Challenge # 58 Oriental

Hello everyone, welcome to our weekly challenge blog which aims to help you to create cards for the MALE persons in your life, males of all ages, we help you to see that making such cards is not a difficult process.  We hope you have all enjoyed Valntine's Day.  Thanks to those who entered last week  with our Puppy Love theme, Andrea has chosen the Top 3 winners, who are in numerical order :-

Top 3 Winners

# 3 Jan R

#6 Sharon R

#7 Tammy A

Congratulations ladies, please take a winner's badge from the tab below the header.

Our grateful thanks to everyone who took time to join in our challenge. 

Challenge # 58 

Oriental

Time to take a trip to the Orient, chosen by Jane.  We do ask for you to be sure your project is

 intended for a  MALE.  The Design Team have created some amazing creations

 to inspire and guide you. We love to see all types of mediums, designs and projects.  Have fun. 

Jane

Kim

Helen

Joan

Jan

Caz

Julie

GDT Lynne

If you would like to see more of the DT, click on their names to go to their blogs.

If your interested in being a Guest designer for a month please add GDT on your entry.

Have fun and check back on Tuesday 24th. for our next challenge and the results. 

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#57 Puppy Love

Hello everyone, welcome to our weekly challenge blog which aims to help you to create cards for the MALE persons in your life, males of all ages, we help you to see that making such cards is not a difficult process.  Thanks to those who entered last week  with our Relax theme, Helen has chosen the Top 3 winners, who are:-

Top 3 Winners

Lindyloo

Alison

Andrea

Congratulations ladies, please take a Tope 3 Winner badge from the tab below our header.

Challenge #58 

is

Puppy Love

(Puppy dogs and not immature love)

Andrea has chosen the topic for the next 7 days, she will also choose the winners to be

 announced along with the next challenge, next Tuesday at 09.00 a.m.

Let's see what the Design Team have created starting with 

Andrea

Jane

Caz

Helen

Jan

Kim

Julie

Joan

Lynne - Guest Designer

The challenge is Puppy Love (for dogs).

If you would like to see more of the DT, click on their names to go to their blogs.

If your interested in being a Guest designer for a month please add GDT on your entry.

Have fun and check back on Tuesday 17th for our next challenge and the results. 

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#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. 

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#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. 

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