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!
Happy Friday!
It's Shabneez here and I wanted to thank those of you that joined in with the challenge last week.
This week I thought we'd get our thoughts together for some masuline card ideas, especially as Father's Day is coming up!
Here are some ideas from the rest of the Design Team:
This week's cover:
Morning everyone!
It's Nat here bringing you a brand-new challenge in time for the weekend!
But first, thank you to those of you who played along with our elemental inspiration challenge for May. x
This week, I'm shamelessly combining the theme of my challenge with my crafty to-do list.
I recently finally took the plunge and invested in the very popular and creative Postage Collage series from Waffle Flower. Postal-themed supplies have been around for a while and it's always nice to give them a fresh lease of life.
So why not make a card with a postal theme?
You can use your own Postage Collage supplies if you have them, feature postage stamps and dies, cancellation marks, vintage postcards and actual stamps, air mail borders, and anything used to write and send a letter!
So many possibilities!
I look forward to seeing what you make.
Happy crafting!
To get you started, here are a few ideas from the Design Team:
Here is this week's cover
Hello cardmakers,
thank you for joining us in our something old, something new challenge last week, we love seeing what you make.
Joanne here with this week’s challenge.
May Elemental Inspiration Challenge
It’s the first Friday of another new month so we have an elemental challenge for you — just choose at least three elements from the inspiration picture to kickstart your project. Remember that colour palette counts as one choice!
Here’s what the team made of it:
This week's cover
Hello!
Last
week’s card cake recipe was yummy.
This
week let’s combine
Something old and something new
Use
something old and something new on your card. Or maybe old material and a new
technique etc.
…and
if you are in the mood you can add something borrowed and something blue too.
Or just make a wedding card 😉.
Here
are some ideas from the design team to inspire you and give you some ideas for
your crafting time:
This week's cover
Hello! Happy Friday
Thank you so much for joining in with Joanne's Circles challenge last week, we hope you've stopped spinning by now! It's Kathy here today and I promise my challenge isn't as complicated as it seems at first! Really, its just a list of things I'd like you to use when you make your card.
A Cardmaker's Cake Recipe!
If you made a cake you would use eggs, sugar, butter and flour
My challenge is a twist or 'play on words' of those ingredients; I've just substituted crafty elements for butter, sugar etc.
Ingredients
Flower(s)
the colour Yellow
Glitter or other 'tiny sprinkly' stuff
Oval shape, a bird, a nest, or something else egg related
You may also add 2 other 'ingredients' of your choice
Method
Mix well and add your own creative magic
It doesn't have to be a cake!
Here's what the team 'cooked up' this week!
This week's cover
Hello card makers, thank you for joining us in our April inspiration challenge last week!
Joanne here this week and I’d like to see
circles
You might use circles as a design element, frame a focal point with a circle, stamp an object that contains circles (bikes have wheels, clock faces, dream catchers etc).
Here’s some circular inspiration from the design team:
Hello Cardmakers
Here are some ideas from the design team
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