Challenge 23 Winners!

Well we absolutely loved all the attitude you showed us this fortnight.  There were some really great entries for Cazzy's attitude challenge making it very difficult for the design team to choose their favourites. 

First place, and the prize of the beautiful Crafty Ribbons goes to Laney for her amazing creation.  Lots of wonderful attitude here!

Second place, with a prize of 5 digital stamps from the Stamping Boutique goes to Sara I with this wonderful old fairy!

Third place is Susan for the fantastic temper tantrum. 

Congratulations to all of you.  Please contact Cazzy (using the link in the side bar) to claim your prizes and please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love all three of you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know if you would like to join us.

Don't forget to check back this evening for our next exciting challenge here at Quirky Crafts Challenge blog! We look forward to seeing your work.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 23 - Attitude

Thank you for the great response to the last challenge, and now for another bit of quirkyness from me (Quirky Cazzy), and this time I decided the challenge should be Attitude! Your project should feature a character with attitude, or if you make a layout - a photo of someone displaying attitude!

We have two sponsors for this challenge, and two prizes, and the first is our absolute favourite ribbon and button store: Crafty Ribbons.

Crafty Ribbons web store.

Ali and the Crafty Ribbon team were at the NEC in Birmingham this weekend, were you lucky enough to be there and meet them? There is a great prize of Christmas New England Ribbons for this challenge.

Our second lovely sponsor this time is The Stamping Boutique who provided some wonderful digital stamps for the team to use.

The Stamping Boutique store.

The winner of this challenge will be able to choose 5 digital images, and maybe you would like some of the ones we have used below.

HOT NEWS.
We have changed the way the winners are chosen from now on. We are no longer going to use public voting which is part of Inlinkz - we don't think it is working that well or fairly (it was on trial for us). From now on the DT will pick first, second and third challenge winners. All three will be welcome to join us as guest designers on the next challenge and display a winners badge on their blog. For this challenge the first and second place winners will each win a prize, the first place winner will win the ribbon, and the second place winner will win 5 digi images of their choice, We will be designing some new badges in due course, bear with me! The REALLY good news for you is that you get a little longer to enter, as challenges will remain open until midday on the Saturday before the next one starts, not Friday afternoon.

So without further ado here are some examples from the team.

First of all Guest Designer Sandi who said: "I think my card would be good to give to a mother or father, as a humorous theme. Thanking them for putting up with her through her teen years. When you see the sentiment on the front you should know what I'm talking about!"
Sandi used Emo Alice, isn't she something?

Guest designer Sarabeth used Emo Princess Penelope with her Frog - just look at the attitude here, I love it.

Now lets see what the Design Team has done.


Diane: A teen with Rock Star Attitude. I used Max from The Stamping Boutique. I decided to use a stand card template for this as i thought it would resemble a stage. I placed a rectangle of card where you would normally place your tag, in the centre fold. i then printed, coloured and decoupaged Max and placed him on an acetate background so I could mount him on the front face of the stand card. I covered that with the birthday boy message. The great thing is it all folds flat for posting.

Caro: I decided to use the Art-doll from The Stamping Boutique to make a fat book page (4x4 inch square). This is one rebellious little fairy who has ribbon, swirls, bling, buttons and shimmer (on wings and crown - sadly the photo doesn't show them up), ripped papers (all Hot off the press) and jagged edges. A real teen fairy with attitude written all over her face!

Cazzy - Here I am at last, my glaze wouldn't dry! I decided to make a box, which I painted with copper acrylic paint then used the Cleopatra image, she certainly has attitude and the quote says "Fool - Don't you know I could have poisoned you a hundred times over if I could have lived without you." Here is the lid. I used Decopatch to stick the image on and glaze it but used a bit too much round the gems. Coloured with Promarkers and a Whispers gold pen.

Here is the side view showing some ribbon I used which was in a grab bag from Crafty Ribbons. 


I also made a card for a special young lady using Emo Alice with pink hair.

Lyn

I've also used Max, the Rock 'n' Roll boy from our sponsors. To layer him up a little bit, I used about three Max's and coloured him with ProMakers and Glitter Gel pens..

Now lets see what you can do!

Now please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using the biggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked. Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here.

Happy Crafting from
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 22 Winners

Once again a popular and seasonal challenge, and there were so many lovely entries to choose from and it was so difficult to decide, we all had different favourites.

Now before I tell you about this weeks winners, none of the winners from last week have contacted Cazzy to collect their prize or join the team as a guest, very puzzling maybe they don't want the prize?

Here are the winners of Challenge 22.

For this challenge there can only be one prize winner, and the DT have chosen Jan and her gorgeous card.

Well done Jan. Please contact Cazzy (using the link in the sidebar) who will arrange for you to collect your prize, and please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know if you would like to join us.

The second/public voted winner was: Fliss with this lovely card featuring lots of Autumn leaves, stamped and embossed.

Well done Fliss, please help yourself to a winner's badge to display on your blog. We would love you to join us as a guest designer for the next challenge, so please let Cazzy know using the link in the sidebar if you would like to join us.

We would also like to give a special mention to Nimu who is only 4 or 5 years old, and clearly follows in her mummy's (Darling Ho) footsteps, with this very cute creation. Keep up the good work Nimu.

Don't forget to check back this evening for our next exciting challenge here at Quirky Crafts Challenge blog! We look forward to seeing your work.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 22 - Autumn Leaves

Hello All....wow we had loads of entries last challenge, If you haven't already checked out the post, check it out...we had some great entries....

Anyway, on to the new Challenge - Autumn Leaves. I have chosen this Challenge (Diane), because in the South of England, where Lyn and I are based, it has most decidedly turned colder and looking out of my craftroom window I can see some beautiful colours in the leaves on the trees. So there you have it....you can make anything you like...card...scrapbook page, frame etc etc.... absolutely anything...but I must see leaves and autumn colours.

This Challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps.

As always our sponsor has been very generous and offered a prize for the entry the design team judge to be the best. If you are lucky enough to be chosen as the best you will win a $10 coupon to choose digistamps of your choice from the Stitchy Bear Digistamps Store. The winner will also be asked if they would like to join the Design Team as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge.

The entrance receiving most votes from the public will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer.

Our Design Team having been designing with stamps from Stitchy Bear to give you some inspiration.....

Guest Designer Mandy, who is also on the design team for One Stitch at a Time which is of course our Sponsor's challenge blog. Mandy has used Quackity Quack and great Autumn/Fall colours with lots of leaves.

Cazzy, here I am at last and like my teamies I used the woodland scene but with Park Bench and Brr Lady, not sure they go together with the lady in her coat all huddled and the girls in sleeveless dresses (kids - honestly, they never feel the cold)! All coloured with Trias and Promarkers. Leaves punched with Nellie Snellen punch and emboss set. Crafty ribbons added with bow using Bowdabra. I nearly didn't add this as it is so similar to Caro's, great minds think alike!

Caro
I've used the 'woodland' and 'Brr...its cold' digital stamps from Stitchy Bear, coloured with Promarkers to make an autumnal ATC this week.



Spyder

I've also used the Woodland scene from our Sponsor, but left is as it was with no extra colouring. I've matted it on to black and pearl card with added punched out leaves, the larger leaves are embossed and were also cut from the same backing paper. The paper is my own and is a freebie you'll find on my blog. The Autumn stamp is by Hero Arts.

Diane

I have used Snuggle Birds Digital Stamp from Stitchy Bear, Coloured with promarkers. My leaves were made using a punch and coloured with promarkers, then screwed up and teased out again.

So that's our offerings...now let us see yours...


To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 4th November after 6pm, or Saturday 5th Novemberr before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21 - Something Spooky Winners

Hi Everyone, it is winners announcement  time again. Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, there were so many entries...everyone is obviously very much in the Halloween mood. 

This challenge was set by, Spyder (Lyn), the theme was .. Spooky/ Halloween! But if anyone was't into the whole Halloween thing then ...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for was challenge is 
Limited Runs! 

 

And now the winners.....
The DT choice winner is...well actually, we couldn't decide between so many fantastic entries....so we are having a Top Three this challenge and they are......First - America,  Second -  Black Dragon and Third -  Deonna. Congratulations to all three of you! As First Prize winner America your prize is your choice of 3 Digi Images fromLimited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. Second  and Third Place - Black Dragon and Deonna - you are invited to join us a guest designers in an up coming challenge. The public voted winner is Sandi Delfalco well done! you are  invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Would both of you please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar.
Well done to everyone who entered, we really did find it hard to choose our winner this time, the standard of the entries were amazing!


Come back a little later today for the launch of the new challenge....

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21#Something Spooky OR Recipe.

Hi peoples! It's that Quirky time again, time for another Quirky Craft's Challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in our last challenge. Scroll down to the post below to see who won!!

It's my turn, Spyder (Lyn) to set the theme this week, and seeing we are so close to Halloween and racing to the end of October, I thought we'd have to have... Spooky/ Halloween! But of course I know there's tons of you who don't 'do' Halloween, so just for you, this fortnight's challenge will be a choice of...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is
Limited Runs!

If you have some of Nikki's very unusual digi images we'd love to see them, but if not never mind, join in anyway! But for those of you who do use a Limited Runs digi, don't forget to join in with Nikki's challenge too, there's still time!
For this Quirky Challenge, as always, you can make anything crafty, as long as it fits in with the theme, it doesn't have to be a card. ATC's, Altered art, scrapbook pages, book marks, inchies, journals, bunting, anything!
The DT choice winner will be able to choose 3 Digi Images from Limited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. The public voted winner will be invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Here's some inspirations from our Design Team!
First, some lovely makes from our Guest Designers, and winners of our previous challenges.

Laurel (Loz) used the funny Bat image, along with Hanging Pumpkin (with the pumpkin used a few more times) and one of the free sentiments from a set of 4 that we are privileged to have first! Love the fence and the grass, and that cobweb and spider. A very clever sidestep card.

Jan used the Bat Wings sentiment to make her wonderfully spooky picture, with lots of spooky embellishments (is that a real bat?) see more photos and details on Jan's blog.

Jan also made this very dark treats box using some more of the free sentiments, complete with a blackbird, or should I say Raven? (No, I think it'sa blackbird) Again more pics and details on Jan's blog!

And here are more great ideas from us on the Design Team:

Diane: I just loved the Bat digistamp from this challenge's choice. I don't really do Halloween, but found a backing paper on my computer of a haunted house on a hill. I have mounted the Bat onto acetate so he really does fly at you!

Cazzy: I found all of my Halloween stash and made a more elaborate card than first planned. The card itself is gold embossed with spider's webs, the image is Witch Splat (so funny) cupcake coloured with Promarkers, and I used one of the set of four free sentiments which I coloured purple. Crafty Ribbons spooky ribbon, eyelets and sequins from stash as well as punched out spiders used.

Inside I used Hanging Pumpkin, another of the 4 images, this time in brown and the Snake image. Both images coloured with Promarkers.

Caro: I also don't do Halloween, but was given the spooky stamp I used as the main image so decided that this was the opportunity I needed to use it alongside the cute bat (which I used twice, flipping it on the computer) and the poison sentiments (all from our sponsor) placed on bottles to complete the tag.

Lyn I've also used the Bat, the Owl with the Pumpkin and one of the sentiments from our sponsor, for my Centre Step card. I've embossed with Gold ink and Sparkling Gold embossing powder. and used Promarkers to colour. The Pumpkin has been 3D-ed to make it pop out a little. There's a link on my Blog on how to make a Centre step card.
Well, that's what we've made, so now it's over to you!! Have fun!!

To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature -this bit I'm typing here (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 21st October after 6pm, or Saturday 22nd October before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #20 In The Jungle. Winners!

Thank you to all those who played along with Quirky Craft's last Challenge, and sorry to anyone who still has that Jungle Song buzzing around in their ears! Not many entries, maybe that scared you all off! But for all those brave crafters who did join us, thank you so much, the Design Team simply loved all your fabulous makes.

As you can see the Winner of our public voting is Sara Beth Burk! from Chronicles of Sarita.
Click over to to see how this was made!
Well done Sara Beth. We'd love you to take a winners banner from the side bar and join us in one of our future challenges as a Guest Designer! Please email Cazzy for details! This of course means you will receive some freebies to use on any project you make, if you do chose to join us on one of our next challenges.

The Design Team winner and winner of the

Digi stamps by digital delights by Louby Loo
is.

Loz
with this Quirky Jungle Card!

(I love those mices!!)

We'd also love you to take the winners banner from the side bar and also join us as a guest designer in one of our next Challenges too!! Please email Cazzy, who can sort out your prize!

Now... because there were so few of you who bravely had a go, and we loved them all, we'd also love to invite both Beverley and Mandy to also join us as Guest Designers in one of our next challenges!

Come back later today for news of our next Quirky Challenge! It's my turn to decide what we should do... so I'd better get a move on!! Thank you for stopping by!!
(Spyder)