Challenge # 42 Use Some Metal

Wow! thanks to you all for making our Spooky week such a success. We, the Design Team send our warmest wishes for a very Happy  Haunting Halloween ahead, with lots of treats and less tricks.  I and the team have enjoyed visiting your blogs, choosing the Top 3 is never an easy task for there are so many things to consider , and finally it does come down to a personal choice.

Top 3 Winners

#1 Dawn 

A cleverly constructed treat box

# 18 Susan Kennedy

love the way you 'dressed' the stepper card. 

# 19 lalkygirl

Fabulous card and gift bag combination.

Congratulations ladies, please take your Top 3 badge from the Winner's tab.

We Made It!

We reached 150 followers and before the end of the year, which was my goal.

Thank you to each and every one of you, we so much appreciate the support you are giving us. 

Onto our next challenge, chosen by Kim. 

USE YOUR METAL!

We want to see on your project some metal, use your imagination, get creative, or go the easy way, we don't mind, use metal brads, metal label holders, metal corners, metal charms,, an embossed drinks can, sheets of metal, oh! there are so many more ways you can use metal. 

PROJECT MUST BE SUITABLE FOR A MALE TO RECEIVE

Let us see how the Design Team used their metal!

Kim

Andrea

Jan

Jane

Caz

Helen

Julie

Guest Designer Joan

Thanks to the Design Team and our Guest Designer Joan for showing us their metal.

If you would like to know more about their cards, click on their names to be taken to 

their blogs. We look forward to visiting you over the next week. 

Please tell us what form of METAL you have used in your design.
Project MUST be suitable for a MALE person

To enter please click on the In Linkz below. 

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It's Spooky - Halloween

I would like to firstly welcome the few new followers to the blog, we are creeping up to 150 which is my aim for before the end of the year, thank you to every single one of you, we are thrilled you are enjoying the blog. A loud applause from the Design Team for the fabulous easel cards for the challenge last week, so thrilled with them all, especially those who attempted to make one for the first time, well done and congratulations.  Helen was very pleased with every entry, she  has chosen the Top 3 Winners,  please take your badges from the tab below the header, and add them to your blogs.

Top 3 Winners

# Sarah T

# 5 Fabiola

#6 Mryna Sweet

 Our challenge for you all this week will be no surprise, for blogland seems to have been taken over with ghouls, monsters, skeletons, spirits, witches, punpkins because YES! I (Caz) have chosen

Challenge # 41 

It's Spooky - Halloween

Let us see what the Design Team and Guest Designers have to inspire you. 

Caz

Kim

Jane

Julie

Jan

Andrea

Helen

Guest Designer  Joan

Thanks to our Guest Designer and to the Design Team. 

If you would like to know more, all you need to do is click on their names to 

be whisked off to their blogs. 

If your interested in being considered for either a DT or GDT spot please add 

this on your entry. Have fun and enjoy the challenge. 

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Challenge #40 An Easel Card

Hi everyone, welcome to the two new followers from last week, we hope to see you joining in our challenges in the coming weeks. For our last challenge, we apologise for not inspiring you to join in with Time to Retire. Congratulaions to our winner, please take a winner's badge from the tab below the header, we would love you to share this on your blog.

Our Winner 

 #1 Amy 

Challenge # 40 - An Easel Card

Helen has chosen for the challenge this week an Easel card, this design card may be 

familiar to you or not, if your new to the concept, check out this You Tube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPHOkRukeQ

There are many tutorials to choose from, you can make lots of different types of easel cards, even those with drawers, our aim is to challenge you, so are you ready for the challenge?

Let's have a look at the amazing inspiration from the team and guests.

Guest Designer Joan

Helen

Kim

Julie

Caz

Jane

Jan

Andrea

Thanks to our Guest Designer and to the Design Team. 

If you would like to know more, all you need to do is click on their names to 

be taken to their blogs. 

If your interested in being considered for either a DT or GDT spot please add 

 on your entry. Have fun and enjoy the challenge. 

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Challenge # 39 Time to Retire

Hello again, another week for a challenge and into another month, how time flies.  Thanks to everyone who took part in our last challenge, we are thrilled to see you having a go to make cards for your guyz. I would like to thank our new followers, each week are are excited to see the numbers growing, we are now 141, so thank you to everyone of you for your support. We are looking forward to when the number incddreases to 150. I found it so difficult to choose this week's Top 3 winners, such a vaariety of No balls in Sport, congratulations to the winners, please take your well deserved badge from the tab below the header.

Top 3 Winners

## 1 Janice

I never knew trampolining could be such fun.

#  2 Shaz

A wonderful Chrismas card, with a skiing topper

#10 Sharon R

Lots of interest and elements on this super fishing card.

Welcome to  our  Guest Designers for October

It now being a new month, we are happy to welcome two Guest Designers, who will both be spending the month of October with us. We are greatly looking forward to their contributions. 

Joan

Hi, I'm Joan from www.latenightstamping.blogspot.co.uk  I've been retired for seventeen years now and spend most of my spare time crafting or gardening. I have always crafted in one form or another, sewing, painting, calligraphy etc but in the 1980's I came across my first rubber stamps, someone  was demonstrating embossing at a little country craft show and I was hooked ! Now I have a room full of stamps and all the other necessities that go with them. I still get that "Wow" when stamping a new stamp for the first time and I hope I never lose that feeling. I started my blog in 2009 and discovered the wonderful online community of crafters out there and made some lovely online friends through it.  Thanks to cardz4guyz for having me as a guest designer, hope you like my card.

Julie Ann

makes a return visit

http://handcraftedbycharliesnanny.blogspot.co.uk/

Hello my name is Julie-Ann mum of 4 and nanny to Charlie.I will be 49 in a few weeks, not quite sure how that happened ! Lucky to be married to my best friend Bob.  I have been crafting since my great aunty taught me to knit when i was 5 years old, since then i have tried all types of crafting and found paper crafting about 10 years ago. I am honored to be invited to join Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge as a guest designer, as i am one of the weird folk who love making cards for the men in my life. Crafty hugs Julie Ann

So let's get on with it 

Challenge #39 - Time to Retire

has been chosen by Jan, it could be for a guy who is about to retire from a working life or maybe a child/adult who is off to bed. It depends where you take your imagination and crativity, just have fun. Must be suitable for a MALE person, being of any age. 

Let's see what the Design Team and Guests have for your inspiration

Guest Designer Joan

Guest Designer Julie Ann

Jan

Jane

Kim

Andrea

Caz

Helen

 Julie

Thanks to the Design Team and our Guest Designers.

If you would like more information , click on their name to be taken to their blog.

Don't forget about the on-going DT and Guest DT Calls, the first step is to add 
DT or GDT after your name. All details are in the tab under the header. 

To enter the challenge please click on the blue box below.

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Challenge # 38 - No Balls Allowed

Thanks to those who joined in with our Water challenge, it was a quiet week, but as you know we are always delighted when you do take the time to share with us your creative work. Kim has chosen her Top 3 - Congratulations to the winners, please take your Winners's badge from the tab below our header.

Top 3 Winners

# 3 Gitte
.... loved the vintage look and all the details in it

# 1 Rachelle
.... loved the scene and the sentiment

# Cindy
... love the water technique she has used.

News Up-date

I would like to thank Diane for being a wonderful member of the DT throughout 

her time with us, Diane is off to pastures new and we all wish her the very best.

The call to increase our DT has now closed, however, I am still looking to increase the number of our team, so I am going to leave the DT Call open  with all the details available in the tab  bar below the header. If you have never been on a Design Team, but enjoy making male orientated cards, if you partake in challenges, it isn't a difficult task, you could think of it as taking one small step in adding to your creativity adventure. If you don't like it, you only need to say, Sorry , and are free to go.

I am so pleased to introduce you to our two new members on the Design Team

Jane

My Blog is - http://onionsandpaper.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi, my name is Jane and I’d like to thank Caz for accepting me onto the team.

 I’m looking forward to the challenges and to visiting everyone’s blogs.

I’ve been crafting ever since I can remember – my grandmother taught me to crochet when I was about five years old, and I became hooked (groan).

As I grew up and had children of my own, I did lots of hand and machine knitting,

 I also did a lot of cross stitch . I went to a craft show with one of my daughters  and we watched a rubber stamping demo that included heat embossing. We were both totally awe struck by it, and both decided to try it .I’ve never looked back…..  Now papercrafting is an obsession with me and all my other craft materials are gathering dust in the store room.

 I started my blog,  in the spring of 2012  I’m thrilled to be on DTs for La Pashe and Foilplay.

 Most of the cards I make are either for our own use or donated to charity to sell, but I’ve just been invited to try selling some in a shop – thrilled, nervous and excited about that.

I live in the north of Hampshire, with my husband of 37 years. We have two grown up daughters and three granddaughters.  I’m sort-of retired but do a little freelance writing.

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Andrea

Hello, I'm Andrea Whisman or you may recognize me as Andrea W when
 I enter card challenges.
 My blog is Savvy Handmade Cards and I started it in March of 2012. I’m super excited
 to have been asked after being a Guest Designer for a month
 to join the Design Team at Cardz 4 Guyz. 

By day I’m a REALTOR living in Bixby, Oklahoma. I've been married to
 my wonderful hubby for almost seventeen years. We met in college and have been
 inseparable ever since. For as long as I can remember I've always loved creating.
 I took several art and sewing classes in college for my major in Fashion Merchandising.

My card making hobby started over three years ago. I had invested in supplies for scrapbooking

 but I rarely used them. One day I needed a card and decided to make one myself and an addiction was born. At the time I had no idea about the online inspiration and challenges available.

 Once I found the online community the desire to make cards and share them on a blog took over. Then I found Stampin’ Up! and become a demonstrator.  When it comes to techniques my favorite is embossing and I LOVE using twine

 A big thanks to Cardz 4 Guyz for asking me to join the team. 
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Challenge #38 NO BALLS ALLOWED
It was my time to choose the next challenge, I know Sport themes are always a good standby for male cards, but we do tend to go for sports which involve balls, so I thought we would take you all to a different area , the challenge being NO BALLS ALLOWED. We need to see a sport on your project but keep away from any which involves balls. Check out the Design Team, for their amazing inspiration and have fun.

Introducing 
Jane

Introducing
Andrea

Caz

Julie

Kim

Helen

Jan

Guest Designer
Vicky

Thanks to the Design Team and our Guest Designer, Vicky, who has completed her month with us, we hope you have enjoyed it and look forward to you joining us again.

If you would like more information , just click on their name to be taken to their blog.

Don't forget about the on-going DT  and Guest DT Calls, the first step is to add 
DT or GDT after your name. 

To enter the challenge please click on the blue box below. 

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