Cardz 4 Guyz

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

#56 Kick Back and Relax

Hello and welcome to our challenge blog where we gather together to provide inspiration for MALE cards, young and old, to try to blow away the myth of Male cards being difficult to make. A big thank you to those who entered our Let's Pretend challenge last week, sorry, it seems it was maybe too much of a challenge for you, but we will continue to throw in some technique challenges, because we feel we need to provide for eeryone and hopefully can help you to take a step further in your card making, when you are ready to do so. Kim has decided to offer a Top 3 badge to each of our entrants this week, so please collect your badges ladies from the tab below the header.

TOP 4 Winners

# Lindyloo

# Pat K

# AO Creations

# Julene

Congratulations and again, thanks ladies for your support.

Welcome to our Guest Designer for February

LYNNE

Hi, I'm Lynne and am so happy to be the Guest Designer for this amazing blog!

You can find me at Her Craftiness (http:// slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/).

I am the very proud grandma of 5 beautiful grandchildren, ages 9 and under with

a new one on the way! My home is found in Elizabeth, PA which is close to Pittsburgh

(ever hear of the Pittsburg Steelers?) in the United States! I love to create and have been

creating forever, learning from my grandmother and aunt beginning with sewing,

knitting and crocheting. I started doll sculpting in 1991 after losing my

youngest daughter and also fell in love with making quilts at that time, as I had made

a quilt using pieces of her clothing for my first quilt.

It's only been since the last seven years or more that I started paper crafting with

scrapbooking and making cards. I love to be challenged along with making

personlized cards not only for my family but my friends.

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Moving on to our challenge for the next 7 days Helen has chosen

#56 Kick Back and Relax

We can all relax in so many diferent ways, the Design Team have been having a

relaxing time, please create a RELAXING theme for a MALE person.

Helen

Our Guest Designer for February Lynne

Caz

Andrea

Jan

Jane

Jane's card open

Kim

Julie

Joan

Amazing work again from the Design Team,

If you want to know how they have achieved the cards, click on their names or on the side bar,

to go to their individual blogs.

To enter please click on the blue link below, if your interested in being a Guest Designer
for a month, please add GDT after your name
. We are aiming to introduce a new Guest each month.

Thank you for your continued interest and support.

An InLinkz Link-up

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

#55 Let's Pretend

Hello everyone, after a few weeks of being poorly, it is so wonderful to be back, feeling much improved and so happy to be back on the blog and chatting to you all. Many thanks for the wonderful Design Team for their support. Wow! You all certainly enjoyed last week's theme, chosen by Julie, we greatly appreciate your interest and support for Anything Goes, it is always a popular topic but we are thrilled that they were all suitable for our male orientated requirement. This of course means Julie had a difficult task of choosing a Top 3, but with so many entrants we are going to have a Top 5 Winners, so thanks Julie for your choices which are, in numerical order.

Top 5 Winners

for Anything Goes

# 13 Ruth
Great use of embellishments on this masculine card, always tricky to do well.

# 25 Papersniffer
Loved the design, colour choices and fab colouring on this card

# 31 Kefa
So much going on in this shaker baby card without it being over done.

# 55 Stampartpapel
A striking CAS design, bold and v masculine.

# 61 Carol Dunham
Very stylish and a great mix of coloured image and diecut sentiment

Congratulations to our FIVE winners,
please take the Top 3 badge from the tab below our header.

Challenge # 55

has been chosen by Kim, who will choose the Top 3, to be announced

along with a new challenge, next week.

Let's Pretend

( Use any faux technique - making card look like wood- faux leather -
there are many techniques to choose from ) add faux screws

Lots of faux techniques on Splitcoast Stampers and You Tube.
OR
Let's Pretend - (Dressing Up)

Kim and the remainder of the Design Team have created some fabulous

inspirational projects to hopefully have you say, " I want to try that"!

Kim

Andrea

Faux Patina Technique

Caz

Faux Leather Technique

Julie

Faux Leather Technique

Jane

Helen

Jan

Faux metal using metal tape and alcohol inks

Joan

Guest Designer Mryna

and another

Once again, I am thrilled with the work from the Design Team.

If you want to know how they have achieved the cards, click on their names or on the side bar,

to go to their individual blogs.

To enter please click on the blue link below, if your interested in being a Guest Designer
for a month, please add GDT after your name
. We are aiming to introduce a new Guest
each month.

Thank you for your continued interest and support.

An InLinkz Link-up

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Challenge 54 - Anything Goes

Hello to everyone and welcome to Cardz 4 Guyz - it's Helen here this week posting our challenge on behalf of Caz who isn't very well at the moment.

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who joined us for our birthday challenge last week - we had a great range of entries.

On behalf of Caz, I've chosen the Top 3 from last week's challenge and they are:

Top 3 Winners (in numerical order)

#1 - Lindyloo

#10 - Pat K

#21 - Liselot

Congratulations to you all!

Please don't forget that we're a challenge blog for guys of all ages so we only want to see masculine themed creations!!

If you're interested in joining us as a Guest Designer for a month then please add 'GDT' after your entry in this week's challenge and I'll get in touch with you - it's a great way of getting an idea of what it's like to be involved in a Design Team and we've got some great challenge themes coming up this year.

Now on to this week's challenge - it's a nice easy one for everyone -

CHALLENGE 54 - ANYTHING GOES

So it's anything goes as long as it's a masculine creation.

Here's some inspiration from our Design Team:

Julie

Helen

Joan

Jan

Andrea

Jane

Kim

GDT Myrna

A really great selection of cards - if you want to know more about any of them just click on the Design Team members' names which are above the photos.

We hope we've inspired you to enter our challenge this week - don't forget only masculine creations please and add GDT if you'd like to be a Guest Designer with us.

To enter, click on the blue link below - just for this week you'll only see your name and not a thumbnail of your card.

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Happy Birthday

Wow! we are ONE year old today, Yipee we made it. A huge thank you to the Design Team, past and present for their amazing inspiration but I would also like to say a big THANK YOU to every person who has entered our challenges during this our first year, without you all playing along with us, we wouldn't be here today. Every follower is important but on this our birthday, I would like to say Hello, thank you and welcome to the latest 5 followers who have joined us.
Lisa Lynn, Lucyna, Lizzie, Beth and mscraftygrant, we look forward to you entering our challenges.
We are a challenge group to help you to make cards and other projects for the MEN and BOYS in your life. Please remember when entering our challenges we do specialise for catering for the Guyz of all ages. We have lots of interesting challenges planned ahead for you, so hopefully you will find interest and inspiration to join in the future challenges.
Our first challenge for 2015 being Vintage, proved a popular theme, thanks to all who took part. Jan has chosen the Top 3 Winners who are ................

Top 3 Winners

(in numerical order)

#5 Lula