Fancy a bit of karate!!!!

Good evening guys,

This post is really late im afraid i had it in my head it wasnt due till next week so hadnt even scheduled or drafted it lol,

Anyway We have a new challenge out today at Cards For Men And its a simple one if ever there was one lol, we are all about......HAPPY BIRTHDAYS so as long as its masculine and its for a birthday then your in lol,

Our sponsor this time is Di's digi downloads

here is my card for you, its all monochromatic lol as wanted to keep it in line with the little karate kids ghee lol, i used the charcoal dovecrafts paper pack which ive had forever (about 4yrs)

 And Also got the chance to use my stamping up pennants punch, then all i added was some 1.5 cm satin ribbon,sakura pen for faux stitching, my promarkers and a craft work cards sentiment and thats pretty much it,

I know it may not be everyones cup of tea but im quite pleased with it, maybe i could have added a bit of colour but never mind now lol,

Id like to enter this card into the following challenges

1.Pile it on - Mens cards with sports theme

2.Paperplay - Banners/pennants/flags

3.Charisma - Anything goes

4.Crafts and me - birthdays

5.I love promarkers - Anything goes

6.Creative inspirations - Anything goes

Dont forget to pop over at Cards for men and see who our top 3 and winner is from the last challenge

going for a drive

hi guys, ive been really busy making lots of male themed cards, and have had lots of orders of late, so have lots of cards to share with you,

here is one made with a lotv topper, i love these as they are perfect when you are short on time but look amazing,

this card is fairly simple and consists of stamping up backing papers and ribbon, clear gems and computer generated sentiment, i used red card stock and green embossed card and thats it!!!! how much easier could you get lol,

Id love to enter this card into the following challenges if i may,

1. Lilies little faieres - One for the boys

2. Charisma - Travel

3. C.R.A.F.T - Male cards

4. Here come the boys - Anything goes

5. Papertake weekly - Anything goes

6. Poodles parlour - Male cards/fathers day

so thats it for now guys keep posted for all the other cards i have been making lol there are quite a few,

Cards for men dt card

Hi guys i hope your all having fun ?? who is off to some jubillee celebrations then???

Welcome to a new challenge at Cards for men.   we had a good number of entries for our last challenge and our DT call.  check back at cards for men this evening with the challenge winners and would hope to contact the DT winners by Friday.

This challenge is for Father's Day and is sponsored by Letraset.

ProMarkers are made by Letraset and are a twin tipped, dye based alcohol marker offering a high quality product at a great price. Avilable in 148 colours, they give incredible tonal range and can be applied to a diverse range of materials, not just paper and card. ProMarkers produce vivid, bright colours right through to the subtlest pastel shades - the translucent inks can also be overlaid and blended, even further extending the range of shades and hues on offer. ProMarker's quality nibs and inks provide flawless colour lay down with consistent coverage and no unsightly streaking.

And here is my fathers day card

 And a full frontal view, im afraid i cant for the life of me remember the digi image brand(oopssiee)

but the papers are dovecraft, and that lovely denim ribbon is stamping up,

Id love to join a few challenges

1. Secret crafter - anything goes

2. The stamp man - for a man

3. The poodles parlour - fathers day/for a man

4. I love promarkers - use a digi

5. Here come the boys - anything goes

WOYWW 145 - my stampin up makes

Good morning everyone happy WOYWW 145

, i haveny much to show you at all today im afraid.... well not yet anyway, these piccies are from yesterday (tuesday) i bought a new stampin up punch and stamp set and wanted to get stuck in to making early christmas cards lol (yep i know its early) but i let myself down every year and get behind lol, so i thought this punch set be fab,

I punched out a job lot of ornaments and just needed to get them onto a card or two lol, well i managed 1, im hoping to craft a little today as my crafty days are now wednesdays as my little lad alex does gymnastics now on tuesdays, swimming on mondays and beavers on thursdays so not much time left lol,

here is a close up of the 1 card i managed to make lol

 And a frontal view of it!!!

The inks are all brilliance pearlescent ink and have a lovely shimmer,the card stock is dcwv and is beautiful and has glitter on it,

Ive also bought another stampin up punch and stamp set since this one which im going to test out later!!! so watch this space lol,

PTW meets daring cardmakers

Tonight was my weekly night for going to my local craft group and as the centre have shut up for refurbishment,i managed to get hubby to let me dissappear for a bit in my craft area, as i was limited to tim i only made 1 card but went of 2 challenges, so here goes,

1. papertake weekly-sketch 22
2. daring cardmakers-anniversary/special occasion

as i usually make birthday cards i fancied trying something else,

To make this card i used;

• dovecraft wedding paper pack
• dcwv metallic matt stack
• doodlebug weddings stamp set for greeting and image
• stamping up flower an pearl (i think)
• lace from trimcraft
• white souffle pen and
• silver stardust pen for doodling
• small pearl gems from ebay

I actually think the end product is quite nice? what do you think?

a card for 2 challenges

I have made this card for 2 blog challenges and for the challenge at my local craft club, and for a change i really like this one lol, the image was sent to me in a swap and i really like it,

The 2 challenges are;

1. Truly scrumptious-a sketch with beads
2. Creative card crew-polkadots

I made this card using:

• backing papers from stamping up and papermania collossal warm tones range
• image from a swap
• colouring with promarkers
• swiss dots cuttlebug folder
• flowers punched out of backing papers with my 2 daisy punches
• pink gems from pda
• card blank from tesco
• sentiment is from personal impressions stamp set
• pink sakura pen to doodle

What do you think?

sketch saturday #60

I decided to make a mens card for this weeks challenge over at sketch saturday as i have my brothers birthday coming up and he is into cars and racing etc, this was actually quite fun to make,

To make this card i used:

• stamping up backing papers
• some gorgeous two tone pearlescent grey paper i bought from papermill
• the decoupage is from the craft house called sports
• ribbon from papermill also
• black gems from ebay
• sentiment sticker from stash,unsure where from
• black sakura to do faux stitching

This card does actually look better in real life than the picture even if i do say so myself lol

C.R.A.F.T challenge 9

Over on c.r.a.f.t challenge blog this week the challenge is to create an unusual shaped card and not do the usual rectangle or square shaped cards, i thought id keep mine simple but add a little bling,There i also a DT call there i thought id give it a go as im not a DT for any challenges yet, fingers crossed but theres loads of excellent competition for the spot

To make this i used:

• stamping up backing papers
• sarah kay image from a friend
• coloured with my beloved promarkers which im still getting used to
• ivory coloured lace from pear tree yard
• pearl gems from ebay
• sentiment stamped from my personal impressions cute characters set 1
• square card blank cut to make the shape

What do you think?

blossoms and butterflies

This is my entry to this weeks cupcake craft challenge no 48,

I made this with the following:

• Stamping up backing papers
• personal impressions cute characters set 1 stamp and greeting
• coloured with pro markers
• dcwv stickers
• peel off butterfly
• sakura stardust pens to do the faux stitching effect

my entry for papertake weekly

This card has been made from dawny's sketch #17 over on papertake weekly,to make this card i used;

• image is magnolias fashionable tilda
• coloured with promarkers
• backing papers are stamping up
• eyelet from dovecraft gems from stash
• sakura pens
• stickles in diamond
• peel off greeting

I inked up the edges in green to give a better finish and added the diamond stickles to the wings so they glittered.

allsorts meets sketch and stash

This card was made from 2 challenges and i really enjoyed working with this sketch.

The new stash i used on this card was the image which i got from a friend in a swap, the challenges are;

1. Sketch and stash no 13- sketch
2. allsorts challenge no6- wings

To make this card i used;

• image is magnolia's tilda coloured with my promarkers
• flowers from creative craft world
• backind papers are stamping up
• glamour dust for the wings
• sakura stardust pen in green for doodling
• brads from dovecraft

hope you like it?

a card for 3 challenges

I thought to myself......how many challenges can i combine in one? so i had a look at all my challenge blogs and decided upon these:

1. penny black saturday challenge which is called birthday celebrations as they are celebrating their first year of the challenge blog.
2. Friday sketches 56 provided the sketch
3. Abc...... R is for roses

To make this card i used;

• penny black image coloured with promarkers
• stamping up backing papers
• ribbon free from papercraft inspirations magazine
• cuttle bug embissing folder cant remember name?
• nestie circle scallops
• flowers made using woodware punch
• die cut greeting
• gems from personal stash
• white sakura pen for doodling
• blue card for matting an layering from papermill

What do you think?

just magnolia challenge 9

This is my entry for the just magnolia paper piecing challenge #9,to make this card i used;

• image-tilda with slate
• sugared basic grey backing papers
• image paper pieced with stampin up papers
• lace ribbon from stash
• swirl die cut from sizzix decorated with pearl beads and coloured with clear glitter pen
• cuttlebug embossing folder textile texture
• text from see ds
• coloured with my promarkers

i inked up the edge of the card blank for that bit extra, hope you like it this is my first ever attempt at paper piecing.

a card for 3 challenges

This card has been made with 3 challenges in mind,

1. Passion for pro-markers - week 3 colour combo is pumpkin and cinnamon, mostly used except the grass/hair and face,
2. Sketch and stash - challenge 12, my new stash is all my lovely promarkers and the gems,
3. Secret crafter saturday challenge #35 - bling, ive used pearl gems and brads to add a bit of bling,

What i used to make this card are as follows,

• stamping up backing papers
• daisy punched flowers from backing papers
• ribbon from craft central
• brads from dovecraft
• pearl gems from stash
• image is daisy from sugar nellie
• coloured with my favourite things my promarkers
• white sakura pen to doodle
  
  
  

pretty flowers an lace

This card was made from the following two challenges,

1. A spoon full of sugar -challenge 53 lace
2. Creative card crew-challenge 12 pretty flowers

It was actuallyquite easy to make, this lace wasnt on a roll its from loads of old cut offs but i thought it would still look ok? i put in some eyelets just to add that bit extra,

To make this card i used,

• stamping up backing papers
• a mixture of flowers from stash inc laura ashley
• lace
• eyelets in natural from dovecraft
• text is see ds birthday set
• brad from dovecraft brights

one stop craft challenge #21

I had a late mothers day order come along, and by late i mean today lol, it was for 2 cards, so as i was short on time and i also wanted to enjoy my own mothers day i went challenge blog hopping for inspiration,

I decided to do this card from one stop craft challenge blog #21 which was called tag it, you just needed to have a tag on your work somewhere, i think this one fits ok?

the papers are from stamping up, the circle was punched using my fiskars circle punch and the die cut flowers i got free from papercraft inspirations ages ago. the tag and sentiment was hand done, the card was then inked around the edges with blue ink to finish.

another challenge card

Im not at all sure i like this card but hey ho, i made this for mothers day and chose 3 different challenge blogs again to do it,

Friday sketchers #43, though a sketch would start me off,

Stamp something -something green, definately green on it lol,

ABC- F is for flower, yes there are several.

To make this ccard i used Stamping up BP's again (i love them) the stamped flowers are from the stamping up range too i used sakura souffle pens to colour them and cut them out to give them a bit of a 3d effect, then to finish i just used some gems,paper flowers and green stickles.