#33 Boys Toys

Morning Blogland!

Well we are into the school holidays now and I expect lots of families are out and about if not already away. So some of you are probably struggling to get a minute to make cards or even enter a blog challenge!! Well thankyou to all who managed to enter our Jungle challenge over at HERE COME THE BOYS last fortnight, some lovely cards!

On to this weeks new challenge we are asking for one of your wonderful creations for a Man/ Boy with a theme of Boys Toys. This could be men with power tools, golf clubs, cars, they love their toys or little boys and the contents of their toy boxes! loads of inspiration can be found from the DT girls over on the blog. Here is my card. 

 # 33 Boys Toys

I found this brilliant image on Mo's Digital Pencil " ELI" it reminds me of when my boys were little and we took them on holiday with lots of their toys...... but they just loved the cardboard boxes we got from shopping....they played in them for days!! How Cheap is that!!! lol. Anyway I used my promarkers to colour and a little Antique linen distress ink to soften edges while matting and layering with some kraft card and DP. I added 3 little card candy dots to complete. I hope you like and hop over to HERE COME THE BOYS and enter a card for your self. Good luck!

Hugs Di

xxx

#32 Jungle Theme

Hey everyone,

I had some bad luck this week with my broadband......all went down cos someone cut the line up the street. But now i'm back.....HOORAH!!!!! Thank goodness!!! I'm lost without my computer!!!
Anyway moving on.....So thanks to all who entered our last challenge over at HERE COME THE BOYS. Now we have a new challenge starting today and it is a Jungle theme, we would love for you to make a wonderful card for a boy or man using anything to do with the jungle! This is my card for the DT check out the rest of the girls brilliant cards.

#32 Jungle Theme

I used Basic Grey DP for the background and a really cute Mo Manning Elephant coloured with Pro markers. The monkey and leaves are dies from Cuttlebug. Hop on over to HERE COME THE BOYS and join in the fun, I hope you like my card.

#31 Tag On a Card

Morning everyone!!!

Well we seem to have missed the worst of the rain in my little corner of Essex! a good thing too because on Friday the Olympic Torch was being brought through our town. I didn't see much as there were huge crowds lining the streets and I was supposed to be working!!! Ooops!

Anyways.. on to this fortnights challenge over at HERE COME THE BOYS 
thanks to all who entered the last one and congrats to the winner...now this week we have 

#31 Tag on a card

We are looking for your lovely creations using Tags!! Remember the theme also has to be for a man or boy.

I made my own tags but there are lots of cutting dies out on the market. My image is one of the Mikey designs from Charmed Craft Cards which reminds me of my nephew with the girls! I coloured it with Promarkers and added a little distress ink to soften the edges. The sentiments are from a set I have from Lily of the Valley Stamps. Check out all the other fantastic creations the DT girls have done and why not  enter yourself.... got to be in it to win it!

I hope you like my card.

#30 metal and or Embossing

Hello,

Rainy day again!!!!....and I thought it was supposed to be the summer!!

Well it does give us a perfect excuse to craft!!.....as if we really need one lol. Thanks to all of you who entered our challenge last week over at HERE COME THE BOYS and well done to the winner and runners up. This week we have a new challenge and it is

#30 Metal and or Embossing

All you have to do is make one of your brilliant creations and add in some metal i.e charms, wire, metal corners etc or even emboss on metal sheets. Don't forget it must be for a Man or Boy.

Here is my DT card for the challenge and don't forget to check the rest of the teams inspirational cards too.

I used Basic Grey papers mounted with navy card stock. My image is a cool Kenny K and the sentiment is a clear stamp from a set from Personal impressions. Last of all not forgetting I used metal corners and star brads.   

Hope you like it.

xxxx

#29 More than One Fold

Morning all!

Well the sun is shinning at the moment which we didn't expect as the forcast is rain for the next week at least!!! But I'm not gonna complain.....just enjoy!

Last week on the 5th was my eldest sons 21st birthday and he really wanted to BBQ so under a gazebo my husband stood out and cooked burgers and bangers  in the rain and then brought them indoors where all family congregated! We still had lots of laughs.

Any way back to bisiness... So our new challenge over at HERE COME THE BOYS is

 #29 More than One Fold

It's my turn to challenge and pick a winner.  

We would love to see all your wonderful ideas for Men /Boys on cards created with more than just the usual one fold. It's being sponsored by the lovely sharon of Ewe 2 can Craft. The prize is a great selection of metal charms.

Here is my DT card using a center step card, but there so many more out there that i'm sure many of you have done and if not why not have a go and enter our challenge today!. To give you a few ideas why not try Side Step card, envelope fold card, Flip flop/swing card, Tri fold card or even a never ending card. Many of these recipes and more can be found on www.splitcoaststampers.com resourses page.

The imge I used is a great new Mo Manning one called King for a Day which reminds me of the men in my house probably in most houses actually!! lol. I coloured it up using my Promarkers and cut the relax out with my Cricut machine. These cards use very little backing papers but I used one from Wild Rose Studio FOR MEN. So hop on over to HERE COME THE BOYS and see what the teamies have created then have a go yourself!!

Happy Crafting!

#28 Anything Goes

Helloooo

What glorious weather we are having here in the south east of England! much better now isn't it?

So thanks to everyone who entered into our Birthday Blog Hop over at HERE COME THE BOYS this past fortnight we had some really lovely creations..... choosing winners as usual is very hard ....you are all stars! My Blog hop visiters were all popped into a hat and the lucky winner is No 6 Ginny Well done..... all you have to do is contact us at herecometheboys@btinternet.com and we will get your prize off to you.

Now it's time again to start another challenge but we thought we would make it a little easier and go for

#28 ANYTHING GOES

You can enter any theme you like but the only rule we ask is that you make it for a man or boy as that is our blog.

Here is my card which I thought I would get ahead for fathers Day.

I chose one of my fav images which is a LOTV stamp and coloured it with my trustied Promarkers. Added a little Antique Linen ink around the edges of the DP and image for looks and wrapped a little string and sentiment from Sentiments 4 You

I still need to make another card for my in-law but both like sailing so I won't write it out till nearer the time. So don't forget to hop on over to our blog and enter a card yourself you might win!!.... I hope you like.

#27 Easel Card and Birthday Blog Hop

Happy Sunday!

Today over at HERE COME THE BOYS we are celebrating our Birthday! by doing a blog Hop. We are being sponsored by Boogaboo whom are offering up a prize for creating an easel card for a Boy/ Man. That's not all..... we have an opportunity to win blog candy on each team members individual blogs when you visit.  So if you fancy having some fun start over at HERE COME THE BOYS

This is my card for the blog challenge

As you can see I have made a double easel using a Boogaboo image and a Sentiments 4 you greeting. I cut the shapes out using a Nellies die and a little of DP from My Minds Eye. With just a touch of colouring from my Promarkers and a button to hold up the double easels.  

This is my candy