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!
It's Sharon here again to let you know who the lucky winners are from our dare sponsored by Pink Petticoat and Craftsite.
Firstly, the Pink Petticoat winners - very generously Pink Petticoat offered 3 prizes of £15 of goodies from the Boutique. The three recipients of this fab prize are:
22. Julie Gleeson
12. Crafting Cathy
41. Antoinette
Our second prize was from Craftsite who generously offered a scrummy background stamp and a distress ink of the winners choice. The lucky winner of this prize is:
7. Flutterbytrina
If you could all drop me an email with your details, I'll arrange for the prizes to be sent to you - my email is backdated@hotmail.com
Thank you to everyone who joined in with our Doing It With Digi challenge last week. We'll be along soon to announce the winners of our prizes.......
We've got another gorgeous selection of prizes this week!
Tando Creative have generously offered a prize package worth £25 RRP!
Tando Creative Ltd design and manufacture a unique range of chipboard and mask products that are both innovative and inspiring that are suitable for a wide range of crafters. Our blog is packed full of inspiration from our fabulous international design team and is updated at least 4 or 5 times a week. Although we are trade only we have a good retailer base, please feel free to contact us for details of a stockist near you. Visit the Tando blog for more information.
and we also have a lovely prize from Imagine That.
Imagine that... opened their craft shop in November 2006, with the aim of supplying crafters with fabulous stash and lots of inspiration. Even though the shop sadly had to close it's doors in November 2012, their website is still thriving (and includes over 200 colours of Bazzill cardstock), and they run regular crops and workshops in the Upminster area. They started designing their own clear stamps in 2008, and now also have their own range of Flair buttons ... with more new designs expected soon! Check out their pinterest page: (http://www.pinterest.com/emmaimaginethat/) and facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imaginethatpapercrafts).
Imagine That have offered this fab greetings stamp set as a prize:
Birthday Blog Hop
To round off our Anniversary Celebration Month we'd love you to join in with a bit of a blog hop. This is a chance for everyone - even if you don't join in with the challenge - to win one of our birthday "presents"!
"Crimsoncloud.co.uk
is owned by Linda and Melanie, and is a mother/daughter venture - a way to
indulge their joint passion of cardmaking and papercrafting. Linda, based in
South Africa, is the designer - developing their exclusive range of clear
acrylic stamps sets which reflect their styles of card making.
Melanie is based
in Brighton, Sussex and runs the web based shop - only selling products that they
have tried, tested and love using. New products are regularly being tested and
added to the range.
Crimson Cloud have
plenty of card samples to give you inspiration - you can check out the gallery
on the Crimson Cloud website, follow their boards on Pinterest, click onto
their Facebook page or simply follow their blog on www.blog.crimsoncloud.co.uk.
New posts and samples are added at least once a week."
and this is the prize from Crimson Cloud - this gorgeous Christmas stamp set:
(3 vouchers worth £15 each to spend on their fabulous downloads)
To join in with the Blog Hop is simple; just click the link above each of this week's cards (including our lovely Guest Designers) to visit all the blogs - leave a quick comment on each, then pop back here and leave a comment on THIS post to let us know you have joined in the Birthday Hop.
You'll need to complete your journey around our blogs by Midnight (UK time) on Thursday 31st October.
Right, lets get on with our Spooky Challenge....
The theme this week is
Spooky Birthdays!
We'd like to see your Halloween or birthday cards with a spooky theme.
happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us
Thank you for joining in and helping us to celebrate our 7th anniversary. We always enjoy reading your messages, so please leave a comment as well as your link - and this week it would be great if you'd visit all our blogs and join in with our Birthday Blog Hop - you might win a prize!
Thanks for joining in and sharing all your lovely Banners and Bunting last week - we'll be back soon to announce the winners of our Tea House Bridge and Quirky Kits prizes....
The theme this week is
digital
We want to see your creations using digital elements, papers and images. The DT have all been provided with a selection of digi images and papers from Pink Petticoat to play with.
The Boutique at Pink Petticoat is full of gorgeous digital images and beautiful papers. The colour collection features every design you could wish for, in a contemporary colour palette, meaning that you'll always have the perfect paper for your projects. Pink Petticoat have generously offered not one, but 3 prizes! The 3 lucky winners will each be able to select downloads to the value of £15 from the boutique.
Our second sponsor this week is Craftsite. Craftsite not only supplies all you need for card making but also has lots of projects and tips. Craftsite are offering this beautiful Penny Black background stamp (one of their best sellers), and to go with the stamp, they are also offering a Tim Holtz Distress ink pad (doesn't have to be the colour shown, the lucky winner can pop to the website and choose which colour they'd like)
happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us
Thank you for joining in and helping us to celebrate our 7th anniversary. We always enjoy reading your messages, so please leave a comment as well as your link.
It's week two of our 7 year Anniversary celebrations and we were overwhelmed by the gorgeous cards from everyone last week. We'll be along shortly to announce the winners of last week's goodies
This week we have even more prizes on offer and our guest designer is the talented, and one of our first "darers"; Enfys Cashmore
The theme this week is
Birthday Bunting and Banners
and we are sponsored by Tea House Bridge who gave the DT some gorgeous buttons to play with.
"The craft supply shop inspired by English and Old Continental vintage
style offering beautiful buttons, resins, ribbons, trims, antique and
hand made bobbin lace, wool felt, digital images and much more at
really affordable prices."
And if that wasn't enough, we also have a fun prize from Crafty Templates...
We have one of the brand new October Quirky Embellishments kits up for grabs! Quirky Kits are paper crafting kits full of unusual bits and pieces and on trend themes. Kits are available on subscription in two sizes, 'main' and 'Lite' and you can now also subscribe to the new Quirky Embellishments kit which is a kit full of just embellishments and goodies to make embellishments with. The October kit is out now and you can view all the details in the Crafty Templates store here. Read more about all the different Quirky Kits here.
As usual, we'll be picking the winners at random, so everyone taking part this month has the chance to win some lovely goodies.
The DT have pulled out all the stops to come up with more fabulous inspiration for you and just to make it extra special we have the über talented Enfys Cashmore joining us for this week :) Here is her card
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Thank you for joining in and helping us to celebrate our 7th anniversary. We always enjoy reading your messages, so please leave a comment as well as your link.
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