Friday, March 27, 2015

Inspired by Nat: Signature Style

Lovely to see you getting into the swing last week (geddit). This week Lythan would like you to take a trip into a world of pure gorgeousness by visiting the blog of my lovely teamie Nat and getting inspired by her style. I have been a huge fan of Nat's since I started card making and I have seen her work evolve but it has always been current, stylish, clean but not simple and with a wonderful way with a focal point. Well that is my interpretation - I look forward to seeing what you take from Nat's signature style.

 I'm very excited to see what you come up with - here are the cards from the Daring Cardmakers to give you some ideas....


Lythan

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Friday, March 20, 2015

Swings and Roundabouts

Good Morning Daring Cardmakers everywhere!

Oh my!  All those wonderful Bake-Off cards you've shared this week did make me hungry, and my tummy is still rumbling away as I write this now - thank you so much for joining in with Dawn's great challenge.

It's me, Kathy, here this time with my challenge for you:


I love having something that adds a little bit of a moving element to my cards - something suspended in an aperture so that it swings or twirls in the hole, or some charms or beads that bounce around on a thread or ribbon....or maybe the whole card rocks from side to side - a bit of movement makes a card so much more interesting, don't you think?  So I've called my challenge
 "Swings and Roundabouts"
and  I'd like to see a "swinging", "twirling" or "rocking"element on your card this week.....and to go with the title, if you can also add a circle (for the "roundabout), then you can claim a Virtual Gold Star (sorry. they're only "virtual", hehe) and you can give yourself a pat on the back for being a real Smartypants!

We're really looking forward to seeing what you come up with, and to help get you thinking, here's how the team took up the challenge

Kathy   
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Friday, March 13, 2015

The Great Daring Cardmakers Bake Off

Good Morning Crafters.

Its my turn (Dawn) to host this weeks dare.

First of all a big thank you to everyone who played along with last weeks dare.  The element inspiration picture was just so lovely.

Everybody knows how much I love CUPCAKES!!! I love baking, eating, buying anything with a cupcake on and of course crafting with them.  So for this weeks dare I would love to see something baking related on your card.

My dare is called:

The Great Daring Cardmakers Bake Off
Also its Mothers Day on Sunday so perhaps this card could be for your Mum or Grandmother. I would also like to wish all Mums a Happy Mothers Day!!

Here is what the Design Team came up with:

Dawn























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Friday, March 06, 2015

March Elemental Inspiration



"Elemental Inspiration"

Hi Everyone!
It's Nat here again - before we get down to this month's elemental inspiration, a big thank you to everyone who played along with our Mellow Yellow dare last week! You really took to the challenge and showed those yellow tones a lot of love!

Today is the first Friday of a new month, and so we have a new elemental inspiration challenge to play with.

The pictures we choose for these challenges all have a variety of "elements" that we hope will inspire you to get crafting - and we'd like you to use a minimum of THREE of the elements you see to make a card.

Here's the image for March:

  {Pinterest pin}

 For instance for this image you could take inspiration from:
  • The pink and gold colour combo
  • Confetti/sequins
  • Felt or tissue paper
  • Handmade flowers
  • Grassy borders
  • Twine
  • Monograms
  • Graphical patterns: triangles, stripes, dots
  • A spring/Easter theme
  • Gold accents/gold glitter die-cuts
There's plenty to inspire that can be translated into a card project.

 We're looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with!


This is what we made:






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