Where the Wild Things Are

Incredibly, next week is our first anniversary, but for the last dare of our first year it's my turn again to set the challenge for The Daring Cardmakers. I wasn't sure what the Team would make of this one, but check out the DCM blog and see what they came up with - Thanks Girls, you're all Fantastic! Now I can't wait to see what all our fabby "Team Darers" make of this one, I reckon there'll be a few aaaggghhhs and then the ideas will start to flow!

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

When I taught in a Nursery School one of the kids' favourite picture books was "Where the Wild Things Are" a wonderfully illustrated story by Maurice Sendak - hence the title of this dare.
I went with one of my all time favourite greetings card puns for my card

I cut the little hippo using my Robo and the ewes are the QK lamb, with a bit of c-bug embossing for texture.
The birdy is chipboard from Bubbly Funk Shop (fab range of chipboard shapes available there!).
Spotty paper is 3 Bugs in a rug and a bit of something from a recent SA kit
Zebra print card is from my stash - I think it might have come from The Early Learning Centre originally.
Feathers, flower petals and brads from stash
The wording is hand written - I think I just about got away with it though!

Please join in with the challenge, I'd love to see what you come up with. If you leave a message on the DCM blog we'll be sure to come and see what you've made. Even if you don't have a blog there's no problem, if you send your photos to daringcardmakers@hotmail.co.uk they'll be popped onto our wonderful gallery - which, incidentally has recently been updated with lots of new photos.