Challenge #22 - "Way to Go" - Cards for Men

Good Morning Crafters, well yet another two weeks have flown by and again its time for another Challenge over on Cards for Men, and this time is all about Congratulations and we have actually themed it as "Way to Go" and we are being sponsored this time by Paper Pretties.

And they are offering a fabulous prize of 6 digis of your own choice

And here is what they say about themselves:-

Pretties is an online crafting store, and home to Zac, Lily, Sophia and Cooper - the cutest kid stamps around! (At least we think so). We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Pretties' Boutique.

Along with our full line of high quality clear stamps, we also have a large selection of digital images.

And we were very lucky to be able to choose a image to play with and I chose this one

Hes called "Za Za Zumba" and you will find him here, I printed him onto white card then used my copic pens to colour him, afterwards I used a Nestabilitie Die to cut him out I also used a larger one for the mount. The sentiment also came with the image and I also printed this onto white card and mounted this also onto blue mount.

The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue card and the papers I have used are from Sweetshoppe Digi Papers and this set is called "Politics 2012" as I thought the colours went well with the colouring of the image.

Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to the Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this weeks "Way to Go" Challenge.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

Cards for Men - Challenge 7 - "Embossing"

Good Morning All, well weve already reached our 7th Challenge on Cards for Men, and this time we are being hosted by Alison of Handmade by Tillymint do pop over to her blog and see what a very talented lady she is, and her theme she has chosen for us to do is Embossing it can be either with a embossing folder or embossing powder so the choice is yours. And this time we are being sponsered by Paper Pretties

This is what they say about their company:-

Paper Pretties is a full-service online crafting store. We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Prettie Boutique!

In case you haven't heard yet, Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen. Now located in Madison, WI, we are pleased to offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of our fun new stamps!! All orders are shipped within 24 hours. You will find there here.

And they are offering us a prize of this gorgeous clear stamp set:-

A really lovely set for any young man in your life, and heres my card for this fortnights Challenge:-

For my image Ive used this Karens Doodles "Grandpa Fix it" digi image and I printed him onto white card before colouring him with my copic pens, then cut him out with my rotatrim and mounted him onto a piece of blue pearlescent card, the sentiment is one that I googled and I also printed it onto white card before mounting it up in the same way as the image.

The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue pearlescent card and one of two papers from Donna's Bearlymine "For the Boys" digi paper set, this first paper is an all over pattern of cogs and wheels, on top of this is the second paper thats had one of Martha Stewarts Border punches along the edges which cuts and embosses at the same time, then I put a strip of the same pearlescent card through my cuttlebug with a tool embossing folder, this was then positioned down the card.

I then stuck my image towards of the top with the sentiment at the bottom on the right, to finish of I have fixed some tool brads down the edge on the right side.

Now that youve seen my card do please pop over to our Challenge Blog Cards for Men  and see the rest of the teams stunning work, and we should be soon announcing the lucky people who are to join us and become part of our Design Team, good luck to all those that took part in the call to do so.

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

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