Challenge 12 Winners

The challenge was Up Up and Away (or The Sky's the Limit), so we were looking for something you would see in the sky, balloons, kites, birds, planes, clouds, rain, rainbow, umbrellas, etc, well there were lots of entries, this one got your imaginations running overtime and it was lovely to see so many entries, however we have to choose our top three and here they are.

Our generous sponsor this time round was the Cutting Cafe . Our first place winner who will receive 3 sets of digital images from The Cutting Cafe is  Gro Tjeltveit Well done Gro.

                                                           
Our second place goes too Allisa.

                                                           

Our third and final winner is Jo L
                                                          

Congratulations to all of you, please email Cazzy via the email link on the side for prize details, and let us know if you can join us for Guest Design Team Member spots. Please also help yourselves to the winners badge.

Come back later today for the launch of the next challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Previous winners and top three please read

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Many apologies, I normally reply fairly quickly so if I don't please try again!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 12 2012 - Up Up and Away (or the Sky's the Limit).

Another Quirky Cazzy challenge for you and I hope you will love this one.

The challenge is Up Up and Away (or The Sky's the Limit), and your make must feature something you would see in the sky, simple really. So what can you see in the sky? Balloons, kites, birds, planes, clouds, rain, rainbow, umbrellas, etc, well there is a lot to get you thinking!

Our generous sponsor this time round is the Cutting Cafe who sell not only digital images but cutting files too. The images come on PDF sheets and you buy them in sets and you get a lot of images and sentiments for your money.

The Cutting Cafe provided the team with two sets, Up Up in the Sky and Rain Rain go Away, and here are some examples from the team using those sets.

First our Guest Designer Bev G who stepped in to help us out at short notice, thanks Bev.

Bev added stamped swirls and dry embossing for a lovely effect on her cheerful hot air balloon card.
Caro:

I chose to make two ATCs on a patriotic theme using sentiments and images from the 'Up, Up and Away' set from our sponsor. The backgrounds for the ATCs were made by sponging distress inks through a template that I made (more details on my blog), and then I added the crown shaped corner peel offs, and the For Britain label (generated on my computer). The images were coloured with Promarkers.

Diane:-

I decided to use a digi stamp from the up up and away set. I had so many ideas in my head for this that I ended up starting the card 4 times.....but my MoJo deserted me along the way. I decided in the end to go with the really brightly coloured card I made using the Birthday Balloons Image. Printed onto a blue background and coloured in lots of brightly coloured promarkers I thought this would be nice for any youngster.

Lyn

I've gone for 'Rain' (seeing the lovely sun has gone!) and used my own Digi, Henry In The Rain a long with two images from our lovely sponsors 'These Boots were made for Splashing!' and The 'Happy Birthday Balloons' which I've placed inside the card!Cazzy

I used the ready coloured kites in the Up Up in the Sky set, mainly due to time constraints. I used Microsoft Snipping tool to capture the images and copy them into Serif Page Plus to make a scene, then I printed just the kites and cut them out to decoupage a little. I added a wavy greeting from the set and cut out a Lets Go Fly a Kite to finish it off.

Now lets see what you can do, we love you to play along! Please come back and check if you have won in two weeks time. Please note: if you are a winner and don't contact us within 14 days of the announcement we reserve the right to reallocate the prize to the second prize winner, and so on (if nobody contacts us then there will be no prize allocated).

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).

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winner of Challenge 11 - spots/dots stripes and ribbon.

Lyn's challenge was very popular, and the team had a hard time choosing their favourites again.

There can only be one prize winner this time, and, using our voting system,  our first place winner (and winner of 5 digi images from our challenge sponsor Robyn's Fetish) is Rina with this very pretty easel card.

Congratulations Rina we loved your card and there was a lot of work put into it. Please contact Cazzy who will arrange for you to receive your prize, and we would love you to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can.

We have joint second winners this time and they are:
Janiel with her lovely card, again a lot of work has gone into this and that image is the cutest ever,

and Suzie Mcfloozy with her sassy Ab Fab shoe card.

Congratulations Suzi and Janiel,  we would love you both to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can by emailing Cazzy using the link in the side bar.

Our third choice is Katy Tate with her wonderful patriotic card perfect for this Silver Jubilee weekend using home made Union Jack bunting due to lack of availability in the USA.

Congratulations Kate,  we would love you to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can by emailing Cazzy using the link in the side bar.

Please help yourselves to a winner's badge from the sidebar all of you and don't forget our new challenge starts later today.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #11 Quirky Dots, Spots, Stripes & Ribbons!

Evening everyone! It's Lyn here, with the next Quirk Crafts Challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in with the last one, check the post below to see who our lovely winners were!

It's my turn to set the theme this fortnight, very easy. You can make any crafty creation, as well as cards, we'd love to see, ATC's, Fat pages, Inchies, Scrap Book Pages, Altered Items, anything that takes your fancy, but I want to see ....

Dots/Spots, Stripes & Ribbons!

This challenge is kindly sponsored by the lovely...

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps (and More!)

Our winner (Chosen by The Quirky Design Team) will be able to choose 5 digi images from the Robyn's Fetish Store.

Here is a lovely example from our Guest Designer Crafty Girl, using the 2 Kewl Cat digital image from our sponsor. All you have to do to become a Guest Designer (and receive some digi images to work with) is to win a challenge, or be chosen as one of our Top Three!

Spyder

I've made an easel card using my own papers, find them Here. The 'Forever Friends' digital image from our sponsors, dotty ribbon, brads, card candi and buttons from my stash. I've 3D-ed the duck/chicken (Ducken?!) and coloured with ProMarkers. Used an XCut punch to make the patterned border at the top and bottom, which flips up at the bottom to hold the easel in place. The font is a freebie, link on my blog.

Cazzy

I used Five Little Froggies, which I have decoupaged a little though it is hard to tell in this photo. I used papers that are free with the latest Card Making and Papercraft magazine, they are double sided. Spotty Ribbon from Crafty Ribbon, stamped sentiment is Hero Arts, buttons Papermania, and eyelets from stash.

Caro

I used the very cute 'an elephant never forgets' from our sponsor to make a birthday card for my sister-in-law who loves elephants. The elephant was coloured in using promarkers, and found various scraps of paper in my stash with spots, dots and stripes on them. I folded the ribbon and added very minimal embellishments. I went for a clean and simple and elegant design because she is an elegant lady. The colours are cream and blue although the cream doesn't show up very well on this.

Diane

I loved this digistamp. It is called 2 Kewl Cat...and he really is too cool! I decided to use cool colours to compliment him, so the background is cool blue and navy. Unfortunately the colours are a little bleached in this photo. Since I changed craft rooms I haven't been very successful with the photographs....the lighting obviously isn't right for photography. I will have to photograph them somewhere else I think, anyway the cat is coloured in Promarkers, cool grey 2,3 and 4 and then decoupaged...hope you like!

There you go! Lovely easy challenge, off you go and create!! Thank you for stopping by!

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).

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winner's of Challenge 10 (2012)

It's winners time again here at Quirky Craft's and what a lovely collection of Fabdabidozi cards we had for Caro's Masculine with blue and brown challenge last time! Wow!! We had such a hard time choosing our winners!! Thank you to everyone who played along, hope you will all join us again in for the next challenge coming up in a few hours!

We were sponsored by Paper Pretties, who offered the winner (as voted for by the DT) 6 digi images of their choice. So after a lot of debating and counting of socks the winner is....

Ellen

With this amazing card using Tim Holtz embellishments and inks. All the panels have been sewn together. Ellen writes:

'I made ​​a kind of tag in a pocket confirmation card for a boy, with room for more tags. It's not so easy to make cards for boys / men, but Tim H. helps well'

Well done Ellen! Fabulous card! You have won 6 images of your choice from Paper Pretties, please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar and she will tell you how to claim your prize.

Bra Ellen! Flotte kort! Du har vunnet 6 bilder fra Papir Pretties, kontakt Cazzy ved hjelp av e-link i sidepanelet og hun vil fortelle deg hvordan få din premie.

Also let her know if you would like to join us as Guest designer for a future challenge. Please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!

Også la henne vite hvis du ønsker å bli med oss som gjest designer for en fremtidig utfordring. Kan du hjelpe deg selv til en vinner er skiltet fra sidepanel for å vise på bloggen din!
Our Next three, well four favourites as we had a tie are:

NikkiBryne

With this lovely easel note pad and pen card

Jenni and Margreet
who both tied in our voting system

And one more
JoanW
With this very simple but very effective male card. I love that Steam Punk style embossing!

Well done all of you! We hope we've picked a wide variety of talent as quite honestly we thought all the cards deserved a prize (Except mine of course coz it was there just for fun!)

Please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar to let her know if you would like to join us as Guest Designers for any of our future challenges. Please help yourselves to a winner's badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!!
That's it for now! Tune in later today to see what I've chosen for the next challenge! (My sneaky Peek should already be up!) It's going to be nice and easy, so I hope you can all play along! BFN!
Spyder!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 10: Masculine with blue and brown

Hello and welcome back to Quirky Crafts. It is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge this time and in honour of all the men in my life I thought we would have a masculine challenge this time. So I want to see anything for the boys (or featuring boys) in the colours blue and brown. Other colours are allowed, especially in the images, but the predominant colours must be blue and brown. Don't forget we are not just a card site...we allow all other forms of craft provided you follow the theme:

Masculine with blue and brown

We are sponsored this week by Paper Pretties who are offering the winner of this challenge (as voted for by the DT) 6 digi images of their choice.

Paper Pretties has also provided the team with some of their digi images to work with, so without further ado here are the examples from the team:

First Guest Designer Loz

Loz used the robot and sentiment from the Robot set to make her side step fun card, any boy or man would love this.

Second Guest Designer Linda

Linda used Cooperman, and every little (and big) boy secretly dreams of being a superhero!

Cazzy

I used Boat, I love the patches on the sails of this brave little boat. Papers by DCWV. Sentiment in the circle is from the ZZzzzz set from our sponsor.

Caro

I used 'A Beary Good Book' from Paper Pretties to make this bookmark for Alex as we have now started reading Roald Dahl books at bedtime, one chapter at a time, so needed a special bookmark. Blue is Alex's favourite colour, hence it being the predominant colour on the bookmark. I coloured the bear with promarkers and the rest of the bookmark with distress inks (teabag in the centre, then broken china, with faded jeans and walnut at the very edge). I used a swirl stamp from inkadinkado for added interest and finished it with a large eyelet and making memories ribbon.

The sentiments on both front and back of the bookmark are also from the same 'A Beary Good Book' digital stamp set.

Diane

Hello Everyone! I chose to work with a Paper Pretties Digital Image called ZZZZZZ.

Firstly I apologise for the photo. I took loads and this was the best I could get. I am not sure why...but there it is! The theme is Brown and Blue....which isn't really showing up too well. The paper is a SheryK design in Brown and Blue believe it or believe it not. The image is actually coloured with Marsh Green and Celadon Promarkers, so not feint colurs really, but still they are not showing too well. The sentiment is also from Paper Pretties. I think I need to address the lighting in my new craftroom.....I will investigate.

Lyn

I used Aaaaahhhhh! digital stamp from our sponsors! Printed him straight on to blue sky backing paper, created a little 3D effect, coloured with Promakers. Edged the card with a brown Promarker and TH Distress Ink, added ribbons and pearls (imagine they're straps and bolts!) a dangling whatknot from a fishing packet and buttons from my stash. The font is a freebie. Link on my post.

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).

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.