Reeling in the ribbon

It's Nat here bringing you this week's dare...
First of all I'd just like to say how happy we were to see all the lovely entries for last week's February flowers dare - so many great cards!

We hope you'll be just as excited to join in with this week's dare.

Not only were the Design Team lucky enough to be sent some goodies to play with, but there's also a give-away from our sponsor for the week: 

The Ribbon Reel!

Check out all this yummy stash up for grabs:

Now in order to be entered into the draw for this prize, you need to create a card that features all of the following elements:

Two items of ribbon/trim/twine

One or more buttons

At least one heart element

The rules are simple:

1. Make your card using the recipe above and add it to your blog

2. Add links to both The Ribbon Reel and The Daring Cardmakers

3. Enter your card for no more than FIVE challenges (including this one)

Oh, and don't forget to let us know where we can see it, of course!

Here's what the team came up with for this recipe....

Nat

Lynda

Kathy

Rein

Chrissie

Vanessa

Asia

Lythan

Jo

Flowers for February

Thank you all for sharing your fab and fun "Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit" cards with us last week. What a wonderful array of creativity we saw on our travels around your blogs
We have a wonderful new Guest Designer joining us this month,  we were thrilled when Chrissie agreed to make some of her fabulous cards just for us and we know you'll agree when you see what she's been making.
Welcome  Chrissie!

It's the first Friday of the month so this week we'd like you to take inspiration from the flowers associated with the month of February
February's flowers are the Violet and the Primrose

The colours associated with them are shades of Violet, Sky Blue and Yellow and the traditional meanings of the flowers are Modesty, Faithfulness, Virtue and Young Love

We'd love to see what you can create using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your crafting.
We're looking forward to seeing your creations, so please come and let us know where we can see them.
Here are the Primrose and Violet cards the team have been making this week, we hope they'll help get you thinking

Chrissie

Rein

Kathy

Nat

Vanessa

Samm

Keryn

Lynda

Lythan

Asia

Jo

Year of the Rabbit

Thank you to everyone who joined in with us last week and we hope you enjoyed making that special card for yourself as much as we enjoyed coming to see it.

Its Lynda here and this is the Dare I’ve set for you all this week:-

The Year of the Rabbit

3^rd February 2011 will welcome in the next Chinese New Year – the Year of the Rabbit. So this week I’m going to let you have TWO options to choose from:-

Make a card with an Oriental feel to it

OR

Make a card that features a rabbit.

It’s entirely up to you.

Can’t wait to see what you make so don’t forget to come back and leave us a link to your card.

Here’s a little inspiration from the Team just to get you started:-

Lynda

Lythan

Rein

Nat

Kathy

Keryn

Asia

Jo

It's All About Me!!

Before we tell you about this week's Dare we'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered our 'No Calories' Dare last week. There were some fabulous entries and now it's time to name our winner who will receive their choice of 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More.

Out of all the entries last week there were 10 of you who met the criteria to win the prize and we kept your names in order of entry and used random org to pick a number (from 1-10) - which was Number 10

So the winner is:-

SHARON (Cards by Request)

Congratulations Sharon Please e-mail Kathy (you can find her e-mail address on her blog) so that she can arrange for you to get your prize.

This week it's Asia here and I would like you to make a card for... yourself! Use your special papers (the ones that you stash away for Queen's birthday and you know you won't use them anyway, because they're too pretty), your favourite stamps and embellishments. Make a card that will stay with you and write inside something that has a meaning to you, that gives you power and energy. Make a card, that you've never got.

We're really looking forward to seeing the cards you make for yourself so don't forget to leave a link for us to come and have a look.

Here's what the Team have been creating for 'themselves' this week:

Rein

Lynda

Kathy

Asia

Keryn

Lythan

Jo

Nat

Absolutely No Calories Recipe

Thank you so much for joining in with the first of our monthly flower challenges, it was such a lovely start to the year to see so many beautiful snowdrops and carnations displayed on your cards.

Our dare this week is to "bake" a card using our No Calorie Recipe - Read on to find out how you can be in with a chance of winning a prize for joining in this week..

Here are the ingredients you must use on your card:

1 image (stamped, digital or other type)
2 pieces of ribbon
3 different papers

This week we are lucky to have a lovely sponsor for our dare and the DT have been working with digital images, downloadable papers or even both = all from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations.

You can see all Robyn's lovely paper designs, and a huge variety of digi images HERE. You'll be spoilt for choice!

You have the chance to win either your choice of 5 digital stamps or your choice of 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set from Robyn's Fetish by entering a card for this week's challenge.

To qualify for entry to our prize draw don't forget to follow our 3 Simple Rules:

1. Make your card using the recipe above and add it to your blog
2. Add links to both Robyn's Fetish and The Daring Cardmakers
3. Enter your card for no more than 5 challenges (including this one)

Oh, and don't forget to let us know where we can see it, of course!

Here's what the team have come up with this week:



Samm

Lynda

Nat

Kathy

Rein

Lythan

Jo

Snowdrops and Carnations.....

Happy New Year!

It seems such a long time since we celebrated Christmas "Down-Under" style with Keryn's beach themed challenge, but a big thank you to all of you who threw off the Winter chill and enjoyed some fun in the sun with us. It was great to see your cards.

So, on to a whole new year of DCM dares, we're hope you're ready and raring to go!

Once again we've decided to set aside the first dare of each month to feature a theme that will run throughout the year. For 2011 we'll be taking inspiration from the flowers associated with each month, and the flowers associated with the month of January are the Snowdrop and the Carnation.

So we'd love to see cards made using one or both of these flowers as the starting point for your creations..

You can use the flowers, their special features or maybe do a little research and use the stories and symbolism associated with them as your inspiration.

We're looking forward to seeing your creations, so please come and let us know where we can see them.
Here are some cards from the team to help get you thinking

Lynda

Kathy

Samm

Nat
Lythan