Seize the Birthday

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Seize the Birthday #281-Any Color and Green

Hello Crafters, Nancy here! I am your hostess for this challenge. I have a color challenge for you today. All you have to do is decide what your second color is going to be. I have chosen the first one for you. It is Green! There are loads you can do with that and I certainly hope you will be inspired to play along!

Remember that neutrals are always welcome, we just don't want them to overshine the other two colors. If you want to know what our neutrals are there is a list in the Rules Tab above.

Before we get to the Design Team's wonderful cards, I must first welcome our 2-Surprise Party Guests. First, we have Jolanda Johnston as our honorary guest and she will be with us for the months of April and May.

Here is a bit about her!

Hi, I'm Jolanda Johnstone. I currently live in Greenville, South Carolina. Retired with lots of time to play. And play I do with stamps, inks and papers and a tool or two like dies and embossing folders, cardmaking almost every day. Along the way, I discovered card challenges and set up my blog site The Inque Spot Studio in 2020 to better participate and share my creativity. I just love combining challenges. A layout from here, colors from there, and a theme from yonder. It is exciting to see what develops. I am such a fan!

What fun to be asked to join the talented Designers of Seize The Birthday as a Surprise Party Guest. Looking forward to the next couple of months. Cheers!

Next, we also have Melanie Hungerford. joining us today as she was the overall winner from our last challenge using our Topping. Welcome, ladies! We are really happy to have you both designing with us!

Now, let's go and see what everyone has made!

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

Jolanda

Melanie

The Design Team

Barbara

Linda

Glenda

Jules

Ashwini

Shirley

Colleen

Vicki

JoAnn

Cathy

Nancy

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, April 23rd.

Winner's Post #280-Spring Floral

Hello everyone, Linda here! I want to take a moment and thank everyone for playing along the past couple of weeks. There were so many beautiful cards both using the floral Topping and those without. You certainly made it hard to choose just a few winners, but here they are.

Congratulations!

Milla

This beautiful floral by Milla is stunning and colored so beautifully.

It really stood out to me. Oh, how I wish I could color like that.

and

Stephanie

This colorful graphic card is so pretty foiled with silver.

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge! Thanks, ladies, for joining in our challenge.

MILLA,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!

Sue

Izzy

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!

Linda

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Reminder #280 Spring Floral

Hello Crafters,

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

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 April 9th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Seize the Birthday #280-Spring Floral

Hello Crafters,

Linda here, and I am your hostess for this challenge. I think we have all had enough wintery weather and are ready for Spring to arrive. I would like to see all those Spring Florals on your cards to brighten up this dreary weather. Please join us and start building up your birthday stash.

Before we get to all the fabulous Florals below, I want to take a moment and thank Deborah Wheeler for being such an awesome guest these past two months. We certainly have enjoyed having you with us and look forward to seeing you back in our gallery when you have the time.

We also have Deb Dukes joining us as she was the overall winner of our last challenge using the Topping. Welcome to you, Deb. Happy to have you!

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

Deborah Wheeler

Deb Dukes

The Design Team

Colleen

Barbara

Linda

Jules

Vicki

Glenda

Shirley

Ashwini

Cathy

JoAnn

Nancy

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, April 9th.

Winner's Post #279-Coordinating Tag and Card Combo

Hello Jules here! It is time to announce the winners of my Topping! I have chosen two Winners and Three Runners Up from the wonderful cards (and tags!) from our gallery. Thanks so much to everyone that took the time and effort to play along, I really appreciate it.

And now without further ado...

Congratulations!

Melanie H

and

Flo

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

We hope you will enjoy your Winner's Badge!

Melanie, 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!

Julia

Karen

Bonnie

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 that I think you will love!

So please stay tuned!

Jules

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Reminder #279-Coordinating Tag and Card Combo

Hello Crafters,

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

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 March 26th to join us!

Happy Crafting!

Nanc'

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Seize the Birthday #279-Coordinating Tag and Card Combo

Hello Crafters, it's Jules here. I hope you're all ready to be challenged as I have something a bit different waiting for you this fortnight. I am challenging you all to create a coordinating tag along with your birthday card. It takes little time to do and they're wonderful to have on hand for gift bags and the like. I do hope you're game as I'd love to see a full gallery!

Before we get to the fabulous cards below, I want to welcome our newest guest, Vicky Hayes! She won our last challenge using the Topping and we are glad she is here. We also still have Deborah with us as well! Thanks for being here ladies, we are delighted to have you in our lineup!

Our "Topping" option this time is...