Daring Cardmakers
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The Daring Cardmakers Blog features a design team of card-makers from the UK and mainland Europe, whose aim is to inspire others by launching a new challenge every Friday.
Daring Cardmakers
1w ago
Happy Friday!
It's Shabneez here today and on behalf of the Design Team I'd like to thank those of you that took part in the Spring themed challenge last week.
This week I'd love to see squares on your card - perhaps a square shaped card or a multitude of squares, the more the better!
Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:
Shabneez
Joanne
Kathy
This week's cover:
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Daring Cardmakers
2w ago
Good morning Lovely Crafters
Thank you so much for joining in and using Miri's beautiful moodboard to inspire your crafting last week.
It's Kathy here today, and I've been thinking about all the crafts we have in our armoury. I'm pretty sure that most of us dabble in many different crafts!
Hands up if you also crochet, paint, do woodworking, Cake decorating, pottery... or just maybe you sew?
Just Sew!
I can't remember actually learning to sew - its just something I could always do! So this week I thought I'd ask you to add some kind of stitching to your cards.
It doesn't have ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
3w ago
Hello Cardmakers
Thank you so much for joining in with Kirsty's Weather challenge last week It's always good to see what you come up with, and as none of us can get away from it Weather cards are always fun to see
It’s the first Friday (and the first day) of a brand new month, and today’s challenge is “elemental” — just choose at least three elements from Miri's picture to kick start your card.
March Elemental Inspiration Challenge
It's Miri here to host this week and my mood board just oozes a feeling of calm and peace! There's lots of lovely inspiration in there, and ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
1M ago
Hello Daring Cardmakers, welcome to the blog!
It's Kirsty here, and my debut for hosting so firstly a big thank you to the team members for their guidance and patience! Secondly, thank you to everyone who took part in last week's music/dance challenge. I love how we all have such different but fabulous takes on a theme. So many different styles to admire!
This week's theme is 'Whatever the Weather'. Don't we always love to chat about the weather? We've had a real mix lately from freezing cold, wind storms, rain and sunshine so I thought this would be a great theme! I would love to see your w ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
1M ago
Hello crafters, Joanne here. Thanks for sharing yummy cake with us last week!
For this week’s challenge, I’m making a song and dance about things: make a card inspired by music and/or dance. Any kind of music, any kind of dance — serenade us or break out the boogie, however the mood takes you!
Here’s some inspiration from the design team:
Joanne
Kathy
Kirsty
Nat
Rizwana
This week's cover:
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Daring Cardmakers
2M ago
Happy Friday!
Thank you so much for joining in with Shabneez's lovely Floral Frenzy - there's nothing like a whole 'garden' of flowers to bring some cheer to a cold, miserable Winter day!
Every now and then we find ourselves needing a 'substitute' challenge for one reason or another, and that's what happened ahead of this one. At that time we had snow in some parts of the UK and there's bound to be plenty still over a lot of the world. So someone (and we'll leave her anonymous) said
"What about having an All White challenge?"
and it seemed like a good idea at the time ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
2M ago
Happy Friday!
Thanks to those of you that joined in with the peach-themed challenge last week. It's Shabneez here with a floral challenge for you:
I think we all have numerous floral themed craft supplies don't we? So this week, let's fill our blogs and feeds with glorious flowers! I'm really looking forward to seeing how you use your favourite florals.
You can see lots of inspiration from the Design Team below:
Shabneez
Kathy
Nat
Kirsty
Rizwana
This week's cover
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Daring Cardmakers
2M ago
Happy Friday all!
It's Nat here with the next challenge of 2024!
But first, thank you to those who played along with our first elemental
challenge of the year last week!
We're glad you could join us in easing back into some crafting after the festive break.
A new year also means a new Pantone colour of the year, and 2024 is the year of Peach Fuzz!
So to celebrate this new focus colour, I want to see you use peach tones on your card in some way.
To get you started, here are some projects from the design team:
Nat
Kathy
Kirsty
This week's cover:  ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
3M ago
Hello Cardmakers
Welcome to The Daring Cardmakers 2024!
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R
It’s the first Friday of a brand new month in a brand new year, and today’s challenge is “elemental” — just choose at least three elements from the picture to kick start your card.
January Elemental Inspiration Challenge
It's Kathy here to host this week and my mood board has a mix of cool colours and natural botanicals along with chocolatey drinks and treats to bring comfort and warmth to winter days!
Pick at least 3 elements from this image to interpr ..read more
Daring Cardmakers
3M ago
Hello Crafty Friends
Jolly Crafty Christmas Time 2023
Thank you for sharing your projects inspired by the word LIGHT it was so lovely to see what you made.
Welcome to our last challenge of the series and the last challenge of 2023!
We'll be back with an Elemental Inspiration challenge on January 5th 2024
For the challenges leading up to Christmas we've been giving you either a picture or a word prompt each week and then the rest is up to you!
This time it's another One Word Prompt:
BAUBLE
What to make? Anything Goes!
Its not just cards and its not j ..read more