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!
Hi everyone! It's Nat here bringing you this week's Dare. Thanks to everyone who joined in with our dare last week celebrating the bounties of Harvest. It was lovely to see the array of items featured on your cards. :)
This week I want to see you feature that lovely and popular embellishment - the humble rosette - on your cards.
There are so many different looks you can accomplish with this one item - whether a pleated paper rosette, a traditional 1st place ribbon rosette, or something more contemporary like a handmade rosette flower made from ribbon.
Here are some of the lovely interpretations the design team came up with:
A huge thank you to everyone who joined in with Lythan's wonderful dare last week, it was so interesting to see what you all thought of as your own Signature Style.
Thanks too for the messages left in the Comments section - we don't often say, but we really do appreciate it when you take the time to leave one.
Although in some parts of the world Spring is now on it's way, over in this bit we're at the end of Summer and heading for Autumn
But not before we give thanks for all the Summer produce with our own
Harvest Festival
We'd love to see your Harvest inspired creations this week, so please get crafty and join us as we celebrate the "Season of Mists and Mellow fruitfulness"
Here are the cards our Design Team have been making this week
Thanks to all those who played along last week - it is lovely to see the way you rise to our challenges.
And maybe this one will be quite a challenge - let's see!
I (Lythan) sometimes wonder if my cards are all rather repetitive and boring. But I have decided to embrace the fact that there are certain elements that I have to include on my cards and call it my signature style (sounds soooo much better than samey samey!). And being the nosey type I thought it would be fun to make you analyse what are the go to features that you like to add to a card - what is your