Springing into Spring

Good Morning Everyone!!!

 Beckie here today with a 'Springing' Challenge for you!

Spring is here (honestly!!)

I love it when the seasons changes from winter to spring and the air is filled with new life!

Today I would like to challenge you to make a card with a 'spring' on it somewhere.  The design team have come up with some amazing creations to help inspire you!  Some of the creations have 'springs' to make them 'wobble'!

And now for a little special treat for one lucky person!

This week digital stamp store 'Little Blue Button' is sponsoring the dare and have a $10 gift certificate to give away! 

All you need to do is leave a link as usual to show us your finished creation and you'll be entered into the prize draw. The winner will be picked at random and announced ahead of next week's dare (Friday 5th April). Big thank you to Little Blue Button for offering this cool prize! Don't forget to check out their store, http://digitaldesignsby.blogspot.co.uk/ maybe there's something there to inspire your 'Springy' card creation!

Kathy   

Miri

Leo

Gez

Beckie

Nat

Svenja

Lythan

Keilly

  

Zuzana

We hope you have a wonderful Easter filled with all the good things in life! :)

**************************************

Thank you for joining in with us this week.  We always enjoy reading your messages, so please take a moment to leave a comment as well as your link.

Chalkboard creations

Hi everyone!

It's Nat here bringing you this week's dare.

Over the past few months I've been seeing a lot of beautiful pins on Pinterest showcasing various types of Chalkboard Artwork.

From gorgeous handwritten signage to amazing murals in homes and businesses...

Source: tanamachistudio.com via Lee on Pinterest

Even Oprah has got in on the act!

Source: trendland.com via Cheyenne on Pinterest

You've probably also seen this trend taking off in the stamping world too. I didn't realise just how effective and easy it could be to incorporate this look on handmade cards until Betsy Veldman shared her fantastic tutorial on just this technique on her blog here.

So this week I've challenged the design team and you to... 

Create a card that pays homage to the chalkboard look

Ideally I would love it if you could try the heat embossing technique, but if you don't have the supplies there are plenty of fonts and printables out there that you could use to replicate the look.

Here are the gorgeous cards the design team created:

Sharon

Nat

Svenja

Leo

Kathy

Miri

Lythan

Zuzana

Beckie

*******************************************

Make a cute angle

We loved seeing all that type last week. Now we want to see some sharp shapes. Geometry is all the rage in cardmaking so we would like to see geometric shapes in play as you

Make a cute angle

 its a play on words really - "a cute angle" is like "acute angle" get it? Or perhaps not... If you can make your acute angle cute then that would be fab too. However you interpret the dare we would love to see the results. Here is the team's take ...

Lythan

Svenja

 Kathy  

Nat

Miri

Sharon 

Zuzana

 

Leo

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Typography

Big thank you to everyone that joined in with Sharon's Colour Combo challenge last week it was fab to see all your lovely chocolatey limey cards!

This week it's Leo here and your new challenge is:

'Typography'

I'd like you to use typography as the main basis for your card design. Typography is basically putting together letters and/or words to form an aesthetically pleasing or artistic design/arrangment. So you're making the letter/words the main embelishment of your card.

Take a look at the fab cards the design team have come up with this week and if you need more ideas take a peek at Typography pins on Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=typography

Have fun!

x Leo

Leo

Lythan

Sharon

Svenja

Kathy

Nat

Beckie

Zuzana

*************************

March colour combo

Thanks to everyone that joined in with Kathy's yummy chocolate dare last week.  Looking at all your fabulous chocolatey creations made our mouths water!

Before anything else we'd like to send  a "Get Well Soon" message to our lovely Jo - we hopes that you'll soon be fit and well and back sharing your fab and fun creations with us all before too long

Now....we're thrilled to announce that we have a fabulous new Guest Designer joining us for the next couple of months. 
Please say "hello" to
Svenja Koester
 We are soooo sure you're going to love seeing what she creates - her work is really stunning and you can see more by visiting her BLOG

Our next news is that Beckie has agreed to stay with us as a regular team member - it's so good that we will be seeing lots more of her amazing creations.

And now, back to business!  
It's Sharon here and as it's the first Friday in the month it's time for our monthly colour combo.   I've chosen this lovely photo for this month:

And we've come up with some fabulous inspiration for you:

Sharon

Nat

Svenja  

Miri  

Beckie

Kathy   

Zuzana

Leo

Lythan

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~