Party Animal

Thanks to all crafters who joined our inspirational picture dare last week.

It was good to see some colour during these grey February days.

It’s Miri here this week and Carnival season has just finished … but we hope that you will find many more reasons to celebrate, dress up, behave a bit crazy and have fun with your loved ones this year. 

So show us a real

PARTY ANIMAL!

Put an animal on your card … even better when it’s celebrating and/or in a good mood.

To cheer up and get some ideas, have a look at the design teams’ creations.

Happy crafting and have fun ;-).

 Bev

 Nat

 Dawn

 Miri

Svenja

Kathy

Lythan

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February Elemental Inspiration

Thank you if you had a go at the balloon dare last week. :) Leo back again with you to bring you the first challenge of a new month which for us here at Daring HQ is a picture challenge!

Today we're delighted to introduce our Fabulous February Guest Designer

  Bev Lowe 

We're so pleased she's agreed to play along with us this month and
 showcase her cards on our blog.  

Please check out Bev's Blog HERE, you're sure to enjoy your visit!

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It's the first Friday of the month so time for some

 February Elemental Inspiration

All you need to do is choose a minimum of three elements from the picture to inspire your design. The colours only count for one element. Let us know which three, (or more) elements you chose when you share your finished project.

Here's what the design team have created to give you even more lush inspiration....

Bev

Leo

Nat

Dawn

Kathy

 

Svenja

Lythan

Miri

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Be A Guest Designer!

Would you like to spend a month designing with us?

The Daring Cardmakers are always looking for talented cardmakers to join us as Guest Designers, so would you be interested in coming to play with 

us for a while?

As you know, we feature a wide range of styles and techniques and as we have no affiliations our challenges are always fresh and varied!

You probably already know the sort of thing we do, but why not scroll down through our challenges (there are TEN years worth on here!) to get a better feel for our dares and our style - and how you would help make our blog look even better and fulfil our "Create - Inspire - Share" mantra

We would love to showcase more designers here on our blog and on 

our Facebook page so we are currently drawing up a list of those who are interested in joining us for a few weeks

Interested?

Leave a message on this thread (email addresses and any info you give will be safe as comments on this thread will not be published) 

or contact Kathy

 (please use the email link in the sidebar you'll find HERE)

Please ensure that you include your contact details so we can get back to you 

Balloons

Thank you to everyone who played along with last weeks 'Fools Gold' challenge from Sharon, (do you always do the Ian Brown 'Fooooolls Gold' voice saying that too, oh just me, OK then....)

Hi Leo here to bring you a new challenge for a new week, the last week in January in fact, how fast has that gone! 

This week I'd like you to create a card featuring:

Balloons

It can be a real one if you're feeling really creative or else a die cut, sticker, stamp, anything you want to use that features a balloon/s. :)

Here's this weeks creations from the design team to kick start your creating and don't forget you can add a link to your creation below.

If you want to share your work in other ways you can use Instagram adding the #daringcardmakers to your post and there's a Facebook page too at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daring-Cardmakers/340001726032698

Leo

Svenja 

Lythan

Nat

Miri

Dawn

 Kathy

Sharon  

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Fool's Gold

Hi everyone

It's Sharon here with this week's challenge.  Firstly thanks to everyone who joined in Jo's 'Leaf it Alone' dare last week, there was some great inspiration.

This week, the theme is
 '"Fool's Gold'
  I'd like to see gold featured heavily in your design - either gold embossing powder, gold cardstock, glitter, gold foil, gold paint - anything you can think of as long as it's gold!    Rose gold is my favourite thing ever, so you can have bonus points if you manage to feature rose gold.

Here's some inspiration from the design team to get you started:

Sharon 

Kathy    

Dawn

Lythan

Nat

Svenja

Leo

Miri

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Leaf It Alone!

Thank you to every on who joined in our first dare of the year - it was brilliant to see how  the elements inspired in different ways :)

It's Jo back again this week with another dare!  This week I would like to see you;

Leaf It Alone!

All too often the humble leaf is upstaged by flowers on our cards so I would like to see you make the leaf the star!

Can't wait to see what you create! 

Here's how the design team were inspired by foliage;

Jo

Sharon

 

 Dawn

Nat

Lythan

Kathy

 

Miri

Svenja

Zuzana

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January's Inspiration Picture

Happy New Year!

Hi, it's Jo here with the first card dare for 2016 and another Elemental Inspiration challenge,here's my picture to inspire this month;

Credit

Here are my Element Suggestions for this picture: 

tape, glitter, cake cases, colours, stamps, ric rac, stars, sequins, hearts twine etc.!

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

Jo

Lythan

Dawn   

Miri

Kathy

Nat

Svenja

Zuzana

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