Monday 24 October 2011

Cards for Men - Challenge 22 - "Animals"

Good Morning Everyone, weve now reached our twentysecond Challenge on Cards for Men, and this time we want to see your "Animals" on your card, Im sure that wont be to much of a problem as we all seem to have them amoung our stash I know I have. Anyway this time our sponser is Digital Delights.


And this is what they say about themselves:-

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with my little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!!

And they have generously offered 3 digi stamps of winners own choice.
We were lucky enough to be given several images to play with and I chose this one for my card.
His name is "Count Batula" and I thought he was just ideal to create yet another family Halloween card, Ive printed him onto white card before colouring him with my copic and tria pens, afterwards I used the Nestabilitie Pumpkin Die to cut him out, then drew around the die to create the mount for him out of orange card. The sentiment is one from my stash thats been treated in the same way.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of orange card and one two papers from Donna's Bearlymine Designs "Halloween" Cd & digi papers, the first one is dark blue and black background with black bats all over it, on top is a orange paper with witch hats and bats on thats been cut into a 5" square and with my bat border and corner punches I have punched all around it, then placed it in the middle of the first mount. The mounted image was then placed in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side, and I also punched out another pumpkin and with some stickles I have run it along the top of both. I then for my final flourish stuck some bat charms in several places at the top of my card and a pumpkin at the bottom next to the other two.
Now that youve seen my card do please pop over to the Cards for Men Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented team have created for you and hopefully it will inspire you to take part in this "Animals" Challenge.

28 comments:

Jules said...

Hi Shirley

I just had to smile at the name of your image .. .. Count Batula!!

Great card and fabby background papers.

Hope you have a good week.

Love Jules xx

Pamela said...

What a fun Halloween image!
Unfortunately I can't see that you've used anything from a crafting CD Rom - lots of digi downloads but no cd? If you have used one please mention it in your post.
Pamela (Guest Designer in October for CD Sunday)

craftybren said...

He is so cute, made me smile anyway

Unknown said...

Fantastic image Shirley made me smile great card for a wee one.
Chris x

McCrafty's Cards said...

This made me smile Shirley, great image and i like the design.
Kevin xx

heidy said...

Fabolous fun card Shirley!
Hugs Heidy

Wendy Hall said...

This is wonderful Shirley. Hope you had fun working with our stamps this week.
Hugs
Wendy (aka Louby Loo)
www.digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.com

Anonymous said...

such a sweet dragon
Hugs
Elma

Diane said...

Count Batula is such a cute halloween image and a fab halloween card !!

thanks for playing along with us this week at The Crafty Pad Halloween Challenge !!

hugs Diane xx

Cards By MI said...

What a fun, charming card Shirley. Very sweet.
xxMarie

Doreen said...

Hello Shirley

I just love this great fun card,what a fab image.xxx

Donnas Den said...

Wonderful card, Shirley. The details are just great.

Donna x

Anonymous said...

What an adorable image. Thanks for joining us at Dream Valley. xx

Janette said...

A really fab and fun card Shirley..xx

Christine said...

Hi Shirley awww great fun Halloween creation fab image & colouring love your layout & colours.

smiles Christine x

Tameko said...

Too cute! Thanks for joining the Sentimental Sundays Challenge this week.

Sarah said...

Fabulous Halloween card Shirley, love the cute image x

Patricia St Martin said...

Super card. Sitting here and watching your calendar kitty that is way funny with the bouncing head it keeps pulling my eye away. it make me laugh so I want to sit here and look at it. Also I got Kym's card in the mail today and I will see to it that she get your birthday card. That was really nice of you. She will be really surprised.
Hugz, Pat

Melodie said...

What sweet bat. You have done a quite charming card again.
Have a nice day.
Hugs
Melodie

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

What a wonderful fun card.

Sue x

Kianel said...

Very cute and funny card!
Thanks for playing with us at Creative Inspirations paints challenge!
Love from France, Kianel.

Penny said...

What a great image, and card, thanks for sharing it with us at the CArd Makin Mama's

thinker said...

fabulous! and thanks for joining us this week at Gingerloft Challenge!!

Sara said...

What an adorable "bat"! thanks for playing along with CMM!

coldwaters2 said...

Lol, that image is both fabby and fun Shirley great colouring and a fangtastic design.
Hugs
Lorraine x

Electra said...

Count Batula is so adorable! What a fun card this is! Thanks for joining us at Opus Gluei!

Gale said...

To cute. Thanks for joining our Halloween/Fall challenge over at GingerLoft!
:) Gale

Rosemary said...

Aw, Count Batula is adorable, and fun - I'm not always into scary Halloween and this is the kind of cuteness I could send to a friend or my nieces and nephews! Such a great job of incorporating the image into your card and the colors are wonderful!

Thank you for sharing this with us at Opus Gluei, I hope you check us out again!