Ribbon Topped Recipe

Here we are halfway through our special Ribbon Oasis week and the cards you've been sharing with us have been fantastic.

There's still time to join in, don't forget!

Bea is offering this gorgeous prize

To be in with a chance of winning:

Make a Christmas card featuring some ribbon.
Make it especially for Fridays 'Ribbon Galore' dare.
Leave a message on the "Ribbon Galore" message thread to tell us where we can see it - or email it to us for the gallery.

If you've already done your "Wrap it in Ribbon for Chrsitmas" card and you're ready for a new challenge how about trying our Little Extra for this week.

We're still playing with those wonderful Ribbon Oasis ribbons but this time we've got a Ribbony Recipe for you to play with.

The ingredients you need to use on your cards are:

4 brads/eyelets
3 circles
2 rectangles
and lashings of ribbon!

What sort of card you make is up to you this time - as long as you've got all those ingredients on there the choice is yours.

If you've not already visited the fabby Ribbon Oasis online shop then please head off there soon and be prepared to swoon over the luciousness that you'll find.

Wrap it in Ribbon for Christmas

Oh I'm so late up loading my Blog today, but I have a good excuse.

I spent the day with my best crafty buddies Rhi and cutsie Dolly Nic at the SECC in Glasgow ..... phew it was one very busy day, but we had a fab time.

The only downside of the day, was that Lisa was ill and couldn't make it, but all that means is we have to arrange another meet as soon as she is feeling better.

Thank you all so much for joining in with our Anniversary Dare - it was wonderful to see all your cards and have so many people celebrate with us.

We've another special dare this week. Bea from Ribbon Oasis is sponsoring a challenge to use her fabbylicious range of Christmassy ribbons on our cards. So Lucky Us - we all received an envelope full of ribbons to play with and below you'll find the cards we've made (so far!)

So this week we'd love you to join in and make Christmas cards using lots and lots of fabby, yummy ribbon - now that shouldn't be too hard, after all we all love ribbon, don't we?

Don't forget that you can replenish and expand your ribbon supply easily by visiting the Ribbon Oasis website - you'll find so much of the gorgeous twirly stuff there you'll be spoilt for choice - we guarantee it!

Wrap it in Ribbon for Christmas





***DCWV PP***
***CuttleBug Embossing Folders***
***Studio G Stamps***
***Ribbons from Ribbon Oasis***

Remember to leave a comment on the Daring Card Makers Blog so we can hot-tail it over to see your creations, and here's a little sweetener:

Bea is giving a ribbonful prize to one lucky darer this week. All you need to do is make a be-ribboned Christmas Card especially for the DCM (no doubling up of challenges this week....), post a link to say where we can see it.

Or send it by email to daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk for the gallery and you'll be in with a chance of winning.

Couldn't be easier, could it?

We do visit every Blog and try to leave as many comments as possible. There are so many amazing creations that we can't all leave a comment - we hope you understand.

You Make Me Smile Award.

My lovely friend - Dolly Nic -has awarded me with a 'you make me smile' award. How fab is that - thank you Nic...xx

So I have to pass this on to 10 worthy bloggers.


Paula Pixie. Mel. Em Sarah. Keryn. Tracie (Bondgirl). Lythan. Rachel. Wendy. Lisa.

Happy Birthday Daring Card Makers

Our Amazing Circle Of Friends

The group of friends who got together to form the Daring Cardmakers back in October 2006 has developed and grown into a huge circle of crafting and blogging friends who come together from all over the world to share their inspiration and their talents so enthusiastically, and are always so supportive of each other's cardmaking.

In honour of all of you who've helped make this blog so successful, and such a friendly place to "play" we've decided to revisit our very first dare for this our first anniversary, but with a twist.

The subject is, as in our original dare "friends", but this time the title is

CIRCLE of FRIENDS

and we'd like you to incorporate at least one circle into your card.

It would make it a very special occasion if for this dare you'd make a card just for the DCM rather than doubling up with other challenges.

Please join in and celebrate our first anniversary with us, without all of you - our wonderful extended "Team of Darers" and of course all those who've joined us as Guest Designers over the last year it wouldn't be half as much fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARING CARDMAKERS ALL




***Love Elsie PP***
***CuttleBug Funky Circle Die***
***CuttleBug Birthday Cake Die***
***QK Katie Alphabet***
***Large Scolloped Circle Punch***
***Scolloped Edges, Doodles by Lynne***
***Dymo***

Remember to leave a comment on the Daring Card Makers Blog so we can hot-tail it over to see your creations.

We do visit every Blog and try to leave as many comments as possible. There are so many amazing creations that we can't all leave a comment - we hope you understand.

You can still join in the fun if you don't have a Blog, just send a Photo/scan to the team at;

daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk

and your creation will be added to our Gallery for all to see

Santa's Little Extra Helper 2

"O Christmas Tree. O Christmas Tree"

Want to guess what needs to be featured on your cards this week? Yes, we want to see lots and lots of Christmas Trees - that should help you get those stocks of cards looking a bit healthier.



***DCWV PP***
***CuttleBug Tree Die***
***CuttleBug Embossing Folders***
***Sizzix Prim Star Die***
***Studio G Stamp***

Remember to leave a comment on the Daring Card Makers Blog so we can hot-tail it over to see your creations.

We do visit every Blog and try to leave as many comments as possible. There are so many amazing creations that we can't all leave a comment - we hope you understand.

You can still join in the fun if you don't have a Blog, just send a Photo/scan to the team at;

daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk

and your creation will be added to our Gallery for all to see

Hey-hey we're the Monkey's

Hey-hey we're the Monkey's and we're monkeyin' around ......

I've been monkeyin' around the past couple of weeks. No crafting at all - I am mojoless, and with school holiday's - sheeeesh - I don't know which way is up, but as you probably know, October is a very special month for Daring Cardmakers.

Next week we will be celebrating our first anniversary - with a very special dare.

We have loved seeing all the amazing creations over the past year, and we look forward to seeing even more crafty gorgeousness in the year to come.

On to this week's challenge.

Hellooooo, Kathy here to set you a really Beastly dare this week!

The theme is ANIMAL and you can use anything that's animal inspired - not those diddy little ones like bugs, birds and butterflies (though you can include them in your design of course) but what I'd really like to see is bigger, wilder, more fabulous or fantastic creatures

So you could maybe use animal die cuts, animal prints on paper or fabric, or maybe animal words or phrases "grrrrr get down tiger"!!!!

You could invent your own wild and wonderful beasties, or go back in time for dinosaurs, or into the world of mythology for all sorts of incredible creatures.

How about a card in the shape of a tiger, elephant or monkey?

Now, there's a challenge for you.... I'd love you to all go really wild over this one and have loads of beastly fun

***Love Elsie PP***
***CuttleBug Monkey Die***
***QK Moxie Alphabet***
***Dymo***
***Doodles by Lynne***

Remember to leave a comment on the Daring Card Makers Blog so we can hot-tail it over to see your creations.

We do visit every Blog and try to leave as many comments as possible. There are so many amazing creations that we can't all leave a comment - we hope you understand.

You can still join in the fun if you don't have a Blog, just send a Photo/scan to the team at;

daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk

and your creation will be added to our Gallery for all to see