Dude Time Doodles - July New Releases & Blog Hop!

It's the last Wednesday of the month so its time to reveal the new Dude Time Doodles images and to kick it all off we have a blog hop for you!

One of the Dudettes will be the hostess with the mostest and one lucky commenter will win a digi image! So make sure you leave me a comment - I've not yet been the hostess so this could be the one!!

If you've arrived at me from Michelle then you are on the right track although there is no start and end point, just make sure you've visited us all! From me you need to hop to NanaConnie and leave a comment there too!! For my creation, I've made a double wobble card! It wobbles from side to side (well, rocks really) and the actual image is on a spring so he really does wobble! Kyle Karate is a new release for July and he's been coloured with Promarkers. Both my boys have martial arts lessons and both loved this image!The paper is from Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd along with the wobble card template. The letters have been cut from silver card with my Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet and the two silver stars are table confetti.

There are new Dudettes joining the gang - please give a warm welcome to Michelle, NanaConnie, Dawn and Linda!

Good luck with the hop and don't forget to leave a comment! Once I'm awake I'll directly link to the blogs in the hop before and after me!

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Card Cupids: For A Boy
CES Challenges: Anything But Square
Crafts 4 Eternity: Sports Theme

• Papers and wobble template: Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd
• Image: Kyle Karate from Dude Time Doodles
• Dies: Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet
• Everything else: My stash

You Don't Want To Mess With These Two....

The boys had an Aspire Martial Arts competition yesterday in aid of Comic Relief, and here are some photos from it! This is Jacob (red head gear and brown stripe belt) sparring - look how high he can kick! This was the play-off for third place ..... And he won!

Happy Jacob with his certificate and medal!

Next up was Samuel competing in a different category (Jacob was in the under 6's although he was the same size as over 6's and he's only 5!) The first picture is from his first fight, which he won. Samuel has red head gear and red stripe belt.

And this one is for the play off for first or second place - wearing black head gear this time.

Which he won! He was so pleased!

As you can see!

Jacob also got a certificate and medal for participating in the Hand Drill section where he came 4th. To be honest, I think he was more bothered about getting medals!

Needless to say, they both slept well last night!

Karate Christmas

This will be my very last Christmas card for 2010! The boys asked me (nothing like last minute!) to make a card for their Martial Arts instructor, so not wanting to disapoint, here it is!

I've used the Friday Sketchers sketch as inspiration:


Papers are from Papermania strips Ho Ho Ho collection (the long thin strip pack) and I've layered them onto some red card from my stash. I've used Sizzix original dies to make the little person complete with karate kit and black belt, and to show he's festive, a Santa hat!

Samuel wrote the sentiment in his smallest handwriting and I've added the red ribbon from my stash. Lets hope he likes it!

• Papers: Papermania Ho Ho Ho
• Dies: Sizzix original dies
• Sentiment: Handwritten by Samuel
• Everything else: My stash
  

My Karate Kids

Here are the boys with their medals after competing on Sunday in the Aspire Martial Arts Winter Champions Competition. Both boys were knocked out in the early stages to the eventual winners - Jacob competed in both hand drills and sparring rounds, with Samuel in just sparring. Hence why Jacob has two medals!

They did really well despite some very fierce and tough competitors.

My Karate Kids

The boys had their Karate grading last Sunday and we found out last night that they had both passed!

Jacob is now Orange belt and Samuel gained his Red Stripe.

You'll have to excuse the slightly mad photo - but it was the best of a bad bunch as they were messing around too much and Jacob is a bit poorly too. But you get the idea of how scary they are!



And just in case you were wondering, the first belt is white then it moves to purple, yellow, orange, green, brown stripe, brown, blue, red stripe, red and then black belt. So Samuel has done really well to say that he's only 6!!

My Little Karate Kid!

Doesn't he look cute?!! Samuel had his Tiny Tiger (Karate) orange belt grading last weekend (13 July) but we don't get to find out if he passed or not until he has his lesson, which is on a Friday. So look what he came home with on Friday!!

He was so chuffed with himself that he wanted me to take some photos of him doing his 'moves', so I obliged!

Jacob was a bit on the grumpy side (in the middle of a really bad cold which is affecting his hearing) and didn't want his photo taking with the old yellow belt. But he still managed to get his fat head in the way! Samuel looks a bit manic on this photo, but he usually looks more sane!

He's done really well as he's only been doing it just 12 months and has gone from white belt to purple, to yellow and now orange and he only has 1 lesson a week. He has a mean punch and a bone crunching kick for an almost 5 year old!!

Tiny Tiger Birthday!

One of Samuel's little friends from Tiny Tigers (Karate for kids) is having a Birthday Party today. So, as Michael is now an orange belt, I decided to do him in his uniform with the orange theme. The gold star brad looks like its coming out of his hair, well its not, its holding the large scallop tag to the card!

I showed the card to Samuel and asked him who it was - good lad said "Michael"!