Thursday, January 30, 2014

Chevrons and Birthdays

Welcome to another great challenge here at STB!
You all did an amazing job last time and we
had soooo many participants!
We were in the triple digits once again!
WooHooooo!
We loved seeing all your creations!
Hope this week we inspire you again!

Now time for our challenge...

Our "Toppings" option this time is

"Chevrons"



Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

If your not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

The choice is yours!


Let's go see what our team has been up to this week!

The Senior Design Team


The Design Team



The design team has created such awesome samples to get your mojo flowing!

Need a sketch to get you started, come and visit our sister challenge called "Seize the Sketch" and create a birthday card to link up here!

Have fun and let the celebration 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, February 11th.

Winners!

Thanks everyone for all your wonderful creations over the past couple weeks,
with or without our Coloring Topping option!!  You all are amazing crafters!!!

Anyhoo... it's time for our Winners!! 
 
Congratulations to...

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!







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!!

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There's still time to join the current challenge. You have until Tuesday January 28th at 9AM (PST).
  To join us click here.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Birthday in the House....


Happy Birthday to our very own Design team member...



Hope your Birthday is as special as you are!

Also...you still have until Tuesday Jan. 28th to play
along with our latest challenge.

We have so many fabulous entries so far!

Just scroll down to our previous post...we would love for you to join us!

See you soon,
Nancy

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Who Likes to Color?

Welcome to another great challenge here at STB!
Today we have our 3 new Design Team Members with us,
and your going to just love what they have created for you
along with the rest of the fabulous team!
Way to go ladies!

Now time for our challenge...

Our "Toppings" option this time is

"Coloring"
It can be with any type of coloring Medium you want to use:
markers, chalk, colored pencils, paint, and more!


Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

If your not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

The choice is yours!


Let's go see what our team has been up to this week!

The Design Team
























Need a sketch to get you started, come and visit our sister challenge called
and create a birthday card to link up here!

Have fun and let the celebration begin, and break out those mad coloring skills!

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, January 28th.

Winners!

Thanks everyone for all your wonderful creations over the past couple weeks,
we so enjoyed looking at all your Birthday creations for a change,
now that the Holidays are behind us!

You all are amazing crafters!!!

Anyhoo... it's time for our Winners!

Congratulations to...

Karren J

Loved how Karren incorporated the Initial with the Number
along with that beautiful background!

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!

Love the non-traditional muted Birthday colors that worked
so well together! Just Beautiful!


I thought Shirley's flowers just popped off the card,
along with the great dotted frame work she did around the edges.

and

This was one of 2 of Linda's submissions and they were both just
fabulous with the large die cut numbers!

Well done ladies!!

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!!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Hello and Goodbye!

The Seize the Birthday girls and I would like to say
 a fond farewell to two of our design team members...

Jenny Jean Lim

Taking some time to enjoy her new twin baby girls!

and

Nazeema "Calypso" Bastian 

Is anxious to see where else her creativity will take her!


We wish you both the best of luck!


Now when one door closes another one opens as the saying goes...
so the Design Team and I would like to welcome... not 2, but 3
new talented Designers to the team!

Please help us give a warm welcome to these lovely ladies!


Hi!  I'm Sharyn.  I am married to my high school sweetheart, and we will be celebrating our 41st Anniversary on January 20th.  We have two grown children and six grandchildren.  I have always loved crafty things, and enjoy card making, scrapbooking, quilting and counted cross-stitch.  I also love to read, cook, work in my flowers, travel with my husband, and spend time with my family.  I started stamping in the summer of 2012 and have been hooked ever since.  I am very excited to be a part of this very talented team.




Hi, my name is Susie and I live near a small farming community in northern Illinois, USA with my wonderful husband!  When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with family, walking and (of course) stamping.  Cards are my favorite, but I also enjoy creating photo layouts, altered projects, etc.  Just about anything involving paper crafting. I’ve been stamping for many years, but my hobby became even more fun when I started blogging in 2009.  I found challenge blogs!!!   It’s so much fun to be inspired by, and learn from, other crafters.  As a member of this super-talented design team, I hope that I’ll be able to inspire you!



Hello everyone! My name is Janet Zeppa and I live in St.Catharines Ontario Canada. That is close to Niagara Falls. My husband and I are proud parents of 3 grown children, 1 girl and 2 boys. We are now empty nesters and life is good! I love paper crafting and have been scrapbooking and card making for about 10 years. When my daughter became engaged I just knew that I wanted to do something special with all the wedding photos and that's how it all began.  I am super excited to be a part of the Seize The Birthday team and I look forward to meeting all of you fellow crafters out there. I'm sure that we will inspire each other.

WELCOME TO SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY!

We are so glad you all are here with us and look forward to you starting your first
challenge with us tomorrow!

Stay tuned!!
Nancy



Sunday, January 12, 2014

Seize the Birthday Reminder

There's still time to join the current challenge. You have until Tuesday January 14th at 9AM (PST).
  To join us click here.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

First Challenge of 2014...with Numbers!

Welcome to Seize the Birthday and our first challenge of 2014!

We hope you all had a wonderful New Year and are ready to 
start 2014 off with some creativity!

Our team would also love to give a shout out to our talented and fellow Design Team member
Sheri Gilson
 as her Birthday is just a couple of days away!

Hope you have a wonderful Birthday Sheri!

Now time for our challenge...

Our "Toppings" option this time is

"Numbers"

Let's see how creative you can be with this!  You can incorporate
numbers in your background, as your focal image or any
Number of ways...LOL!


Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

If your not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

The choice is yours!


Let's go see what our team has been up to this week!


The Senior Design Team

The Design Team






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

Need a sketch to get you started, come and visit our sister challenge called "Seize the Sketch" and create a birthday card to link up here!

Have fun and let the celebration 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, January 14th.