Challenge 17- School's Out For Summer

If you are looking for the winners of the last challenge - please scroll down to the next post.

My Challenge this time (Diane). I was thinking about what to set, a new shape card?....an old shape card we have all forgotten about?....a certain element? colour?...so many choices!
I decided in the end to go for School's Out For Summer. I want to see children having fun. I decided on this theme because i was thinking about how hard my Children had worked this year towards their exams. Not that they are children any more at 20 and 17, but they have worked so hard and really were ready for the Summer Break. So that's what I want to see, any project that shows or involves children having fun!

We have a sponsor for this challenge. Robyns Fetish.

They are offering a great prize of your choice of 5 Digital Images to the winner, as decided by our Design Team. Talking of our Design Team...this is what we have designed using some of the images available from Robyn's Fetish.

Guest Helen

Helen used Shells for Sale, this little girl is on her holidays at the seaside. Helen has added net, real shells and bunting to complete the look. Hop on over to Helen's blog to tell her you love this, and see more great projects.

Guest Jeanette

Jeanette has also used Shells for Sale with a sunny hot colour scheme. Get more details and see Jeanette's other great projects on her blog, and don't forget to say how much you like this!

Guest Frea

Frea has used Katie Jumping Rope for this gorgeous card, Katie's dress looks like real fabric. For more details and more lovely cards hop on over to Frea's blog.

Cazzy

Phew, this has taken me a day and a half, mainly because I wanted to keep the second image size so had to find a format that worked. This is loosely based on a Joy Cut card from SCS. The front image is called Rain Rain go away, typical British Summer weather, we have had a lot of rain!

Then it stopped raining and the little girl could go to the beach, I used Shells for Sale on the inside of my card with more freebie papers, see the wallpaper on the back of the window panel? I think the two images worked perfectly together!

Caro

Since starting school this year my son Alex has really got into reading so I couldn't resist using the 'reading is fun' digital stamp on this scrapbook layout of Alex lying in bed reading upside down! I used a mixture of K&Co and Hot off the press papers with Doodle Bug alphabet letters and brads, stickers etc from my stash.

Here is a close up of the 'reading is fun' digital stamp coloured with promarkers.

Lyn - will be along later...

I'm here! Sorry for being so late! Here's my card. I decided not to use a boy or girl for this challenge, but this cute little Carl bear, coz bears have fun too! You'll find him in our sponsors store here! I've chosen to use 6x6 Serif 'Picnic In The Park' and We R Memory, Travellight paper stacks (freebies with a magazine) as they have other activities going on, mainly travel and picnics!
I did a bit of ripping, coloured with Promarkers, also did a bit of 3D-ing and added my own doodle back ground, then added the extra ball to the bears paw rather than over the other ball. Inside, there's room for some holiday or birthday money!
Fonts are freebies, link on blog...which will also be late!

Diane

I chose to work with Katie Skips Rope. When I was a child if my nose wasn't firmly stuck in the latest Famous Five Book I would be found outside skipping, playing Two Ball or jumping elastic. My colours here are not showing as vibrantly as in real life, so please pardon the picture.

So there are some ideas for you....show us what you have 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).
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 16 - Quirky Cupcakes - Winners

It is time to announce the winners of the Quirky Cupcake Challenge - as chosen by our design team.


We were lucky to have two sponsors for this challenge and they were:

Limited Runs

                                       Limited Runs are giving away 3 images of your choice.

Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties are giving away 6 images of your choice.

And our winners are........

First prize of the Paper Pretties Images goes to Kim T.

with this very quirky monster and his cupcake on this lovely bright card with bunting to match the shape!

                                                                       

Congratulations Kim.

Second Prize of the Limited Runs Images goes to Papersniffer.

                                                                       

with this quirky Bugaboo cupcake image on a very pretty card - congratulations Papersniffer.

In Third place the Design Team chose Pascale.

We loved the quirkyness of this cupcake shaped card Pacale,                                                              congratulations to you too.

Would you all please contact Cazzy using the email link on the side bar who will arrange to get your prizes for the first two prize winners, and please all three of you help yourselves to a winner's banner from the sidebar.

All three of you are invited to be Guest Designer in an up coming challenge. Cazzy will give you details when you contact her, just let her know that you would like to be a Guest Designer on Quirky Crafts.

Well that's it for this post, come back later today for the launch of the next challenge.

Challenge 16 2012 - Quirky Cupcakes

The last challenge was very popular and we had a lot of really good entries, if you want to check who won scroll down to the post below this one!

It is my turn to choose the theme and your challenge this time is to make something that includes Quirky Cupcake image or images, should be fun!

As long as there is a cupcake image on your Quirky make the quirkiness can be other elements or images, but I must see cupcakes somewhere!

We are lucky to have two sponsors for this challenge and they are:

Limited Runs

Limited Runs are giving away 3 images of your choice.

Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties are giving away 6 images of your choice.

Important: Please note, we have had to introduce a limit of 3 entries per person per challenge, the team doesn't have the time to look at masses of entries from the same person and comment on them then choose favourites . If more than 3 entries are added by the same person we will delete the additional images. We do not use random generator, we judge and score our favourites each challenge!

Both sponsors have provided some very Quirky Cupcake images for the team to use, and here are some examples (and what a lot we have got) using those images to inspire you.

In the usual Quirky tradition, Guest Designers are first:

Maria

Maria specialises in vintage makes and this Rosey Cupcake from Limited Runs work perfectly on this Quirky stunning vintage card and there are lots more vintage beauties to be found on her blog.

Billie A

Purely by quirky coincidence Billie is on the DT at Paper Pretties, and has done a great job with both Poodilicious and So Sweet images (and birthday sentiment) used together for a quirky birthday card.

Billie also used Swordfish Cupcake for this humourous belated birthday card, do you get it? Billie has a great sense of humour (English spelling), as you will see if you hop on over to her blog.

Billie also used Swordfish cupcake from Limited Runs and a very quirky sentiment, Billie has a very quirky sense of humour and more like this can be found on her blog!

Coops

Coops (our winner last time) used ConBEARsation Hearts from Paper Pretties, and created a Quirky patriotic card, just look at those Union Jack flag hearts in the background, and red white and blue used throughout.

Deanne

Deanne used Cherry on Top from Paper Pretties and added some very quirky icing to her funky birthday card.

Deanne also used Trees on a Cupcake from Limited Runs and very quirky colours and sentiment.

Then we have the Quirky Regular Team:

Diane

I loved the look of "Rosey" cupcake so I chose that one to work with. It made me think of Afternoon tea somewhere very very posh! (not that I ever have afternoon tea anywhere remotely posh).So a nice posh teacup was what I needed. I adapted a cut file from Birds Cards to use as the main card base. This is now a top fold card. The rose design is stencilled into the teacup layer, with extra pieces decoupaged. The lovely rosey cupcake was coloured with promarkers and the 'skirt' part of the wrapper decoupaged also, as were the rose and leaves on top. Just right for a Posh Afternoon Tea.

Caro

I used the 'Trees on a cupcake' from Limited Runs to make this Christmas card. I printed the image out and embossed the card using my cuttlebug, then coloured the image with promarkers, gold pen (stars and the band) and finished it off with pearlescent glue for the icing. To complete the look I layered the image onto green card and added gems and a sentiment.

Cazzy

On this card I used Swordfish Cupake from Limited Runs, there are so many great cupcakes it is hard to choose! I coloured it with Promakers and added Ice Stickles and Artists Irridescent Medium to give it sparkle. I die cut a doily with a Spellbinders die, and I used some paper free with a magazine for the tablecloth. I added some polkadot ribbon by Crafty Ribbons and a stamped sentiment.

My second card is made with two Paper Pretty images, Party Hat Cupcake and Sprinkles. Sprinkles is not a cupcake clearly but there are cupcakes on my card so it is allowed and he is pretty quirky! Free papers again, Perfect Pearls, Ice Stickles and Promakers used, and cupcake ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

Lyn

I chose to use this Ladybug Swirl cup cake from Limited Runs. My link leads to loads of cup cakes! I think I put on 12lbs just looking at them!! (I shoulda picked the spider one!) I've done a tiny bit of 3D-ing. I've used, freebie gingham papers, which I'll link on my blog, plus Nesties, Punches, Promarkes, Gems, Glitter, Paper flowers, a large ladybird brad, Buttons, ribbon, computer generated sentiment, two wooden ladybirds and lace!

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.

Email entries from non bloggers:

Winners of Challenge 15 - Christmas in July

This was a very popular challenge, and as a result was it was very difficult to pick from so many lovely entries, so you all seem to be well prepared for Christmas!

Of course we can only pick one entry from each person to be included!

After much tearing of hair, and lists of 70 favourites each which had to be reduced down to 6, and we all picked a different top 6 of course with so many gorgeous entries to choose from,  then the scores had to be aggregated to find who scored the most points and became our top choices and here they are:

First place: Lena Katrine with this gorgeous card:

Congratulations Lena, you have won the digi images from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, please email Cazzy using the link in the right hand sidebar to claim your prize, help yourself to a winner's badge and let us know if you would like to be Guest Designer in a couple of weeks time or later.

We have joint second place favourites who are:

Frea with this lovely quirky rabbit  grunge style card:

and Carissa with her very pink Christmas card.

and joint 4th place favourites who are Jeanette and Helen:

Jeanette made this very creative and unusual Christmas tree from old book pages.

and Helen made a more traditional card with a snowy scene.

Congratulations Frea, Carissa, Helen and Janette please email Cazzy using the link in the right hand sidebar to claim your prize, help yourself to a winner's badge and let us know if you would like to be Guest Designer in a couple of weeks time or later.


Finally we would like to give a special shout out to 6 year old Annabella who made this card:

Very talented for 6 year old!

and Kevin who was I think our first man to enter a Quirky challenge! We hope to see many more from Kevin and other fellas too.

Thank you all so much for sharing your wonderful creations with us, we wish we could have picked them all!

 Please come back later today for our next exciting challenge!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #15. Christmas In July!

Evening fellow Quirky Fans! Hope your week has been very eventful, and you aren't too hot in 'heat waves' in other parts of the World or soaked through in all the rain we're having here in UK! Welcome back to another Quirky Crafts Challenge! Please scroll down to the post below to see the last Challenge winners if you missed it. It's my turn, Spyder, (Lyn) to set the theme and at the time of typing this I wasn't sure which way to go... something summery and hot or...something freezing and wintry?? So after checking out some of the lovely digi's our sponsors....

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps
were offering us to play with, it just had to be.....

Christmas In July!

So here's a chance to make a start on all those Christmas cards you know you'll need (come Christmas eve!) Of course it doesn't have to be a card, we'd love to see anything crafty that has anything to do with Christmas, decorations, stockings, Advent calenders, I've seen a few lovely ones about blogland, as well as Tags, Atc's, Scrapbook Pages, etc etc! And to make it even more fun Stitchy Bear will be offering our winner...

$10 voucher!
just so you can choose what you want when you want it from three different ranges as used by the Design Team!

Here are some lovely creations by our Guest designers, winners and favourites from our past challenges...

Laura

Laura said: I made a wreath. I printed a page of holly digis which I coloured with Promarkers, fussycut and stuck to a ring of card. I added seam binding bows over the digi bows. I glittered the berries and then added two coats of glossy accents. I added a hanging loop and tails to finish it off. Laura hadn't used digis before and I think she may now be a convert!

Natali

Natali used Holly Bough and said she wanted to keep this beautiful image simple and not clutter it with embellishments, she used Copics to colour the image.

Natali also used Rudolf with Santa to make this stylish fun card.

And here's some fabulous makes by the Quirky team...

Cazzy

I used three Stitchy images on my card, Ruldolf (so cute, throw him a reindeer treat someone) with a decoupaged head, Holly Bough and Snowflake. I made the snowflake into my backing paper, repeating it over and over, and I tried to add a blue background on the computer which didn't work out so I coloured the background with a pastel blue Promarker then added Ice Stickles to the snowflakes. Rudolf and Holly Bough are also coloured with Promarkers, and the ribbon edged with gold marker free with a magazine. Finally the ribbons are from Crafty Ribbons (of course). This looks paler than it actually is.

Spyder

For my first card I've used Busted from our sponsors, on a card I trimmed down to make a slightly different shape. I printed Santa out two or three times so I could do a bit of decoupage. The top half of his body and head has been 3D-ed over the main image, which was printed straight onto the blue 'snowy' paper and cut out using my Nesties. I coloured him with ProMarkers, using those thin nibs on the tiny fiddly bits and added some micro fine glitter on Santa's furry bits! (Second card coming next.....added 16th July)

Lyn

This time I used Bah Humbug coloured with Promarkers, adding Eyelash wool, a snow flake ribbon, gems, dimensional flowers, asticky gelly sentiment and micro glitter. Papers are all Pink Petticoat. Links on my blog for the free fonts used inside both these cards.

Caro

I used Rudolf with Santa from our sponsors. I printed the image onto white card, then put it though a cuttlebug embossing folder to generate the snowy scene before colouring the image, houses, smoke and trees with promarkers and the sky with blue chalk for a soft dreamy effect. I then mounted the whole thing onto red card to make it pop.

Diane

I also chose to work with the Holly Bough. When it comes to Christmas I am afraid I am a bit of a traditionalist. I like the old fashioned look, not so much the cutesy look. This digistamp has been printed many times and decoupaged to within an inch of it's life. Coloured with promarkers and layered with foam pads it has then been mounted onto white cardstock which has been embossed using my Grand Calibur and the cuttlebug swiss dots folder. A mat of deep red to make the whole thing stand out a bit more and I am done.

Now it's over to you! Let's see your Christmas In July creations!

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) (or your image in photobucket, SCS, Flikr etc) 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.

Email entries from non bloggers:

Digi card 1 created by Stepanie Lewis using Word

Digi Card 2 created by Stephanie Lewis using Word.

Winners: Challenge #14. Make Us Laugh!

Hi Quirky fans, it's Lyn here. Wow!! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our last challenge, 'Make us Laugh!' sponsored by Bugaboo, and we did!!! Once again, here at Quirky Head Quarters we had a hard time choosing the first and the top three places because all your creations were fabulous and very funny! After counting all the votes from the Quirky Team, our lucky winner this time is....

~~~~Coops!!!~~~Well done! Fabulous card! Love the extra ripping detail on the backing papers. You have won 7 Digi's from Bugaboo Digital Stamps!!

Please contacted Cazzy via the email on the sidebar and she will sort out your winnings and arrange for you to be a Guest Designer for one of our future challenges!!
And now on to, our Runners up...

Deanne

Billie

Tracy

Please would you all take a banner from the side bar to place on your blog with a link back to us! AND contact Cazzy about becoming Guest Designers in future challenges! Which means of course, you'll have a lovely digi to work with for that challenge!
That's it for now...pop back later to see what I've chosen for the Next Quirky Challenge starting later today! Let's just say it's snow easy!

Spyder!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.