The Open Sea – Cheers!

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#368), we have an open inspiration challenge with the Letter “S”.  My “S” word is Ship. Design choices were influenced by The Male Room (#196) featuring Mixed Media and I am sharing this card with Inspire Create (#188) and their current Masculine theme. Here is theContinue reading “The Open Sea – Cheers!”

Birthday Greetings – Wetlands

A nice birthday card for the men in your life… Playing with the Retro Rubber (#247) Color Palette and choosing the purples to create a Monochromatic card for The Male Room (#195) and selecting the Birthday theme from Krafty Chicks (#754). Here is the result: Steps: All elements were adhered to the card base andContinue reading “Birthday Greetings – Wetlands”

Winter Snow – Happy New Year

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#363) we have a Tic Tac Toe Board. They are always fun – eight different combinations!  Which will you choose? I opted for the middle column: Snow, Blue and a Winter Sentiment. My clean and simple design was influenced by the following challenges: CAS on FridayContinue reading “Winter Snow – Happy New Year”

New Year – New You – Happy Birthday

Welcome back!  Monday again and I am playing in the Studio. Do you have a friend that has a New Year’s birthday?  I do!  So, here is a card for him. Starting with Seize The Birthday (#296) with a Masculine Twist and sharing with The Male Room (#193) Anything Goes. Over at Double Trouble (#181)Continue reading “New Year – New You – Happy Birthday”

Friendly Seagulls – Love You

Welcome back!  A brand-new week and some time to play. Starting with the Color Throwdown (#821) Palette and The Male Room (#192) Kinetic theme, I altered the Global Design Project (#474) Sketch to be a full-size Slim Line card to fit my elements and am sharing with Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday (December) Anything Goes. Here isContinue reading “Friendly Seagulls – Love You”

Splendid Autumn – Every Celebration

Design Team Time: This round at Cardz 4 Guyz (#359) the challenge is to embrace the season of Autumn. I chose Ann’s Paper Players (#713) Sketch (As a Design Team Member just back from a Vacation Break) and sharing with Inspiration Station (#66) influenced by the Fall Leaves and Fall Colors; The Male Room (#191)Continue reading “Splendid Autumn – Every Celebration”

It’s Your Day – CAS Fun Fold

Welcome back!  Having a go with a Fun Fold designed card for a fellow.  I don’t know about you, but I like to make clean and simple cards for guys. The Challenges: The Male Room (#190) requesting a Fun Fold; Love Those Pretty Papers (#3) with a Fall twist; Park Hopping (September) with a FoodContinue reading “It’s Your Day – CAS Fun Fold”

Daring Adventure

Welcome back!  A brand-new week…hope it will be a good one. A few guy challenges are about.  Over at Inspire Create (#174), the theme is Men; The Male Room (#189), a site for guy cards, is asking us to employ mixed media styling; Park Hopping (August) have Harry Potter – Steam Punk themed inspiration photos;Continue reading “Daring Adventure”

Grassy Grove – Thinking of You

Design Time: This round Cardz 4 Guyz (#351) is stepping into the Animal Kingdom, and I chose a forest setting. I selected the Sketch Saturday (#298) layout from 2014 to play along with Sketch Saturday (#754) asking us to pick a sketch from the archives and share with The Male Room (#188) who has aContinue reading “Grassy Grove – Thinking of You”

Sailing Home – Father’s Day

Design Time: Cardz 4 Guyz (#349) is featuring Father’s Day… So many other challenges are sporting a similar theme, and I took lots of inspiration from them for this card. Double Trouble (#168) for a Masculine card partnering with Colorful Options (June) for the Aqua color; and Stampin’ Up! Only (#353) for a Dad card…Continue reading “Sailing Home – Father’s Day”