Monday 9 April 2012

Cards for Men - Challenge 8 - "Spring Colours"

Good Morning Everyone, I do hope that you are enjoying your Easter, the weather hasnt been to good here in Gloucester but I do hope its been better with you. This fortnights Challenge over on the Cards for Men  is "Spring Colours" and we are being sponsered by Digi Doodle Shop.


They are offering a prize of $10. gift Voucher to spend on their website. And this is what they say about themselves:-

Digi Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts. It was started a little over 3 years ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500 stamps. Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create images with a cartoon flair. Having these two complimenting styles have enabled
Digi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.
It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations. We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

We were lucky enough to have several images to play with and I chose this one,


his name is "Louis with Butterflies and Buttercups", Ive printed him onto white card then used my copics to colour him, afterwards I cut him out with my rotatrim and mounted him onto a piece of yellow card.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of yellow card and one of three papers from "Cool Spring Days" from the Scrapebook Computer Digi Downloads, the first is a yellow daisy paper and the second a zigzag multi coloured one thats been stuck down the left side, on top I have used one of the Cheery Lynn rectangle dies, and my mounted image was then positioned on top, I then stamped a sentiment and mounted it at the top on the right handside. To finish of I used the punched out leaves that were in the middle of the die and stuck them in the bottom right hand corner.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit the Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot to see what the rest of the very talented design team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you will then take part in this "Spring Colours" Challenge.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://stampedblessings.com/
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.co.uk/
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/challenge
http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cheerylynndesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

25 comments:

Doreen said...

A gorgeous card,love the image and fabulous colours.xxx

Bella´s Bastelecke said...

so beautiful card….. love the combo and cute image......
i wish you a happy easterday.....

Hugs
Judith

Sarah said...

Love this card Shirley, what a fab image and I love the papers x

Janette said...

Hi Shirley, What a cute card you made, fabulous image, I so love it.xx

McCrafty's Cards said...

Brilliant card Shirley, I like the dragon and the papers.
Kevin xx

Bon Bob’s Delights said...

Such a pretty card! Love the dragon and papers! Good luck and thank you for joining us at Cheery Lynn Designs.

brenda said...

Oh my, what a sweet image Shirley and such a perfect sentiment.

The weather not been good here either, but at least plenty of excuse to craft.

B x

Cards By MI said...

Such fun and stunning card my friend. I totally adore it. Hope you have had a wonderful Easter.
Love to you and your hubby
Hugs
Marie

Riet said...

So gorgeous card Shirley,I love the image and your papers.

Hugs Riet.xx

Donnas Den said...

Fabulous card as always, Shirley. Have a good week.

Donna x

Poppet said...

Wonderful card Shirley, the muted Spring colours you have used look fab and your image is very cute, I love his expression.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful work with us at Crafting When We Can Challenges. :-) xx

debby4000 said...

Love your gorgeous card Shirley.
luv
Debby

Melodie said...

Wonderful card, the image is really cute.
Hugs
Melodie

Donna said...

A nice and cheery card Shirley and what a cute dragon too.
hugs
Donna xx

mueppi said...

Gorgeous card, Shirley and I love the colours and the cute dragon!
Hugs Gisela

Unknown said...

What a fun card - the sentiment is awesome. Thanks for joining us at the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge and good luck!
hugs,
Gini

Claire Phillips said...

That image so made me giggle - love it! As always a gorgeous card with such wonderful colour! Happy belated Easter....Cheers Claire x

Jules said...

Hi Shirley

You always use the most lovely sentiments on your creations.

Great image too!!!

I hope you had a good Easter and that Missy isn't quite so depressed now :-( Poor little thing!

Love Jules xx

Georgina said...

A great fun card. Cute image and lovely colour combinations.

thank you for joining Little Claire's blog challenge.

AuroraDawn said...

OH Shirley, he's an adorable character, fabulous colouring and design layout. Its great!!

Thank you for joining our 'Spring' challenge at That Craft Place. Please come back and join us again soon :O)

Inky Hugs

Dawn
xxx

Jacq said...

Hi Shirley,
This is Absolutely Gorgeous!!! Love the cute little dragon image, the dp, the colour scheme is gorgeous. Love the layout and the embellishments. Coloured perfectly. Thanks for joining us at The Squirrel and The Fox and Good Luck. Hope to see you joining us again.
Hugs Jacqui xxx

sgc said...

Great card. Thanks for playing in the Bugaboo Challenge.

Min said...

Adorable card - terrific coloring! =)

Thanks so much for playin' along with us this week for the Catch The Bug “April Anything Goes" Challenge with Bugaboo Stamps! We hope you join us again this Saturday for another fun challenge and the chance to WIN!!
Hugs & Happy Days! ~Min
Kaymin Kreations

Kianel said...

Super cute card!
Thanks for joining us at Cheery Lynn Designs challenge this week!
Love from France, Kianel.

Chris said...

Sorry it's taken me so long to visit! Very cute image and great colors :)

Thanks for playing along with my Amusing Challenges this past week!