Cards for Men challenge # 23 & A Gem of a Challenge # 10

Morning Everyone,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend...Can I say a really big THANK YOU to all of you for your lovely comments and offers of cards for my cousin and her daughter (see post below)...There is no big change at the moment except Anne-Marie has got a little speech back so some improvement there,but not with her right side paralysis..

Anyway this morning sees the start of Challenge 10 over at A Gem of a Challenge and Challenge 23 at Cards for Men......

Over at A Gem of a Challenge

we have the following Sketch for you with the optional extra of a non traditional Christmas card no red or green......

Here is my card for A Gem of a Challenge......

                                                                

I have used Milly on reindeer coloured with my polychromos pencils blended with sansador....The DP is Cosmos Cricket Winter Mitten I've used both sides,the card and ribbon are from my stash....

The snowflakes have been punched out with a woodware and MS snowflake punch then layered together and a Gem Dew drop put into the middle...The sentiment is also from Pink Gem Designs......

Please pop over and join in with us as we have changed the rules and now you can enter with any image you like and you will all be entered to win 2 Pink Gem Designs stamps (subject to availability) and for this challenge Janet has also very kindly added these promarkers for the winner.

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Now my card for the Cards for Men Challenge......

For this challenge we are sponsored by

Here is a little bit about them.......Claire said

"I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgow School of Art and I love all things handmade, but especially papercrafts. I love to doodle ... and my doodles are available to purchase as digital images through Shop Handmade."

The winner will get a rubber stamp from Claire's first release......

Also Claire has very kindly said that we can give this free digi image to everyone who enters,.....Our lovely Donna the boss will sort this out for you all.....

The Theme we have for this challenge at Cards for Men is ANIMALS and the DT got to play with some of Claires  images...

I used Callum Cockerel coloured with polychromos pencils...The DP and card are from my scraps box and don't have the name on...I have used an EK success punch to do the border........

The buttons and raffia are from my stash...I have made a small bundle of twigs tied with raffia as an embellishment....And the sentiment is from Catslife press from Crafty Emma's store.....

Please try and join in with the challenges,as the DT's all love seeing your cards....

Hope you all have a great day.........