Challenge #9 - Something beginning with S

Hello Quirky People, it's Lyn here with the 9th Quirky Challenge of 2014!  It's an easy one so I will expect to see a trillon entries! I want you to include in your crafty creation, (which can be anything crafty) Something Beginning With the letter...

S

See! Told you it was easy! Sun, sea, spring, summer, sewing, seaweed (seedweed?) silver, stickles, snow, sugar lips, strawberries, well, you get the picture! Don't forget to list your S's though. This fortnight we're sponsored by my favourite.... BUGABOO

 

with seven lovely digis for our winner!

AND....
We're also sponsored by our favourite ribbon people
Crafty Ribbons

AND Our third sponsor is the lovely  
Robyn's Fetish

To see last the last challenge winners go HERE

Here's some inspiration from our lovely guest designers...

 Desire

“Hi, I am Desire Fourie from sunny South Africa and am so thrilled to be a guest designer here – thanks for having me.

I used this cute image from Bugaboo called AVA SWING to play with and you can purchase it here. Of course 'S'wing is my interpretation of anything beginning with an 'S'.My design is a centre step card, my favourite card design. The sentiment is a from Create with TLC.  The image and sentiment were coloured with H2O water colour pencils and dry chalks.  The flower embellishments were created with flower and circle punches and the tutorial for it can be found here on my blog.  The design paper are from BasicGrey and the bling and photo turns from my stash.Your can read a bit more about my card over at my blog, DOING LIFE www.desiref.blogspot.com

Bettina

Bettina said S is for Snail, and S is for Shaped card, also S is for Stars (S for stamps on the mail too)! Good one Bettina. The cute snail image is called Snail Mail.

....and a few more crafty makes from our fabulous Design Team!!

We would love to welcome a new 4 challenge team mate....

Karen Schroeder

Stella is full of Sunshine and Snark!  Stella, along with her dogs (from left to right) Stenton, Stewart, and Steel are having a Sunshiny day...or are they?  Well, anyone who's anyone knows Stella, and Stella is no slouch!  She won't let you get away with S@*#...unless it's her dog's S@*#!  Obviously Someone did Something to Send Stella in to a Stellar S@*# fit!  I hope it wasn't you!!! 

I love everything Stella, especially her Snarkiness!  Stella Tidbits - Ray of Sunshine is from Bugaboo, our generous sponsor for this challenge!  She was printed on Xpress Paper, colored with Copics, and fussy cut  I used Tim Holtz's Rays Layering Stencil and inked it with Mustard Seed Distress Ink to make the background.   A strip of green washi tape was added to the bottom.  The adorable Puppy brads are from Eyelet Outlet.

Monica

Hi, I read a beautiful quote: "Somewhere out there is a swing that misses you. You`re never to old for fun, swing, dance, sing, laugh and act silly"  and I love it. We always have to take some time for having fun.

For my project I used "Ava swing" in a gate fold card. The image was colored with Spectrum Noir, Prismacolor pencils and chalks.

Gemma - on sick leave

Cindy

 I went with the obvious... Sunflower.  I have decided to make a set of tags, one for each month to decorate my space and this image (Flower name - Sunflower) is the first to be used for this project.  More pictures and details on my blog.

Cazzy

This is such a fun challenge, I can find so many Bugaboo images beginning with S for a start, and this one is Sock Monkey Sitting. He is sitting on Happy Birthday also from Bugaboo, and I just realised S stands for Spotty ribbon - from Crafty Ribbons of course, and S stands for for Scallops.

This image is Clown Six, he is on a Shaped panel (with Scallops), and there is more of that Spotty Ribbon, and Sparkly Stickles glitter glue, and Spotty paper. Ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.

Doris - on sick leave too.

Lyn

And lastly here's my card...I've used two digi's from Bugaboo. One I already had (Deacon Swing) and the other (Ava Swing) was supplied especially for the challenge! S for Swing...Stripes, shoes, a screw brad, string, silver, sunflowers, (well....they're yellow!) and.... the pale blue back ground behind the swings  (PinkPetticoat) has tiny stars on it. There's also some mock stitching, swirls, some stickles glitter and I've used silicone glue!

Over to you now! Don't forget, please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below. To see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.
Your entry must be a new creation, no back-dated entries (older than 10 days) allowed (yes we allow back dating!)and don't forget to mention in your post that you've entered a Quirky Craft Challenge!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Challenge #9 2013 Dark and Bright and Don't be Square - use a very dark colour with very bright colour (not black and white) and no squares or rectangles.

Welcome back to Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog! Please scroll down to the post below (or click here) to see if you were a winner of our last challenge.

It is my turn (Cazzy) to set the challenge and I want to see one very dark colour and one very bright colour as the main colour scheme of your project - this means you can only use two colours, except for white - no white allowed unless it is part of an image or sentiment!
Images can include additional colours (including white). As well as that you should not have any squares or rectangles on your project (layout pages can be normal but nothing on them should be square or rectangular). That is all then, simples!

Examples of colours you could use:
Black - bright green
Black - bright pink
Black - bright orange
Black - bright yellow
Black - bright blue
Dark Green - bright green
Dark Green - bright pink
Dark Green - bright orange
Dark Green - bright blue (maybe that would clash)
Navy or dark blue with any of the above brights,
Very dark red or purple, with any of the above brights,
and so on.
 Don't forget - no white allowed except for images and sentiments!

Our sponsors this time are:

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Stitchy Bear are providing first and third prizes of $8 and $2 respectively.

Digital Delights

Digital Delights are providing a $5 voucher to our second prize winner.

Here are some lovely examples from the team to inspire you.

Guest Designer Manderly

Mandy, who is also on the Stitchy DT, said: I used Sizzix and Nellie Snellen circle dies to make this bright and dark easel card.  The image is StitchyBear's Butterfly Profile, colored with Prisma Pencils.  Cropped a few butterflies from her hair, enlarged them, and covered them with Glossy Accents and glitter.  The flowers and pearls are by Wild Orchard Crafts and they lay on a Memory Box die called Elegant Scroll.

Guest Designer Coops (Nic)

Nic used Butter Blue from Stitchy, and said: it's a triple oval easel and I have gone with dark purple and light bright green for the colours. I love the image, she is fantastic.

Guest Designer Jessie

Jessie used Little Tiggy Tiger from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, and coloured the image in the same colours as her background, she said it took ages to make the flowers and originally she was going to use black and pink.

Cazzy

 I used Little Tiggy Tiger on this little easel card, and kept it fairly plain apart from adding some pearl flat backs, I love this bright green card and it matches Tiggy's eyes! I typed the sentiment and printed it, die cut it with an oval Nestie and added a flower and gem which I coloured with my bright green Promarker to match. I cut the card with a Quickutz die, now I just need to make a small envelope.

Caro

My colour choices were yellow and black (with skin tones for the hands).  This is a page of my journal which was made using mustard seed distress ink layered up to create different depths of colour.  I generated triangular rays of sun out from the hands and then stamped into them using a variety of stamps.  I then mounted the Praying hands image from Stitchy Bear, rummed it in black and put the words of the Lord's Prayer round the edge.  I finished off with little touches of sakura star dust pen.

Daire

 My colours of choice were indigo and silver. I fingerpainted using three colours of acrylic paint to make the smudgy background. The image is 'Starry Eyed' from Stitchy Bear - gorgeous or what?! I coloured her in using Prismacolor pencils, which are great for blending, and then I added some little doodles with a silver gel pen. The text reads: Never forget who you are little star. Never forget how to dream (Madonna lyrics). I hope you all have big fun with this challenge!

Doris - is not very well and is under doctor's orders to stay off the computer for 36 hours. She will have a lovely project to show us all when she is well enough, which might be the reminder post next week.

Lyn - where is she????

  Lyn

Here I am my darlings! (((wave)) sorry I'm late, did you miss me?? Here's my card (at last) I've used Stitchy Bear's Digital Stamp called Lovestuck I've 3D-ed him and coloured with ProMarkers and added him to a bottle shaped card (Template on my blog)along with die-cuts and embossing. The font used in the sentiment is a freebie, link on my blog. All the black is card but all the gold/yellow is white card, coloured with a Promarker!



Look out for our reminder post next week for some more examples from the team.

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below.
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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