Challenge 17 - Red Hat Society - Winners

Time to announce the winners of the Red Hat Challenge.......

Drum Roll Please.......

Design Team Winner is...... Hazel      Congratulations!!!!

You have won either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors, Robyn's Fetish and will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the right and feel free to snag the winners badge to display on your blog.

The winner of the public vote is.... Angie .  Congratulations to you too!

You may also snag the winners badge for your blog, and if you would like to be a Guest Designer, please email Cazzy using the link on the right. We look forward to hearing from you both. We found it quite difficult to make our Design Team choice this challenge, and we would like to give a special mention to Mona, and we would like to ask Mona to join us as a Guest Designer in a future challenge also. Mona please contact Cazzy for details.

New challenge to be launched this evening...please pop back then to see what we are asking you to do next time...

Challenge 17 2011 - Red Hat Society

Hi there, Cazzy here, and it is my turn to set the challenge this time round. I have been thinking up lots of quirky challenges for you, and this is no exception, I hope you like it.

The challenge is called Red Hat Society inspired by our Sponsor who has a range of stamps called The Red Hat Society, and some of the images used by the DT are from that range.

Your project must feature a hat, and that hat must be red, or there must be a predominately red feature on the hat, such as a wide hat band, or red flowers in the band. Any project can be entered, it doesn't have to be a card.

If we cannot clearly see some red showing up strongly on your hat you will not be eligible to win, and your entry might be removed, but we will tell you if we are going to do this to give you a chance to enter something else.

This time we are sponsored by the lovely people at Robyn's Fetish who supplied all the super digi images used by the Design Team.
The prize for the DT choice winner will be able to choose either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors and will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. The winner of the public vote will also be invited to join us for a future challenge as Guest Designer and both will get the winners badge to proudly display on their blogs.

Here are some great examples from our design team to inspire you.

First of all guest designer Wendy used Strawberry Mouse, and he is wearing a splendid red hat to match his huge strawberry, this image is so cute!

Second guest designer Jac used Red Hat, and added a flower to the hat, and a lovely hat charm on gingham ribbon.

And our permanent team:

Caro

I couldn't resist the vintage feel of the 'bloomers' image from our sponsor and decided to turn it into a sewing themed vintage tag. For the first time ever I made my own paper flower, used tiny red buttons and a lot of red embroidery thread to finish it off.

Lyn
Red Hats! The first thing I thought of was my sister-in-law's hat at my daughter's Wedding. It was gorgeous!! So of course I just had to choose Jeanette Red Hat Gal
from our sponsor. I've 3D-ed her, coloured with Red, gold, yellow and green ProMarkers and added loads of Stickles glitter, red gems and a 'hat pin' to the bow.

Diane

What an unusual challenge....i loved the Red Hat digital stamp that was provided by our sponsor...but i wanted to do something different with it. I decided to enlarge it and turn it into a hat shaped card. The red and flowers paper were from a free digikit I downloaded ages ago from Summertime Designs. I enhanced the paper by using a glue pen and then sprinkling black glitter. The ribbon on the hat is black glitter too. Just to give the card a bit of dimension I made a rose to add to it using a file by Penny Duncan. I like it, quite sophisticated don't you know!!

Cazzy

Sorry, late for my own Challenge, but I am here at last. I used A Hunting We Will Go, a great image for a boy card, and the photo looks out of focus on Blogger, it wasn't before I loaded it, must be the striped vellum confusing it. Anyway I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut with Nestabilities and the squares behind it, the green vellum is attached with big snaps by We R Memory Keepers using the Cropadile to attach them. Finally a greeting from a Hero Arts set.

Now let's see what you can do. Please click on the big blue frog to enter and give us the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 26th August after 6pm, or Saturday 27th August before 5pm UK time.

ll 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 16 Winners of Lets do Numbers

Hi all, Cazzy here to tell you the news you have all been waiting for: who won challenge 16.

Lyn's challenges are always popular, and this one was no exception and with so many lovely entries it is hard to choose and how we do this is to all list our top three in order, then if we are in agreement the top one wins, if not we have a points system, courtesy of the lovely Spyder Lyn, (3 for first choice, 2 for second, 1 for third, or 4, 3, 2 ,1 if we nominate 4 each) and all the points are added up for each person nominated so the one with the highest points wins it, I bet you didn't know we did all that work before we tell you who won did you? Well - without further ado here are our winners:

The winner of the DT vote (using the system above) and the digi images is Colette with her very cute baby birthday card which is beautifully decorated inside to match. Well done Colette, help yourself to a winner's badge to proudly display on your blog and please contact me using the email link in the sidebar (note you need to click the actual link under the banner, not the banner), and I will arrange for you to receive your prize. We would also love you to join us as Guest Designer in the challenge in two weeks time if you can (or a later challenge), and will be some more free digis from the sponsor to use.

The winner of the public vote this time is Mona with her lovely fairy card again well done on winning, help yourself to a winner's badge for your  blog and contact me via the email link in the side bar if you would like to join us as Guest Designer for the challenge in two weeks time, or later, and you will also get some digis to use from our sponsor.

Have a great evening everyone and check back later for the new challenge which is going to be set by me!

Cazzy

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The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #16 of 2011 Let's do Numbers!

Evening peoples! Welcome to another Quirky Crafts Challenge! This time it's my turn (Spyder) to set the theme, and I thought we're all very busy with school holidays and vacations (and other things!) so let's have a really easy challenge this time, so for this fortnight I've chosen...

Numbers!

You can interpret that in any way you like. A shaped number card, a tag, ATC, any kind of altered art, a Scrap Book page, patterned numbered papers, images, it's up to you. We love to see any crafty project, so let your imagination go mad!

This Challenge is kindly being sponsored by
Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

The winner of the Design Team Choice will receive 3 lovely digi images of their choice from Digital Delights by Louby Loo! And both the Design Team Winner and the Public Vote Winner will also have the chance to be a Guest Designer in one of our future Challenges and the right to display our winners badge on their blog!

To give you same inspirations here's some lovely makes by our DT and of course our Guess Designer, and winner of our past Challenge. Please pop over and and say 'Hi!', we all love a visit!!

Guest Designer Sara Winter made this gorgeous shaped 1st Birthday card using
Birthday Pippin.

Lyn
"I've made a numbers birthday card using Ridley Raccoon. I've 3D-ed him and coloured him with Promarkers. You'll have to pop over to see what I've typed inside!"

Diane

"I have a friend who will never admit her age....so when Lyn chose numbers I decided to take the micky a bit. The digi stamp, Chef Luigi is one kindly supplied by our sponsor and the image was coloured with Promarkers."

Cazzy used Chef Luigi and Kiss the Cook sentiment with Celebrate its your Birthday sentiments from our Sponsor, and added 50 to the top of Luigi's cake.

Caro

"When Lyn chose this theme I knew I just had to take the opportunity to scrapbook my son's 4th Birthday party from earlier this year. I used the 'Celebrate it is your birthday' and 'Birthday Ridley Raccoon' from our sponsors, coloured with Promarkers and added as embellishments to the page."
Well done everyone!! Now it's your turn, looking forward to seeing your creations! Don't forget to pop back Friday or Saturday, August 12th & 13th to vote for your favourites!!

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 #15 Winners.

Afternoon peoples! Hope you are all well and fighting fit! Lyn here.... It's time for the winners of our last challenge. Thank you to everyone who had a go at Cazzy's Puzzle Challenge 14, our Quirkiness really stumped you this time didn't it!?! There may have been only a few entries but wow!!! weren't they all fantastic!

The winner of the DesignTeam vote is
Beverly Gothardt!!

Have a closer look, this is a gorgeous card with so much detail. Well done Beverly, don't forget to take your Quirky Craft's winners badge! Bev had first choice as the DT winner and chose to have 5 digi images of her choice from The Stamping Boutique who were our lovely sponsors. And as you can see, the voters have chosen their winner too!! Well done goes to...

Wendy Lynn' s Paper Whims!

with this fabulous make! Well done Wendy! Don't forget to take your Quirky Craft's winners badge too! And we'd also love to have you join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future Challenges. Wendy has also won the summer holiday ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.  Please contact Cazzy via the email on the side bar who will arrange for you to have your prize!

But!! (there has to be a but!) because there were such fabulous projects for this puzzle challenge and only a few of you were brave enough to have a go, we would love to invite you all to take a winners badge from the side bar and hopefully join us in one of our future challenges! Please email Cazzy via the email on the side bar, she'll tell you all about it! New challenge coming up in a few hours. It's my turn this time to set the theme and I think you might find it a bit too easy!! See you all later!!

Quirky Challenge #15 2011 - Very Puzzling (Cazzy)

Hi everyone, and Welcome Back, it is challenge time again and I thought of a really quirky crazy challenge to get your creative juices going!

My challenge is called "Very Puzzling" and I want to see puzzles, real jigsaw puzzle pieces, or punched or die cut ones, or even inchie puzzles will qualify for the prize, please note inchie puzzles must form a bigger image and not be independent inchie images if you see what I mean. (See what our GDT did, if you don't). You can make any project you like, altered jigsaw pieces, ATCs, cards, boxes, jewellery - anything that fits the Very Puzzling theme!

We had lots of lovely entries last time, I hope lots of you will join in this time too.

This week our lovely sponsors are: The Stamping Boutique

, and the prize is 5 digi images of the winner's choice, how cool is that! The Stamping Boutique have just introduced a one day per week where everything in the store is one buck, so check it out and get a bargain!

and the gorgeous Crafty Ribbons

Who are providing us with a lovely prize - Summer Ribbons.

Now as we have two sponsors there will be two winners; one will be the DT choice and one will be the public voted winner. If those happen to be the same person then the DT will pick a second choice. Both winners will also have the chance to be on the Design Team as guest designers for the next or a future challenge and there will be some free digi images for DT members to use. I would like you to add CR for Crafty Ribbons or SB for the Stamping Boutique after your name so we know which prize you prefer (if you don't add this we will assume you like both prizes), and if you are chosen as DT winner you will get first reserve if both winners choose the same prize.

So without further ado here are some examples by the Design Team to get you going:

First Guest Designer Tammy Louise with her lovely inchie puzzle card. Tammy used Cynthia's New Wings digi image from The Stamping Boutique.

Second Guest Designer this time is Katrin who used Hidden for her gorgeous card featuring an inchie puzzle.

Caro decided to alter two small puzzle pieces using images from our sponsor. I first painted the pieces, then stamped a background onto each one, then printed, coloured and cut out the images and then added writing, gems and drawing. The coin in this photo is a 5p to give you an idea of scale (Close ups are on her blog).

Diane used the candy shop image from our sponsor to make a very clever jigsaw card.

Lyn has made an easel card and has also used The Candy Shop digi from our sponsors for her 3D Puzzle card

Cazzy altered a very large jigsaw piece, and used the Tree of Circles image (twice) from The Stamping Boutique.

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. 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 29th July. Please pop back then to vote for your favourite cards. Voting remains open until the end of Saturday 30th July. Have fun and we look forward to seeing your puzzles.


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.

Winners: Quirky Challenge 14 no patterned paper

What a lot of lovely entries we had this week, you really loved this challenge!  That makes it very hard to choose, and there can only be two winners, so without further ado the DT choice Winner is:

Sara

for her beautiful use of multiple home made papers and stamps.  Congratulations! Please e-mail Cazzy using the link in the side bar and she will arrange for your prize from Stitchy Bear Stamps.

and the Public Vote Winner is:

Lin - the twisted witch

with this stunning stamped and masked scene.



Congratulations to both of you! We would love you both to join us at Guest Designers. Please e-mail Cazzy (link is in the side bar)  to join us as a Guest Designer in the future. Also please take a Quirky Winners Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to us!

Pop back later to see what the next challenge will be.. it is Cazzy's turn to set the challenge!