Daring Cardmakers

Friday, September 07, 2007

Tearing Purple Holes for Christmas

Thank you to everyone who joined in with this weeks dares, we hope you enjoyed making the cards as much as we enjoyed seeing them all.
****
It's been a busy and exciting few weeks for certain Design Team members and here we are, just a couple of weeks after Rhi's wedding and it's now Tracie's (Bondgirl) turn; on Saturday she will be walking down the aisle to marry her prince...
We're sure you'll want to join with us as we wish Tracie and Wayne a wonderful day and every joy and happiness for their lives together.
****
Well, the time has come for our first Christmas card dare of 2007.
But as loads of you have already shown some fab Christmas cards on your blogs, we thought we'd make things a little more Daring, interesting, tricky or downright mean - depending on your point of view!
So, we'd like you to make and show a Christmas card which incorporates the following:
Some Paper Tearing
The colour Purple
AND
It has to have at least one hole somewhere in the design!

......BUT by "hole" we don't just mean the sort of hole you poke a brad through, or the holes you make for/with stitching - or even the hole you make to put an eyelet in - although you can use all those techniques too if you want.
We want you to be a bit/lot more inventive and creative than that, and we think you'll be able to come up with some wonderful ideas for making cards to fit this recipe.
We'll leave it to you to guess which team member said "if I put Baby Jesus on my card, will that be "Holey" enough?"
We're very happy to welcome Paula aka Mini-book Pixie as our Guest Designer for the next couple of weeks. Paula has joined in pretty much every dare since the DCM started, and it's especially fab that she's agreed to come and be our GD as we're now in the run up to our first anniversary. We're looking forward to seeing your Torn, Holey, Purple Christmas creations so please come back and let us know when you've made your card and where we can see it.

58 Comments:

Blogger Rosie (Freycob) said...

Congratulations Tracie. Hope you have a fabulous day! Make sure that you enjoy being the centre of attention and princess for a day!

Great cards girls! I want to go home and start mine now, but hey, ho! Work to be done.....

11:07 AM  
Blogger Kate said...

Congrats Tracie and Prince Wayne.

Great cards one and all. I can't believe I blogged a torn purple Christmas card this morning. No holes though so I guess I will have another try.

11:09 AM  
Blogger Patsy Jackson said...

Great cards from the DT :)

Oooh you girls do like to make us darers think don't you :)!!!

11:48 AM  
Blogger Taniwha said...

Well done Paula, love the card and congratulations on being guest designer :)

12:19 PM  
Blogger Anice said...

Oohh..you have made me break my unwritten rule..never make Christmas cards before November! Though I have to admit that rule tends to be because of laziness rather than anything else! My purple creation can be seen on my blog..thought I'd get a head start this week as I left it so late last challenge!

1:03 PM  
Blogger mum on the run said...

Aww, congratulations Tracie!! Have a fabulous day!!

Love the DT cards, well done on being Guest Designer Paula :)

My card is here :

http://mum-on-the-run.blogspot.com/2007/09/dcm-tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

TFL :)

1:09 PM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Congratulations to Tracie!

Great cards by the team again this week!!
I found this one really challenging, you can see my card here;

http://stashstashandmorestash.blogspot.com/

1:40 PM  
Blogger Rachel said...

One from me too this month - holes are the stars which are punched out of the purple and layered over holographic papers although this doesn't show that well in the photie

Rachel

2:21 PM  
Blogger stamp and scrape said...

My initial reaction was panic - but I really enjoyed myself. Thanks for this challenge.
Ros
http://stampandscrape.blogspot.com/2007/09/tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

2:34 PM  
Blogger Deb said...

this has taken so long it is nearly school pick up time and I haven't done anything else! mine is here

http://countrylovincardmaker.blogspot.com/2007/09/dcm-tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

3:32 PM  
Blogger All Pink said...

Good luck Tracie,here is my blog cards ready http://allpinkgirl.blogspot.com

4:01 PM  
Blogger Anne said...

I enjoyed this one, thanks for keeping my Christmas card production going :)
Card is here:
http://annescreativeside.blogspot.com

All the best to Tracie, have a great day!

5:46 PM  
Blogger Kaz said...

Congratulations Tracie and Wayne, hope you have a great day tomorrow.

My holey purple card is on my blog. TFL.

5:52 PM  
Blogger Samm said...

You sneaky minkies!!! you're trying to throw us off with a really difficult one now aren't you?

Well here's mine:
by Samm: DCM - Tearing Purple Holes for Christmas


Samm
x

6:05 PM  
Blogger Jackie said...

Another great dare. I enjoyed this one and have just added my card to my blog.
Congratulations to Tracie and Wayne for tomorrow. Have a great day (the weather forcast is good for this part of the world)
Congratulations to Paula too on making the guest designer slot.

7:28 PM  
Blogger Helen & Co. said...

Will 2 out of 3 do??! (Sorry - just can't read)

http://madnessatthemalting.blogspot.com/2007/09/daring-cardmakers-challenge-tearing.html

Helen x

8:19 PM  
Blogger Jay said...

Loved this dare! It was great fun!

http://indigoinklings.blogspot.com/2007/09/tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas-dcm.html

8:54 PM  
Blogger Melonie said...

My first christmas card of the year.

http://scrapping-n-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/09/tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

9:52 PM  
Blogger KYLIE said...

This is also my first Christmas card for 2007.

Here is my contribution:
http://kylieswain.blogspot.com/2007/09/dcm-challenge.html

10:26 PM  
Blogger EllePiggo said...

Fab cards everyone, I'm still working my way through them. Here is mine:
DCM Christmas Card
Vanessa:)

10:39 PM  
Blogger Kae said...

After a very long summer break... I'm back with my effort for this week's challenge :) I've thrown last week's Extra in as well for good measure lol.

http://magikae.blogspot.com/2007/09/ooops-i-did-it-again-lol.html

11:09 PM  
Blogger Louly said...

I had so much fun with this one! Thanks for another fabby dare. Mine's here.... http://craftsbylouly.blogspot.com/

10:42 AM  
Blogger Andrea said...

My card is on my blog. The holes are the holes in the buttons, hpe this counts!
Andrea

http://www.andreabrownjohn.blogspot.com/

11:23 AM  
Blogger Helen & Co. said...

Right, had another go - still only 2 out of 3...

http://madnessatthemalting.blogspot.com/2007/09/daring-cardmakers-challenge-tearing_08.html

Helen x

11:33 AM  
Blogger Helen & Co. said...

3rd time lucky!!!

http://madnessatthemalting.blogspot.com/2007/09/daring-cardmakers-challenge-tearing_1596.html

Helen x

11:34 AM  
Blogger Patsy Jackson said...

Congrats to Tracie & Wayne :)

What a 'different' dare lol!

Here's mine:

DCM

11:47 AM  
Blogger Anna said...

This post has been removed by the author.

12:26 PM  
Blogger Anna said...

Congratulations Tracie.

Thanks for a great dare.

Here is a link to my card:-

http://paperposies.blogspot.com/2007/09/dcm-tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

12:31 PM  
Blogger Kate said...

My proper attempt is here

12:53 PM  
Blogger Rein said...

congrats Tracie!!

Wonderful cards ladies!!
mine is on my blog

1:06 PM  
Blogger Rosie (Freycob) said...

Holey moley girls! You lot have been so busy creating some fabulous cards.

My effort is on my blog for all to see.


http://freycob.blogspot.com

6:02 PM  
Blogger Lavender Rose said...

The team's cards are fabulous as always :) I was a bit wary of this challenge but am pleased to say I had a go and here's mine....off to look at all the other links to this great challenge now!

http://lavenderosecraft.blogspot.com/

9:04 PM  
Blogger Birdbrain said...

Did it! This was truly a challenge for me. I am not a fan of paper tearing - I'm all about straight and even. LOL.

9:22 PM  
Blogger Sandy said...

Here's my card! Thanks for the challenge---and Merry Christmas!
Card

12:49 AM  
Blogger Dolly Mixtures said...

Congratulations to Tracey...hope the day was fabulous!
Thanks for a great challenge this week. Sometimes I struggle to put all of the elements of a challenge together but this week it seemed as if they were made for each other. You can find my attempts in my blog.

11:56 AM  
Blogger Juliet said...

Contrats to Tracey - hope you had a fab day!
My card is on my blog - thanks for another great challenge. Will be back to look at everyone elses later.

12:38 PM  
Blogger Rainbow Lady said...

Oops silly me did this card and instead of putting Christmas peeloff put Best Wishes.
Still here it is on my blog for all to see my mistake.

http://rainbowladyscraftyblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking

Love Cynthia x

12:43 PM  
Blogger Adele said...

Ooo...tricky! I am REALLY not a purple person and struggled with this...but at tleast I have another card in my Xmas stock box!!! You cruel people!LOL!!

Thank you, love Dingle.xx

3:06 PM  
Blogger Flossie's Follies said...

Fun challenge, mine are on my blog, yup made two for this one, it was so much fun.
www.flofollies.blogsot.com

7:22 PM  
Blogger Birdbrain said...

I looked at all the amazing purple cards and they're all super! I am sharing computer time with my son so can't take the time to comment on each blog.

7:29 PM  
Blogger Becky Stewart said...

Great dare!! Here's my takes on it http://princess-creations.blogspot.com/2007/09/pink-petticoat-cards.html

7:47 PM  
Blogger alice k. said...

This was fun! I combined mine with another challenge that seemed to go in the same direction.
http://yellowhousestudio.blogspot.com/2007/09/purple-holes-and-mulberry-papers.html

Thanks!

9:04 PM  
Blogger sari said...

wow, what cards you all have made! This is the first time i jump in a "challenge" Liked it alot! Thanks for giving me more inspiration!

10:12 PM  
Blogger Rainbow Lady said...

Here is my proper effort for this challenge.
Thanks for looking
Love Cynthia x

http://rainbowladyscraftyblog.blogspot.com/

10:30 PM  
Blogger manicstamper said...

Ooooh another wedding.
Congratulations to you both....I hope your day was fab.

Done the dare at last. Love the teams cards and I can't wait to see what everyone else has done but that's a treat I have to save for coffee time tomorrow.

Mine is here
http://manicstamper.blogspot.com

10:35 PM  
Anonymous SmilynStef said...

Thanks for the challenge to get one more holiday card completed. Here's mine: http://ingeniousinkling.typepad.com/ingenious_inkling/2007/09/tearing-purple-.html

11:45 PM  
Blogger pretty-pink-cards said...

this was a great challenge and have enventually got round to doing mine and its up
Caroline x

12:19 AM  
Blogger Clare said...

This challenge led me to make my first Christmas card of the year! You can see my creation on my blog.

2:26 PM  
Blogger Leo said...

Congratz Tracie how exciting!!

Just uploaded my go on my blog.

xx Leo

6:02 PM  
Blogger Beverley Todd said...

Love purple for Christmas! Fab recipe. Mine's here: http://craftymoments.blogspot.com/2007/09/another-daring-card.html

11:48 PM  
Blogger Melonie said...

Another one.

http://scrapping-n-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/09/another-tearing-purple-holes-for.html

12:27 AM  
Anonymous Sylvie :) said...

my card
Thanks for these great challenges.

9:22 AM  
Blogger Susan (Sue H) said...

Here's my card (at long last)
http://sueskraftykards.blogspot.com/

Just off to look at everyone else's now and I'm sure they will be fabulous as always. I just wish the list didn't keep getting longer & longer & longer lol.

5:34 PM  
Blogger Montysmum said...

I got carried away with the hole and forgot the rest..oops! you can see my none christmasie card on my blog......sorry

5:46 PM  
Blogger Looby said...

Mine's FINALLY up!! it's here:
http://scraphappylou.blogspot.com/2007/09/dcm-tearing-purple-holes-for-christmas.html

5:59 PM  
Blogger Deanne said...

one very large hole and torn paper card is on my blog now... enjoyed this one. x

11:32 AM  
Blogger Leigh said...

ooooooooooh a toughie!! Fab work by the DT. My 11th hour effort is now on my blog.

Congratulations to Tracie.

2:43 PM  
Blogger Louly said...

I know i'm super late but I got there in the end! It's on my blog. Great dare girls!

11:19 AM  

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home