Daring Cardmakers

Team Dare!! Recycle..........

Thanks once again to everyone who took part in both Lythan's dare and also the mid week anniversary themed dare. Its been great to see all your creations.

This week we have a team dare for you ....and we have been looking at Recycling once again. BUT there is a tiny twist! (you'd expect no less eh?) We want you to have a look at old shop bought greetings cards, wrapping paper or gift bags which you have received in the past and recycle any elements to make a card of your own.
You could use them to make backgrounds, cut small focus pieces out, or use the flowers, ribbon and other interesting bits and pieces that are often attached to the cards.

So there you go! Simple eh? So come on join in and reuse, go green, start recycling!
Here are some from the design team to get you started.

Jane

Sue Tanya
Vanessa (Ellepiggo)
Kathy

Lythan
Keryn

2nd in our series....

Hello all ! Thank you all once again for taking part in Lythan's 'Ad- dicted' dare, we've been checking out your creations, and are all as wonderful as ever !

Our mid week dare has come flying around again and we have gone back to our series of cards inspired by Anniversary gift themes for this weeks little extra dare.

This week we are hoping to inspire you with the modern and tradional gifts for the

5th Anniversary, which is Wood or Silverware

which has been randomly picked- just to keep you on your toes ! :)Do with it what ever you wish, it doesn't have to be aniversary card, just inspired by the gift theme.

Here's a few examples from that the design team have come up with. Have fun ! Don't forget to leave us a link to your card- so that we can share your beautiful work !

AD-dicted

Hello peeps! Lythan here. We are loving all the card creations that you have been sharing with us this week. It is good to see so many people as addicted to challenges as we are!

The next Dare is all about being

AD-dicted

I want you to browse the tv and magazines for advertisments and use them as inspiration. It might be the format, the colours, the products, the slogan - whatever floats your boat. Remember you can do this anytime, any place, anywhere as long as you link it to this blog in the usual way!

Today we say a tearful goodbye to Michelle - our first month long Guest Designer - it has been great to have you play with us Michelle. And hello to our May GD - Vanessa, otherwise known by the delightful name of Ellepiggo!

Mel

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Tempting Template Tuesday

Thank you for all the wonderful cards you've been sharing with us for Keryn's Distressing Dare. There's still plenty of time to join in and show your work, but as usual we also have something else for you to play with in the middle of a DCM week.

So, for our Little Midweek Extra this time we have what we hope is a tempting template to help get those creative juices flowing.

We're looking forward to seeing how you use this sketch, remember you can shrink it, twist it, turn it on it's head - as long as we can stil see the sketch in there its up to you. Have fun, and don't forget to come back and let us know where we can see your cards. Here are some from the DT to help get you thinking - there'll be more being added shortly, so please pop back to check them out too

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Most Distressing

Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful creations for our team Hot and Spicy dare and our 7th Anniversary (Wool & Copper) Anniversary Little Extra.

Hi it's Keryn here and it's my turn to Distress you all, or at least your cards with this weeks dare. You can make a card for any season, any holiday, any occaision but you need to use either a fingernail, curled edges, sandpaper, tearing, anything you like really as long as looks like it's had a fair bit or wear and tear.

Please leave us a message when you've made your card so we can come and see how distressed you can be.

Sue

The first in a series !!

Big thanks again to everyone who joined has joined in last Friday’s team dare,

there certainly was some beautiful creations on the subject of hot and spicy !
Now, you still have time to join in if you want too- but if you want a little extra dare, you’ve come to the right place !

We are introducing a new series to our little mid week dares, based around traditional and anniversary gift themes to inspire a design. We are not necessarily looking for an anniversary card (although obviously that’s allowed :) the card can be for any occasion but it should be inspired by the gift theme of the chosen year.

Now, we could start with 1st Anniversary, but that would mean you'd be able to guess the next dare in the series, and that would be too easy eh? :) So we've decided to pick the dare year randomly and we are starting off with

'The 7th Anniversary'

We’d like you to make a card inspired by the Traditional or Modern gift theme
for a 7th Anniversary, which is……

'Wool or Copper'

Don’t forget to leave us a link to your card so that we can come see your lovely creations!

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Hot and Spicy

A huge thank you to everyone who joined in with Jo's Fluttery Butterfly dare - the cards were, as ever wonderful, and so varied.

We hope that you are finding Lythan's tutorial both informative and inspiring - it gives a whole new and uniquely "you" dimension to all those patterned papers we love so much, doesn't it?
Please keep sharing the cards you're making, we love to see them.

This week's Dare theme is a team effort rather than a challenge just thought up by just one of us.

We'd like you to take the phrase
"Hot and Spicy"
and make of it what you will.

It could be colour themed, food themed or maybe have just a hint of saucy spicy-ness

Should be interesting! When you've finished spicing up your cards, please share what you make in the usual ways :)

Finally, we have some happy news to share. Tanya has agreed to join us on the Design Team as a full time member. Tanya's work is lovely, and we are really pleased to have us join the team full time. Welcome aboard Tanya.

Sue