DC Bon voyage

 

Hello crafters!

The Daring Cardmakers have a new challenge for you:

Bon voyage

Show us a travel-inspired card.

Here I created an Africa/safari-inspired baby card… so I cheated a little as it’s not a travel card. But the parents loved it 😊.

 

DC summer drinks

 

Hello crafty friends,

This week we’re back in summer 😊and here’s the new challenge for the Daring Cardmakers!

I prefer warmth and sunshine and challenge you to use

summer drinks

on your cards.

Whatever you like to drink on hot days is fine and we’d love to see it: cocktails, lemon water, coffee (a necessity in every season 😉!), ice tea

… some fruit, other decoration or a straw are optional, but extra cute.

Finally I could use my cool cocktail glass again. I made cards for two teacher friends who long for the summer holidays as much as I …

The sentiment says: now is the best time!

I love the little shaker area and the fun cocktails.

I decorated the inside of the cards as well.

DC Christmas in July

 

Hey crafters,

It’s July and Dawn from the Daring Cardmakers wants you to remember

Christmas in July!

So take the chance and start with creating your Christmas cards.

I recently bought a die set which had a deer in it. I thought it might be nice on a Christmas card. I enjoyed crafting, but I’m definitly not in a winter and Christmas mood yet 😉.

Here’s a shaker card.

And then I made another card with the scraps and the die cut leftover.

Enjoy summer and collect sunshine and summer memories

 for the cold and dark times!

DC July Elemental Inspiration

 

Hello crafters,

Welcome to July!

Rizwana from the Daring Cardmakers has a fabulous inspirational picture for you:

 

I was inspired by the butterflies, the colour combination and the string/tassels.

I created the circle in the background with distress oxide inks and added die cut butterflies and matching sequins.

Have a happy summer!

DC Men Folk Inspired

 

Hello, crafty people!

Welcome to another amazing weekend ahead … hopefully with a lot of sunshine.

Dawn from the Daring Cardmakers wants to see masculine cards this week.

Men Folk Inspired

As it is fathers day on 18th June I would like to see a masculine card to celebrate the men folk.  It doesn't have to be for fathers day but I know we all struggle with a more masculine card so lets have some made for the card stash.

I fell in love with this cool camping stamp set right away … to me it feels very masculine: being outdoors, doing active things and experiencing adventures (maybe even meeting big animals in the woods).

I a book binding card fort he first time. (Here’s a tutorial for that).

And I used the other stamps on this Z-fold-card.

Have fun crafting and enjoying the outdoors!

DC Everything's coming up roses

 

Hello crafty people!

It’s Friday … and there’s so much freetime ahead. Maybe it’s time for you to shedule some crafty time again?!

Joanne from the Daring Cardmakers has a new challenge for you:

Everything’s coming up roses

Roses are one of the two birth flowers for June — this week we’d like to see roses somewhere on your project. As an alternative if you’re not in the mood for flowers, yellow roses symbolise friendship so include yellow in your colour palette with any image or technique you like. Extra virtual brownie points if you manage yellow roses!

I love getting bonus points 😉. So here are my yellow roses:

 

 

DC June Elemental inspiration

 

Hello crafty people!

It’s already June … and summer is finally starting. I love the higher temperatures and enjoy the sunshine on my face so much 😊!

Kathy picked a great picture for the Daring Cardmakers‘ challenge:

I like the mediterranean vibes of the picture and used the mosaic, some flowers and a vase on my card.

As you can see, I used the same paper pad as last week. And it looks quite different this time, doesn’t it?

Have a great, sunny weekend and enjoy it!