too!

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 January 21st to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Seize the Birthday #297-Use Something New

Hello Crafters, Happy New Year, and welcome to our first challenge for 2025!

It's Cathy here hosting this round and I thought it would be fun to start off by using some new goodies that may be in your stash from Christmas or even earlier!

Before we get to the cards below, I want to introduce you to our next Surprise Party Guest. We have Amanda Mertz joining us for the next two months. Welcome Amanda, we're happy to have you alongside us!

Amanda Mertz

Here is a little bit about her!

I'm Amanda Mertz and I live in Glen Allen, Virginia, USA (just outside of Richmond) with my husband, 2 teen boys, and 2 labrador retrievers. I'm thrilled to be joining Seize the Birthday design team as a Party Guest for the next two months! I've been stamping since 2003 and have been having a blast with it ever since! I love participating in challenges so that I have a starting point to make me stay focused when I have soooooo many different products to choose from! I use any reason I can to stay in my stamp room but when I do venture out I love to walk with my dogs, read, and try to complete all the NY Times daily puzzles.

Along with Amanda, we have Valerie and Denise joining us, they both were winners of previous challenges. Happy to have you ladies designing with us too!

Now, let's get to the oodles of inspiration below!

Our "Topping" option this time is...