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!
Hello!
Thank you for sharing your lovely 'All Dressed Up' creations last week. It was lovely to see your ideas.
This time we're not making cards at all!
Boxes and Bags
A handmade box or bag can make even the
smallest gift special and they are fun to make
We'd love to see what you can make
to present a gift in
Here's what the team have made to inspire you...
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Hello!
Thanks you for sharing your lovely Gorgeous Gifts creations last week.
This time we have a card Challenge for you.
This week please share your cards on a theme of
All Dressed Up
We'd like to see your Christmas Jumpers, or Mittens, boots, hat or scarf.... or if you'll be somewhere warm this Christmastime maybe you'll be thinking Christmas T-shirts, flip-flops and beachwear instead - its up to you
Here's what the team have made this time
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Hello!
Thanks you for sharing your lovely creations using last week's Inspiration board, once again, sorry for the error on the opening date for entries - hopefully you were able to add your links once that was sorted out. Rest assured the info will be double-checked this week!
This week we have an 'Anything Crafty' Themed Challenge for you.
Gorgeous Gifts
It simply means that we'd love to see anything on a theme of Gifts this week.
So it could be a card featuring parcels all wrapped up, a gift you've made for a friend, or how about a card and gift combined? This could be a bookmark, gift card or a little chocolatey treat as an added extra on your card.
Here's what the team have made this time
Hello there Crafters!
Thank You to those who joined in with Jenny's 'Fireworks' challenge last week - it was fun, wasn't it?
This week we're kicking off our Countdown to Christmas series and over the next few weeks we hope to inspire you to get crafty with a variety of projects and themes.
Some will be cards,Some other papercraft projects, and some will be for absolutely anything you want to make and share.
Although the themes will be Christmassy, that doesn't mean you can't 'think outside the box' and make non-Christmas projects too!
We'll stick to cards this week, and as usual our first challenge of the month is our
Elemental Inspiration Challenge.
For November we're kicking off our Countdown to Christmas with a mood-board stuffed with loads of ideas for you to choose from.
Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements from the picture to use when making your card, The colour palette counts as one element
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Hi everyone, it's Jenny here and let me start by saying a big thank you to everyone who shared their spooktacular makes last week. We had such a fabulous selection of projects ranging from the super cute to the spooky and creepy!
I'm so happy to be setting your challenge this week for the first time!
Next week in the UK it's Guy Fawkes day or Bonfire Night on the 5th of November so in honour of this I would love to see your Fireworks themed projects this time round.
In case you haven't heard of Guy Fawkes, he was part of the Gunpowder plot in 1605 which attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament . The plot failed as someone warned the government and they caught them in the act and executed them for their crimes. Traditionally we would celebrate by going to a firework display where we would burn a "guy" on a bonfire. For those outwith the UK don't panic, nobody is actually harmed, it's just a fake! When I was a kid we used to get an old shirt and pair of trousers and tie the ankles and wrists with string before stuffing him with scrunched up newspapers and adding a balloon head. So every year we remember poor Guy and his friends and their failed plot to bring down the government!
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