Monday 20 June 2011

Cards for Men - Challenge 13 - "Stars"

Good Morning Everyone, well what do you think of our awful weather not much Im sure, but Ive got something to cheer you up weve reached our 13th Challenge for Cards for Men and this time my fellow team member has chosen "Stars" as her theme and we are being sponsered this time by a very talented lady Tracy of "Stamping Boutique"
And she has kindly offered 5 digis of your choice for the prize and this is what she says about herself and her company:-

     I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. My team and I are very happy to sponsor Cards for Men. My store has been open since September 2009.I am currently a stamp artist for UnityStampCo. and I've worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and TheDigiShack in the past. I'm a professional artist and an active member of the Artist' Guild in my community. I have quite a busy household with a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dachshunds and an Appaloosa mare. It's noisy, but I love them all. I'm truly blessed.
"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality,as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week."
And here is my card for this Challenge, Ive used this cute image of a Soldier and coloured him with my copic pens and then used my glitter pen on the stars and cut it out with a Rectangle Nestabilitie Die and mounted it onto a larger one for the mount. The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue pearlescent card and one of Donna's Bearlymine Design papers a blue background with stars on.  Ive then used some of the blue card to create two star shapes with a star Die and then ran them through a star embossing folder then arranged them on top of the first paper.
The mounted image was then positioned in the centre with my tag sentiment on a jaunty angle on the right hand side. To finish of Ive used several star gems at the top on both sides.
Now youve seen my card I do hope you will pop across to the Cards for Men Blogspot and see what the rest of the team have created for the challenge and hopefully you also will be inspired to take part in the challenge.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://allthingsunity.blogspot.com/
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/search/label/challenge
http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.com/
http://simplystampinchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.com/

28 comments:

SYLVIA-ANNE said...

A fabulous card Shirley - love the cute little soldier and the stars. Brilliant layout too.

Please pop over to my blog - there's something for you!
Have a lovely day - hugs, Sylvia xxxx

Doreen said...

A gorgeous card Shirley.xxx

Christine said...

Morning Shirley awww how sweet lovely cute image great papers & layout love it.

smiles Christine xx

Janette said...

Morning Shirley, What a really fun and fab card, love the image and those stars are gorgeous,think it's it's fab.xxxxx

Pamela said...

Hi Shirley, great card.

Pam x

Sarah said...

Love this card Shirley, gorgeous colouring of the image x

Alison said...

Great card Shirley- the papers are gorgeous and I love the pearly, embossed stars.
Hugs, Alison x

julie_woolston said...

Brilliant card and thank you for joining in with us over at Paper Creator Crafts 1st Challenge.

Julie xx

lady Anne Howard said...

Fabulous card. Thank you so much for joining us in our first challenge at Paper Creator Crafts this week!
Love ~ Lady Anne xx

Wishcraft said...

Great card Shirley, love all the stars :o) Lisa x

Ellibelle said...

What a great card Shirley! Love that image and the stars fit it perfectly!
Thanks so much for sharing!

Riet said...

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

Hugs Riet.xx

Sue said...

Hi hun
aww fabulous card, great image & colouring, fab papers & design, sue,x

Marianne's Craftroom said...

Love the shiny blue and what a cute image. Marianne x

Donnas Den said...

Wonderful card, Shirley. Great colouring.

Donna x

Unknown said...

lovely card, thanks for joining use at paper creator`s cards first challenge

Unknown said...

I luv that little soldier, fantastic card Shirley.
Chris x

Melodie said...

Hi Shirley,
great card with wonderful colours. The little boy is really cute.
Hugs
Melodie

Bella´s Bastelecke said...

A gorgeous card Shirley.....it´s cooollllllll.....

Hugs
Judith

maxine said...

Great card thanks for joining us at little claire x

Unknown said...

Thanks for joining us at Simply Stampin' challenge this week, its a lovely card as always Shirley!!
Angela xx

Lynne in NI said...

Fab card Shirley ... love your blue theme and great image. Bet those shiny stars are even nicer IRL! Thanks for playing along at Dream Valley ... pop along tomorrow for our new challenge!

Patty Sue 2 said...

What a cute little soldier! You have done a fantastic job as usual!

Jackie said...

What a sweet card! I think this image works perfectly! Thank you for playing along with us this week at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog!

Lynne in NI said...

Congratulations on your win over at Dream Valley! Enjoy your new goodies!

Lynne in NI said...

Congratulations on your win over at Dream Valley! Enjoy your new goodies!

Lynne in NI said...

Congratulations on your win over at Dream Valley! Enjoy your new goodies!

Lynne in NI said...

Congratulations on your win over at Dream Valley! Enjoy your new goodies!