Seize the Birthday #300 - No Stamping

 Hello Crafters,

It's Jules here and as host of today's challenge 

I had the honor of choosing our Topping. 

 

I like to think of Toppings as self-challenges however choosing

ones that are popular with the crafting community can be a 

challenge in and of itself.  

I'm putting myself out on a limb today to challenge you all to

 create a birthday card with NO stamping...including the sentiment.  

So put away your clear and rubber stamps for this one, folks. 

 Foiling and Better Pressing (I've made that a verb apparently) are allowed.

 Before we get to the inspiration below I want to thank Amanda Mertz for being such a wonderful Surprise Party Guest for the past two months we have enjoyed having you in our lineup! Thanks for everything!  Along with Amanda today we have Chris Dring joining us today.  She was our latest winner using our Topping.  Chris, we are happy to have you with us as well! 

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

Amanda

Chris

The Design Team

Cathy

Barbara

Jules 

Vicki

Shirley

Nancy

Ashwini

JoAnn

Glenda

Jenny

Linda

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, March 11th.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #299-Add a Heart

Hello everyone. Thank you all for playing in our challenge using my Topping of Add a Heart.  Also, just a friendly reminder that our guidelines limit the challenges you can enter to 5 - including ours, to be considered as our winner.

We had so many lovely cards in the gallery, that it was hard to choose the winners, but here they are. 

Congratulations!

GerJanne (with topping)

Very pretty and detailed pop-out card.

and

Lorraine (without topping)

This is such a fun card with a cute image and all the different sentiments.

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

GerJanne, 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!

Lynne

Ingrid

Karen

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!

JoAnn

  

Reminder #299-Add a Heart

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The gallery is full of amazing cards both with and without our Topping of Hearts!  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 February 25th to join us!

Happy Crafting! 

         Nanc'                  

 

Seize the Birthday #299-Add a Heart

Hello Crafters,  it is Thursday and time for a new challenge here at Seize the Birthday.  JoAnn here, and I am the hostess this time.  Since it is the day before Valentine's Day, I thought "Add a Heart to your Card" was the perfect Topping.   Can't wait to see all your amazing cards with a heart in our gallery.

Before we get to the cards below, Along with Amanda, I want to welcome Julia! She was the overall winner of our previous challenge. Welcome, Julia! Happy to have you with us! 

    

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:

Amanda

Julia

The Design Team:

Jules

Barbara

Vicki

Ashwini

Shirley

Jenny

Cathy

Nancy

Linda

JoAnn

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, February 25th. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner's Post #298 - Kraft and Red

Happy Thursday crafty friends - it's Glenda here.  Thank you so much for playing along with us over the last few weeks.  It's always so fun to peruse the gallery to pick the winners... and an extra little shout out to those who used one my absolute favourite colour combinations - red & kraft. 

Congratulations!

Chris (with topping)

That bear is just absolutely adorable and I loved the heart background.

and

Pam (without topping)

I was really fond of the textures and details on this in addition 

to the rich colours.

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Chris, 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!

Carol

Wanda

Melanie

We hope you ALL will enjoy your "Honours" badge.

Just wanted to give another little shout out to our newest team member Jenny - so great to have her with us.

Our next challenge starts on February 13 so be sure to check back in then!

We always love having you join us.

Thanks again for playing along.

Glenda

Reminder #298-Kraft and Red

Hello Crafters,

There is still plenty of time to participate in our latest challenge. The gallery is full of amazing cards both with and without our Topping!  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 February 4th to join us!

Happy Crafting! 

         Nanc'