DC Resist!

Hello, crafters! Here comes the new Daring Cardmakers‘ challenge.

This week Nat is challenging you to embrace one of her favourite techniques of the moment: the resist technique.

You can accomplish it in a variety of ways using:

• Heat embossing to resist ink, watercolour or other media
• Masking paper or post-it notes with die cuts or even masking tape
• Resist spray on its own or in combination with stencils
• Masking fluid or a masking pen with watercolour
• Wax crayons

I love all the resist techniques that Nat listed, but I use heat embossing  the most often. I’m also quite a fan of ink blending at the moment … so here are my butterflies on bright and coloured backgrounds:

Hallo, liebe Bastlerinnen!

Diese Woche hat sich Nat eine Herausforderung für die Daring Cardmakers ausgedacht. Sie möchte Karten sehen, die mit einer „resist technique“ gemacht wurden.

Dabei muss ich immer sofort an heat embossing und farbige Stempelkissen denken. Und weil ich im Moment sehr sehr gerne Farbverläufe mit meinen Stempelkissen mache, kamen diese Kärtchen dabei heraus.

Schaut euch doch am Wochenende Tutorials für die oben erwähnten Techniken an und probiert mal eine aus?! Viel Spaß dabei!

DC I'd like to be ... under the sea

Hello, crafters! It’s Friday. I hope you’re enjoying the summer time wherever you are and whatever the weather looks like 😉.

Svenja set the challenge for this week.

I’d like to be … under the sea.

Show us a underwater scene on your card. I created one ocean with a messy „ink pad + water bottle“ technique and one with blended distress oxide inks.

I love the cute little fish and other sea animals … so cute! (And again my problem: most of my friends are not that much into cute cards and I only have two sweet little nieces … who should receive these cards?!)

Hallo, ihr Lieben! Ich hoffe ihr könnt den Sommer genießen. Dieses Wochenende ist die perfekte Gelegenheit noch einmal an den Baggersee zu fahren oder ein nettes Grillfest zu organisieren oder euch gedanklich ans Meer zu beamen.

Dafür hat Svenja von den Daring Cardmakers das perfekte Thema:

Ich wäre gerne … unter Wasser.

Zeigt uns eine kleine Unterwasserszene auf eurer Karte. Gestaltet einen Hintergrund für Fische, Muscheln, Wale etc.

Hier sind meine Kreationen. Ein Hintergrund wurde mit einer chaotischen Kombination aus Stempelkissen und Wasser erstellt, der andere mit der klassischen Verblendetechnik (mit meinen Distress Oxide Inks).

Schönes Wochenende euch allen!

DC splish, splash, splosh

Hello, everybody! It’s Friday and here is the next Daring Cardmakers‘ challenge to give you some inspiration to get crafty this weekend.

It's Joanne turn to pick the topic this week and she'd like to see you get loose and unstructured with watercolours, inks or paints to create a focal point, background or accents for your project - sploosh, spray and splatter to your heart's content! It can be a little bit scary when you're not in total control of the results but it's fun to let go and remind yourself there's no right or wrong every once in a while!

I love her idea and I like doing something messy from time to time. This time I made two very similar cards – one male and one female.

Hallo, Bastler! Diese Woche wird es chaotisch und bunt bei den Daring Cardmakers.

Joanna fordert euch heraus mit Stempelkissen, Wasserfarben etc. zu experimentieren und eure eigenen Hintergründe zu gestalten.

Viel Spaß beim kreativen Austoben!

DC 1,2,3,4,5

Hello, crafty friends! It’s Friday and the DaringCardmakers have a very cool challenge for you.

Kathy dares you to use 1,2,3,4,5 on your cards 😊.

I decided to use 1 cactus, 2 words, 3 papers, 4 corners and 5 pearls.

What will you come up with?

DC whatever the weather

Hello, crafters! It’s not Friday today … but the summer holidays finally started and I was able to make some time for crafting 😊.

This week the Daring Cardmakers have a sponsored challenge. Julia from JMC Designs offers lovely prizes for  two lucky winners. So join our challenge this week!

The topic is

Whatever the Weather 
 

Just make any weather-themed card this week, and link it below to be in with a chance of winning a prize.  

I used one of Julia’s images, coloured it and added two die-cut clouds:

Thank you, Julia, for the cute digital stamp!

DC Have a prickly summer

Hello crafters and fans of the Daring Cardmakers!

This week it’s my turn to pick a topic for the Daring Cardmakers and I would love to see a cactus or several cacti on your card!

cactus/cacti

Cacti always remind me of summer, sunshine, deserts and holidays … and I just can’t wait for our summer holidays to begin and fort he sunshine and heat to come back again.

Luckily cacti are a huge trend at the moment and you can find them on many stamps and patterened papers.

I made this card my godmother’s birthday in August.

And you can also see that in my opinion cacti are perfect for male cards too:

I can’t wait to find out if they are as suitable for males as I think … or ist he heart too much?! (And I probably won’t use the one with the pink greeting for a man – it was supposed to be red, but my red ink pad was empty) 

hihihi

DC Wedding season

Hello, crafters! The wedding season is starting … and you might need some ideas?! So the Daring Cardmakers show you some great wedding cards on our blog.

Weddings

I’ll show you two cards I made. Both are quite similar and you can see what a difference the colours and papers/backgrounds make.

The first one is for my colleague. She loves bright lipstick and I used her favourite shade as an inspiration for the card. (She’s also running the garden club at school – so flowers are great too … she’s already married and loved her card).

The second card is for my husband’s cousin. I don’t really know him. So my clever trick is to „copy“ elements from the invitation. 

Here I used the colour sheme and gold letters.

… and by now I’m probably on my way to the wedding up in the North … different little pre- and after-parties from Friday to Sunday 😉.