
Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog! We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India 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!
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Friday, July 04, 2025
Child's Birthday - July Sentimental Challenge
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you to those who were inspired by the Fetes and Festivals theme last week. You can't beat a little bit of bunting for adding a cheerful, festive touch, can you?
Are you ready to craft?
This week we'd like to invite you to join in and make something for our
July Monthly Sentimental Challenge
The theme this time is
Child's Birthday
Remember - Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us
Here are some ideas from us
This week's cover:
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FĂȘte and Festival
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you for joining in with last week's Roses and Honeysuckle challenge. We always love seeing your wonderful creations and of course we all adore flowers, don't we? So please keep sharing!
This week it's all about celebrating those Summer events!
and among many other Summer favourites, this weekend the famous Glastonbury Festival will be in full swing. Will festival go-ers be knee-deep in mud this year or reaching for the suncream and suffering from heatstroke?
This week get happy, sunny, and fete/festival-ready with colourful, celebratory flags, bunting and/or music on your projects.
Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects this week
- and don't forget to share them with us!
Here's some ideas to get you thinking
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Roses and Honeysuckle
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you for joining in with last week's challenge. We always take inspiration from your creativity and loved seeing how you incorporated the Sun into the things you made, so please keep sharing!
This week it's all about...
Roses and Honeysuckle
June's birth flowers are roses and honeysuckle.
The rose is a classic symbol of love and romance, while honeysuckle is known for
its sweet, fragrant blooms.
We'd love to see your creations using one, or both on your cards, tags, postcards or 3D projects this week
- and don't forget to share them with us!
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Celebrate the Sun
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you for joining in with last week's Anniversary sentimental challenge. We aleays take inspiration from your creativity and love to see what you make, so please keep sharing! It's Solstice time so let's
Celebrate the Sun
We all like to see the sun, so whether its the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere or the winter solstice where you are, make sure the sun features on your projects this week
Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects this week - and don't forget to share them with us!
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Monthly Sentimental: Anniversary
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you so much for joining in with last week's challenge. Let us know if you enjoyed using the game card and we'll see about doing more!
June's Monthly Sentimental:
Anniversary
Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us
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Let's Play...
Hello Crafty friends!
Thank you for joining in with last week's challenge. We have something a bit different for you this time - hope you'll enjoy playing a game of Noughts and Crosses with us!
Let's Play...
Whether you call it TicTacToe, Noughts and Crosses or OXO we'd love you to play along and use our game card to craft with!
Just choose any straight line from the grid, it can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those 3 prompts on your projects this week
Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project, and don't forget ot share them with us
Helen - middle column: clean and simple/free choice (die cuts)/heart
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