Challenge # 19 2013 “It´s a Quirky Small World”

Who hasn't heard the Disney´s song “It´s a small, small World”??

“It's a world of laughter, a world or tears
it’s a world of hopes, it’s a world of fears
there’s so much that we share
that its time we're aware
it’s a small world after all…”

Well this new challenge is all about this Quirky Small World.

We want to see different places of the World represented in your projects.

It could be the place you live, the place you had born,  the place you will like to live, the place you will like to visit, even the place you need to see before you die.

Feel free and let your creativity fly and show us “it´s a small World after all”

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

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

 Samaflora 

We are thrilled to introduce a brand new sponsor, Sam of Samaflora makes gorgeous flowers to order for all of your crafty projects.

and

Paper Pretties

We will be working with their lovely digis.

And now the prizes: The first place winner will get £15 worth of Sam's gorgeous flowers; the second place, 6 Paper Pretties images; and the third place, £5 worth of Sam's lovely flowers.

I´m sure the winners will enjoy this lovely prizes.

We have a new 2 month GD starting today, the talented Gemma Maggs who we spotted on Creative Showcase, which is a Facebook group set up for people to show their work so that Design Teams can recruit them and for Design Teams to advertise places.
Welcome Gemma, we really hope you enjoy working with us!

Come and see some great and inspiring projects from our Design Team:

GUEST DESIGNER Vicky

Vicky used Washington, Merci Beaucoup, Fantastic Sophie and Thanksgiving from Paper Pretties, and she said "I think this is the card that took the longest to make lol and that’s not including the thinking about how this would come together!!!" 

We can see why, this is amazing Vicky, and we love that you included greetings in the appropriate languages! There are 4 more photos of Vicky's project on her blog so hop on over and see more and don't forget to leave a comment.

Guest Designer Leeann

Leeann used Merci Beaucoup from Paper Pretties to make this darling card, she has even found some pink poodle papers to go with the French Poodle!

Gemma

Hello Quirky Crafters, I am so excited to be a Guest Designer for Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog.  I have to admit I was a bit stumped by the theme at first and what to make, but I decided on a journal page in an old ledger.
I made the background using Dylusions ink sprays.  I used a stencil to add the vine leaves around the page and applied gesso through a stencil to give the page added  texture and depth.

The fabulous digi stamps were provided by Paper Pretties' for this challenge.  I coloured the images in using Copic markers and drew the hot air balloon. The digi stamps were so lovely to use.
I really enjoyed creating this page, and am already looking forward to future challenges. I hope you like it.  

CAZZY 
(sorry I'm late, here at last)

I made this 8"x8" card using some of the Paper Pretties images, Fantastic Sophie, Thanksgiving, Well Wishers, and Oh So Tropical, and decided to make it into a bon voyage card. I created the sentiment with PagePlus, it is supposed to be red with a shadow. The round the world stickers are from a set I received as a gift.

DORIS

For this new Quirky Challenge, I made a small souvenir box . I used to make it, in addition to the box file, two beautiful images, travelers from two different continents, courtesy of our sponsor Paper Pretties.  Both are painted with watercolor crayon.

LYN

I've done something different (for me) I've made a digital scrapbook page using  my own pictures from a weekend away in Paris, to see the Monet Gardens and of course the Eiffle Tower with hubby and my mum and dad. It turned out to be our very last trip away together. I've added the little Merci Beaucoup French Poodle from our sponsors, as it was a last minute decision to go with them so I'll always be thankful we did!

 

 ...and, of course, I've also made a quick 'Thank You' card with the same French poodle. She's been 3D-ed and coloured with Promarkers.

MONICA

From this small Quirky World, I want to represent France, mainly Paris. 
A place I will love to visit and take some pictures at the Eiffel Tower.
I used this lovely "Mercy Beaucoup" digi from Paper Pretties, working it with heat transfer vinyl to add it to this simple fabric bag.
To add some color, I used some ribbon in France`s flag colors.
The final touch is a beautifull charm my friend Mariela Cardozo sent from France -she lives there-. As you can see it has a tiny Eiffel Tower and my name next to it, maybe is a good sign and some day I will be able to be there and take that dream picture.


Daire

For this challenge I made a quirky bookmark for my cousin, who went off to University today, using the 'Thanksgiving' stamp from Paper Pretties. The background paper was hand doodled using a black pen over spray ink. The colour and sparkles were added with coloured pencils and my lovely new Sakura Stardust gel pens, and the tassel was macramed with embroidery thread and a selection of plastic beads

VALOU - will make something for the reminder post next week.

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Winners of Daddy's Taking Me to the Zoo

Hey, just a quick post to announce the winners of our 'Daddy's Taking Me to the Zoo' challenge - we've had some great entries for this one, so it was a difficult choice for us! But without further ado here are our top three:

In 3rd place, winning 2 images from Bugaboo...

Tracey B

In 2nd place, winning $10 of images from Doodle Dragon Studios...

Ike

 And last but not least, our first place entry, winning 7 images from Bugaboo ...

Janet O

Congratulations!

We'd also love to offer all our winners the opportunity to be a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges. To claim your prizes, and for more information on being a Quirky Crafts Guest Designer, please email Cazzy on the address in the sidebar.

Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, and to our generous sponsors for providing us with prizes. We hope you'll all come buy and check out our latest challenge, which goes live later on today!

- The Quirky Crafts Team -

Challenge #14 Reminder - Daddy's takin me to the Zoo tomorrow, Zoo tomorrow, Zoo tomorrow, and we can stay all day!

I hope you are all having a great weekend, and here in the UK enjoying the heatwave! I find it too hot, oh for some cool air and a bit of rain to soak the parched garden!
I think a lot of people are enjoying the sun, or are just to hot to craft, we have some lovely entries but not many so I just wanted to remind you that you have until Saturday 20th July midday to enter this challenge, and I want to see lots of zoo projects, the more zoo animals the better and we have some lovely examples to inspire you with images from our lovely sponsors.

We have some great prizes from our two generous sponsors for this challenge.

 1st prize is from Bugaboo

2nd prize is from Doodle Dragon Studios

$10 worth of images.

3rd Prize from Bugaboo

2 Bugaboo images.

Here are some more examples from the team, which will be added to over the next couple of days!

Doris

Doris made a clever pop up stepped card using Doodle Dragon Studios images.

Monica

I made a bracket layered card, giving depth to it. I used the hippo from the Doodle Dragon Studios, 20 Zoo Collection, also working in layers and paper piecing. Mister Hippo is inviting us to go to the zoo.

Lyn

I've made a little Zoo Booklet using Bugaboo Images. Most of them have been 3D-ed. More pictures on my blog!

Cazzy - sorry I'm late!

My book is still not finished, I have the second page, which will feature Cedric and Daddy, with Daddy telling Cedric it is time to meet the other zoo animals, and the last page where Daddy tells Cedric it is time to go back home to bed. Unfortunately I have contracted cellulitis and am resting with my leg raised (doctor's orders) most of the day, and really shouldn't be on here now as I don't have a laptop! 

 Two of the new pages with Bugaboo images Tiger, Giraffe block, and chameleon of course. I love the giraffe one, I see Lyn does too with her lovely book inspired by mine!

The next two new pages, featuring Bugaboo Elephant topper and Zebra, and Chameleon of course!

All images are coloured with Promarkers, and adhered and sealed with Decopatch. I attached the pages with spotty ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, and now I have a whole load of back pages to decorate, maybe I should have gone for less pages and used back and front!

Daire

Wow! I'm so impressed with the gorgeous stuff everyone has been coming up with! I've been a bit swamped this week, but I needed to whip up a quick birthday card so here we go! It game me the opportunity to use the Elephant Topper from Bugaboo (which I love), here they're coloured with Prismacolours and outlined with a black pen (mostly to cover up the places where my cutting was a bit wonky! My background is made of strips of book paper, scrapbook paper and paper tape... extremely random, just like me. I also wanted to test out my new Sakura Stardust gel pens, so I added a few shimmery outlines. Get ready for a bit of extra quirkiness on Sunday, it's my turn to set the challenge!

Come back for some more great examples as the post gets updated in the next couple of days.


Enter the challenge HERE or scroll down to the post below.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #14 2013 - Daddy's taking me to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow.....

Welcome to another Quirky Challenge! If you would like to see who won the last challenge click here or scroll down to the previous post.

It's my birthday today so I get to choose an extra challenge! Still on the theme of songs, this challenge is to interpret the song "Daddy's taking me to the zoo tomorrow" ..."we're going to the zoo zoo zoo, you can come too too too".

I want to see lots of zoo projects, the more zoo animals the better and we have some lovely examples to inspire you with images from our lovely sponsors.

We have some great prizes from our two generous sponsors for this challenge.

 1st prize is from Bugaboo

2nd prize is from Doodle Dragon Studios

$10 worth of images.

3rd Prize from Bugaboo

2 Bugaboo images.

Now for some wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, this will be the last challenge for Monica and Marg for now, they both joined us for two months (you can apply using the link on the page for 2 month GDT applications). We would all like to thank Monica and Marg for providing us with some wonderful contributions which I am sure have inspired you to join in. I hope you will visit their blogs and share some love. 

Cazzy

 I decided to make a story book for Kenny, and I only decided this last night! So today I have spent all my time (when awake) preparing this little book which is very much a work in progress (will have to print some words to cover my awful handwriting), and I will show you the rest soon! I used the Chameleon from Bugaboo, (I see that Daire likes him too, too, too), to star in my story about the zoo!

This is the inside of the front cover, and you see I have a lot of pages to go! I hope you will forgive me not getting further, as you read this I am sitting in a restaurant about to order my birthday meal, and had to stop to post this and get ready or there would have been nothing to see! (Lots more Bugaboo animals to follow).

I have completed the first two pages, and one more, and here they are, the image is Lion Topper from Bugaboo, and Chameleon. I am not sure if I need to add more words or an arrow at this point. Can you see the patch? I forgot to take my finger off the Decopatch covered page, ended up ripping a fingerprint size hole in it!

Daire

I'm not quite so skilled as the rest of our design team... so no fancy cards from me! Today I have another art journal page to share with you, using the Chameleon from Bugaboo. I tried something a bit different this time, instead of colouring the image in, I collaged scraps of painted paper to build this little guy. The background is one I've had in my sketchbook for a while... I made it from cleaning excess paint off stencils and brushes, and the colours just seemed to go perfectly with my chameleon, it's like they were meant to be! To finish the page off I outlined each element and added a simple border with a black sharpie... and there you go!

Doris

Today I want to share this stretch card for our new challenge. I used images from our sponsor  Doodle Dragon Studios. I enlarged the images and printed them according to the size of the card, then with watercolor pencil, I painted each of the images then cut them out and stuck them to the appropriate places. You can visit my blog for more images and details. (Note from Cazzy: I will be visiting to see how this wonderful card is made).

Lyn

Fantastic card Doris! Here's my fold out 'zoo' I played with the images on the computer and rounded them all up and put them into cages!

    Marg

 I used the Doodle Dragon images as their wild animal images are so right for this theme to go with the song title Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow.
I coloured them with a mixture of Promarkers & Graph It pens, cut them out, including the cage (which was coloured with Sakura Silver Metallic pen). I cut out the scalloped oval yellow card with a spellbinder die & the music notes were cut with Dies to Die For die (I wrote the song title "Daddy's taking us to the Zoo tomorrow" in a Sakura Glitter pen) & the backing paper with paw prints on is from my own stash as is the sentiment..

 I coloured the Bugaboo Zebra with my Promarkers & Sakura Glitter/Metallic pens. I used my Dies To Die For Music Notes cutting dies to make the notes in both pink & pastel green card. The green backing paper was embossed with my Provocraft embossing folder (leaves) added the wide white ribbon. The Zebra I decided, was going to be made into a musical carousel animal & that made the decision to colour the Zebra in pastel pink & a pale green. The pole the Zebra is stuck to is a plastic straw that I cut down (I don't have the cup that it went to anyway). The last item is the banner which has the title of the song that is this challenge: "Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow"

Monica

  I made a Zoo Shadow Box, showing the panda, the tiger, the ostrich ant the toucan from the Doodle Dragon Studios 20 Zoo Collection. To make these animals I used the paper piecing technique. I love the ostrich, it has a great personality.

Now lets see what you can do, lets see lots of going to the zoo!

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