February 2016 midway reminder and DT call.

Unfortunately Nana Connie has broken bones in her hand and can't create the reminder post, in fact there is a lot of it about - my son broke his toe recently, my nephew got hit by a car and broke his ankle....... but on the team we have problems too, Marg is poorly with a chest infection, Lynne left with health issues, as you may know, and we are sad to tell you that Tracy is leaving us this month due to other commitments taking over her time.
Anyway we wish all the team members with health problems (and all of you too) all the best for a speedy recovery - lots of hugs to you all!

If we haven't commented on your entry I apologise, with only a couple of us able to (and I have a lot on my plate right now as well as the admin to do), please forgive us. Once we are a fully functioning and fully staffed team things will get back to our normal standard.

So as well as a reminder post, with less that usual examples from the team, this is a DT call.

We really need at least two more team members, if you think that could be you please contact me by email or contact form, email link and form can be found in the sidebar.

We are sponsored by a very generous sponsor The Cutting Cafe for our February challenge.

The Cutting Cafe

They are generously providing the following prizes:

1st Prize:  3 sets from Cutting Cafe
2nd Prize:  2 sets from Cutting Cafe
3rd Prize:  1 set from Cutting Cafe

The images and (cutting files in various formats) files kindly supplied to the Design Team by The Cutting Cafe are:

Wheelbarrow Deliveries  and   Bendi Card Template

Now for some great inspiration from the team.

Patacake Pat.

I used both the Bendi Card Templates and the Wheelbarrow set on my PINK with Black & white card.

Tracy

I have used the Bendi Card cutting file and the Wheelbarrow digi from the Cutting Cafe to make my Red with Black & White card.  I coloured the card and images with distress inks and glaze gelly roll pens.

Cazzy and Marg will be along later.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Challenge #2 Reminder - through the Quirky Window.

Reminder time, here is a recap of the details and sponsor.


The challenge is not about windows in your house, it is about apertures in cards and any other projects, or holes! You can have a big aperture, or small, or many small apertures, as long as we can see through those holes. They can be apertures in a layer of your card or project, so we can see something underneath, a different colour perhaps, a pattern or words or an embellishment.

The sponsor for this challenge is:

 The Cutting Cafe 

who is generously providing all three prizes, and provided the team with some great cutting files to use.

Prizes:

1st prize 3 sets of winner's choice

2nd prize 2 sets of winner's choice

3rd prize 1 set of winner's choice

You get a lot in any of the file sets at the Cutting Cafe, either cutting files or printables so you can see these are great prizes.

LORI

Using the frame template from The Cutting Cafe I added one of my favourite quotes from last year so you can see the quote from the inside and outside.

MYRIAM

Hi... for this reminder I chose the flowers of the file Every day shapes window cards.

MONICA

Hi!!!! For this week project, I chose the tall rectangle window, that is one of the many templates of the file "Every day shapes window card tops", provided by our sponsor. The little cups, teapot and lovely sentiment are from the digi collection "Tea Time" also provided by The Cutting Cafe. I color the digis with different shades of distress inks.

KEMLY

Hi everyone! For this reminder I choose this beautiful flowers  EVERY SHAPES WINDOWS CARDS.    Provided by our sponsor The Cutting Cafe.

To my project, I used the same flower in 3D. I made an oval card. It's decorated with ribbons and pearls. I used also Distress Ink and pastel chalks.

DORIS

Hello everyone and Happy New Year. Today, I want to share with you this Birthday Card, wish I made using the amazing EVERY SHAPES WINDOWS CARDS, from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. This time I used the Numbers Window, I used the number 9 and resized it as my central background point in the front of my card. I also used the numbers template, some distress ink edges, ribbon and embellishment.

For the inner card, I used the numbers templates in two different papers, distress ink for the edges and the Feliz Cumpleaños sentiment. This card is inpired in our little one. He is celebrating  his number 9 birthday this year, Thanks God. Have a Great Week!!!

 To enter the challenge link your project HERE this takes you to the post below, or you can scroll down to it.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #2 Through the Quirky Window

 To see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.

Welcome back everyone, although I am posting this challenge it is actually set by Doris who is away in the USA at CHA right now, lucky Doris.

The challenge is not about windows in your house, it is about apertures in cards and any other projects, or holes! You can have a big aperture, or small, or many small apertures, as long as we can see through those holes. They can be apertures in a layer of your card or project, so we can see something underneath, a different colour perhaps, a pattern or words or an embellishment.

The sponsor for this challenge is:

 The Cutting Cafe 

who is generously providing all three prizes, and provided the team with some great cutting files to use.

Prizes:

1st prize 3 sets of winner's choice

2nd prize 2 sets of winner's choice

3rd prize 1 set of winner's choice

You get a lot in any of the file sets at the Cutting Cafe, either cutting files or printables so you can see these are great prizes.

Now for some inspiration from our guest designers:

2 month Guest Designer 


LORI

A simple and quick card for the man in your life. Made by hand cutting the squares (using the PDF version of the cutting files for people who don't have cutting machines) from the Cutting Cafe template and adding punched hearts so they show from the outside and the inside.

Here is some more inspiration from the team:

Cazzy

I used Word Bubble Left from the Everyday Shapes Window Card Tops file which I cut by hand, with a sentiment from the Birthday Fun file under the window, and a Monster from the Bunch of Monsters file, haha I see more monsters on Monica's card!

Doris

MYRIAM

For my tag I used Window Cards by our sponsor The Cutting Cafe!!

MONICA

For this week project, I chose one of the Everyday Shapes Window Card Tops provided by our sponsor, with a lot of circles. Those circles were the perfect windows to show this adorable monsters from "Bunch of Monsters" a set of digital stamps also provided by The Cutting Cafe. The lovely sentiment is part of the same monsters set, I traced it and cut it in vinyl.

KEMLY

Hi every body! In this week I made a card, I used EVERYDAY SHAPES WINDOW CARD TOPS. I love the butterflies in the cutting file.

I took the silhouette of butterflies to decored inside of the card. Also, I used Distress Ink, gel pen and a small fabric flower in this project. =)



Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Non blog entries:

Naomi Sherred via facebook.

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Quirky Challenge #2 - Rainbow Bright!

Welcome to the second Quirky challenge of 2013! Please check the post below this to see if you were a winner from the last challenge.  It is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge this week.

On our traditional Christmas Day walk we saw the most beautiful rainbow in the sky over the very swollen River Tone, and as I love the brightness and beauty of a rainbow I decided it would make a good challenge theme, which I have titled:

RAINBOW BRIGHT

The challenge is to either use all the colours of the rainbow (Red, Orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) on your creation or to use an actual rainbow image. As usual we welcome any form of crafting so let your imaginations run wild.

We have two wonderful sponsors this week so our first prize winner (as chosen by the design team) will win an $8 voucher from Stitchy Bear digital stamps.

Our second prize winner will win a $5 voucher from Digital Delights

And our third prize winner will win a $2 voucher from Stitchy Bear digital stamps.

So without ado here are the GDT and DT examples for the rainbow bright challenge, all using stamps from Stitchy Bear digital stamps, to inspire you.

Guest Designer Sonia

Sonia used her own stamp by Unity Stamps to make this adorable card.

Doris

 Doris used Butterfly Love who has rainbow wings and there are lots of rainbows and rainbow colours on her gorgeous card. Doris is at the CHA, lucky Doris! If you are there say Hello, or should it be Hola Doris!

Daire

I used the 'I'm so busy' and 'stained glass snail' stamps from Stitchy Bear on this very quirky mixed media poster for my whimsical reading challenge. I also used a mountain of materials to add the rainbow colours including acrylic paint, pencil crayons, cd markers, gel pens and collage paper. Check out my blog for more information.

Lyn

I've used this cute little picnic bear by Stitchy along with some freebie rainbow backing papers (link on Blog) I couldn't make up my mind which papers to use, so I've cheated a bit with my second card...The little bear's been 3D-ed and coloured with ProMarkers

Cazzy

I used Strawberry House, Garden Gate and Stained Glass Snail together to make this little scene. I added a rainbow and sentiment from a Hero Arts set called Sky's the Limit, the sentiment reads "Wishing you rainbows" which is stamped in rainbow ink. I don't know who makes the larger rainbow, I have the packaging but no clues. All images coloured with Promarkers and Trias, rainbow ribbon from WH Smiths, buttons from stash. Paper by DCWV,

and here is my second make, a bit late, nobody noticed did they? I used Artsy Flower which reminds me of the doodles I used to do on my school rough books a long time ago! I coloured the flower with Promarkers and Trias and cut it with Nestabilties then added a few gems. The greeting is by Elybells, and I stamped it with Peacock Brilliance and heat embossed, then a bit of baker's twine and I was finished!

Caro

I used stained glass snail to make a brightly coloured birthday card for my nephew who is 3 next week!  I coloured the snail with every colour of the rainbow then layered it onto red, orange, yellow, green and finally blue card before adding the stickers (party hat, blower, cake with 3 candles, and balloon), and peel offs.

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below.
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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