Away with the Fairies

Thank you to all those who joined in with Rein's Russian themed dare last week - now that was a real Challenge, wasn't it - and we were delighted that so many people rose to it and made such wonderful cards. Well done - you can all award yourselves a gold star!

This week should have been Tanya's turn to set the dare, but she's been unwell for the last few weeks and unable to do much crafting, so we're rescheduling for when she feels better. Instead we've got a Guest Designer Special for you. Our current GD Gail suggested this one - so you can blame her if it fills you with horror, or applaud her if it fills you with joy! lol Our new dare is
Away with the Fairies
and we'd like to see lots and lots of them on your cards this week

Here are what the Design Team came up with, just to get you started on your journey into FairyLand.
Please come back and let us know where we can see your own magical creations.

Kathy

Gail

Tracie (Bondgirl)
Sue

Vanessa

Lythan

Jo

Russian

Thanks to all of you, that joined in with Vanessa's blue and green dare - what wonderful cards we've seen.

It's Rein here this week and as our Russian girl Irina is here staying with us again my dare is put a matryoshka or another typical Russian element like dress, architecture, or... ..... on your card.

Here's what the Design Team came up with this week to help inspire you

We're looking forward to seeing your cards now, so please come back and let us know where we can see them

Rein

Kathy
Sue
Gail
Lythan
Jo


Vanessa

Blue and Green...Should Never Be Seen!

Hi everyone, its Vanessa here setting this week’s dare.

Firstly, we’d like to thank everyone who joined in with Sue’s fantastic PostPals dare. We’ve really enjoyed coming along to see your work, but most of all, they’ll bring so many smiles to so many children. Postpals is ongoing and you can join in to send a card anytime.

Another month has arrived and we’d like to say a huge thank you to Pascale for being our fabulous Guest Designer for June, we’ve just loved Pascale’s wonderfully fabulous cards. We’d also like to introduce you to our new Guest Designer for July – the wonderfully talented Gail (scrap-n-card queen).

Finally, onto this week’s dare, and as you will tell from the title...I want you to use blue and green on your cards – they must be the predominant colours, and as the old saying goes...they should never be seen together!! But we all know how they can work beautifully together – so show us what you can do!!

Check out the fabulous cards from the DT :-

Jo



GailLythanVanessaKerynSue KathyRein

Make A Child Smile

Hi all, it’s Sue here and I’m going to set you a ‘very special’ dare this week.

But before I do, we would all like to thank everyone who joined in with Lythan’s ‘Missing You’ dare last week. As always your cards have been a great inspiration to us and we really do enjoy looking at them all, so thank you for joining in with us.

Now on to this weeks ‘Special’ dare and it’s actually very simple really.

All I want you to do is make a card with sick children in mind.
It's best to avoid ‘Get Well’ cards and just aim to make something that is cheery and will bring a smile to a sick child’s face.

Now I can hear you saying….so, what make this such a ‘special’ dare?

Well, it’s special because this week we are very proud to be linking up with Post Pals, an organisation that was set up to create smiles for children who suffer from life threatening and long term illnesses.

As part of the dare, and the most important part at that, I would like you to actually post your card to one of the children listed on the Post Pals web site.
It’s very simple to do, just visit their Home Page where you’ll see they have some ‘featured’ children at the top of the page and to the Left in the side bar there’s a whole data base of children and their stories.

Just follow the five easy steps to send your card.

So there you have it……
I dare you to make a cheery card for a sick child and send it to one of the children featured on Post Pals to brighten their day.

Also, please can I ask you to make sure that any embellishments you use on your card are firmly secured? We need to prevent the chance of any accidents where small items might be swallowed if they come loose.

Naturally, we know that many of you Daring Cardmakers aren’t actually in the UK but we still want you to join in, so please feel free to send your card to similar charity in your own country.

When your card is made, don’t forget to leave us a link on the comments.
We look forward to seeing your creation and hearing about where and to who they were sent to.

Thanks for joining us this week and bringing a smile to a sick child.

Sue
x

Kathy
Pascale Brad (Guest Designer)
SueLythan ReinVanessa
Jo

Missing you...

Oh I'm toasty warm after seeing all those lovely hot cards from last week! This week I, (Lythan) want you to commiserate with me as I miss my daughter, off all weekend on a school trip. So the theme is

Miss you

Make a card that shares your love with someone - it could be missing you, thinking of you, across the miles - just let you imagination take flight, as the wonderful design team have! I look forward to whiling away my lonely hours by visiting your blogs!

Lythan

Pascale Brad (Guest Designer)

Sue

Rein

Jo
Vanessa
Kathy (see blog for reverse of bookmark)

Sizzling Hot!

Hi it's Keryn here this week and in New Zealand we're in the middle of winter. Not snow like some of you get but we think it's cold all the same. I want to see card creations using only sizzling hot yellow based colours like red, orange and yellow to send some heat out to us through the web.

It's been great checking out your blogs to see the weather themed cards you've been creating in response to Jo's Weather dare.

Once you've created your cards pop over and leave us a comment so we can pop over and admire your work.

For a bit of inspiration scroll down and see what the design team have been working on.

Keryn

Pascale Brad (Guest Designer)

Sue

Kathy

Lythan

Jo
Rein

Vanessa

Whether the weather be fine....

...Or whether the weather be not...

Hi all, Jo here this week with a meteorological themed dare, we have had some fantastic sunshine this week so I thought that it would be fun to have a weather filled dare. Of course it doesn't have to be a sunny card, it just needs to have a type of weather featured somewhere on the card. Rain, hail, clouds and (dare I even say it) snow would all be a brilliant starting point for a card.

Thank you to all who took part in last week's team dare :)
This week we are so pleased to welcome Pascale as our guest designer for the next month, it is a great honour to have you with us.

The design team have come up with some brilliant cards for this week's Dare, can't wait to see what you come up with!

Pascale Brad (Guest Designer)
Jo
Kathy
SueLythan
Vanessa
Rein