Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog! We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards. Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired. So go on, give it a try - we dare you! Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!
Friday, September 17, 2021
Going Round in Circles
Friday, September 10, 2021
Oh, the Romance! ( 10 - 17 Sept 2021)
This week it's me, Kathy here to challenge you.
Love comes in all shapes and sizes, doesn't it? So, although your card could be for a Wedding, Engagement or Anniversary but it doesn't have to be, feel free to celebrate the love you feel for your friends, family, pets...., chocolate? gin? 😀
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September inspiration
Happy Friday!
Thanks to everyone who went travelling with us last week :-)
Did you bring some lovely souvenirs? Well, I sure did - and I put together a moodboard for our monthly picture inspiration challenge.
September Inspiration
Please choose at least 3 elements from our picture to use when you create your card (colours only count as one element - sorry! ;-D )
So, here it comes:
Need some more inspiration to get you started? Just take a look at the fab creations the Design Team have created for you:
Nat
Friday, August 27, 2021
Bon Voyage
Hello crafty friends, a massive thank you to everyone that joined in last weeks challenge. It was lovely to see all your bottle themed cards.
It's Rizwana here to host this week's challenge and its called:
BON VOYAGE
Holidays seem to have a whole new meaning and experience now.
Is there a favourite place you'd like to travel to or revisit?
This week's challenge is all about travel so I would love to see maps, directions, tickets, planes, trains or automobiles.
Anything travel related you could even use your best holiday destination.Here are some ideas from our fabulous design team
to help inspire you.
Have fun!!
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10 Green Bottles
It's Ruth - your hostess for this week's challenge and I'd like to see anything to do with a bottle - or maybe even 10 green bottles.
Wine bottles, Beer bottles, Perfume bottles,
Small ones, big ones, full ones, empty ones.....
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Very superstitious
Hello, Joanne here with today's challenge but first a thank you for playing along with our summery, minty-fresh mood board last week!
How superstitious are you? Is Friday 13th unlucky in your book? Today's challenge is to be inspired by a
superstition! Here are a
few examples to get you thinking:
Throw a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder to blind the devil -
you might feature an image of a little devil or a salt pot. Or use
actual salt in your project (e.g. make a salted watercolour background).
Knock on wood for luck - use woodgrain pattern or something made of actual wood on your project.
Breaking a mirror is seven years’ bad luck - use mirror card, a mirror image or a shattered pattern.
Many superstitions are specific to a culture so tell us about the superstition you’ve used in case it’s one we don’t know!
Here's what the team made this week - visit our blogs and you may learn a bit more about the superstitions that inspired us!













































