Seize the Birthday #14 {Sponsored by SKdigis}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we are using the a brand new sketch, only this time we are looking for 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 next two weeks, we are thrilled to be sponsored by Sonia at SKdigis! She is offering a prize: $6 USD voucher code to redeem at store each week!!! Yippee!!! Thank you Sonia!

Hello everyone!  I want to start thanking Seize the Birthday for having me as a sponsor and for inviting me to design along the fabulous DT, it is an honor and a pleasure.

My name is Sonia Kertznus, owner, operator and graphic designer at SKdigis digital stamps company. 

High quality cartoonish/whimsical digital images hand drawn and digitized by me at 300 dpi line art for a perfect crisp print and delivered in both .jpg and .png formats.

SKdigis are wonderful for card makers and scrapbookers, priced affordably and with the convenience of immediate downloads.

In addition to the digital stamps, I also have a vast collection of digital sentiments and digital papers.

Still, my priority is my family and my "real" life, therefore, I only add new images to the store, If I have had the time to draw, color and create  samples.  

I try my best to upload at least 5 to 10 new images per month, so come on visit my store and follow by e-mail... you do not miss the new additions.

I also want to invite you to visit and follow SKdigis blog and play along our very talented design team at Sketchy Friday, where you can win SKdigis.

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Sonia from SKdigis

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

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.

Seize the Birthday #12 {Sponsored by Paper Sweeties}

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we have a brand new sketch and we are looking for 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 next two weeks, we are excited to be sponsored by Debbie Marcinkiewicz from Paper Sweeties™ LLC. She is offering a $10 gift certificate to the shop for each week! Thank you so much Debbie!!

Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers hand drawn, high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps.  Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiments, labels and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Now onto this week's design team samples!! 
The ladies have created such gorgeous projects and Debbie has joined us this week!! Welcome Debbie!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Debbie from Paper Sweeties 

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

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.

Seize the Birthday #11 {Feminine Birthday & a new Sketch!

Welcome to Seize the Birthday! We are working on creating both masculine and feminine birthday cards this year! This week we have a brand new sketch to share and we are looking for 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?! 

This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. They are offering the sweet set Bright Butterflies to our winner!

Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market.

Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

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.

Seize the Birthday Sketch Challenge #9-{Sponsored by Uniko Stamps} and Welcome to Dawn Easton!

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

This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio. Uniko Stamps is generously offering a prize each week in March to our weekly winner...the prize is this stamp set called Bright Butterflies! Thank you so much to Beverly for sponsoring us for the month of March. The team has used their own stamps this week, be sure to visit their blogs to leave them some love.

Uniko Studio is a small company based in the North East of the UK. Uniko Studio specialises in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market. Uniko Studio will feature high quality photopolymer stamps designed & manufactured  in the UK, and if things go well we will branch out into other crafting supplies.

We are also excited to welcome Dawn Easton to our Design Team. I just adore Dawn's cards and was thrilled when she agreed to join our little team. I asked Dawn to share a bit about herself!

Dawn Easton

Hi there :) I'm super excited to be joining the Seize The Birthday Team! I've been stamping for about 8 years now and unlike all my other hobbies I haven't gotten bored of it. It's a good thing too since I've invested a lot of money into it. I'm a wife, mom and work full time for a major grocery chain here in Canada. Since I travel during the week I spend my weekends stamping away. I'm very lucky to have a supportive husband and daughter....lol

Over the years I've been lucky enough to be on several design teams and was a member of the Dirty Dozen on SCS back in 2008. Wow that seems so long ago now. I'm looking forward to playing along with all these talented ladies and seeing your creations too!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson

Stacey Schafer

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.

Seize the Birthday #7 {Feminine Birthday Sketch}

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 feminine birthday card. The design team has some wonderful inspiration for you! Won't you join us and build your stash of birthday cards?! 

This month we are thrilled to welcome "The Alley Way" Stamps as our Sponsor!!! Here is a little about the Alley Way Stamps Company!

We're a small company from Utah that specializes in clear photopolymer stamps that are made right here in the USA! These stamps are fun, whimsical, and sometimes a little quirky. We try to keep them trendy. The sentiments will always put a smile on your face. We began in January 2012 with the release of four stamp sets and are now just over 60 sets and growing. We at The Alley Way bring you one of a kind stamps. All of our stamps are hand created with you in mind; even our sentiments are made to go perfectly with each set. One of our favorite things to do is pick out PUNNY sentiments and the perfect stamp name. From the oldest to the youngest, we hope it brings out the fun in crafting. We can't wait to see The Alley Way Stamps in your next project!

Owner/Designer

Alison Spelman

Alison at the Alley Way is also offering a prize each week this month!!! This week's prize is the stamp set "Kitchen Gadgets 2" which will be mailed to our winner this week, from Alison. It is SUCH an adorable set!!!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE. The design team has created such stunning samples to get you in the birthday spirit!! We are also thrilled to welcome Jen Mitchell as our Guest Designer this week!!  So happy to have you with us Jen!

Deanna Dean

Jen Nelson

Jen Mitchell (Guest Designer)

Kay Miller

Lesley Croghan

Lynn Hayes

Rose Miller

Stacey Schafer

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.