Hopes and Dreams begin here......

Two weeks have passed already and it is time now for our Challenge for Cards for Men to begin. We have The Stamping Boutique as our sponsor. This challenge ends June 6th. The theme is "Good Luck". You need to enter your card at "Card for Men". You can click here and it will take you to there blog. I have here two of there images one is AJ graduates and the other one is Audrey graduates. They look so much like twins. If you would like to see some more of Tracey images you can click here and it will take you to her store.

Our company, "The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. 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 sentiment stamp is from Creative Vision Stamps. Ribbon is from JoAnn's, That was a wonderful find for 50 cents yard and I love the butterflies and the flowers. Added some large yellow buttons. Punches Martha Stewarts was for the background paper, Marvy Uchida scalloped square for the sentiment , EK punch was used for the words good luck. I used one of the Nestabilities for AJ and Audrey. One of my Sizzix dies for the Mortarbord and tassel.

As far as the coloring I used my copic markers and my At you Spica. These are the colors I used.

For the sentiment and the kids is Brilliance Ink Beige and it is just sponged around the edges, working from off the paper in a circular motion. I do hope that you enjoy my card. Just a note I know SEVERAL OF YOU WANTED THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TENT CARD. I WILL GET A SMALL TUTORIAL DONE ON HOW TO MAKE THE TENT CARD FOR THAT CARD FOR YOU AND HAVE IT POSTED. I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.

Challenges

Cards for Men- Good Luck

Beauty of the Wild

I'm back! I have been gone for a little while. I went to Madison, Wisconsin we had 5th annual Mingle, It is when some really talented ladies get together and make cards all day long and into the late hours of the night for 2 days. Had some wonderful Demo's. Had a FANTASTIC time. There will be one next year.

If is that time again, time for "Cards for Men" Challenge #9. It starts April 26th tell May 9th. It is to be "Monochrome" and that is a card done it many shades of one color. You need to go to Cards for men and go to Mr. Linky to sign up so you can click here. You will be able to see the other Design Teams cards also. As far as my card I used my sponges and did it in shades of yellow and I thought a desert scene would work perfect. The stamps I used are from The Angel Company, even the word. I do how you like my card.

At Donna's Den of Crafts we stock a wide range of products from Doverraft, DCWV, Spellbinders, Craferts Companion, Crafting with Stephanie, Joanna Sheen and so on. We are a small home-run business and pride ourselves on customer service. We have a fixed P&P of £1.00 regardless of the size of order. Most orders are sent out within 24 hours of payment subject to stock levels. If you would like to check out Donna's Den of Crafts you can click here and go right to the store.

the theme is 'Monochrome' and the challenge will run from 26th April to 9th May. The prize will be a £10 gift voucher now these are in pounds and I checked with Donna and she said in dollars it is about $15.00 in dollars to use at Donna's Den of Crafts.

Check this out Donna has never done this before this is WONDERFUL AND WE THANK YOU DONNA, there will also be a 10% discount voucher valid for the term of the challenge. The code for this will be CFM0410. So let me give you the her store click here. She has some wonderful things so stop by.

Challenge I entered are.
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge- Anything
Magic in the Air Paper CupCake- Amything

Aiden My Engineer...

Happy Monday and March to everyone! I hope everyone had a great week end and are ready to take on the coming week. I had wonderful week end. We took Aiden and Emma Ice Skating for the first time. Of course I took all kind of pictures. Grandma watched. They loved every minute. Now they have what is called a bucket you take with you. This is there first time on skates. They did not have buckets when I was little. I loved to ice skate, we lived right next to the ice rink when I was growning up. My son and my daughter-in-law really did a wonderful job.
The challenge for The Cards for Men this time is Paper Piecing. The sponsor this month is The Stamping Boutique. If you would like to see any of there images click here and check them out. You need to go to Card For Men and sign up with Mr Linky and you can do that by clicking here. Once you do that your card is do March 14. You have a chance to win some of Traceys wonderful (5) images or (3) rubber stamps at The Stamping Boutique. That is a wonderful gift. The images I used is "Train" and "AJ the Engineer". Also ABC Challenges is having a challenge for Paper Piecing. If you would like to check what is going on over there click here.
I used a scrapbook paper I found that looked like an out door scene and lined up my image "train" to print where I wanted it to print. I printed it out several times on different colors of paper and cut the pieces of the track out and the train and glued them over the printed areas. I did the same with the "engineer". I did go over the colored paper with some of my copic markers to give the colors a little shading. I used Gelly Roll Pens and At You Spica Pens to give a little sparkle. I also sprayed some glitter spray from Flora Craft. The punched out the bottom border with Martha Steward train punch. Used a RR Sign, butterfly sticker and the 3D train on the top was a sticker also. I add to really small buttons to Aiden pants. The Raccoon is a button.
I hope you enjoy my card. Have a wonderful week.

Nature Tree

Two weeks have passed by and we have another challenge for Card For Men. We have a sponsor and it is Hope JaSAHM with three young children. Trained in textile design at the Glasgow School of Art. Love all thing handmade especially papercrafts. I love to doodle.....and my doodles are available through Shop Handmade. If you would like to see her store click here. The prize winner will receive 3 images of there choice. So make sure you stop by and see her images. The image I picked was "The Tree" and we where to use mostly green on our card. It could be any occasion.
So this is what I did, I created a mountain by ripping some paper, then flipped the the edge over the have the stright edge and left a small space and added some water and then brought in some green for the grass. I used sponges to apply the ink and the ink I used was Mementos Paris Dusk, London Fog, Paris Dusk, Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout. I colored the tree with At You Spica pens. I used white pen by Ultimate Gel pen pastel from American Crafts. Added some branches for in front and I'm sorry I do not know who made the stamp. Put some ribbon and 3 green dots for embellishments. I asked my sons and I have 3 they said they really like it and thought it made a good mans card. I hope you enjoy it.