Flip-Flop, or Swing!

Thank you for sharing all your wonderfully Bejewelled Creations with us last week - all those lovely Sparklers looked fantastic and we really enjoyed visiting your blogs to see then.

Now, this week it should be Jo's turn to set the challenge, but disaster struck and a power surge knocked out both of their computers - what a nightmare. Hopefully she'll be using the time to think up some cunning dares to bamboozle us with and will be back here where she belongs really soon. For now though, Sue has stepped into the breach and come up with a little card-making task for us.

"I would like you to make a 'Flip Flop' card........, no, not the sort of flip-flop that you wear on your feet but a card where the centre flips over to reveal an image or sentiment on the other side."

We're not so mean as to leave you without some help, so here are some links where you'll find templates and ideas to get you started
There's a template on the Stampington site HERE
And some template with different shaped centres on Time for Crafting.
Or maybe you'll like THIS great video on You Tube that uses your Cuttlebug and Nestabilities.

Last week we said a fond farewell to our lovely July Guest Designer Gail. It was great to have her working with us and we really enjoyed seeing her cards on the DCM blog - Thank you, Gail.

This month we have not just one, but two Guests on the Design Team and they both create absolutely stunning works of art. What a Sizzling Summer (well for us on this side of the world, anyway!) Special Treat for August - you're going to love these girls!

From Norway we'd like to welcome Anne-Kristine and from the UK please say "hello" to Paula
Click on their names to visit their blogs - and be prepared to see some wonderful crafting!

Please let us know where we can see your Flip-Flop, aka Swing card by coming back and leaving a message

Here are what the Design Team have been making this week

Anne-Kristine
Kathy
Sue

Rein

Paula

Bejewelled Bliss

Well what a lot of wonderful On the Edge cards you have all linked this week. It has been great to see your creativity at work. It is a much more productive use of time than my (Lythan's) little addiction - Bejewelled Blitz on Facebook. Each game only lasts a minute. But it is amazing how many minutes I use up. I think I get mesmerized by all the twinkling gems and bright shiny lights within it. So I decided that this weeks theme would encourage me to spend those minutes card making instead. Help me out won't you?

Bejewelled Bliss

In honour of my addiction to the Bejewelled Blitz game
I would like to see cards with lots of bling and sparkle!

Guest Designer Gail
Kathy
SueLythan
Keryn

ReinTanya-Leigh

On the Edge

Hello Again Fellow Daring Cardmakers!

Your Fairy cards were fabulous last week - we really enjoyed seeing them all, what a magical array of Fairy-Folk we saw as we wandered through your blogs. Thank you so much for joining in.

This week we have a dare called:

On The Edge

We'd love to see you making use of all sorts of border treatments; scallops, trims, pleats, or anything else which makes the edges of your papers and cards look special. You could use Border Punches, Die Cutters, Lace, Fancy Trims and that's just for starters - let your imagination live right on the edge this week - or maybe even go right over the edge! Here's what the DT have made this week to start you thinking

Have fun!

KerynSue
Kathy
Rein
Tanya
Vanessa

Lythan

Jo

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