Challenge #23 Winners - snow and layers

This was a very popular challenge (60 entries WOW) and very seasonal, and of course we have three great prizes to give away which loads of you want to win! So without further ado lets get on with the announcements!

Note about last challenge: The winner has not claimed her prize, and I will give her 2 more days and if I don't hear I will give it to someone else.

Each of us had to look at 60 great entries, which were all so good it is a shame we don't have 60 prizes, and then come up with a list of those that really stood out and met the challenge brief the best, personally I had a list of 16, and it was difficult to prune that down to my top 6. What I do is go back to all 16 on my list and look at them all carefully again, and then decide if I like one better than another, it has to be done and in a short amount of time.

With so many lovely entries it is really difficult to choose the best, and unlikely that the DT will have the same top six, or in the same order of preference, and so we have to each pick our favourites, score them from 1st with 6th (where 1st gets 6 points, second gets 5 points and so on), and then everyone chosen is listed and scores noted against them, finally the scores are added together (and in the case of a tie, re-voting for the tied ones has to be done) and the combined scores add up to the following winners:

In first place with this gorgeous easel card is An.

Congratulations An, you have won $10 of Doodle Dragon Studio images! Please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar to claim your prize (if you know which images you would like please tell us and we will pass the choices on to Dustin), We hope you will join us as a Guest Designer in a couple of weeks time so please let Cazzy know if you can do that and she will give you details.

In second place is Scrappellen with her very detailed and gorgeous card.

Congratulations Scrappellen you have won the exclusive Let it Snow ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. Please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar with your address and she will arrange for you to receive your prize.We hope you will join us as a Guest Designer in a couple of weeks time so please let Cazzy know if you can do that and she will give you details.


In Third place is Bettina with a gorgeous layered card, such a cute image.

Congratulations Bettina, you have won 3 sets of digital images from The Cutting Cafe! Please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar to claim your prize (if you know which sets you would like please tell us and we will pass the choices on). We hope you will join us as a Guest Designer in a couple of weeks time so please let Cazzy know if you can do that and she will give you details.

All of you can help yourselves to a winners badge from the sidebar and don't forget to come back later today to find out what the next challenge is.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Please email Cazzy using the link in the side bar if you wish to be considered.

Thank you.

Quirky Crafts DT.

Challenge 23: Layer it up & Let it Snow!

Evening Quirky fans! It's my turn Spyder, Lyn, to set the challenge this time and after scratching my head for about five minutes I thought we'd have a nice easy one...

*Layer It Up! And Let It Snow!*

Yes! I want to see loads of layers, pile it high! And Snow! Obviously not real snow! Try flower-soft, glitter, Liquid Applique or just plain white paper. Use up those papers you've had lurking around for ages for your layers. You can create anything you want, as long as we can see... 

Layers and Snow!

This fortnight we have Three Fantastic Sponsors!! So Three Winners which means, more yummy prizes!!

 Doodle Dragon Studios.

 

 ..Our First placed winner will receive $10 to spend at Doodle Dragon Studios.

  

Crafty Ribbons

  

 

We have these fantastic 'snow' themed ribbons from Crafty Ribbons for our second placed winner! and....!!!
 

 Our third placed winner will receive 3 sets of digital images from our generous sponsor

  The Cutting Cafe .

So, just to recap.... You can make anything that you want, but I want to see layers and snow on your creations in our next challenge! (of course, it doesn't have to be real snow...)

 Here's some fabulous makes from our design team, first let's see what our lovely guest designers have come up with, using digital images from our sponsors...

Guest Designer Doris

Using the Fun with Frosty de Snowman Cutting Café file, I cut two small and four medium snowflakes from glitter cardboard light blue. I also cut from the same file a snowman in black and light blue and combined them. I used a white base card and embossed it with snowflakes. Using pastel chalk, I highlighted the embossed snowflakes on the background then added the cut out snowflakes, fence and snowman. Finally, I used light blue gems in the center of snowflakes and added a sentiment to this non traditional coloured Christmas card. See Doris's blog for more great projects. (Doris is on The Cutting Cafe DT too).

Doris has used the Christmas stockings from the Christmas Banners set, and if you go to her blog you can see many more examples using this file and all of the other files.

This one is also using the banners file. You must go and see the rest on Doris's blog it is a real treat!

Guest Designer
  Daire

Daire made three sets of tags in her unusual artistic style, the first set features images from The Cutting Cafe Fun with Frosty Da Snowman files. Layers for this set are:

1. doodles in watercolour paint

2. scrapbooking paper

3. doodles in dimensional paint

4. digital stamps

5. glitter

This set uses the Let it Snow background (from the same file set) cut into strips.

and finally a blue set which has the following layers:

1. glittery acrylic paint

2. scrapbooking paper

3. digital stamps

4. blue acrylic paint

5. gel pen doodles/snowflake embellishments

6. white out paint

Guest Designer
Gill

Gill said: the snowflakes were printed in two sizes, to use as my card blank and a matching layer, and I distressed each layer with TH inks. I added glitter to the small snowflakes before covering them with a layer of acetate.I mounted the snow-globe (which I coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and cut out) on top with pinflair glue gel to give it a 3d effect. I finished my card with peel offs and bling. See my blog for more photos and details. There are 5 layers.

Gill used a Doodle Dragon image for her second card, which features die cut snowflakes and brads that look like snowballs, and a fluffy bobble on the hat.

Cazzy

I used the Fun with Frosty Da Snowman and somehow managed to get the snowflake background to go 3d (I was trying to change the colour to blue, which I did as well) which looks rather good, each panel is the printed design layered on blue metallic card, then layers overlap, the tag is another layer, and the snow folk layered again. Ribbon is by Crafty Ribbons, and is the same ribbon you could be lucky enough to win this time!

Surprise! It is an easel card! and I think the snowmas poop sentiment is so funny that I had to use it, and there inside the card is another panel from the set, the snowman poop circle and some snowman poop!

My Doodle Dragon card will follow soon and a second Cutting Cafe card!

Here is my first Doodle Dragon card, This little bird just said Robin to me! Coloured with Promarkers and with Polar White Flower Soft (the only Flower Soft I have bought) added to the snowy bits, die cut with Nellie Snellen dies, sentiment was free on a magazine.

Here is my second The Cutting Cafe example, this time using Penguin snowglobe and Christmas banners and the background from Frosty Da Snowman with and without 3d effect, all changed to blue. Ribbon by Crafty Ribbons

Another Doodle Dragon Studios image, coloured with Promarkers and with Flower Soft "snow" added.

Diane

I have used the Let it Snow frame from Cutting Cafe. Layers immediately made me think of the Double Concertina Card...so that is what I have done. I have been meaning to create a cut file for this style for ages. Making the card from a printed template is not a problem, but it drives me mad making all the decorative panels every time, so now I have a cut file for those too. A simple design, but quite effective.

Caro

My first card features the Snowman and Winter wonderland sentiment from Cutting Edge Cafe's 'Fun with Frosty the snowman'. I decoupaged Frosty (3 layers), then mounted him on dark blue card which was also mounted onto patterned paper, which in turn was mounted onto a white card base (6 layers in all!).  I used Promarkers and a Sakura stardust pen for colouring and topped it all off with an embossed Cuttlebug snowflake, with added stardust and pearl.

My second card was a lot simpler (I am a clean and simple girl at heart), with lots of matting to create the layers.  The little scene was actually made up from two of Dustin Pike's images; it amused me to think of a monkey and a dragon building a snowman together! I coloured them in with Promarkers and used pearlescent glue for highlights in the snow. The background paper is from My Minds Eye (free with a magazine last year!).

Lyn

Well, I've made two cards...I'll show you one now, and the other one later. I've also used two digi's from Doodle Dragon Studios. They seem to want to be together! Most of my layers are the digi's, by cutting tails and ears and legs off, I've added another three to four layers on top of the layered card. On the front I've used Papermania ' Home for Christmas' backing papers  and matching ribbon. The Snowy Sky behind the digi's is my own freebie, which you can find HERE.  

Can't wait to see what you all come up with!! Don't forget to scroll down to the post below to find out who our winners were in our ABC (Any But a Card) Challenge. And don't forget, if you fancy joining us on the Design Team or just becoming a Guest Designer, come and link with Mr Froggy HERE

That's it! You have two weeks from today! Over to you! Thanks for stopping by!

Please add a link to your blog post (not just 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 Crafts in you post with a link back to here (please read the rules! If you realised you haven't followed them, so won't be included in the top three, you can email us using the link on the side bar that you'd like your entry removed to try again.)

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Email Entries:

Challenge 22 Winners. ABC Anything But A Card Plus...

Hi Quirky fans! Lyn here...I nearly wasn't, I forgot what day it was! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our  ABC Challenge. Any thing but a card using Autumn colours. And yes, I know a few of you entered a card using Autumn colours, but we still loved looking at them! Really really hard to pick our winners as we had such a range from tags, fat pages, atc's and scrapbook layouts to, Christmas decorations, trick or treat bags and altered recycling! You are all such a talented lot!! Our sponsor last time was...

  Robyn's fetish

Who were offering the lucky winner, (as chosen by the design team) 5 digi stamps of their choice! So, all our votes are in and our winner of 5 digital Stamps of their choice is... (bit of a drum roll there, if you like...)

                                                                   Chana
 Well done!!  Please e-mail Cazzy using the link in the side bar and she'll sort out your winnings for you and please take a banner from the side bar, linking back here! Also, as a winner we'd love you to be a Guest Designer in one of our up coming challenges!

Our Joint second place entrants are....

 Crafty Girl

 Doris

Sorry there's no extra prizes this week, but we'd love you all to take a banner from the sidebar to display on your blog, and we'd also love you to be Guest Designers for one of our next challenges. This of course means we'll supply you with a digi from our sponsor to use!

Please don't forget that we're having a Design Team call at the moment, that's a 'proper' team member, or, if you think you'd rather be a 'guest' just let us know by linking up with the Mr froggy. (See here for details) That's it from me....don't think I've forgotten anything...don't you forget to pop back later to see what our next challenge is...it's my turn to set the theme...and I want to see lots of.... I'll tell you later!! Thanks for stopping by!!


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 22: 'Anything but a card with Autumn colours'

Welcome back to another Quirky Crafts challenge! Please see the previous post for details of winners of our last challenge. It is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge this week and as I am sitting looking out of the window at all the gorgeous colours of the leaves on the trees it just had to be inspired by Autumn.  However, we are Quirky crafts here and it couldn't be that simple so I decided that it was high time we challenged you to make something that was not a card.  So the challenge is:

'Anything But a Card using Autumn colours'

I can't wait to see what you all come up with as we have a great sponsor this week:

  Robyn's fetish

They are offering the lucky winner, as chosen by the design team, 5 digi stamps of their choice.

REMINDER - DESIGN TEAM CALL: Before I move onto the DT entries I just wanted to remind you that we are having a design team call at the moment (see here for details) so please do consider joining us full time or for a 2 month slot.

So without further ado, here are the guest designers and design team entries using stamps from Robyn's fetish for the ABC autumn colours challenge.

 Guest Designers:

 Lucy Patrick

Lucy made a lovely door hanging using Nuts about Squirrels. I bet Amber was very happy to have this on her door.

Angela

Angela used Bearly a Pumpkin to alter her Crystal Light container (Crystal Light is a drink powder, I had to look it up)..

Close up of the side showing the trendy twine Angela used.

Nikki

Nikki used Bearly a Pumpkin to make this great bag topper for some Halloween candy.

Here is the candy!

Daire - (better late than never - ha ha)

Using the gorgeous Prissy Poinsetta digital stamp as my inspiration I created this 10"x7" mixed media painting. I wanted to give the poinsetta an autumnal twist, rather than starting on my Christmas crafts so early! I think my autumn nymph has been influenced a little too much by the Halloween spirit... she's a bit spooky!

Lyn

I've used Bearly a Pumpkin  coloured with Promarkers and used a recycled bag, which I've cut down a little. It came to me with some make up in it and the shops brand name on the front...now it's filled with a...Trick or a Treat!?! Mud Pies or Chocolate Cookies!?! I've also used bought and freebie papers. The sentiment using 'bone letters' is a freebie font too. Links on my blog.

Diane

I love the deep reds of Autumn, and of course it all makes me think of Christmas. I chose the PrissyPoinesettia Digital Stamp to work with. As soon as I saw it I knew it would layer up well, which is something I like to do with Digital Stamps. Coloured with Promarkers and decoupaged I decided to use it to make a cutlery holder for my Christmas Table. I am pleased with how it turned out, but this is only one of 10 that I will have to make!...groan!

Cazzy

I used Beautiful Bow on my "It's nearly Christmas, lets make lists" binder. I used a tall Sara Binder I have had for ages, and covered it in stripey and script papers, and coloured the bow in Autumn brown shades of Promarkers. I typed the greeting then stamped over it with a Unity stamp, and cut it with the matching Spellbinders die. I added some ribbon from a Crafty Ribbons bag called Cookies and Cream. and I spritzed the bow, and then the whole binder with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in bronze.

  Angled view showing the inside.

 Inside I used some Sara Binder dividers, I have decorated the first one, and will decorate the rest. The great thing is my Filofax personal size pages fit perfectly to make my lists on. The tabs read "presents/gifts", cards, itinery, menu, shopping.

Caro

I couldn't resist scrapbooking these photos of my son playing in the sun last Autumn (I am somewhat behind with my scrapbooking!) and so used background paper from Best Creation Inc which was full of glitter on the leaves, then layered the two photos onto some speckled dark yellow card, then added leaf ribbon from Dovecraft, I also added some extra leaves punched out of copper card, and stamped some trees and leaves in the bottom right corner.  For that extra cute touch I added the 'Nuts about Squirrels' stamp coloured in promarkers.

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:

Debbie Siddle

Winners: Challenge 21 Quirky magical moments

We had some wonderful magical entries for the last challenge, however, sadly you didn't all include the recipe elements of stars, glitter and silver so weren't eligible for the prizes. We decided that the 4 entries that did follow the brief should all chosen this time, so we have a top 4!

The first place winner of the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps $10 voucher chosen by the design team is:

Doris

With this amazing 3D card with lots of sparkle and fairies. Congratulations Doris, please e-mail Cazzy using the link in the side bar for details on how to claim your prize and to let us know if you would like to be a guest designer in a future challenge.

The runners up (all of the remaining entries which had all the elements we asked for) are:

Gill M

with a wonderful silhouette card,

Daire

with another original piece of art, and 

Tracey

with this very pretty pink and sparkly card.

  Congratulations all three of you! Please e-mail Cazzy using the link in the side bar if you would like to be a guest designer in a future challenge.

Please all help yourselves to a winner's badge from the sidebar to display on your blog too.

Please don't forget that we are having a Desgin Team call at the moment (See here for details) and we would love for some of you to join us on the team.  Look out for our next challenge later on today.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team

Design Team Call and 2 Month Guest Designer call.

If you are looking for the latest challenge scroll down to the post below or click HERE

The Quirky Crafts Team are recruiting for a new member of the team!

There are some requirements and we want to see what you can do, the current DT will make a team decision on who is going to join us.

The person we are looking for:
1. Must have a blog, if you don't already have one now is a good time to start! Of course you need to be able to take reasonable quality photos of your work and post them on your blog with details and links when challenges go live. You also need to include links in your sidebar to Quirky and the rest of the DT.

2. Must take it in turns choosing the next Quirky challenge, which may involve choosing a challenge that fits the available images from the sponsor.

3. Must be able to make up to two projects every two weeks to the challenge requirements, which may be cards or other paper craft projects.

4. Must choose and use one or more of the sponsor's digital images per project per challenge.

5. Must upload your own DT example photos to the Quirky Crafts challenge blog post and add your own write up and links before the challenge post goes live.

6. Must comment on some of the entrants blogs about entries to challenges, on behalf of Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team, in accordance with the allocation system.

7. When challenges close, must look at all entries and choose their top 6 favourites (which meet the challenge requirements) and communicate them to the team in time for the winners post to go live the following lunchtime. (Challenges close lunchtimes Saturday, the winners have to be worked out and post completed before lunchtime Sunday).

8. On your challenge turn, you must collect the team choices, total up the scores and schedule the winners post from the previous challenge to the Quirky blog. You must also draft the new challenge post for everyone to add to.

9. If another DT colleague has problems, must be able to cover in emergencies.

10. Last but not least - must have a Quirky imagination and sense of humour, we will be looking at your blogs to see if this is true!

Please note:
 a) the team communicates via a closed Yahoo group, you will need to create a Yahoo account to take part.
b) images provided by the sponsor are solely for your own use and must not be distributed to others or sold, in other words the sponsor's policies must be adhered to.
c) Yahoo is fine, it is just a group thing where I put the sponsors images so the team can get them easily, and there is a message facility so when you send a message everyone gets it by email, and you can reply by email too, or you can go to Yahoo and reply. Once you sign up for Yahoo you don't need to join anything except our closed group if you don't want to. We will help you loads if you join the team.

So after those Quirky 10 Demandments, here is what we want you to do:

1. Enter a project into each of the next 3 Quirky challenges (either starting with 14th Oct, or the current challenge and two following challenges) and put DT after your name each time.

2. Email Cazzy and tell us something about yourself and why you think you would be good for the Quirky challenge blog.

3.Add your blog link below with DT after your name.

Inlinkz will remain open until  3rd November, after which it is too late for DT applicants to enter the 3 challenges required.

If you make it to the top three in any one of the three challenges you will of course be Guest Designer two weeks later, and if that will count as one of your 3 challenges if it falls at the same time, in other words you won't need to enter another make challenge for which you are GD.

For all of you who would like to be on the permanent DT but don't make it this time round we may offer you a 2 month Guest Designer spot.

If you don't want the permanent DT position and would like to be considered for a 2 month GD spot, enter your link with GD after your name and don't forget to enter 3 challenges as above.

2 month GDs requirements:
1. Must have a blog, if you don't already have one now is a good time to start! Of course you need to be able to take reasonable quality photos of your work and post them on your blog.

2. Must be able to make one GD project every two weeks to fit the challenge requirements (can make up to two) which may be a card or other paper craft project, and email a photo to Cazzy at least two days before the challenge starts.

3. May choose a digi image from the selection available to the team.

4. Must use a sponsor's digi image on your project.

5. Must not reveal challenge details in advance of challenges going live.

6. You may be required to comment on allocated entries to challenges on behalf of Quirky Crafts.

7. You must email Cazzy or we won't be able to contact you.

8. Ideally you should have entered some Quirky challenges in the past, or should enter some now so we can see how you handle our challenges!

Please note: images provided by the sponsor are solely for your own use and must not be distributed to others or sold, in other words the sponsor's policies must be adhered to.

If there is anything you don't understand or want more details on please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar.

Inlinkz will remain open until 11:30 am GMT 3rd November, after which it is too late for DT applicants to enter the 3 challenges required, please click on the big blue frog at the top to enter.

We look forward to seeing what you can do, and perhaps joining us!
The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.