Larkspur and Water Lily

Thanks to everyone who's played along with Lythan's "Old, New, Borrowed and Blue" challenge over the last week - what a fabulous array of cards we saw!

Before we move on to the new theme we have a couple of "news items" to share. First of all we'd like like to introduce you to

Angela, aka Dolly Mixtures

who is our fabulous new Guest Designer for the month of July. We are so thrilled to have her with us and we're sure you'll love seeing her gorgeous cards too.
Our second piece of news is that we have a wonderful prize donated by our sponsor this week: online store Crimson Cloud, to offer one lucky winner this week.

Click HERE to visit the Crimson Cloud online store

There are only 3 rules for entering our random draw:
1. Make a card for this week's challenge and link it back to here
2. Show it on your blog and add links to tell everyone about Crimson Cloud and The Daring Cardmakers
3. You may only enter your card for 5 other challenges
And this is the prize you could win:

Now on to this week's challenge....
As this is the first Dare of the month we're looking to the flowers associated with the new month of July for our card-making inspiration:
the Larkspur and the Water Lily

We'd love you to join in and play along with us, using either one or even both of these lovely flowers as your starting point - we are really looking forward to seeing what you create, so please remember to come and leave a link and a comment when you're ready to share.

Angela

Keilly

Rein

Kathy

Sharon

Lynda

Nat

Zuzana

Jo

Leo

Fran

Lythan

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Something old, something new

Well my friends, what a wonderfully creative lot you are. So many fabulous cards rocking the round shape that Kathy set for us last week. Thanks for participating

This week there is a homage to my (Lythan) sister in laws wedding. Erica and Terry celebrate their marriage in a few weeks time and in honour of that I would like you to interpret the wedding rhyme

"Something old,

something new,

something borrowed

and something blue"

So use some old and new stash and if you can include the borrowed and blue as well that would be awesome. And do tell us what is what as we are nosy like that! (well I am)

As ever, the team have pulled out all the stops with their amazing creations

Fran

Kathy

Jo

Rein

Zuzana

Sharon

Nat

Lynda

Leo

Keilly

Vanessa

Lythan

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Winner! (scroll down for new challenge)

 We have a winner for the fab prize kindly donated by Crafty Emma's Store for last week's dare

Click HERE to visit the store

This fab Echo Park paper pad 

 will be shortly be winging it's way to

no.5 Kate P

Congratulations Kate, please contact us at: DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk with your postal info so that Emma can send your prize off to you

Let's Rock!

Thanks to all of you who joined in with Jo's half-way-to-Christmas challenge over this past week and put Santa on your cards
....a challenge it most definitely was for a lot of us, wasn't it?
We'll be back asap to announce the winner of that lovely Echo Park paper pad kindly donated by Crafty Emma's Store! We hope you've had the chance to check out all the fabulous things Emma has to tempt us with.

It's Kathy here with this week's new challenge:
Rocking All Over the World
This week I'd like you to make a Wobble Card - these are cards which have a curved base so that when you tap them they rock, or wobble from side to side.
Now what you put on your card is up to you, BUT if you're up for a bit more of a challenge, how about adding something of a pun, and giving your card a "rocking" theme too?
Rock and Roll, Rocking Horse, You Rock My World, Whisky on the Rocks, Rocket Man ....ohhh the list is (almost) endless!

So, are you ready to Rock?
Have fun, and don't forget to come back and let us know where we can see your creations.
Here's what the team have been making this week to help inspire you

Sharon

Kathy

Rein

Lynda

Zuzana

Lythan

Keilly

Leo

Fran

Jo

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Father Christmas

A HUGE thank you to everyone who made rose and honeysuckle cards to celebrate the flowers of June, it was a treat to visit all the links and see such fabulous cards.

Click here to visit Crafty Emma's Store

This week we have another lovely prize to give away, kindly donated by the fabulous Crafty Emma's Store - which is a real treat to browse and buy from so please take a minute to click the link and see for yourself all the treasures Emma stocks.
As always the winner will be chosen at random, then as long as our simple rules have been adhered to this fab Echo Park 6x6 paper pad could be winging it's way to you

The Rules:
1. Make a card for this week's challenge and share it on your blog, leave us a link or a comment on this post


2. Your post must mention and contain links to Crafty Emma's Store and also to The Daring Cardmakers
3. To qualify for the prize you may only link your card to 5 other challenges

So, are you ready for this week's challenge?

It's Jo here with this week's dare and to help us all feel festive, I have chosen

Father Christmas

as the theme this week! The team after a few groans! have created beautiful cards and as you can see, you can even fit Father Christmas onto a non-Christmas card!

Leo

Nat

Lynda




Sharon

Fran

Kathy

Zuzana

Lythan

Keilly

Jo

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Our "Imagine That..." Winner is.....

We're very happy to announce the winners of our lovely stamp sets, kindly donated by our current sponsor "Imagine That... " - a fabulous treasury of Crafty Goodies both in their "real" shop and their on-line store!.  

A huge THANK YOU to Emma for her support and for donating these fab prizes.

We used the number picker at Random.org to choose a number from the Links List, then checked that the required links were on those entries  If a blog didn't have those links we tried again!

So here are our Lucky Threesome::

no.7 AngelaK 

no.3 Amy Tidd

no.23 Vicky

Angela, Amy and Vicly will each win one lovely stamp set - remember these sets are designed in-house and exclusive to:

Please click here to visit the shop

Angela, Amy and Vicky Please contact us with your postal information at  DCM_enquiries@hotmail.co.uk and we'll sort out your prizes asap

The June Flowers are.....

Thank you to everyone for making such a fabulous array of cards for Zuzana's "Passion for Fashion" challenge last weekThanks again to Imagine That... for donating the stamp sets we're giving away.

Here's what Lythan says about the store - which is her local craft shop and where she teaches some classes:

Imagine That..

"... a fabulous giveaway from my most generous, lovely and talented local craft shop owner - Emma of Imagine That. It is a lovely shop (both real and online) and the classes there are many and varied (even if some people's tend to over-run. That would be me). One of the best things about it is the shop-designed clear stamps. I have clear stamps from other places that have started to show wear and tear but Emma's are still going strong."

We'll do the draw for our prizes and be back to announce the winners just as soon as possible, so if you made a card and added the links as required, please check back to see if you are one of the winners - while you wait, why not click this LINK and explore Imagine That's online store ;-)

This week we return to our First Friday of the Month series of Flower challenges. The flowers for June are

Roses and Honeysuckle

so we'd like you to take one or both of those flowers as your inspiration for your crafting.. With flowers like that to base your cards around we know we're in for a treat this week and we can't wait to see what you come up with.

Here are the cards our DT have been making to help get your creative juices flowing!

Happy Crafting!

Kathy

Leo

Nat
Sharon

Rein

Fran

Keilly

Zuzana

Lythan

Vanessa

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