Winners - Challenge#26 - Theme

Good morning!  Welcome to The Male Room.  It's time to announce the winner of our first challenge of the year.  Our theme was Anything Goes and you guys really rocked the challenge.  We had 120 submissions - thank you all for playing along.  It did, however, make it quite tough to pick the winners.  We ended up with two overall winners along with three honourable mentions:

WINNERS

#70 - Laurie

We like the fun fishing diecuts and matching punny sentiment.

Super layout with clean, crisp lines.  Fab colours too.

#71 - Simone

Super personalised card.  Love the texture and grungy feel.

Great neutral colours.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in order of submission)

#66 - Rahmat

Ultra clean and simple.

We like the addition of the little heart in the centre of the "o".

#99 - SmilynStef

Wonderful watercolour background which creates such depth.

Super line image and the sentiment goes so well with the image.

#110 - Anja

This is fabulous - an interactive card. 

This image shows the whole of the card - but check out Anja's blog to see the video!

Congratulations to you all.  Don't forget to pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blogs.

Just a quick reminder about our current challenge.  We want to see your papercraft projects - any kind - for our young men.  The babies and little boys in our lives;  You've still got plenty of time to join in.  Deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) Tuesday 2nd February, that's 7.00pm EDT for those of us in the States.

Challenge #27 - Theme

Hello!  Our first challenge of the year attracted our highest ever number of submissions - we were so pleased to see them all.  Hopefully, you can keep the trend going with our second challenge of the year.  This time at The Male Room - TMR#27 we'd like to see your projects for the younger men in our lives.  We want you to create your masculine style project for BABIES AND LITTLE BOYS.

Here's some inspiration from the Design Team.  Remember, you can make any kind of papercraft project.

Deborah

I made an extra card this week

Rocky

Chris

Louise

Sue T.

Jane

You've got plenty of time to play along - submission deadline is midnight (GMT) Tuesday 2nd February (7.00pm EDT).

Before we go - please can we ask all those playing along to TURN OFF word verification in Blogger. We like to leave comments for everyone, but it takes so much longer when we have to go through the verification process.  If you need any help with this - please let me know (Deborah).

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Challenge #26 - Theme

Hello and welcome to our first challenge of 2016.  We've decided to keep things nice and simple for our first challenge with an ANYTHING GOES theme.  Just remember that your project - and it can be anything - card, tag, ATC, scrapbook or Project Life layout, 3D art - whatever you choose, it must have a masculine style.

Now for some inspiration projects from the Design Team.  Do drop by our individual blogs and leave some comments, we all like to read them. Have fun!

Rocky

Sue T.

Chris

Louise

Jane

Deborah

The challenge will run until midnight (GMT) Tuesday 19th January (that's 7.00pm EDT).  Let your creative juices go wild - anything will do, but it MUST have a masculine feel!

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Winners - Challenge#25 - Theme

Good morning everyone!  We were thrilled to have so many wonderful submissions for our Christmas/Seasonal Greetings challenge - I think it's the highest ever!  It made picking a winner really tough, but we did it!!

WINNER

#8 - Cornelia

Congratulations Cornelia - this is a lovely clean, simple card.

Great dimension in the shading of the trees and we love the deer diecuts.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in order of submission)

#7 - Karen, #14 - Karen & #18 - Karen

Karen had fun with our challenge and we picked several of her cards.

All clean and simple ranging in theme from cute and fun, to very elegant.

#40 - Steffi H

Apologies about the picture - I grabbed the thumbnail as Steffi shares her work in Flickr.

We like the traditional colours and super layout.

#46 - Toni

Love the clean, simple layout and that crazy bird is just fab

Great colours and we like the addition of the stars.

#71 - Heather (Craftysahmiam)

So nice to see shaped cards.  And shaped like auto parts too!

Love the festive decorations.  Great work.

#91 - Bori

We really like the London scene in this shaker card.

Really festive and such fun.

Congratulations to you all.  Please pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blogs.

Once again - thank you to everyone who played along with this challenge - we were so impressed with your creations.  Now don't forget to come back tomorrow for our first challenge of 2016.  See you there.