Daring Cardmakers

Wishi Washi

2012-01-27T10:09:00.003Z

Thank you to those who really stepped up to the challenge and joined in with Kathy's amazing Kitchenalia dare last week - a "virtual" gold star to all who accepted the challenge!

This week it's Jo here with a challenge, which is;

Wishi Washi

I would like you this week to make a card using Washi or Deco Tape, you can use it to create a background, an embellishment or just use it as an accent.

If you don't have any - you can still join in by making your own washi style tape - use double sided tape and tissue paper or printed tracing paper or vellum as an alternative

If you're stuck for ideas, have a look at Pinterest for some inspiration and have a peek at the wonderful cards that the Design Team have created this week!

Lythan

Sharon

Gez

Nat

Kathy

Rein

Keilly

Leo

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Kitchenalia!

2012-01-20T10:00:00.004Z

Thank you to those who really stepped up to the challenge and joined in with Zuzana's fabulous Social Networks dare last week - a "virtual" gold star to all who accepted the challenge!

This week it's Kathy here with a challenge which I hope will get you cooking up some great cards.

Kitchenalia!

As we've just started work on remodelling some areas of our house, including knocking the Kitchen and Utility rooms into one space, kitchens, and all things Cookery are very much on my mind at the moment. So these are the things I'd like you to incorporate on your card this week. I'd like to see kitchen and cooking themes - but not just cupcakes, though of course you can add some of those into your design if you wish.

We can't wait to see what you'll be cooking up for us this week, so please join in and have some "cheffy" fun with us.

Here are some fabulous "Kitchenalia" cards from the Team to start you thinking

Gez

Kathy

Rein

Nat
Sharon

Leo

Zuzana

Keilly

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Miraculous Social Networks

2012-01-13T10:01:00.002Z

Thank you all for sharing your stunning creations in our brand new 'Colour Combo Challenge'

You made really fantastic cards!

Hi, it's Zuzana here setting this week's challenge.

You know that we are living in the new communication era, so I have chosen a

MIRACULOUS SOCIAL NETWORKS

dare for you.
I would like to see Facebook, Twitter, Skype, You Tube ... on your cards.

You can use funny sentiments, colour scheme, fonts, style, layout or PC image.

Here are some teasing Design Team's cards to inspire you :

Keilly

Leo

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"First Friday" Colour Combo1

2012-01-05T20:22:00.022Z

Happy New Year!

Helloooooooo

We're back after out Christmas Break and raring to go with lots of lovely new dares to challenge you. A huge thank you to everyone who joined in with Keilly's "Spots and Stripes" challenge - the cards were wonderful (as always) and entries have just kept on coming!

This week we have the very first in our brand new "First Friday" series. Over the last couple of years we've used Birthstones and Flowers for these challenges,and they've both been interesting and inspiring themes to work with.

For 2012 the First Friday of each month will feature a

Colour Combo Challenge

It should be fun - we're all taking a turn at choosing a combination of colours to base our card-making around so there should be a fab variety of hues and tones to get us creating. We hope you'll enjoy the idea and feel inspired to join in with us.

Fran is kicking off this new series in style with a fab inspiration photo and colour palette

We're really looking forward to seeing what you create using these wonderful colours, so please come back and leave your link (and a comment would be nice too) when you are ready to share.

Here's how the DT used this colour palette for our crafting this week

Nat

Sharon

Gez

Keilly

Kathy

Zuzana

Leo

Rein

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Spots & Stripes

2011-12-16T10:01:00.007Z

Thank you to everyone who joined in Fran's 'Nordic Christmas' dare last week. We enjoyed visiting all your blogs and viewing such wonderful projects.

Well, it's Keilly here and my turn to set the dare this week, which is

Spots and Stripes

Whether its a last minute Christmas card or a birthday card, we're looking forward to seeing what you create so please come and leave a link (and a message) when you're ready to share with us.

* We'll be taking a little break over the Christmas holidays so this dare will stay open a little longer until January 6th with our first dare for 2012 *

We'd like to wish all our followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Keilly

Nat

Gez

Sharon

Kathy

Leo

Rein

Fran

zuzana

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A Nordic Christmas

2011-12-09T10:07:00.005Z

Hi everyone, it's Fran here, and before I tell you about this week's Dare, we'd like to thank all of you who joined in with December's Flower of the Month Dare - such lovely projects on show.

Now onto the challenge! Taking inspiration from the photo above, I'd like you to create cards / projects with a Nordic Theme this week - think knitted jumpers, reindeer and lots of red and white!

We can't wait to see what you create!

Fran

Gez

Rein

Kathy

Sharon

Samm

Nat

Leo

Zuzana

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December Flowers - Holly and Narcissus

2011-12-02T11:28:00.008Z

Thank you all for sharing such fabulous and fun Moustachio cards last week, we had a wonderful time visiting your blogs!

After a bit of a break, we're getting back to having Guest Designers on the DCM - not only does it give you a break from seeing just our cards (hehe) on here, but it gives us the chance to introduce some of our favourite card makers and see their work on our blog.

So this week we're thrilled to announce that the Fabulous

Gezzy B

will be playing along with us from now, right through till the end of January. Please go and visit Gez's blog as her crafting isn't just about making cards - her stamping and inky skills are amazing and you'll be missing a treat if you don't click HERE and see the things she makes! Welcome to the team, Gez!

As it's the first dare of the month, we have our "Flowers of the Month" challenge this week - but of course December's flowers brings the series to an end - we do hope you've enjoyed and felt inspired by the theme.

Next year we're starting a whole new Monthly Challenge Theme - so watch out for that at the start of January!

December's flowers are:

Holly and Narcissus

so we'd like you to make a card taking your inspiration from either of these - we think

we know which will be the most popular already.....;-)

We're looking forward to seeing what you make, so please come back and share your creations with us.

Here are the cards the DT have made to help get you thinking.

Gez

Kathy

Nat

Sharon
Keilly
Rein

Fran

Leo

Zuzana

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Movember Madness!

2011-11-25T10:03:00.002Z

Hi, it's Samm here, thank you for all your wonderfully, wicked, watery cards last week, here is my challenge for this week.

It's the month of Movember so what better time than to show us some

Moustaches, Tashes, Mustaches and Furry Facial Hair

on your cards this week!

We can't wait to see what you create, so don't forget to link us up!

Samm

Nat

Kathy

Rein

Zuzana

Jo

Leo

Fran

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Water, Water, Everywhere....

2011-11-18T10:05:00.001Z

A big Thank You to everyone who found inspiration in the jewellery box last week and made such lovely cards to share with us.

The theme for this week's cardmaking is
WATER

You could make a card with a watery theme (lakes, rivers, fishies, boats etc), or maybe you'll find a way to actually use some water in the making of your card eg colouring with watercolours

We're looking forward to seeing what you make so please come and leave a link (and a message) when you're ready to share

Samm

Sharon

Rein

Kathy

Keilly
Nat

Leo

Zuzana

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Bejewelled

2011-11-11T10:00:00.004Z

It was great to see so many beautiful cards for last weeks Chrysanthemum challenge - what a great start to a new year of DCM challenges!

It's Sharon here setting this weeks challenge.
I'd like to see cards inspired by a piece of

jewellery

- you can be inspired by the colour, the stone, or the design.

A good place to start is looking at the pictures on pinterest - that's where I found the gorgeous ring that inspired my card. If you visit our personal blogs, you'll be able to find out what inspired the rest of the team to make their cards

Can't wait to see what you come up with. Here are the Design Team's cards to inspire you:

Sharon

Keilly

Rein

Samm

Kathy

Nat

Jo

Zuzana

Leo

Fran

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Chrysanthemums for Our Birthday!

2011-11-04T10:05:00.006Z

We had a wonderful time seeing all your Fantastic Felties cards last week - what fab inspiration you shared with us, thank you.

Last week's dare was Dare No 52 of Year 5 of Daring Cardmakers challenges - yes, we've been around THAT long! And we still enjoy setting the dares and making our cards. A Huge THANK YOU to all of you who pop in week by week to see what we're up to, and especially to those of you who join in with our challenges - we really do appreciate your support.

The DT members may have changed but our aims remain the same - to inspire and challenge you (and ourselves) to make cards, no matter what your style and no matter what your experience is. We remain open to all, have no allegiance to any company and we actively encourage as much variety as possible - we definitely do not judge one card above another so when we offer prizes winners are always chosen at random.

For our first dare of year 6 it's a return to our year-long celebration of flowers associated with each month. According to our list there is just one flower for November and it's the

Chrysanthemum

Luckily there are lots of different types, so plenty of inspiration to be had - just do a Google Image Search on Chrysanthemum and you'll be spoiled for choice!

We hope you'll join in and celebrate our DCM "New Year" with us by making your own Chrysanthemum inspired card and sharing it with us. We're looking forward to seeing what you make - they should make a wonderful Birthday Bouquet!

Here are the cards the team have made this week to help get you thinking - there will be more to come, so do come back again to check them out.

Sharon

Kathy

Rein

Nat

Leo

Fran

Zuzana

Jo
Keilly

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Fantastic Felties

2011-10-28T10:04:00.003+01:00

Hi Everyone!

It's Nat here welcoming you to another Friday and another dare here on the blog.
Thanks to all those who joined in with the fab sketch dare last week.

This week I want to see you get creative with felt.

I just love the stuff but seem to always do the same old same old with it... so I'm really looking forward to seeing what creative ideas you come up with.

You can use felt to make your own handmade embellishments (even include some threading and beading if you're feeling energetic), use some pre-made felties, or even raid the accessories sale bins for something unique to add to your project!

And if you're still stuck for ideas, why not check out the felty ideas on Pinterest.

Happy creating!

Here's what felt-a-licious projects the design team came up with this week:

Nat

Rein

Sharon

Kathy

Zuzana

Leo

Keilly

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Our Ribbon Reel Winner (Please scrioll down for this week's challenge)

2011-10-21T10:45:00.004+01:00

We've used the random number generator at random.org and checked that the Darer selected had kept to the rules - you'd be amazed at how many people didn't and therefore missed out on any chance of winning the wonderful prize shown above and donated by our wonderful sponsor

Click HERE to visit the shop

We're happy to announce that the winner is

no.26 - Helen

Congratulation, Helen - please email us at dcm_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk with your postal inforamtion and your lovely prize will soon be on it's way.

Special Offer:

For all those who entered our challenge last week but didn't win the prize there is still the chance to own the same pack of ribbons and trims at a special "Darer's" price. Check back to last Friday's post for the code you need to enter when you place your order at The Ribbon Reel - we look forward to seeing lots of those goodies on cards you share in the future.

This offer is only available to those who entered a card for Rein's "A Little Bird...." challenge and only while stocks last.

Our thanks to The Ribbon Reel for offering such a fab prize and for offering all our Darers the chance to buy at such a special price

Sketch Challenge

2011-10-21T10:10:00.009+01:00

Thank you to every single one of you who joined in with our Ribbon Reel dare last week - obviously the sight of all that yummy-scrummy ribbon really inspired you to have a go....

If you're hoping to win the prize, please keep your fingers crossed for just a little while longer while we do the random draw and check that whoever it comes up with adhered to the rules - we'll be back soon to announce the lucky winner.

Well, it all got a bit chaotic around Daring Central this week, so we had to jiggle our calendar just a bit and instead of the planned challenge (that one will be along in a few weeks time), we have a sketch challenge for you this week. This is the October "2Circles2Go" layout idea from The Sketch File - so don't forget to add your link there too!

You can make any card you like - and you can shrink, twist, turn the sketch upside down if you want - just as long as the layout is all there for us to see.

Most of all, have fun!

Please come and leave a link and a comment (we do like to hear from you!) so we know where to find your creations.

Here are some ideas from the team to start you thinking, but come back and have another look because there are sure to be late additions!

Kathy

Nat

Rein

Sharon

Keilly

Leo

Fran

Zuzana

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A Little Bird Told Us....

2011-10-14T10:04:00.005+01:00

Thanks to all of you that joined with us last week, it was lovely to see all those gorgeous flowers.

It's Rein here this week,

my dare for you is very easy and simple...

I would love to see a bird on your card - it can be stamped, die-cut or made in another way, just join in and have fun - and you might even win a prize!

This week's dare is sponsored by
The Ribbon Reel
who are one of the best places around for fuelling your ribbon addiction - visit the shop to see a wonderful range not just of ribbon but lace, trims and even stamps.
For DCM Darers this week there's the chance of winning a fab prize for one lucky winner but also the opportunity for every single person who joins in and shares their card with us this week to buy the same pack of goodies
at a Very Special DCM "Darers Only" price!

Click here to visit The Ribbon Reel Online Shop

We'll use a random number picker to choose our one prize winner from all those who enter a card (and adhere to the rules below) for this week's challenge and they will receive the ribbons, lace and trims you can see in this photo

Rules for entry to our prize draw:

1. Make a card for Rein's BIRDS challenge and share it on your blog

2. In the main message part of your blog, please mention (and add links to) the Daring Cardmakers and our fab sponsors The Ribbon Reel,

3. Enter your card for no more than 10 challenges in total

Now for the Special Offer!

You can make sure of owning this wonderful 'Made with Love' collection by joining in this week, then ordering from The Ribbon Reel using this special code at checkout: DCMSP - remember only those who enter a card for this week's challenge are eligible to buy at this special price.

Don't forget to spread the word and tell your friends so they can join in and take advantage of this offer too.

Here are the Birdy cards the team have made this week, we're looking forward to seeing your own creations, so please come and let us know where we can see your cards

Rein

Kathy

Zuzana

Nat

Jo
Sharon

Keilly

Fran

Leo

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October's Flowers: Calendula and Cosmos

2011-10-07T10:07:00.005+01:00

Thank you all for joining in with Lythan's "Ooh La La and Wunderbar" challenge last week - what a lot of different languages and ways to feature them we saw on our journey around the world of crafting blogs!
We hope you'll join in again this week with the next in our series of
"Flowers of the Month" challenges.

The Birth Flowers for the month of October are

Calendula and Cosmos

so our challenge is to use either or both of these lovely flowers as the inspiration for your card-making

We'd love you to join in and play along with us, and we are really looking forward to seeing what you create, so please remember to come and leave a link and a comment when you're ready to share.
Here are the cards the team have made this week

Have fun!

Rein

Kathy

Nat

Sharon

Leo

Keilly

Zuzana

Fran

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Ooh la la and wunderbar!

2011-09-30T10:05:00.008+01:00

Hello, it's Lythan here this week - first a big thank you to all who joined in and played along with the Dr Seuss themed fun last week.

Well, this weeks dare is a little bit retro. As it is the European Day of Languages today I would like your card to feature a foreign language.

This takes me back to one of the very first Daring Cardmaker Dares (November 10 2006 to be precise) which was a similar challenge. So why not also see if you have any cards to show from 5 years ago to see if your style has changed?

Here are a few new ideas from the fabulous team to get the creative juices flowing

Lythan

Leo

Nat

Kathy

Sharon

Rein

Keilly

Zuzana

Samm

Fran

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Is it YOU?

2011-09-23T10:23:00.000+01:00

The random number generator at random.org has done it's stuff and picked the lucky winner of our Funky Hand giveaway.

no. 14 - Avril B.

Congratulations - You will soon be crafting with the fabulous "Happy Happy Birthday" CD!

Please contact us at DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk with your postal info and we will arrange for your prize to be sent to you

Find out all about Funky Hand products by visiting the Funky Hand WEBSITE

Thanks once again to Anice and Funky Hand for donating such a wonderful prize, and for allowing the DT to work with the paper designs on the new CD

Now please scroll down for this week's challenge, set by Jo

Green Eggs and Ham...

2011-09-23T10:02:00.005+01:00

What a fantastic cards you made for Kathy's Candlelicious dare, sponsored by the amazing Funky Hand, last week. Thank you to everyone who joined in with us. We'll be along shortly to announce the winner of the brand new Funky Hand CD

Click here to visit the Funky Hand Website

It's Jo here this week to dare you with the theme of Dr. Seuss.

I loved reading Dr. Seuss books when I was little and my children love them now so this week, I would like to see Dr. Seuss inspired cards - whether they feature Green Eggs and Ham, The inhabitants of Whoville, The Cat in the Hat or are inspired by the colours, font or rhyming phrases, it will be brilliant to see what you make!

The DT have made some gorgeous cards, and we hope you'll be playing along with our theme this week, too

Samm

Kathy

Nat

Lythan

Sharon

Zuzana

Keilly

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How Many Candles?

2011-09-16T10:21:00.007+01:00

Wow! What a wonderful array of cards you made for Keilly's Pink and Green with Butterflies challenge last week. Thank you to everyone who joined in with us.

This week it's Kathy here with your challenge, and we have a wonderful prize to give away to one lucky winner.

We are joining in the celebrations for the launch of Funky Hand latest Papercraft Factory CD

Happy Happy Birthday

Our lucky random draw winner will receive a copy of this fabulous, brand new CD Rom!

Funky Hand design and supply a fabulous range of digital papers, images and templates for crafting projects. Visit the Funky Hand website and you'll find the fabulous Papercraft Factory CDs and also, for instant gratification downloadable paper and digi image collections.

To be in the draw you must:

1. make a card for this week's challenge and leave a link so we can see it

2. add links to your blog telling your readers about Funky Hand and the Daring Cardmakers

3. enter your card for no more than FIVE other challenges

Here's the challenge:

How Many Candles?

I'd simply like you to make a Birthday Card with at least one candle on it this week

The DCM team have all used Funky Hand papers from the Happy Happy Birthday CD to make their cards this week so you'll see what it's all about, but of course you may not have any (yet), so you can use anything you like.

If you would like to try using a Funky Hand Freebie, visit Get Funky! where you'll find this months new Funky Fifteenth freebie available to download right now.

We're looking forward to seeing your creations so please come back and leave us a message and your link.

Kathy

Sharon

Nat

Lythan

Leo

Fran

Keilly

Vanessa

Jo

Rein

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Flutterby

2011-09-09T10:01:00.010+01:00

Firstly a big thank you to everyone who took part in last week's dare and shared their Morning Glory and Aster flower theme cards.

Well, its Keilly here this week with my very first dare! I've chosen an inspiration photo and would like you to use the colours from the photo and to also include butterflies!

Source: birthdaygirlblog.com via Jodie on Pinterest

Keilly

Nat

Kathy

Rein

Lythan
Zuzana
Leo

Jo

Fran

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(What's the Story) Morning Glory....

2011-09-02T10:01:00.007+01:00

Thank you all for joining in with last week's dare - it was wonderful to see just how many "natural" items you all found to use along with the Kraft card theme. We'll all be looking at feathers, twigs and string in a new way from now on!

Now on to this week's challenge....

It's the 2nd day of September and the first dare of the new month so we're looking to the flowers associated with September for our card-making inspiration, they are:

Asters and Morning Glory

We'd love you to join in and play along with us, using either one or even both of these lovely flowers as your starting point - we are really looking forward to seeing what you create, so please remember to come and leave a link and a comment when you're ready to share.

Have fun!

Lynda

Nat

Leo

Jo

Rein

Kathy

Keilly

Zuzana

Sharon
Fran

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Feeling Krafty

2011-08-26T10:06:00.004+01:00

Hi everyone it's Fran here with my first dare (how fun!) but before I tell you what's in-store this week, we'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who challenged themselves with the "Banksy" dare, such great cards you shared with us last week!

This week I'd like you to be...

Feeling Krafty

I'd like you to use 'natural' items on your projects, ie. wood, leaves, kraft card, balsa wood, cork, burlap, rope, natural twine etc. The choice is endless, you just need a bit of imagination!
There is a catch though - you must use 3 natural items not just a bit of kraft card!

Nat

Jo

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Banksy

2011-08-19T10:10:00.010+01:00

Hey everyone, it's Samm here today,

Thank you to everyone who shared their fabulous and "so kawaii" cards with us for Leo's challenge last week, what a fab lot of things we saw!

It's my turn to set the dare this week and my challenge is

'Inspired by Banksy'

If you're not aware of who he is, then pop on by Banksy.co.uk and take a look at some of his amazing street art across the world - you could also try a Google Image search on "Banksy" to find lots of fabulous ideas for your card.

So now is your chance to dig out those stencils, use that paint, throw in a few ironic sayings and give your card some 'street life' and show us what you've created. Don't forget to link us up at the bottom of this post.

Here's what the design team have created:

Samm

Kathy

Keilly

Zuzana

Sharon

Leo

Fran

Vanessa

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So Kawaii

2011-08-12T10:06:00.005+01:00

Hey there it's Leo here with my first dare, eek! But before I tell you about my challenge I'd like to say a big Thank you to everyone who joined in last week and shared their wonderful Gladioli and Poppy cards - what a lovely bouquet we saw!

Now, I love anything kawaii so this week I want you to travel to Japan to get your inspiration and create a card that is

so kawaii!

Kawaii means anything that is lovable, hug-able and basically cute! Think Hello Kitty and food with smiley faces. Most of the colours in kawaii are sugary, fun and bright so I want to see a little fun bright pop colour too.If you're totally stumped this week check out my favourite kawaii blog for some super cute inspiration, http://www.supercutekawaii.com/

Check out the delish work the design team have come up with this week, sooooooo kawaii!

Have fun

xx Leo

Leo

Sharon

Kathy

Nat

Fran

Keilly

Lythan

Samm

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Birth Month Flowers for August

2011-08-05T10:11:00.011+01:00

Thank you so much for joining in with Sharon's first dare over the past week. Your "Cute as a Button" cards were exactly that and we so enjoyed visiting your blogs to seem them all.
Thanks to to our lovely Guest Designer Angela for sharing her beautiful creations with us during July - it was a real treat to have her with us and we will miss seeing her cards on the blog

This week it's the first challenge of the month, so that means we'd like you to use the flowers associated with the month of August as the starting point for your cards. August's flowers are
Poppies and Gladioli

You can use either flower, or both of them as the inspiration for your cards and as usual the team have got some ideas to show you which we hope will get you thinking.

Please come back and leave a link and message so we know where to visit to see your creations. Happy Crafting!

Kathy

Rein

Nat

Sharon

Zuzana

Keilly

Leo

Jo

Fran

Lythan

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Cute as a button!

2011-07-29T10:09:00.010+01:00

Thanks for sharing all your wonderful 'Wish you were Here' cards last week. We really enjoyed seeing such a fabulous selection of cards.

Cute as a Button

It's Sharon here with my first ever dare - how exciting! My challenge for you all this week is to create a card using buttons - but hold on, it's not that simple, oh no. I'd like you to use buttons in the main feature of your card, not just as an added embellishment in the corner.

To get you thinking of ideas, here's what the DT have created this week, we#re looking forward to seeing what you come up with so please come back and let us know where we can see your creations:

Sharon

Zuzana

Rein

Lythan

Angela (Dolly Mixtures)

Kathy

Nat Keilly

Leo

Fran

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Wish You Were Here!

2011-07-22T10:48:00.003+01:00

Well it was fun coming along and seeing all your Pinteresting cards last week - I don't think any of us will be the same now we've found that site! Thanks Nat for a great Dare!

Anyway onto this week's Dare and it's me, Lynda, here to set the challenge this week. Back down to earth with a bump I'm afraid.

WISH YOU WERE HERE!

As it's Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere (although you could actually disagree with that sometimes with the mix of weather we get here in the UK) and the kid's will be starting their Summer Break from School. I'd like to see what's your idea of the perfect getaway destination. Is it a Sandy Beach, a Tropical Paradise, Camping/Caravaning, Countryside or even a City Break! What takes your fancy?

Here's what the DT have been creating for inspiration this week:-

Nat

Lythan

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And the Crimson Cloud Winner is....

2011-07-15T10:29:00.000+01:00

We put the names of last weeks and this weeks darers into our virtual hat and pulled out the name of the lucky person who will soon receive this lovely collection of cardmaking goodies, courtesy of
Crimson Cloud online store

We're pleased to announce that the winner is

Victoria

Congratulations Victoria, if you'll contact us at DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk with your postal info we'll arrange for your prize to be sent to you. We hope you enjoy using those lovely goodies.

It's all very Pinterest-ing!

2011-07-15T10:05:00.010+01:00

Thanks to everyone who joined in with Rein's suitcase dare last week - there were some fab entries!

We'll be posting details of the winner of the fab prize soon, but first it's on with this week's dare!

Hi everyone - it's Nat here with this week's dare, which will be something a little different!

As the title suggests we're looking to Pinterest for some inspiration!

I am a relatively new convert to Pinterest - I only joined a month or so ago, but it is definitely my favourite place to hang out at the moment and get instant inspiration - plus I can keep track of all the wonderful inspiring pics and cool techniques I've bookmarked over the years in one handy place.

If you don't know what Pinterest is, check out the blurb here for more info.

We want to spread some Pinterest love this week - because the joy of Pinterest is discovering new sources of inspiration!

So the dare this week is to create a card using a "pin" for inspiration.

We want to see what inspired your creation so make sure you include the original "pin" (ideally using the handy Embed feature that appears to the right of the image on Pinterest) alongside your card project in your blog post.

If you're not a member of Pinterest you can still play along - you can either browse/search Pinterest for inspiration and still embed the "pin" in your blog post or simply share whatever pic you have used as inspiration for your card.

Either way please remember to give credit where credit's due.

Remember to check out the Design Team's blogs so you can see what pics inspired their cards!

We can't wait to see what you come up with and as always we love reading your comments - so happy creating and happy pinning!

Leo

Zuzana

Nat
Samm

Keilly
Lynda

Fran

Angela (Dolly Mixtures)

Kathy

Rein

Lythan

Jo

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Pack Your Suitcase

2011-07-08T10:04:00.010+01:00

Hello,

Thanks to all of you that joined with us last week -it was great to see your wonderful Water Lily and Larkspur cards. As we had a little problem with our Inlinkz code going a bit awry last week and lots of people were unable to add their links, we've decided to roll-over our prize draw and include all the cards entered for this week's challenge too.

So for another week, donated by our sponsor online store Crimson Cloud, .

Click HERE to visit the Crimson Cloud online store

we have this lovely cardmaking kit for one very lucky winner:

There are only 3 rules for entering our random draw:

1. Make a card for our challenge and link it back to here

2. Show it on your blog and add links to tell everyone about
Crimson Cloud and The Daring Cardmakers

3. You may only enter your card for 5 other challenges

So now. if you are all ready and raring to craft....

it's Rein here this week

and my dare is

"SUITCASE"

I'd like you to use a suitcase in any way you like on your card

It could be what you put in your suitcase when you're off travelling, or you could incorporate any sort of suitcase; old, new, shiny or battered into your design.

......"hmmm now then, where is my trolley case......'''.

Please come and let us know where we can see your creations by leaving a link and a comment. Here are some ideas from the Team to help get you thinking

Kathy

Nat

Leo

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Larkspur and Water Lily

2011-07-01T10:01:00.003+01:00

Thanks to everyone who's played along with Lythan's "Old, New, Borrowed and Blue" challenge over the last week - what a fabulous array of cards we saw!

Before we move on to the new theme we have a couple of "news items" to share. First of all we'd like like to introduce you to

Angela, aka Dolly Mixtures

who is our fabulous new Guest Designer for the month of July. We are so thrilled to have her with us and we're sure you'll love seeing her gorgeous cards too.
Our second piece of news is that we have a wonderful prize donated by our sponsor this week: online store Crimson Cloud, to offer one lucky winner this week.

Click HERE to visit the Crimson Cloud online store

There are only 3 rules for entering our random draw:
1. Make a card for this week's challenge and link it back to here
2. Show it on your blog and add links to tell everyone about Crimson Cloud and The Daring Cardmakers
3. You may only enter your card for 5 other challenges
And this is the prize you could win:

Now on to this week's challenge....
As this is the first Dare of the month we're looking to the flowers associated with the new month of July for our card-making inspiration:
the Larkspur and the Water Lily

Fran

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Something old, something new

2011-06-24T10:06:00.004+01:00

Well my friends, what a wonderfully creative lot you are. So many fabulous cards rocking the round shape that Kathy set for us last week. Thanks for participating

This week there is a homage to my (Lythan) sister in laws wedding. Erica and Terry celebrate their marriage in a few weeks time and in honour of that I would like you to interpret the wedding rhyme

"Something old,

something new,

something borrowed

and something blue"

So use some old and new stash and if you can include the borrowed and blue as well that would be awesome. And do tell us what is what as we are nosy like that! (well I am)

As ever, the team have pulled out all the stops with their amazing creations

Fran

Kathy

Rein

Zuzana

Sharon

Nat

Lynda

Leo

Keilly

Vanessa

Lythan

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Winner! (scroll down for new challenge)

2011-06-17T10:22:00.001+01:00

We have a winner for the fab prize kindly donated by Crafty Emma's Store for last week's dare

Click HERE to visit the store

This fab Echo Park paper pad

will be shortly be winging it's way to

no.5 Kate P

Congratulations Kate, please contact us at: DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk with your postal info so that Emma can send your prize off to you

Let's Rock!

2011-06-17T10:03:00.010+01:00

Thanks to all of you who joined in with Jo's half-way-to-Christmas challenge over this past week and put Santa on your cards
....a challenge it most definitely was for a lot of us, wasn't it?
We'll be back asap to announce the winner of that lovely Echo Park paper pad kindly donated by Crafty Emma's Store! We hope you've had the chance to check out all the fabulous things Emma has to tempt us with.

It's Kathy here with this week's new challenge:
Rocking All Over the World
This week I'd like you to make a Wobble Card - these are cards which have a curved base so that when you tap them they rock, or wobble from side to side.
Now what you put on your card is up to you, BUT if you're up for a bit more of a challenge, how about adding something of a pun, and giving your card a "rocking" theme too?
Rock and Roll, Rocking Horse, You Rock My World, Whisky on the Rocks, Rocket Man ....ohhh the list is (almost) endless!

So, are you ready to Rock?
Have fun, and don't forget to come back and let us know where we can see your creations.
Here's what the team have been making this week to help inspire you

Sharon

Kathy

Rein

Lynda

Zuzana

Lythan

Keilly

Leo

Fran

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Father Christmas

2011-06-10T10:31:00.018+01:00

A HUGE thank you to everyone who made rose and honeysuckle cards to celebrate the flowers of June, it was a treat to visit all the links and see such fabulous cards.

Click here to visit Crafty Emma's Store

This week we have another lovely prize to give away, kindly donated by the fabulous Crafty Emma's Store - which is a real treat to browse and buy from so please take a minute to click the link and see for yourself all the treasures Emma stocks.
As always the winner will be chosen at random, then as long as our simple rules have been adhered to this fab Echo Park 6x6 paper pad could be winging it's way to you

The Rules:
1. Make a card for this week's challenge and share it on your blog, leave us a link or a comment on this post

2. Your post must mention and contain links to Crafty Emma's Store and also to The Daring Cardmakers
3. To qualify for the prize you may only link your card to 5 other challenges

So, are you ready for this week's challenge?

It's Jo here with this week's dare and to help us all feel festive, I have chosen

Father Christmas

as the theme this week! The team ~~after a few groans!~~ have created beautiful cards and as you can see, you can even fit Father Christmas onto a non-Christmas card!

Leo

Nat

Lynda

Sharon

Fran

Kathy

Zuzana

Lythan

Keilly

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Our "Imagine That..." Winner is.....

2011-06-03T11:08:00.000+01:00

We're very happy to announce the winners of our lovely stamp sets, kindly donated by our current sponsor "Imagine That... " - a fabulous treasury of Crafty Goodies both in their "real" shop and their on-line store!.

A huge THANK YOU to Emma for her support and for donating these fab prizes.

We used the number picker at Random.org to choose a number from the Links List, then checked that the required links were on those entries If a blog didn't have those links we tried again!

So here are our Lucky Threesome::

no.7 AngelaK

no.3 Amy Tidd

no.23 Vicky

Angela, Amy and Vicly will each win one lovely stamp set - remember these sets are designed in-house and exclusive to:

Please click here to visit the shop

Angela, Amy and Vicky Please contact us with your postal information at DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk and we'll sort out your prizes asap

The June Flowers are.....

2011-06-03T10:00:00.007+01:00

Thank you to everyone for making such a fabulous array of cards for Zuzana's "Passion for Fashion" challenge last weekThanks again to Imagine That... for donating the stamp sets we're giving away.

Here's what Lythan says about the store - which is her local craft shop and where she teaches some classes:

Imagine That..

"... a fabulous giveaway from my most generous, lovely and talented local craft shop owner - Emma of Imagine That. It is a lovely shop (both real and online) and the classes there are many and varied (even if some people's tend to over-run. That would be me). One of the best things about it is the shop-designed clear stamps. I have clear stamps from other places that have started to show wear and tear but Emma's are still going strong."

We'll do the draw for our prizes and be back to announce the winners just as soon as possible, so if you made a card and added the links as required, please check back to see if you are one of the winners - while you wait, why not click this LINK and explore Imagine That's online store ;-)

This week we return to our First Friday of the Month series of Flower challenges. The flowers for June are

Roses and Honeysuckle

so we'd like you to take one or both of those flowers as your inspiration for your crafting.. With flowers like that to base your cards around we know we're in for a treat this week and we can't wait to see what you come up with.

Here are the cards our DT have been making to help get your creative juices flowing!

Happy Crafting!

Kathy

Leo

Nat
Sharon

Rein

Fran

Keilly

Zuzana

Lythan

Vanessa

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Passion For Fashion

2011-05-27T09:59:00.014+01:00

Thank you to everyone who joined in with Samm's Chasing Cars challenge last week; your cards were truly stunning and we loved seeing how the song inspired you.

Just before we get to this week's challenge we have BIG news!

Our recent DT Call-Out was a huge success. We had a ball visiting all the blogs of the fabulous applicants and getting to know them and their crafting. It was impossible to choose just two new Teamies, so in the end we chose FOUR! The very worst thing about doing this Call-Out was having to leave any of our lovely new friends off the final list - so we'll be inviting as many as we can to come and be Guest Designers over the next few months

We are delighted to introduce our amazing, talented new Design Team members.

Fran, Keilly, Leo and Sharon
We know they are going to bring a breath of fresh air to the Daring Cardmakers and we hope you will visit their blogs to see their crafting and get to know them better.

We've already put them to work and, their first creations can be seen this week.

To celebrate their arrival and also Zuzana's very first turn at dare-setting we have prizes from a brand new sponsor, the fabulous online and "bricks and mortar" craft shop:

Imagine That Shop Link

Join in this week, make sure you follow the rules, and you may be lucky enough to win one of three stamp sets from Imagine That in our Random Draw

Here are the rules:

1. add links to Imagine That and The Daring Cardmakers

2. link to no more than 5 other challenges.

So, are you ready to craft now?

Passion For Fashion

This week it's me Zuzana setting our dare for my very first time, so I hope you like what I have come up with!

I would like you to be a fashion designer and create some wow factor dress, shoes, handbags, lingerie . . . whatever you like from fashion.

This is what your Fashion Design Team have made for your inspiration.

Don't forget to link back your own creations and leave a comment too as we look forward to seeing them.

HAPPY CRAFTING

Leo

Keilly

Fran

Sharon

Zuzana

Lynda

Lythan

Kathy

Rein

Nat

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Chasing Cars

2011-05-20T10:02:00.009+01:00

Hello everyone, thank you to everyone who joined in last weeks challenge, the response was amazing, so keep it coming as we appreciate seeing everything you created.

We've now got the very difficult task of choosing which of our DT Call Applicants will be invited to join us on our team - we'll be as quick as we can, we promise!

CHASING CARS - SNOW PATROL

Hi, It's Samm here, and I've set this week's challenge to use the song 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol as the inspiration for your cards.

If you're not familiar with the song, then here's a links to the lyrics:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

It means a lot to me, so I'd love to see what you all come up with, so don't forget to get your linking fingers on and show us what you've created!!!

Samm

Nat

Jo

Lythan

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The Darling BUGS of May!

2011-05-13T21:26:00.002+01:00

Well, it's a bit later than usual, but we're happy to be here and glad that the people at Blogger have managed to fix their problems - it's been a very strange Friday with no bloggers to visit!

Thanks to everyone who joined in with our Flowers of May Dare last week as always you all rose to the challenge wonderfully.

It's Lynda here and it's my turn to set the Dare for this week:-

The Darlin' BUGS of May

I'd like to see some BUGS eg ladybirds, bees, spiders, caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies - it would be lovely to see them taking centre stage on your card or be used as a lovely embellishment but I won't accept them if they're just printed onto your backing papers as that wouldn't be a challenge at all!
Our dare this week also forms the second stage of our DT Call - we will be looking out for the cards made by those who sent us an application during stage one We had a lot of interest and it's proving very difficult to decide who our new Teamies will be so we're especially looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with this week

We hope you like the idea of this week's challenge, here's what the Team have been making this week to help inspire you. : Please come back and leave us a link to your card when you're ready to share your creation - and don't forget to leave a comment too as we love to hear what you think.

Happy Crafting

Lynda

Lythan

Kissinia

Rein

Zuzana

Kathy

Nat

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The Flowers for May

2011-05-06T10:06:00.006+01:00

Thanks to everyone who joined in with our Royal Celebration last week - what a fabulous day it was. We hope you enjoyed seeing all the Pomp and Ceremony surrounding the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine. It was also wonderful to visit all your blogs to see how the theme inspired you in your crafting.

This week is exciting too as we welcome a brand new Guest Designer to the team, we'd like to introduce you to

Kissinia,

who is coming all the way from Russia ;) to share her fabulous crafting skills We love her work and we're sure you will too.

The first Dare of each month this year is given over to the flowers associated with that month. The flowers associated with the Marvellous Month of May are:

the Hawthorn and the Lily of the Valley

So that's your starting point for this week, please use one or both of these lovely flowers as your inspiration - we are really looking forward to seeing what you create, so please remember to come and leave a link and a comment when you're ready to share.

Happy crafting

Here are our cards for this week to help get you thinking

Samm

Zuzana

Lythan

Jo

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By Royal Appointment

2011-04-29T10:09:00.004+01:00

Thanks to everyone who took part in Rein's fab dare last week! There were some lovely card projects on show.

Also a big thank you to everyone that applied for our Design Team callout - we have been really impressed with the submissions.

~ - ~

This week it's me, Nat, setting the dare, and I'm sure you'll be able to guess our theme!

Yep, in honour of today's right Royal Wedding your challenge is to make a card with...

A royal or patriotic theme to it!

You could choose anything from fairytale princesses to vintage-ware à la all the (sometimes kitschy) memorabilia that has been on offer in various retail outlets throughout the land.

Check out the wonderful projects that the design team have come up with.

Happy creating everyone!

Nat

Lythan

Zuzana

Lynda

Kathy

Rein

Samm

Jo

DCM Designers Call-Out (Please Scroll down for This Week's Challenge)

2011-04-28T11:12:00.009+01:00

The Daring Cardmakers have been setting weekly challenges for cardmakers for over five years now - in fact we believe we were the first of the cardmaking challenge blogs!

It's been a wonderful journey and now we're having our first ever Designer Call-Out to find 2 talented designers to join our fab DT and help inspire crafters all over the world.

If you love what we do and would like to be part of it, please email
DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk
and we'll get back to you with an outline of how to apply.
Successful entrants will need to have a blog or be prepared to start one. Applications are welcome from anywhere in the world.
Applications must be with us by12 noon on Thursday 28th April (UK time), no emails received after this time will be accepted, sorry.

We're looking forward to hearing from YOU!
This stage of the process is now completed
Thank you to all who contacted us for info, and especially to those who have sent in their full application.
We have lots of wonderful applicants and have already seen many fab examples of their work.
It's going to be a hard task to choose who to invite to join us, but space is limited, so choose we must!
Now, for the second part of the DT Call, we're looking forward to seeing the cards they make for our challenges and getting to know them a bit better over the next couple of weeks.

Speaking Professionally

2011-04-22T10:05:00.001+01:00

Just a quick reminder to those who requested details on how to apply for out Design Team places that the first part of the application process closes at 12 noon on Thursday 28th April (UK time). There's still time to contact us and then get your application in, though, so if you like what you see on our blog and would like to be part of it, check out the info on the post above this one.

Hello,

It's Rein here this week, and on behalf of the team I'd like to say thanks to all of you that joined with us last week - so many wonderful Spring and Easter cards!

Time for a new challenge though, and my dare for you this week is

'speaking professionally'

I would love to see the perfect card for a cook, a gardener, a pilot, a nurse ...
or any other job you want.

We're looking for cards all about the jobs people do this week and we can't wait to see what you come up with so please don't forget to come and let us know where we can see what you make.

Here are some cards from the DT to get you thinking

have fun!

Lynda

Rein

Zuzana

Nat
Kathy

Spring Fling

2011-04-15T10:04:00.002+01:00

A Great Big Thank You to all who joined in Lythan's "Draw A Bird" challenge - and a special "Well Done message to those of you who were brave enough to really go for it and draw your own birdie!

With Easter just around the corner Spring is certainly in the air!

This week we want to see your Spring or Easter inspired cards.

You could go with classic Spring colours, Easter bunnies and chicks or, for extra flair, why not literally add some spring with wire embellishments, hinges, and some dimensional magic!

The team have been hard at work this week creating some lovely projects to get you inspired.

Don't forget to link up to your card - we love to see what you've made.

Oh and if you've not seen the details about our Design Team call, check out the post at the top of the blog for more info.

Happy creating!

Nat

Lynda

Zuzana

Kathy

Rein

Lythan

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Draw a Bird Day

2011-04-08T09:00:00.022+01:00

Did you know that April 8th is officially draw a bird day? Me neither until I was stuck for a dare and looked up the significance of April 8th. So let's give it a go!

Draw a bird

If you really can't face drawing your own bird then I will allow stamped or paper pieced birds as well.

As usual here's what the Team have made this week, we hope you'll enjoy seeing our cute little birdies and will feel inspired to join in with us this time.

Don't forget to come back and leave your link when you're ready - and please don't forget to leave a comment too as we do love to hear what you think.

PS Don't forget our design team call - why not give it a whirl!

Lythan

Please Leave us a comment as well as your link, we love to read them!

Daisies and Sweet Peas for April

2011-04-01T10:11:00.000+01:00

Thank you to everyone who joined in with Kathy's Book Club Dare last week, it was fun to see so many creative "takes" on the challenge. Before announcing the new dare, we have 2 exciting pieces of news to share:

Firstly We're thrilled to let you know that our fabulous March Guest Designer Zuzana Obert will be staying on as a full time DT member, we just love her cards and now we'll be seeing even more of them woohoo!.
Welcome to the Team, Zuzana
Secondly - we are looking for two more fabulous designers to freshen up the DT this Spring, so we're having our first ever DT Call-Out! Would you like to design for us each week and see your cards on here? Well, check the post at the top of the blog for more information - we're looking forward to hearing from you.

As it's the first Friday as well as the first day of the month we return to our series of Flowers of the Month challenges and this week we'd like you to take inspiration from the flowers associated with the month of April, which are

the Daisy and the Sweet Pea

two beautiful flowers to choose from - or maybe you'll be so inspired that you'll make a card for each of them! We'd love to see what you can create using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your crafting, you can use the inspiration of these flowers in whatever way takes your fancy!

As usual here's what the Team have made this week, we hope you'll enjoy seeing our Daisy and Sweet Pea creations and will feel inspired to join in with us this time.

Don't forget to come back and leave your link when you're ready - and please don't forget to leave a comment too as we do love to hear what you think.

Samm

Lythan

Please remember to leave your comment after you've added your link!

The Book Club

2011-03-25T10:02:00.006Z

A big Thank You to everyone who joined in with Jo's "Going Postal" challenge last week - what a fun dare - and what a lot of fabulous cards we saw!

This week it's me (Kathy) setting the dare and I'm inviting you along to

The Book Club

I'd simply like you to take your inspiration from Books - and you can do this any way you wish.
You could make a card in the form of a book, make a background using a page (or scanned page) from a book, use an excerpt from a book on your card as a background or focal piece, or use an actual story/title/book to inspire your card.
If you choose to use a specific book for your inspiration, don't forget to let us know which it was.

Please come back and leave a link here to tell us where we can see your creation and we'll pop along to visit.We've added a Linky gadget this week to see how we get on with it- but please leave a comment too

Here are some ideas from the DT Library this week - if you visit our personal blogs you'll find out more about our own inspiration!

Lynda

Rein

Kathy

Nat

Lythan

Zuzana

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Please leave us a comment as well as your link!

Going Postal!

2011-03-18T09:00:00.001Z

Hi all, it's Jo here with this week's dare, a huge thank you to all who joined in with Vanessa's Home Baked dare, the cards were amazing!

Going Postal!
Postage stamps are an up and coming trend in the crafting world so I thought this week it would be fun to have cards incorporating them! Real (postage) stamps, die cuts, hand cut, rubber stamps or even punched ones. Cards for any occasion but they must have a postage stamp somewhere!

The design team have created gorgeous cards:

Jo

Home Baked

2011-03-11T09:00:00.002Z

Thank you all for sharing all your beautiful jonquil and daffodil inspired cards. Now onto this week, and its my turn (Vanessa) to get you all creating. The theme is :-

HOME BAKED

You have to create at least one of your own embellishments for your card and thats it, nice and simple!

We'd love to see what you all come up with and in the mean time, here is some cards from the DT. We hope you'll enjoy seeing them and will feel inspired to join in with us this week :-

Zuzana

Rein

Kathy

Lythan

Vanessa

Samm

Keryn

Lynda

Jo
Nat

Jonquils and Daffodils for March

2011-03-04T10:05:00.005Z

Thank you all for sharing all the crafty bargains you found to use on your "Poundshop Pretties" cards last week. There are some great bargain-hunters around that's for sure, and we saw lots of wonderful cards made with the new goodies.

It's always sad to wave "farewell" to our Guest Designers but last week saw Chrissie's final creation as our Fabulous February GD though we hope she'll still be playing along with the challenges each week. Thank you for sharing your wonderful cards with us throughout February, Chrissie, you've given so much inspiration.

Today though, we are very excited to introduce our Amazing March Guest Designer, we're thrilled to announce that Zuzana Obert is joining us for the whole of the coming month, Welcome to the team Zuzana! We know you are going to love seeing her work on here over the next few weeks.

As it's the first Friday of the month we return to our series of Flowers of the Month challenges and we'd like you to take inspiration from the flowers associated with the month of March, which are

the Daffodil and the Jonquil

- perfect flowers for reminding us (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) that Spring is just around the corner!
We'd love to see what you can create using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your crafting , you can use the inspiration of these flowers in whatever way takes your fancy!
We're looking forward to seeing your creations, so please come and let us know where we can see them.

To start the ball rolling, here are some Daffodil and Jonquil cards from the DT, we hope you'll enjoy seeing them and will feel inspired to join in with us this week

Keryn

Pound Shop Challenge

2011-02-25T10:06:00.003Z

Hi everyone,

Thanks for joining in with our SteamPunk challenge last week, we hope you enjoyed it ads much as we did.

"POUND SHOP PRETTIES"

This week it's Samm here to set the challenge and I'd like you to search out those pound shops or dollar stores and find new things to add to your stash - then create a card using your new found bargains!! Don't forget to let us know what you've used and then we know what to search for when we're next in 'town'!

Here's what the DT have come up this week using their bargain stash, don't forget to link back in the comments to your own creations, we look forward to seeing them:

Samm

Lythan

Kathy

Steampunk!

2011-02-18T10:03:00.008Z

Hi,

thanks to all of you that joined with us last week for our "reeling in the ribbon" with

"The Ribbon Reel",

what wonderful cards you made with Nat's recipe!
And the winner of that lovely stash from The Ribbon Reel is...

Zuzana Obert!!!!!

Many congrats Zuzana, please contact Kathy with your details via the e-mail addy on her blog.

It's Rein here this week and my dare for you is all about

"steampunk"

You can find out all about Steampunk arts and crafts HERE and you will find lots of free downloadable things you might find helpful HERE and HERE (do a search on "steampunk").
But basically you need to look back to the end of the 19th Century and all the steam and clockwork machines that were being developed then. You need to be thinking about using steam machines, cogs, tools, balloons, clocks, metal things... on your card, and maybe making your own crazy machines!

Here's what the DT have come up with this week to help inspire you (we hope!). We hope you'll have as much fun with this challenge as we did. Don't forget to come and let us know where we can see your crazy creations.

Lythan

Asia

Reeling in the ribbon

2011-02-11T10:06:00.008Z

It's Nat here bringing you this week's dare...
First of all I'd just like to say how happy we were to see all the lovely entries for last week's February flowers dare - so many great cards!

We hope you'll be just as excited to join in with this week's dare.

Not only were the Design Team lucky enough to be sent some goodies to play with, but there's also a give-away from our sponsor for the week:

The Ribbon Reel!

Check out all this yummy stash up for grabs:

Now in order to be entered into the draw for this prize, you need to create a card that features all of the following elements:

Two items of ribbon/trim/twine

One or more buttons

At least one heart element

The rules are simple:

1. Make your card using the recipe above and add it to your blog

2. Add links to both The Ribbon Reel and The Daring Cardmakers

3. Enter your card for no more than FIVE challenges (including this one)

Oh, and don't forget to let us know where we can see it, of course!

Here's what the team came up with for this recipe....

Kathy

Flowers for February

2011-02-04T10:21:00.005Z

Thank you all for sharing your fab and fun "Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit" cards with us last week. What a wonderful array of creativity we saw on our travels around your blogs
We have a wonderful new Guest Designer joining us this month, we were thrilled when Chrissie agreed to make some of her fabulous cards just for us and we know you'll agree when you see what she's been making.
Welcome Chrissie!

It's the first Friday of the month so this week we'd like you to take inspiration from the flowers associated with the month of February
February's flowers are the Violet and the Primrose

The colours associated with them are shades of Violet, Sky Blue and Yellow and the traditional meanings of the flowers are Modesty, Faithfulness, Virtue and Young Love

We'd love to see what you can create using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your crafting.
We're looking forward to seeing your creations, so please come and let us know where we can see them.
Here are the Primrose and Violet cards the team have been making this week, we hope they'll help get you thinking

Chrissie

Rein

Kathy

Nat

Vanessa

Samm

Keryn

Lynda

Lythan

Asia

Year of the Rabbit

2011-01-28T12:35:00.002Z

Thank you to everyone who joined in with us last week and we hope you enjoyed making that special card for yourself as much as we enjoyed coming to see it.

Its Lynda here and this is the Dare I’ve set for you all this week:-

The Year of the Rabbit

3^rd February 2011 will welcome in the next Chinese New Year – the Year of the Rabbit. So this week I’m going to let you have TWO options to choose from:-

Make a card with an Oriental feel to it

Make a card that features a rabbit.

It’s entirely up to you.

Can’t wait to see what you make so don’t forget to come back and leave us a link to your card.

Here’s a little inspiration from the Team just to get you started:-

Lynda

Lythan

Rein

Nat

Kathy

Keryn

Asia

It's All About Me!!

2011-01-21T09:00:00.019Z

Before we tell you about this week's Dare we'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered our 'No Calories' Dare last week. There were some fabulous entries and now it's time to name our winner who will receive their choice of 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More.

Out of all the entries last week there were 10 of you who met the criteria to win the prize and we kept your names in order of entry and used random org to pick a number (from 1-10) - which was Number 10

So the winner is:-

SHARON (Cards by Request)

Congratulations Sharon Please e-mail Kathy (you can find her e-mail address on her blog) so that she can arrange for you to get your prize.

This week it's Asia here and I would like you to make a card for... yourself! Use your special papers (the ones that you stash away for Queen's birthday and you know you won't use them anyway, because they're too pretty), your favourite stamps and embellishments. Make a card that will stay with you and write inside something that has a meaning to you, that gives you power and energy. Make a card, that you've never got.

We're really looking forward to seeing the cards you make for yourself so don't forget to leave a link for us to come and have a look.

Here's what the Team have been creating for 'themselves' this week:

Rein

Lynda

Kathy

Asia

Keryn

Lythan

Nat

Absolutely No Calories Recipe

2011-01-14T10:12:00.003Z

Thank you so much for joining in with the first of our monthly flower challenges, it was such a lovely start to the year to see so many beautiful snowdrops and carnations displayed on your cards.

Our dare this week is to "bake" a card using our No Calorie Recipe - Read on to find out how you can be in with a chance of winning a prize for joining in this week..

Here are the ingredients you must use on your card:

1 image (stamped, digital or other type)
2 pieces of ribbon
3 different papers

This week we are lucky to have a lovely sponsor for our dare and the DT have been working with digital images, downloadable papers or even both = all from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations.

You can see all Robyn's lovely paper designs, and a huge variety of digi images HERE. You'll be spoilt for choice!

You have the chance to win either your choice of 5 digital stamps or your choice of 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set from Robyn's Fetish by entering a card for this week's challenge.

To qualify for entry to our prize draw don't forget to follow our 3 Simple Rules:

1. Make your card using the recipe above and add it to your blog
2. Add links to both Robyn's Fetish and The Daring Cardmakers
3. Enter your card for no more than 5 challenges (including this one)

Oh, and don't forget to let us know where we can see it, of course!

Here's what the team have come up with this week:

Samm

Lynda

Nat

Kathy

Rein

Lythan