Cardz 4 Guys Launch!

Happy Tuesday everyone,

Well I have more exciting news to share with you today - one of my very best crafty friends is launching her brand new challenge blog today called

'CARDZ 4 GUYS' 

which couldn't have come at a better time after the demise of a couple of male themed challenge blogs over the past couple of weeks.

Caz also asked me to be part of her new design team and I couldn't wait to get started. I think we all find it more difficult to make for the guys in our life, so this brings a fantastic opportunity to hone my skills. The new design team have been getting ready and have made some great male themed projects for our first challenge, which is a great one to start with. Here's my DT inspiration for our first challenge theme, which is

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'

Now who hasn't got a male birthday coming up in the next few months - I know I have, it was my dad's birthday yesterday so perfect timing for our challenge. I used an 8x8" scalloped card blank and covered it with papers from my stash. The cute little chimney sweep is from the 'Cutie-Patooties' range at Little Claire Designs and is called 'Little Bert'. I stamped him in Vintage Photo distress ink and used the ink to colour him with the addition of a blue Promarker (yep, I couldn't step away from them totally!)  The sentiment was created on my pc and the 'Dad' lettering was stamped using the Clarity Letterbox kit. Hope you like it.

If you have a minute, please pop over the the main blog and take a peek at the work my teamies produced too - they would love your comments.

I hope you will join us in our new venture and I shall look forward to popping over to your blogs during the next week.

Hugz, Jan xx

Brand New Challenge Blog

Good morning crafty friends and followers,

I hope you like my new look blog - I decided it was time for a makeover to celebrate my exciting news.

After much thought and deliberation I am taking the next step in my crafty journey and have decided to start my own Challenge blog.  I have been polishing the final details all week (that will teach me to have a week off work) and the blog went live yesterday.

It is called the 

'FANTASY STAMPERS CHALLENGE BLOG'

and will host a paper crafting challenge for ANY kind of stamping
on alternate Saturdays beginning on 4th January 2014.

I am now looking for a Design Team to be a part of this venture and you can find all the details on the new blog HERE.

I would love it if you could pop along and leave a comment at http://fantasystampers.blospot.co.uk and maybe share the details and spread the word with your own crafty friends.

I would also like to say a huge thanx to you all for your support of my work - without you I don't think I would have made this next step. I hope you will all come along and play and if anyone is interested in joining my design team, I would love to hear from you.

Big hugz, Jan xx