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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Cards for Men - "12 Days of Christmas"

 My winner for Day 2 is - Rose - http://digibellsdt.blogspot.co.uk/ please contact Donna at Cards for Men to arrange for you to collect your prize.


Good Morning Everyone, I do hope that you visited my fellow Design Team Member Patricia yesterday as she was the first stop on the "12 days of Christmas" Special, each day for the next 12 days the girls and Alan from the Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot are holding daily Posts for you to stand the chance of winning some fabulous prizes. I have been chosen to host Day 2, and the sponsor for my post is Meljens

And here is what she says about her Company:-

 Meljen'sDesigns (http://meljensdesigns.com) is a digital stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical, fun digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and it is steadily growing. The new store offers instant downloads, organized categories, and a search feature. We have new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Mondays and a monthly Guest Designer at the Meljen's Designs Blog (http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.com/). Please visit the store to find more of Melissa's wonderful images!

To see if you are the lucky winner you will need to return to the Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot each day as the winner will be picked from the day before and will show up there, you will also find who the next person is on the list. I do hope that you will enjoy this different style of Blog Hop.
And here is my Card for this second day of Christmas.
I have used this sweet pair of birds from Meljens and you will find it here, for my card and I have actually used the "12 Days of Christmas" as my theme for my card. I printed it onto white card and used my copic pens to colour it then used the Nestabilitie Die No.8 to cut it out, afterwards I drew around the die to create the mount. The Sentiment was one I created on my computer and printed it onto white card and mounted it in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card and the papers I have used are from Peerless Designs "12 Days of Chrismas" CD, and I have used for my first mount a song designed paper, and on top I have used three more papers in layers and punched down the edges with a bird border punch from Martha Stewart.
I then positioned my mounted image in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom on the right, to finish of I have used a branch and bird dies from Obsession Impressions and arranged them in the bottom left hand corner.
Now that youve seen my card I hope that you will return to the Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot and see who your next stop is on this "12 Days of Christmas" and you will also see who won yesterday post, and if you return back there yet again tomorrow you will see who won this fabulous prize from Meljens.
Your next stop tomorrow is to Michelle, and do I hope you enjoy making this journey with us.

42 comments:

  1. Your card is gorgeous Shirley just so cute.
    Chris x

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  2. What a sweet little image Shirley and it's really nice how you have reflected the image with the die cut.

    B x

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  3. It's a lovely card Shirley, such cute little birds (I've got the song going round in my head now :) ).

    Jo x

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  4. This is gorgeous Shirley I like the birds and the papers, this would fit in the challenge at Heck of a challenge.
    Kevin xx

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  5. Aww Shirley this is sooooo cute. Love that image and the die cut works so well with it. Love everything about it
    Eileen x

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  6. Shirley, your beautifully colored pair of birds looks fabulous on this perfectly festive Christmas card. TFS! Hugz, ~ Rose

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  7. Hi Shirley I just popped back to see your gorgeous card again and say Thanks for joining in with us this month at Hooked on Craft, Good Luck.
    Kevin xx

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  8. Outstanding card,really love itxx

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  9. Adorable Card Shirley. Hugs and Happy Crafting <3-Kim

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  10. Very cute card! Love Meljens digis!

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  11. Wonderfull card Shirley!!!
    XXX Heidy

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  12. absolutely beautiful from your papers, embelishments, and coloring. Love it!

    DebbieM

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  13. Such a cute image, that die cut is great as well. Thanks for joining us at Artistic Inspirations, Judith xx

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  14. Shirley, Thank you for you lovely comments from yesterday,Your Meljen birds are just adorable your card is just beautiful, you colored those little cuties so awesome. Love the die cut and your sentiment.
    Hugs, Patricia

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  15. I love Meljen's images & have quite a few of them. This one is so cute and I really like the coloring and the background you made

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  16. Shirley, the card is wonderful. I love everything! Donnaxxx

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  17. Lovely card, especially love the die cut birds!

    Kerry Louise
    x

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  18. What a beautiful card Shirley.

    Hugs Riet.xx

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  19. awww this is so cute ... love it
    Lisa x

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  20. Wow what a stunner Shirley, love this image and your colouring is just perfection.
    Hugs Linda

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  21. oh ce qu'elle est jolie cette carte avec ces découpes oiseaux toute mignonne, biz

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  22. You made a gorgeous card with beautiful colouring of that adorable image...great details!
    xxx Margreet

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  23. Aww Shirley! I just love your little lovebirds! They are so cute. All the elements come together beautifully. It's a smasher! xxx

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  24. What a lovely card
    hugs Linda

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  25. I have that image, isn't it cute. Love your card, that die is fab.

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  26. Hi Shirley, stunning card, love the bird and twigs die, very nice! Ruby x

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  27. Very pretty, I love the cute image, nicely done
    Hugs julie P

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  28. What a beautiful card. Love the two turtle doves.

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  29. Such a darling card! Love your image & coloring, your pretty papers, the cool die cut, and the fun sentiment! :^) Thank you for sharing this with us at Lady Anne's this month! :^)
    Hugs, Penny

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  30. oh... your birds are darling - but perfect for a man - colored beautifully, and so sweetly! I like the "mirrored effect" of the metallic birdie die cut. Your two turtle doves couldn't be any cuter.

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  31. I love these images. Great to colour and you've done a perfect job. Thanks for sharing. Vicki.

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  32. This is stunning Shirley.....your colouring is amazing xx

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  33. I was here yesterdaymorning, but no card :-( I think our timetable (?) is not the same. But I love the card: It's a very lovely Christmascard and a cute digi!
    Hugs,
    Marianne MW

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  34. What a sweet image! :D Great card :)

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  35. Fab card, great design and I love your cute image. My OH would adore this card.

    Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

    Dionne

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  36. Love this the little birds are just so cute.
    Thank you for joining us at Crafty Bloggers Network.
    Kaz.xx
    CBN DT

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  37. A gorgeous card, love the image
    Thank you so much for joining our challenge at creative stamp friends.
    Nina

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  38. such a pretty card with a great image! thanks for linking
    up with us at MEFY!

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  39. Great card. Thanks for joining us over at ME4Y.

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  40. Super sweet card! Thanks for playing along with us over at MEFY! : )

    Kristy

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  41. What a fab card and such a great image....love those birds!
    Thanks for joining us this month at
    Crafty Bloggers Network.
    Barbara DT

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Many thanks for popping by and leaving your comments they are very much appreciated, and I sincerely hope that you will come back again soon. With love and hugs Shirleyxxxxxxxx