Quirky Crafts Challenges

Challenge 2 - 2012 - Silhouette

2012-01-15T18:00:00.013Z

I loved all the food shown in the last challenge - it made me feel quite hungry! Thank you all so much for entering. It is my (Caro's) turn to set the next challenge and I decided to choose SILHOUETTES. At this time of year I often see the most amazing silhouettes of trees in the morning against the sunrise on my way to work, and I just love them, so I want to see what interesting silhouettes you come up with. Don't forget, we are not just a cardmaking challenge blog; you may incorporate your silhouette into any creation you wish.
For this challenge we are again joined by one of our regular sponsors 'Stitchy Bear Stamps' who are offering a generous $10 voucher for their store for the winner of the challenge.

As always, the winner and two runners up will be chosen by the Design Team and invited to join us as Guest Designers in a following challenge.

So without further ado here are some SILHOUETTE examples from the team, all made using Stitchy Bear digital stamps:

Guest Designer Claire used Top Hat for a Lady for her stunning cameo easel card.

Diane
I chose to work with a digistamp called sewing....for obvious reasons...I changed the stamp colour to fit the colour scheme of my card, I wanted the sewing machine to pick up on the green in the floral backing paper and the leaves on the flowers. My flowers are made from a spellbinders roses die and embellished with pearl beads. I used ribbon, lace and buttons to echo the sewing theme...

Caro: My first card is a one layer card made with the Rose Fantasy silhouette stamp from our sponsors. For this card I had to do some careful measuring and make the inked background first before putting the card through the printer. Once that was done it was simply a matter of adding Holographic glitter glue to the wings for a clean and simple design.

Caro: My second card used the 'Off shore' silhouette stamp from our sponsors which again was printed onto a distress ink background. I then layered the image onto various mats, added real shells (from Cleethorpes beach!), a shrink plastic shell and the ribbon for a masculine card.

Cazzy: I used Sewing and decided to make it into a repeating pattern for the background of this card which also features die cuts Tim Holtz Sizzix die and real stitching.

Sadly due to personal reasons Lyn was unable to join the team this time.

We look forward to seeing your creations. Please remember our rules (in the side bar), we don't have many of them, but in order to be considered for a prize you must follow them. A lot of people are being disqualified because they enter their cards into more than 6 challenges including this one.
Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked.

Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar).

Happy Crafting from: The Quirky CraftsChallenge Design Team.

Winners of 2012 - Challenge 1

2012-01-15T12:43:00.000Z

It is time to announce the winners of the last challenge, which was set by Diane - Food Glorious Food! There were some gorgeous entries here and they made me feel quite hungry. Sadly, a number of you did not follow our rules, which clearly state that you can only enter 6 challenges including ours, and so you were disqualified for the prizes.

We had two prizes up for grabs this time: This gorgeous set of ribbons from Crafty Ribbons

and a choice of 7 digital stamps from Bugaboo Stamps

The first prize winner is Andria

I am sure you will all agree that this is a gorgeous card with a lovely matching tin. Well done, and you will get your choice of the prizes. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar, and please help yourself to a winner's banner to display on your blog. We would also like you to join us as a Guest Designer in an up and coming challenge.

The second prize winner is Margreet

Congratulations Margreet! You will win the other prize so please contact Cazzy via the e-mail link in the side bar. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer.

Third place is awarded to Angie's handmade crafts with this gorgeous embossed card.

Congratulations Angie. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer. Please contact Cazzy via the side bar email link.
Our next challenge will go live later today and we look forward to you joining us.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 1 - 2012- Food Glorious Food

2012-01-01T18:00:00.006Z

Hi Everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our followers. Hope you all had a lovely, healthy and Happy Christmas. Now when I (Diane) was trying to decide on my theme for this challenge I was up to my neck in cooking for the Christmas break, and I got to thinking that we would all be sick and tired of the sight of food by New Year....so what better theme for the challenge.....just to tease you all.

This challenge is not only our first for 2012, but also the first with a new sponsor. We have been joined on this challenge by Bugaboo Stamps, and we are all happy to welcome them aboard. Please check out their digital stamps, they are so cool, and are something just a little bit different too. Bugaboo also have their own challenge blog where you can have another chance to win.

Bugaboo Stamps have very kindly offered a prize of 7 digital stamps to the winner of this challenge.

We are also sponsored for this challenge by our favourite ribbon and button people: Crafty Ribbons who will be providing some yummy cherry ribbons.

The winner of the challenge can choose either the Digistamps or the Ribbons as their prize, so second place will also receive a prize this time. Both winner and runner up will be asked to join us as Guest Designers in a future challenge.
So just to recap my challenge is "Food Glorious Food". So I want to see a creation, card or anything else at all, around the theme of food . Here is what the team have come up with using stamps from Bugaboo Stamps.

Guest Designers from our sponsor:

Sandye Curry used JJ Housework Cook on her recipe card.

Scrappy used this cute cow with a big candy stick to make a candy box.

Guest Designer Yogi used Baking Dottie on her first card with a definite French theme.

Yogi used JJ Housework Cook and sentiment on her second card.

Cazzy: Well here I am a little late again, due to printer problems last night! I used JJ Housework Eat Out with sentiment on my card and went for a turquoise base and matching Promarker. Great for someone who hates to cook or is houseproud. I think this sentiment would also work great with Dottie Baking!

Lyn

Happy New Year everyone! I'm so excited I could sing!! (don''t!) I love Bugaboo Digi Stamps and have used Berry Fairy Cupcake for my card. I printed the digi out four times and built up a 3D image. A bit of glitter here and some added sparkle, almost good enough to eat!

I've also made an ATC using this Lovely little Monkey with his Birthday Cake...(I'm seeing monkeys everywhere now!) I've done a little bit of 3D-ing on him too. The balloons are from another Bugaboo image...

Caro:

This is my first experience with Bugaboo stamps and I loved them so much that I used 3 of them and matching sentiments to make a series of ATCs. I used Dovecraft paper for the background, then edged the ATCs with distress inks (broken china and worn lipstick) and finished off with Gems and the sentiments.

Me (Diane)

I love these digital stamps. I chose JJ Cook to work with and thought for a change I would not do a card. I have made a recipe box. The image coloured, as a ways, with promarkers.

We hope to see lots of entries...show us what you've got....

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using the biggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar). Happy Crafting from: The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners :- Challenge 26 Quirky Christmas or New Year with a twist - Steampunk

2012-01-01T14:00:00.001Z

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Team would like to wish a Very Happy New Year to all our followers, sponsors and challenge entrants old and new! Let's hope it is a good one and you have more joys than sorrows in 2012.

It is time to announce the winners of the last challenge of 2011. Now this one was set by Cazzy...and was a bit of a challenge to all I think. The Design Team all put in some great examples for inspiration. None of us had really done Steampunk before so it was exciting. Some of our entries didn't understand that Cazzy was looking for a Steampunk element to the entry, which was a shame. After much consideration our winner this challenge and therefore the prize winner is Clairebears.

Congratulations to you and a very well done. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar, and please help yourself to a winner's banner to display on your blog. We would also like you to join us as a Guest Designer in an up and coming challenge.

Second place has been awarded to
Mary Anne.

Congratulations Mary Anne. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer. Please contact Cazzy via the side bar email link.

Well it will soon be time to launch the next challenge...the first for 2012! Come back soon and find out what it is......

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

And finally Challenge 26 Quirky Christmas or New Year with a twist - Steampunk

2011-12-18T18:00:00.010Z

Cazzy here, I am not going to let you off so easily, and the last challenge of the year is very Quirky (mwah mwah) Steampunk Christmas (or New Year).

I want to see steampunk on your makes, which don't have to be cards, they can be any craft type. If you want to know more about the history and definition of Steampunk check out Wikipedia here. If that didn't help, my synopsis of Steampunk is something modern with old fashioned workings, or something living with clockwork insides, if in doubt add a few cogs! For this challenge you could have cog snowflakes, baubles, flowers etc.

Because some of you may have finished your Christmas cards (I am in panic mode at this point, and have not), you can make a Steampunk New Year make instead if you like, or make both.

You have until 31st December at midday to enter the challenge, and we may be a little late judging this time due to possible celebrations but we will do our best! Gentle reminder: please read the rules in the sidebar, we haven't been too strict on them this year, but we will be checking and we may have to eliminate entrants who don't comply.

This challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Stitchy Bear are generously giving our Winner a voucher to spend on any images in the store, you too could have some wonderful steampunk images like the ones the team have used.

If you haven't found out enough about Steampunk yet check out the Design Team examples for some great ideas.

Lets start with our Guest Designers:
Sylvia-Anne used the gorgeous Steampunk Fairy and Steampunk corner on her Steampunk Happy New Year card.

Guest Designer Little Ted Nicki used the Steampunk Corner to make her Steampunk Christmas tree card, isn't she a clever cogs!

and our regular Design Team:

Diane
First, let me apologize for the photo.......I have been chasing all around the house to try to find a better spot to take the photo...but this is the best I could get! I took some backing paper from a very old kit that I have been saving especially for this challenge. in case you can't tell it has compasses on it. I used the Litebrite stamp from Stitchy Stamps as the main element, printed onto acetate...(which explains why I had so much trouble with the photo), I left the acetate wider than the card base which creates a dome effect. I coloured the reverse of the acetate and then used the steampunk corner to finish off.

Lyn
I also used the Steampunk Fairy and Steampunk corner for my Happy New Year card (I've added a tiny SteamPunk robin inside!) I coloured her only with grey Promarkers but added a few black and gold dots from peel off's and metallic silver to enhance the digi's.

Caro: I made the background using distress inks and stamped music and cogs on it. I then used the Steampunk corner to which I added highlights of gold embossing and gems. I then turned the Robin from our sponsor into a clockwork Robin by giving him a gold cog on his tummy, highlighting bits in gold and addeding a turning key and hat.To finish the look off I heat embossed two cogs in green, hand drew some chain links and added gems to make them look like steampunk Christmas baubles and then gold embossed around the edge.

I also made a little tag using the cute 3 trees stamp which I coloured using promarkers and distress inks, then added loads of glitter glue and bling to. I turned the tag into steampunk with the embossed cogs in the background, and the Steampunk style writing of Christmas on the hills.

Cazzy: Here I am late again, hoping nobody noticed! I used Big Ben and Steampunk Corner printed on Acetate and I printed a sentiment which also has some of the cogs from the corner on it. In the background a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut clock and embossed panel, and a real cog on the greeting to finish. Lots of Distress ink spread liberally around. (I may be back later with another card).

and then I made this card with the Three Christmas Trees overlaid with some of the cogs from the Steampunk Corner, and with the Steampunk Corner, coloured with Promarkers.

Finally we would like to thank you all for playing along with us and showing us some inspirational ideas, and we wish you a Very Quirky Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you all on New Year's day for the next exciting challenge!

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here (please read the rules). Happy Crafting from:
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Snowing Winners Challenge 25

2011-12-18T12:30:00.000Z

What a wonderful response we had to Lyn's Quirky Well Snowing challenge, which was so topical as the U.K. saw snow in some places for the first time this winter.

Once again the number of entries made it so hard to choose, and this time we had to eliminate some gorgeous entries that didn't comply with our rules (see side bar) otherwise it is unfair to those who did follow the rules, and we finally came up with our favourites.

Our winner this week was Mary Ann with this gorgeous Advent Calendar.

Please email Cazzy with your choice of either the cute stamp set, in which case I need your postal details, or choice of digi images from Paper Pretties, and let me know if you want to join us as Guest Designer in the New Year.

Our second place winner is Yogi with her gorgeous tag.

Congratulations Yogi, please contact Cazzy (me) using the email link in the right hand side bar with your choice of 3 digi images from Limited Runs. Please also take the winner's banner to display on your blog, and let us know if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the first challenge of 2012.

Our runner up in third place is Vixykins with this cute card.

Well done Yogi and Vixykins, please help yourselves to a winner's badge and contact Cazzy using the email link in the right hand side bar if you would like to join us as Guest Designers in the New Year.

We hope you will all join us again for our next Quirky Challenge later today, it is a cracker of a challenge, hee hee, though I am setting it so I would think so!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

It's Quirky Well Snowing Spyder's.Challenge 25

2011-12-04T18:00:00.034Z

Hi peoples! Don't worry, it's not really snowing spiders, I think I put the full stop in the wrong place! Welcome to Quirky Craft's next Challenge! It's my turn (Lyn) to set the theme and after a lot of thinking, ouch! drooling, ew, and debating, ooho, I've decided you all need something nice and easy as we're all very busy at this time of year. So the challenge this fortnight is....

SNOW!

We want to see snow in any way, shape or form on your projects. Torn paper, glitter paper, micro glitter, Flowersoft, Liquid Appliqué, punched out snowflakes, even knitted snow!! (I've seen it out there in blogland!) Whatever you can come up with. Of course this doesn't have to be a Christmasy thing, it can be a birthday, a scrapbook page, an ATC, candles, inches, book marks, something altered, anything crafty, as long as it has SNOW on it, we'd love to see it! Real snowy pictures on a scrap-book page would look fantastic!

We have TWO gorgeous sponsors this week: Paper Pretties and Limited Runs!!

Paper Pretties are offering our first winner the choice of a clear stamp set called Giving Thanks Sophie, or 6 digital images of their choice!

Paper Pretties sell digital images, clear stamps, ribbons and more!

Isn't she cute!! Gotta be in it to win it!

Limited Runs are offering our second winner 3 digital images of their choice!
Limited Runs digital images come as a single image as well as a sheet of images to save time copying, pasting and resizing, so you're getting bags of value for your money! As well as the gorgeous images, you see here provided to the DT, you can also find some freebies over on the Limited Runs blog. If you use one of their digi's why not join in with their challenge too!

We still thought it would still be nice to have a third, runner up, who will receive a banner for their blogs side bar and an invite to become a guest designer for one of our next challenges. This offer also goes to our first and second winners too!

So here are LOTS of fabulous makes from the Quirky Crafts Team, first from our Guest Designers (and winners of some of our past Challenges) and then us lot.... hope they give you some insnowation!

Guest Designer Laney used Stuck Santa with the Season's Greetings sentiment from Limited Runs for this lovely snowy card.

Guest Designer Susan Jones used the Snowman and sentiment from Limited Runs, and some embossing to look like it is snowing.

This is a close up of the sentiment Susan used.

Guest Designer Sara used Sophia Snow Angel from Paper Pretties. Little Sophia looks lovely and warm in those cosy colours despite the snow.

Cazzy: I used Snowman on a Cupcake from Limited Runs for my first card, I think this would also look great decoupaged a little and I will probably try that soon. Image coloured with Promarkers and Trias and a little glitter glue added. I love how the Limited Runs sentiments fit my Nestabilities dies, so neat!

My second card is made using Frozen Frog Legs from Paper Pretties, again coloured with Promarkers and Trias. I cut a snowflake frame and snow flakes with my Spellbinders Snowflake Frame set (obviously) and more flakes using the Create a Flake set also used to make the flake above.

Diane

Two from me this time. The first using Frozen Frogslegs from Paper Pretties and....

the for second card, I've used Santa's Stuck from Limited Runs....

Lyn

This is the first DT card I made. I've used The Snowman from Limited Runs. I printed out two images, embossed the first one with snowflakes and then covered it with the other to give a 3D effect.

For my second card I've used Sophia Snow Angel by Paper Pretties. I've 3D-ed her and used Liquid Appliqué for my snow. On the inside you can just see some mittens from Limited Runs.
For my third card I've used Little Tree from Limited Runs, coloured with Promarkers. There's also a little bit of Liquid Appliqué on the tree. and for my fourth card...just for fun, I've used an oldie but a goodie from Limited Runs ....

Mad Madison with her axe...!!
(I've finished the inserts see them here)

Caro:

For this card I used Sophia snow angel from Paper Pretties, coloured in using promarkers and glitter glue on the snow. I aued a cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder for the background and added silver snowflake and sentiment peel offs.

I also made a quick and simple little present tag using Little Tree from Limited runs, coloured with promarkers, and lots of glitter glue, then cut out with nestabilities, mounted on red card, with a gold snowflake brad and gold ribbon in the corner.

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here. Happy Crafting from The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners of Challenge #24 Plain & Simple

2011-12-04T12:00:00.003Z

Hi guys! Oh wow wasn't it a fabulous challenge! Well done Caro for choosing it. We had some really fantastic makes from light switches to a lovely card made by our Quirky Tiny Tot, Nimu! Thank you to everyone who joined in. It was really hard to chose just three winners...or one winner and two runners up! But after a lot of debating and the secret pointy thingy we do between us on the team, the winner of Caro's Plain and Simple Challenge is...

Sylvia-Anne

with this gorgeous card. Well done Sylvia I just knew this was a winner as soon as I saw it! This means of course, you win three images of your choice from our sponsors Digital Delight's by Louby-Lou. We'd also love you to join us as a guest designer on one of our next challenges. Please also take a banner from our side bar and email Cazzy and she'll sort out your prize.

Second place goes to....

Nicki

First to enter our challenge and straight away ear-marked for a possible favourite! Trees in winter sunrise. Lovely card Nicki. And third and runner up place goes to...

JanR with this fabulous simple Rainbow card...where troubles melt like lemon drops! Love it! We would also love to invite you both to become Guest Designers in one of our next challenges too! Please take a banner from the side bar and email Cazzy if you'd like to do a GDT spot!!

Once again thank you to everyone who entered, hope to see you all in the next challenge coming up shortly. It's my turn to set the theme so that means it's going to be easy peasy coz we know you're all very busy at this time of year! (I wonder why?) So pop back later and join in!! Thanks for stopping by!

Challenge 24 - Clean and Simple

2011-11-20T18:00:00.003Z

What a wonderful lot of attitude we saw for the last challenge. There really were some amazing entries so thank you all so much for joining in. This week it is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge and I am choosing one of my favourite styles: CLEAN and SIMPLE. By this I mean there must not be too many embellishments and there must be plenty of 'white space' left on your card or creation. For those non-cardmakers out there, this style isn't just for cards and can be used very effectively in altered art and scrapbooking as well.

We have a great sponsor back again this week; Digital Delights by Louby Lou, who provided some great images for the team to use. The top three designers will be chosen by the DT and will be invited to join us as guest designers on a future challenge and will be able to display a winners badge on their blog (new badges are currently being designed). The prize for the winner is three images of their choice from the Digital Delights website as well.

Now here are some examples from the team:

The first Guest Designer this time is Jan Del Bone. Jan used the sentiment "You're a Treasure on her elegant clean and simple card.

Our next Guest Designer is Fliss who said: "It's as simple as I could make it and was done by masking the card blank with a circle aperture then stamping Rubber Stamp Tapestry flowers in the aperture. I made a border with the MS punch stamped with the same flowers. The bear and sentiment were both inked then colour added with a mix of pencils and Promarkers with a glitter gel pen for a little sparkle in places." Fliss used Boo Boo bear with the sentiment "Sending you Smiles".

Diane.
Clean and Simple is a style I really admire. You would think it would be easier than other, more elaborate styles, but I find it harder to do. I love the Boo Boo Bear image I chose from our sponsor. She is so sweet. Coloured with promarkers...hope you like!

Lyn
I printed the pirate, sentiment (from our sponsor) and the spotty edge, straight on to pearl card and coloured with my ProMarkers. No glue used at all!Lyn
I also made another card using Bongo the little puppy and the 'Sending You Smiles' sentiment (from our sponsor) I decoupaged Bongo, so this time fixed everything on either with photo or silicone glue. I used my Nestabilites and coloured with ProMarkers.

Caro
I always think that clean and simple on a scrapbook page is so effective as it really lets the photos shine through and after all they are supposed to be the main focus of the page. This layout has no patterned papers, just some speckling with distress inks, a few stamped waves (using a stamp I have had since I was 12!), some sticker embellishments and alphabets, and Presley the Pirate and You're a Treasure digital stamps from our sponsor coloured in with promarkers. The wavy dotted line to the 'X' marks the spot symbolises the dodgy steering of my 4 year old pirate!

Cazzy

I often keep my cards clean and simple though I have lots of pretty papers and feel guilty I don't use them more. I used Claudia Cow and the sentiment I love Moo, coloured with Promarkers and Trias, and some Crafty Ribbon added.

Caro's card:

I couldn't resist making a second entry this week as this really is my favourite style. This time I used Bongo the dog and coloured him with promarkers before cutting and embossing him with nestabilities and layering him on a brown card. I printed the sentiment (also from our sponsor) directly onto the background card and added some light doodling in the corners.

Lets see what you can do!

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here. Happy Crafting from The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 23 Winners!

2011-11-18T19:12:00.001Z

Well we absolutely loved all the attitude you showed us this fortnight. There were some really great entries for Cazzy's attitude challenge making it very difficult for the design team to choose their favourites.

First place, and the prize of the beautiful Crafty Ribbons goes to Laney for her amazing creation. Lots of wonderful attitude here!

Second place, with a prize of 5 digital stamps from the Stamping Boutique goes to Sara I with this wonderful old fairy!

Third place is Susan for the fantastic temper tantrum.

Congratulations to all of you. Please contact Cazzy (using the link in the side bar) to claim your prizes and please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love all three of you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know if you would like to join us.

Don't forget to check back this evening for our next exciting challenge here at Quirky Crafts Challenge blog! We look forward to seeing your work.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 23 - Attitude

2011-11-06T18:00:00.011Z

Thank you for the great response to the last challenge, and now for another bit of quirkyness from me (Quirky Cazzy), and this time I decided the challenge should be Attitude! Your project should feature a character with attitude, or if you make a layout - a photo of someone displaying attitude!

We have two sponsors for this challenge, and two prizes, and the first is our absolute favourite ribbon and button store: Crafty Ribbons.

Crafty Ribbons web store.

Ali and the Crafty Ribbon team were at the NEC in Birmingham this weekend, were you lucky enough to be there and meet them? There is a great prize of Christmas New England Ribbons for this challenge.

Our second lovely sponsor this time is The Stamping Boutique who provided some wonderful digital stamps for the team to use.

The Stamping Boutique store.

The winner of this challenge will be able to choose 5 digital images, and maybe you would like some of the ones we have used below.

HOT NEWS.
We have changed the way the winners are chosen from now on. We are no longer going to use public voting which is part of Inlinkz - we don't think it is working that well or fairly (it was on trial for us). From now on the DT will pick first, second and third challenge winners. All three will be welcome to join us as guest designers on the next challenge and display a winners badge on their blog. For this challenge the first and second place winners will each win a prize, the first place winner will win the ribbon, and the second place winner will win 5 digi images of their choice, We will be designing some new badges in due course, bear with me! The REALLY good news for you is that you get a little longer to enter, as challenges will remain open until midday on the Saturday before the next one starts, not Friday afternoon.

So without further ado here are some examples from the team.

First of all Guest Designer Sandi who said: "I think my card would be good to give to a mother or father, as a humorous theme. Thanking them for putting up with her through her teen years. When you see the sentiment on the front you should know what I'm talking about!"
Sandi used Emo Alice, isn't she something?

Guest designer Sarabeth used Emo Princess Penelope with her Frog - just look at the attitude here, I love it.

Now lets see what the Design Team has done.

Diane: A teen with Rock Star Attitude. I used Max from The Stamping Boutique. I decided to use a stand card template for this as i thought it would resemble a stage. I placed a rectangle of card where you would normally place your tag, in the centre fold. i then printed, coloured and decoupaged Max and placed him on an acetate background so I could mount him on the front face of the stand card. I covered that with the birthday boy message. The great thing is it all folds flat for posting.

Caro: I decided to use the Art-doll from The Stamping Boutique to make a fat book page (4x4 inch square). This is one rebellious little fairy who has ribbon, swirls, bling, buttons and shimmer (on wings and crown - sadly the photo doesn't show them up), ripped papers (all Hot off the press) and jagged edges. A real teen fairy with attitude written all over her face!

Cazzy - Here I am at last, my glaze wouldn't dry! I decided to make a box, which I painted with copper acrylic paint then used the Cleopatra image, she certainly has attitude and the quote says "Fool - Don't you know I could have poisoned you a hundred times over if I could have lived without you." Here is the lid. I used Decopatch to stick the image on and glaze it but used a bit too much round the gems. Coloured with Promarkers and a Whispers gold pen.

Here is the side view showing some ribbon I used which was in a grab bag from Crafty Ribbons.

I also made a card for a special young lady using Emo Alice with pink hair.

Lyn

I've also used Max, the Rock 'n' Roll boy from our sponsors. To layer him up a little bit, I used about three Max's and coloured him with ProMakers and Glitter Gel pens..

Now lets see what you can do!

Now please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using the biggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here.

Happy Crafting from
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 22 Winners

2011-11-06T11:02:00.002Z

Once again a popular and seasonal challenge, and there were so many lovely entries to choose from and it was so difficult to decide, we all had different favourites.

Now before I tell you about this weeks winners, none of the winners from last week have contacted Cazzy to collect their prize or join the team as a guest, very puzzling maybe they don't want the prize?

Here are the winners of Challenge 22.

For this challenge there can only be one prize winner, and the DT have chosen Jan and her gorgeous card.

Well done Jan. Please contact Cazzy (using the link in the sidebar) who will arrange for you to collect your prize, and please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know if you would like to join us.

The second/public voted winner was: Fliss with this lovely card featuring lots of Autumn leaves, stamped and embossed.

Well done Fliss, please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know using the link in the sidebar if you would like to join us.

We would also like to give a special mention to Nimu who is only 4 or 5 years old, and clearly follows in her mummy's (Darling Ho) footsteps, with this very cute creation. Keep up the good work Nimu.

Don't forget to check back this evening for our next exciting challenge here at Quirky Crafts Challenge blog! We look forward to seeing your work.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 22 - Autumn Leaves

2011-10-23T18:00:00.000+01:00

Hello All....wow we had loads of entries last challenge, If you haven't already checked out the post, check it out...we had some great entries....

Anyway, on to the new Challenge - Autumn Leaves. I have chosen this Challenge (Diane), because in the South of England, where Lyn and I are based, it has most decidedly turned colder and looking out of my craftroom window I can see some beautiful colours in the leaves on the trees. So there you have it....you can make anything you like...card...scrapbook page, frame etc etc.... absolutely anything...but I must see leaves and autumn colours.

This Challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps.

As always our sponsor has been very generous and offered a prize for the entry the design team judge to be the best. If you are lucky enough to be chosen as the best you will win a $10 coupon to choose digistamps of your choice from the Stitchy Bear Digistamps Store. The winner will also be asked if they would like to join the Design Team as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge.

The entrance receiving most votes from the public will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer.

Our Design Team having been designing with stamps from Stitchy Bear to give you some inspiration.....

Guest Designer Mandy, who is also on the design team for One Stitch at a Time which is of course our Sponsor's challenge blog. Mandy has used Quackity Quack and great Autumn/Fall colours with lots of leaves.

Cazzy, here I am at last and like my teamies I used the woodland scene but with Park Bench and Brr Lady, not sure they go together with the lady in her coat all huddled and the girls in sleeveless dresses (kids - honestly, they never feel the cold)! All coloured with Trias and Promarkers. Leaves punched with Nellie Snellen punch and emboss set. Crafty ribbons added with bow using Bowdabra. I nearly didn't add this as it is so similar to Caro's, great minds think alike!

Caro
I've used the 'woodland' and 'Brr...its cold' digital stamps from Stitchy Bear, coloured with Promarkers to make an autumnal ATC this week.

Spyder

I've also used the Woodland scene from our Sponsor, but left is as it was with no extra colouring. I've matted it on to black and pearl card with added punched out leaves, the larger leaves are embossed and were also cut from the same backing paper. The paper is my own and is a freebie you'll find on my blog. The Autumn stamp is by Hero Arts.

Diane

I have used Snuggle Birds Digital Stamp from Stitchy Bear, Coloured with promarkers. My leaves were made using a punch and coloured with promarkers, then screwed up and teased out again.

So that's our offerings...now let us see yours...

To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 4th November after 6pm, or Saturday 5th Novemberr before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21 - Something Spooky Winners

2011-10-23T14:00:00.000+01:00

Hi Everyone, it is winners announcement time again. Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, there were so many entries...everyone is obviously very much in the Halloween mood.

This challenge was set by, Spyder (Lyn), the theme was .. Spooky/ Halloween! But if anyone was't into the whole Halloween thing then ...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for was challenge is
Limited Runs!

And now the winners.....
The DT choice winner is...well actually, we couldn't decide between so many fantastic entries....so we are having a Top Three this challenge and they are......First - America, Second - Black Dragon and Third - Deonna. Congratulations to all three of you! As First Prize winner America your prize is your choice of 3 Digi Images fromLimited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. Second and Third Place - Black Dragon and Deonna - you are invited to join us a guest designers in an up coming challenge. The public voted winner is Sandi Delfalco well done! you are invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Would both of you please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar.
Well done to everyone who entered, we really did find it hard to choose our winner this time, the standard of the entries were amazing!

Come back a little later today for the launch of the new challenge....

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21#Something Spooky OR Recipe.

2011-10-09T18:00:00.014+01:00

Hi peoples! It's that Quirky time again, time for another Quirky Craft's Challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in our last challenge. Scroll down to the post below to see who won!!

It's my turn, Spyder (Lyn) to set the theme this week, and seeing we are so close to Halloween and racing to the end of October, I thought we'd have to have... Spooky/ Halloween! But of course I know there's tons of you who don't 'do' Halloween, so just for you, this fortnight's challenge will be a choice of...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is
Limited Runs!

If you have some of Nikki's very unusual digi images we'd love to see them, but if not never mind, join in anyway! But for those of you who do use a Limited Runs digi, don't forget to join in with Nikki's challenge too, there's still time!
For this Quirky Challenge, as always, you can make anything crafty, as long as it fits in with the theme, it doesn't have to be a card. ATC's, Altered art, scrapbook pages, book marks, inchies, journals, bunting, anything!
The DT choice winner will be able to choose 3 Digi Images from Limited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. The public voted winner will be invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Here's some inspirations from our Design Team!
First, some lovely makes from our Guest Designers, and winners of our previous challenges.

Laurel (Loz) used the funny Bat image, along with Hanging Pumpkin (with the pumpkin used a few more times) and one of the free sentiments from a set of 4 that we are privileged to have first! Love the fence and the grass, and that cobweb and spider. A very clever sidestep card.

Jan used the Bat Wings sentiment to make her wonderfully spooky picture, with lots of spooky embellishments (is that a real bat?) see more photos and details on Jan's blog.

Jan also made this very dark treats box using some more of the free sentiments, complete with a blackbird, or should I say Raven? (No, I think it'sa blackbird) Again more pics and details on Jan's blog!

And here are more great ideas from us on the Design Team:

Diane: I just loved the Bat digistamp from this challenge's choice. I don't really do Halloween, but found a backing paper on my computer of a haunted house on a hill. I have mounted the Bat onto acetate so he really does fly at you!

Cazzy: I found all of my Halloween stash and made a more elaborate card than first planned. The card itself is gold embossed with spider's webs, the image is Witch Splat (so funny) cupcake coloured with Promarkers, and I used one of the set of four free sentiments which I coloured purple. Crafty Ribbons spooky ribbon, eyelets and sequins from stash as well as punched out spiders used.

Inside I used Hanging Pumpkin, another of the 4 images, this time in brown and the Snake image. Both images coloured with Promarkers.

Caro: I also don't do Halloween, but was given the spooky stamp I used as the main image so decided that this was the opportunity I needed to use it alongside the cute bat (which I used twice, flipping it on the computer) and the poison sentiments (all from our sponsor) placed on bottles to complete the tag.

Lyn I've also used the Bat, the Owl with the Pumpkin and one of the sentiments from our sponsor, for my Centre Step card. I've embossed with Gold ink and Sparkling Gold embossing powder. and used Promarkers to colour. The Pumpkin has been 3D-ed to make it pop out a little. There's a link on my Blog on how to make a Centre step card.
Well, that's what we've made, so now it's over to you!! Have fun!!

To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature -this bit I'm typing here (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 21st October after 6pm, or Saturday 22nd October before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #20 In The Jungle. Winners!

2011-10-09T11:59:00.003+01:00

Thank you to all those who played along with Quirky Craft's last Challenge, and sorry to anyone who still has that Jungle Song buzzing around in their ears! Not many entries, maybe that scared you all off! But for all those brave crafters who did join us, thank you so much, the Design Team simply loved all your fabulous makes.

As you can see the Winner of our public voting is Sara Beth Burk! from Chronicles of Sarita.
Click over to to see how this was made!
Well done Sara Beth. We'd love you to take a winners banner from the side bar and join us in one of our future challenges as a Guest Designer! Please email Cazzy for details! This of course means you will receive some freebies to use on any project you make, if you do chose to join us on one of our next challenges.

The Design Team winner and winner of the

Digi stamps by digital delights by Louby Loo
is.

Loz
with this Quirky Jungle Card!

(I love those mices!!)

We'd also love you to take the winners banner from the side bar and also join us as a guest designer in one of our next Challenges too!! Please email Cazzy, who can sort out your prize!

Now... because there were so few of you who bravely had a go, and we loved them all, we'd also love to invite both Beverley and Mandy to also join us as Guest Designers in one of our next challenges!

Come back later today for news of our next Quirky Challenge! It's my turn to decide what we should do... so I'd better get a move on!! Thank you for stopping by!!
(Spyder)

Challenge 20# In the jungle, the mighty jungle - a whimaway....

2011-09-25T18:00:00.010+01:00

Hi everyone, Cazzy here, and it is time for another little bit of quirkyness. I can't get that tune out of my head (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), so the challenge this week is In The Jungle, and is sponsored by the lovely Digital Delights by Louby Loo who provided some great jungle images to the team to use. Of course there are more in this range and lots of new images in several ranges too.

Your project (and it can be any crafty project, ATCs, scrapbook layouts, altered art, cards, boxes - whatever you can do) must include jungle images. Does your lion sleep tonight?

The Design Team chosen winner will win 3 images of their choice from Digital Delights. Both the DT winner and the Public voted winner will be invited to join the Design Team as guests and will be able to proudly display the winner's badge on their blogs.

So without further ado here are the Design Team examples to inspire you:

First of all Guest Designer Gemma, who used the very cute Dillon the Lion image to make her lovely jungle birthday card.

Our second Guest Designer Tracy J made a fabulous fun side step card and used Dillon the Lion, Mickey the Monkey, the coconut tree from the accessory pack and Wild Thing sentiment all available from our sponsor.

Caro decided to make a scrapbook layout of her son Alex playing in his Grandparents garden...Alex likes to pretend he is in the jungle as their garden is so big, so Caro used Dillon the Lion, Mickey the Monkey and Timmy the Tiger on her layout, all coloured in with promarkers.

Diane was quite inspired by the last challenge still (anything but a card). So instead of making the usual card decided to make a door sign for a nephews bedroom door. Using the Timmy tiger digistamp and also the palm tree digistamp, they were enlarged and then turned into a paper piecing.

Lyn (Spyder)
I've used Dillon the Lion too. I've decoupaged him, printing out and colouring four Dillons and layered him onto animal papers from our sponsors as well as some freebies I found.

Cazzy will be along later!

Please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection below - it is just below our signature - (not the small froggy at the bottom - that doesn't do anything) to enter. Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 7th October after 6pm, or Saturday 8th October before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 19 Winners

2011-09-25T17:30:00.000+01:00

Sorry for the delay people, we had a huge amount of lovely entries into Caro's anything but a card challenge which made it really difficult to decide on our favourite. We all loved Loz's piano which really stood out, so Loz is our Design Team choice and winner of the prize from Robyn's Fetish.

Here is Loz's gorgeous piano:

Well done Loz, please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar, contact Cazzy using the email link to arrange to collect your prize, and let us know if you would like to join us as a guest in the next or a future challenge.

The winner of the public vote is Jan, with this amazing altered toy bus:

Well done Jan, that is an inspirational make. Please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy via email if you would like to join us as guest for the next or a future challenge.

We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all who entered this challenge and we hope you will like today's challenge and join us again. Who knows, it could be you next time!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 19 - 2011 - ABC (Anything But a Card!)

2011-09-11T18:00:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome back to Quirky Crafts! It is my turn (Caro) to set this week's challenge and because my son starting school for the first time made me think of ABC (an acronym for Anything But a Card) and because I am really a scrapbooker at heart I thought it would be nice to challenge you all to make us something that is NOT a card! It can be anything else you like (scrapbook layout, ATC, inchies, bookmarks, altered art etc), in any style you like. I look forward to seeing some different inspiration.

This week we have the lovely Robyn's Fetish sponsoring us and they kindly supplied all the super digi images used by the Design Team. The prize for the DT choice winner is to choose either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors and they will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. The winner of the public vote will also be invited to join us for a future challenge as Guest Designer and both will get the winners badge to proudly display on their blogs.

Here are the design team examples to inspire you for our Anything But a Card challenge:

Guest Designer Lyn - Twisted Witch created this lovely layout with Emily reading from the back to school range, perfect choice for this layout.

Guest Designer Mona made a great bookmark for her husband (who was very pleased with it). Mona used Bookworm and Backpack and School Accessories all from the back to school range.

Guest Designer Hazel made a very useful notebook using the popular Bookworm image and School Supplies accessory pack. Hazel also said "I used Collage Press Journalling Cards Ledger paper, printing directly on to it and colouring with copics."

Thank you to all three of our lovely guest designers this time, and didn't they do well with their lovely makes!

Caro just had to make a scrapbook layout of her son's first day at school which was this week. She used the school supplies accessory pack and Backpack as elements on her layout (sorry about the photo!).

Diane

I decided to use some of the lovely school images provided to make a pencil box. I made it from scratch using some old mount board off cuts I had lying around. I covered it in some denim look paper, added the images coloured with my trusty promarkers and then I couldn't resist adding some graffiti too!

Lyn (Spyder)
I've made a bookmark using papers from our sponsor and some of the back to School images as well. The Katy image is fixed on with 3D foam pads so she can save your page for you.
I've left space for a name or anything else you feel you'd like to write. 'Hands Off my Book!" most likely!

Cazzy said: I made two book marks, I was going to use the images back to back for a double sided bookmark, but the green card I used for the backing is rather thick so I changed my mind and made two of them. Double the fun! I used Bookworm with ruler from the accessory pack, and Don't Rain on My Parade, as on a rainy day there is nothing better than curling up with a good book! Both images were coloured with Promarkers and Trias, and I decided to laminate the bookmarks (so the mistake I just spotted will have to stay) before adding an eyelet and a tassle to each.

I also made this pen pot using the crayons from the accessory pack, coloured with Promakers and cut out, and I added ribbons to hide the plastic edges and a kraft card liner.

Now let's see what you can do. Please click on the big blue frog to enter and give us the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 23rd September after 6pm, or Saturday 24th September before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.Please click on this Blue Froggie here to add your project (not the smaller frog at the bottom)
Refresh the page if he does not show.

Challenge 18 - Fluorishes and Embossing - Winners!

2011-09-11T12:12:00.000+01:00

Wow, Flourishes and Embossing seems to have been a very popular challenge with some simple stunning entries making it really hard for the DT to choose their favourites.

Without further ado the winner of the DT choice is ....... GEMMA!

Congratulations! You have won a $10 coupon to choose digistamps of your choice from the Stitchy Bear Digistamps Store. You will also be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the right and feel free to snag the winners badge to display on your blog.

Now onto the winner of the Public vote which is.... TRACY NZ

Congratulations to you too! You may also snag the winners badge for your blog, and if you would like to be a Guest Designer, please email Cazzy using the link on the right. We look forward to hearing from you both.

Our new challenge (set by Caro) will go live at 6pm tonight so please come and join us then.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 18- 2011 - Flourishes and Embossing

2011-08-28T18:00:00.059+01:00

Good Afternoon All,

Congratulations to the winners of the Red Hat Challenge.....now we are on to the next one...number 18. Its my (Diane) turn again for setting the challenge, and I have chosen Flourishes and Embossing. Any Flourishes and any kind of Embossing is acceptable. You can make anything you like....card, project, scrapbook...whatever takes your fancy!

We have a great sponsor for this challenge in Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps,

The entrance receiving most votes from the public will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer.

Now for some Design Team examples to get you going:-

Guest Designer Colette used the Hat Silhouette - Feather Flourish image on her gorgeous sparkly shiney bling card with real feathers!

Guest Designer: the very talented Bev G joins us again and also used the Hat Silhouette - Feather Flourish image for a different and very elegant card.

Spyder (Lyn)
I used 'Take Me Home Puppy' and some Pink Petticoat flourishy papers, which I've also embossed, but you can't see that here! And of course one of the Tim Holtz 'Elegant Flourishes' die cuts

Caro
couldn't resist turning the cute 'hang in there' image into a first day of school card for her son Alex. She used the fluorishes embossing folder from cuttlebug for both the fluorish and embossing elements and went with primary colours to fit with the school theme.

Caro also played with flight of fantasy as a one layer Birthday card for a girl. The wings are heat embossed with Hologram super sparkle and I used an Inkadinkado spotted fluorish stamp. (Sorry about the lighting, using the flash just bleached out the whole image).

Diane:

I used the Blossom digi stamp, coloured with pro markers and flexi markers. Decoupaged and clear embossed ( pants picture...doesn't show it...sorry folks!) Flourish and Love cut by Gazzelle, oval mat cut by Gazzelle and edge embossed nestie style using the cuttlebug.

Cazzy used Flights of Fantasy on acetate over sparkly moon glitter card. Sizzix embossing folder with Cordinations black magic, and Sizzlet flourish dies, embossed silver card with punched corners.

Cazzy's second card uses the Parrot image, Sizzix flourishes with Prima flowers, and panel embossed with Cuttlebug folder, finally the sentiment is heat embossed with gold EP.

en you have created your masterpiece, click on the big blue frog to enter and give us the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 9th September after 6pm, or Saturday 10th September before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 17 - Red Hat Society - Winners

2011-08-28T14:00:00.003+01:00

Time to announce the winners of the Red Hat Challenge.......

Drum Roll Please.......

Design Team Winner is...... Hazel Congratulations!!!!

You have won either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors, Robyn's Fetish and will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the right and feel free to snag the winners badge to display on your blog.

The winner of the public vote is.... Angie . Congratulations to you too!

You may also snag the winners badge for your blog, and if you would like to be a Guest Designer, please email Cazzy using the link on the right. We look forward to hearing from you both. We found it quite difficult to make our Design Team choice this challenge, and we would like to give a special mention to Mona, and we would like to ask Mona to join us as a Guest Designer in a future challenge also. Mona please contact Cazzy for details.

New challenge to be launched this evening...please pop back then to see what we are asking you to do next time...

Challenge 17 2011 - Red Hat Society

2011-08-14T18:00:00.006+01:00

Hi there, Cazzy here, and it is my turn to set the challenge this time round. I have been thinking up lots of quirky challenges for you, and this is no exception, I hope you like it.

The challenge is called Red Hat Society inspired by our Sponsor who has a range of stamps called The Red Hat Society, and some of the images used by the DT are from that range.

Your project must feature a hat, and that hat must be red, or there must be a predominately red feature on the hat, such as a wide hat band, or red flowers in the band. Any project can be entered, it doesn't have to be a card.

If we cannot clearly see some red showing up strongly on your hat you will not be eligible to win, and your entry might be removed, but we will tell you if we are going to do this to give you a chance to enter something else.

This time we are sponsored by the lovely people at Robyn's Fetish who supplied all the super digi images used by the Design Team.
The prize for the DT choice winner will be able to choose either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors and will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. The winner of the public vote will also be invited to join us for a future challenge as Guest Designer and both will get the winners badge to proudly display on their blogs.

Here are some great examples from our design team to inspire you.

First of all guest designer Wendy used Strawberry Mouse, and he is wearing a splendid red hat to match his huge strawberry, this image is so cute!

Second guest designer Jac used Red Hat, and added a flower to the hat, and a lovely hat charm on gingham ribbon.

And our permanent team:

Caro

I couldn't resist the vintage feel of the 'bloomers' image from our sponsor and decided to turn it into a sewing themed vintage tag. For the first time ever I made my own paper flower, used tiny red buttons and a lot of red embroidery thread to finish it off.

Lyn
Red Hats! The first thing I thought of was my sister-in-law's hat at my daughter's Wedding. It was gorgeous!! So of course I just had to choose Jeanette Red Hat Gal
from our sponsor. I've 3D-ed her, coloured with Red, gold, yellow and green ProMarkers and added loads of Stickles glitter, red gems and a 'hat pin' to the bow.

Diane

What an unusual challenge....i loved the Red Hat digital stamp that was provided by our sponsor...but i wanted to do something different with it. I decided to enlarge it and turn it into a hat shaped card. The red and flowers paper were from a free digikit I downloaded ages ago from Summertime Designs. I enhanced the paper by using a glue pen and then sprinkling black glitter. The ribbon on the hat is black glitter too. Just to give the card a bit of dimension I made a rose to add to it using a file by Penny Duncan. I like it, quite sophisticated don't you know!!

Cazzy

Sorry, late for my own Challenge, but I am here at last. I used A Hunting We Will Go, a great image for a boy card, and the photo looks out of focus on Blogger, it wasn't before I loaded it, must be the striped vellum confusing it. Anyway I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut with Nestabilities and the squares behind it, the green vellum is attached with big snaps by We R Memory Keepers using the Cropadile to attach them. Finally a greeting from a Hero Arts set.

Now let's see what you can do. Please click on the big blue frog to enter and give us the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 26th August after 6pm, or Saturday 27th August before 5pm UK time.

ll take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 16 Winners of Lets do Numbers

2011-08-14T12:00:00.023+01:00

Hi all, Cazzy here to tell you the news you have all been waiting for: who won challenge 16.

Lyn's challenges are always popular, and this one was no exception and with so many lovely entries it is hard to choose and how we do this is to all list our top three in order, then if we are in agreement the top one wins, if not we have a points system, courtesy of the lovely Spyder Lyn, (3 for first choice, 2 for second, 1 for third, or 4, 3, 2 ,1 if we nominate 4 each) and all the points are added up for each person nominated so the one with the highest points wins it, I bet you didn't know we did all that work before we tell you who won did you? Well - without further ado here are our winners:

The winner of the DT vote (using the system above) and the digi images is Colette with her very cute baby birthday card which is beautifully decorated inside to match. Well done Colette, help yourself to a winner's badge to proudly display on your blog and please contact me using the email link in the sidebar (note you need to click the actual link under the banner, not the banner), and I will arrange for you to receive your prize. We would also love you to join us as Guest Designer in the challenge in two weeks time if you can (or a later challenge), and will be some more free digis from the sponsor to use.

The winner of the public vote this time is Mona with her lovely fairy card again well done on winning, help yourself to a winner's badge for your blog and contact me via the email link in the side bar if you would like to join us as Guest Designer for the challenge in two weeks time, or later, and you will also get some digis to use from our sponsor.

Have a great evening everyone and check back later for the new challenge which is going to be set by me!

Cazzy

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The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #16 of 2011 Let's do Numbers!

2011-07-31T22:31:00.000+01:00

Evening peoples! Welcome to another Quirky Crafts Challenge! This time it's my turn (Spyder) to set the theme, and I thought we're all very busy with school holidays and vacations (and other things!) so let's have a really easy challenge this time, so for this fortnight I've chosen...

Numbers!

You can interpret that in any way you like. A shaped number card, a tag, ATC, any kind of altered art, a Scrap Book page, patterned numbered papers, images, it's up to you. We love to see any crafty project, so let your imagination go mad!

This Challenge is kindly being sponsored by
Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

The winner of the Design Team Choice will receive 3 lovely digi images of their choice from Digital Delights by Louby Loo! And both the Design Team Winner and the Public Vote Winner will also have the chance to be a Guest Designer in one of our future Challenges and the right to display our winners badge on their blog!

To give you same inspirations here's some lovely makes by our DT and of course our Guess Designer, and winner of our past Challenge. Please pop over and and say 'Hi!', we all love a visit!!

Guest Designer Sara Winter made this gorgeous shaped 1st Birthday card using
Birthday Pippin.

Lyn
"I've made a numbers birthday card using Ridley Raccoon. I've 3D-ed him and coloured him with Promarkers. You'll have to pop over to see what I've typed inside!"

Diane

"I have a friend who will never admit her age....so when Lyn chose numbers I decided to take the micky a bit. The digi stamp, Chef Luigi is one kindly supplied by our sponsor and the image was coloured with Promarkers."

Cazzy used Chef Luigi and Kiss the Cook sentiment with Celebrate its your Birthday sentiments from our Sponsor, and added 50 to the top of Luigi's cake.

Caro

"When Lyn chose this theme I knew I just had to take the opportunity to scrapbook my son's 4th Birthday party from earlier this year. I used the 'Celebrate it is your birthday' and 'Birthday Ridley Raccoon' from our sponsors, coloured with Promarkers and added as embellishments to the page."
Well done everyone!! Now it's your turn, looking forward to seeing your creations! Don't forget to pop back Friday or Saturday, August 12th & 13th to vote for your favourites!!

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #15 Winners.

2011-07-31T11:59:00.003+01:00

Afternoon peoples! Hope you are all well and fighting fit! Lyn here.... It's time for the winners of our last challenge. Thank you to everyone who had a go at Cazzy's Puzzle Challenge 14, our Quirkiness really stumped you this time didn't it!?! There may have been only a few entries but wow!!! weren't they all fantastic!

The winner of the DesignTeam vote is
Beverly Gothardt!!

Have a closer look, this is a gorgeous card with so much detail. Well done Beverly, don't forget to take your Quirky Craft's winners badge! Bev had first choice as the DT winner and chose to have 5 digi images of her choice from The Stamping Boutique who were our lovely sponsors. And as you can see, the voters have chosen their winner too!! Well done goes to...

Wendy Lynn' s Paper Whims!

with this fabulous make! Well done Wendy! Don't forget to take your Quirky Craft's winners badge too! And we'd also love to have you join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future Challenges. Wendy has also won the summer holiday ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. Please contact Cazzy via the email on the side bar who will arrange for you to have your prize!

But!! (there has to be a but!) because there were such fabulous projects for this puzzle challenge and only a few of you were brave enough to have a go, we would love to invite you all to take a winners badge from the side bar and hopefully join us in one of our future challenges! Please email Cazzy via the email on the side bar, she'll tell you all about it! New challenge coming up in a few hours. It's my turn this time to set the theme and I think you might find it a bit too easy!! See you all later!!

Quirky Challenge #15 2011 - Very Puzzling (Cazzy)

2011-07-17T18:00:00.098+01:00

Hi everyone, and Welcome Back, it is challenge time again and I thought of a really quirky crazy challenge to get your creative juices going!

My challenge is called "Very Puzzling" and I want to see puzzles, real jigsaw puzzle pieces, or punched or die cut ones, or even inchie puzzles will qualify for the prize, please note inchie puzzles must form a bigger image and not be independent inchie images if you see what I mean. (See what our GDT did, if you don't). You can make any project you like, altered jigsaw pieces, ATCs, cards, boxes, jewellery - anything that fits the Very Puzzling theme!

We had lots of lovely entries last time, I hope lots of you will join in this time too.

This week our lovely sponsors are: The Stamping Boutique

, and the prize is 5 digi images of the winner's choice, how cool is that! The Stamping Boutique have just introduced a one day per week where everything in the store is one buck, so check it out and get a bargain!

and the gorgeous Crafty Ribbons

Who are providing us with a lovely prize - Summer Ribbons.

Now as we have two sponsors there will be two winners; one will be the DT choice and one will be the public voted winner. If those happen to be the same person then the DT will pick a second choice. Both winners will also have the chance to be on the Design Team as guest designers for the next or a future challenge and there will be some free digi images for DT members to use. I would like you to add CR for Crafty Ribbons or SB for the Stamping Boutique after your name so we know which prize you prefer (if you don't add this we will assume you like both prizes), and if you are chosen as DT winner you will get first reserve if both winners choose the same prize.

So without further ado here are some examples by the Design Team to get you going:

First Guest Designer Tammy Louise with her lovely inchie puzzle card. Tammy used Cynthia's New Wings digi image from The Stamping Boutique.

Second Guest Designer this time is Katrin who used Hidden for her gorgeous card featuring an inchie puzzle.

Caro decided to alter two small puzzle pieces using images from our sponsor. I first painted the pieces, then stamped a background onto each one, then printed, coloured and cut out the images and then added writing, gems and drawing. The coin in this photo is a 5p to give you an idea of scale (Close ups are on her blog).

Diane used the candy shop image from our sponsor to make a very clever jigsaw card.

Lyn has made an easel card and has also used The Candy Shop digi from our sponsors for her 3D Puzzle card

Cazzy altered a very large jigsaw piece, and used the Tree of Circles image (twice) from The Stamping Boutique.

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Just a reminder that our challenges go live on Sunday evening and close on the next Friday but one, so this challenge is open until Friday 29th July. Please pop back then to vote for your favourite cards. Voting remains open until the end of Saturday 30th July. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your puzzles.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners: Quirky Challenge 14 no patterned paper

2011-07-17T13:01:00.000+01:00

What a lot of lovely entries we had this week, you really loved this challenge! That makes it very hard to choose, and there can only be two winners, so without further ado the DT choice Winner is:

Sara

for her beautiful use of multiple home made papers and stamps. Congratulations! Please e-mail Cazzy using the link in the side bar and she will arrange for your prize from Stitchy Bear Stamps.

and the Public Vote Winner is:

Lin - the twisted witch

with this stunning stamped and masked scene.

Congratulations to both of you! We would love you both to join us at Guest Designers. Please e-mail Cazzy (link is in the side bar) to join us as a Guest Designer in the future. Also please take a Quirky Winners Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to us!

Pop back later to see what the next challenge will be.. it is Cazzy's turn to set the challenge!

Quirky Challenge #14: No patterned papers (make your own)

2011-07-03T18:00:00.004+01:00

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts challenges! Can you believe it is July already! Our sponsor for our 14th Challenge of the year is STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS

The Winner of The Design Team Choice will win a $10 voucher from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges. The winner of the Public Vote will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer .
Challenge 14: No patterned papers (make your own background papers)
It is my turn (Caro) to set the challenge this week and as I just love messing round with inks and stamps I thought I would set you a challenge to make your own background papers. This means that you are NOT allowed to use any shop bought or computer generated patterned papers. Your own background papers can be as simple as dry embossed plain card or made using inks, stamps, paints, a mosaic of other plain papers, or anything else you can think of! We look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Don't forget, we love to see all your cards but we also accept anything crafty as long as it fits into the current challenge. That includes ATC's, Altered Art, Fat Pages, Scrap Book Pages, Magic boxes, Tags, Book Marks, in fact anything crafty you can think of!

Here is inspiration from the DT and GD for you to enjoy, all using digital images from our sponsor.

Guest Designer Claire Easson used the Camellia in Watering Can image. Claire said "I've made the background using Tattered Rose distress ink, on an Impression Obsession cover-a-card background stamp (Damask). I embossed it with clear powder and then went over the edges with some Old Paper distress ink." See more details of this very pretty card on Claire's blog.

Guest Designer Lori made this stunning card using Flower Fantasy. Lori said "I used the Stampin up swirl wheel stamp in Versamark and embossed it with iridescent ice embossing powder".

Leah the Orange also used the Floral Fantasy image for her stunning card. Leah said, "it's coloured with Prismacolor Pencils and the background is stamped with pale green chalk ink."

Caro: I made a tag using colourwash inks and glimmer mist for the coloured background which she stamped over with small silhouette stamps and then added the 'Guarding the egg' image from our sponsor, which she left uncoloured for contrast.

Caro: I also made a bookmark using distress inks (antique linen, tea dye and walnut stain) and stamps for the background and then layered the ink pot and quill from the 'Just a note' image from our sponsor, which she coloured using promarkers.

Diane has decided to go with an embossed background using a cuttlebug folder. The Iris digistamp is from our sponsor and she has coloured it with inktense pencils and a waterbrush. Some organza ribbon, mirri card and sticky gems complete the card.

Lyn used 'The Big One' Digi from our sponsors, a Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distressed ink, some faux stitching, and used a stencil to make some clear embossing on the green card.

Cazzy used Butterfly Love and made her background using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and Whitewash Cordination paper sanded lightly to reveal the darker green underneath. The image is coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue applied to the wings.

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Just a reminder that our challenges go live on Sunday evening and close on the next Friday but one, so this challenge is open until Friday 15th July. Please pop back then to vote for your favourite cards. Voting remains open until the end of Saturday 16th July. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your home made background papers.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 13: Lyn's recipe winners!

2011-07-03T15:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome all! It is nearly challenge time again here on Quirky Crafts!! Thank you to all who entered into Lyn's recipe challenge. It seemed to be a popular one with you all with so much variety in the interpretations making it really difficult for the design team to choose their favourite. In the end after much debate the design team favourite and the winner of the yummy selection of strawberry ribbons from Crafty Ribbons is Katinka with this fantastic card!

The winner of the public vote and choice of either 5 Robyn's Fetish digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set is Tammy Louise with this great card!

Congratulations to both of you! We would love you both to join us at Guest Designers. Please e-mail Cazzy (link is in the side bar) to arrange your prizes and to join us as a Guest Designer in the future. Also please take a Quirky Winners Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to us!!

Pop back later to see what the next challenge will be.. it is my turn (Caro) to set the challenge and it could be a messy one!

Lovely blue froggy, we love you.

2011-07-02T23:54:00.001+01:00

Just to remind you all that the lovely little photos and links on our challenges would not be possible without the wonderful Inlinkz Mr Blue Froggy.

If you want to have the blue froggy star on your blog too please use the link at the top left hand side of the blog, that will help us keep our little blue friend happy!

Quirky Challenge #13. 2011 - Lyn's recipe theme box

2011-06-23T23:50:00.000+01:00

Hi peoples! It's time for another Quirky Challenge! This time it's my turn (Lyn) to set the theme and I thought I'd do something other than a sketch as I always do a sketch. I've chosen instead something that will give you more choice but at the same time still be a bit of a Quirky challenge! This time I've come up with...

A Recipe Theme Box!

All you have to do is choose any three or more of the squares (or even all of them if you feel very creative and confused!) and make something crafty, ie... you might like to choose to use Acetate, Ribbon and three backing papers, with a digi...or, five flowers, Pink and blue and Embossing. The idea is to use no less than three of the boxes or more. Any questions just ask!!

This challenge is kindly being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons!

The Design Team's chosen winner will receive a yummy selection of strawberry ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. Aren't they just too scrumptious!!

And!! we are happy to announce a new and second sponsor for this challenge

Robyn's Fetish.

The winner of the public vote will be able to choose EITHER 5 Robyn's Fetish digital stamps OR 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set. How fabulous is that!

Now...because this challenge has a wide choice of embellishments to add to your crafty makes, we on the team have had a little chin-wag, and would really much like you to mention in your Post or your link back to us, what you have used on your creation,ie on your list of challenges please add Quirky Craft-Theme Box. I've used, five flowers, embossing, ribbon, and a stamped image...or whatever you've used. Okay?! Thank you!

And now for the DT and GDT fabulous makes. First we have...

Guest Designer Jeanette Waters on behalf of Robyn's Fetish has made a fabulous card. Jeanette used the English Tea Cup image on this elegant card.

Guest Designer Judy used the strawberry image and the English tea cup on her fabulous Easel card, isn't is just gorgeous! See more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Darling Ho also used the English tea cup on this pretty pink card.

Diane

Also went for the tea cup stamp for her contribution and used 3 backing papers (the third is printed on the mat with the cup), lace, coffee and cream colours, the digi image of course, and five flowers..(if you count the ones on the cup!)

Spyder
I've used Puppy Paws (I've darkened his eyes a little bit more) with three papers, coffee & cream, four card candi, four brads, five flowers (one's a double), embossing and a raffia ribbon.

Cazzy used the Its a Dragonfly Day image and the Polka Dot Dreams paper pack to make her card, with some Crafty Ribbon's ribbon. So got the papers, also 4 brads, ribbon, pink and blue and an embossed sentiment. There are actually 7 flowers.

Caro used the Puppy Paws digital image with a ribbon and the colours coffee and cream

Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 1st July after 18:00 or Saturday 2nd of July before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #12 Under The Sea Winners!

2011-06-19T11:55:00.001+01:00

Afternoon everyone! Lyn here. Thank you all for joining us in Diane's fabulous Challenge Under the sea. Wasn't there some 'fin- tastic' creations!
The winner of the Design Team Choice..is...oh wow this was very hard, we all liked so many different ones!! But after recounting our votes, (I have a code) we chose Lori who wins 3 lovely digi images of her choice from our sponsor Digital delights by louby loo! with this amazing card. So much detail!
We would love you Lori to join us as a Guess Designer in one of our future challenges! Please contact Cazzy via the link on the side bar. Also please take a Quirky Winners Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to us!!

Well you all know who the public voting winner is!!! Leah The Orange! With a Cute little fishy-wishy coloured with Prismacolor pencils! Well done! A really fabulous make, I love the sparkly seaweed! We would also love to invite you, to join us as a Guest Designer on one of our next challenges! (go on say yes, coz there's bound to be a freebie in it for you!) Please contact Cazzy, her link is on the side bar and also take a Quirky Winners banner!

Pop back later to see what the next challenge will be...it's my turn (Spyder) to set it...and no...it's not a sketch this time! (well...there's a first!) Thank you for stopping by!

Challenge 12- Under The Sea.

2011-06-05T18:00:00.006+01:00

It's my turn again (Diane). This one has come around very quickly...doesn't time fly?

This time I decided not to tax everyone too much by giving a certain style to follow. I just have a theme for you of Under The Sea. It can be whatever you want...as long as it has an under the sea connection.
We have a lovely sponsor for this challenge....we are very lucky to have wonderful sponsors for our challenges, and this time around it is Digital Delights By Louby Loo.

The winner of the Design Team Choice will receive 3 lovely digi images of their own choice from our sponsor.

Our Design Team Winner and the Public Vote Winner will also get the chance to be a Guest Designer in the future and the right to display our sought after winners badge on their blog.

Our Design Team have been busy as usual to give you some inspiration. We were given some lovely stamps to work with. Here are some ideas from our latest guest designers, and the design team, feel free to visit our blogs (see side bar for details) to see how we made our examples, and to nab Spyder's latest freebie!

Guest Designer Bev G loved these images so much she made two cards, the first using the Whale on a 3D sea.

Bev G's second card using the Mermaid, just check out those real shells! Visit Bev's blog so find how she got that gorgeous shiny background!

Guest Designer Kelly made a very pretty Mermaid and clam card, love the pearls and the colour combo Kelly!

Guest Designer Goldie also made two cards, the first is a side step card using all the images and again real shells, to see more images of this lovely detailed card hop over to Goldie's blog.

Goldie's second card is a fabulous window shaker card, again there will be lots more images on Goldie's blog.

Diane

I love these images..I have used promarkers to colour in the image and then a glaze over the top to create the wet look on the scales of the mermaid. This one is destined to be a birthday card for my 3 year old niece.

Caro

My nephew is into all things under the sea so I used most of the images (except the mermaid) and combined them with his favourite TV characters (Octonauts) to create a card I know he will love for his 4th Birthday!

Lyn's
also used the mermaid on an acetate window and some real shells.

Cazzy (late again) used the whale and clam with the Under the Sea background stamp.

Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 17th June after 18:00 or Saturday 18th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 11 Winners!!!

2011-06-05T17:53:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone...thanks for dropping by to see who won Challenge 11.
Challenge 11 was set by our Lyn (Spyder), who gave us two sketches to work with. We were told we could choose either one, and we could do cards, ATCs, Scrap pages...anything really. What a lot of choice! We also had a great sponsor for the challenge in The Cutting Cafe..

The Cutting Cafe have very generously donated a prize of 3 sets of digistamps....yes 3 sets!! to be given to the winner of the Design Team Choice...who is Judy. Here is Judy's winning entry.

Huge congratulations to you. Please contact Cazzy via the link in the sidebar who will give you details of how to claim your prize, and let her know if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge. Do help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar too.

As regular followers will know we also have a public vote, and the winner of the public vote is Darling Ho with this pretty card. Well done, we also liked this card very much.

Please help yourself to a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge

Thank you to all our entrants to this challenge, please pop back later today for the launch of Challenge 12.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #11 Two Quirky Sketches!

2011-05-22T17:59:00.004+01:00

Welcome back everyone to another Quirky Crafts Challenge. This one has been set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I hope loads of you will come and join in. It's easy, so there's no excuse! It's a fortnightly challenge so there's plenty of time!

I usually choose a sketch so I won't disappoint, I've not only chosen a sketch this time too, but with a little twist, I have two sketches for you! You can do them both or just chose to do one. Don't forget we love to see your cards but also welcome any kind of craftiness! ATC's, Fat Pages, Scrapbook Pages, Inches, Tags, Altered Art, whatever (as long as you use at least one of the sketches)!! We want to see what you can do!!

You can enter the challenge as many times as you like. You may flip or turn the sketches, we don't mind just as long as we can see you've followed them. Told you it was easy!

We have a fabulous sponsor for this Challenge, which means prizes!
The winner of the Design Team Choice will win a Quirky Guest Designer place, a winners badge and...

Any 3 sets from

The Cutting Cafe

The Public Voted winner will also be asked to join us as a Guest Designer and have a winners Badge for their sidebar.
Here are some fantastic examples from our latest Guest Designers for this challenge and of course as always, from Cazzy, Dianne, Caro, and me! Please pop over and visit our blogs, there's always something to see and of course you'll always find a weekly freebie on my blog!

Guest Designer Dawn used the It's About That Time Set from our sponsor with the first sketch to make this stunning monochrome card, see more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Lisa used the One Spring Day set from our sponsor with the second sketch to make this fun card full of 3d flowers.

Cazzy used One Spring Day images for this spring showers card.

Dianne
Has used the first sketch and the tree from the 'One Spring day ' set 7 for this Welcome Spring card, coloured the tree herself and used a sentiment from 'One Spring Day,coloured' set 2.
Caro
has made a scrapbook page using the first sketch with a collage of flower photos from her garden and elements from the One Spring Day set from our sponsor.

Spyder
I've made three cards. On this card I've used the 'It's about the Time, Clocks' set from our sponsors along with the second sketch

I've used the same 'Clocks' in the second card and the same sketch, but have added 'It's About That Time, Big Circles' cut out using Nesties and Woodware punches and placed the clock over itUsing the first sketch on this New Home card, Lyn used the tree from the 'One Spring Day, Coloured' set

That's what we've done, so now it's your turn! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 3rd June after 18:00 or Saturday 4th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #10. Winner.

2011-05-22T12:03:00.001+01:00

We were a little disappointed that not many of you had a go at Diane's Quirky sliding window/pull up card. We cried buckets! No, only kidding. But it does make it harder for us to chose a Design Team winner because everyone of the entries were fabulous and we loved them all! But there can only be one winner of The Stitchy Bear Voucher.

So, first, the winner of the 'voting' as you can see is...

Kelly!

Well done Kelly! You squeezed in at the last minute! Please help yourself to a Winners Badge and contact Cazzy using the email link on the sidebar as we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges!
The favourite creation, most favoured by the Design Team and the winner of the $10 voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Store is...

Beverly G ♥

Well done Beverly! We loved your card and were very impressed on how quickly you entered the challenge! Please would you grab a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy about your prize. We'd also love to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges too!

And!! (there's more) because there were so few entries and because we really wish you could all win, we'd love to invite Goldie to join us as a Guest Designer too in the not too distant future, so please could you also take a winners badge and contact Cazzy about joining the Team as Guest a Designer for one of our next Challenges!
The new challenge should start around about 6ish this evening! Please pop back and join in as it's my turn to set the new challenge so you know it's going to be easy because I can't do difficult! But on saying that, I really enjoyed making my Slide Window/Pull Up Card so Thank You Diane for setting such a Quirky Challenge! That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!!

Quirky Crafts Challenge - Challenge No. 10:- Sliding WIndow / Pull Up Card

2011-05-08T18:00:00.020+01:00

Hi All,

It's my turn again already (Diane). This is only my second time to set the challenge, and let me tell you I have discovered already that it is not always easy to come up with something different, but something that everyone will enjoy. So I set about thinking, and I eventually decided that it might be a good idea to revisit a card style that I used to love. I find often that I do several of a card shape and then move on to something new, only to forget how much I enjoyed doing the older styles. So my challenge this time is to make what I always called a Sliding Window Card, but it is also called a pull up card, or pull up easel. I am sure many of you will know exactly what I mean....but just in case I found this video on Youtube which describes it beautifully. Click here to see. Just to make it even more interesting I am going for a Male theme...Fathers Day is not far away, and there are always those dreaded male cards to make for birthdays too. So there we have it, a pull up card in a male theme....and for those of you who would prefer to make something non card related I will set a Challenge of 3 D Male themed gift.

Our sponsor this week is STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS

The Winner of The Design Team Choice will win a $10 voucher from our sponsors Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges.

And the winner of the Public Voting will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer .

The Design Team and our latest Guest Designers have produced some inspiration for you, all using digi images from our sponsor.

Diane

I used the Just a Note Digistamp for my sample. Just right for a Father's Day card for a Father who isn't the touchy feely sentimental type. My photo is a little disappointing, but I couldn't get a better shot. The papers used are actually a sage green shade!

Lyn

Lyn AKa Spyder, has used 'Designated Driver' digi along with some brown leather look card and mock white stitching to give the impression of a wallet.

Caro has used Guarding the egg digital stamp printed onto parchment paper with gold embossing round the edge of the card to finish it off in a true fantasy style.

Inside she has used the Just a Note digital stamp again on parchment paper for consistency and an oldy worldy look.

Cazzy

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please use our lovely Mr Blue Frog to add your cards and other makes. Please make sure your link leads to your make and not just your blog. Once you have left your link please also comment. Don't forget to come back Friday 20th/Saturday21th to vote for your top three and ask your blogging buddies to vote for you!!

Winners of Challenge 9 - A Right Royal Affair

2011-05-08T14:13:00.003+01:00

Hello Everyone,

Challenge 10 was Cazzy's challenge to set, and she did a great job choosing A Right Royal Affair......can't imagine what gave her that idea...can you?????
The Challenge was to make something that is inspired by royalty. Use the colours red, white and blue on your project, and then anything that is inspired by royalty or the royal wedding.
We have had lots of entries, all of them fantastic...so who has won I hear you scream!
We were lucky enough to have two sponsors for this challenge, the first was Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen has very kindly offered this beautiful stamp set called Everyday Lillie as a prize for the Designers Choice.

The Designers Choice prize this time goes to........Lisa Jayne for her Congratulation Will and Kate Camper Vans. Congratulations to you...well done!

Our second sponsor was Limited Runs. Nikki has very generously offered a prize of 3 digis of choice and this prize will go to the winner of the public vote....who is....Dawn Lancaster. Congratulations to you too.

Would you both please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar. We would love you both to join us as a Guest Designers in a future challenge so if you would like to join us let Cazzy know and she will give you the details of the next challenge.The Design Team would also like to give a special mention to Jasmine B and her crown entry. Jasmine is just 10 years old....great job Jasmine!

Come back later to see the launch of Challenge 10.

Quirky Crafts 2011 - Challenge 9: A Right Royal Affair (read carefully)

2011-04-24T18:03:00.000+01:00

Welcome to another challenge here at Quirky Crafts, I hope you will enjoy this one very much, I think it will be good Quirky fun!

Before I start (Cazzy) we would like to wish a Happy Easter to those celebrating Easter, Happy Holidays to those not.

A Right Royal Affair. With the royal wedding less than a week away make something that is inspired by royalty. Use the colours red, white and blue on your project, and then anything that is inspired by royalty or the royal wedding, think romance, weddings, party (street party), crowns, ermine, couples, cake, champagne, flags and so on, there are lots of ideas you could use.

As usual any craft project can be made, this is a mixed media challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Design Team would also like to wish HRHs William and Catherine a long and happy future together.

This week are happy to bring you two generous sponsors. The first of these is Paper Pretties.

Paper Pretties is a full-service online crafting store. We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Prettie Boutique!

In case you haven't heard yet, Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen. Now located in Madison, WI, we are pleased to offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of our fun new stamps!! All orders are shipped within 24 hours.

The prize that the DT choice winner will receive is this lovely stamp set called Everyday Lilly.

Our second Sponsor is Limited Runs.

Write Up

Limited Runs is known to some people as a calorie free sweet shoppe filled with over 80 different Cupcakes something for almost every occasion too but from sweets to fun and even some darker images cause I love Halloween so there is lots to see and play with and almost all digi's are $2.00 with only a few a little more (sets and Mega Digi's for Scrap bookers). Plus I've always got hidden deals thru out the store. When I started making cards I didn't know how addictive this could become and I've become hooked and who doesn't love a handmade anything these days. I've always been into drawing and this just a blend of my drawing and my hobby. May you enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them, and stop by every Friday and pick up a Freebie but be quick cause who knows how long they will be a freebie for.

Have a fantastic weekend
hugs Nikki

The prize that the public choice winner will receive is any 3 digi's of choice.

Here are some great examples by the design team to inspire you.

First up is Guest Designer Zulma who said that the Leonardo Lion Image from Paper Pretties looks like her Dad and made this great card for him.

Our second guest designer is Suzanne who has used a great drawn image of the Royal happy couple on her beautiful card.

Diane has used a Frog Prince digi from Limited Runs and also a lovely cute little Bugle Bear from Paper Pretties on this unusual shaped card:-

Caro has made a fabulous commemorative tag using the Bugle Bear and crown from Paper Pretties, and the Princess cupcake from Limited Runs.

Lyn has used lots of Bugle bears (from Paper Pretties) on her fun and clever Castle Easel card.

Cazzy used the Princess Cupcake from Limited Runs and lots of bling on this right Royal card.

To add your entry click on the lovely blue Inlinkz Froggy (below) and follow the instructions. Be sure to add a link to your actual entry and not just your blog. Please come back and leave us a comment too. We look forward to seeing what you create.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 8

2011-04-24T10:17:00.000+01:00

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts. It is almost time for another challenge (due to go live at 6pm today) but in the meantime we thought we would let you know the winners from Challenge 8, which was to make a Easter or Spring creation with sparkle and using punches. Once again we were thrilled to get so many entries for this challenge (and a special mention to the Inlinkz blue frog for making it possible to see all your lovely creations and allowing public voting, and if you want an account for your blog please click on the blue frog in the left hand side bar to help Quirky Crafts keep that ole blue froggy happy) and now for the moment you have been waiting for: the winners.....

The winner of the Design Team choice this time is An. An made this simply divine Easter Egg filled with candy, you can see more images on her blog.

Congratulations!! We all loved your stunning egg and we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your prize from our fabulous sponsor Digital Delights.

The winner of the public vote for challenge 8 is: Ruby M with this very cute Easel Card, there is such a lot of detail, it is a fun card.

Congratulations Ruby, (sorry no prize this time) please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and we would love you to join us as a Guest Designer in a future challenge so if you would like to join us please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar and she will give you the details of the next challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 8 - Sparkly, Punchy Easter and/or Spring

2011-04-10T18:00:00.037+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 8 here at Quirky Crafts which is sponsored by the lovely Digital Delights.

Digital Delights are creators of some gorgeous digital stamps. The winner of the Design Team vote will be able to chose 3 digital images of their own choice from this fabulous collection. The DT were given the opportunity to work with some of these images and they are lovely.

Challenge 8 was set by me, Caro, and as I am sat here looking out of the window at Spring flowers in the garden, with blossom on some of the trees and Easter is just round the corner the challenge is...

An Easter or Spring creation which must include something sparkly (gems, glitter etc) and use at least one punch.

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Don't forget, we love to see all your cards but we also accept anything crafty as long as it fits into the current challenge. That includes ATC's, Altered Art, Fat Pages, Scrap Book Pages, Magic boxes, Tags, Book Marks, in fact anything crafty you can think of! Just a reminder that our challenges go live on Sunday evening and close on the next Friday but one, so this challenge is open until Friday 22nd April (Good Friday). Please pop back then to vote for your favourite cards. Voting remains open until the end of Saturday. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your Sparkly, Punchy Easter or Spring creations.

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration

First Guest Designer Alethea used the Easter Dumpling image and Easter Sentiment from our sponsor, this is so cute.

Second Guest Designer Jacqui, who made this very pretty card at very short notice also used Easter Dumpling and Easter Scroll.

Third Guest Designer Leanne also chose Easter Dumpling and Easter Scroll, but used a totally different technique for her egg shaped card, and you can read about on her blog.

Diane has made a chocolate bar wrap using
Barnaby Bunny

Lyn has also used Barnaby Bunny and Happy Easter Scroll from our sponsor,
with freebie papers.
(links on Spyder's Corner)

Caro decided to make an origami basket and decorate with the Eggstra Special Bunny, sparkly flowers, and a punched glittery handle.

A close up of one side of the basket...

Cazzy used Barnaby Bunny and Easter scroll for this sparkly card.

Cazzy also used Barnaby Cruising to make a second card.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 7

2011-04-10T16:00:00.001+01:00

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts. It is almost time for another challenge (due to go live at 6pm today) but in the meantime we thought we would let you know the winners from Challenge 7, which was to make a twisted easel card or a Mother's Day gift. We were thrilled to get so many entries for this challenge and a special well done to those of you who made a twisted easel for the first time...aren't they good fun! So now to announce the winners.....

The winner of the Design Team choice this time is Suzanne, who made a number of lovely Mother's day gifts including this notebook:

Congratulations!! We all loved all of your creations and we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your button towers from Crafty Ribbons.

We would also like to give an honourable mention to Franca, Suzi, Sheila, Alethea and Esme with their lovely easel cards (in fact there were so many clever multi easel cards this time it was hard to choose), however if those ladies would like to join the team as Guest Designers in a future challenge please email Cazzy through the link in the sidebar and she will provide details. Alethea as you will see later is already a GD, and is welcome to join us again.

The winner of the Public Vote is Zulma with this very pretty card:

Well done! We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges too, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your digital stamps from the Stamping Boutique.

Both of you can also help yourselves to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us! Don't forget to came back a little later today to see the launch of challenge 8.....

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 7 - Twisted Easel and/or Mother's day gift

2011-03-27T21:12:00.002+01:00

It's my (Diane's) turn to chose the theme, and it is my first time so I am a bit nervous...be gentle with me!

Challenge 7 is going to be....make either a Twisted Easel Card and/or a Mother's day gift. These are fun to make, they look tricky but are so simple really. Have some fun with it and try to use different shapes. If you haven't done one before there are lots of how too videos on YouTube giving lots of ideas and examples to spark your creative juices. Your card can be for any occasion at all. For those who want to something other than a card I would like to see you create a Mother's Day Gift. Mother's day here is the U.K. is 3rd April and this is the ideal time to make something special.

This week we have two sponsors:-

Our first sponsor is the fantastic Crafty Ribbons

There will be a prize of two gorgeous button towers (pictured above) for the winner of the Design Team Vote. Crafty Ribbons have some fantastic ribbons and gorgeous buttons to choose from on their site...and we all know you can't make cards without lovely ribbons and buttons, don't we?

Our second sponsor is The Stamping Boutique

The Stamping Boutique are offering a digi stamp prize for the winner of the public vote. So get working on your entry for a chance to win these great prizes to add to your stash.

Design Team Offerings

Here is my offering for this challenge using a fantastic digistamp for our sponsor called Jennifer Latte Bubble Bath. My Daughter is called Jennifer so I was drawn to this one. The Stamping Boutique stamps are fabulous to work with:-

Guest Designer Micki who made the DT choice last time made this funky card.

Cazzy Here at last! Using Train Tracks digi stamp from The Stamping Boutique.

Another card by Cazzy this time using Pocket Patootie Birds perfect for Mother's day.

Caro made a Mother's Day candle using the Daisie's digital stamp from our sponsorThe Stamping Boutique

Caro also couldn't resist having a go at making a twisted easel card for her son's birthday.

Lyn (Spyder)
A Twisted Easel Card andGift Boxusing Digi image from

The Stamping Boutique

Closed.... and best of all open! Yum!!Here's how to enter....

Create your work of art and then take a photo. Make a post on your blog to show us your make and then click on the Inlinkz blue frog button at the end of this post to add your entry and be sure to follow the instructions. Please link directly to your entry post. No back dated posts please. After you have linked please leave us a comment, we love to hear from you.

Don't forget to come back to vote on 8th and 9th April and ask all your friends to come and vote too.

(Whoopsie, this is embarrassing, we accidentally posted that voting was 15th and 16th (which is of course a week too late) - so sorry - blush).

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 6

2011-03-27T14:15:00.001+01:00

For anyone that missed the launch of challenge number 6 two weeks ago....where were you??? You missed a great challenge set by Lyn (Spyder) who gave us a sketch to work with.
We have had some fantastic entries to this challenge...well done everyone.

The Winner of The Design Team Choice is.........(drum roll)....... Jaqui P. Congratulations, you win a $10 voucher from our sponsors Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. Please contact Cazzy using the contact point in the side bar. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges.

The winner of the Public Voting is.....(another drum roll)........ Alethea. Congratulations to you too. We would also love to invite you to join us as a Guess Designer as well. Please contact Cazzy via the email link in the side bar.
Both of you can help yourselves to the winners badge on the sidebar to display on your blogs with a link back to here.
Don't forget to came back a little later today to see the launch of challenge 7......

Winners from Challenge #3 - again

2011-03-19T14:54:00.001Z

I know - we already announced that Ellie had won the DT vote for challenge 3, Spots Stripes and Embossing. Sadly Ellie has family problems and feels unable to accept her prize, and asked if we could pass it on.

Therefore I am pleased to announce that the DT second choice and winner of the ribbons and buttons is Dorcas with this lovely card:

Dorcas has contacted me and I will be passing on her details to Crafty Ribbons so they can send the prize to her.

Don't forget to join in our latest challenge, see below for details.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 6 - Lyn's Sketch

2011-03-13T18:02:00.003Z

The Next Quirky Challenge #6!
Hi everyone and welcome back for another Quirky Crafty's Challenge! Our 6th Challenge of the year is kindly being sponsored by the one and only...
Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps!!

This Challenge was set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I've made it very easy for you this time, because I can't do difficult!! It's quite simply...

A Sketch!

And it couldn't be easier could it?! No fiddly or frilly bits, no list of things to add on, just nice and simple, so you can chose whether to add flowers, extra brads, embellishments, embossing, charms, glitter, ribbons etc, etc (or not to!)
Don't forget we love to see anything crafty; tags, a.t.c'.s, altered art, book marks, fat pages, inchies, scrap book pages, as well as cards. You can turn the sketch, flip it sideways or turn it upside down, any way you like, just so long as we can still see you've used the sketch.

And the winner of the Public Voting we would also love to invite to join us as a Guess Designer as well. So, to give you some inspiration, here are some lovely examples by the Design Team and our latest Guest Designers, all using digi images from our sponsor.

First, our challenge #4 winner, Guest Designer Lovely Linda using the Single Tulip Digi with added embossing and distressing! I love that sentiment!

Then our second guest designer is Suzie who received an honourable mention in our Recycling Challenge. Suzie has used two of the Single Tulip digital stamps with some lovely added embossing and lace.

Diane has used the Bearded Iris digi on her lovely scalloped edged card.

and the Single Tulip for a second elegant card.

Cazzy used the Ole Grey Mare digi.

Lyn (me) has used Busy Bertha and added peel off's, ribbon, a flower and mock stitching.

and

Caro has used the Time For Tea digi as an element on her fabulous scrapbook page.
(I wonder what's really in that cup?!)

Now it's your turn!! Please pop over and visit us all. We love to hear from you! Now, let's see what you can do!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please use the lovely Mr Blue Frog to add your cards and other makes. Please make sure your link leads to your make and not just your blog. Once you have left your link please also comment. Don't forget to come back Friday 25th/Saturday26th to vote for your top three and ask your blogging buddies to vote for you!!
Please scroll down or click here to see the winners of our Alice in Wonderland Challenge #5

Challenge #5 Winners

2011-03-13T13:00:00.003Z

Hi Peoples, it's almost Challenge time again here on Quirky Crafts!! Thank you to all those who entered our Alice In Wonderland Challenge last time and a special thank you to Black Dragon for being a Guest Designer with us. Your lovely make was just amazing!! Now on to the winners of our Alice In Wonderland Challenge...

The winner of The Design Teams choice this time is....

Micki from Artful Xpressions!

Congratulations!! We all loved your card and we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for your free digi stamps from The Stamping Boutique Please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!

And the Winner of the Public voting for the Alice in Wonderland Challenge, as you all can see is Sarah from
Sarah's Craft Stuff.

This is a really fabulous make Sarah! Well done! We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges too, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it. Please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 5 - Alice in Wonderland

2011-02-27T18:00:00.006Z

Hi everyone, it is challenge time again, and thanks for all the amazing and wonderful entries we had for the last challenge! It was difficult to choose an overall winner, you are all worthy!

The challenge this time is called Alice in Wonderland. You may have read the book by Lewis Carroll, or seen a film version, but if not you can use Google to find out a little about it. What we want you to do is base your entry on something found in the story, for example the white rabbit, the mad hatter's tea party, the Queen of Hearts, the playing card courtiers, you can find rabbit images, playing cards, a stop watch, drink me, eat me type things to use on your project. Any craft project can be entered into the challenge.

We are really looking forward to seeing what you all do with this theme, so please add your link and photo to this post using the blue Inlinkz frog below.

Inlinkz is a great tool for displaying your entries, I am sure you agree, and easy to use. Unlike other tools the entries continue to be displayed on the post after the closing date, and you can enable public voting.
If you would like an Inlinkz account for your blog (and it works in different types of blog) please use the button in the left hand side bar to go and register. Registering this way will help the Quirky Team to keep using Inlinkz for all of you to use on this blog.

We have another great sponsor this time and they are The Stamping Boutique and here is some information on our sponsor:

Tracey Malnofski's resume reads like a whose who of the Stamping Industry. Besides being the owner and a designer for The Stamping Boutique, she's also a stamp artist for Unity Stamp Company and has also worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and The Digi Shack. Her "Boutique" has it all - fairytale, whimsy, sentimental . . . and Candy! I do not envy the winner who has to choose digi stamps from all those delicious choices. Yep! A winner will be randomly selected to win 5 digital stamps of their choice from Tracey's Boutique!

Here's what Tracey says about her Stamping Boutique.
"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality, as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week.

Store: http://thestampingboutique.com/
Challenge Blog: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/
Monthly Challenge: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/p/monthly-contest.html

Challenge 5: Alice in Wonderland

Here is a sample card from our The Sponsor Stamping Boutique made by Suzi:

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration:

Caro's Birthday card inspired by playing cards, the White Rabbit's pocket watch and Alice's changing size (tape measure)

Caro's Invitation inspired by the Mad Hatters Tea Party and using the scroll stamp from our sponsor

Diane has made Alice's Chair also using a digi by our sponsor

Diane has also made this fabulous Birthday Card

with The Mad Hatter's tea Party as the theme

Our Guest Designer this time is the talented Blackdragon Lyn, who made this gorgeous quirky mixed media art piece.

Cazzy's Card (not late for a change).

Spyder(Lyn's) late Un-Birthday Card
And another very late 'Unbirthday' card by Lyn using our sponsors
Cute Rabbit image .

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 4!

2011-02-27T12:36:00.000Z

Before we announce the details of this weeks challenge it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the last challenge: Recycled Romance

The winner of the Design Team vote and 3 images of their choice from

Digital Delights is...

Lovely Linda

Congratulations!! We all loved the beauty and elegance of this card. We'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for your free digi stamps! Please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!

The winner of the public vote is...

Leanne

The design team would also like to give an honourable mention to Suzie McFloozy for her wonderful use of a habitat bag!

Congratulations ladies! We'd love you both to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it. Please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!

Check back shortly with details of our next challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Design Team

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 4 - Recycled Romance

2011-02-13T18:31:00.004Z

It's Challenge time again here at Quirky Crafts! It was a great turnout for our last challenge, with some gorgeous makes, so thank you everyone who entered. There seemed to be a little confusion as to which challenge some of you were entering so hopefully this will make it clear. Each challenge lasts nearly two weeks, going live on Sunday evening and entries closing on Friday evening when you can come back and vote for your favourite three entries. So this new challenge will be open for entries until Friday 25th February (Rules for challenge entry are in the side bar). Now onto this week's challenge

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 4

which was set by me, Caro. We have a lovely sponsor for this challenge.

Digital Delights

Now what is the challenge? Well with Valentines Day tomorrow most of you have probably made your Valentines cards, but we are still feeling romantic so we thought we would continue with the romance theme with a twist...

Recycled Romance

This means we would like to see anything Romantic (hearts, weddings, engagements, Valentines etc) with a recycled element on your card. Specifically we would like to see something that is not normally crafty: think packaging, inside of coloured envelopes, bubble wrap, newspaper, the metal from tomato purée tubes, seeds etc. Make sure you tell us on your blog what you recycled on your creation, just in case we can't tell!

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Don't forget, we love to see all your cards but we also accept anything crafty as long as it fits into the current challenge. That includes ATC's, Altered Art, Fat Pages, Scrap Book Pages, Magic boxes, Tags, Book Marks, in fact anything crafty you can think of!

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration.

Caro's altered photo frame with cardboard hearts recycled from a parcel

Diane's lovely card with recycled cardboard and string and an image from our sponsor

Lyn's used a cardboard heart from packaging, flowers made from parcel paper, sweet wrappings and newspaper, ribbon from a jewellery gift box, tiny hearts punched out from packaging, and golden hearts, which were die-cut from a photo glue tube! Lyn has also used an image from our sponsor

Guest Designer Barbara with her gorgeous card, which uses a zip, doily and some foil wrapping and Barbara has used a digi image from our sponsor.

Guest Designer Lena Katrine used a button from a child's outgrown garment and some tulle from an old skirt on this very romantic card.

Caro's ATCs using recycled cardboard from a parcel, lace from a table mat, gold tinsel from a Christmas cracker and a label from a skirt, as well as two different digi images from our sponsor.

Cazzy's altered chocolate box, with heart and wings cut from tissue boxes and old book page.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge #3

2011-02-13T18:30:00.000Z

Before we announce the details of this weeks challenge it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the last challenge 'dots, stripes and embossing'.

The winner of our public vote and 5 digis of your choice from

Spyder's Other Corner is...

Crafty C

Congratulations!! We'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for your free digi stamps! Please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!

The winner of the Design Team vote and gorgeous ribbons from

Crafty Ribbons is...

Ellie

Congratulations! Please email Cazzy via the link in the sidebar who will arrange for your ribbons to be sent to you. Please also help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us! You are also welcome to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it.

We also would like to give a special mention to the entry by Blackdragon, with this very unusual coffin tag which came second in the public vote, though we cannot give another prize if you would like to join us as a guest designer in the next or a future challenge please email Cazzy using the link at the side.

Check back shortly for the details of our next Challenge!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team

Winner and New DT member news

2011-02-02T12:54:00.001Z

Sorry for the delay folks, with so many great entries it was soooo difficult to choose but finally we managed it.

The DT are please to announce that the winner of the Stitchy Bear voucher is: Lena, with her wonderful Lily of the Valley card.

Lena please email Cazzy via the link in the sidebar who will arrange for your voucher to be sent to you.

More good news.

You may remember a while back we asked people to let us know if they were interested in joining us on the Design Team (DT). We are very happy to announce that our first new DT member is the talented: Diane (applause). Diane is already a Quirky Crafts challenge winner with one of her gorgeous creations and has joined us as a guest a few times too. I am sure you will love her work.

We will be announcing another new DT member very soon.

Also don't forget to enter our doubly sponsored challenge detailed below, and come back and vote for your favourites too.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.