Happy Birthday DCM

Can you believe its been a whole year since Daring CardMakers launched our first dare? Its been an amazing year and a complete learning curve for myself and the whole team I am sure. Personally I cannot thank the team enough for pushing me on in my craft and being fab friends. We also want to thank you guys - the darers and our guest designers - for making it the success it is, and for all the new friends we have met. Therefore this weeks dare is called CIRCLE OF FRIENDS and quite simply all we ask is that your card features a circle!



My card this week is simple but I think its quite funky too.



I started with a piece of white textured card stock and folded it to make my base card and inked around the edges with a brown Versacolour ink pad. The main ingredients from this card are from August's Self Addressed Kit and use the KI Memories Celebration Surprise Collection of papers.



Firstly I took a large circle chipboard button by Deluxe Designs and covered it with the "hoopla" paper and then cut a smaller circle from a piece of Dark Tangerine Bazzill card. I used my cropodile to punch two holes in it and inked the edges of the whole thing. I then tied a pice of orange gingham ribbon through the holes. I then adhered it to the corner of the card blank



I then used a circle punch to punch four circles, again in the hoopla paper and inked them up again and arranged them round the chipboard button. I attached a strip of the orange gingham vertically down open edge of the card.



Using Kelly Panacci Rub-ons I attached the greeting to a piece of a scrap of the Tangerine card and matted it onto yet more Hoopla paper. This was attached to the top quarter of the card and there you have it, a quick, simple (arent mine always!) but funky card.



All thats left to do is wish daring cardmakers everywhere a Happy Birthday and we hope you will continue to join us and help us grow over the next year.



Dont forget to check out DCM to see the other birthday dare cards from the team and our extended darers.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARING CARD MAKERS

2 Months!!

Oh my! I have just realised it has been two months since I blogged. I am such a bad blogger, I apologise.

Firstly thank you all for your good wishes, we had an amazing wedding - the sun shone, and the whole day was fab. Wanna see a couple of pics?????

Baby Peanut is also doing well - quite scary to think that 4th Feb is d-day it seems so close. Baby J is so excited and keeps kissing my tummy and going ahhhh baby. Although I did ask him what he wanted Baby to be called and he said "cheeky Trouble" hmmmmmmm. Not too sure on his choice, but we do know that this one is A GIRL!!!!!

Right anyhow, its friday so you know what that means? Yep its Dare Day. Thanks so much to the other guys on the team for letting me be so lax with the dares lately. This week was Kathy's turn to dare and she chose "ANIMAL"

The theme is ANIMAL and you can use anything that's animal inspired (not bugs, birds or butterflies though!), so you could maybe use animal die cuts, animal prints on paper or fabric, or maybe animal "words" grrrrr
How about a card in the shape of a tiger, elephant or monkey?
Now, there's a challenge for you

I had no idea what I was going to do until I was in my local craft shop and I saw this super cute animal paper and I knew it had to be used. I started by making a square card blank from white ribbed cardstock. I then cut a smaller square of the fabby Circus Animals glittery paper from the Nana's Kids range from DCWV. i inked it round the edge and stuck it to the card. I also used the same paper to cut roughly round one of the lions on the page and stuck him on a piece of ribbed white cardstock with inked edges. Again with the white cardstock I cut and inked a long rectangle and used brilliant Making Memories Card Saying rub-ons to add the Happy birthday greeting. Then I attached the strip and the lion square with foam pads.

I am actually quite pleased with this one, I think the animals are soo cute. They do a stack of the Nana's Kids paper and its all glittery and great, so might have to purchase.

Dont forget to head on over to the DCM blog and see some of the sweet and lovable animals that the rest of the team have used.

See ya all later xx