Winners of Fold It

Fold it was a very popular challenge, and so we had lots of lovely entries to look at and everybody got this challenge right, so well done! Some of the projects used folds and techniques I have never seen before, and I certainly learnt a lot!
Thank you all for sharing your lovely creations with us. As you can imagine, with 53 entries that were all really good to choose from, and with 6 of us independently choosing our favourites we really needed the voting system to come up with the top 3, and there were 3 clear winners out of the 16 finalists choosen by the team. (We all choose our top 6 and put them in order and give them points 6 to 1 and then add the points together and the three with the most win).

Fold it was sponsored by The Cutting Cafe who sell great value files of images as well as wonderful cutting files, and who provided the team with some lovely images to show you.

The team have chosen the following top three:

In first place is Wench with this amazing and pretty card which has lots of folds and a take out panel (this was a new one to me too). There are more photos on her blog and I highly recommend that you go and check them out, even the back of this card has a pocket for a tag.

Congratulations Wenche, you have won 3 sets of your choice from The Cutting Cafe.

In second place is Coops with this gorgeous vintage easel card.

Congratulations Coops you have won 2 sets of your choice from The Cutting Cafe.

Our third place winner is Gloria Shirr with the very classy and sassy side step card which is also decorated beautifully inside. Again there are more photos on Gloria's blog showing close ups of the details.

Congratulations Gloria you have won 1 set of your choice from The Cutting Cafe.

All of you please email me via the link in the sidebar and I will arrange for you to collect your prizes and customised winners badges of course. We would love you to join us as Guest Designers in a couple of weeks, or later if you can't do that, so please let me know if you can join us.

Don't forget to come back later to find out what the new challenge is.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #12 Fold It!

 Hi Quirky peoples! It's Lyn here this week, trying to think of a challenge we haven't had for ages, so how about...  

Fold It! 

Yes, I want to see more than one fold on your creation, in fact the more folds the merrier! So that's easel cards, gate cards, those sliding swinging cards, Z cars, I mean, Z cards, or one of  those W thingamejig cards or even if you're feeling clever how about a carousel card! Pop back to Challenge 11  and see Monica's  fabulous carousel card. Or if you feel you can't manage that, try using double sided paper, and folding down a corner or two! And if you don't want to make a card? Well that's okay, just make sure whatever you make, has...

 More Than One Fold!

Easy!

 This fortnight we are sponsored by....

The  Cutting Cafe!

 

Some of us have been given Pirate things to play with!! Yo ho ho!! (and a bottle of rum!) and some of us have had other things to play with, like...bikes! (there's a link somewhere...oh yes, they are all made by The Cutting Cafe'. This is what we've done with them.... First we have our Guest Designer...

Guest Designer Helen

Helen used Ahoy Matey for her great box card, Helen said she doesn't normally do cute! Didn't she do well!

(I love those skulls in the background!)

Well done Helen! That's fantastic!! And now on to the rest of the Design Team....

Daire

 

I used these adorable bikes rather than the pirates, to create this quirky mandala in my art journal. I used folded paper and dimensional paint to make it (quite literally) stand out from the page. There's only one problem... now I can't close my sketchbook without damaging my petals!

Doris

This time what I did was a Pirate invitation birthday party, using the file AHOY MATEY PRINTABLE SET.... courtesy of The Cutting Cafe'. I trace and cut the hats, enlarge the cross bones, I gave shade and dimension. Additional, I used a sweet sailor on the inside of the card

Monica

 I made a box with a pull out photo strand with multiple folds. I called it My Pirate`s Treasure.

For the front I used the cross bones digi from The Cutting Cafe Collection, Ahoy Matey. 

Inside, you will first find a warning: Beware, another digi from The Cutting Cafe collection. And then you will find My Pirate`s Treasure: my kids Sofi and Jota, wearing pirate´s costumes.

I used an effect on the pictures to give an older look.

Marg

It's a handbag invitation which consists of just 2 folds! On the inside I stuck a green backing paper that has smallish butterflies on it & then added the image from The Cutting Café called "Take a ride" then I added a tree with "rest stop" on the sign to the image. Lots more details and pictures on my blog.

Cazzy

I made a side step card which turned out better than these have before. I used Lets Go for a Ride images and sentiments.

To down view showing the star papers inside. I just need to add a panel to the back to write on now.

 Lyn

I made a box! (No you didn't you fibber!)Yes I did! I just didn't cut it out, it was a RAC gift. I inked all the folds with Vintage brown, then once I'd printed out all the bits and pieces, sentiments, digi's and backing papers I wanted to use, I inked them too. Added Key hole brad and key and other bits. Here's the back...

 

  Now, if you take off  the band/sleeve that keeps it closed, it looks like this inside...

Filled with Golden Toffees!

Then I had another idea and ate the toffees and made a litte book instead...

and filled the book with little tags and more sentiments. There's room for small photo's later!

One of the tags is a fridge magnet. (which doesn't count in the challenge on it's own as it only has one fold, the ribbon loop, but make a loopy ribbon flower, and yay that would count!

Well, that's what we've done! So now it's your turn! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!

  
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Final reminder for Challenge 6 - all about boys with ric rac and buttons and a sentiment.

I am so late with my make I decided to post a new reminder post! This baby book is made with a cutting file from The Cutting Cafe, I cut it in red and blue, then cut the letters in polka dot patterned paper. I added white baby ric rac, buttons, and printed some images from the All About Babies file onto printable shrink plastic, coloured them with Promarkers and shrank them. The sentiment is from the same file, a few buttons and some Crafty Ribbons gingham ribbon, with some dummys from stash and it was done.

I decorated inside on the B page with an image from All About Babies.

I also added an image to the Y page. I will probably add a bit more, you need to be careful that anything you add doesn't show though the letters - unless you want it to!

Cutting file and image file available from The Cutting Cafe who are sponsoring this challenge with three generous prizes.

Please add your entry to this challenge HERE.
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Challenge #6 2013 - All About Boys with ric rac, buttons and a sentiment/phrase

 Hello everyone and welcome back to Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog. Please scroll down to last post to see the winners of our previous challenge and good luck.

It is my (Doris`s) first turn to set the challenge, which is sponsored by The Cutting Cafe, and I am proud to be a designer for them too.

The Cutting Cafe.

                                

The Cutting Cafe are generously providing all three prizes for this challenge!


The prizes are:
1st prize: three sets
2nd prize: two sets
3rd prize: one set

Each set contains several sheets of images and sentiments so they are really good prizes! The Cutting Cafe also sell cutting files for electronic machines in different formats.

Challenge Details:

 All About Boys with ric rac, buttons and a sentiment/phrase is the theme of our challenge. Babies are adorable and are a present every day of the year. So here you have a place to express your feelings for the babies and little boys. Remember: Is all about Boys and don´t forget you must use ric rac, buttons and a sentiment/phrase, you can also use ribbons, lace, embellishments.


The Cutting Cafe kindly provided the team with two sets to use: All About Boys, and All About Babies.

 I hope you enjoy this challenge, and I can not wait to see your creations!!

So, let´s see what our fabulous Guest Designer and Design Team have been up to...

Guest Designer 
Monicahttp://moni-myway.blogspot.co.uk/

 The first project is a LO of a picture of my dad when he was four, by the year 1948. He has always loved cowboy stuff and that was my inspiration. I still remember myself, as a little girl, sat beside him every night, watching Bonanza… Good times

The second project is a favor box ship. I think this could be lovely for a boy baby shower. 

 Caro

I made another page for my new art journal (journalling could very well get to be addictive!). My page used lots of distress inks in the background with masking and inking through stencils.  The main image is not of a baby, but of my son Alex who is now 5.  I photoshopped the photo to make it look like a sketch drawing in vintage colours, I then added a stamped meadow scene from IndigoBlu and birds from Lavinia stamps.  The frog, lizard and sentiment (used as a sun) are from Cutting Cafe's 'All about boys' set. I finished it off with tiny buttons for flowers and yellow ric rac as the suns rays.

Cazzy

This image is from the All About Babies set, the sentiment is part of the image. I cut out the mats with a new Spellbinders A2 Matting set of dies that are a really useful size I think. Coloure with Promakers and glittery ric rac added, with assorted buttons and some soft stars I found. 

Every image used on this card is from the All About Boys set, even the waves! I cut around a wave to insert the little boat. One big button and some baker's twine. I didn't think the sparkly ric rac under the image showed up so I added some fluffly ric rac for clouds.

Lyn

Sorry, I'm away (dog sitting) and didn't have any ric-rac, (so take out card, rip off baby feet ribbon and replace same card, re-vamped with ric rac!! Bet you never noticed! ) I nipped home and raided all my ribbon jars and found some scraps of white ric-rac and coloured them blue using a pale blue Promarker. A simple card using one of the wordings from our sponsor, just the right size to use my largest scalloped die-cut. Two baby buttons, a little suit and a bottle, with the backs cut off and fixed with silicon glue and three brad buttons. I also used some baby papers (some have glitter, some are double sided)  from a set by Forever Friends, called 'New Arrival'.

Doris

My first project is a card shaped bottle, for which I use lace, buttons, flowers, and ribbon. BABY BOTTLE SHAPED CARD 2 & INVITE SET..PDF TEMPLATE - WPC CUTTING FILE from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe'. I also use the set ALL ABOUT BABIES....PRINTABLE STAMP SET. for the phrase BABY.

My second project can serve as gift packaging or favor box. For this I use ric rac, ribbon, eyelets, buttons and the  ONESIE SHAPED CARD....TEMPLATE - CUTTING FILE,  also courtesy of our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. To the figure of crab, I use the UNDER THE SEA ..... PRINTABLE STAMP SET, gave color to the crab, cut and paste.

This is a milk carton favor box . I made this using the set, EASTER MILK CARTON SET....TEMPLATE - CUTTING FILE, I used lace, glitter tulle, the tricycle image and for the phrase I use ALL ABOUT BABIES....PRINTABLE STAMP SET .

For this card I use ALL ABOUT BABIES....PRINTABLE STAMP SET from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe' . I made imitation ric rac from the same card as the base, which serves to close the card, and in addition I used buttons, ribbon, a silhouette and coordinated colors. And of course the main phrase on each project.

Daire

This panel is made of lots and lots of layers (the first being a collage of ribbon, ric rac and buttons among other things) - I'll share pics on my blog later. Even my 'boy' colours ended up a little bit girly, but I tried to man it up a bit with the aeroplane image from The Cutting Cafe... what do you think? My sentiment is a quote by Eda J. Le Shan ("A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.") as I thought it went quite nicely with the flying theme I incorporated. I'm not sure what I'll be doing with this, I might stick it on a card or mount it onto the front of a journal, we'll see!

We now publish a midway reminder and you will see more great examples next week, some using different images from our sponsors, so watch out for the reminder post!

Also If you haven`t visited our Facebook page, we now feature entries that comply with our challenge brief, you could have been featured already if you have entered the last few challenges, or you could featured from this challenge

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