Bags and Boxes; Step Away no 2

Hello!

Welcome to The Daring Cardmakers Blog

Thank you so much for sharing your Starry Skies cards with us last week, they were beautiful and so inspiring

This week, it's time to take another "Step Away from the Cards" and this time we'd love to see your

Gift Bags and Boxes 
 
We'd just love to join us by making and decorating a gift box or bag.  it doesn't have to be Christmas-themed, we give gifts for lots of reasons and they all deserve some gorgeous presentation, don't they?

 When you're done, please come back and let us know where we can see your creations, Here are some of ours to get you in the mood

Shabneez 

Dawn

Ruth

Sylvia

Kathy    

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Starry Skies

Hello

Welcome to another Daring Cardmakers' Friday!

We'd like to say a big Thank You to everyone who joined in with us last time and shared such fab Tags, Labels and Toppers - so much inspiration and creativity!

This week we're back to making cards and the theme is
Starry Skies 

Take your inspiration from the night sky when you make your cards this time.
One star or a whole galaxy of them....or maybe a glimpse of Santa's Sleigh flying by....or a Heavenly Host of angels.
Remember, it doesn't have to be Christmas - there's a whole galaxy of possibilities out there.....

Here's what the team have been making this week:

Ruth:  

Dawn

Kathy    

Joanne

Miri

Shabneez

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Gift Tags, Toppers and Labels - Step Away from the cards no 1

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful Winter Foliage cards with us last week, what a wonderful array!

This week, it's time to take our first "Step Away from the Cards" for this Christmas season.  Most of our team don't just make cards, and its fun to share some other crafty makes with you.  Of course we also ask you to join in and share some of your other creations with us.

The theme for the first "Step Away From the Cards" challenge is:

Tags, Labels and Toppers

We'd just love to see the tags etc that you'll be adding to your gifts to show who they are for and from!  it doesn't have to be Christmas-themed, we give gifts for lots of reasons and they all look better with a bit of extra decoration!

 When you're done, please come back and let us know where we can see your creations, Here are some of ours to get you in the mood

Dawn

Joanne

Sylvia

Kathy  

 

Ruth 
 

Miri

(for you)

Svenja

(recipe to go with a cocktail kit)

Shabneez

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Cards; Winter flowers and foliage

 Hello!

Welcome to another Daring Friday, week 2 of our Countdown to Christmas series of challenges.

First, a big Thank You to those who joined in with us last week we hope you enjoyed suing that lovely Inspiration picture

This week we challenge you to use

Winter Flowers and Foliage
Nature gives us some beautiful things to brighten up the Winter and we'd love to see them on your cards this week.  Make them the focus of your card or use them to highlight and embellish. So add some Seasonal Foliage to your cards this week and think Poinsettias, Pine cones, Holly and Evergreens.

Remember, although we're in the run up to 25th December, you can make any kind of card you like - it doesn't have to have to be a Christmas card, so maybe a Winter birthday card.....

Ruth

Dawn

Miri

Sylvia

Joanne

Kathy   

 

 

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November Elemental Inspiration

Hello there Crafters!

Thank You to those who joined in with us last week - What a Gorgeous Glittery Gallery of cards we saw!

As usual our first challenge of the month is our 
 Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  
 For November we're kicking off our Countdown to Christmas with a mood-board stuffed with loads of ideas for you to choose from. 
 Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements from the picture to use when making your card 

suggestions; colour palette, tags, pegs and clips, baubles, check pattern, twine, string, foliage, knitting, text backgrounds, birds, envelope......

Here is what the team made this week

Dawn

Sylvia

Ruth:

Shabneez  

Kathy   

Svenja

Joanne

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