Welcome to The Daring Cardmakers.
We are a team of card-makers from the UK and mainland Europe, who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards.

Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired.
So go on, give it a try - we dare you!
Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!



Friday, May 24, 2013

Let's Plant a Tree!

Thanks so much to all who joined in with Gez's  'Stencil It' dare last week. It was fabulous and inspiring to see your beautiful cards.
It's Zuzana here this week.
As we learned at school trees are essential to life. 
They come in all variety of shapes and sizes and they look so interesting throughout the year. So

Let's Plant a Tree! 

I would like to see trees on your cards. It's completely up to you what kind of technique, colours and material you will use. Can't wait to see your creations!

Here are some inspirations from our Design Team :  


 
Sharon

 
 
Nat







Friday, May 17, 2013

Stencil it!

Thanks to everyone that joined in with our Inky dare last week, hope you had fun inking it up!

This week it's Gez who has come up with the dare and the theme this week is: 
Stencil It!
We'd like you to use a stencil in the creation of your card this week. It could be one you've made or a bought one or maybe something you have around the home you can use as a stencil? Have fun!
Here are this weeks cards from the design team to get you started:

Miri


Leo



Lythan


Kathy   

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Ink It Up!

Thanks to everyone that joined in with our Monthly Colour Combo dare last week.  Nat chose such a beautiful colour palette for us to work with.  

It's Keilly here with this weeks dare and my theme is

Ink It Up!

I'd like to see cards using ink - there are lots of choices, perhaps you could ink up an image or patterned stamp or even use spray inks to create a background.  Let's see how inventive we can be with this crafty basic!

The design team have created some beautiful cards to help inspire you - we can't wait to see how inky you all get!


Friday, May 03, 2013

May Colour Combo

Welcome to a new month and a new colour challenge here on the Daring Cardmakers blog!

It's Nat here, and before I share this month's colour picks we have some exciting news to share!

We're very pleased to announce that the wonderfully talented Svenja will be joining the design team full time - we're so happy to have her on the team permanently and I'm sure you'll all enjoy seeing her fantastic creations each week!

Thank you also to everyone that joined in with Kathy's recipe challenge last week - there were some gorgeous entries, I hope you'll play along with this week's colour challenge. :)

And now, onto our colour combo for May - I've been seeing this particular colour palette getting repinned a lot on Pinterest - it's so beautiful and just lovely for spring/summer:


The colours you need to feature are pale pink, mint and gold.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how you combine these colours. Here's some lovely inspiration from the design team to get you started:

Sharon


Nat


Svenja


Lythan


Leo

Miri


Zuzana



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Friday, April 26, 2013

Ingredients

Thanks soooo much t all who joined in last week and linked all those fab cards for Babes, Toddlers, Kiddywinks and Teens.  You've shared so much wonderful inspiration with everyone.


This week we have a bit of a recipe challenge for you to try.  We don't mind what sort of card you make but it must feature all of these "Ingredients!"

An Aperture of some kind
Something beginning with the letter P
A Die-cut or Punchie
The colour Blue

We can't wait to see what you manage to "cook- up" with that set of goodies, so please come back soon and share your creations with us.

Here's how the Team fared with the ingredients list - can you spot all the components in our cards?  Don't forget to click the links to visit our blogs, we'd love you to come and say "Hello"

Lythan

Leo
Miri   

Kathy 
 


Nat

Beckie

Zuzana


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Friday, April 19, 2013

Child's Play

Thanks to everyone that joined in with Miri's first dare last week.  It was fabulous to see so many gorgeous April Shower cards - let's hope that means we'll now get a bit of sunshine!

It's Sharon here with this weeks dare and my theme is

Child's Play

I'd like to see cards for little people - it can be for a new arrival, young child, or even a sulky teenager!

Here are some super ideas from the team to get you started - can't wait to see what you all come up with this week :)





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