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!
Welcome to another Daring Cardmakers Friday!
Its Kathy here this week with our new challenge, but first we all want to say a big Thank You to everyone who shared cards inspired by your favourite Garden and Outdoor Spaces. What a fabulous journey to visit them all!
Its the first Friday of the month so time for our
July Elemental Inspiration Challenge
I thought I'd have a go at creating my own picture this time, so gathered together a host of things to use. There's no theme, its just a rather random assortment of crafting bits an bobs, but I hope you will find some inspiration to kick-start your creativity!
Just choose at least three elements from the picture to use when you make your card.
Ideas: bottles,beads, patterned paper, woodgrain, stencils, tags, buttons, page pebbles, frames, lace, flowers, anchor, Eiffel Tower.....
Here's what the team have been making this week
This week's cover:
Good morning!
It's Nat here bringing you this week's challenge, but first I'd like to thank everyone who played along with our "Just Checking" dare last week. Nice to see we're not the only fans of a plaid pattern. ;)
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Over the past year in particular, gardens have become important spaces for many of us.
Whether just being a place to enjoy some fresh air, read a book in the sunshine, dine outside, or indeed witness the seasons change.
For this week's dare:
We're celebrating the bounty of your garden or favourite outside space.
To get you started, here are some of the wonderful cards the design team created:
This week's cover:
Well, Hello Again!
Its lovely to see you! Thanks so much to those who joined in last week - are you ready for a new challenge?
Here we go:
Just Checking!
All we're asking this week is that you use some kind of check pattern on your cards.
It could be stamped, embossed, patterned paper, stencilled, hand-drawn...
You could use checks as a background or as part of a design element of an image e.g. on a Chef's apron or tartan rug...
We're looking forward to checking up on your makes, but for starters here are some ideas from our fabulous design team to help inspire you
This week's cover:
Hello there!
Thank you so much for joining in with our challenge last week - Rizwana's mood board was so bright and Summery, wasn't it?
This week its me, Kathy here to set the challenge and I hope you'll have some fun with it!
Up the Flag Pole!
I find the flags of different nations so interesting - there are some wonderful designs to be found when you start looking, some simple and elegant, and some really wild and wacky ones!
So this week I'd like you to your inspiration from the flag of a country other than your own - there are plenty to choose from!
You can use a design element from the flag, the layout, the colours...
This web-link has a huge number of flags from all sorts of interesting places which will give you loads of ideas: https://flagpedia.net/index
Don't forget to tell us which country's flag you've used
Here are some fabulous ideas from our brilliant design team to get you started
Kathy (Cuba)
Svenja (Brazil)
Miri (Sudan)
Thanks for sharing your May Mermaids with us! We loved seeing them.
Its Rizwana here this seek with the
June Elemental Inspiration Challenge
I've chosen a bright and Summery board with lots of Summertime
treats and pleasures!
Just choose at least three elements (colour scheme counts as one element) from the picture to kick start your project.
This week's cover:
