Reminder Post for Myth and Magic and Must use paint (the 3 Ms)

Here is your midway reminder and a few more examples from the team.

Don't forget there are some lovely prizes to be won from Crackerbox Palace who are giving away 3 generous vouchers.

Cazzy

Here is the other side of the door hanger, featuring Serpent and Submarine stamps from Crackerbox Palace.

The images are coloured with Promarkers, and the background is Fresco Paints again, I used the glass ball gel for the sub's exhaust, and sealed the whole thing with Sparkly Mod Podge. It had to be a Yellow Submarine didn't it!

Doris

For my midway reminder project I made a card with a beautiful dragon with blue eyes and white teeth, courtesy of our sponsor Crackerbox Palace. I worked my project with a .studio file as a base. The stamp was painted with watercolor pencil.

Some more examples may appear later or in the next couple of days!

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Challenge #10 2013 Myth and Magic and Must Use Paint

Hi everyone! It's my (Daire's) turn to set the challenge again and this challenge is:

Myth and Magic and you must use paint on your project.

 I hope you enjoy incorporating some of the magic of mythology into your pieces! You can enter anything you like: cards, ATC's, art journal pages, collages, tags, bookmarks, murals, tapestries, bags, scrapbook pages... anything! As long as you used paint somewhere.

A couple more things I'd like to say:

Sadly this is Caro's last challenge, due to pressures of work she is bowing out but we know you will be seeing her on either the GDT or entering challenges. Caro is one of the founding members of the team and we all wish her the best for the future and thank her for her contributions over the years. Caro we will miss you!

And also, a big thank you to Cazzy for helping me draft this post! I'm in the middle of doing my end-of-year Uni assignment, which unfortunately is taking up a lot of my time!

The sponsors of this challenge are the fabulous:

Crackerbox Palace

Crackerbox Palace make real rubber stamps and ship to anywhere in the world, stamps can be wood mounted, foam mounted (printed on the back), or unmounted.

Crackerbox Palace have provided the team with some lovely stamps to use, and you can win a very generous prize from them too:

1st Prize is a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

2nd Prize is a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

3rd Prize is a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

Please note the voucher does not include postage.

Here are some examples from the Design Team to inspire you:

Caro

I have used the Crackerbox Palace Dragon and sentiment to make a card for my nephew.  I used watercolour paper and covered it with a wash of blue watercolour paint before stamping the dragon onto it in distress ink broken china to make the background paper.  I then layered the sentiment for the centre of the card, then decoupaged the corner dragon and coloured it in using promarker pens.  I finished the card by adding peel offs!

Cazzy 

I used my Crackerbox Palace Stamps called Rena's Unicorn, Sleeping Dragon and the sentiment "If you can't stand the heat don't tickle the dragon" to make a door hanger. I used Fresco paints to make the background, these are new to me as you can probably tell. I also used Sparkly Mod Podge and Artist's gel medium with glass balls (the dragon's bed) which I coloured with Distress ink. The images are coloured with Promarkers. I love these images!

Doris

This is my project. It is an Easel card in bronze and beige tones, and I use acrylic black paint in the middle of the top card.  I used a beautiful unicorn stamp, courtesy of our sponsor Crackerbox Palace . I gave him a small shadow in light blue, almost imperceptible, I used glitter to the moon and also to a fairy, that I cut as an additional element. Plus I used flowers and ribbons.

Lyn

I got nice and messing painting this castle with acrylic paints and adding the sentiment and dragon from our sponsors Crackerbox Palace . They were stamped in black ink covered in clear embossing power and then zapped with the heat gun. Then I cheated and coloured them with ProMarkers. (The paint was covering up the lines!) I've added a couple of brads for 'handles' and gone round the whole thing with a black Tempo marker pen. And here's my second card....

I've used the same stamp and sentiment from our sponsor. I covered a blank card with some medieval looking backing paper rounded off the corners and edge it all in brown ink, then painted it with some metallic paints, which  I had as freebies from a magazine. I also made the flowers the same way, add a spray of colour with some Cosmic Shimmers. They left a nice sheen on the paper and of course, I made a nice mess!

Daire

And finally to me! I made this set of notecards using the Stone Face stamp from Crackerbox Palace (as soon as I saw it I thought of those statues from Ancient Greece). I definitely used a lot of paint on these! I started by finger painting on a sheet of watercolour paper then did a bit of brush painting and stamped yet more paint with a couple of handmade stamps. I chopped the sheet into four (so they were perfectly card-sized), added a border and stamped my Stone Face in brown acrylic before adding a few pen doodles. I like that they go together, but aren't too 'matchy matchy'. I'll be sharing a more detailed tutorial of these on my blog tomorrow.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

We will show you some more examples next week on the midway reminder post.

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Winners of Dark and Bright and don't be square

We had some lovely entries, thank you all for sharing. We had fun blog hopping to look at all of your creations.

The challenge was sponsored by:

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Digital Delights

The team has voted and here are our top 3 winners:

 1st Place - Kim with this great beehive card, love the bees!

Congratulations Kim, you have won $8 voucher from Stitchy Bear.

In second place - Jodi with a very sweet door hanger for a new baby.

Congratulations Jodi, you have won $5 voucher from Digital Delights.

 In 3rd place - Joyce with this lovely card.

Congratulations Joyce, you have won a $2 voucher from Stitchy Bear.

All of you please contact Cazzy using the link in the sidebar so that you can claim your prizes and winners badges. We would love to have you all as guest designers in the next or a future challenge too, please let us know if you can!

We still have some unclaimed prizes from the last challenge, please check if you entered.

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Midway Reminder for Challenge #9 Dark and Bright and Don't be Square (or rectangular)

Here is your reminder call! You have until Saturday 11th May mid-day to enter the challenge, and  you should use one dark colour and one bright colour for most of your card, and white is not allowed apart from on images (and sentiments). Images can have other colours too. Also no squares or rectangles on cards especially the card shape, and layouts should feature shapes that are not square or rectangular.

Here are some more examples from the Design Team:

Doris

This time I enlarged the digi bj-butterblue, courtesy of Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Then with the saturation function, maximized and printed a black and white larger image. I use watercolor pencil skin color. The colors I used are black and bright color that I use is lime green , to which I applied glitter. 

Caro

I used Butterfly profile from Stitchy Bear coloured using promarkers to create another page in my jounal.  I used the dark brown of her hair as my dark colour, and orange as my bright.  The background was generated using spiced marmalade distress ink with masking, stamping, quotes and highlights with sakura stardust and an orange glitter pen for added interest.

 Lyn

Here at last, better late than never, but as my teacher used to say, 'Better Never Late' Here's my take on this fortnight's challenge, a dark colour and a bright colour and not square (or rectangle) So, I've cut a square card round, embossed the black card with 'manly shapes' seeing I'm using this little guy again from Stitchy Bear Digi Stamps, then fixed that on the front of the card, added some swirly die-cuts and some sentiments! The odd shape of the topper, helps to keep the round card up right!

 Cazzy
Even later!

Late for my own reminder, oh dear! I decorated a little wooden box using Starry Eyed die cut with an oval, and adhered to an oval box, with oval frame. Colours dark purple and bright green.

Round the edge of the box I stuck bright breen lacy ribbon which was from Crafty Ribbons. I used sparkly Mod Podge throughout.

Some of the team may be along later, watch this space.....


Please enter the challenge here or scroll down to the post below.

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Challenge #9 2013 Dark and Bright and Don't be Square - use a very dark colour with very bright colour (not black and white) and no squares or rectangles.

Welcome back to Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog! Please scroll down to the post below (or click here) to see if you were a winner of our last challenge.

It is my turn (Cazzy) to set the challenge and I want to see one very dark colour and one very bright colour as the main colour scheme of your project - this means you can only use two colours, except for white - no white allowed unless it is part of an image or sentiment!
Images can include additional colours (including white). As well as that you should not have any squares or rectangles on your project (layout pages can be normal but nothing on them should be square or rectangular). That is all then, simples!

Examples of colours you could use:
Black - bright green
Black - bright pink
Black - bright orange
Black - bright yellow
Black - bright blue
Dark Green - bright green
Dark Green - bright pink
Dark Green - bright orange
Dark Green - bright blue (maybe that would clash)
Navy or dark blue with any of the above brights,
Very dark red or purple, with any of the above brights,
and so on.
 Don't forget - no white allowed except for images and sentiments!

Our sponsors this time are:

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Stitchy Bear are providing first and third prizes of $8 and $2 respectively.

Digital Delights

Digital Delights are providing a $5 voucher to our second prize winner.

Here are some lovely examples from the team to inspire you.

Guest Designer Manderly

Mandy, who is also on the Stitchy DT, said: I used Sizzix and Nellie Snellen circle dies to make this bright and dark easel card.  The image is StitchyBear's Butterfly Profile, colored with Prisma Pencils.  Cropped a few butterflies from her hair, enlarged them, and covered them with Glossy Accents and glitter.  The flowers and pearls are by Wild Orchard Crafts and they lay on a Memory Box die called Elegant Scroll.

Guest Designer Coops (Nic)

Nic used Butter Blue from Stitchy, and said: it's a triple oval easel and I have gone with dark purple and light bright green for the colours. I love the image, she is fantastic.

Guest Designer Jessie

Jessie used Little Tiggy Tiger from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, and coloured the image in the same colours as her background, she said it took ages to make the flowers and originally she was going to use black and pink.

Cazzy

 I used Little Tiggy Tiger on this little easel card, and kept it fairly plain apart from adding some pearl flat backs, I love this bright green card and it matches Tiggy's eyes! I typed the sentiment and printed it, die cut it with an oval Nestie and added a flower and gem which I coloured with my bright green Promarker to match. I cut the card with a Quickutz die, now I just need to make a small envelope.

Caro

My colour choices were yellow and black (with skin tones for the hands).  This is a page of my journal which was made using mustard seed distress ink layered up to create different depths of colour.  I generated triangular rays of sun out from the hands and then stamped into them using a variety of stamps.  I then mounted the Praying hands image from Stitchy Bear, rummed it in black and put the words of the Lord's Prayer round the edge.  I finished off with little touches of sakura star dust pen.

Daire

 My colours of choice were indigo and silver. I fingerpainted using three colours of acrylic paint to make the smudgy background. The image is 'Starry Eyed' from Stitchy Bear - gorgeous or what?! I coloured her in using Prismacolor pencils, which are great for blending, and then I added some little doodles with a silver gel pen. The text reads: Never forget who you are little star. Never forget how to dream (Madonna lyrics). I hope you all have big fun with this challenge!

Doris - is not very well and is under doctor's orders to stay off the computer for 36 hours. She will have a lovely project to show us all when she is well enough, which might be the reminder post next week.

Lyn - where is she????

  Lyn

Here I am my darlings! (((wave)) sorry I'm late, did you miss me?? Here's my card (at last) I've used Stitchy Bear's Digital Stamp called Lovestuck I've 3D-ed him and coloured with ProMarkers and added him to a bottle shaped card (Template on my blog)along with die-cuts and embossing. The font used in the sentiment is a freebie, link on my blog. All the black is card but all the gold/yellow is white card, coloured with a Promarker!



Look out for our reminder post next week for some more examples from the team.

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Challenge 8 Winners - clouds and things with wings, or things with wings and clouds!

It is time to announce the winners of challenge 8. We had some lovely entries, you all followed the brief so well done everyone!

This challenge was sponsored by two great sponsors:

Doodle Dragon Studios 

Bugaboo

Here are our top three favourite entries:

In first place is Lucy Patrick with her lovely rainy day card with dragonfly.

Congratulations Lucy, you have won a $10 voucher from Doodle Dragon Studios.

In second place we chose Yogi, with this amazing silhoutte stamped on a cloudy sky, and hand doodled sentiment!

Congratulations Yogi, you have won 7 digi images from Bugaboo

Our third choice is Lorraine with this funny card!

Congratulations Lorraine, you have won a $5 voucher from Doodle Dragon Studios!

Could you all please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar, to claim your prizes and winner's badges. We would love you all to join us as Guest Designers, please tell Cazzy if you can, either join us in two weeks time, or later!

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Midway Reminder Challenge 8 Wings and Clouds Challenge

 Welcome to the midway reminder of Quirky Craft's Wings and clouds Challenge.Please go HERE to add your creation to the challenge! or scroll down!

You can use any image with wings (birds, insects, dragons, fairies, angels etc) and your creation must have some clouds on it somewhere...either in the main image or in background paper. Our two sponsors, so we've had some great images to work with:

Doodle Dragon Studios

Doodle Dragon Studios is offering a $10 gift voucher for our first place winner and a $5 gift voucher for our third place winner.

Bugaboo

Bugaboo are offering 7 images to our second place winner.

So, let's see what our team has come up with this week!!

   Lyn

For my 'wings' I've used a Bugaboo Dragon Clyde and Friend  He also comes with his own sentiment, although this time I've added my own. For my clouds I've added my own drawn ones and some freebie papers with rainbows and clouds on them! (link on blog) I've 3D-ed Clyde to make him pop out.

Well, back again, thought I'd add an oldie (but a goodie) A card I never quite finished because I couldn't find my bat punch, well punch found, so here's a Halloween card using one of Dustin's fab halloween cats...The stars and the cloud papers are PinkPetticoat and my wings are the bats!!! We don't mind you backdating a day, but don't add a creation you added to the week before's challenge!

(Some of the rest of the team might be along later......"Wake up, it's nearly bed time!")

Cazzy  

here finally with the first of my reminder cards....

One of Dustin Pike's funny fairy froggies, this one has a jar of fireflies! I found this -paper in my stash and thought it added to the comedy. My clouds are cut with a Sizzix Framelit die which is actuallly a cup cake icing die!!

I hope to show you a Bugaboo one soon, in fact there is one image not yet used which I hope to use as soon as I can sort my printer out, this may take some time!

Doris

In this case, I worked with the design: Scene it Angel Believe, from our sponsor Bugaboo. What I did was copy the file to my Silhoutte Designer, resize, trace it and cut it in a thermal adhesive. Once done, I cleaned it carefully.

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