April Challenge - One For The Boys

Welcome to a new challenge at 

The Crafting Cafe

This month our theme is

One For The Boys

To make it even more fun, we have not just one but two sponsors!

Our  first sponsor this month is the fabulous

Kenny K

Who is offering a prize of
3 images of the winners choice

This is the card that I made using one the images from Kenny K.

Our second sponsor is the lovely Teri of


Delicious Doodles

who is once again offering a prize of
4 images of the winners choice

Here is the project that I made using the Delicious Doodles image...

Now it's over to you - we would love to see all the fantastic projects that you create for our

 'One for the boys' theme.

Please remember to have a peek at our rules before you enter -

 you will find them over in the side bar.

If you are stuck for inspiration,  keep checking the blog over the whole month of the challenge 

as the Design Team have lots of wonderful projects to share with you.

Happy Crafting
Nikki x

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Seeing Double...

This month we have two sponsors... and us lucky DT peeps have had the chance to use an image from both for our inspiration projects...

First up, I've used Stargazer from Delicious Doodles. I imported the image into Silhouette Studio, used the trace and resize functions to create a cut file to fit a square 10x10cm and cut from black cards. For the backgrounds, I've used two techniques, masking the moon circle first: the first was a PanPastel gradient, spraying with fixative, splattering with white acrylic from a toothbrush and then stamping Stampscape images over the top with Jet Black Archival Ink. The second was an old Royal Blue Dylusions Ink Spray, edged at the top with Black Soot Distress Ink once dry before splattering and stamping as before. I matted onto white, then sparkly deep blue card before sticking the silhouette over on foam pads:

The acrylic paint takes up the dye from the ink spray and discolours, but I think I prefer the watermark effect the spray gives over the PanPastel. Either way, they are a perfect background for the stunning Stargazer silhouette.

And my second card features Dirt Bike Mike from our other sponsor, Kenny K. Again, I imported the image into Silhouette Studio, traced the outline, then set an offset to cut away from the lines and welded it to a rectangle 13cm x 26cm so that it would fold to make a 13cm square card. A bit of slope making using the edit points function allowed me to have Mike and his dirt bike run down a cut away. Add the text, and cut out from your favourite ProMarker card. I also a cut a second (without the text) from a background colour card and embellished that with several layers of Picket Fence Distress Stain to make dust clouds on the back of the inside.

ProMarkers used:

Ground/Mud: Tan / Cinnamon / Burnt Sienna

Tyres/Metal: Ice Grey 2-5

Blues: Pastel Blue / Cornflower / China Blue

Flames: Sunflower / Crimson

One for the Boys - Sammy

Hello everyone, Sammy here with another DT card for you on our One for the Boys theme.

I know a lot of people struggle with them, but I love making boys cards! in fact, before I got into the shabby chic thing, most of my cards were boys ones!

As you have probably noticed already, we have a couple of brilliant sponsors this month, one of which is Kenny K, whose image I have used here on my card.

I figured it was the perfect image for a thank you card, to show appreciation for those handy folks who help out with jobs that need doing from time to time. My hubby is usually that person, so technically I wouldn't need the card myself, but you get the gist, lol.

More info about this card can be found on my blog.

Have a fabulous day!

Sammy-x

One For The Boys - Dawn 2

Hi all, Dawn here with my 2nd DT sample for this months challenge 

One For The Boys!

This time I have used a Kenny K Image - Present Surprise.

To enter the challenge click here

For more about my card, click here visit my blog.

I can't wait to see what you create!

One for the boys - Another one from Amanda

Hi again, this month's challenge has two sponsors and, although I've already shared a project using a Delicious Doodles image, I thought I'd do a second project featuring something from Kenny K.  The image I've chosen is Dirt Bike Mike, and here's my project.  For more info, please visit my blog.

One For The Boys - Mags

Hi Folks

Hope you are all okay and looking forward to your Easter break.

Mags here with a little inspiration for our current For The Boys challenge.  We have two great sponsors this month, Kenny K and Delicious Doodles.  

I used a great image from Kenny K for my inspiration project.

I coloured the image with promarkers before matting onto brown card and edging with some faux stitching.  I used various papers from my paper box.  I added a sentiment, some card candi and a little wooden cog.

For more details just pop over to my blog.

Hope you like my inspiration and you join in our challenge.

Bye for now

Mags

xx

April Challenge - One for the Boys - Samantha K

Hey Everyone :) I hope everyone is OK? Wow this year is flying by!

Its that time of the month, where I can hopefully offer a little bit of inspiration for our April Challenge. Our wonderful sponsors this month, are KennyK & Delicious Doodles  

I used Cool Trucker from KennyK

I used a DP that was like a city scape, so it would give the impression of him driving through the city - If you would like to find more details on my card or for more piccies, please pop over to my blog.

I hope you will be inspired to enter our One for the boys Challenge and don't forget to check back later in the month for more DT inspiration.

Happy Crafting,

Hugs

Samantha K

xx