A-Bunting We Will Go!

A HUGE thank you to all who went green last week and shared their emerald inspired cards with us.

Sadly we are saying goodbye to Paula this week, we send lots of love and wish you well and hope that you will pop in to see us from time to time.

It's Jo here today with a dare;

A-Bunting We Will Go!

There seems to be an abundance of bunting everywhere at the moment and I expect more will appear soon in honour of the World Cup! I thought that it would be fun this week to add some bunting to our cards...

From Wikipedia;

Today, bunting is a term for any festive decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colourful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colours of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes.

and a picture;

The design team have created amazing bunting inspired cards. Have a good week and I can't wait to see what you create!

Jo

Andrea

Kathy

Rein

Lynda

Asia

Vanessa


Nat

Lythan

The Emerald Isle?

Paula's "Easel Does It" challenge was a huge success so a great big Thank You to all who made an easel card to share with us over this past week. It's been such a treat to see them.

An extra special "well done" to those who did the double dare and made a shaped version and also for those who made an easel card for the first time because of this dare - that really is the true spirit of the Daring Cardmakers. We hope you enjoyed making them as much as we enjoyed seeing them.

We are delighted to announce that Andrea Gourley, who won Keryn's SU prize die last week agreed to come and join us as Guest Designer for the whole of May.

We're especially pleased to have her on the Team as not only is she a wonderful card-maker, but she's been contributing to our challenges almost since we started out back in 2006.

Welcome aboard Andrea we know you're going to be a real inspiration to us all.

Throughout this year, our first dare each month is given over to cards inspired by that month's birthstone

"Prized since ancient times, a fine emerald can be more expensive than a high quality diamond of the same carat weight."

The May birthstone is the Emerald and we'd like you to use this beautiful gem as the inspiration for your cards this week. We'd like to see more than just a tiny spot of emerald green on your cards, too!

If you're looking for extra inspiration you can find lots of info about the myths and legends surrounding the Emerald HERE

To help get you thinking here's what the Design Team have come up with this week - remember we always love to see what you make so please come back and leave a link

Andrea

Lythan

Lynda

Rein

Kathy

Nat

Vanessa

Keryn

 Asia

Jo

Easel Does It!

Thank You for all the fabulous cards last week using all manner of die-cuts for Keryn's "Die Cut Crazy" dare. We loved visiting your blogs to see your creations.

Of course, if you made a card and shared it with us according to the rules we published last week, you'll now be eager to hear the result of the draw for the Sizzlits die that Keryn offered as a prize.....

Well, the winner's name has been drawn from Keryn's "virtual hat" and is:

ANDREA GOURLEY.

Andrea please contact Keryn to arrange to have your sizzlits die sent to you.

Anyway, getting back to this week, it's Paula here with the new Dare and I've called it

Easel Does it

This weeks challenge is to make an easel card. There's a big clue in the title, huh?

They are so very popular at the moment but I'm hoping at least some of you will be up for my extra "sting in the tail" to this Dare - I don't want it to be too easy, you know....what I'd really love is to see what type of shape (other than a square) you can come up with using the basic Easel card idea.

So you can go for the easy option and make the simple version of the easel card, or if you're brave enough,go for the shaped option.
Do you dare?

This is the last of the April dares so we have to say "farewell" to our lovely April Guest Designer Sally today -we hope you've enjoyed seeing her fabulous cards on here as much as we have - she's promised to keep joining in with the challenges whenever she can, so we won't be losing her completely, phew! Thanks Sally - we've loved having you on the team.

We're looking forward to seeing all your easel cards so please come back and leave a link so we can come and visit.

Here's how the Design Team rose to the challenge this week:

Lynda

Sally

Rein

Kathy

Paula

Keryn

Lythan

Vanessa

Jo

Die Cut Crazy

Thanks to everybody who joined in with Kathy's dare and got into a flap putting flaps on your cards. It was fantastic to see the number of ideas that everybody came up with.

It's Keryn here this week and I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a 'Big Shot' die cut machine and I'm loving it. I want any excuse I can find to make cards, well anything really using die cuts. This week I want you to play with me. Dig out your dies and your die cut machine. Cut shapes of any size and theme you please and use at least one on your card for this week.

To give you a small incentive to join me this week I have a Stampin' Up!® little leaves Sizzlit die to give away. To qualify you must have a link in your blog post back here - http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ and your card must be entered for no more than 3 challenges including this one.
For New Zealand readers a picture of the die can be found in the Stampin' Up!® Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue.

I will be doing the draw from all qualifying comments on Friday 30th April at 10am UK time.

Please show us your cards using die cuts by leaving a comment with a link to your creation.

In the meantime here are the cards by the design team to give you some fabulous inspiration.

Lynda

Nat

Paula

Sally

Kathy

Rein

Lythan


Keryn

Getting in a Flap

What a treat you gave us last week with all the stylish boots and shoes you added to your cards - did you find a favourite "must-have" pair among them all? Thanks you for sharing your creativity with us once more.

This week it's me, Kathy, here with a new challenge for you:

Getting in a Flap

I'd like to see cards with flaps this week. Little flaps that you lift up or open out to see a secret "something" hidden behind or bigger flaps that form part of the actual card. Maybe even little birdies with wings that really "flap" As long as it's a flap that lifts up from your card it will count - just flat images of a bird or butterfly flapping it's wings won't!

Now, I'm sure I had something in mind when I added this one to the calendar but by the time I came to make my card that idea was nowhere to be found, never mind eh? I know that you'll be coming up with all sorts of fabulous, inventive ideas and I can't wait to see your cards.

Once again the Design Team have risen to the challenge - they always do, no matter how hard you try to confound them hehe!

Here's what they've come up with this week to help get your creative juices Flapping around!

Sally

Lynda

Kathy

Keryn

Nat

Rein

Vanessa

Lythan

Jo