With a Flourish

Hello, Happy Friday!
Welcome to another lovely Daring Cardmakers' Day - thank you so much for joining in with us last week, we hope you enjoyed revisiting your bead collection and using some of them on your cards!

It's me, Kathy here this week and I challenge you to
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Using flourishes and swirls is one of my favourite card-making techniques. 

 I'll let you into a secret - it's a bit of a trick really! They are often last-minute additions when I've put a card together and get one of those  'something missing', 'too much white space', 'hmm, the balance isn't quite right' feelings.  Adding some kind of swirly accent almost always sets things right.

So please add a swirl or flourish to your cards this week - in any way you like; die cuts, beads and gems, stamping, embossing, stencilling - there's lots of ways to do it as you'll see on the wonderful inspirational cards made by our design team this week.
Have fun and don't forget to come and leave your link so we can how you added a flourish too

 Kathy  

Marleen

 Shabneez

Sylvia    

Dawn

Miri

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Turn up the bead(s)

Hello, it's Miri here this time
Thank you for sharing your embossed cards with us last week!

Turn up the bead(s)

I’m quite sure that you as a crafter have a stash of beads in all colours and sizes somewhere. Right?! And if you’re anything like me, you might not know what to do with them.

So let’s inspire each other and share your beady creations with the Daring Cardmakers this week.

The members of the design team already came up with some brilliant ideas:

Miri

Ruth

Joanne

Marleen 

 

Kathy 

Sylvia

  

Dawn    

 

 

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Who's the [Em]boss?

Hello and Happy Friday! 

 Thank you for joining in with last week's challenge, this time it's Ruth here with the theme for this week which is

Who's the (Em)Boss?!

So, let's see all your embossing creations and tell us how and what you have used!

Onto the Design Team to see how they have interpreted my theme!

Ruth:

Marleen:

Dawn:

Sylvia:

Joanne:

Kathy  

Miri

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September Elemental Challege

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here and I just wanted to thank you for joining in with Kathy's Travelogue challenge last week - wasn't it fun?!

We have some wonderful news to start September with - we loved having Sylvia with us so much that we asked her to stay on as a regular member of our Design Team....and she said "yes" so now we'll be seeing loads more of her fantastic cards   

For the month of September we are delighted to have with us a Guest Blogger called Marleen Michaelis Gallagher who is an avid crafter and lives in rural Ireland.  You can find our more about her on her blog HERE.

Now I know it's September but I just can't let go of the summer - not just yet anyway!  The elemental board I've chosen has fond memories of summer on it and lots to choose from so I hope you'll join in.  You simply have to pick 3 elements from the board which can be an item, colour, shape etc.

Here is the inspiration from the Design Team this week:

Marleen

 

Dawn

Sylvia

 

Shabneez

 

Ruth

Kathy#

 

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Travelogue

Hello
It's Kathy here this time and I'd like to welcome you to The Daring Cardmakers challenge blog, we hope you'll feel inspired to join in with us this week.

First though, a big Thank You to those who shared their 'Back to School' cards with us last week.  I used to be a primary school teacher and at that time Dawn's theme would have made my shoulders sag a bit!  But nowadays I love it when school starts up again - funny that, eh? 

"Travelogue"
This week I'd love to see your cards on a theme of travel.
You could feature transport, places, dream locations, suitcases....the world is your oyster!
Anything to do with travelling is good, so pack your bags and lets go! 

Here are some great ideas from our fab design team to get you in the mood

Kathy

Joanne 

Sylvia

Dawn

Ruth

Miri

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Back To School

Hello everyone it Dawn here with this weeks challenge.

First of all I would like to thank you all for joining in last weeks challenge called "What's Cooking"

For this weeks challenge I have picked the theme of 

Back to School 

I know its a little early but in some parts of the world the children have already gone back.

I would like to see something school related on your cards, books, alphabet, desks, etc... Lets celebrate the children and all those wonderful teachers. 

We can't wait to see your creations and have fun.

Here is some inspiration from the fabulous Design Team.

Dawn    

 Miri  

 

Ruth 

Shabneez   

  

  Sylvia   

 
Kathy 

Svenja

 

(Creativity is intelligence having fun.)

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What's cooking?

Hello, thanks to everyone who got nautical with Shabneez's challenge last week - lovely to see some ocean!

It's Joanne here this week and I'd like to know "What's cooking?" - it's a challenge with options! You could choose to use an item from your kitchen to help you make your project (think cling film backgrounds, spices in a shaker card, paint with coffee, stamp on a teabag, use cupcake cases to make a flower etc). Or if you don’t fancy raiding the kitchen you could feature an image of food. Extra brownie points if you manage to do both!

Here's some inspiration from the team, see if you can spot the kitchen items in use! I'm sure a visit to our blogs will clear up any mysteries!

Dawn (extra brownie point!)

Shabneez

Joanne (extra brownie point!)

Sylvia

Svenja

Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.

Kathy (extra brownie point!)

Ruth  

Miri (extra brownie point!)

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Let's Go Nautical!

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here and I hope you enjoyed joining in with the August Elemental Challenge last week.

I can't believe it's the second week of August already!  I've decided to keep with the summer theme and would love to see your NAUTICAL creations - anything to do with the sea really.  The Design Team have made a wonderful variety of cards to get your creative juices flowing!

Shabneez

Miri   

Dawn

  

Sylvia

 

Kathy

Joanne

Ruth

Svenja

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