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 Thank you all for sharing your stunning creations in our brand new   'Colour Combo Challenge'

You made really fantastic cards!

Hi, it's Zuzana here setting this week's challenge.

You know that we are living in the new communication era, so I have chosen a

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dare for you.
I would like to see Facebook, Twitter, Skype, You Tube ... on your cards.

You can use funny sentiments, colour scheme, fonts, style, layout or PC image.

Here are some teasing Design Team's cards to inspire you :

Sharon

Gez

Kathy

Zuzana

Nat

Keilly

Jo

Rein

Leo

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"First Friday" Colour Combo1

Happy New Year!

Helloooooooo

We're back after out Christmas Break and raring to go with lots of lovely new dares to challenge you. A huge thank you to everyone who joined in with Keilly's "Spots and Stripes" challenge - the cards were wonderful (as always) and entries have just kept on coming!

This week we have the very first in our brand new "First Friday" series. Over the last couple of years we've used Birthstones and Flowers for these challenges,and they've both been interesting and inspiring themes to work with.

For 2012 the First Friday of each month will feature a

Colour Combo Challenge

It should be fun - we're all taking a turn at choosing a combination of colours to base our card-making around so there should be a fab variety of hues and tones to get us creating. We hope you'll enjoy the idea and feel inspired to join in with us.

Fran is kicking off this new series in style with a fab inspiration photo and colour palette

We're really looking forward to seeing what you create using these wonderful colours, so please come back and leave your link (and a comment would be nice too) when you are ready to share.

Here's how the DT used this colour palette for our crafting this week

Nat

Sharon

Gez

Keilly

Kathy

Zuzana

Leo

Rein

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Spots & Stripes

Thank you to everyone who joined in Fran's 'Nordic Christmas' dare last week. We enjoyed visiting all your blogs and viewing such wonderful projects.

Well, it's Keilly here and my turn to set the dare this week, which is

Spots and Stripes

Whether its a last minute Christmas card or a birthday card, we're looking forward to seeing what you create so please come and leave a link (and a message) when you're ready to share with us.

* We'll be taking a little break over the Christmas holidays so this dare will stay open a little longer until January 6th with our first dare for 2012 *

We'd like to wish all our followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Keilly

Nat


Gez

Sharon

Kathy

Leo

Jo

Rein

Fran

zuzana

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A Nordic Christmas

Hi everyone, it's Fran here, and before I tell you about this week's Dare, we'd like to thank all of you who joined in with December's Flower of the Month Dare - such lovely projects on show.

Now onto the challenge! Taking inspiration from the photo above, I'd like you to create cards / projects with a Nordic Theme this week - think knitted jumpers, reindeer and lots of red and white!

We can't wait to see what you create!

Fran

Gez

Rein

Kathy

Sharon

Samm

Nat

Leo

Zuzana

Jo

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December Flowers - Holly and Narcissus

Thank you all for sharing such fabulous and fun Moustachio cards last week, we had a wonderful time visiting your blogs!

After a bit of a break, we're getting back to having Guest Designers on the DCM - not only does it give you a break from seeing just our cards (hehe) on here, but it gives us the chance to introduce some of our favourite card makers and see their work on our blog.

So this week we're thrilled to announce that the Fabulous

Gezzy B

will be playing along with us from now, right through till the end of January. Please go and visit Gez's blog as her crafting isn't just about making cards - her stamping and inky skills are amazing and you'll be missing a treat if you don't click HERE and see the things she makes! Welcome to the team, Gez!

As it's the first dare of the month, we have our "Flowers of the Month" challenge this week - but of course December's flowers brings the series to an end - we do hope you've enjoyed and felt inspired by the theme.

Next year we're starting a whole new Monthly Challenge Theme - so watch out for that at the start of January!

December's flowers are:

Holly and Narcissus

so we'd like you to make a card taking your inspiration from either of these - we think

we know which will be the most popular already.....;-)

We're looking forward to seeing what you make, so please come back and share your creations with us.

Here are the cards the DT have made to help get you thinking.

Gez

Kathy

Nat

Sharon
Keilly
Rein

Fran

Leo

Zuzana

Jo

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