Winners from Challenge 8

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts. It is almost time for another challenge (due to go live at 6pm today) but in the meantime we thought we would let you know the winners from Challenge 8, which was to make a Easter or Spring creation with sparkle and using punches.  Once again we were thrilled to get so many entries for this challenge (and a special mention to the Inlinkz blue frog for making it possible to see all your lovely creations and allowing public voting, and if you want an account for your blog please click on the blue frog in the left hand side bar to help Quirky Crafts keep that ole blue froggy happy) and now for the moment you have been waiting for: the winners.....

The winner of the Design Team choice this time is An. An made this simply divine Easter Egg  filled with candy, you can see more images on her blog. 

Congratulations!! We all loved your stunning egg and we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your prize from our fabulous sponsor  Digital Delights.


The winner of the public vote for challenge 8 is: Ruby M with this very cute Easel Card, there is such a lot of detail, it is a fun card.

Congratulations Ruby, (sorry no prize this time) please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and we would love you to join us as a Guest Designer in a future challenge so if you would like to join us please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar and she will give you the details of the next challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 8 - Sparkly, Punchy Easter and/or Spring

Welcome to Challenge 8 here at Quirky Crafts which is sponsored by the lovely Digital Delights.

Digital Delights are creators of some gorgeous digital stamps. The winner of the Design Team vote will be able to chose 3 digital images of their own choice from this fabulous collection. The DT were given the opportunity to work with some of these images and they are lovely.

Challenge 8 was set by me, Caro, and as I am sat here looking out of the window at Spring flowers in the garden, with blossom on some of the trees and Easter is just round the corner the challenge is...

An Easter or Spring creation which must include something sparkly (gems, glitter etc) and use at least one punch.

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Don't forget, we love to see all your cards but we also accept anything crafty as long as it fits into the current challenge. That includes ATC's, Altered Art, Fat Pages, Scrap Book Pages, Magic boxes, Tags, Book Marks, in fact anything crafty you can think of! Just a reminder that our challenges go live on Sunday evening and close on the next Friday but one, so this challenge is open until Friday 22nd April (Good Friday). Please pop back then to vote for your favourite cards. Voting remains open until the end of Saturday. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your Sparkly, Punchy Easter or Spring creations.

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration

First Guest Designer Alethea used the Easter Dumpling image and Easter Sentiment from our sponsor, this is so cute.

Second Guest Designer Jacqui, who made this very pretty card at very short notice also used Easter Dumpling and Easter Scroll.

Third Guest Designer Leanne also chose Easter Dumpling and Easter Scroll, but used a totally different technique for her egg shaped card, and you can read about on her blog.

Diane has made a chocolate bar wrap using
Barnaby Bunny

Lyn has also used Barnaby Bunny and Happy Easter Scroll from our sponsor,
with freebie papers.
(links on Spyder's Corner)

Caro decided to make an origami basket and decorate with the Eggstra Special Bunny, sparkly flowers, and a punched glittery handle.

A close up of one side of the basket...

Cazzy used Barnaby Bunny and Easter scroll for this sparkly card.

 Cazzy also used Barnaby Cruising to make a second card.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 7

Welcome back to Quirky Crafts. It is almost time for another challenge (due to go live at 6pm today) but in the meantime we thought we would let you know the winners from Challenge 7, which was to make a twisted easel card or a Mother's Day gift.  We were thrilled to get so many entries for this challenge and a special well done to those of you who made a twisted easel for the first time...aren't they good fun! So now to announce the winners.....

The winner of the Design Team choice this time is Suzanne, who made a number of lovely Mother's day gifts including this notebook:

Congratulations!! We all loved all of your creations and we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your button towers from Crafty Ribbons.

We would also like to give an honourable mention to Franca, Suzi, Sheila, Alethea and Esme with their lovely easel cards (in fact there were so many clever multi easel cards this time it was hard to choose), however if those ladies would like to join the team as Guest Designers in a future challenge please email Cazzy through the link in the sidebar and she will provide details. Alethea as you will see later is already a GD, and is welcome to join us again.

The winner of the Public Vote is Zulma with this very pretty card:

Well done! We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges too, so please could you email Cazzy, using the link on the sidebar and she'll tell you all about it and arrange for you to receive your digital stamps from the Stamping Boutique.

Both of you can also help yourselves to a winner's badge to display on your blog with pride with a link back to us!  Don't forget to came back a little later today to see the launch of challenge 8.....

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 7 - Twisted Easel and/or Mother's day gift

It's my (Diane's) turn to chose the theme, and it is my first time so I am a bit nervous...be gentle with me!

Challenge 7 is going to be....make either a Twisted Easel Card and/or a Mother's day gift. These are fun to make, they look tricky but are so simple really. Have some fun with it and try to use different shapes. If you haven't done one before there are lots of how too videos on YouTube giving lots of ideas and examples to spark your creative juices. Your card can be for any occasion at all. For those who want to something other than a card I would like to see you create a Mother's Day Gift. Mother's day here is the U.K. is 3rd April and this is the ideal time to make something special.

This week we have two sponsors:-

Our first sponsor is the fantastic Crafty Ribbons

There will be a prize of two gorgeous button towers (pictured above) for the winner of the Design Team Vote. Crafty Ribbons have some fantastic ribbons and gorgeous buttons to choose from on their site...and we all know you can't make cards without lovely ribbons and buttons, don't we?

Our second sponsor is The Stamping Boutique

The Stamping Boutique are offering a digi stamp prize for the winner of the public vote. So get working on your entry for a chance to win these great prizes to add to your stash.

Design Team Offerings

Here is my offering for this challenge using a fantastic digistamp for our sponsor called Jennifer Latte Bubble Bath. My Daughter is called Jennifer so I was drawn to this one. The Stamping Boutique stamps are fabulous to work with:-

Guest Designer Micki who made the DT choice last time made this funky card.

Cazzy  Here at last! Using Train Tracks digi stamp from The Stamping Boutique.

Another card by Cazzy this time using Pocket Patootie Birds perfect for Mother's day.

Caro made a Mother's Day candle using the Daisie's digital stamp from our sponsorThe Stamping Boutique

Caro also couldn't resist having a go at making a twisted easel card for her son's birthday.

Lyn (Spyder)
A Twisted Easel Card andGift Boxusing Digi image from

The Stamping Boutique

Closed.... and best of all open! Yum!!Here's how to enter....

Create your work of art and then take a photo. Make a post on your blog to show us your make and then click on the Inlinkz blue frog button at the end of this post to add your entry and be sure to follow the instructions. Please link directly to your entry post. No back dated posts please. After you have linked please leave us a comment, we love to hear from you.

Don't forget to come back to vote on 8th and 9th April and ask all your friends to come and vote too.

(Whoopsie, this is embarrassing, we accidentally posted that voting was 15th and 16th (which is of course a week too late) - so sorry - blush).

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners from Challenge 6

For anyone that missed the launch of challenge number 6 two weeks ago....where were you??? You missed a great challenge set by Lyn (Spyder) who gave us a sketch to work with.
We have had some fantastic entries to this challenge...well done everyone.

The Winner of The Design Team Choice is.........(drum roll)....... Jaqui P. Congratulations, you win a $10 voucher from our sponsors Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. Please contact Cazzy using the contact point in the side bar. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges.

The winner of the Public Voting is.....(another drum roll)........ Alethea. Congratulations to you too. We would also love to invite you to join us as a Guess Designer as well. Please contact Cazzy via the email link in the side bar.
Both of you can help yourselves to the winners badge on the sidebar to display on your blogs with a link back to here.
Don't forget to came back a little later today to see the launch of challenge 7......

Winners from Challenge #3 - again

I know - we already announced that Ellie had  won the DT vote for challenge 3, Spots Stripes and Embossing. Sadly Ellie has family problems and feels unable to accept her prize, and asked if we could pass it on.

Therefore I am pleased to announce that the DT second choice and winner of the ribbons and buttons is Dorcas with this lovely card:

Dorcas has contacted me and I will be passing on her details to Crafty Ribbons so they can send the prize to her.

Don't forget to join in our latest challenge, see below for details.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 6 - Lyn's Sketch

The Next Quirky Challenge #6!
Hi everyone and welcome back for another Quirky Crafty's Challenge! Our 6th Challenge of the year is kindly being sponsored by the one and only...
Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps!!

This Challenge was set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I've made it very easy for you this time, because I can't do difficult!! It's quite simply...

A Sketch!

And it couldn't be easier could it?! No fiddly or frilly bits, no list of things to add on, just nice and simple, so you can chose whether to add flowers, extra brads, embellishments, embossing, charms, glitter, ribbons etc, etc (or not to!)
Don't forget we love to see anything crafty; tags, a.t.c'.s, altered art, book marks, fat pages, inchies, scrap book pages, as well as cards. You can turn the sketch, flip it sideways or turn it upside down, any way you like, just so long as we can still see you've used the sketch.

The Winner of The Design Team Choice will win a $10 voucher from our sponsors Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges.

And the winner of the Public Voting we would also love to invite to join us as a Guess Designer as well. So, to give you some inspiration, here are some lovely examples by the Design Team and our latest Guest Designers, all using digi images from our sponsor.

First, our challenge #4 winner, Guest Designer Lovely Linda using the Single Tulip Digi with added embossing and distressing! I love that sentiment!

Then our second guest designer is Suzie who received an honourable mention in our Recycling Challenge. Suzie has used two of the Single Tulip digital stamps with some lovely added embossing and lace.

Diane has used the Bearded Iris digi on her lovely scalloped edged card.

and the Single Tulip for a second elegant card.

Cazzy used the Ole Grey Mare digi.

Lyn (me) has used Busy Bertha and added peel off's, ribbon, a flower and mock stitching.

and

Caro has used the Time For Tea digi as an element on her fabulous scrapbook page.
(I wonder what's really in that cup?!)

Now it's your turn!! Please pop over and visit us all. We love to hear from you! Now, let's see what you can do!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please use the lovely Mr Blue Frog to add your cards and other makes. Please make sure your link leads to your make and not just your blog. Once you have left your link please also comment. Don't forget to come back Friday 25th/Saturday26th to vote for your top three and ask your blogging buddies to vote for you!!
Please scroll down or click here to see the winners of our Alice in Wonderland Challenge #5