Truly, Madly Deeply.Challenge # 5

What else could we challenge you with, in the week when we will see Valentine's Day? Of course we had to have something to do with love. I'll tell you more about that in a moment. First our winners from last week, Spots and Stripes, sadly some forgot the spots and some forgot the stripes. We do appreciate and thank every entrant, but please check because we can't appoint winners who don't follow the challenge. This week the winners have been chosen by our lovely American team mate Janice and here are her winners, in no particular order. Please collect your winner's badge from the tab below our title. Thank you.

#5 Basslady

(love the image and colouring on this one)

#  11 Rose

(love the papers she used (wink) and the embossed sentiment)

#   3 Maxibelle

(love the mustache bottle cap and the image of the little boy)

Okay, for this week, yes we are joining in with the romantic feeling and our challenge is

TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY

( Anything you would like to create that represents love)

As we are a challenge blog for Male projects it MUST be for a Male person

The Design Team have created these cards for your inspiration. 

I (Caz) will be choosing the winners for this challenge.

Caz

Julie

Jan

Kim

Janice

To find out more about the cards click on the DT member's name and go to their blog to see how they

made the cards. 

Thank you for visiting us and we do hope you are inspired to join us in this challenge. Our menfolk need to feel the love too on Valentine's Day. 

Please use the little frog below to enter your card and good luck. 

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge # 4 Spots and Stripes

Thank you to each of the participants for last week's challenge which celebrated the Chinese New Year - which is now the Year of the Horse.  This challenge didn't seem to appeal to as many but the entries received were again amazing and I (Caz) who chose the challenge also chose the winners, not an easy task I can assure you. In no particular order would the following please collect a Winner's Top 3 badge from the tab below our header.

# 3  Jan R

I so loved the fun element of this card

# 5 Pat K

A stunning Chinese new year card both outer and inner.

# 4 Dawn Lancaster

A striking oriental card in symbolic Chinese colours


For this next week   -  we are asking you to include in your design Spots and Stripes, chosen by Janice who will also choose the Top 3 winners. Have fun everyone, we are so enjoying seeing your entries and hope you are enjoying our new challenge blog, hopefully this more general theme will interest your creativity and get your mojos working.  Can't believe this is our 4th week already. Okay let's see the creations by the Design Team, don't forget to check our rules, the main criteria is, your card/project must be for a male, any age, any occasion, any reason for this challenge.
Added on Friday - 7th February
We are delighted when you enter our challenges, but can I please ask for you to follow the rules and be true to the challenge which this week is Spots AND Stripes. 
The entries which do not comply, I am sorry but for fairness, they will not be considered for a Winner's badge at the time of judging.

Julie

Janice

Jan

Erin

Caz

Kim

Thanks again for your support, please click on the little blue frog to leave your entry
We appreciate and welcome your comments, ask any questions or request a theme, we welcome everything
which is polite. xxxx

Chinese - New Year - Year of the Horse

Challenge # 3  Chinese - New Year - Year of the Horse

Before we start discussing this week's challenge we need to clear up from last week's challenge first. Many thanks for the entries which were amazing,  it is always difficult to narrow it down to the Top 3, but this week Jan has made the decision and we would like to send our congratulations to the following.....In  no particular order the Top 3 Winners are..............

# 13 Linda Simpson
Jan loved the colours and tranquility of this card.

# 15 Shaz
Jan couldn't resist these little baby lion cubs

# 32 Twisted Witch Lin
Jan loved the idea of no designer papers for this card.

Please pop onto the Winner's tab ladies to collect your Top 3 badge.

We would also like to give a special mention to a  new crafter who made this card 

using Promarkers to colour with for the first time, supervised by Mummy.

Well done Brandon who is 7 years old. 

We do hope to see you entering our challenges again. 

Now to this week, we were amazed how many entries last week included horses, for that is our challenge this week,  yes ladies, keep those stamps or images out, you'll be needing them this week. The Chinese New Year celebrations will be in full swing on January 31st, each year is symbolized by an animal, 2014 is of course, the HORSE. So, we would like to see any individual or combined entry of  horses, new  year or anything Chinese, as we say happy new year to all of our Chinese readers.  Time now to see the wonderful inspiration from the Design Team. Have fun everyone, please add your entry to the In Linz below.

Caz 

Janice

Julie

Kim

Jan

We are so looking forward to seeing the many your entries, have fun everyone and for the Chinese, I'm not sure whether this is Cantonese or  Mandarin

 Gong Hey Fat Choy  - Happy New Year

Monochrome for your Guyz

Wow, thanks everyone for the amazing response to our first challenge last week. I would also like to express thanks and appreciation for the lovely comments made. I and the team are thrilled, making us so much looking forward to our future challenges.
 Before we get started on Challenge #2 I need to announce the Top 3 for 'Happy Birthday'. Not an easy choice to make, made even more difficult when some cards could not be included in the decision for they didn't show their entry as being  for a Birthday. The greatest difficulty being the very high standard of entries, how to choose? It was decided because we had over 50 entries during our first challenge, as a thank you we are, for this week, awarding 5 winner's badges.  To claim your Top 3 (5) badge please go to the Winner's Badge and Winners Tab under our blog title, where the list of winners will be displayed each week after the winners are announced.

   

Top 3  (5) Winners (in no particular order)
#6 Kim T

#23 Annie

#24 Kate

#32 Kim X

#54 Michelle Lancaster

For our Challenge #2 Jan has chosen MONOCHROMATIC - your project needs to be based around ONE colour,  for contrast you can add black, white, cream, kraft, ivory or another similar low pigment.

Let us see the lovely cards from the Design Team

Jan

Janice

Kim

Erin

Julie

Caz

Our First Challenge - 'Happy Birthday'

Welcome to Cardz 4 Guyz, this being our very FIRST challenge.  Here we are, all ready to go, excited, nervous and hoping you will come along and join in with our challenges. We all need a card for a guy, young or old, some time or another, and how many times do we hear,  'I find men's cards difficult'. No more my friends. We are really looking forward to seeing your creations and sharing those of the Design Team.
The rules are under blog header. you can also meet the Design Team on the top bar,  to get to know them, though some of us may already be known to you.

 Challenge #1 

'Happy Birthday'

Let me now show you the Design Team's first set of cards, which hopefully will inspire you to join us. 

Caz

Jan

   

Erin

Janice

Julie

Kim

Only 4 days to go!

Only FOUR days to go then a NEW challenge blog

CARDZ 4 GUYZ 

Will be launched. 

We are already behind the scenes. 

The design team are so excited  do hope you will enjoy the challenges we have planned.

Everything to suit the Guyz whether they be Babes, Tots, Teens, Twenties, through the ages

to sweet adorable retired old gramps, we will be making cards and projects for them all.

Only 6 more days

Only 6 more days till the beginning of CARDZ 4 GUYZ.  Please feel free to take our logo and let your friends now, we are so excited to be launching a challenge blog purely for male projects. Yes, cards will feature highly from our team and possibly from the entries but here we love all forms of paper craft work. So we may be occasionally throwing in a different form of project, a case of wait and see. Remember this new challenge blog will be aimed to make projects/cards suitable for males - from birth (or nowadays - even shower parties) to Great-Grandpa's ancient birthday. Or as my autistic grandson said when he was told his Grandfather was 69 , Wow! that's a BIG number!