Cos I'm a woman!

Hi there,

Thanks so much to everyone who joined in with Kathy's Ready Steady Cook dare last week, it was a toughy huh?

This week it is me, Tracie, who will be setting the dare for you - and iI hope it is a nice easy one. Seeing as this weekend is Mothers Day in the UK, and I am doing the 600 mile round trip home to see my mummy, I want the focus of your cards to be the girls. It can be any style, any theme, and any recipient - as long as she is female.

Can't wait to see all your cards. so don't forget to leave us a link to your card so we can all share in your creations. Here are some cards from the Design team to help get you thinking. xx

Kathy
Vanessa

Tracie Lythan

Rein

JozzaKeryn

Ready, Steady, Cook!

Hello and welcome to another Daring Cardmakers' Friday, I hope you're ready to play!

It's Kathy here this week to set the new challenge, but before I do, we'd all like to say a huge Thank You to everyone who took part in Jane's Patchwork Inspired dare last week. The cards were, as always wonderful and inspiring - we just love the way you are all so generous about sharing your work.

So, what's this week's dare all about?
Here in the UK there's a TV programme that's been going for years. A couple of viewers are invited to bring a bag of cookery ingredients to the studio and two top chefs have to make a meal using the contents of those bags - they don't know what will be in the bags beforehand.

So this dare is my take on that theme - I'll tell you the ingredients you have to use, then all you have to do is make the card.

Here are your ingredients:
3 different papers
At least one piece of chipboard
At least 1 button
At least 1 piece of ribbon
optional: 1 extra item/element of your choice

That's about it, all you need to do now is sort out your bits of stash and make up your card - you're allowed to use whatever paints, pens and inks you like, but otherwise you must stick to the ingredients in the list.

For the Design Team I added a twist, to make it more difficult! I sent each of them their own "bag" of ingredients - unlike you, they weren't allowed to use their own stash!

In their envelope they each found some pieces of paper, a couple of ribbons, a couple of pieces of chipboard and some buttons. They all contained papers from different collections and I did try to match up the ribbons and buttons - see, I'm not tooooo cruel!

Well, you can see below how our fab team rose to the challenge, and read more about how they approached the dare on their own blogs. We're really looking forward to seeing the cards you cook up, so please come back and leave us a message and a link to where we can "taste" your creations!
Have fun

Kathy

ReinJozza Tracie

Keryn
Lythan

Vanessa
Sue

Jo

Rhi

It's a patchy one!

Hello and welcome once again everyone. Jane here.

Can you believe its Friday again? The weeks in 2009 are whizzing by and its March already.

Many many thanks to those of you who joined in with Vanessa's lovely dare. There were some wonderful creations from you all.

Right, on to this week's dare, and its a 'patchy' one.
Yes, that's right - I want you to be inspired by patchwork and make a patchwork looking card. Great chance to use up scraps of off cuts - or buy some new papers if needs be! Any theme as long as it is patchwork inspired.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with - and don't forget to leave us a message and a link to your creation so that we can pop by and have a look.

Thanks again, and good luck
Jane and the team.

KerynKathy Rein Vanessa

Lythan
Jo

All things Circular!

Good morning, its Vanessa here to set this weeks dare. But firstly, we'd all like to thank everyone who took part in Rein's fish/frog dare and what a vast array of fabulous fishy and froggy creations to admire. :)

This week, the title says it all - I want to see lots of circles, you can decide how you use them, whether it be the shape of your card or how you display circular elements within the design and thats it, nice and simple (I hope :-)).

We'd love to pop along to see your creations, so please pop a link in the comments section below and in the meantime, here are some DT examples :-

Vanessa
Jo
Kathy
Rein
Jozza
Lythan

Rhi
Keryn

fish and/or frog

Hello all,

Thanks for all the green gorgeousness of last week - all the cards were wonderful and showed what a versatile colour green can be.

It's Rein here this week with a new dare:

I want to see a fish or a frog on your cards.

Apart from that, it's all up to you what you make!

Rein

Sue
Vanessa
Rhi
Kathy
Jozza Keryn

Lythan
Jo

Feeling green

Happy Friday the 13th! It's Jozza here to set the next dare. First of all we'd like to thank everyone who took part in Sue's oriental dare. What fab cards you all made and it's great to see the different colours as it is so easy to stick to red and black when doing oriental. It was indeed a very tricky dare (well I thought it was anyway) so this week I'm going easy on you!

The dare is feeling green. I want to see lots of green on your cards in any shade you like. You could even do a double dare and make a green themed get well card. It's up to you. We can't wait to see what you come up with, and in the meantime here are some cards the DT have made for inspiration.

Jozza


Lythan




Rhi
Jo



Keryn

Sue

Vanessa



Rein

Oriental Splendour

By way of thanking everyone who took part in Lythan’s Paper Passion Dare last week and for sharing all your wonderful cards with us, I (Sue) thought I would treat you all to a Chinese Take Away, if you’re up for it.

No, I’m not talking about food……I’m talking about my dare!

Oriental Splendour

I would like you to make a card with an Oriental influence and the ‘Take Away’ I referred to is the twist in the tail.

When ever Oriental is mentioned most people, including myself immediately reach for Red and Black so I’m taking them away from you and removing them from the pallet of colours that you can use on your card.

So to recap:-

I dare you to make an Oriental themed card which doesn’t use Red or Black.

When you’ve finished your card don’t forget to leave us a comment so we can come and see your creations and remember, if you don’t have a blog you can still play along.
Email your card to daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk and we will pop it on the gallery and we look forward to seeing all your creations

Here are some cards from the team to help get your creative juices flowing and we all look forward to seeing your creations.

Have Fun!

Sue
x

Kathy

Sue

Rhi

Tracie AKA Bondgirl

Rein

Jozza

Jo