Showing posts with label September 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label September 2015. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Winners - Challenge #20 - Theme Autumn

Welcome!  We were delighted to see so many fabulous submissions for our Autumn challenge.  The thumbnail display looked so pretty with all the warm shades of autumn.  You all made it very tough to pick our winners, but we did it!

WINNER


A one layer card with so much depth!
We love the masking technique and the lovely colours you've used .  
The falling leaves are just perfect for Autumn!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in order of submission)




We really like the leaves on this lovely tree, beautifully grounded with the sentiment.
Great work!




We love the mixture of colours and leaves here.
The leaves tumbling down the card are just gorgeous!



This one is full of texture and colour.
Love the woodgrain background and the lovely sky behind the trees.

As always, our congratulations to our winners.  Please pick up your badges from the sidebar and display them on your blogs.

A quick reminder that our current challenge is HALLOWEEN - again, this one is popular all over blogland.  We really do want to see your masculine styled Halloween projects.   You've got until midnight (GMT) Tuesday 27th October (that's 8.00pm EDT).


Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Winners - Challenge #19 - Colours

Hello!  It's time to announce the winners of our Neon colour challenge.  We had a great range of styles from cute through grunge to CAS.  You guys really rocked this challenge.

WINNER


Love the grungy look.  Great use of neon colours.
The comic book look - just perfect for a guy!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in order of submission)



Very on trend with the lovely drippy watercolours.
Love the all the bright neon colours in this skyline.



This crazy bird combines cute and grunge.
Love the splats.  Super colouring on the bird and great eyes!



The rock music theme is great for guys.
Love the strong silhouette against the neon spatter pattern.

Many congratulations to all our winners - please pick up your badge from our sidebar and display it on your blogs.

Now, a quick reminder that our current challenge is a theme challenge - and one that's very popular all over Blogland at the moment.  We want to see your masculine style projects based on the theme of AUTUMN (or Fall as our American friends call it).


Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Challenge #20 - Theme

It's the last day of September and it's officially been Autumn, or Fall as it's called here in the States, for a week.  I have definitely noticed a change, with it being quite a bit cooler in the morning and evenings, and the leaves are starting to turn.  We get the best colour towards the end of October, so I'll share some photos later.  And that leads us nicely into our new theme challenge.  For the next couple of weeks - we'd like to see your masculine projects based on our theme of  Autumn/Fall.  Don't forget you can make any type of paper craft project from an ATC to an art journal page.  Just have fun and be creative.


Our Guest Desinger for this challenge is Shawna (The GrandStampede) - she's a regular here at The Male Room and has created a fabulous card for our challenge.  Do drop by and leave her a comment or two!

And here's more autumnal inspiration from the Design Team:




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Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Winners - Challenge #18 Theme - Fruit

Oops!  I'm a bit late again!  I don't think the fruit theme was too popular, so thanks to all who had a go.  Here are the winners:

WINNER


Such a fun card!
Bold colours, great images and fun sentiment.
We really loved this one!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in order of submission)



Another great take on the challenge.
Love the image and sentiment, and those googly eys are fab!



So clean and simple!
We really like the use of diecuts to create the banana!



So much texture here with the embossed background and the burlap.
Lovely basket of apples!

Congratulations to all our winners - please pick up your badge from our sidebar and display it on your blog!

Here's a quick reminder about our latest challenge.  We've got a colour challenge - you need to use NEON colours on your masculine themed projects.  Neon colours are super bright and bold and work perfectly on masculine projects.  You've still got time to play along - deadline for submission is midnight (BST) Tuesday 30th September (7.00pm EDT).  Go for it!


Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Challenge #19 - Colours

Hello and welcome to The Male Room.  I can't quite believe how quickly the month is flying by, but I do think that once the children are back at school, this part of the year gallops along!!!  It does mean that it's time for our new challenge.  We know that many of you find it tough to make masculine projects, so we set you a challenge to get the creative juices flowing.

For the next couple of weeks, we have a colour challenge for you - we want you to use NEON colours on your masculine projects.


As always our Design Team have come up with some fabulous projects to inspire you:







Thanks - photo by Deborah Frings - Deborah's Gems











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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Challenge #18 - Theme - Fruit

Hello and welcome to The Male Room.  If you've only just found this challenge, or need a quick reminder, we aim to help you create projects for the men in our lives.  Sons, brothers, fathers, granddads, nephews and any other male folk in your life be they young or old.  We run our challenges for two weeks and provide a prompt for your masculine themed projects - any papercraft is included - 3D, ATCs, card, scapbook layout, art journal pages - so long as it fits the prompt and is masculine in feel.  For the next couple of weeks we'd like you to use the prompt - FRUIT - go have fun!



This month instead of one Guest Designer, we have three - one for each challenge during the month.  First up is Jane Willis (Onions and Paper) - love her beautifully embossed pear.  Jane, thanks so much for playing along with us.



Here are some inspiration projects from the team:




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