A Warm Welcome To Our HCTB's Challenge Bloggers!

"Here Come The Boys!" Our little blog challenge is dedicated to all those cards you make for Men, Boys, their toys and a little haven for Magnolia's Edwin, who we think is a little star and over shadowed by his counter part Tilda and he's so adorable too! We are a Fortnightly Blog Challenge. Don't have a blog? Email your entry to herecometheboys@btinternet.com

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Sunday, 29 May 2011

Challenge #3 Fathers Day / Hubby / Partner

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we loved all the inspiring interpretations of the sketch and the cards were fantastic.  The lucky winner of Challenge #2 will receive their prize in the post.  It's so hard to choose when the cards are so good, but we have to choose so this time......    
Our winner is:
Please take your winners blinky Laney and your prize will wing its way to you, drop us an email herecometheboys@sky.com with your details.
We just couldn't narrow it down to a top three again, there were so many  fab ones again!  So we've gone for a Top 4!
In no particular order...

Our Top 4 are:
Kathleen No 25
Diane No. 11

Congratulations to you all please take your Blinkie Girls!

NOW FOR CHALLENGE #3 FATHERS DAY

This time we are being sponsored by our fabulous DT Member 
Lynne Salmon and her Online Craft Shop!
Hi I'm Lynne and I'm so proud to be part of this fabulous DT and Challenge Blog, I am delighted to be sponsoring this time around too!

As you can see above, I have an online shop which offers all sorts of crafting goodies and until tomorrow at 6pm (GMT) I have a Bank Holiday Event which is offering Free P&P, so no better time to order some of your must have crafting goodies! :O)

I have loads of fabulous Ribbons and Baker's Twine available at my shop and that's what the winner of this challenge will receive....   I've put together a pack of my "Retro Stitch" Ribbon which is gorgeous all in "Boys Colours", you will also receive a multi pack of Baker's Twine which has 2 metres each of 12 different colours and as an added Bonus, the Winner this time will also receive a Free Club Membership to my online store, which enables you then to enjoy 10% off all future orders along with the chance to win in my monthly prize draw.

Challenge #3 Prize

Membership Club

 So glad you stopped by "Here Come The Boys" and can't wait to see what you all come up
with this time around, Good Luck :O)
Hugs
LYNNE x



WOO


Thank you for joining in again!



Sunday, 15 May 2011

Challenge #2 - Sketch

WOW!!! What an overwhelming response!
Thank you all so much for entering your fantastic cards, we were all hoping for around 30 to 40 entries!  You can imagine our surprise when we exceeded that in the first 4 days of setting the challenge!  It's absolutely wonderful that you all made such an effort to make our first challenge so successful!  Thank you from all the girls on the DT, Sharon, Lynne, Karen, Jacky, Teresa and myself (Woo), we hope you will continue to join in the fun here at Here Come The Boys!  Sharon and myself set the target of commenting on every single card and until Wednesday 11th when blogland decides to crash and take all your links with it!  

ANYWAY ON TO THE WINNER OF OUR 1st CHALLENGE 
The lucky WINNER of our very First Challenge is:
Please contact herecometheboys@sky.com so that we can send your Promarker prize out too you! Well Done, your card made me smile! Loved the hair on the sentiment too! He He!!!
OUR TOP PICKS!!!
We really struggled to choose three, with all the lovely cards you submitted! But alas we had to make a decision!  DT chose four cards Top 4! Post your Blinkie image on your blog! They're only temporary until our new blog layout arrives, or email herecometheboys@sky.com  and I'll send you a jpeg image.   

Our Top 4 is awarded to the following entries:

KERRY Entry No: 39
EDNA Entry No: 52
VICKY Entry No: 73
DIANE Entry No: 80
 
Congratulations to all our winners!  We hope you will join in again

Sharon, Woo & all the DT Girls!
x
Now for Our New Challenge!

Hello Karen here! Welcome to our 2nd challenge, this time I'm bringing you a Sketch to work with!
  
I also am very pleased and very proud to introduce my sister,
Sarah Pinnington who has kindly agreed to sponsor the HCTB.  After many years of trying to get me to make a card she  finally got me to 'have a go' and that was it, I was hooked.  I therefore blame her entirely for my dusty house and complete lack of savings!   On the other hand I get have a fantastic teacher 24/7 and always lots of fab inspiration so really I am very lucky.   Sarah runs Stampin Up classes in Maidstone and Romford every month both of which are a huge success and her projects really do have that 'special something'.  Sarah has posted
a little bit about Stampin Up and please pop over and see her, I know she would love you to visit.

Sarah here!  I am delighted to join Here come the boys' challenge blog as guest design team for this challenge.  I really enjoyed following the sketch.

Stampin Up do a great range of masculine themed products and with their colour co-ordination and matching stamp and punch sets they make it easy to get good results what ever your stamping style.  You can find a link to the online catalogue on my blog including the brand new mini catalogue which has some fab new men's stamp sets.  Thanks for having me as GDT this week.

This is the prize you are challenging for this time!

A gorgeous reel of Taffeta Ribbon & Embellishment Kit from
Stampin Up


Good Luck! Hugs
 Karen & Sarah
x

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Sunday, 1 May 2011

#1 Anything Goes! - Our First Challenge!

Good Morning All, and a very warm welcome to our first challenge at Here Come The Boys.

Firstly a huge thank you to each and every one of you for becoming a follower of our blog and we hope you will enjoy joining in our challenges.  Secondly congratulations to the lucky candy winners yesterday!  Hope you enjoy all the goodies you will be receiving in the post over the next few days or week!

The whole team is very excited to be launching our fornightly challenge, specifically to make cards for the boys and men in your life. I am Sharon and I am lucky enough to be hosting the first challenge, which is.........


ANYTHING GOES (as long as it is suitable for a male)


I feel very lucky and really pleased to be the sponsor for this challenge from my on line shop.



 Up for grabs on this challenge is a set of 5 ProMarkers

So now onto our lovely DT!   Lynne, Karen, Jacky & Teresa agreed to join us on our DT and we are so happy they said yes! Also our Guest Designer Donna who's joined us all the way from Western Australia, "Welcome" Donna.  The team that have joined us make amazing cards and I highly recommend a visit to their blogs to see some of their fantastic work!  Thank you for joining us girls!  Also on the DT is Wendy (known as Woo) my partner in  HCTB's Blog Crime!   Anyway, the girls on the DT have made some lovely creations and  have provided you with some wonderful inspiration to get you in the mood  for the 1st challenge!

Sharon

**Woo Here!  I just wanted to add a big thank you to Sharon, she's an inspiration, generous to a fault and a fab card designer thank you for your sponsorship!  I look forward to working with you and the whole of the DT Girls on our new venture! Woo xx











DONNA - Our Guest Designer!



The inside of the card!

Please check out the DT's personnel blogs by clicking on their names, to see more of their beautiful creations.

Thank you for ploughing through all the blurb, and I hope you will join in by adding your creation to the link below. We can't wait to come and visit and see all the marvellous talent that we know is out there!