Winners of Challenge 2 - Silhoutte

Well we certainly saw some lovely silhouette's this week.  Thank you all for entering.  It was a tough choice for us as a design team to make, but the winner of the $10 voucher from Stitchy Bear stamps is...

Crafty Girl

Congratulations, this was simply stunning!  Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar, and help yourself to a winner's banner to display on your blog. We would also like you to join us as a Guest Designer in an up and coming challenge.

The second place for this challenge was Cazro

and Susan was in third place.

These two cards are both beautiful! Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you both to join us as Guest Designers.

Our next challenge will go live later today and we look forward to you joining us.
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 2 - 2012 - Silhouette

I loved all the food shown in the last challenge - it made me feel quite hungry! Thank you all so much for entering.  It is my (Caro's) turn to set the next challenge and I decided to choose SILHOUETTES.  At this time of year I often see the most amazing silhouettes of trees in the morning against the sunrise on my way to work, and I just love them, so I want to see what interesting silhouettes you come up with. Don't forget, we are not just a cardmaking challenge blog; you may incorporate your silhouette into any creation you wish.
For this challenge we are again joined by one of our regular sponsors 'Stitchy Bear Stamps' who are offering a generous $10 voucher for their store for the winner of the challenge.

As always, the winner and two runners up will be chosen by the Design Team and invited to join us as Guest Designers in a following challenge.

So without further ado here are some SILHOUETTE examples from the team, all made using Stitchy Bear digital stamps:

 Guest Designer Claire used Top Hat for a Lady for her stunning cameo easel card.

Diane
I chose to work with a digistamp called sewing....for obvious reasons...I changed the stamp colour to fit the colour scheme of my card, I wanted the sewing machine to pick up on the green in the floral backing paper and the leaves on the flowers. My flowers are made from a spellbinders roses die and embellished with pearl beads. I used ribbon, lace and buttons to echo the sewing theme...

Caro: My first card is a one layer card made with the Rose Fantasy silhouette stamp from our sponsors.  For this card I had to do some careful measuring and make the inked background first before putting the card through the printer.  Once that was done it was simply a matter of adding Holographic glitter glue to the wings for a clean and simple design.

Caro: My second card used the 'Off shore' silhouette stamp from our sponsors which again was printed onto a distress ink background.  I then layered the image onto various mats, added real shells (from Cleethorpes beach!), a shrink plastic shell and the ribbon for a masculine card.

Cazzy: I used Sewing and decided to make it into a repeating pattern for the background of this card which also features die cuts Tim Holtz Sizzix die and real stitching.

Sadly due to personal reasons Lyn was unable to join the team this time.

We look forward to seeing your creations.  Please remember our rules (in the side bar), we don't have many of them, but in order to be considered for a prize you must follow them. A lot of people are being disqualified because they enter their cards into more than 6 challenges including this one.
Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest 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 (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar).


 Happy Crafting from: The Quirky CraftsChallenge Design Team.

Winners of 2012 - Challenge 1

It is time to announce the winners of the last challenge, which was set by Diane - Food Glorious Food!  There were some gorgeous entries here and they made me feel quite hungry.  Sadly, a number of you did not follow our rules, which clearly state that you can only enter 6 challenges including ours, and so you were disqualified for the prizes.

We had two prizes up for grabs this time:  This gorgeous set of ribbons from Crafty Ribbons

and a choice of 7 digital stamps from Bugaboo Stamps

The first prize winner is Andria

I am sure you will all agree that this is a gorgeous card with a lovely matching tin.  Well done, and you will get your choice of the prizes. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar, and please help yourself to a winner's banner to display on your blog. We would also like you to join us as a Guest Designer in an up and coming challenge.

The second prize winner is Margreet

Congratulations Margreet!  You will win the other prize so please contact Cazzy via the e-mail link in the side bar. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer.

Third place is awarded to Angie's handmade crafts with this gorgeous embossed card.

Congratulations Angie. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer. Please contact Cazzy via the side bar email link.
Our next challenge will go live later today and we look forward to you joining us.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 1 - 2012- Food Glorious Food

Hi Everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our followers. Hope you all had a lovely, healthy and Happy Christmas. Now when I (Diane) was trying to decide on my theme for this challenge I was up to my neck in cooking for the Christmas break, and I got to thinking that we would all be sick and tired of the sight of food by New Year....so what better theme for the challenge.....just to tease you all.

This challenge is not only our first for 2012, but also the first with a new sponsor. We have been joined on this challenge by Bugaboo Stamps, and we are all happy to welcome them aboard. Please check out their digital stamps, they are so cool, and are something just a little bit different too. Bugaboo also have their own challenge blog where you can have another chance to win.

Bugaboo Stamps have very kindly offered a prize of 7 digital stamps to the winner of this challenge.

We are also sponsored for this challenge by our favourite ribbon and button people: Crafty Ribbons who will be providing some yummy cherry ribbons.

The winner of the challenge can choose either the Digistamps or the Ribbons as their prize, so second place will also receive a prize this time. Both winner and runner up will be asked to join us as Guest Designers in a future challenge.
So just to recap my challenge is "Food Glorious Food". So I want to see a creation, card or anything else at all, around the theme of food . Here is what the team have come up with using stamps from Bugaboo Stamps.

Guest Designers from our sponsor:

Sandye Curry used JJ Housework Cook on her recipe card.

Scrappy used this cute cow with a big candy stick to make a candy box.

Guest Designer Yogi used Baking Dottie on her first card with a definite French theme.

Yogi used JJ Housework Cook and sentiment on her second card.

Cazzy: Well here I am a little late again, due to printer problems last night! I used JJ Housework Eat Out with sentiment on my card and went for a turquoise base and matching Promarker. Great for someone who hates to cook or is houseproud. I think this sentiment would also work great with Dottie Baking!

Lyn

Happy New Year everyone! I'm so excited I could sing!! (don''t!) I love Bugaboo Digi Stamps and have used Berry Fairy Cupcake for my card. I printed the digi out four times and built up a 3D image. A bit of glitter here and some added sparkle, almost good enough to eat!

I've also made an ATC using this Lovely little Monkey with his Birthday Cake...(I'm seeing monkeys everywhere now!) I've done a little bit of 3D-ing on him too. The balloons are from another Bugaboo image...

Caro:

This is my first experience with Bugaboo stamps and I loved them so much that I used 3 of them and matching sentiments to make a series of ATCs. I used Dovecraft paper for the background, then edged the ATCs with distress inks (broken china and worn lipstick) and finished off with Gems and the sentiments.

Me (Diane)

I love these digital stamps. I chose JJ Cook to work with and thought for a change I would not do a card. I have made a recipe box. The image coloured, as a ways, with promarkers.

We hope to see lots of entries...show us what you've got....

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 (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar). Happy Crafting from: The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners :- Challenge 26 Quirky Christmas or New Year with a twist - Steampunk

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Team would like to wish a Very Happy New Year to all our followers, sponsors and challenge entrants old and new! Let's hope it is a good one and you have more joys than sorrows in 2012.

It is time to announce the winners of the last challenge of 2011. Now this one was set by Cazzy...and was a bit of a challenge to all I think. The Design Team all put in some great examples for inspiration. None of us had really done Steampunk before so it was exciting. Some of our entries didn't understand that Cazzy was looking for a Steampunk element to the entry, which was a shame. After much consideration our winner this challenge and therefore the prize winner is Clairebears.

Congratulations to you and a very well done. Please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar, and please help yourself to a winner's banner to display on your blog. We would also like you to join us as a Guest Designer in an up and coming challenge.

Second place has been awarded to
Mary Anne.

Congratulations Mary Anne. Please help yourself to a winner's banner and we would also like to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer. Please contact Cazzy via the side bar email link.

Well it will soon be time to launch the next challenge...the first for 2012! Come back soon and find out what it is......


The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

And finally Challenge 26 Quirky Christmas or New Year with a twist - Steampunk

Cazzy here, I am not going to let you off so easily, and the last challenge of the year is very Quirky (mwah mwah) Steampunk Christmas (or New Year).

I want to see steampunk on your makes, which don't have to be cards, they can be any craft type. If you want to know more about the history and definition of Steampunk check out Wikipedia here. If that didn't help, my synopsis of Steampunk is something modern with old fashioned workings, or something living with clockwork insides, if in doubt add a few cogs! For this challenge you could have cog snowflakes, baubles, flowers etc.

Because some of you may have finished your Christmas cards (I am in panic mode at this point, and have not), you can make a Steampunk New Year make instead if you like, or make both.

You have until 31st December at midday to enter the challenge, and we may be a little late judging this time due to possible celebrations but we will do our best! Gentle reminder: please read the rules in the sidebar, we haven't been too strict on them this year, but we will be checking and we may have to eliminate entrants who don't comply.

This challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Stitchy Bear are generously giving our Winner a voucher to spend on any images in the store, you too could have some wonderful steampunk images like the ones the team have used.

If you haven't found out enough about Steampunk yet check out the Design Team examples for some great ideas.

Lets start with our Guest Designers:
Sylvia-Anne used the gorgeous Steampunk Fairy and Steampunk corner on her Steampunk Happy New Year card.

Guest Designer Little Ted Nicki used the Steampunk Corner to make her Steampunk Christmas tree card, isn't she a clever cogs!

and our regular Design Team:

Diane
First, let me apologize for the photo.......I have been chasing all around the house to try to find a better spot to take the photo...but this is the best I could get! I took some backing paper from a very old kit that I have been saving especially for this challenge. in case you can't tell it has compasses on it. I used the Litebrite stamp from Stitchy Stamps as the main element, printed onto acetate...(which explains why I had so much trouble with the photo), I left the acetate wider than the card base which creates a dome effect. I coloured the reverse of the acetate and then used the steampunk corner to finish off.

Lyn
I also used the Steampunk Fairy and Steampunk corner for my Happy New Year card (I've added a tiny SteamPunk robin inside!) I coloured her only with grey Promarkers but added a few black and gold dots from peel off's and metallic silver to enhance the digi's.

Caro: I made the background using distress inks and stamped music and cogs on it. I then used the Steampunk corner to which I added highlights of gold embossing and gems. I then turned the Robin from our sponsor into a clockwork Robin by giving him a gold cog on his tummy, highlighting bits in gold and addeding a turning key and hat.To finish the look off I heat embossed two cogs in green, hand drew some chain links and added gems to make them look like steampunk Christmas baubles and then gold embossed around the edge.

I also made a little tag using the cute 3 trees stamp which I coloured using promarkers and distress inks, then added loads of glitter glue and bling to. I turned the tag into steampunk with the embossed cogs in the background, and the Steampunk style writing of Christmas on the hills.

Cazzy: Here I am late again, hoping nobody noticed! I used Big Ben and Steampunk Corner printed on Acetate and I printed a sentiment which also has some of the cogs from the corner on it. In the background a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut clock and embossed panel, and a real cog on the greeting to finish. Lots of Distress ink spread liberally around. (I may be back later with another card).

and then I made this card with the Three Christmas Trees overlaid with some of the cogs from the Steampunk Corner, and with the Steampunk Corner, coloured with Promarkers.

Finally we would like to thank you all for playing along with us and showing us some inspirational ideas, and we wish you a Very Quirky Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you all on New Year's day for the next exciting challenge!

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest 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 (please read the rules). Happy Crafting from:
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Snowing Winners Challenge 25

What a wonderful response we had to Lyn's Quirky Well Snowing challenge, which was so topical as the U.K. saw snow in some places for the first time this winter.

Once again the number of entries made it so hard to choose, and this time we had to eliminate some gorgeous entries that didn't comply with our rules (see side bar) otherwise it is unfair to those who did follow the rules, and we finally came up with our favourites.

Our winner this week was Mary Ann with this gorgeous Advent Calendar.

Please email Cazzy with your choice of either the cute stamp set, in which case I need your postal details, or choice of digi images from Paper Pretties, and let me know if you want to join us as Guest Designer in the New Year.



Our second place winner is Yogi with her gorgeous tag.

Congratulations Yogi, please contact Cazzy (me) using the email link in the right hand side bar with your choice of 3 digi images from Limited Runs. Please also take the winner's banner to display on your blog, and let us know if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the first challenge of 2012.

Our runner up in third place is Vixykins with this cute card.

Well done Yogi and Vixykins, please help yourselves to a winner's badge and contact Cazzy using the email link in the right hand side bar if you would like to join us as Guest Designers in the New Year.

We hope you will all join us again for our next Quirky Challenge later today, it is a cracker of a challenge, hee hee, though I am setting it so I would think so!


The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.