Elemental Inspiration for April

Thank you everyone for beautiful entries last week.

It's Zuzana here this time and Spring is knocking on our doors and nature is waking up to fresh colours. Temperatures are rising and sunshine warming. Let's make something wonderful!

 I've chosen very spring picture for you. I am asking you to create a card project with at least 3 elements from my picture on it. It could be the colour scheme, pattern or shape. You could use the layout sketch too. Our design team have prepared real eye candies for you!  Be inspired. We can't wait to see what you created.

Today we are delighted to welcome the wonderful

 Enfys Cashmore 

who will be our Guest Designer throughout April.  We should say "Welcome Back" really as this is the second time Enfys has shared her lovely creations with us as a GD - check out the first of her cards for this month below and  you'll understand why we're thrilled she's back!

Layout Sketch

Enfys

Dawn     

Sharon  

Lythan   

Jo

Kathy   

Nat

Svenja

Miri

Leo

Zuzana

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Inspired by Nat: Signature Style

Lovely to see you getting into the swing last week (geddit). This week Lythan would like you to take a trip into a world of pure gorgeousness by visiting the blog of my lovely teamie Nat and getting inspired by her style. I have been a huge fan of Nat's since I started card making and I have seen her work evolve but it has always been current, stylish, clean but not simple and with a wonderful way with a focal point. Well that is my interpretation - I look forward to seeing what you take from Nat's signature style.

 I'm very excited to see what you come up with - here are the cards from the Daring Cardmakers to give you some ideas....


Lythan

Kathy   

Gez

Beckie

Nat

Svenja

Miri

Jo

Zuzana

 

Dawn

 

 



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Swings and Roundabouts

Good Morning Daring Cardmakers everywhere!

Oh my!  All those wonderful Bake-Off cards you've shared this week did make me hungry, and my tummy is still rumbling away as I write this now - thank you so much for joining in with Dawn's great challenge.

It's me, Kathy, here this time with my challenge for you:

I love having something that adds a little bit of a moving element to my cards - something suspended in an aperture so that it swings or twirls in the hole, or some charms or beads that bounce around on a thread or ribbon....or maybe the whole card rocks from side to side - a bit of movement makes a card so much more interesting, don't you think?  So I've called my challenge

 "Swings and Roundabouts"

and  I'd like to see a "swinging", "twirling" or "rocking"element on your card this week.....and to go with the title, if you can also add a circle (for the "roundabout), then you can claim a Virtual Gold Star (sorry. they're only "virtual", hehe) and you can give yourself a pat on the back for being a real Smartypants!

We're really looking forward to seeing what you come up with, and to help get you thinking, here's how the team took up the challenge

Kathy   

 

Dawn

Sharon  

Gez

Svenja  

Miri

Nat

Zuzana

Beckie

Lythan

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The Great Daring Cardmakers Bake Off

Good Morning Crafters.

Its my turn (Dawn) to host this weeks dare.

First of all a big thank you to everyone who played along with last weeks dare.  The element inspiration picture was just so lovely.

Everybody knows how much I love CUPCAKES!!! I love baking, eating, buying anything with a cupcake on and of course crafting with them.  So for this weeks dare I would love to see something baking related on your card.

My dare is called:

The Great Daring Cardmakers Bake Off

Also its Mothers Day on Sunday so perhaps this card could be for your Mum or Grandmother. I would also like to wish all Mums a Happy Mothers Day!!

Here is what the Design Team came up with:

Dawn

Nat

Lythan

Sharon

Zuzana

Gez

Miri

Beckie

Svenja

Jo

Leo

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March Elemental Inspiration

"Elemental Inspiration"

Hi Everyone!
It's Nat here again - before we get down to this month's elemental inspiration, a big thank you to everyone who played along with our Mellow Yellow dare last week! You really took to the challenge and showed those yellow tones a lot of love!

Today is the first Friday of a new month, and so we have a new elemental inspiration challenge to play with.

The pictures we choose for these challenges all have a variety of "elements" that we hope will inspire you to get crafting - and we'd like you to use a minimum of THREE of the elements you see to make a card.

Here's the image for March:

  {Pinterest pin}

 For instance for this image you could take inspiration from:

• The pink and gold colour combo
• Confetti/sequins
• Felt or tissue paper
• Handmade flowers
• Grassy borders
• Twine
• Monograms
• Graphical patterns: triangles, stripes, dots
• A spring/Easter theme
• Gold accents/gold glitter die-cuts

There's plenty to inspire that can be translated into a card project.

 We're looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with!

This is what we made:

Nat

Svenja

Miri

Dawn

Leo

Kathy

Lythan

Jo

Zuzana

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