Daring Cardmakers

Friday, August 12, 2022

Keep Your Cool

Hello Cardmakers!

It's Kathy here this week to say a big Thank You to those who were inspired by Nat's lovely August Inspiration Picture last week. We hope you enjoyed finding all the lovely textures, patterns and other elements that you could then use in your crafting.

I hope you'll have some fun with my challenge this week - feel free to head off on flights of fancy and dreams if necessary!

Keep Your Cool
It's been pretty hot so far this Summer - even here in the UK!
So let's see your favourite ways to keep cool when the temperatures soar features on your cards this week.
A dip in the sea, putting your feet in a bucket of water,

A snooze in a hammock in the shade (I wish!)

Sunhats and parasols

Ice cream and ice lollies

A slice of juicy water melon

a long cold drink...

here's what our designers have been dreaming of this week!

Nat

Kathy

Shabneez

Joanne

Miri

Rizwana

This week's cover:

Friday, August 05, 2022

August Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Good morning all!

It's Nat here again this week bringing you a brand new challenge.

But first, thank you to everyone who played along with our stencil-focused

dare last week!

There were so many wonderful projects and also a few items added to my wishlist now... ooops!

As it's the first Friday of the month, it's the return of our

Elemental Inspiration challenge.

You need to incorporate three elements from the image below on your card, and the colours count as one element.

Here's how the Design Team interpreted the elements:

Kathy

This week's cover:

Friday, July 29, 2022

Stencil it!

Good morning all!

It's Nat here, bringing you a brand new challenge for the week.

Thanks to those of you who played along with last week's challenge!

As the title of this post suggests, this week's challenge is all about stencils.

I've become quite the fan of this new manufacturer trend of designing matching stencils for stamp and die sets.

So the perfect excuse for me to challenge you all to use stencils on your card this week, whether in the form of:

Stamp + stencil + die combos
Stand-alone stencils for ink blending, texture paste, and other media
Layered stencils to create colourful backgrounds
And if you don't yet have any stencils in your stash, you can create your own masks/stencils with your existing die collection, or even some free-hand cutting for fun edges

I look forward to seeing what you create!

To get you started, here are some ideas from the design team:

This week's cover:

Friday, July 22, 2022

Black And White Plus One - 22.07.22

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here today and I'd like to thank those of you who joined in with the challenge last week. This week I have chosen:

BLACK AND WHITE PLUS ONE

I enjoy using black and white on my cards as the ink is usually black and my card white but I thought it would be interesting to just add one other colour.

The Design Team, below, have shown different ways to incorporate an additional colour and I hope you're inspired to join in with us!

This week's cover

Friday, July 15, 2022

Less is more

Good morning!

Thanks to everyone who joined in with our Cards With Attitude challenge last week. We loved seeing your inspiring ideas

This time Enfys has come up with a fabulous idea that will challenge some of us more than others!

Less is More

It’s always tempting to add another die cut, tiny extra stamped flower, or just one more embellishment isn't it?

But this week we want to see cards with at least 75% of the card left totally blank - no stamped or embossed backgrounds. Lots of white space.....try it, it’s amazing how effective it can be.

Here's some inspiration from the design team to get you started:

Jenny

Shabneez

Kathy

Dawn

Miri

Joanne

This week's cover:

Friday, July 08, 2022

Cards with Attitude!

Hellooo!

Thank you for visiting the Daring Cardmakers today, we hope you'll join in with this week's challenge, But first a big thank you to those who were inspired to create a project using Dawn's beautiful July mood board, wasn't it fabulous?

It's me, Kathy here this time and I'd love to see your...
Cards with Attitude!
I often find myself in a bit of a card-making rut, making the same square or rectangular cards, using the same kind of layouts and embellishments etc

- and hey, they work so why not?

But sometimes its good to break out of that rut and that's what I'd like you to do this week

I would love to see cards with some 'Attitude' this week. The kind that surprise the recipient by being a bit different from regular flat(ish) squares and rectangles we all like to make.
For example; box cards, pop-ups, shaped cards, cards with unusual folds, cards that rock, cards with secret compartments.

You could even use this challenge to experiment and have a go at a kind of card you've never made before!

Go on, it'll be fun!

This week's cover:

Friday, July 01, 2022

July Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to the weekly challenge from the Daring Cardmakers Team.

A big thank you to everyone that joined in last weeks midsummer inspired challenge. It was wonderful to see all your nature themed cards.

Its Dawn here with this weeks challenge and as its the beginning of the month and the summer holidays are just around the corner, I have picked the summery image below.

Remember you need to use a least 3 elements on your cards and the colours count as one element.