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Welcome to our challenge blog. We will post a new challenge every Thursday. You can create any card, scrapbook layout, altered item with any stamp or technique as long as it is a new project, no backlinks please. To join in please post your card on your blog and then enter via the Linky Tools button at the bottom of every challenge post. You must leave a direct link to your creation as well as a link back here to the challenge post.

Entries close at 8:00PM MST/MDT the Wednesday before the new challenge is posted and winners will be announced at the close of the challenge (on the sidebar) as well as on the new challenge post.

Please make sure to follow our blog in case you are the lucky winner...winners will be chosen by random and posted and they have until the next challenge is posted to contact me and claim the prize or there will be a re-draw! You may enter 2 (two) times per challenge as long as the creation is new and follows the challenge guidelines, have fun! You may combine challenge to a maximum of 8.

We hope you will join in the fun!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

DDCC #110-April 28-For Mom

*** Our Cracked Glass winner is
#11-Janel!  
Congratulations Janel, please contact me and I will have your prize arranged!***

#11 Welcome to another fun week at Dutch Dare!  Thank you all so much for joining us last week and as always, I will be back later with our winner from the Cracked Glass technique challenge.  Not very many of you entered, so I must assume that this is either a technique you are not familiar with or one that you don't incorporate very often.  Anyway, the entries that are here are fabulous!

Since Mother's Day is fast approaching, I thought it would be fitting to make a card for Mom!  So that can be for Mother's Day or Mom's birthday or maybe a card for a new Mom, whatever you have in mind to incorporate Mom!

We are so excited to have Pattie back from Pattie's Creations as our fabulous sponsor this week!  Thanks Pattie!

Here's a bit about Pattie's great store in her own words...

"I am an Internet Technology Professional and an Artist. I always dreamed of being an artist, but I found out quickly that I needed another field to support my family so I pursued a Degree in Information Technology. I love to use Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks to enhance my work. I just recently started selling my very own digital images and I am so excited to be here sponsoring the Dutch Dare Challenge.
I created a character called Pattieboop and her cat named Allie. I have had so much fun coming up with different images so I also created a site to sell them. You can go to my store to find out more about Pattieboop & Allie. I know you will just love them when you see them.







So there you have it, I hope that has sparked some mojo and you will join us this week, after all Mother's Day is around the corner and you'll need a card for Mom!

If Linky Tools decides to go for a stroll, please leave a comment with a direct link to your creation so we can come and visit.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

DDCC #109- April 21-Cracked Glass

*** Our challenge # 108 winner is Dianne from paper Hugs From D!  Congrats Dianne, please contact me and I will have your Crafty Sentiments prize ready for you!***


First off, I have re-drawn a winner from challenge # 107-Spring as the winner has not contacted me, so the new winner is #147-Angela, Congrats Angela, please contact me and I will have your prize arranged!. I will be back later this afternoon with our winner from our Fancy Folds challenge, I have grocery shopping and some errands to do right after my bus run, but I'll post it later in the day.

Our challenge for you this week is to use the gorgeous Cracked Glass technique. Here is a tutorial for those of you that may not be familiar with it or haven't used this technique in some time. It really is easy to do and so pretty.
Our fabulous sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and they have kindly donated a $10 gift certificate for their store.

Here are some gorgeous works of art from our fabulous DT gals.





I sure hope you play along with us this week for your chance to win a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp, but also so we can see your gorgeous creations with this beautiful technique. Please remember to follow the rules (posted on the sidebar) and have fun! If Linky Tools goes missing, please leave a comment with your DIRECT link to your project so we can pay you a visit!

Happy Easter everyone!


Thursday, April 14, 2011

DDCC #108- April 14-Fancy Folds

*** Sorry I'm late...our winner from last week's Spring challenge is entry
# 66-Iulia not claimed our new winner is # 147-Angela !  Congratulations your entry is gorgeous!! 
Contact me and I will have your prize ready for you!***

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Spring challenge last week, we had yet another fabulous turn out!! Well it was an easy one...so this week we are going to challenge you a little more....now don't run and hide, it'll be fun.

We would love for you to share with us your Fancy Fold cards. Basically anything but a regular fold in half kind of card,, so something like a joy fold, waterfall, accordian, tri-fold, etc, show us your stuff! I am always interested in fun and different ways to make a card for someone so I can't wait to see what you come up with. Choose your favorite and play along with us.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is the fabulous Crafty Sentiments!




And we have an adorable set available for the winner. please visit Suzette and all her wonderful images (she has just released some adorable new ones) at Crafty Sentiments.


Here are some fabulous samples to get you started, gorgeous work ladies!
















So there we go, let's see what your favorite fancy fold card!

As always you have until next Wednesday at 11:59 pm MST to enter-new creations only, no backlinks and you can enter 2 times per challenge as long as the rules are followed. Multiple entries (over 2 or duplicates) will be deleted. If Linky Tools happens to be closed and the clock on the sidebar is still in the valid time, please just post a comment with the direct link to your creation so we can still find you. They seem to be having trouble with the times since daylights savings time.

Thursday, April 07, 2011

DDCC #107- April 7-Spring Has Sprung

*** Wohoo, our winner from last weeks distressing challenge is entry:
# 117-Deb! 
Congrats Deb, please contact me and I will see to it that you get your fabulous prize***

Yay, I have heard from every single winner from the blog hop, congrats again ladies!! What a great turn out for last weeks Distressing challenge, an easy one I know!! Anyway, I will be back later this morning to announce our winner and be sure to keep your eye on the sidebar as well where I will update it to show the winner as well.
Our fabulous challenge this week is SPRING HAS SPRUNG...well at least I hope so. In my neck of the world we still have SNOW....yes I know I can hardly believe it myself, but we do..hopefully it should be gone int he next week...crossing my fingers! So let's see your beautiful Spring creations, whatever you may feel represents Spring.
We have a fabulous new sponsor this week, none other than Robyn's Fetish! Here's a little bit about this great company...
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And Moreis proud to sponsor this challenge.


Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More will award either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper pack of the winner's choice to the winner of this challenge.
What a fabulous prize package, so ladies, let's see your best work! Here are some fabulous works of art but our wonderful DT members...using Robyn's Fetish images!


Kelly
using Penelope Puppy




Tamara made a own Spring card


There we have it, some beautiful inspiration to get you started. Please be sure to provide a direct link to your new creation as well as a link back here.
Have fun and happy crafting!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

DDCC #110-April 28-For Mom

*** Our Cracked Glass winner is
#11-Janel!  
Congratulations Janel, please contact me and I will have your prize arranged!***

#11 Welcome to another fun week at Dutch Dare!  Thank you all so much for joining us last week and as always, I will be back later with our winner from the Cracked Glass technique challenge.  Not very many of you entered, so I must assume that this is either a technique you are not familiar with or one that you don't incorporate very often.  Anyway, the entries that are here are fabulous!

Since Mother's Day is fast approaching, I thought it would be fitting to make a card for Mom!  So that can be for Mother's Day or Mom's birthday or maybe a card for a new Mom, whatever you have in mind to incorporate Mom!

We are so excited to have Pattie back from Pattie's Creations as our fabulous sponsor this week!  Thanks Pattie!

Here's a bit about Pattie's great store in her own words...

"I am an Internet Technology Professional and an Artist. I always dreamed of being an artist, but I found out quickly that I needed another field to support my family so I pursued a Degree in Information Technology. I love to use Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks to enhance my work. I just recently started selling my very own digital images and I am so excited to be here sponsoring the Dutch Dare Challenge.
I created a character called Pattieboop and her cat named Allie. I have had so much fun coming up with different images so I also created a site to sell them. You can go to my store to find out more about Pattieboop & Allie. I know you will just love them when you see them.







So there you have it, I hope that has sparked some mojo and you will join us this week, after all Mother's Day is around the corner and you'll need a card for Mom!

If Linky Tools decides to go for a stroll, please leave a comment with a direct link to your creation so we can come and visit.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

DDCC #109- April 21-Cracked Glass

*** Our challenge # 108 winner is Dianne from paper Hugs From D!  Congrats Dianne, please contact me and I will have your Crafty Sentiments prize ready for you!***


First off, I have re-drawn a winner from challenge # 107-Spring as the winner has not contacted me, so the new winner is #147-Angela, Congrats Angela, please contact me and I will have your prize arranged!. I will be back later this afternoon with our winner from our Fancy Folds challenge, I have grocery shopping and some errands to do right after my bus run, but I'll post it later in the day.

Our challenge for you this week is to use the gorgeous Cracked Glass technique. Here is a tutorial for those of you that may not be familiar with it or haven't used this technique in some time. It really is easy to do and so pretty.
Our fabulous sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and they have kindly donated a $10 gift certificate for their store.

Here are some gorgeous works of art from our fabulous DT gals.





I sure hope you play along with us this week for your chance to win a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp, but also so we can see your gorgeous creations with this beautiful technique. Please remember to follow the rules (posted on the sidebar) and have fun! If Linky Tools goes missing, please leave a comment with your DIRECT link to your project so we can pay you a visit!

Happy Easter everyone!


Thursday, April 14, 2011

DDCC #108- April 14-Fancy Folds

*** Sorry I'm late...our winner from last week's Spring challenge is entry
# 66-Iulia not claimed our new winner is # 147-Angela !  Congratulations your entry is gorgeous!! 
Contact me and I will have your prize ready for you!***

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Spring challenge last week, we had yet another fabulous turn out!! Well it was an easy one...so this week we are going to challenge you a little more....now don't run and hide, it'll be fun.

We would love for you to share with us your Fancy Fold cards. Basically anything but a regular fold in half kind of card,, so something like a joy fold, waterfall, accordian, tri-fold, etc, show us your stuff! I am always interested in fun and different ways to make a card for someone so I can't wait to see what you come up with. Choose your favorite and play along with us.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is the fabulous Crafty Sentiments!




And we have an adorable set available for the winner. please visit Suzette and all her wonderful images (she has just released some adorable new ones) at Crafty Sentiments.


Here are some fabulous samples to get you started, gorgeous work ladies!
















So there we go, let's see what your favorite fancy fold card!

As always you have until next Wednesday at 11:59 pm MST to enter-new creations only, no backlinks and you can enter 2 times per challenge as long as the rules are followed. Multiple entries (over 2 or duplicates) will be deleted. If Linky Tools happens to be closed and the clock on the sidebar is still in the valid time, please just post a comment with the direct link to your creation so we can still find you. They seem to be having trouble with the times since daylights savings time.

Thursday, April 07, 2011

DDCC #107- April 7-Spring Has Sprung

*** Wohoo, our winner from last weeks distressing challenge is entry:
# 117-Deb! 
Congrats Deb, please contact me and I will see to it that you get your fabulous prize***

Yay, I have heard from every single winner from the blog hop, congrats again ladies!! What a great turn out for last weeks Distressing challenge, an easy one I know!! Anyway, I will be back later this morning to announce our winner and be sure to keep your eye on the sidebar as well where I will update it to show the winner as well.
Our fabulous challenge this week is SPRING HAS SPRUNG...well at least I hope so. In my neck of the world we still have SNOW....yes I know I can hardly believe it myself, but we do..hopefully it should be gone int he next week...crossing my fingers! So let's see your beautiful Spring creations, whatever you may feel represents Spring.
We have a fabulous new sponsor this week, none other than Robyn's Fetish! Here's a little bit about this great company...
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And Moreis proud to sponsor this challenge.


Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More will award either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper pack of the winner's choice to the winner of this challenge.
What a fabulous prize package, so ladies, let's see your best work! Here are some fabulous works of art but our wonderful DT members...using Robyn's Fetish images!


Kelly
using Penelope Puppy




Tamara made a own Spring card


There we have it, some beautiful inspiration to get you started. Please be sure to provide a direct link to your new creation as well as a link back here.
Have fun and happy crafting!