Challenge #6 Winners of Let's play Quirky Dressing up, adding some ribbon.

It't time to announce our winners, and I was sad to see that hardly anyone understood, or maybe read the challenge brief through - I tried to spell it out, I clarified the post a few times, and I left individual comments hoping that people would come back - but it didn't seem to work.
Most of the entries do not qualify to be in the top three because they don't include children or pets in costume, or include ribbon.

We do have some winners however, a few people got it right, or nearly right and the team has voted and chosen our top three.

In first place winning our lovely Crafty Ribbons prize:

 Bonnie T, 

with her cute bunny girl card.

Congratulations Bonnie, because you live outside the UK you have won a £10 voucher from Crafty Ribbons.

In second place winning our Bugaboo 7 digi prize:

Jean

 with her little bear dressed in rain wear, love the rain drops!

Congratulations Jean, you have won 7 images from Bugaboo.

In third place winning 2 images from Bugaboo:

Chrissy

with a cute owl dressed up in hat and scarf for Winter.

Congratulations Chrissy, you have won 2 digi images from Bugaboo.

Congratulations to all of you, please contact me (using the email link or the contact form if the link doesn't work) so that I can send your personalised winner's badges and get your prizes on the way to you.

We would love you all to be guest designers in our next challenge, if you would like to, please tell me if you can - or a later challenge!

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.

Challenge #6 reminder to come and play Quirky Dressing Up (of children or animals) and include ribbon.

Hi everyone, it's reminder time again. You have until Saturday 28th March to play Quirky Dress up with us.

Don't forget it is about children playing dress up, children in costumes, or pets in costumes, or animals in costumes and we want you to use ribbons, bows, any sort of ribbon, ribbon flowers - lets see some ribbon!

Children love playing doctor or nurse and dressing up, do you have cute photos, or cute stamps or digi images of children dressed up? Maybe dressed as Christmas reindeer, or as an Easter bunny - or as an animal.

Any project is acceptable of course, the more variety the better, layouts, boxes, clothes, paintings - as long as they have ribbon and children playing dress up!

It was hard to find a pets video that didn't include something that might be offensive, and this was the best of the bunch. It is a bit of fun, do the animals actually like this? My dogs would hate to dress up, they don't like clothes.

I want to see kids or pets dressed up in costume, either digi or stamped characters or maybe photos of your children or pets - and please include some ribbon on your project.

Guest Designer 

Fit Kitty

I chose an adorable image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps called Flower Bird and coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils. I tried a new technique called Fold-out Window Card that I learned in Stretching Your Dies Online Card Class (I won this class; thank you, Laura!). It was really fun to make! I finally used my Spellbinders Blossom Two dies - I've had these for over a year and this is the first time I've used them! On the front of the card, I added a triple-looped bow, made from EK Success ribbon, and three yellow gems. For the sentiment, I stamped a Clearly Besotted stamp repeatedly on a gold strip and then affixed along the bottom. On the inside of the card, the image was die-cut with my Simon Says Stamps Stitched Rectangle.  I stamped a sentiment from Newton's Nook and added three gold dots, one was die-cut using my Nellie's Multiframe Circles and two made with handheld hole-punches.  

2 Months GUEST DESIGNER

DEBORAH

Used Easter Eggs, and Bobble Head Kids Bunny, colored with Bic Markers, paper from DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack, Pink & yellow stickles. Corner die cuts, ribbon butterflies and Happy Easter from stash. 

MYRIAM

For my Happy Birthday card I used Bobblehead kid cupcake digi from Bugaboo stamps



MONICA

For this week project, I made a box card full of flowers with an adorable girl dress up as a butterfly -Bugaboo Brats Bugs.-Butterfly a lovely digi from our sponsor Bugaboo.

DORIS

For this week, I made a card using the Bugaboo Brat - Jesse Moon from our sponsor Bugaboo Digi Stamps . First I printed the image in color and cut out the moon. Then I painted the image as a bee, using Spectrum Noir.

CAZZY

This is such a cute image called Bugaboo Brats Bugs - Caterpillar. I put my sleeping child on a die cut bench in the garden (where all good caterpillars should be) surrounded by butterflies, and I used chiffon polka dot ribbon, and grosgrain ribbon with hearts both from Crafty Ribbons.

KEMLY

Hi! For this week to my project I used the beautiful digi Kidz Reindeer, of our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.

I love Christmas. In this season the children participate in activities where they can go with fantastic costumes. Christmas full of magic every place and joyful hearts. In my project, I want remember this moments.  I used acuarelables pencils and Spectrum Noir pencils.




 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 #6 Let's Play Quirky Dressing up - (kids or pets) and include some ribbon.

Hi it's my turn (Cazzy) to set the challenge and I decided that we should play Quirky Dress up, I hope you will have fun playing along with this one!

To see who won the last challenge see the post below this one.

Now for this challenge I want to see projects that include children dressed up in costumes being something they are not, like animals, nurses, firemen, superheros even Halloween monsters, or it could be pets in costume, a dog dressed as a bee for example. Bugaboo have lots of great digi images you could use, or you might have photos of your kids or pets dressed up to show us.

Please also add ribbon to your project, because one of our lovely sponsors is Crafty Ribbons.

Our lovely sponsors this time are:

 Crafty Ribbons

Who are providing first prize of Ribbons to UK entrants of these lovely new ribbons exclusive to Crafty Ribbons:

or a voucher to non UK entrants ( UK entrants can choose voucher or ribbons)

and

Bugaboo

 Who are providing 7 images of your choice for second prize, and 2 images of your choice for third prize, and have provided all images that the team used.

Now for some inspiration from the team:

First our Guest Designers

FIT KITTY

For my image, I chose this adorable Rainy Day Bear - Rain Rain from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and I coloured him with my Prismacolor pencils.  I used My Creative Time Scalloped Stitched Ovals to die-cut the image and layers. On the base of the card, I added a panel of patterned paper and some polka dot ribbon that I won from Crafty Ribbons (thank you, Ali!). I stamped a sentiment from Impression Obsession Sentiments 1 clear stamps and doodled faux stitching around the edge of the patterned paper.  I decided to keep this card fairly CAS as I wanted it to be suitable for a male.  I think the little bear needs some cheering up!

DEONNA

This card was made with the Awesome Bugaboo stamp called "Bugaboo Brats Bugs-Butterfly". Isn't she just the cutest? I colored her up with my Copic Markers and white gel pen. I cut out a butterfly template and embossed it with a dot Sizzix Embossing folder, added some wire for the antenna's and a couple little bows to the top for decoration. Then added some mini glitter flower shapes.

LORRAINE

Lorraine also used Rainy Day Bear - Rain Rain and how spooky - the same colours and nearly the same layout as Kitty lol. 

2 month Guest Designer 

DEBORAH

I used two adorable little stamps by Bugaboo Kidlet Doctor & Kidlet Nurse Aren't they just darling playing dressup. I combined with a sweet red/white gingham ribbon, DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack with silver stickles and an old SU stamp collection Happy Healing.

Finally the Design Team:

MYRIAM

I worked with this beautiful digi AKV pirate monkey-sword from Bugaboo stamps 

and I made this pirate ship....AHOY!!!

DORIS

For my today project, I decided to make a Gift Bag using the sweet image Baby Flower 1 , from Bugaboo Digi Stamps. I used Spectrum Noir, some glitter and different papers. For flower I used PL1, PL2 and PL3. For color skin I used FS1, FS2, FS5 and FS8. Finally for a diaper I used CG1, CG2 and DG3.

KEMLY

Hi people! Today in my project, I choose two beautiful digis from our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps. I used to the Kidlet-Wizard  and Kidlet-Witch. I made a card, a castle for  the magic party to the children. The little witch wearing a small loop on your clothes. I colored the digis with Acuarelable pencils and Spectrum Noir pencils.

MONICA

For this week project, I got from our sponsor Bugaboo, the lovely Bobblehead Kids Bunny, an adorable little girl dressed up as the Easter Bunny, perfect to match with an Easter card. I colored the digi with Graph´it markers.

Cazzy

I have here two little boys dressed as rabbits. I started off with the very cute Bugaboo Brat - Boy Easter Bunny, who is fast asleep, then I thought what is he sleeping on - had to be Easter eggs they were perfect, and I added a friend who is carrying a WOE Big Egg, because all the digis come in .png as well as .jpg it was easy to create this scene. The ribbon is a Crafty Ribbons exclusive Animal Silhouette - Rabbits.

Come and play Quirky with us.


 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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Winners of Challenge #6 What's in your Quirky Cupboard.

Not my most popular challenge, we only had the three entries but they were all good and so they all get a prize. We still all voted for our favourites and the placing was unanimous so here are our winners:

We were sponsored by the wonderful:

 Crackerbox Palace

Our three winners are:

In first place with a creepy bare cupboard is Ike.

Congratulations Ike, you have won a $20 voucher to spend on the Crackerbox Palace website!

In second place with her pretty dresser card is Linby.

Congratulations Linby, you have won a $15 voucher to spend on the Crackerbox Palace website!

In third place we have Yogi, with a clever easel card - must be a cupboard hiding in there somewhere - right?

Well just for entering you have won a $10 Crackerbox Palace voucher Yogi, congratulations!

Usual thing, all of you contact me via the link in the sidebar (or let me know if it doesn't work for you and I will get your email from Inlinkz), and I will send your badges and request your vouchers, and we would love all of you to be Guest Designers in two weeks time, please say you will!

 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.

Challenge #6 What's in the Quirky cupboard?

It is my turn (Cazzy) to set the challenge, and you know I love it to be quirky!

If you are looking for the winners of the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.

This challenge is sponsored by the wonderful:

Crackerbox Palace

(Link is to the blog, because there are still major problems with the website)

who have  provided the team with some lovely stamps to use and you can win a very generous prize from them too:

1st Prize is a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

2nd Prize is a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

3rd Prize is a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

Please note the voucher does not include postage.

Because there is no website to use a voucher on as yet, and hasn't been for some time the following will apply:

the winners can go and browse the blog and pick out the stamp or stamps they want, (it is easy to tell if they are large or small, since they are shown on cards.)

 the $10.00 winner gets one big stamp or 2 small

the $15.00 winner gets one big and one small stamp, or 3 small stamps

the 20.00 gets one large and two small or 4 small stamps,

Breaking news: The Crackerbox Palace new website is imminent!

Now for the challenge: I want to see your cupboards or shelves or dressers, and they can't be empty - what is in your cupboard?

You can stamp cupboards, shelves or dressers, use digi's or alter an item, or make it yourself, use your imagination!

Here is some inspiration from the team.

Cazzy

 I already had this stamp set from Crackerbox Palace, it is a large stamp if any of the winners would like it! I cut out two cupboards, then layered them with foam tape to give depth so I could add embellishments to the inside. I scored the doors and bent them up slightly. I also coloured the foam tape to match so it wouldn't show up so much. Ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.

I cut the doors off the image underneath and stuck them to the back of the doors of the top image, then cut out two of the hearts and added them as handles so if viewed from the side the cupboard 

looks complete. I hoped to close the doors but they don't quite fit all the way across, and my 

embellishments stick out so it would be tricky.

Cindy

I printed out the image onto wood printed paper and fussy cut it out.  The tea and plant were printed onto white paper.  All were accented with my markers, then adhered to a Spellbinders 
Labels 25 panel cut out of Die Cuts With a View red Shimmer paper.  This then onto printed paper from my stash and then a 5x6.5" kraft card base.

Doris

This really has been a challenge for me. When I saw the topic and the images I felt lost, and after much thought, I decided what I wanted to do. So, I made this adorable cupboard card from Silhouette studios. I cut it in different papers, them I added some shadow using the Distress Ink, some embellishments and a sentiment from Crackerbox Palace, our great sponsor. 

But also, when we opened the front door, we found different things in my cupboard. What I did was print and paint with watercolor pencil from Faber Castell , then trim. For the purse, I printed and cut on prints paper,  and added a bit of shadow using watercolor pencil.

And finally, this is the inside of my card.

Gemma

Hello everyone, I've had a few problems with my printer this week.  It seems to have decided to give 

up on me, so for this challenge I had to use things from my own crafty stash....!!

 I decided to make my wardrobe using tags.  I took two tags of the same size and painted one to try and make it look like wood with a combination of paint and distress ink pads...
I then cut a door into the front of the first tag....and added a brad as a door knob..

Everyone has skeletons of some sort in there closets,  and I'd like to think that the skeletons in my closets are happy, dancing, friendly ones...

With my printer not wanting to work, I found this more of a challenge than I usually would. As I wasn't able to print out what I needed from the sponsors and had to use my own stuff.  Once I'd decided what to make, however, it got much easier.  I hope you have enjoyed my take on what's in my wardrobe, I just couldn't resist the happy, dancing figures.....xx

Lyn

I'll be here very soon!

What?? I was here....where did I go??? It must be gremlins in the cupboard!! Or spooky skeletons! aren't they great!

 

 Here's my card.....again. I decided to used the cupboard and sentiment kindly supplied by our sponsors 

 Crackerbox Palace  There's about five layers, counting the drawers, which I've crammed full with bits and bobs to make it look like my messy craft room a messy craft room. I've cut a hole so you can see through to the inside of the card, where I've added little jugs, pots and little parcels also from our sponsor. All the papers are from PinkPetticoat (digital as well as paper stack) 

 

Inside I've even made a tiny backing paper sheet using a fish we had for another Crackerbox Challenge some months back.  The sentiment here I made on the computer, and just framed the 'hole' on the other side with half the dresser to hide my not so good knife cutting!

Monica

A few weeks ago, I bought the Tasty K & C Smashbook and with this topic Carol gave me the perfect excuse to start it up. For this project I used "French Country" Graphic 45¨s paper collection, cause I love its vintage look. I filled my cupboard with the images provided by our sponsor Crackerbox, I just distress it and added a little bit of color, just to keep vintage look.Finally, I added to beautiful kitchen quotes.I love to cook and I will enjoy smashing!!!

Now let's see what you can do!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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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.
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.