Hello!  Happy Friday Thank you so much for joining in with Joanne's Circles challenge last week, we hope you've stopped spinning by now! It's Kathy here today and I promise my challenge isn't as complicated as it seems at first!  Really, its just a list of things I'd like you to use when you make your card. A Cardmaker's Cake Recipe! If you made a cake you would use eggs, sugar, butter and flour My challenge is a twist or 'play on words' of those ingredients; I've just substituted crafty elements for butter, sugar etc. Ingredients Flower(s) the colour Yellow    Glitter or o ..read more

Hello card makers, thank you for joining us in our April inspiration challenge last week!  Joanne here this week and I’d like to see  circles  You might use circles as a design element, frame a focal point with a circle, stamp an object that contains circles (bikes have wheels, clock faces, dream catchers etc). Here’s some circular inspiration from the design team: Miri Joanne   Kathy    Nat Shabneez This week's cover You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter ..read more

Hello Cardmakers Thank you so much for joining in with last week's Easter challenge It’s the first Friday of the new month, and today’s challenge is “elemental” — with a picture to kick start your creativity April Elemental Inspiration Challenge   Rizwana and Shabneez have joined together to host this week and their mood board has hints of Spring and lots of pretty colours.   There's lots of inspiration to be found in there.  Remember just choose at least 3 elements to use when you make your card. Using pink and purple is optional!  Here are some ideas from ..read more

   Hello its Rizwana here wishing you all a very  Happy Easter. On behalf of all our team we would like to thank everyone who took part in the 'Oh so Square' challenge.   This week I would love to see your Easter themed cards. Choose anything celebrating the Easter Season: Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks, daffodils and tulips. Check out all the inspiration from our design team and don't forget to share your creations with us! Rizwana  Kathy      Nat This week's cover: You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter ..read more

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: You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter ..read more

 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

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

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

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: You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter ..read more

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