DC natural, gold, white

Happy Friday, everyone! 

I already made plans visit Christmas markets and sheduled the first Christmas parties with colleagues and relatives … it’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas.

The Daring Cardmakers would like to add to the early Christmas feeling.

We'd love you to join in with us for our seasonal calendar
Have a Very Crafty Christmas
it's a mix of card challenges and others where you can share any kind of crafting project on our given themes -  come and get crafting with the DCM

Natural, Gold and White

This week it's 'Anything Goes' challenge and its a Colour Palette challenge

So, feel free to share any kind of craft project you

 fancy making, but with the beautiful 

Natural, Gold and White colour palette, please!

I used a card and added golden trees and a sentiment. The background paper has a wood pattern for the natural element.

By the way, the weather is awful around here: cold, foggy and always grey – perfect for crafting 😉!

Make the most out of this season!

DC Just cards: Christmas Songs and Carols

Hello, crafters! The Daring Cardmakers bring you a new Christmas inspired challenge.

This week is an 'Just Cards' challenge and the theme is 

Christmas Songs and Carols

choose any Christmas Song or Carol as the inspiration for making your card. If you want to add a twist by making it not a Christmas card then go for it!  we’d love to see how you manage that

I used a patterned paper with a Christmas song on it and added a few musical notes.

DC baubles and bows

Hello, crafters! Let the Christmas countdown continue …

The Daring Cardmakers have a new challenge for you to stock up your Christmas cards and projects.

We'd love you to join in with us for our seasonal calendar

Have a Very Crafty Christmas

it's a mix of card challenges and others where you can share any kind of crafting project on our given themes, so tags, bags, boxes or anything else you make.

This week is an 'Anything Goes' challenge and the theme is 

Baubles and Bows

So, feel free to share any kind of craft project, but it must feature 

Baubles and Bows, please

I made a card. For the baubles I used die cut circles and the bows are drawn with black fineliner.

DC November elemental inspiration

Yay! You might think it’s the start of November … but for the Daring Cardmakers it’s already the start oft he festive season. So get ready for snow, Christmas trees, winter scenes etc. during the next few Fridays.

This week we start our seasonal calendar - its a mix of card challenges and others where you can share any kind of crafting project on our given themes, so tags, bags, boxes or anything else you make.
 We're calling it:

Have a Very Crafty Christmas

This week though, we're sticking to cards and as it's the first day of a new month it's an 

Elemental Inspiration Challenge 

For November we have this lovely, Wintry mood board for you to play with.

Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements  from the picture to use when making your card.  If you choose to use the colour palette, then that would count as one of your elements.

I picked glitter, stars and snow covered trees.

You will notice during the next weeks that I love this set of dies (and the matching stamps). It was an expensive purchase but I think I already got it’s money worth out of it. And besides ... I don’t own that many Christmas products…

Hallo, ihr Lieben! Ihr denkt der November fängt an, aber für die Daring Cardmakers beginnt heute schon die Festtagssaison. Die nächsten Wochen gibt es jeden Freitag eine sehr weihnachtliche Inspiration für euch.

Macht doch mit, falls ihr noch Weihnachtskärtchen braucht.

Diese Woche gibt es eine Bildinspiration. Sucht euch drei Elemente aus und verwendet sie auf euren Karten.

Bei mir seht ihr schneebedeckte Bäume, einen Sternenhimmel und ein bisschen Glitzer.

Happy crafting! Viel Spaß beim Basteln!

DC back to black

Hello, crafty people! The Daring Cardmakers have a new exciting challenge for you.

Svenja wants us to

Go back to black!

Make a card that features the colour black as main colour or as a distinctive central element.

Usually I don’t use a lot of black on my projects as I think that it is such a sad colour. So I was really surprised how it looks combined with bright colours. It makes all the colours so much brighter and it doesn’t have to look like a condolence card at all.

Hallo, kreative Leserinnen! Die Daring Cardmakers haben eine spannende Herausforderung für euch.

Svenja möchte diese Woche schwarz sehen 😉.

Verwendet schwarz als Hauptfarbe auf euren Karten oder zumindest als großes Element.

Ich bin mit schwarz normalerweise sehr sparsam, weil es so eine traurige, dunkle Farbe ist. Aber ich war überrascht, wie knallig bunt alle Farben neben schwarz aussehen und dass die Karte gar nicht nach Trauerkarte aussieht. Wieder was gelernt!

While cleaning my craft cupboard I got rid of old SU catalogues. But I kept inspiring card ideas and try to „copy“ them. Here: using little stamps to create a background.

Beim letzten Ausmisten flogen auch alle alten SU Kataloge raus. Die inspirierendsten Bilder habe ich allerdings behalten und versuche die Ideen umzusetzen. Hier: kleine Stempel verwenden, um den Hintergrund zu gestalten.

DC Use up your scraps

Hello, crafters! Welcome to the Daring Cardmakers‘ challenge.

Use up your scraps

Are there some papers etc. you want to use up before the new year? Is there a paper pad that is lying around since forever? Is your scrap box overflowing? Do you have a collection of coloured stamped images that never fit on your current projects? Show us what you create with scraps and papers you want to get rid of.

There’s a paper pad I really love(d) … and I waited forever to cut it apart and actually use it. But now there are only little bits of it left and the patterns that I just don’t love that much. But before buying something new, I challenged myself to use it up completely.

And while I was decluttering my crafting cabinet a while ago I put a „use before 2020“ sticker on a number of things and I challenge myself to use them for my next craft projects. 

If not, they will be given away and I only allow myself to shop new things once they are gone (one way or the other 😉).

DC October Elemental inspirational challenge

It’s already October and I’m looking forward to some cosy golden autumn days.

Here is the inspirational picture I picked for the Daring Cardmakers:

Please use at least three items from the moodboard on your card.

I made a very traditional autumn card: hedgehog, leaves and a plaid pattern.

I remembered how much fun I had creating matching bookmarks (and/or envelopes) for my cards :-) ... I should do it more often!

Have a cosy and crafty weekend!