Another Dimension

Hello and Welcome to another Daring Cardmakers Challenge - this week it's me, Kathy, here with something to get you thinking and crafting (I hope!). Before  that though, we all want to thank you for sharing so many wonderful ideas with us for Lythan's "Flags" challenge last week.  We really enjoyed seeing what you made. Thanks too for all the lovely messages you've left over the last few weeks - it's so good to know you appreciate the challenges we come up with and that you like to see what we've been making.    On to this week Another Dimension    not Time Warps, Little Green Men from Mars, or anything else  "other-world"   I just don't want to see any flat, regular sort of cards this week - instead I'd like to see lots of interesting folds and shapes; Stepper cards, Card in a Box, Pyramids, Flip-it type cards..... Anything goes as long as the finished, standing-up card is more 3D than 2D.  This is your chance to try out all those techniques and tutorials for unusually shaped and folded cards that you've been saving!  Yes. we all do it, don't we? Here's what our DT have come up with this week Kathy Miri     Leo Nat Beckie Svenja Jo

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Flag it up!

This week I dare you to 

Flag it up!

By which I mean I want you to make a card inspired by a national flag. You can use the flag elements as a sketch, or the colours or a motif (stars and stripes for example) You can be patriotic and use your own flag or show your love for all nations by choosing the flag of a different country.

Take a look at what the fabulous design team have come up with

Lythan - Japan

Leo - Canada

Kathy - England

Miri - The Netherlands

Svenja - Great Britain (Ireland, Scotland, England)

Nat - Great Britain

Sharon - Great Britain

Jo - United Kingdom

And now it is over to you!

Don't forget to link to the actual blog post and it means a lot if you leave a comment as well. Thanks so much for joining in this week

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April Colour Challenge

Another month has whizzed by. Which means it is time for the April Colour Challenge. Although it is Spring and heading for Easter we are having none of your pastel colours here. Instead we are going loud and proud with a touch of grey to cool us down!

 

Isn't this Design Seeds combo fabulous? 

lets see what deliciousness this colour combo has inspired in the Design Team.

Lythan

 Kathy   

 Miri

Nat

Svenja 

Sharon 

Jo

Leo

And now its over to you to show and tell! 

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Do Die-licious Winner!

** Please scroll down to the next post for this weeks dare **

Thanks so much to all who took part in the dare last week which was sponsored by Docrafts.

The random generator has picked a winner ........

Congratulations Wicked Witch!

Email me your address to beckiedreyer@hotmail.co.uk and I'll get your prize shipped to you!

Money Makes the World go Round

Good Morning everyone!

It's Svenja here with a new Cardmaking Dare for you. But first of all: thanks everybody for playing along with Beckies DO Die-licios challenge last week.  
We'll be along this evening with the name of our lucky DoCrafts prize-winner
 We sure got to see some cutting edge cool projects from you! 

And of course we hope to see some more this week...

The theme is

Money Makes the World go Round 

We'd like to see any kind of money-themed artwork, e.g. cards for money as a present (much needed these days. sigh.), use coins or banknotes or elements on your card, play around with money-themed sentiments or maybe even invent your very own currency!

But most of all... have what money can't buy: fun!

Miri

Svenja

Kathy   

Beckie

Nat

Leo

Jo

Lythan

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DO Die-licious! ~ Sponsored by docrafts!

Good Morning to all you Daring Cardmakers!

Thank you so much for taking part in Miri's Fairy Tales dare last week.  I hope you have had a 'ball' creating them!

docrafts have sponsored this week's dare, so I hope you will join in the fun.  

The designers were sent a mixture of Xcut dies to create with along with some of the new Gorjuss papers.

The Xcut dies are thin and perfect for use on so many different projects, there is a huge variety of dies in all shapes and sizes and fit in most die cutting machines but of course they work like a dream in the new Xpress die-cutting machine.

So if you fancy being in with a chance of winning these gorgeous alphabet dies below, then we dare you to create a card using your Xcut dies.*  Link us to your website and one random winner will be chosen next week.

 NB * Xcut dies are preferred but if you don't have any then please feel free to use other dies :)

So with out further ado here is what the design team created

Beckie

Svenja   

Gez

    Nat

Sharon

Kathy

Leo       

Lythan

Miri

Jo

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Fairy Tales

Thanks for joining last week’s colour challenge. We enjoyed looking at your cards and it felt as if spring is already here.

This week I, Miri, invite you to join us in celebrating Ludwig Emil Grimm's birthday.

Create a card that’s inspired by your favourite fairy tale or use a general fairy tale image (castle, princess etc.) on your card.

Here are the magical cards created by our fairest Design Team members to give you some inspiration.

Miri

Nat

Sharon

Lythan

Leo

Svenja

Gez

Jo

Beckie

Zuzana

Kathy

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