Tweetie Pie

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful Daffodil cards over this last week. It has really been wonderful to visit and see those beautiful bright spring and summer colours.

This week it's Vanessa here to set the dare and I really love this time of year because the nights are rapidly getting shorter and the days longer. Spring is in the air, the birds are chirping and tweeting early in the mornings and I'm starting to think about mowing that lawn again!

Your challenge this week is :

Tweetie Pie

Please use a bird or birds on your card and that's it, any kind you like.

As always, we'd love to see what you make, so please come back and leave a link so we can admire your creations.

The design team have come up with a wonderful array of "tweetie pies" to start you thinking.

Keryn

Paula

Lynda

Rein

Kathy

Sue

Nat

Vanessa

Lythan

Jo

A Host of Golden Daffodils

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful March Birthstone cards with us over the last week. It's been such a pleasure to see all those gorgeous shades of aquamarine featuring on your cards, it really is a lovely colour to work with.

This week it's Lynda here to set the challenge and as my birthday occurs in March, and we've already covered the birthstone for the month, I thought it would be a lovely idea to use the March flower as inspiration for our cards.

So I'd like to see...

A Host of Golden Daffodils

this week.

Please use daffodils on your cards or maybe make a card inspired in some way by those sunny yellow flowers.

As always, we'd love to see what you make, so please come back and leave a link so we can admire your creations.

The design team have come up with this "bouquet" to start you thinking

Lynda

Natty

Rein

Sue


Paula

Kathy

Keryn

Lythan

Asia

Vanessa

March's birthstone : Aquamarine

Thanks to everyone who warmed us up with their sunny cards last week. What a fabulous array!

We have arrived at the start of another month which means it is a colour theme based on the birthstone of the month -

Aquamarine.

Its an interesting stone as it comes in various colours - aquamarines come in sea blue; sky blue; blue green and sea green which is a lovely broad sea/sky palette. The crystal structure is hexagonal. It is also associated with the properties of faithfulness, courage and friendship.

Don’t forget to leave us a link so we can come and see your creations.

Here are a few examples from the team to help get your creative juices flowing.

Lythan

Lynda

Natty

Rein

Paula

Kathy

Sue

 Keryn

Asia

Here comes the sun

Well if you are in the northern hemisphere we are living in hope. Those down south are still enjoying the sun and knowing it is time to say goodbye. We sympathise as the UK is beginning to feel like it has been renamed Narnia - going through endless winter and never spring. So we at Daring Cardmakers want to celebrate the sun and bring the warmth of crafting into our lives

Here comes the sun!

Lets see some cards full of reds and oranges and yellows - or with lots of circles on them - or rays - anything that says sunshine to you!

please join in, then come back and leave a message so we can see what you've made.

And to get the creative juices flowing here is what the Design Team have done this week...

Lythan


Nat


Vanessa
Sue

Keryn

Lynda

Asia

Rein

Winter Birthdays

Hi,

It's Rein here this week,
Thanks to all of you for the Wonderful "Have A Heart" creations, it was great to see all the beautiful cards, and to see all the different ways you added a heart to your cards.

Winter will, hopefully, soon be gone here in Europe and for those "Down Under" It's on it's way, so for my dare I'd like to see lots of:

Winter Birthday Cards

Perhaps cards with snowdrops on them, or ice skates, snowflakes, or how about using the Olympic Games currently happening in Vancouver as inspiration for your cards this week?
As long as it's a birthday card with a Winter theme, we'd love to see it, so please join in, then come back and leave a message so we can see what you've made.
As usual the DT have come up with some ideas to get you thinking

hugs Rein


Nat

Rein

Lynda

Kathy

Sue

Lythan

Asia

Keryn

Have A Heart

Hello again

Another Friday rolls around and with it of course a new challenge from the Daring Cardmakers. However, we bet that what you're most interested in at this minute is who the winner of last week's draw is - and whether it was YOU! It would seem that there were a whole lot of people keen to win that prize and we would like to thank all those who shared their creativity with us. We hope you'll all be joining in again with our challenges soon.

Well Sue's been keeping a note of all those who met the criteria laid out in last week's challenge post, today she's put the names of all those who were eligible into her "virtual" hat.......... And .......drum roll, please.....

The winner of our Craft Obsessions lucky draw is
Kath

Congratulations Kath, please Email me Sue with your postal info and your prize will soon be on it's way to your address.
We'd like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you once again to Brenda and David for donating such a wonderful prize. If you click the link above, you'll understand why Craft Obsessions is such a favourite craft shop, they named it soooo wisely!.

So, now that the excitement - for most of us - has died down let's move on to this week's dare. The 14th February, St Valentine's Day is looming large, so this week we've got a challenge called:

Have a Heart

We'd like to see cards with hearts on them. You can use as many hearts as you like and they don't need to be "obvious" so if you want to use a heart shape to make the petals of a flower, strawberries on a cupcake or apples on a tree that's fine by us.

They don't have to be Valentine Cards either - anniversaries, weddings, or just "Hello" cards for a good friend whatever the reason add a heart to your card and show you care.

Below you'll find cards that the team has made this week, but we hope you'll be joining in and sharing the cards you make with us. Just leave a message letting us know where we can see your card and we'll hop over to see what you've been making.

Have fun

Sue

Lynda

Natty

Asia

Vanessa

Kathy

Rein

Keryn

Lythan