The Male Room - Opens Today

Hello and Welcome to our very first Challenge at The Male Room a new challenge blog specifically for male orientated cards, scrapbook pages, altered art, mixed media, tags, bookmarks, Memory Books, ATC's, Fat Pages, whatever you wish to enter into the challenge as long as it fits with the theme and of course is for a male person, whatever age. Please pop over to our blog to see the wonderful work from the Design Team and of course those all important pesky rules. We are opening with a firm favourite to get you into the swing of things - ANYTHING GOES - no theme, no restrictions. Just dive in with a male project. We would be thrilled if you become a follower of our blog, I look forward to visiting you over the next two weeks.

Recipe for my card.

White card, Dark Brown and Kraft Cardstock

Mixed Papers from LOTV Country Gent 

Crafty Individuals stamp - 3  Wise Gentlemen CI 077

Fiskas Oval punch for Greeting

3 Brown buttons

Tim Holtz DI Vintage Photo 

3 days to go till NEW blog Opens

Only THREE days to go, when the NEW blog  THE MALE ROOM  will be starting it's fortnightly challenge. The design team are so excited, especially after the wonderful response from our visitors during our 7 day introduction period. To remind you if your new today, The Male Room will be setting you challenges, the main theme running will of course be your project MUST be for a Male person. From a baby to a great -grandfather or if on a scrapbook even beyond. Yes, we aren't just for cards, we love to see all forms of paper crafted or mixed media  projects. For my display today I have decorated a gift bag with a matching card,  for a young male. don't forget to pop back tomorrow to see which of our design team will be displaying another project for you. 

The Recipe for my card is;-

Paper lunch bag from any supermarket, mine is from Home Bargains

White and dark blue Card stock

Patterned papers from Grace Taylor Playtime Scrapbook Pad

Stamps - Toby - The Pirate from Crafty Sentiments

Happy Birthday - from Papermania

Skull and Crossed Swords and Doubloons from Tandastamps,

 who sadly are no longer trading. 

Ahoy! Matey - Computer produced from Word.

Tim Holtz DI Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire 

Blue/White Twine

A Taste of Things To Come

We, the Design team of a NEW challenge Blog  - The Male Room - are so excited, it is only a week before we begin our new adventure, a challenge for MALE ONLY cards. Not a new idea, but we believe there are still lots of card makers who are still finding male cards more of a challenge than any other kind. Over the next seven days till our Grand Opening on Wednesday 31st. July, we the team will be showing you a card and giving a little introduction of ourselves. Our challenge will be for any male person in your life, no matter what age, from babies to great - grandfathers. We are going to be a fortnightly challenge, so lots of time to enter into the challenges, we are kicking off, with one which is a firm favourite ANYTHING GOES. Please enjoy the next seven days of our introduction, hopefully we'll be seeing you after next Wednesday.

Here is a recipe for my card

Background striped paper from LOTV Country Gent.

Astronomical stamp (part of) from Inkadinkado

Gentlemen from Tim Holtz

Tim Holtz DI Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain. 

Fiskas oval punch for greeting.

Boys Will be Boys

At Cards for Men they have a super title for their challenge this week, ' Boys will be Boys' and as we know Men are just little boys in disguise. For my card I used some My Minds Eye papers, along with some from my stash. The main image is a LOTV stamp which I love, so typical of all boys. Thanks for visiting me, I am slowly starting to get back into making cards again. 

I am also entering this card to apply for a DT post for a new blog, The Male Room, which will also be concentrating on male cards challenges. There are so few around, another will help to promote what most crafters find difficul, making male cards.