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DCM - Going Geek

It’s Lythan’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers and this is what she’s chosen:

   I (Lythan) have a son who is 18 this week and he is a real Geek - loves computers, computer games, physics, obscure comics (mostly online), Big Bang Theory and did I mention computers? So I thought I would throw out a real challenge and see what we could come up with in terms of making cards that celebrate Geek- dom. So the dare is....

Going Geek

and as an extra reward this week there is a random prize draw

for a set of Imagine That alphabet stamps

Pop over to The Daring Cardmakers Blog for full details of the prize and what you need to do to qualify to enter the draw.

 

Here’s my card for the challenge.  I went a bit old skool geek for this one, as I’m really not very good an incorporating computer style stuff into my cards (no excuse really since my brother designs computer games *blush*).  Anyway, I remembered I had this lovely vintage style space theme paper, and I got the template for the specs from Papercrafts Magazine.  The greeting is another freebie, this time from Pumpkins and Posies (you should check out their blog, they have some gorgeous free mini-kits).  I suppose it also qualifies on another geek level in that everything I’ve used is all digi – all the papers are digital, and the specs and greeting.  I did use my Promarkers to colour the specs though :)

 

DCM - Sportsmen

It’s Kathy’s turn this week at Daring Cardmakers to set the challenge, and she’s chosen

Sportsmen

She wants to see sport themed cards for boys.  Tough.  I thought I’d make the most of the challenge to get ahead of the game and do my Father’s Day card for my dad.  He’s a golfer, and after a rummage through a totally neglected box of embellishments I found this plastic golf bag.  I used a Tim Holtz texture folder to give it even more of a masculine feel.

DCM – Tag You’re It!

It’s Gez’s turn to set the challenge this week and she’s chosen

Tag You're It!

She’d like to see a tag on your cards: large tags, small tags, focal point or embellishment - It's completely up to you how you chose to incorporate a tag into your design.
To celebrate her first Dare and also to celebrate the opening of our own Zuzana's wonderful new online store:

We are thrilled to offer a prize from this wonderfully tempting source of gorgeous goodies this week. At Tea House Bridge, you'll discover some really unusual and beautiful embellishments, including lace, resin items and most especially buttons! 

Here's what could be yours if you win

So pop over to the Daring Cardmakers blog for all the details.

Here’s my card – the gorgeous resin flower and buttons are from Tea House Bridge:

DCM Colour Combo – Sorbet Colours

It’s Leo’s turn to choose the colours in this month’s colour combo challenge, and she’s gone for a gorgeous sorbet palette.

 

I was initially going to do something with my cupcake stamps, then I remembered a lovely Papertrey set that I’ve barely used, that would go perfectly with these lovely colours.  The background paper is MME, you can’t tell too well from the pics, but some of the polka dots are glittered.  I used some ink to die the seam binding a nice coral pink to match.

 

DCM - Material Girl

It’s Keilly’s turn to set the challenge this week, and she’s chosen the dare

‘Material Girl’

She wants to see us use material on our cards.

i decided to use some felt and seam binding on my card.  I cut some roses from cream and pink felt using my Sizzix 3-D flower die, then added some little pearls to the centres.  The image is a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society. 

Don’t forget to pop over to the Daring Cardmakers to see what my teamie’s have come up with this week.

DCM - Box of Tricks

It’s Fran’s turn to set the dare this week, and her challenge is:

A Box of Tricks
I'd like you to feature a box or something box-shaped on your projects - it could be a 3D project, decorated box, box shaped embellishments...once you start thinking outside the box (!) you can come up with some fun ideas!

This was quite a difficult one.  I searched for a small match box to use as my initial idea was to have a match box that you opened to reveal a greeting, but as I only had a huge match box, I decided to make my own box shape.  As I’m so rubbish at stuff like that, I thought making a match box was too ambitious, so I decided to have flowers coming out of my box instead:

The papers are from Pink Petticoat’s new design’s – aren’t they scrummy?  And of course, my usual little tag from Papertrey – I thought a get well theme would be nice for this box of flowers.  I certainly won’t be putting this card in the post to anyone though – I’d have to make another box to put it in first!!

DCM - Lucky Green

It's Samm's turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers.  As it's St Patrick's Day tomorrow, she's chosen the theme

Lucky Green

As I'm half Irish myself, I really enjoyed this one.  I've had a St Patrick's set of Papertrey stamps for a couple of years that I've never used, so it was a good excuse to finally use them!  Now my nan is no longer with us, I don't really send St Patrick's cards to anyone, but one of the girls i work with is leaving today, and she just happens to be Irish!   So I made a good luck card for her with an Irish theme.

It's not the best photo as I was in a bit of a rush today, but the text at the bottom reads 'May you always walk in sunshine'. 

Pop over to the Daring Cardmakers blog to see the gorgeous green creations my teamies have come up with. 

Lá Fhéile Phádraig Shona Duit!

DCM - Tessellation

It’s Leo’s turn to set the challenge this week, and she’s chosen:

'Tessellation'

I'd like you to create a card featuring a tessellating pattern. You can probably remember doing tessellation in math class at school right? Basically all you're doing is making a pretty pattern with shapes that fit together perfectly on all sides, like tiling. It's up to you how you interpret the dare so it could be a pattern on a paper already made or even a pattern you make yourself, have fun! :) x Leo

I thought this would be easy and that I must have lots of suitable papers in the absolute mountain of papers I have, but no, I actually only had a few designs that even vaguely fitted the dare.

DCM – Monthly Colour Combo

As it’s the first Friday of the month it’s time for the monthly colour challenge over at The Daring Cardmakers.  This month is was Kathy’s turn, and she’s chosen the lovely combination of caramels, lemon and duck egg blue.

I don’t use yellow much on my cards, it’s funny how you just gravitate towards some colours and struggle with others.  Usually if I use yellow or purple, it goes horribly wrong.

Bearing that in mind, I decided to go for mostly caramels on my card with a hint of blue and yellow.  The background is a Papertrey stamp which I’ve embossed with brown embossing powder on the kraft and then a nutmeg coloured powder on the dark brown card.  The cake stamp was a freebie with this month’s Quick Cards Made Easy magazine.

Don’t forget to pop over to the Daring Cardmakers blog to see what the rest of the team have come up with for this challenge.

DCM - Postage

It’s Rein’s turn to set the challenge this week at The Daring Cardmakers and she’s chosen postage/stamps. 

I realised as I started looking through my stamps that I’ve got quite a lot with a postage theme, and have got several postmarks and stamps, and actually have a whole set with that theme from Tanda Stamps.  I thought I’d create my own background paper using all these stamps, and to avoid it being too fussy I used Buttermilk ink on a cream background.  I also thought I’d go one step further and go for a ‘new delivery’ theme too!

The stamped background is quite hard to photograph, so here’s a close up: