Challenge 13 - Let's Get Sporty

Here we are again, challenge time.  The theme this time is sports, so let's see your ideas of all things sporty.  The sponsor is That Craft Place, which is a fab shop here in the UK.  The prize is some pretty embellishments of Lisa's choice -

Welcome to That Craft Place 

This is a Shop run By Lisa Horton ..   I  run an actual bricks and mortar shop in Eastbourne, East Sussex 

We have every Kind of craft for sale ...

If you can't find it I will try my best to source it for you. We stock most leading Brands  and have a huge collection  of rubber stamp's, Saturated Canary, Kraftin Kimmie, My Craft Sentiments, Crafter's companion, Indigo Blue, My Favorite Things, CC Designs to name a few . We also stock a large selection of Die's  Memory Box, Sizzix, Spellbinder's, Cherrylyn, Marianne Dies. We  have new deliveries arriving each day.

The design team have been busy getting ideas for your inspiration:

Shirley

ALAN

Kate

CAZ 

Pat K

Patricia

Anne

Donna

 Michelle

I hope you're all raring to go now, here are the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
2. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
3. Your blog post should mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this post.
4. You may combine your challenge with other challenges up to a maximum of 10 challenges.

The challenge will run from now until midnight BST (British Summer Time) on 7 July 2013.  Leave a link to your card (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add it in before the draw.  Good luck.

Winners and Top 3 for challenges 9 to 11

So I promised to be back with a round up of winners and here I am.

Challenge 9
The prize is 6 Digis from Paper Pretties and the winner is #12 - Anda.  Congratulations Anda, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choices and I'll contact the sponsor.

Our Top 3 for this challenge were:

#8 - Chrissy

#62 - Kath

#96 - Brook

Congratulations, ladies.  Please grab the Top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Challenge 10

The prize is 3 digis from Scibbled Kidz and the winner is #15 - I don't do straight.  Congratulations.  Please email your choices to me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll get your prize sent over.

Our Top 3 for this challenge were:

#1 - linda dekker

#3 - Lisa

#17 - Kim

Congratulations, ladies.  Please grab the Top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Challenge 11

The prize is 2 digis from Dr Digi's House of Stamps and the winner is #109 - Dora.  Congratulations, Dora, email your choices to me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll contact the sponsor.

Our Top 3 for this challenge were:

#11 - Coops

#16 - Lorianna

#28 - Janja

Congratulations, ladies.  Please grab the Top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Challenge 12 - Boys will be boys

So our 'Dad' challenge went well with well over 100 entries.  Thank you to everyone who took part, I'll get back later on with some prize winners for the last few challenges.

Our challenge this time is sponsored by The Paper Shelter and we have a fairly open theme.  We just want to see your interpretation of 'boys will be boys' and one lucky winner will get a $20 certificate.

If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique! This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.

We were lucky enough to get images to use from The Paper Shelter and here is what the team came up with:

Shirley

ALAN

Anne

Kate

Patricia
 

CAZ

Pat K

Donna

I hope they've given you some food for thought, now lets have the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
2. Your card must be new for the challenge and follow the theme set.
3. Your blog post should mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this post.
4. You may combine our challenge with other challenges up to a maximum of 10 challenges.

The challenge will run from now until midnight BST (Britsh Summer Time) on 23 June 2013.  Leave a link to you card (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good luck.

Challenge 11 - Dad

Time sure is flying!  I can't believe we're almost in June - soon be time to start Christmas Cards.  Not quite though.  Our challenge this time is 'Dad' which is apt because the finishing date is the week before Father's Day in the UK.  Traditionally, we get a lot of entries to this challenge, so please don't be disappointed if we don't get around to comment on your card.  All cards get looked at for our top 3 and all cards go into the draw.

Our challenge this time is sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps and the prize is 2 digis of your choice.

Welcome to the brilliantly bizarre brain of Dr. Digi's House of Stamps. Here you will find Monsters, Aliens, 
Odd balls and Dundertons as well as many many more wonderful digital stamps. Our artist and founder cut 
his teeth in the craft world at the company "Just Inklined", where his unique digis made a huge impression. 
We're hoping to continue to entertain and amuse, with our growing catalogue of great value digis with
a sense of humour.

The Design Team got some great images to work with, here's what we came up with:

Shirley

ALAN

 

 

Anne

 

Kate

 

 

CAZ

Patricia

 

Donna

 

Michelle

Told you they were fab, didn't I?  So now it's your turn..... here are the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
2. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this post.
4. You can combine your entry with others up to a maximum of ten challenges.

The challenge will run from now until midnight (BST) on 9 June 2013.  Enter a link to your post (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add it in before the draw.  Good luck.

Challenge #10 - Fancy Folds

So we had over a hundred entries for our last challenge which is great.  Let's hope we can interest so many of you again with this one, which is sponsored by Scribbled Kidz.  The theme is Fancy Folds, by which we mean, anything but the basic square fold card.   You could do a stepper or a joy fold or any number of fun folds, we'd love to see what you come up with.  The prize is 3 digis from Scribbled Kidz,

Scribbled Kidz is all about fun images largely inspired by my family and what they might get up to. They are all hand drawn originals scanned in at 300dpi and saved as jpegs.   If you have any suggestions or special requests please let us know.Please pop along and see what we have to offer.

Here's what the DT have come up with to get you started:

Shirley

Caz

Lisa

Michelle

Patricia

Hopefully that's got you interested and ready to go, now for some rules:

1. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
2. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this post.
4. You can combine your entry with others to a maximum of ten challenges.

The challenge will run from now until midnight (BST) on 26 May 2013.  Enter a link to your post (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add it in before the draw.  Good luck.

Top 3 - Challenges 5 to 8

So following on from the winners post, here are the top 3 for the past few challenges.

Challenge 5

#4 - Tanya OD

#20 - An

#43 - Vicky PP

Challenge 6

#8 - FrancaK

#22 - Papersniffer

#26 - Gunn

Challenge 7

#15 - NanaConnie

#20 - kbrandy4

#41 - Kath

Challenge 8

#10 - Janiel

#29 - Renata

#94 Andreja L

Congratulations to you all. Grab the top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Winners - Challenge 5 to 8

Hi there, I've got some winners to announce, yaaayyyy!  Hopefully, I'll get the top 3's published and we will be contacting some new Design Team members.  For now, though, lets give out some prizes:

Challenge 5
The prize is a $5 gift certificate for Digital Delights which is won by #25 - Paper Profusion. Congratulations, please email me at cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk so that I can pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 6
The prize is 7 free images from Bugaboo Stamps which is won by #22 - Papersniffer.  Congratulations, please email me at cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choice of images so that I can pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 7
The prize is a 6 pack of flexmarkers from Letraset which is won by #22 - Lindyloo.  Congratulations, please email your name and address to me at cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll get your prize out to you.

Challenge 8
The prize is 4 digis from Squidgi Digi which is won by #136 Berit.  Congratulations, please email me at cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choice of images so that I can pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge #9 - Animals

Welcome back to another challenge.  I can't believe it's almost May!  Before I go further, I just want to re-iterate my thanks to Shirley for stepping in at the last minute to post the last challenge.  I couldn't keep Cards for Men going without the support and reliability of all the team and I'm very grateful.

So our challenge this time is sponsored by the fabulous, Paper Pretties, and the theme is Animals.

PAPER PRETTIES IS AN ONLINE CRAFTING STORE, AND HOME TO ZAC, LILY, SOPHIA AND COOPER - THE CUTEST KID STAMPS AROUND! (AT LEAST WE THINK SO). WE HAVE MANY EXCLUSIVE STAMP LINES, FROM ELEGANT TO WHIMSICAL, SWEET TO CLEVER; THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERY STAMPER IN OUR PRETTIES' BOUTIQUE.

ALONG WITH OUR FULL LINE OF HIGH QUALITY CLEAR STAMPS, WE ALSO HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF DIGITAL IMAGES.

The prize on offer is a wonderful 6 digi stamps of choice.  The Design Team had the pleasure of working with some of Paper Pretties images.  Here's the results:

Shirley



ALAN

Michelle

Lisa

Patricia

CAZ 

I think you'll agree they did a great job.  Hopefully, you're all raring to go and just need the rules:

1. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
2. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this post.
4. You can combine your entry with others to a maximum of ten challenges.

The challenge will run from now until midnight (BST) on 12 May 2013.  Enter a link to your post (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add it in before the draw.  Good luck.

Challenge #8 - Anything Goes

Good Morning Crafters, sorry this is a bit late but Donna is unable to write up this challenge and asked me Shirley if I would do it for her, and as I dont know her Inlinz password I wont be able to add it at the bottom but if you leave a link in the comments box Im sure Donna will add the Inlinz as soon as she is able.
Todays Challenge is a "Anything Goes" one and I know how much we all love this one so we are expecting a big turn out for it, but before I go any further two of our Design Team have had to stand down because of prior engagements and they are Viv and Sandra, we are so going to miss both of these very talented girls, but all the Team want to wish them all the best for the future.
And now we have a brand new sponsor this fortnight and that is

Squidgi Digi Stamps

and they are offering a fabulous prize of 4 digi's of Winners Choice

and here is what Bethany says about her company:-

Hi my name is Beth, I am 19 years old and am studying a Degree in illustration at Blackpool University.

I started drawing images for my Mum , who made cards with them and then she put them on her blog . She got lots of great comments and people saying i should sell them - so here we are !

I hope you enjoy my images and would love to see any creations you make with them

We were so lucky to have been given several images to play with and the team have taken that on board and have created some stunning cards with them.

Alan

Donna

Patricia

Shirley

Lisa

Caz

Michelle

Didnt I tell you what stunning cards they were? Anyway as we are now two girls down on our Design Team, and Donna has decided to run a DT Call at the same time as the Challenge, so if you are interested in joining our very talented Design Team, and you able to create a card every fortnight following a theme that is set, and also have it uploaded to the DT Blog in time for the Challenge to be posted on the Monday, please can you add DT at the end of your name on your entry.

And now please dont forget to visit the girls and thank them for all their hard work and leave them some love to show how much you appreciate it.

Donna will add the inlinkz as soon as she is able to, can you put your card link in the comment box until she does. Sorry for the inconvience and don't forget to add DT if your interested in joining us.

If you don't know how to add your card here is the code

<a href="Insert your link">here</a>     You insert your card link in the

space indicated, you write this whole code in the comment box at the bottom of this Challenge, then click on publish.


Edit:  Thank you so much Shirley for stepping in at the last minute.  Sadly my Grandad passed away last Monday so you can understand why I've taken a back seat this week.  I have now entered Mr Linky in and will make sure everyone's cards are linked up with a number before the draw.  The normal challenge rules apply and the finish date is midnight BST (British Summer Time) on 29th April 2013. - Donna xx