Seize the Birthday 18 - Birthday Tag

Happy Monday!  Hope you had a fabulous weekend!  Glenda here with a last minute reminder about the current sketch.  I wasn't able to join in on the original challenge post (life has been crazy hectic) so wanted to make sure I played along with this fabulous sketch from Jen (see below).  I translated the stars into a tag and some washi tape and made this bright masculine birthday card.

Our sponsor this time around is Neat & Tangled Stamps.  All the guidelines for playing are here.  Hope you get a chance to play around.

***Please note we now have a voting system for choosing our weekly winners...voting will happen on Tuesdays (tomorrow - June 11th) at Noon (EST) and end on Wednesdays at Noon (EST).

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week!
Glenda

Seize the Birthday #17 - Let's Party!

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you had a great weekend!  I'm just off a four day weekend... it was fabulous!

Glenda here to share another card for the current sketch.  I went masculine this time.  I'm a sucker for penguins so couldn't resist! I put some Diamond Glaze on the balloon to make it glossy... might be hard to see in the photo.

You still have time to play along with the sketch!  Here it is:

A refresher on the details:

• The challenge now runs for TWO WEEKS and that you need to come back on Tuesday, May 28th at Noon (EST) to VOTE for your 3 favourite cards!!
• Our current sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and they are offering SEVEN free images as a prize pack!
• You must use the sketch and make a BIRTHDAY card. 
• Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.  The original challenge post is HERE.
• Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add the challenge link to your post.
• Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and the design team.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week.

Glenda

Seize the Birthday #15 {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 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?! 

This is our last week with three of our amazing design team members. They are all going to be missed! Thank you to Lynn, Dawn and Kay for their amazing work over the last 4 months!! Best of luck to you ladies and I know you will play along with us from time to time. 

This is our second week to be sponsored by Sonia from SKdigis. Thank you Sonia!

She has a prize: $6 USD voucher code to redeem at her store for our winner this week!

To learn more about our guidelines, please click HERE.

Sonia from SKdigis

Lesley Croghan
(off this week)

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson
(off this week)

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 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.

Seize the Birthday #13 {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?! 

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 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.

Seize the Birthday #11 {Masculine Birthday card using our 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 masculine 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! Thank you so much to Uniko Studio for their fabulous sponsorship!!

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 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.

Seize the Birthday #10 {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?! 

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. 

We are happy to have Suzanne Bier Guest Designing with us this week! 
Welcome Suzanne!

Suzanne Bier 
(Guest Designer this week)

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Jen Nelson
On Holiday

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 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.

Seize the Birthday #8-Masculine Birthday Card

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?! 

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 "Tweet Spots" 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.

Jen Nelson

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Lynn Hayes

 
Rose Miller

Kay 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 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.