Festive Challenges and an Anniversary Blog Hop at Cards for Men!

If you are taking part in the Cards for Men Blog Hop you should have arrived at my blog from the lovely Patricia's, if not please go back to our starting point at Cards for Men to join in the fun - we have lots of gorgeous goodies to giveaway!

It has been a year since the very first challenge went live at Cards for Men and we are celebrating with TWO fabby challenges - 1. to make a Christmas card and 2. to make a gift AND an Anniversary Blog Hop. Oh and LOADS of prizes! We'll draw a random winner for each challenge category and top 3 as usual and there is a chance to win something lurvely at each stop on the Blog Hop. You can get all the details and lots more ideas from the DT over at Cards for Men.

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I have made a festive box to house some chocolates and a Santa card...

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Supplies:

Paper - Joyful Hearts Holly by Nitwit Collections

Images (Santa & candy canes) - Joyful Hearts Santa by Nitwit Collections coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - North Pole Postage Seal by Magnolia

Box - local craft shop

Ribbon - The Hobby House

Cardstock - Bazzill Basics

Cross Stitch Santa - chart from Cross Stitcher magazine stitched with DMC321 thread on 14 count white aida

Tools - glamour dust, circle & scallop circle Nesties

Chocolates - Elizabeth Shaw Mints

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Also, we are having an Anniversary Blog Hop. You can get the full list of blogs over at Cards for Men. At each stop there'll be a word to collect and a candy draw. I've got a beautiful 6"x6" Prima Paper Pad 'Road Trip' from Bunny Zoe Crafts to giveaway! Bunny Zoe's Crafts is currently offering 25% off ALL Christmas Stock so pop over and grab yourself some bargains ;-)

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Bunny Zoe's Crafts is a family run online Craft store who ships worldwide. We provide friendly and efficient customer service, with quick processing and dispatch of orders. We sell a great range of Rubber Stamps from around the world, Digital Images, Personalised Stamps, Designer Papers, Stamping Essentials, Copic Ciao's, Distress Inks, Dies, Flowers, Ribbons & Lace, Buttons. Charms, Flat back Pearls and many, many fabulous card making goodies.

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To be in with a chance of winning my Blog Hop prize you just need to leave me a comment at the end of this post. A random winner will be drawn on 20 December 2010. Each Blog Hop stop will have a word which you should collect to make a festive phrase. My word is 'NEW'. At the end of the blog hop you should have 11 words, work out the phrase and leave it in the comments section back at Cards for Men. The blog hop will run until midnight on 19th December and a winner will be chosen on 20th December. Your next stop is the lovely Viv's blog. If you lose your way you can go back to Cards for Men to get the full list of blogs to visit. Good luck everyone xxx

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PS: remember our rules are the card/gift must be suitable for a man or boy and be a newly made item, no backlinking please ;-)