Daring Cardmakers

Friday, August 16, 2019

Splish, splash, splosh

Thanks to everyone who got creative with counting and came up with some great 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 creations for last week's challenge - we loved seeing them!

Splish, Splash, Splosh

It's Joanne here this week and I'd like to see you get loose and unstructured with watercolours, inks or paints to create a focal point, background or accents for your project - sploosh, spray and splatter to your heart's content! It can be a little bit scary when you're not in total control of the results but it's fun to let go and remind yourself there's no right or wrong every once in a while!

Here's what the design team let loose this week:

Joanne

Ruth

Miri

Kathy

Nat

Svenja

Here's the cover sheet for this challenge for you to share

Friday, August 09, 2019

1,2,3,4,5

Hello!

Welcome to another Friday Challenge with The Daring Cardmakers.

It's Kathy here this time and I'm hoping you'll rise to the challenge rather

than running to the hills, screaming!

It'll be fun, honestly!

First though, a big thank you for joining in and sharing your cards Inspired by the August mood-board, it was so lovely to see your creativity it's always so inspiring to see what everyone comes up with,

1,2,3,4,5

This week I'd like you to make cards using 1 of something, 2 of something,

3 of something, 4 of something and 5 of something.

It sounds tricky, but once you get your head around the idea, you'll be just fine!

eg. 1 image, 2 colours, 3 flowers, 4 brads, 5 gems

Go on, challenge yourself, I dare you!

Here's what the team have been making this week.

Nat (5 aqua stripes, 4 flowers, 3 sequins, 2 enamel dots, 1 sentiment)

Ruth (1 button, 2 ribbons, 3 half pearls, 4 letters, 5 bits of paper)

Kathy (1 word, 2 butterflies, 3 pearls, 4 poppies, 5 patterned papers)

Joanne (One layer, two words, three baubles, four inkpads, five tiny gems:)

Svenja (1 circle, 2 colours/paints, 3 parcels, 4 gold hexagons, 5 black dots)

Miri (1 cactus, 2 words, 3 papers, 4 corners ;-), 5 half pearls)

Here's the cover sheet for this challenge for you to share

Friday, August 02, 2019

Winners!

Hello again

We're back to announce the winners of our JMCDesigns prize draw

JMCDesigns

Well Done to Gwyneth and Nick who each win a wonderful collection of

Digital Images from Julia.

Please go to Kathy's blog and use the "email me" link at the top of the sidebar to find out how to claim your prizes.

Thanks to all who entered and especially to Julia for offering the prizes.

August's Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Hello there Crafters!

Thank You to those who joined in last week and shared your "Whatever the Weather" cards with us. We loved seeing them, and we'll be back in an hour or two to announce the winners of the fabulous prizes donated by
www.jmcdesigns.co.uk

As usual our first challenge of the month is an

Elemental Inspiration Challenge.

For August we have this beautiful Summery Mood Board

Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements from the picture to use when making your card. If you choose to use the colour palette, then that would count as one of your elements

Suggested elements;

Fairground, Sunglasses, Shells, Hearts, Beach, Parasol, Sunset.....

Here's what our fab team have been making this week

Dawn

Ruth

Joanne

Nat

Kathy

Share our Challenge picture:

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Whatever the Weather!

Hello,
welcome back to another Daring Cardmakers Friday challenge!

We home you enjoyed Miri's prickly Cactus challenge last week, thanks to all those who joined in and shared their spiky creations!

This week we have a sponsored challenge so we hope you will play along, and maybe win one of our fab prizes!

Whatever the Weather

Just make any weather-themed card this week, and link it below to be in with a chance of winning a prize.

We have 2 collections (worth about £12.50 each) of Julia's wonderfully fun images to give away.

Our 2 prize winners will be drawn at random next Friday after the challenge closes.

To qualify, Please mention www.jmcdesigns.co.uk in your post and remember we're on UK time!

Nat

Sylvia

Using Sunshine and Showers by JMCDesign

Svenja

Dawn

Kathy

Ruth

Sonja

Shabneez

Miri

Friday, July 19, 2019

Have a prickly summer

Thank you for showing us your beautiful wedding-related cards. They were quite different in colours and styles and gave us a lot of new inspiration.

This week it’s me, Miri, bringing you a new challenge and I would love to see a cactus or several cacti on your card!

cactus/cacti

Cacti always remind me of summer, sunshine, deserts and holidays… and I just can’t wait for our summer holidays to begin and for the sunshine and heat to come back again.

Luckily cacti are a huge trend at the moment and you can find them on many stamps and patterned papers. So let’s have a good look at them and get in a summery mood.

Happy crafting!

And here you can see some beautiful cards from our design team members.

Miri