Thursday, January 31, 2013

Seize the Birthday #4 {Masculine Birthday}


Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! We would like to welcome a Guest Designer this week...welcome to Sherry Eckblad...we are so happy to have her join us!



For the rest of January, we are being sponsored by the lovely Lori Boyd over atby LORi designs! This week she provided the team with some awesome masculine birthday images for our GIRL BIRTHDAY CARDS!!!


To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Sherry Eckblad (GD)


Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.


3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link 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 the design team.


5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!



This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.


Weekly Winners!



Another great week here at Seize the Birthday!!! Thank you to everyone who played along with us!

Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:

Dawn Easton

Such a pretty card in pink!!! Congratulations Dawn!



There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received our first "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)







Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour, with a brand new sketch and creating a masculine card!! We hope you will join us!

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Seize the Birthday #3-{Feminine Birthday card with Sketch #3}


Looking for last week's winners, please CLICK HERE. 
We post our winners each week one hour before the weekly challenge begins!





Welcome to Seize the Birthday! This week we are using the sketch above to create a FEMININE Birthday card!! The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?!



For the rest of January, we are being sponsored by the lovely Lori Boyd over at by LORi designs! This week she provided the team with some awesome feminine birthday images for our GIRL BIRTHDAY CARDS!!!



To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):

1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a feminine birthday card)

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.


3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link 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 the design team.


5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!



This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

Winners for Sketch #2 {Masculine Birthday}




What a fabulous week of Masculine Birthday cards! Woot-woot!!! You did a great job with the sketch and we loved seeing your manly creations!!!!


Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:



Love this hilarious image on Jessica's card!!! So much fun and perfect for the old fella in the family! Congratulations Jessica!! You have won a $10 gift certificate to the byLORidesigns online digital stamp store!!! Woohoo!! We will be in touch soon!




There were also some other special birthday creations which caught our eye! Congratulations to the following ladies who received our first "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.)








Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour, with a brand new sketch and creating a feminine card!! We hope you will join us!

Monday, January 21, 2013

Still time to join us at Seize the Birthday!!!



Still time to join us for our challenge this week! 
The challenge ends on Tuesday, January 22nd at NOON (PST).
To play along, please CLICK HERE!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Seize the Birthday #2 {Use the Sketch and make a MASCULINE birthday card!}

Looking for last week's winners, please CLICK HERE. 
We post our winners each week one hour before the weekly challenge begins!


Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, only this time we are looking for a masculine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 



For the rest of January, we are being sponsored by the lovely Lori Boyd over at By LORi Designs! This week she provided the team with some awesome masculine images for our BOY BIRTHDAY CARDS!!!


To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.


Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. (this week we are looking for a masculine birthday card)

2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.

3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link 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 the design team.

5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!


This linky will close at Noon on the Tuesday before the next Seize the Birthday Challenge.

The Birthday Celebration {Winners}




What an amazing first challenge here at Seize the Birthday! The design team was blown away by all the wonderful talent! We had a challenging time, trying to choose a winner and honourable mentions!!! Remember, we will be revealing our next challenge in an hour, we hope you will join us!


Our winner who "Took the Cake" is:



I kept coming back to Janet's sweet card!! I just loved the papers she used and the sweet image she coloured!  Congratulations Janet you have won the prize from Mabelle at Whimsy and Stars Studio. Please email her at WhimsyAndStarsStudio@yahoo.com to claim your two digital stamps from Mabelle! A special thank you to Mabelle for sponsoring our first challenge!




There were also other special birthday creations which caught our eye! There were so many fun and special cards to choose from, it was really challenging to narrow it down! Congratulations to the following ladies who received our first "Birthday Honours"! (These are in no particular order.) We hope you will display your new blog badge with pride!


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Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun this past week! We will be back in one hour for our next challenge and to reveal our next Sponsor!!