Challenge #1 2017 - Quirky Picture This! DT Call.

At last we are back with some new team members and all really happy to be up and running once more. Did you miss us?

We have two great sponsors and three prizes for this challenge:

Bugaboo

Bugaboo are generously giving our first prize winner a $12 voucher to use in the Bugaboo store, and our third prize winner a $3 voucher.

Crafty Ribbons

Crafty Ribbons are giving our second place winner a choice of a lovely mystery ribbon pack (UK winner only), or a £10 voucher (Worldwide).

All very nice prizes as I'm sure you will agree.

This is also a DT call, we are now looking for more Quirky Design Team members so please contact me if you are interested.

It had to be a really Quirky challenge to start off with, and the challenge is called Picture This. What I want you to do is use a photograph. You can either add a photo you have taken, or one you love to your project OR you can take inspiration from that photo, either the colours, or to incorporate the elements in the photo (say wood, metal, material that sort of thing) or cut out parts of a photo to use on your project. Add digital images, stamped images and embellishments to your make also.

You must show us the photo you used and tell us how you used it.

Now for some inspiration from the team (visit their blogs by clicking on their name to give them some appreciation):

Cazzy

I used four photos I took with my phone including a selfie, and they are all about my dogs. Mainly my new rescue dog Luna, but Sooty is in the bottom photo too. The far right is when she first arrived, shaved and looking so cute in the buttoned jumper. Later she destroyed the buttons and it had to be sewn together, and now it had a few chunks out of it! The top photo is the first shoe Luna destroyed.

I used Bugaboo's Bugvalpupset which contains the three cute digis you see here, in jpg and png formats. I flipped some of the images. I used a DTP program to add the .png version of the digis and my photo's and a background photo I also took, but made it more transparent. I printed it on paper canvas and stretched it over a frame that was going into the charity bag. I added Crafty Ribbons Instagram camera ribbon and lots of Crafty Ribbons muddy paw print ribbons (I bought six for the price of five), and a few buttons, a bit of twine and an odd sequin that was handy. Crafty Ribbons sell buttons too.

I wrapped the whole frame in paw print ribbons too. When I set this challenge I had no idea if I would be able to make something or what it would be but had dog photos in my mind.

Marg 

This is Marg's dog Reggie.

Diane

This was a really difficult challenge for me as I HATE having my photo taken, which means I rarely take any photos myself. That's makes me a bit weird in this day and age I know.

I decided to make a scrapbook page of one of my favourite photos. This was my Maggie, we had her for 17 years until we lost her two years ago. It was actually her anniversary when I started to think about what I could make. Here is my page:-

Tinz

I used the photograph (original) as the focal point od the card. Then added a photo of an ant eating what I have coloured to be a radish (as this is what is 'sitting' on the car). I coloured the image with promarkers. The sentiment was done in Word and then cut to size.

Image used - Picnic ANT

Jane

Here's my card, using the Flower Tag 1 digi:

and this is the photo that inspired it:

I have used a beautiful photo that my husband took in the gorgeous (and themselves quite quirky) gardens of West Green House, a National Trust garden close to Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.  It's only a few miles from us so we visit quite often. I love this circular archway! I took my inspiration from the circle, the red brick, the blue flowers and the plethora of green foliage, and I used Bugaboo's Flower Tag 1 image to make the card.

now let's see what you can do!

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog  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!

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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!

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Challenge #1 Winners of Clean and Simple

Wow, what a lot of lovely entries, I think you all like Clean and Simple!

We were sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps who provided the team with some great images, and are providing all three prizes.

Here is the list of images the team got to use:

Stitchy		BB Kakes		Floppy Latte
Lil Angel		Victoria Twilight		Stained Glass Flowers III
Miss Weeble		Steampunk 3 pc set
Poodles
Pretty in Pink		Ikes Art		Lil Diva
Fancy That		Blue Tit 4		A sign of spring
My Heart Pieces		Crafty Girl
Bride Ankhi		Bassett Hound

With so many wonderful entries it was hard to choose, everyone on the team tends to vote for different favourites in their top 6, but we aggregated the scores and we ended up with our winners today.
We can only have three winners and here they are:

In first place we have:

AJ 

with a cute penguin on kraft.

Congratulations AJ, you have won 3 images of your choice from the whole of the Stitchy Bear store.

In second place we have:

 Sue U 

with her very sassy card.

Congratulations Sue U, you have won your choice of 3 images from the ones that the team used.

In third place we have:

 Larissa 

with a very cute baby card, love those little birdies!

Congratulations Larissa, you have won two images of your choice from the ones that the team used.

Please contact me, via the email link in the side bar, with your choices. I will arrange for you to recieve your prizes, and I will send your personalised winner's badges.
We would love you all to be Guest Designers in two weeks time, or later if you can't do that. Please tell me if you can do it - you will get a digi or digis to use too.


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

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Challenge #1 2015 Reminder post. Clean and Simple.

It is reminder time everyone, you have until midday on Saturday 17th Jan to play along with us.

Here is a recap of our challenge, sponsor and prizes:

The challenge this time is Clean and Simple and this is what Clean and Simple means to me: not many embellishments, nothing fussy, and lots of "white space" which doesn't have to be white - lots of any colour unprinted, unstamped space really.

Some of you put everything but the kitchen sink on your cards normally, all very pretty but if this is you I guess clean and simple means something different. Let us see what your clean and simple looks like!

We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

Our generous sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Prizes: 

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

2nd prize any 3 of the DT's chosen images

3rd Prize any 2 of the DT's chosen images 

Stitchy has provided the team with some great images to use, some will be showcased this week and some next week in the reminder.

Here is the list of images the team got to use:

Stitchy		BB Kakes		Floppy Latte
Lil Angel		Victoria Twilight		Stained Glass Flowers III
Miss Weeble		Steampunk 3 pc set
Poodles
Pretty in Pink		Ikes Art		Lil Diva
Fancy That		Blue Tit 4		A sign of spring
My Heart Pieces		Crafty Girl
Bride Ankhi		Bassett Hound

Now for some more brilliant inspiration for you, and I hope you will visit our blogs, particularly our guests, to tell them that you like the projects. Lets spread a little love in 2015!

Guest Designers:

Lori

Lori used Poodles, with a great retro tiled look to her journal and great colouring! Go tell her if you love it on her blog, and see all the details!

Deborah

Deborah used the gorgeous Lil Angel by Stitchy on her lovely card.

Design Team:

Myriam

  I used the digi provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear: Stained Glass Flower III and coloured it with Watercolor pencils.

Monica

For my "Clean and Simple" reminder I used this lovely "Fancy Hat" digi stamp provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear. To color the image I used Spectum Noir pens and a litle bit of shading with distress inks.

Kemly

Hi everybody! To reminder in this challenge, "Clean and Simple" I made a 3D flip swing card, I used a lovely digi Pretty in Pink. From our generous sponsor Stitchy Bear. My project is coloured with acuarelables pencils. I used also Distress Inks and small flowers on the sides of the girl were drawn by me. A little reminder of my childhood, because to me it has always loved drawing and coloring!

Cazzy

I just couldn't resist this extra cute Bassett Hound by Crafty Girl, he is so cute! I coloured him with Promarkers and cut him out to go on a cloud embossed background coloured with a little chalk. Die cut sentiment to match his collar.

This is another version of the card I made last week, identical images and die cuts, but this time the image is printed on Kraft and coloured with Prismacolor pencils. The images are Blue Tit 4 by IkeSart and A sign of Spring by Lil Diva.

 To enter the challenge link your project HERE.

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Challenge #1 2015 Clean and Simple

Cazzy here, I want to wish Happy New Year to you all from the Quirky Design Team, I hope it will be a good one, and for those who didn't have a good 2014, I hope 2015 year will be better for you.

We are thinking of our friends who are sick, or have sick relatives, and sending them positive thoughts and prayers.

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

For our very first challenge of the year I decided to keep it simple, in fact the challenge is Clean and Simple.

This is what Clean and Simple means to me: not many embellishments, nothing fussy, and lots of "white space" which doesn't have to be white - lots of any colour unprinted, unstamped space really.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

Our generous sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Prizes: 

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

2nd prize any 3 of the DT's chosen images

3rd Prize any 2 of the DT's chosen images 

Stitchy has provided the team with some great images to use, some will be showcased this week and some next week in the reminder.

Here is the list of images the team got to use:

Stitchy		BB Kakes		Floppy Latte
Lil Angel		Victoria Twilight		Stained Glass Flowers III
Miss Weeble		Steampunk 3 pc set
Poodles
Pretty in Pink		Ikes Art		Lil Diva
Fancy That		Blue Tit 4		A sign of spring
My Heart Pieces		Crafty Girl
Bride Ankhi		Bassett Hound

Now for some inspiration, first from our lovely Guest Designers, who as you know, were top three winners from previous challenges:

Bunny

Bunny used IkeSart Blue Tit 4, with a matching blue and yellow background and lots of blue "white" space.

Lori

Lori was a winner in the top three and as well as being a guest designer is going to be an 8 week guest designer so we would like to welcome her to the team, and you will be seeing a lot more of her lovely work.

Lori used Victoria Twilight by BB Kakes and said "Wow, clean and simple should be so easy but I found it quite hard to think STOP!!!!". Well done Lori, you got it just right!

Fit Kitty

For my Clean and Simple card, I chose the adorable Miss Weeble from Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet, and I coloured her with my Prismacolor pencils.  I would be so happy if you visited my blog for a closer look at all the details:  http://ktdesigns2013.blogspot.ca//.  Thank you to Quirky Crafts for having me as your Guest Designer! I hope you join our CAS challenge! Wishing you a joyful day!

Deborah

Deborah used the very sweet Pretty in Pink image by Stitchy, and has a little decoration but a lot of plain space which is what I think CAS really is! Nice one Deborah.

and we have more inspiration from the Design Team:

MONICA

For my "CAS" card, I chose this gorgeous indian bride digi "Bride Ankhi" provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear. To make my card I made a little research about indian wedding and find out that they use red color as a symbol of purity, fertility, love, beauty, wealth and power. They also use gold as a symbol of their status and to bring joy and richness to the new family. So I tried to use those lovely colors in my card. I really enjoy colouring this digi. 



MYRIAM





I decided to recycle a chocolat box and used it to put a pair of headphones inside and give it as a gift. The digi stamp is Poodles from Stitchy Bear and coloured it with Spectrum Noir.

KEMLY

Hi everybody!! Happy New Year for all! To my project I choose Steampunk 3p-set, from our generous sponsor Stichy Bear's Stamps.

I love this digi! For my project I made a card to wish Happy New Year! Let 2015 be a great year for all.

My project is coloured with acuarelables pencils and Distress ink.

Cazzy

I went for a Spring card to cheer you (and me) up, I am fed up with the wet weather, cold weather, everyone having bugs and getting sick, and look forward to the Spring. I used two of the digi images combined to make a scene, A Sign of Spring by Lil Diva, and Blue Tit 4 by IkeSart.  I cut the image out with a lot of white space and a Spellbinders large labels 1 die, and made the card the same shape. No sentiment, lots of people like cards without a sentiment. All of the colouring is done with Promarkers. The inside card blank is yellow. So this is what I think is CAS.

Now let's see what you can do, come and play Quirky with us!

Email Entries

Naomi Sherrard.

 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!

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