April's Colour Challenge

Thank you Everyone for joining in last week and making our lovely Beckie's

 first challenge such a success.

It's Gez here today with this week's challenge

These months seem to be whipping by, don't they?  

As it's the first Friday of the month - yet again - we are delighted to share our NEW colour challenge dare with you today.

 Coral and Aqua

We're really looking forward to seeing what you create with this fabulous colour palette so please come back and let us know where we can see your cards

As ever the Design Team have got some stunning creations to share with you today..

Gez

 Lythan

Leo

 Kathy   

Nat

Svenja  

Beckie

Miri

Sharon

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Springing into Spring

Good Morning Everyone!!!

 Beckie here today with a 'Springing' Challenge for you!

Spring is here (honestly!!)

I love it when the seasons changes from winter to spring and the air is filled with new life!

Today I would like to challenge you to make a card with a 'spring' on it somewhere.  The design team have come up with some amazing creations to help inspire you!  Some of the creations have 'springs' to make them 'wobble'!

And now for a little special treat for one lucky person!

This week digital stamp store 'Little Blue Button' is sponsoring the dare and have a $10 gift certificate to give away! 

All you need to do is leave a link as usual to show us your finished creation and you'll be entered into the prize draw. The winner will be picked at random and announced ahead of next week's dare (Friday 5th April). Big thank you to Little Blue Button for offering this cool prize! Don't forget to check out their store, http://digitaldesignsby.blogspot.co.uk/ maybe there's something there to inspire your 'Springy' card creation!

Kathy   

Miri

Leo

Gez

Beckie

Nat

Svenja

Lythan

Keilly

  

Zuzana

We hope you have a wonderful Easter filled with all the good things in life! :)

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Thank you for joining in with us this week.  We always enjoy reading your messages, so please take a moment to leave a comment as well as your link.

Chalkboard creations

Hi everyone!

It's Nat here bringing you this week's dare.

Over the past few months I've been seeing a lot of beautiful pins on Pinterest showcasing various types of Chalkboard Artwork.

From gorgeous handwritten signage to amazing murals in homes and businesses...

Source: tanamachistudio.com via Lee on Pinterest

Even Oprah has got in on the act!

Source: trendland.com via Cheyenne on Pinterest

You've probably also seen this trend taking off in the stamping world too. I didn't realise just how effective and easy it could be to incorporate this look on handmade cards until Betsy Veldman shared her fantastic tutorial on just this technique on her blog here.

So this week I've challenged the design team and you to... 

Create a card that pays homage to the chalkboard look

Ideally I would love it if you could try the heat embossing technique, but if you don't have the supplies there are plenty of fonts and printables out there that you could use to replicate the look.

Here are the gorgeous cards the design team created:

Sharon

Nat

Svenja

Leo

Kathy

Miri

Lythan

Zuzana

Beckie

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Make a cute angle

We loved seeing all that type last week. Now we want to see some sharp shapes. Geometry is all the rage in cardmaking so we would like to see geometric shapes in play as you

Make a cute angle

 its a play on words really - "a cute angle" is like "acute angle" get it? Or perhaps not... If you can make your acute angle cute then that would be fab too. However you interpret the dare we would love to see the results. Here is the team's take ...

Lythan

Svenja

 Kathy  

Nat

Miri

Sharon 

Zuzana

 

Leo

 

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Typography

Big thank you to everyone that joined in with Sharon's Colour Combo challenge last week it was fab to see all your lovely chocolatey limey cards!

This week it's Leo here and your new challenge is:

'Typography'

I'd like you to use typography as the main basis for your card design. Typography is basically putting together letters and/or words to form an aesthetically pleasing or artistic design/arrangment. So you're making the letter/words the main embelishment of your card.

Take a look at the fab cards the design team have come up with this week and if you need more ideas take a peek at Typography pins on Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=typography

Have fun!

x Leo

Leo

Lythan

Sharon

Svenja

Kathy

Nat

Beckie

Zuzana

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