You can leave your hat on

Thank you for joining last week’s challenge. Your beautiful cards definitely helped to chase away the January Blues.

And we are convinced that crafting makes us happy no matter if it’s cold and grey outside.

It’s Miri here and this week:

You can leave your hat on!

I dare you to use any kind of head gear on your card: party hats, helmets, woolly hats, crowns, fascinators etc.

So put on your thinking cap :-), create a card and share it with us!

Here are some examples from the design team members.

 Miri

Lythan

Dawn

 

Sharon

Kathy  

Nat

Svenja

Beckie

Leo

Jo

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January Blues

'Hello

Thanks to those who joined in with our January Elemental Inspiration challenge last week, it was great to see lots of different interpretations and ways to use the different elements in the picture
This week we have something nice and simple for you:

January Blues

You are free to use the title however you want; it could be a "just to cheer you up" or "sorry to hear you're feeling blue" card,  a card with shades of blue as the main colour, or something else inspired by the heading.  Lets chase the January Blues away with some quality time spent getting creative!

have fun

Kathy 

Dawn     

Miri

Beckie

Svenja

Nat

Lythan

Leo

Zuzana

Jo

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Elemental Inspiration for January

 Happy New Year!

Hi, it's Kathy here with the first card dare for 2015 and the first in a brand new series of First Friday challenges - yes, we know that technically it's the second Friday of January this time, but from February on it will be the first Friday each month

"Elemental Inspiration"

Here's how it works;

The DT will take turns to choose and post a picture - it could be a photo, a piece of artwork, or maybe a little montage of  bits and pieces we like.  

Each of these pictures will have a variety of "elements" that we hope will inspire you to get crafting - and we'd like you to use a minimum of THREE.of the elements you see to make a card  

 For instance  the colour combo could be one element, the LO another, and then there may be a landscape, items in the picture, a quote, stitching lines, the media used to create the picture - all sorts of things.  

We will add a little list of suggested elements each month, but you're bound to see more things you can use

So here is my Elemental Inspiration Picture for January, a beautiful piece of artwork from a fabulous blog: Victoria's Art Visions.

Victoria's Art Visions

Here are my Element Suggestions for this picture: 

 colours, stitching, hearts, quote, vintage girl image, parasol, layout, vertical panels and layers  

Remember you need to use at least THREE different elements and the colour combination can only count as ONE of those elements

I've also  made a little sketch of the Layout which could be used as one of your elements

So that's your challenge this week and I can't wait to see how you use this fabulous picture to make your own Elementally Inspired card.  It would be especially good if you could add a lost of the elements you used to your blog post so we can all see where your inspiration came from

Here's how the Team rose to the challenge this week

Kathy  (I've used the colours, the hearts, the "stitching lines and the style of the cut-out words for the sentiment)

 Lythan  

Svenja 

 

Nat 

 Sharon 

Dawn    

Miri   

Leo

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Inspired by You!

Thank you to everyone who had a go at Sharon's 'Shake it Off' dare last week, how fun was it making those shaker cards!

This week it's Leo here and I'm bringing you the final Daring Cardmakers Dare of 2014! We'll be taking a break over the Christmas holidays but will be back on January 9th raring to go with the new dares for 2015. 

For this final dare of the year I'd like you to be....

Inspired by You

Go through the cards you've made this year, wherever you upload them to and pick out a card you made to inspire a new one. It could be you use a different colour scheme or re-use the layout or the same embellishment, anything you choose. Have fun! 

Here are the design team cards to inspire you. Have a lovely happy holiday time and new year and thank you for joining us in 2014!

Leo

Nat

Kathy
Inspiration from HERE

Svenja

Miri

Jo

Sharon

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Shake it Off!

Hi, it's Sharon here with this week's dare.  Firstly, thanks to everyone that joined in with last weeks colour combo, there were some really beautiful cards.

This week, I've chosen:

Shake it Off

I want to see shaker cards this week, and I'd really love to see some creative ways to fill them.

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

Sharon 

Nat

Kathy   

Miri

Leo

Jo

Svenja

Zuzana

Lythan

 

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December Colour Combo

Hello all and welcome to another weekly dare here at Daring Cardmakers.

Hi it's Dawn here to host my very first challenge and as its the First Friday of the month its colour combination time. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last weeks challenge to use cotton on your card and hosted by the lovely Jo.

Just a little note that this will be the last colour combination challenge but don't worry because from January our First Friday Challenge will be similar but with a bit of a twist!!

This weeks colour combination dare is  RED and BLUE (any shade)

I really do love seeing red and blue on Christmas cards or as a theme for your Christmas tree.  Something a little non traditional.  Hope this weeks challenge kick starts your creativeness ready for the festive season.

Here is some crafty inspiration from our lovely Design Team.

Dawn

Nat   

Miri 

Kathy   

Lythan

Svenja

text translates:

Dear Santa.
I am bad.
But I'm really good at it.
Does that count?

Jo

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