Challenge 11 Winners!!!

Hello everyone...thanks for dropping by to see who won Challenge 11.
Challenge 11 was set by our Lyn (Spyder), who gave us two sketches to work with. We were told we could choose either one, and we could do cards, ATCs, Scrap pages...anything really. What a lot of choice! We also had a great sponsor for the challenge in The Cutting Cafe..

The Cutting Cafe have very generously donated a prize of 3 sets of digistamps....yes 3 sets!! to  be given to the winner of the Design Team Choice...who is Judy. Here is Judy's winning entry.

Huge congratulations to you. Please contact Cazzy via the link in the sidebar who will give you details of how to claim your prize, and let her know if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge. Do help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar too.

As regular followers will know we also have a public vote, and the winner of the public vote is Darling Ho with this pretty card. Well done, we also liked this card very much.

Please help yourself to a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge

Thank you to all our entrants to this challenge, please pop back later today for the launch of Challenge 12.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #11 Two Quirky Sketches!

Welcome back everyone to another Quirky Crafts Challenge. This one has been set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I hope loads of you will come and join in. It's easy, so there's no excuse! It's a fortnightly challenge so there's plenty of time!

I usually choose a sketch so I won't disappoint, I've not only chosen a sketch this time too, but with a little twist, I have two sketches for you! You can do them both or just chose to do one. Don't forget we love to see your cards but also welcome any kind of craftiness! ATC's, Fat Pages, Scrapbook Pages, Inches, Tags, Altered Art, whatever (as long as you use at least one of the sketches)!! We want to see what you can do!!

You can enter the challenge as many times as you like. You may flip or turn the sketches, we don't mind just as long as we can see you've followed them. Told you it was easy!

We have a fabulous sponsor for this Challenge, which means prizes!
The winner of the Design Team Choice will win a Quirky Guest Designer place, a winners badge and...

Any 3 sets from

The Cutting Cafe

The Public Voted winner will also be asked to join us as a Guest Designer and have a winners Badge for their sidebar.
Here are some fantastic examples from our latest Guest Designers for this challenge and of course as always, from Cazzy, Dianne, Caro, and me! Please pop over and visit our blogs, there's always something to see and of course you'll always find a weekly freebie on my blog!

Guest Designer Dawn used the It's About That Time Set from our sponsor with the first sketch to make this stunning monochrome card, see more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Lisa used the One Spring Day set from our sponsor with the second sketch to make this fun card full of 3d flowers.

Cazzy used One Spring Day images for this spring showers card.

Dianne
Has used the first sketch and the tree from the 'One Spring day ' set 7 for this Welcome Spring card, coloured the tree herself and used a sentiment from 'One Spring Day,coloured' set 2.
Caro
has made a scrapbook page using the first sketch with a collage of flower photos from her garden and elements from the One Spring Day set from our sponsor.

Spyder
I've made three cards. On this card I've used the 'It's about the Time, Clocks' set from our sponsors along with the second sketch

I've used the same 'Clocks' in the second card and the same sketch, but have added 'It's About That Time, Big Circles' cut out using Nesties and Woodware punches and placed the clock over itUsing the first sketch on this New Home card, Lyn used the tree from the 'One Spring Day, Coloured' set

That's what we've done, so now it's your turn! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!


Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 3rd June after 18:00 or Saturday 4th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #10. Winner.

We were a little disappointed that not many of you had a go at Diane's Quirky sliding window/pull up card. We cried buckets! No, only kidding. But it does make it harder for us to chose a Design Team winner because everyone of the entries were fabulous and we loved them all! But there can only be one winner of The Stitchy Bear Voucher.

So, first, the winner of the 'voting' as you can see is...

Kelly!

Well done Kelly! You squeezed in at the last minute! Please help yourself to a Winners Badge and contact Cazzy using the email link on the sidebar as we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges!
The favourite creation, most favoured by the Design Team and the winner of the $10 voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Store is...

Beverly G ♥

Well done Beverly! We loved your card and were very impressed on how quickly you entered the challenge! Please would you grab a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy about your prize. We'd also love to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges too!

And!! (there's more) because there were so few entries and because we really wish you could all win, we'd love to invite Goldie to join us as a Guest Designer too in the not too distant future, so please could you also take a winners badge and contact Cazzy about joining the Team as Guest a Designer for one of our next Challenges!
The new challenge should start around about 6ish this evening! Please pop back and join in as it's my turn to set the new challenge so you know it's going to be easy because I can't do difficult! But on saying that, I really enjoyed making my Slide Window/Pull Up Card so Thank You Diane for setting such a Quirky Challenge! That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!!

Quirky Crafts Challenge - Challenge No. 10:- Sliding WIndow / Pull Up Card

Hi All,

It's my turn again already (Diane). This is only my second time to set the challenge, and let me tell you I have discovered already that it is not always easy to come up with something different, but something that everyone will enjoy. So I set about thinking, and I eventually decided that it might be a good idea to revisit a card style that I used to love. I find often that I do several of a card shape and then move on to something new, only to forget how much I enjoyed doing the older styles. So my challenge this time is to make what I always called a Sliding Window Card, but it is also called a pull up card, or pull up easel. I am sure many of you will know exactly what I mean....but just in case I found this video on Youtube which describes it beautifully. Click here to see. Just to make it even more interesting I am going for a Male theme...Fathers Day is not far away, and there are always those dreaded male cards to make for birthdays too. So there we have it, a pull up card in a male theme....and for those of you who would prefer to make something non card related I will set a Challenge of 3 D Male themed gift.

Our sponsor this week is STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS

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 will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer .

The Design Team and our latest Guest Designers have produced some inspiration for you, all using digi images from our sponsor.

Diane

I used the Just a Note Digistamp for my sample. Just right for a Father's Day card for a Father who isn't the touchy feely sentimental type. My photo is a little disappointing, but I couldn't get a better shot. The papers used are actually a sage green shade!

Lyn

Lyn AKa Spyder, has used 'Designated Driver' digi along with some brown leather look card and mock white stitching to give the impression of a wallet.

Caro has used Guarding the egg digital stamp printed onto parchment paper with gold embossing round the edge of the card to finish it off in a true fantasy style.

Inside she has used the Just a Note digital stamp again on parchment paper for consistency and an oldy worldy look.

Cazzy

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please use our 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 20th/Saturday21th to vote for your top three and ask your blogging buddies to vote for you!!

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.