Challenge #13 Reminder - Some Quirky Stencils and/or Masks/masking!

It's reminder time and Gemma wants to see projects with stencils or masks used, or feature a mask, or masked character.

You have until Saturday 5th July midday to join in the fun and maybe win a prize!

Here is a reminder of our three great sponsors and prizes this time.

 Our First Prize is sponsored by Paper Pretties

the winner will receive six images of your choice

Second prize is sponsored by Limited Runs 

with 3 images of your choice

and the

Third prize is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish 

with 1 digi image of your choice!

Now for some more inspiration from the team.

First up is Cindy, you may remember that Cindy was one of our 8 challenge team members who kindly agreed to carry on for a second term to cover team illness - well when we heard that our wonderful Doris was leaving us (only two challenges later) we asked Cindy if she would like to join the team - and she agreed! She is so keen that she has joined in the reminder for this challenge although she officially starts with the next challenge!

Cindy

 I had fun using Clover by Paper Pretties for this challenge.  Such a cute pup!  I coloured him with watercolour crayons and a water brush, then accented him with metallic pens.  My blog will have more info.

Did I have fun with this project!  It fought me, but in the end I won!  This is an 8x10 Multi Media page with layers of stencils and hand decorated paper.  Also using the Clover image from Paper Pretties. Visit my blog for more details...

MONICA

For this reminder I used the cute "Garner" provided by our sponsor Paper Pretties. 
For the brick circle background a used the "reverse mask" technique that I learned from a Jennifer McGuire tutorial that I found here and a brick circle mask that I cut with my Cameo.
Garner was colored with Spectrum Noir pens.

        Lyn     

    

This is my creation for the reminder.  I've used a digi from Limited Runs. I printed out three images, coloured  one with Promarkers, cut out one of the others and used it as a 'mask' over the first digi so I could spray it with Cosmic Shimmers and not get any of the paint on the digi you can see. I've cheated again with the stencil (you don't have to have both on your creations) and used a stencil freebie font called GASMASK.

 

Inside I've added the digi I used as the mask, and as you can see she's splattered with blood! I mean, Cosmic Shimmer!

Cazzy

I'm late, I have a really good excuse and if you want to know why I will explain on my blog!

I really enjoyed playing with my new spritzer to create an air brushed effect last week, and decided to do it again! I am not great at it, but it sort of worked! So I used Grafitti from Paper Pretties cut another one to mask the first one and then used a stencil by Creative Expressions of a scene with clouds, sun and roof tops. I sprayed the sky in various shades of blue and then with the first stencil and mask still in place I used a Prima stencil to create air-brushed rain drops - you need sun and rain to create a rainbow! I removed the stencils and mask and coloured the image with Promarkers, cut and matted it and added one of the sentiments that comes with it and a bit of ribbon.

  To enter the challenge link your project HERE. or scroll down

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners of Challenge #8 - mixed media mayhem!

I hope you all enjoyed Gemma's challenge. We had some wonderful entries and Gemma is very happy that you all entered with such great projects, A BIG Well Done to all of you. Gemma is recovering slowly and is longing to get Quirky again.

Doris is also recovering from major surgery and we wish both Gemma and Doris a speedy recovery from us all. We miss them very much!

Now onto the winners, which is what you all want to know.

Our first place winner is:

Lynda Hall

Lynda share her wonderful Magical Mermaid peice with us, it is totally stunning and we just love it!

Congratulations Lynda you have won a cherub stamp and stamp set from:

That Craft Place

In second place we chose:

 Kren

This is a another complex and beautiful piece, a lot of work went into it and again we love it.

Congratulations Kren, you have won 3 images of your choice from:

Squigglefly

Our third favourite was:

Frea

Frea made a wonderful journal page and used lots of different techniques and her home made glass gell (I must look that one up). Lots of texture and a great subject and lyric.

Congratulations Frea, you have won a $5 voucher to spend with:

Digital Delights

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Digital Delights are providing the third prize which is a $5 gift voucher.

Well done all three of you, please email me (Cazzy) using the link in the sidebar, telling me your choices, or address where appropriate, and I will send you a winner's badge and arrange for you to get your prize. We would love you all to join us as Guest Designers in two weeks time, or later if you can't manage that challenge - please tell me if you can.

 Thank you to everyone who entered, and don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Challenge #8 Reminder - Mixed Media Mayhem

Welcome back for the reminder of Gemma's challenge, Mixed Media Mayhem in which she wants you to "get messy" and whatever you make please tell us how you did it!

First we have a reminder of our three sponsors and the great prizes you could win if you are chosen for the top three:

That Craft Place

That Craft Place has a bricks and mortar shop in Eastbourne, and a Facebook shop where you can have a "pigeon hole" and add goodies to it all month, pay at the end of the month and get it all sent for one postage fee.

That Craft Place are providing our first prize of - a cherub stamp and a Clearly Sentimental baby stamp set both designed by Ditzie Designs and made in high quality polymer.

Squigglefly

Squigglefly are providing second  prize of 3 images of the winner's choice.

Digital Delights

Digital Delights are providing the third prize which is a $5 gift voucher.

Now for some inspiration to get you started:

Guest Designer Lynn

I used the Buttercup image from Squigglefly. The background is spray inks and stamping, I used the co-ordinating embossing folder from Stampin Up and did a letterpress technique. I put versamark clear ink over the raised part of the folder and embossed some card. I then used verdigris embossing powder and mica flakes and other embossing folders with glitter to created a mixed media background. The digi is coloured with fleximarkers and I roller over a SU script stamp in bundled sprayed with a mica ink again.

Cindy

I used numerous types of material for this Art Page!  Aluminum foil, distress ink, modge poge, tissue paper, acrylic paint, scrap screen door screening, lol!  Check out my blog for detailed info on construction.  The images I used for this page is "Venus Has Arrived" by Squigglefly.  I immediately thought of a cool water scene when I saw it.  

MONICA

For my project I used this sexy digi "A corset and fish nets", provided by our sponsor Squigglefly.
This card is really a "mixed" of different mediums and techniques.
To the left side I used the faux leather technique, adding pieces of regular tape to a card stock, then distressing it and finally embossing it with clear embossing powder.
To the right I used two different techniques: In the upper corner I stamped with distress inks and gesso. In the lower corner, I used distress inks and sprinkle water for the background, then stamp with distress inks and a final touch with perfect pearls, to add a little bit of shimmer.
For the corner embellishments, I just embossed it with black embossing powder.

 Lyn

I used this little flower girl from Squigglyfly and had another go at playing with my only three colours of Cosmic Shimmer Mist, plus a dark blue metallic ink brush-pen that I flicked all over it as well as run a few marbles across it, so it made a nice splattery mess! I added this paper to a pink card that fades to white and then goes a darker pink, and made flowers out of what was left of the splattered paper. The digi has been 3D-ed and coloured with Promakers with a few highlights from the metallic ink brush-pen.

Cazzy

This is Princess Delightful from Digital Delights, she is a newly released image. I coloured her with Promarkers and Copic Spicas, then mounted her on a die cut panel which was a sheet of card that I used behind things I sprayed with various ink sprays, and it was covered in multi colours of spray. I didn't think it would look this good! The sentiment is also mounted on a piece of the sprayed card. I threaded ribbon throught the die cut, and added some fibre to the edge.

I should be back with two more projects - watch this space!

Here is the first one...

This image is called Ferald Sleepwalking from Squigglefly, I thought it was great fun and reminds me of my own sleepwalking haha. I finally got my Gelli Plate out and the background mess is the result - think I need more practice and paint colours! I added raffia, metal ribbon slider letters and some flat headed "eyelets". 

To enter the challenge link your project HERE.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Challenge #8 - Mixed Media Mayhem

Hi it's Gemma here,and it is my turn to set the challenge. (Actually I am not here, I had a shoulder operation and can't do a lot right now, so Cazzy is filling in the details, and I hope to be back to something like normal in a few weeks).

If you want to see who won the last challenge click HERE, or scroll down to the next post.

Now for my challenge - you all know I love mixed media, and I love to get messy and create magic out of the mayhem!  I want you to get messy too! Get your mediums out and have fun!

We are sponsored by three generous sponsors this time:

We would like to introduce a new sponsor to Quirky Crafts Challenges:

That Craft Place

That Craft Place has a bricks and mortar shop in Eastbourne, and a Facebook shop where you can have a "pigeon hole" and add goodies to it all month, pay at the end of the month and get it all sent for one postage fee.

That Craft Place are providing our first prize of - a cherub stamp and a Clearly Sentimental baby stamp set both designed by Ditzie Designs and made in high quality polymer.

Squigglefly

Squigglefly are providing second  prize of 3 images of the winner's choice.

Digital Delights

Digital Delights are providing the third prize which is a $5 gift voucher.

Now for some inspiration to get you started:

First we have our Guest Designers

Lynn (Linby)

I've made a card with the dragonfly image - the background is made from cosmic shimmer glue very messy!

Yogi

Birdhouse embossed with Spellbinder's Woodgrain/Brick folder, colored with Distress pads and sanded. Lace trim edging, square pearl trim. Heartfelt Creations daisy Flowers from Gelli dye ink print paper, shaped, rhinestone centers. Squigglefly Dragonfly From "Dragonfly Garden" digi image, printed and cut with an electronic cutter, colored pencils and glittered. Quote stamp from Quietfire Design as well as the Italic alphabet and the newest Illumination stamp set. More details and descriptions can be found HERE

Ike

Ike popped by to help us out and has used Simple Adorable Flower Girl by Cheryl Alger, one of the talented artists at Squigglefly. Thanks Ike, you're a star!

and the very Quirky Design Team:

Cazzy 

I could see this Tall Ship on a canvas as soon as I saw it, and I don't know if it ended up magical but it sure was messy! I used alcohol inks on a small canvas that I had covered in gesso first, die cut masks for the clouds, then glass ball gel medium mixed with white acrylic for the surf, some charms, stamped seagulls and some sea shell ribbon to hang it up, voila!

Close up of my "masterpiece" haha!

 I hope to add another project later ir tomorrow, there will be lots more next week too!

Cindy

I started a new Mutimedia book to practice some techniques I have learned.  This book is 9x12 made of hard pressed watercolour paper.  I started with various watercolour based sprays and stencils to give some depth.  Then stamped some books along the bottom left and right.  The Stacked Owls image was just perfect for this page, at the top of the books on the right.  I used the tape transfer technique to place the image onto my page with clear gesso.  The final stencil was inked with dye ink and the quote is written in my own hand with a Sharpie.  

Doris

This is my first one, and I used acrylic paints, distress ink, word transfers, flowers, wood, flourishes, stamps, and of course I used the Buttercup Suzie image from our sponsor. I printed the image in different papers, cut ad pasted it.

Gemma - hopes to be recovered and back soon! (I hope you will pop over to her blog and wish her well).

Lyn

Never quite know what to do for 'mixed media' but I did leave my craft room in 'mayhem!' I used this lovely Shih Tsu digi from our sponsors and sprayed all the papers  and card with Comsmic Shimmer Mist, in pinks and blues, mainly because it's not too messy and we don't know how many puppies there'll be or if they'll be boys or girls! Last time she has six adorable puppies~ and that's also the name of the font I used. Adorable!

Monica

A closer look of the mix media background.

A closer look of this lovely digi provided by our sponsor Squigglefly

I`m a newbie at mix media technique.
For this challenge I have been seeing Youtube tutorials for about two weeks.
I messed up my first attempt, so finally I chose to used this technique to make the mosaic background of my card.
Here is my recipe:
First, I applied two Gesso coats to a piece of aluminun heavy foil. When it was dried, I embossed it with my favorite folder. Then I applied alcohol inks and let it run over the design, helping a little bit with a thin brush. When it was dried, I applied black dye ink all over the design.
Hope you like the final result :o)

We should have been saying goodbye to Cindy, but she has agreed to stay on to help out while Gemma and Doris recover, Thanks Cindy.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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