Kick up your heels

For Christmas I wanted to make my nieces something special and when I came across this digi by Mo Manning, Little Irish Dancer I  knew what I wanted to do.

Both nieces have been Irish Dancing for years and have traveled through the USA and Ireland competing, and winning competitions.

I colored the images with my Copic markers and purchased these frames from Michaels.  I visited our local craft shop, Creative Accents in Williams Lake and had Tara fill me with ideas and suggestions on how to dress up the frames.  I left the shop with goodies in hand and got to work.

I'm sorry the pictures are not the best quality as they really don't show the true, vibrant colors.  It was Christmas Eve and I was madly wrapping the gifts when I realized I hadn't taken a pic yet.

Merry Christmas Nicole and Lauren!



Challenges
2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Anything but a Card
Hiding in My Craft Room - Freestyle
ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges - Anything Goes
Stampin' for the Weekend - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - Any Sentiment
Bronte and Bella's Challenge - Fave Mo Image
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Not a Card
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Anything Goes
Link Up for Pink - A Dash of Pink
Simply Create - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
Anything but a Card
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes
Craft My Life - Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers - Anything Goes
Paper Makeup Stamps/Digi Makeover - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - Anything Goes
Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Holiday Wishes

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, spent with family and friends.  It all seems like such a blur, I was running around like my hair was on fire 4 day ago and now I'm just trying to recover!

This is one of my fave cards that I made this season and I love how it turned out.  My inspiration came from Tabbatha of The Zadis Project. Please check out her blog!

These adorable birds are by Tiddly inks and is called For the Birds and the subway art is a freebie from Eighteen25.

The inside sentiment is from the Christmas Sampler collection by Paper Smooches.

Challenges

ABC Christmas Challenge- Z is for Zoo Animals
Hotshot Craft Blog - Clean and Simple

It's Christmas!

Why am I still making Christmas cards ... they should have already been mailed!  I'm so far behind and just when I think I've caught up there's 2 more cards to make.  

I love this card, it's so simple and I love the papers/colors.  The image is a freebie from Stamp Fairy and the sentiment stamp is from Lily of the Valley.  The paper is from the Winter Wishes collection by Echo Park and the ribbon is from Stampin Up.

Challenges:

Belli Challenge - Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Christmas
Paper Minutes - Christmas Balls
ABC Christmas Challenge - "Y" Your fave Die/Punch

Day 12 - Last "Days of Christmas" at Cards for Men

It's Day 12 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Kym.  Our sponsor today is Letraset and today's winner will receive 6 Flexmarkers!  All you have to do is leave Kym some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

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.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Day 11 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 11 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Donna.  Our sponsor today is Stampin Up! and today's winner will receive winner will receive a £10 gift voucher!  All you have to do is leave Donna some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Day 10 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 10 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Caz.  Our sponsor today is That Craft Place and today's winner will receive a £10 voucher to be spend in there shop!  All you have to do is leave Caz some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Welcome to That Craft Place 

This is a Shop run By Lisa Horton .. I run an actual bricks and mortar shop in Eastbourne, East Sussex. We have every kind of craft for sale ... If you can't find it i will try by best to source it for you. We stock most leading Brands and have a huge collection of rubber stamp's , Saturated Canary , Kraftin Kimmie , My Craft Sentiments, Crafters companion , Indigo Blue , My Favorite Things, CC Designs to name a few . We also stock a large selection of Die's Memory Box, Sizzix, Spellbinder's , Cherrylyn , Marianne Dies. We have new deliveries arriving each day.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Day 9 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 9 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Lisa.  Our sponsor today is Bugaboo Stamps and today's winner will receive 10 images of their choice!  All you have to do is leave Lisa some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Day 8 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 8 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Carole.  Our sponsor today is Kenny K and today's winner will receive 3 images of their choice!  All you have to do is leave Carole some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Guest Designer at Here Come the Boys!

I'm thrilled to be a Guest Designer for Here Come the Boys and their Anything Goes Challenge!  As a mom with two boys, I find it easier to create cards/projects for boys so I'm very excited to be a part of this wonderful team for today!

There is some fab candy to be won so make sure to head on over to Here Come the Boys get get all the details!

For my project I made a candy test tube holder.

 

The pattern is by The Cutting Cafe and I used papers from Close to My Heart.  I added some ribbon, twine and button and used this adorable reindeer stamp by Paper Smooches.  

Get your creativity on and join in the fun, I can hardly wait to see your creation!

Challenges

Anything but a Card - Seasonal Holiday

CraftyHazelnuts Challenge - Reindeer
Drunken Stampers - For the Boys
The Sweetpea Stampers - Gifts
Totally Papercrafts - For the Boys

Day 7 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 7 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Erin.  Our sponsor today is Fresh Brewed Designs and today's winner will receive 5 images of their choice!  All you have to do is leave Erin some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out if you're the lucky winner!  Have fun!

Day 5 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 5 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Sandra .  Our sponsor is My Mum's Craft Shop and winner will receive a £10 gift voucher!  All you have to do is leave Sandra some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out the winner!  Have fun!

My Mums Craft Shop is a bricks & mortar and online store. We stock many of the leading brands and specialise in rubber stamping. We have brands including Some Odd Girl, Stamping Bella, My Favorite Things, CC Designs and many more. We also stock a large selection of Dienamics, Memory Box, Sizzix, CC Designs Marianne Dies. We constantly have new deliveries arriving, check out our website for more products - www.mymumscraftshop.co.uk 

Day 4 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 4 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today is Alan's turn to host our event and our sponsor for today is Scribbled Kidz.  They will be awarding the winner 3 images of their choice.  All you have to do is leave some Christmas cheer for Alan and a winner will be picked from the comments left on his blog.

Scribbled Kidz is all about fun images and largely inspired by my family and what they might get up to.  They are all hand drawn originals scanned in at 300dpi and saved as jpegs.  If you have any suggestions or special requests, please let us know.  Please pop along and see what we have to offer.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out the winner!  Have fun!

Day 3 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 3 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today our sponsor is  The Stamping Boutique and they are giving today's winner 3 digis of their choice!!

For my card I chose to work with the Candle digi.  I colored the image with my Copic markers to match the papers I used from the Snow Day Collection by Bo Bunny.  I added some glossy accents and white highlights on the berries and glossy accents on the candle flame.

I'm not sure where I got the sentiment from but thought it worked perfectly with this image. 

To be entered into today's draw, make sure you leave a comment below and be sure to check the Cards for Men blog tomorrow to see if you're the winner, good luck!

Day 2 - Days of Christmas at Cards for Men

It's Day 2 of the 'Days of Christmas' event at Cards for Men!

Today, our hostess is Shirley and our Sponsor is Meljens and they have donated a $10 gift certificate to the daily winner.  All you have to do is leave Shirley some love and a winner will be picked from the comments left on her blog.

Make sure you visit Cards for Men tomorrow to find out the winner!  Have fun!

Days of Christmas Blog Hop

It's celebration time at Cards for Men, we are celebrating our 3 year anniversary!!

In honor of all our followers, participants and sponsors we are hosting a Days of Christmas event that will run today until December14th.  Each day a member of the design team will host the event and showcase their creation.  Each day will have a different sponsor and a prize to be won.  All you have to do is visit the host/hostess of the day and leave them some love for a chance to win our Sponsor's prize!

Today, Patricia is our hostess and our Sponsor is Di's Digi Downloads.

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started card making about 4 years ago when I bought my daughter a card making kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with like-minded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.

This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

What are you waiting for, head on over to see Patricia's creation!