Challenge 21 - Halloween

Welcome to the latest challenge, this time sponsored by The Paper Shelter.

If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique! This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.

To enter, we need to see your Halloween cards and the winner gets a $20 gift certificate.

The design team have been working hard to provide the following inspiration:

Shirley

ALAN

PAT K
(Using Paper Shelter image A Great Harvest)

Anne

CAZ 

Patricia

Michelle

Donna

I'm sure you'll agree that we have a great design team and will be fully inspired and ready to join in.  Here are the rules:
1. Your card must be for a man or a boy.
2. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to this challenge.
4. You may combine our challenge with others up to a maximum of 10.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT (Grenwich Mean Time) on 27 October 2013.  Leave a link to your card (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll enter you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 22 - A sketch for you

So here we are again for another challenge.  This time we have a sketch which has been designed by our very own Shirley (aka Nannieflash) and a great prize from Letraset.

 

The prize we have is a set of 6 flexmarkers from Letraset.

 

 

ProMarkers are made by Letraset and are a twin tipped, dye based alcohol marker offering a high quality product at a great price. Avilable in 148 colours, they give incredible tonal range and can be applied to a diverse range of materials, not just paper and card. ProMarkers produce vivid, bright colours right through to the subtlest pastel shades - the translucent inks can also be overlaid and blended, even further extending the range of shades and hues on offer. ProMarker's quality nibs and inks provide flawless colour lay down with consistent coverage and no unsightly streaking

Here's what the team have come up with to inspire you:

 

Shirley

 

Sandra

 

Michelle

 

 

Donna

 

Caz

 

 

Lisa

 

 

 

Patricia

 

 

Hopefully, you're all fired up for a challenge now.  Here are the rules:

 

1. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.

2. Your card must be for a man or a boy.

3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to the challenge post.

 

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT on 4 November 2012.  Leave a link to your post (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good luck.

 

 

 

 



 

Challenge 21 - Orange & Black

Wow, another two weeks gone.  I just can't believe it.  We had almost 100 entries for the last challenge - wow!  So hopefully you're all up for another great challenge.  This time our sponsor is the ever-popular KennyK and the prize is your choice of 4 digis.

I'm sure you're all familiar with the wonderful work of Kenny K's Shop but what about the man (and woman) behind those wonderful creations. Take a look here to see their journey, http://www.kennykdownloads.com/about-kenny-and-elena.php

So here's what the design team came up with to inspire you to join in with us:

Shirley

ALAN

Caz

Lisa 

Sandra

Michelle

Donna

Patricia

Hopefully, that's got you all fired up to join in with us.  Now for the rules:

1. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
2. Your card must be for a man/boy.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to the main post.

The challenge will run from now until midnight (British Summer Time) on 21 October 2012.  Leave a link to your post (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good Luck.

Challenge 19 - Going digital

So, we're back after our summer break feeling refreshed and ready to go!  Hopefully you are all ready to go as well with our first challenge 'Going Digital'.  We just need to see your digi stamps and papers on your cards to join in with the challenge which is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique.

I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. My team and I are very happy to sponsor 2 Sketches 4 You. 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.

The prize for our winner is 3 digital stamps of your choice.  The Stamping Boutique is a wonderful shop so why not hop over and have a look around.

Shirley

Alan

Caz

Patricia

Lisa 

Sandra

Michelle

Donna

 

 

So there you have our ideas, I'm sure they've given you an appetite for a challenge.  Now all you need are the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man/boy and follow the theme set.
2. Your card must be new for this challenge.
3. Your post must mention Cards for Men and contain a link back to the challenge.

The challenge will run from now until midnight on 23 September 2012 (British Summer Time).  Leave a link to you card (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If it's not there for some reason leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good luck.

Challenge 2 - Boys and their toys

Welcome to our second challenge of the year.  We had some fab entries into our recycling chalenge.  I'll be back later on with the winner and top3 post.

This challenge is sponsored by one of our first ever sponsors, Hope Jacare.

"I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgw School of Art and I love all things handmade, but especially papercrafts.  I love to doodle ... and my doodles are available to purchase as digital images through Stitchy Bear Stamps" 

The theme is 'Boys & Their Toys' and we have a prize of 3 digis from Hope Jacare to give away.  If you're in need of some inspiration, here's what our team came up with:

Michelle

Shirley

Tracy

Sandra

Alan:

Patricia

Jen

Mandy

Donna

I hope you're all fired up and ready to go. We love seeing all the entries.  Now for some rules:

1.  The card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.
2.  There must be a link in your post back to Cards for Men
3.  Your card must be for a boy/man.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT on 29 January 2012.  Leave a link to your card (not just your blog) in the link list below.  If the link list is not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good luck

Challenge 1 - Recycling

Welcome to 2012!  I can't beleve it - a whole new year and we have a year full of wonderful challenges and fabulous prizes ahead.  You'll see a lot of our regular sponsors but we always have room to welcome a few new ones too.  Whether old or new, we appreciate all our sponsors and followers.  Here's to a great year!

Our theme for this challenge is 'Recycling' and you'll see from our samples that we have included projects as well as cards.  Please bear in mind that any entries should be geared towards a boy or a man.  To sponsor this challenge we have one of our regular sponsors, One Stop Card Crafts and the prize is £10 gift voucher.

At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discount card making and cardmaking craft supplies.We are always adding to our range of craft supplies which are ideal for making handmade greeting cards, do-it-yourself invitations scrapbook pages, altered items and much more.

Our card making craft supplies include free UK postage* and our popular discount scheme and quick service means our customers keep coming back for more.

Our prices are very competitive and this makes us an ideal place to buy your cardmaking supplies online.

So let's see what we've come up with to help you along with inspiration:

Michelle

Tracy

Shirley

Sandra - mine takes no introduction lol used toilet rolls

Jen - Using Quality Street Wrapper

Donna -  I used ribbon band from Christmas Cake and image/sentiment from 2010 Christmas Cards.

  

Patricia - I made these for my son. I will fill them with different kinds of candy. His birthday is not til January 9th - did not want to fill them to soon.

I hope that's given you a few ideas.  Now for some rules:

1. Your card must be new for this challenge and follow the theme set.

2. There must be a link in your post back to Cards for Men.

3. Your card must be for a boy/man.

The challenge will run from now until midnight GMT on 15th January 2012.  Leave a link to your card (not just your blog) in the link list below. If the link list is not there for some reason, leave a comment and I'll add you in before the draw.  Good luck.