Winners of Challenge 9 - A Right Royal Affair

Hello Everyone,


Challenge 10 was Cazzy's challenge to set, and she did a great job choosing A Right Royal Affair......can't imagine what gave her that idea...can you?????
The Challenge was to make something that is inspired by royalty. Use the colours red, white and blue on your project, and then anything that is inspired by royalty or the royal wedding.
We have had lots of entries, all of them fantastic...so who has won I hear you scream!
We were lucky enough to have two sponsors for this challenge, the first was Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties  BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen has very kindly offered  this beautiful stamp set called Everyday Lillie as a prize for the Designers Choice.

              The Designers Choice prize this time goes to........Lisa Jayne for her Congratulation Will and Kate Camper Vans. Congratulations to you...well done!

Our second sponsor was Limited Runs. Nikki has very generously offered a prize of 3 digis of choice and this prize will go to the winner of the public vote....who is....Dawn Lancaster. Congratulations to you too.

Would you both please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar. We would love you both to join us as a Guest Designers in a future challenge so if you would like to join us  let Cazzy know and she will give you the details of the next challenge.The Design Team would also like to give a special mention to Jasmine B and her crown entry. Jasmine is just 10 years old....great job Jasmine!

Come back later to see the launch of Challenge 10.

Quirky Crafts 2011 - Challenge 9: A Right Royal Affair (read carefully)

Welcome to another challenge here at Quirky Crafts, I hope you will enjoy this one very much, I think it will be good Quirky fun!

Before I start (Cazzy) we would like to wish a Happy Easter to those celebrating Easter, Happy Holidays to those not.

A Right Royal Affair. With the royal wedding less than a week away make something that is inspired by royalty. Use the colours red, white and blue on your project, and then anything that is inspired by royalty or the royal wedding, think romance, weddings, party (street party), crowns, ermine, couples, cake, champagne, flags and so on, there are lots of ideas you could use.

As usual any craft project can be made, this is a mixed media challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Design Team would also like to wish HRHs William and Catherine a long and happy future together.

This week are happy to bring you two generous sponsors. The first of these is Paper Pretties.

Paper Pretties is a full-service online crafting store. We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Prettie Boutique!

In case you haven't heard yet, Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen. Now located in Madison, WI, we are pleased to offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of our fun new stamps!! All orders are shipped within 24 hours.

The prize that the DT choice winner will receive is this lovely stamp set called Everyday Lilly.

Our second Sponsor is Limited Runs.

Write Up

Limited Runs is known to some people as a calorie free sweet shoppe filled with over 80 different Cupcakes something for almost every occasion too but from sweets to fun and even some darker images cause I love Halloween so there is lots to see and play with and almost all digi's are $2.00 with only a few a little more (sets and Mega Digi's for Scrap bookers). Plus I've always got hidden deals thru out the store. When I started making cards I didn't know how addictive this could become and I've become hooked and who doesn't love a handmade anything these days. I've always been into drawing and this just a blend of my drawing and my hobby. May you enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them, and stop by every Friday and pick up a Freebie but be quick cause who knows how long they will be a freebie for.

Have a fantastic weekend
hugs Nikki

The prize that the public choice winner will receive is any 3 digi's of choice.

Here are some great examples by the design team to inspire you.

First up is Guest Designer Zulma who said that the Leonardo Lion Image from Paper Pretties looks like her Dad and made this great card for him.

Our second guest designer is Suzanne who has used a great drawn image of the Royal happy couple on her beautiful card.

Diane has used a Frog Prince digi from Limited Runs and also a lovely cute little Bugle Bear from Paper Pretties on this unusual shaped card:-

Caro has made a fabulous commemorative tag using the Bugle Bear and crown from Paper Pretties, and the Princess cupcake from Limited Runs.

Lyn has used lots of Bugle bears (from Paper Pretties) on her fun and clever Castle Easel card.

Cazzy used the Princess Cupcake from Limited Runs and lots of bling on this right Royal card.

To add your entry click on the lovely blue Inlinkz Froggy (below) and follow the instructions. Be sure to add a link to your actual entry and not just your blog. Please come back and leave us a comment too. We look forward to seeing what you create.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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......