All good things must come to an end....

You may have noticed, I've not been able to keep up with the challenges and winners for Cards for Men of late.  I just have family demands that keep me occupied and I have to prioritise.  It's been 4 years and with regret, that was the last challenge for Cards for Men.  I started this blog to highlight the need to make more of Male cards and I believe that there has been a huge change in the availability of images and accessories specifically aimed at Men's Cards.  There's also a lot more dedicated challenge blogs around.  Hopefully, we had something to do with that.

I'd like to thank all the Design Team members (past and present) but particularly, Shirley and Patricia who have been around since challenge 1.  Thankyou everyone xx

So now the final list of winners:

Challenge 18
The prize of a $10 Gift Certificate from Fresh Brewed Designs is won by #7 - Fabiola.  Congratulations, Fabiola, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 19
The prize of a $5 Gift Certificate from Digital Delights is won by #56 - Turid.  Congratulations, Turid, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 20
The prize of 7 digis from Bugaboo Stamps is won by #12 - Fabiola.  Congratulations, Fabiola (again), email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll sort out your prize.

Challenge 21
The prize of a $20 Gift Certificate from The Paper Shelter is won by #46 - Sarah T.  Congratulations, Sarah, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 22
The prize if 6 images from Paper Pretties is won by #1 - Rita V.  Congratulations, Rita, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choices and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 23
The prize of 3 images from Scribbled Kidz is won by #51 - kbrandy4.  Congratulations, Hazel, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choices and I'll get them sent out.

Challenge 24
The prize of 2 images from Dr Digi's House of Stamps is won by #43 - coops.  Congratulations, coops, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choices and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Challenge 24 - Anything Goes

Welcome to the last challenge of 2013, this time sponsored by Dr Digi's House of Stamps.

DR Digi's House of Stamps is a site that aims to bring you digi stamps

with a sense of humour. We're not your average
Digi site, you wont find flowers and teddy bears.  Well you might.. 

but it'll be holding a bloody big chainsaw!

The theme is 'Anything Goes' so it should be easy to enter and the winner gets 2 images of their choice.

The design team have been working hard to provide the following inspiration:

Caz

Anne

Shirley

ALAN

Kate

Pat K

Michelle

I'm sure you'll agree that we have a great design team and will be fully inspired and ready to join in.  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 challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT (Grenwich Mean Time) on 8 December 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 enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 23 - Merry Christmas

Welcome to the latest challenge, this time sponsored by 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.

To enter, we need to see your Christmas cards and the winner gets 3 images of their choice.

The design team have been working hard to provide the following inspiration:

Shirley

Michelle

CAZ

 Pat K

Patricia

I'm sure you'll agree that we have a great design team and will be fully inspired and ready to join in.  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 challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT (Grenwich Mean Time) on 24 November 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 enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 22 - Way To Go

I must apologise for being late, I can't even believe that a fortnight has gone by.  The latest challenge, this time is sponsored by Paper Pretties and we are looking to see your Congratulatory cards.

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 6 digis of your choice.

The design team have been working hard to provide the following inspiration:

Shirley

Patricia

 

Michelle

Pat K

CAZ

I'm sure you'll agree that we have a great design team and will be fully inspired and ready to join in.  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 challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on 10 November 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 enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 21 - Halloween

Welcome to the latest challenge, this time sponsored by The Paper Shelter.

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.

To enter, we need to see your Halloween cards and the winner gets a $20 gift certificate.

The design team have been working hard to provide the following inspiration:

Shirley

ALAN

PAT K
(Using Paper Shelter image A Great Harvest)

Anne

CAZ 

Patricia

Michelle

Donna

I'm sure you'll agree that we have a great design team and will be fully inspired and ready to join in.  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 challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT (Grenwich Mean Time) on 27 October 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 enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 20 - Myth & Magic

Welcome to the latest challenge, this time sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug. 

To enter, we need to see your magical creations and the winner gets 7 free digis.  We are a bit thin on the ground with our Design Team this week, for a variety of reasons.  I just thought I'd take this opportunity to say thankyou to them all for their hard work and reliability.  I appreciate each and every one of you.

Now let's see what we have to inspire you:

Shirley

ALAN

Anne

Pat K

Now that your ideas are spinning, 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 challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight BST (British Summer Time) on  13 October 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 enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Winner & Top 3 for challenge 17

So we had lots of wonderful entries to our 'Funny Birthday' challenge.  Our current challenge  is still open and can be found here.

Without further ado, the winner chosen by random.org was #23 - Lisa Lynn.  Congratulations, Lisa, email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choice of 5 digistamps from QKR Stampede and I'll pass your details on to the sponsor.

Our top 3 in no particular order are:

#5 - Dawn

#11 - Mian Sweden

#27 Linby

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