Resist!

Hello everyone!

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

First though, thank you to everyone who joined in with Svenja's under the sea dare last week. It was a feast for the eyes! :D

This week I'm challenging you to embrace one of my favourite techniques of the moment: the resist technique.

You can accomplish it in a variety of ways using:

• Heat embossing to resist ink, watercolour or other media
• Masking paper or post-it notes with die cuts or even masking tape
• Resist spray on its own or in combination with stencils
• Masking fluid or a masking pen with watercolour
• Wax crayons

I'm sure there are other methods you'll think of! :)

To get you started here are some of the ideas the Design Team came up with:

Joanne (debossed die resist)

 

Kathy (hot foil + ink)

Nat (ink wash background + heat embossing)

Miri (ink blending + heat embossing)

Ruth (crayon resist)

Dawn

  

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I'd like to be... under the sea...

Happy friday!

Thanks to all of you who splish-splash-sploshed along with us last week. Wasn't it a joy?

It's Svenja here and I'm kind of sticking to a watery theme. Because...

I'd like to be... under the sea...

I would like your cards to feature any kind of underwater life. Virtual extra brownie points for octopusses (with or without gardens).

Hope this crafty weekend goes swimmingly for y'all. If you're still in need of some inspiration, here's what the Design Team have created to get you started: 

Miri    

Joanne   

Ruth  

 Kathy   

Nat

Svenja

 

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Splish, splash, splosh

Thanks to everyone who got creative with counting and came up with some great 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 creations for last week's challenge - we loved seeing them!

Splish, Splash, Splosh

It's Joanne here this week and I'd like to see you get loose and unstructured with watercolours, inks or paints to create a focal point, background or accents for your project - sploosh, spray and splatter to your heart's content! It can be a little bit scary when you're not in total control of the results but it's fun to let go and remind yourself there's no right or wrong every once in a while!

Here's what the design team let loose this week:

Joanne

Ruth

Miri

Kathy 

Nat

Svenja

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1,2,3,4,5

 Hello!

Welcome to another Friday Challenge with The Daring Cardmakers.  

It's Kathy here this time and I'm hoping you'll rise to the challenge rather

 than running to the hills, screaming!  

It'll be fun, honestly!

First though, a big thank you for joining in and sharing your cards Inspired by the August mood-board, it was so lovely to see your creativity it's always so inspiring to see what everyone comes up with,

 1,2,3,4,5

This week I'd like you to make cards using 1 of something, 2 of something, 

3 of something, 4 of something and 5 of something. 

 It sounds tricky, but once you get your head around the idea, you'll be just fine!

 eg. 1 image, 2 colours, 3 flowers, 4 brads, 5 gems

Go on, challenge yourself, I dare you!

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

Nat   (5 aqua stripes, 4 flowers, 3 sequins, 2 enamel dots, 1 sentiment)

Ruth    (1 button, 2 ribbons, 3 half pearls, 4 letters, 5 bits of paper)

 

Kathy    (1 word, 2 butterflies, 3 pearls, 4 poppies, 5 patterned papers)

Joanne     (One layer, two words, three baubles, four inkpads, five tiny gems:)

Svenja (1 circle, 2 colours/paints, 3 parcels, 4 gold hexagons, 5 black dots)

Miri     (1 cactus, 2 words, 3 papers, 4 corners ;-), 5 half pearls)

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Winners!

Hello again

We're back to announce the winners of  our JMCDesigns prize draw

JMCDesigns

Well Done to Gwyneth and Nick who each win a wonderful collection of 

Digital Images from Julia.

Please go to Kathy's blog and use the "email me" link at the top of the sidebar to find out how to claim your prizes. 

Thanks to all who entered and especially to Julia for offering the prizes.

August's Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Hello there Crafters!

Thank You to those who joined in last week and shared your "Whatever the Weather" cards with us.  We loved seeing them, and we'll be back in an hour or two to announce the winners of the fabulous prizes donated by
www.jmcdesigns.co.uk

As usual our first challenge of the month is an

 Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  

 For August we have this beautiful Summery Mood Board

 Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements  from the picture to use when making your card.  If you choose to use the colour palette, then that would count as one of your elements

Suggested elements; 

Fairground, Sunglasses, Shells, Hearts, Beach, Parasol, Sunset.....

Here's what our fab team have been making this week 

 Dawn    

 Ruth 

Joanne

Nat

Kathy  

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