Challenge 18 - recycling on the farm

Welcome back to Quirky crafts. If you would like to know who won last time please scroll down to the next post.
It is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge this week. Being a country lass myself, I just love the summer months pottering around farms and as a child I used to help milk the cows at our neighbours farm. Thinking back to my childhood and the summer months spent on the farm I decided that our theme for this challenge should be:

Recycling on the Farm

Please include at least one recycled element on your creation, and anything you would find on a farm (animals, hay barns, tractors etc). Please remember we are not just a card making challenge site, feel free to enter any project so long as it fits with our theme.

We are lucky enough to have two sponsors this week. The first prize winner as chosen by the design team will receive the 'Moo' ribbon collection from Crafty Ribbons.

The second prize winner will receive a $5 gift voucher from our second sponsor Digital delights.

So without further ado here are the guest designers and design team entries, using digital stamps from Digital Delights, for the Recycling on the Farm challenge:

Guest Designer Wendy (Papersniffer)

Wendy used Hallie Horse and said "My recycled elements are kraft card which is made from recycled paper, and the buttons which are from a blouse which fell apart, I was thrifty and cut the buttons off before it went in the bin."

Caro

I used both Hallie the Horse and Farmer Giles from our sponsors to decorate this recycled cloth bag for storing plastic farm animals in (my iron isn't working hence all the creases!). I used tapestry stamps round the edge and then mounted the horse (coloured with promarker) in the centre. The tag was made with recycled string and cardboard (with one side torn off to reveal the corrugations) with green distress ink for the edges and then Farmer Giles was coloured with promarkers and mounted on it.

Diane

Firstly apologies for the photo, I turned my camera on and got a flashing red battery....so I had to be very quick. I just managed to click before the camera died! Ok apology out of the way, back to my card.... I have used Claudia Cow stamp from Digital Delights. She is just so cute!. My backing papers are from my scrap box, but were originally printed for another project and then rejected...so kind of recycled I guess. The paper is from Pink Petticoat. My real recycled element is actually the lace around the image mount and the flowers. Both were made from some plasticy spongy packaging that wrapped a parcel I received. I knew it would come in handy someday. I really like the way the lace effect came out, so much so that I will use it again. The lace was cut with a spellbinder edgeability and the flowers were made from a bitty blossoms die cut.

Cazzy 

This isn't the card I was going to make, due to a printer malfunction I couldn't print anything so it was lucky I found a left over Claudia the Cow from a previous challenge! I coloured her with Promarkers and cut her out with Nestabilities. My recycled elements are a tissue box (the holographic pink), a tea bag box (green leaves), a sample piece of leather I found in drawer while clearing out yesterday (the die cut flowers, cut with Accucut die) and finally the thin ribbons coming from the larger flower which were from clothes and the pink was tied round a gift. Moo ribbons are by Crafty Ribbons and you could win some this time!

Lyn

I've used Farmer Giles and Claudia Cow from our sponsors, coloured them with Promarkers, put them together on a Alphabet hanger. For my recycling I cut card from a cat food box and used some garden raffia. The chicken ribbon, which I won in a challenge, is from Crafty Ribbons!

So now it is your turn. We can't wait to see what you create.

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 17 - school's out for summer - winners

What a great selection of fun entries we had for Diane's 'school's out for summer' challenge. You all got the challenge right, children having fun in the school holidays.  It made it hard for the design team to choose the winner of the 5 digital images from our sponsor - Robyn's Fetish. There can only be one prize winner, so here are our top three, and they were so very close:

This challenge was sponsored by Robyn's Fetish who are giving the first place winner 5 images of their choice.

The first place winner is Kimberly

with this fun surfing card which involved a lot of work. Congratulations Kimberly, we love your card.


In second place is Maya

with this beautiful card which also took a lot of work and there are many more photos of the inside and matching tags on Maya's blog.

and in third place is Larissa,

 with another cute card which is simple and elegant.

Congratulations to all of you. Would you all please contact Cazzy using the email link on the side bar and she will arrange for the prize to be sent to the Kimberly. Please will all three of you also help yourselves to a winner's banner from the sidebar. We would love you all to be Guest Designers in two weeks time, or a later challenge if you can (there will be a digital image supplied for you to use). 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 now, come back later today for the launch of the next challenge.

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.