Furry Pet Friends

 Hello everyone and happy Friday!

Welcome to our Daring Cardmarkers blog.

Its Rizwana here with this weeks challenge but first I'd like to thank everyone who took part in last weeks October Elemental Challenge. It was lovely to see all the autumnal creations.
This weeks challenge is all about pets and it's called:

Furry Pet Friends

Create a card with your favourite pet if you have one or if would like to have one in the future.

Show us your two or four legged pets. Do you have more than one type of pet? Let’s celebrate our furry friends by adding photos to your cards too.

Here is some inspiration from our Design Team. 

 

 Rizwana 

Kathy   

 

 Helen 

Nat

This week's cover:

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October Elemental Inspiration

Happy Friday everyone!

It's Nat here bringing you a brand-new challenge for a brand-new month!

Before we get to the elemental inspiration image for October, we'd just like to thank those who played along with last week's Shaker-themed challenge from Shabneez. 

As always, it's great to see what you make inspired by our dares!

If you've been wanting to get your autumnal crafting into gear, or just fancy featuring some autumnal elements on a card for any occasion, then this challenge is for you.

The image I've chosen for us to work with features plenty of those:

All you need to do is pick three elements to use on your card (and remember, colours count as one combined element).

To get you started, here are some ideas from the Design Team:

Nat

Helen   

Kathy   

 

This week's cover:

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Make It Shake!

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here today and first a huge thanks to all of you that joined in with Nat's leaf themed challenge!  

This week I would love to see:

An element that moves on your card!

Think wobblers, penny sliders, shaker cards or any other moving parts!

We'd love to see what you come up with and here is some inspiration from the rest of the Design Team:

 

Shabneez

Kathy    

Fiona

Helen

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Leafy Lushness

Happy Friday all!

It's Nat here with a brand new challenge for you just in time for the weekend.

But before I share the details, we'd like to thank everyone who played along with Kathy's ball-themed challenge last week!

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With autumn in the air, there are leaves aplenty to inspire us. 

This week I'd like you to: 

Make leaves the prominent feature of your card - in all their lushness!

There are so many possibilities - whether rich autumnal shades, something a little festive, or creatively using leaf dies or stamps to create a seasonal wreath.

Whatever leaves you go with, we look forward to seeing your creations!

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Here are some ideas from the design team to get you started:

Kathy   

 

Nat

Fiona 

Shabneez

Helen

Rizwana     

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On or At the Ball

 

Happy Friday!

It's Kathy here today and first up we'd like to say a big thanks to those of you that joined in with the challenge last week

I'm soooo not a football fan but here in the UK you can't get away from knowing that (unfortunately😞) the football season has started! So this week I'd like you to work with the phrase

 On or At the Ball

However, you don't have to make a football themed card!
Believe it or not, there are actually other ball games you might feature, or you could add a beach ball, or throwing a ball for a doggy friend
OR how about a different kind of ball altogether?
Meat balls, gumballs, high ball glass, disco ball - you could even create a fabulous ball gown, or a 'Strictly' style ballroom extravaganza!

Here is some inspiration from our designers to start you thinking!

 Kathy 

Fiona

Helen    

Shabneez 

Nat

Rizwana     

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September Elemental Inspiration

 Good Morning!

Welcome to the Daring Cardmakers blog

It's Kathy here this time and on behalf of the DT wanted to say thank you to those who joined in with the Butterflies and Bees challenge last week - we so loved seeing your beautiful cards!

  September Elemental Inspiration

As it's the first Friday in the month it's time for an elemental challenge.

The too-short days and cold weather last way too long for my liking so I can't let go of Summer yet!  There's a hint of Autumnal shades in my mood board, but I think it still has a Summery feel - to join in just choose a minimum of three elements to inspire your card. If you choose the colour palette that would count as one element!

For instance, the layout, squares and rectangles, wood texture, flower arrangement, vase/containers, drinks, mosaic, fruit, wheels...

Here are some ideas from the design team to get you started:

 

Nat

Kathy   

Fiona

 

  

This week's cover:

 

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Butterflies and Bees

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here and a big thanks to those of you that joined in with the challenge last week

Today I'm very happy to introduce another fabulous Guest Designer!
A big 'welcome to Fiona who will be sharing her cards for our challenges over the next few weeks - we are sure you'll enjoy seeing a new face around the blog! 

You can check out Fiona's beautiful cards here

And now, on to this week's challenge 

Butterflies & Bees

I love to see the butterflies and bees busy around the garden!

So let’s celebrate the bees and the butterflies we’ve seen over the summer.
Use one or the other or both on your cards this week!

Here is some inspiration from our designers to start you thinking!

Fiona

Kathy   

 

Shabneez

Helen   

 This week's cover:

We'll be trying to feature more Guest Designers over the next months, so if you'd like to be considered just let us know via a message in the comments - all comments are moderated so we will pick up your message!

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