Winners of the January challenge - Let's Quirky Celebrate!

What a great start to 2016.  We had some lovely entries and a such lot of them. The requirement was to have the word celebrate, or celebration somewhere on your creation.  The 14 entries that were eligible to be in the top three were the ones who had the words "CELEBRATE" or "CELEBRATION" on them somewhere that we could see.   Unfortunately, the others had to be disallowed or it would not be fair to the ones who followed the requirements.

Our sponsor for this challenge was the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet, who have such a wide range of digital images and artists that we can always find something we love!

Didn't our new team do well, too, with some lovely examples for our first challenge together?

Sadly, Lynne is unable to continue at the moment, due to health reasons, and we are saying goodbye to her already.  Thank you for all you have done in your first month with us Lynne.  We hope you will come back to us when you are able.

Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.

Now for the important news that you all want to know, here are our top three who are all prize winners:

In first place with a stunning 1920's Art Deco style card is Yogi!

Congratulations, Yogi, you have won 3 digital images or sets of your choice from the whole of the Stitchy Bear store!

In second place with some crazy cats on her lovely shaker card is Rae Ann!

Congratulations, Rae Ann, you have won 3 digital images or sets from the ones used by the Quirky DT and listed on the challenge post.


In third place with a very pretty shaker card is Stempelomi!

Congratulations, Stempelomi, you have won 2 digital images or sets from the ones used by the Quirky DT and listed on the challenge post.

Finally we have a Runner Up, and that is Kevin with this beautiful card.

Congratulations, Kevin, we have a Special Runner Up badge just for you!

Please, can all of you contact me with your choices of digital images, and I will send your personalised winner's badges and arrange for you to get your prizes.  We would love you all to be guest designers in our March challenge if you are able.   Please let me know if you can join us.

Thank you to everyone who entered, and don't forget to check back at 6 pm today to find out about our new challenge!

If you would like to join our happy team please contact me by email or the contact form, both in the sidebar.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

January midway reminder #1 2016 Let's Quirky Celebrate

Hi everyone, I'm here to remind you to play along with our January challenge, I'm only just getting used to calling the challenge by the month now that we have gone monthly, it is easier than numbers!

Here is your reminder about the challenge and our sponsor.

My challenge is called Let's Quirky Celebrate, and I want to see you play along with projects that include the word Celebrate or Celebration, and it can be any kind of celebration you like, and any kind of hand made project.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps who are providing all three prizes to our winners.

Stitchy Bear

Who are generously providing the following prizes:

1st prize of 3 images of choice from the whole of the store

2nd prize Any 3 of the images used by the DT

3rd prize any 2 of the DT´s chosen imagesB - listed below

The images kindly supplied to the Design Team by Stitchy Bear are:

CraftyGirl Creations

Wonderland Cake

BBKakes

Craft Queen
Birthday Boy 1

Floppy Latte Designs

Tying The Knot

Stitchy Stamps

Lake Winter
Pretty In Pink

Please Drink Responsibly

My Heart Pieces

Wine Barrel

Beary Dust

Baby

Now let's look at the wonderful projects from the team, I'm sure they will inspire you to play along.

NanaConnie

using sponsor image "Pretty in Pink"

to make a card that celebrates Love.

 The image is colored using ProMarkers and chalk, then die cut and framed.  I used burgundy CS to back the die cut frame, embossed the background, and added two different ribbons for embellishment.  The bow is a single layer, five-loop bow done with 1/8 inch ribbon.

Lynne

Hi it's Lynne here with my midway card to share with you using Digi Blessings Sewing Mends the Soul. My first love is sewing and I always love to create with things that are related to sewing - thus, this adorable bear doing a cross-stitch gift to celebrate someone's birthday with the word, "celebrate" faux stitched on the heart!!! I had a lot of fun adding buttons, charm, and pearls along with a ribbon.

Creative juices were running wild and perhaps quirky when I found this cupcake paper and just knew that I had the purrfect sentiment to use on the inside which I wanted to share with you AND of course, the Stickles Fairy along with Cupcake Border Punch came into play. Hope you stop by and visit me to learn all the fun elements that I used making this special birthday card.

Pat

Hey crafters! Pat here reminding you to share your projects and cards with us for the January challenge. The theme is Celebrate! and I got to play with this lovely digi image from our sponsor, Stitchy Bear. It's called "Lake Winter." I lightly colored over the entire image with Copic BG10, then used a toothbrush and white acrylic paint to add more snow to the scene. I framed it all with assorted shades of teal. I snagged a package of lacy paper doilies from my local thrift store today and used one to make my image pop on my easel card.

Tracy

I have used Wonderland Cake from Stitchy Bear Stamps.  It is coloured with Wink of Stella pens and Graph It alcohol markers. I printed the image four times and decoupaged it for the main focal point and cut elements from the other two (which I had also flipped to give it a even quirkier look) as embellishments. The Happy Birthday paper is from my stash.  The sentiment is a freebie stamp which I have stamped on to pattern paper in Rich Cocoa Momento ink and cut out using a Stampin' Up decorative punch.

Cazzy

I used this really cute Baby by Beary Dust, and although I am a little late for this post I am well ahead for my new Granddaughter's 1st Birthday! It has to be a first for me. The word celebrate appears on the stamped ribbon and background definitions. I am celebrating having a Granddaughter, and her birthday in advance! More details on my blog.

 Marg will be along later.




 To enter the challenge link your project to the challenge post before this one click HERE or scroll down.

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Challenge #1 2016 Let's Quirky Celebrate.

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts and our first monthly challenge. All challenges will begin on the first Sunday in the month and end on the 28th day of that month. We will also publish a reminder on the third Sunday of each month.

We have a lot to celebrate, continuing the Quirky challenges (and it was touch and go at the end of last year), a brand new Quirky team, a couple of new sponsors and the beginning of 2016 - Happy New Year to you all.

Therefore my challenge is called Let's Quirky Celebrate, and I want to see you play along with projects that include the word Celebrate or Celebration, and it can be any kind of celebration you like, and any kind of hand made project.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps who are providing all three prizes to our winners.

Stitchy Bear

Who are generously providing the following prizes:

1st prize of 3 images of choice from the whole of the store

2nd prize Any 3 of the images used by the DT

3rd prize any 2 of the DT´s chosen images - listed below

The images kindly supplied to the Design Team by Stitchy Bear are:

CraftyGirl Creations

Wonderland Cake

BBKakes

Craft Queen
Birthday Boy 1

Floppy Latte Designs

Tying The Knot

Stitchy Stamps

Lake Winter
Pretty In Pink

Please Drink Responsibly

My Heart Pieces

Wine Barrel

Beary Dust

Baby

Here is some inspiration from our talented Design Team:

Cici 
Our first Guest Designer of 2016

Cicci used Please Drink Responsibly on her fun card and said:
"My Name is Cecilia Gunnarsson but everyone calls me Cicci..
 I live in Sweden with my 3 boys and a dog. When I dont colour :0)
 I work as a guitarteacher!
 Im happy to be  at this Great challenge quirky Crafts Challenge!

HUGS Cicci Vid Pennan"

Pat


Pat using BBCakes Birthday Boy 1 to celebrate a birthday of course!



NanaConnie

 I used a wonderful image from Stitchy Bear called "Lake Winter."   The background paper is made with a new set of watercolors.  Another "new" thing I'm celebrating is the Bow-It-All that Santa brought me and that double-color bow is the first one I tied with it!  

Tracy



I tried to fit my card to the Celebration theme but also make it generic so it could be used for most occasions.  I have made an easel card using Wine Barrel from Stitchy Bear which I have coloured using alcohol markers.  I added clear glaze pen to the wine bottles and used Wink of Stella Violet for the glass of wine.  The congratulations sentiment is fixed to the ribbon with brads and I have adhered this to the card with foam tape to create the stopper. I have used a freebie Time to Celebrate stamp on the corner.

Marg

Made using Tying The Knot digi image from

Stitchy Bear Digi Stamps and celebrating marriage.

Lynne 

Sorry, my post was a bit late as I had Shingles in and around my eye and my eyesight was minimal. With that being said . . .
I'm a big fan of anything Alice in Wonderland and what a way to celebrate almost anything - I used Crafty Girl Creations Wonderland Cake with the Cheshire Cat and his smile donning the Mad Hatter's Hat. This would be such  a fun birthday cake (P.S. Did I mention that my birthday is this month and I would like a cake "done in this style"?) and most definitely Alice in Wonderland with the "Quirky" theme!

Cazzy

Sorry I'm a little late, it has been an awful week for me! Anyway here I am at last, and I altered an empty chocolate box into a box frame and added lots of crafty bits round the BBK Craft Queen digi. I thought she was perfect to celebrate our new Quirky Team, new challenge format and all things crafty and new. I'm going to put the full details on my blog and the before photo.
Are you a craft Queen too?

Because we are now hosting challenges monthly our reminder will be in two weeks time. You have until the 28th of Jan to enter the challenge.

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.

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Challenge #22: Quirky Halloween and Autumn Colors

Little leaves fall softly down

Red and yellow, orange and brown

Whirling, twirling round and round

Falling softly to the ground.

Welcome to our new Quirky Challenge, it is me (Doris), and this time we want to celebrate Autumn and Halloween Colors. All you have to do is a project, any project, using the lovely Autumn and Halloween colors. Easy... isn´t it?

So, let me tell you about our sponsor and prizes.

Stitchy Bear

And we are so thankful for the generous prizes which are:

1st prize of 3 images of choice from the whole of the store

2nd prize Any 3 of the images used by the DT

3rd prize any 2 of the DT´s chosen images

The images kindly supplied to the team by Stitchy Bear designer are:

Stitchy Stamps 

Edward & Bella

Straw Hat

 Hang Tite

Floppy Latte Designs

Tending The Vines

Reeces Scrap Pieces

RSP_Lucy_Witch

RSP_Rich Witch

IKEsART

 Castle Room

  Skelly Gossip

Vaguely Goth

 Digi Blessings 

Hang in there

Any images not used this week will appear in the reminder post next week.

You have until Saturday 31st Oct (spooky) to play along with us, but not midnight on the 31st - midday UK time hahahahahaha!

Guest Designers

Mia

Mia used Rich Witch and doesn't she look scary!

Design Team

MONICA

I`m not a Halloween fan, but I love Autumn. It is my favorite color palette. For my make I used this beautiful silhouette "Tending The Vines" design by Floppy Latte and provided by our generous sponsor.

Doris

This is my idea for this challenge, I made a frame, because I love it. I used the lovely and cute image Edward & Bella, provided for our sponsor Stitchy Bear.

Gabriela

I made a Halloween treat box using the lovely witch Hang Tite.

Cazzy

Sorry I'm late again, I was away with family for the weekend and busy last week so I didn't get my card made in time.
I used two of IkeSart images merged to make my dungeon scene: Castle Room and Skelly Gossip. To this I added some bat sequins and some Tim Holtz spiders and webs and the sentiment.

To see who won the last challenge see the previous post below this one. You also can click HERE.

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.

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Challenge #15.-Quirky White.-Reminder

This week we continue enhancing our digital images working on a white base.

Requirements: 

Everthing white: papers, ribbons, embellishments, buttons, etc

Only your digi is coloured

you can of course use digital images, stamped images or no image at all. Only the image can be coloured, everything else must be white.

Remember, this challenge is sponsored by 

Stitchy Bear Stamps

And the prizes are:

1st place: 3 images of choice from the whole Stitchy store

2nd place: 3 images from Dt´s chosen images

3rd place: 2 images from Dt´s chosen images

You can find Dt´s chosen images here

GUEST DESIGNER

Gabriela - 2 month GD

I designed a Tag with scenery where the young and pretty girl, "Fashion Gal Shelly", can go for a walk.

DESIGN TEAM

MYRIAM

For my center step card I used Snow Fun from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Stamps

MONICA

This lovely digi is "Sweet Sun Tea" design by BBKakes and provides by our generous sponsor.

KEMLY

Hi everyone!  I used to my card the adorable and sweet digi  Angel Bell. 

 of our sponsor Stitchy Bears.   

DORIS

This is my first project, a baby card I made using the lovely Bunny Flop image from Stitchy Bear Stamps.

My second one is a Feel Better Soon card using the Boo Boo Bee image  from our amazing sponsor 

Stitchy Bear Stamps. Have a Great Week!!!

Cazzy

 The first image I have used is the beautiful Snow Deer Scene by Ike's Art. This comes with many components and the main image, which I used, you also get the scene without deer and the deer separately so this could be decoupaged or used in different variations. This time I simply added a die cut panel and two glitter card words, and a little Stickles to the scene for a sparkly icy effect.

The second image I used is incredibly beautiful and is called New Baby also by Ike's Art. Many photographers want to take this image of a new born baby's feet cradled in the parent's hand. Again very simple, I coloured the image and die cut it into an oval, added a pearlescent frame and the word Love, and a bow.

To enter the challenge link your project to the challenge post before this one click HERE or scroll down.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #15.-Quirky White

Color White has the virtue to enhance everything, so for this challenge we are going to use that "quirky white power" to enhance our digis.

Requeriments: 

Everthing white: papers, ribbons, embellishments, buttons, etc

Only your digi coloured

This challenge is sponsored by 

Stitchy Bear Stamps

And the prizes are:

1st place: 3 images of choice from the whole Stitchy store

2nd place: 3 images from Dt´s chosen images

3rd place: 2 images from Dt´s chosen images

Dt´s chosen images list:

From Digi Blessings

Snow Fun

Sewing Mends the Soul

Angel Bell

From Floppy Tate Designs

Orchid

From BB Kakes

Mz Emolie

Sweet Sun Tea

From Stitchy Stamps

Lady Jane

From Kaz Kraftz

Fashion Gal Shelly

From Ken Benner Designs

Cartoon elephant leaning on a large pencil

From Ike´s Art
New Baby

Snow Deer Scene

GUEST DESIGNER

Gabriela - 2 month GD

I chose the beautiful and elegant "Lady Jane" provided by our kind sponsor Stitchy Bear, I decided to use a fan as an accessory related to the image.

Desire

Desire has left all of her card uncoloured, she used the beautiful Ike´s Art

Snow Deer Scene to make a stepper card full of 3d elements. We love those white rosettes too Desire.

Karolina

Karolina said that New Baby was "perfect as I need to make a card for my friends' child's baptism." I am sure she will treasure the card for many years, it is beautiful Karolina.

Kat

Kat had a bit of trouble with the light because it is Winter in Australia, she has used Sewing Mends the Soul and added some real stitching, clever Kat, we like stitching!

DESIGN TEAM

MYRIAM

I used for my card Orchid digi design by Floppy Tate from our sponsor!

MONICA

For this project, I´m working with the lovely Mz Emolie design by BBKakes and provided by our generous sponsor. I love how white backgroung enhances the digi.

Cazzy

I used this very happy Cartoon elephant leaning on a large pencil by Ken Benner, and I just had to stamp Happy under the pencil doodle (is that cheating, would you have known if I hadn't told you?). You would not believe the problems I had during the making of this card (or - if you read my blog often you probably would haha), and I will tell you all about it on my blog. I have used lots of die cut layers, two of them embossed, as well as die cut shapes. I used plain white card, some pearlescent white and some glitter card for Birthday. I used white ribbon, clear gems, and white brads and Opal White Liquid Pearls.

 

KEMLY

Hi!! I used  for my card  Sewing Mends the Soul. This adorable digi of our sponsor. I love also the quilting and this little bear is adorable with the wires and other accesories. 

To see who won the last challenge click here or see the previous post below this one. 

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.

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