Cards for Men - Challenge 24 "Happy Christmas"

Well weve nearly managed to achieve our first aniversary, and weve got something very special for that celebration but I mustnt let the secret out so you will have to come back in a fortnights time to discover exactly whats happening. I do want to thank all those that who regularly take part in our challenges and sincerely hope that you will keep coming back, we had over a 100 entrants again this time and it really does bring us a lot of joy to visit and leave comments on your fabulous work.
Anyway for this Challenge we are being sponsered by the lovely Nikki of "Bunny Zoe Crafts" and she is offering a prize of a £10. gift token to spent in her shop.

And this is what Nikki has to say about herself :-

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is a family run online Craft store who ships worldwide. We provide friendly and efficient customer service, with quick processing and dispatch of orders. We sell a great range of Rubber Stamps from around the world, Digital Images, Personalised Stamps, Designer Papers, Stamping Essentials, Copic Ciao's, Distress Inks, Dies, Flowers, Ribbons & Lace, Buttons. Charms, Flat back Pearls and many, many fabulous card making goodies.

And this is my DT card for this Challenge, you will find that Nikki has a very wide selection of Magnolia and other company stamps on offer.

And Ive used this fabulous Christmas Edwin for my card and Ive masked him before stamping the candystick underneath him, Ive then coloured him with my copic pens before cutting him out with my square Nestabilitie and mounted him on one of the new Lacey Square from Spellbinders.

The base card is a 7"x 7" square card made into a easel one, Ive used one of Donna's Bearlymine Designs from the "Christmas Wonderland" set of papers and printed two sheets of this candycane pattern one for the front of the card and one for the inside.

Ive then stuck this to a red mount and wrapped a red holly ribbon around the middle before placing my mounted image in the middle, I have done exactly the same with the inside though its not possible to see the ribbon but I assure you its there, and I then stamped one of the new LOV seal stamps, this was also mounted on a scalloped circle for its mount and positioned at the bottom on the right hand side as a means of keeping the card open.

I do so hope that your will take part in the challenge and do please pop across to our Challenge blog http://cardsformen.blogspot.com/ and look at the fabulous cards that my very talented fellow Design Team Members have created for you.

This card is to be entered in the following challenges:-

http://dcdchristmasclub.blogspot.com/
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/
http://creativeinspirationschallenge.blogspot.com/