Some Thing New...With Pink!! 1st Quirky Challenege of 2013!

Evening Quirky Fans! Welcome back! First, we at Quirky Crafts hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and Festive Holidays and we wish you all a very Happy New Year! May this one be the best one ever! The first challenge of the year is set by me (Lyn aka Spyder) so, because my new baby grand daughter was born last weekend, I've decided the theme for this first challenge just has to be...

Some Thing New, with Pink!

Of course I don't mind how you interpretative the challenge, it can be a new home, new job, a new baby, using some of your new Christmas stash, or even a New Years card! But there has to be PINK somewhere on the card, loads of pink, or just a smidgen (small amount not a small pigeon lol), it's up to you! Don't forget, you can make anything you like, it doesn't have to be a card, we love to see altered art, inchies, tags, fatpages, atc's and scrapbook pages too!
You must tell us what your "NEW" part is, it might not be obvious to the team and you could lose out on a top three place if we don't know!

For our first Challenge of 2013 we have three fabulous sponsors....

 Doodle Dragon Studios

  1st prize $10 to spend at Doodle Dragon

Bugaboo Stamps

2nd prize 7 digi's of your choice from Bugaboo Stamps

   and

Robyn's Fetish!

3rd prize 3 digi from the Robin Fetish store.

So here's what the team and our guest designers have come up with using digital images from our lovely sponsors...

First, Our Guests....

Abigael

Abigael made this gorgeous easel cards using Shopping for Two with such a sweet crocheted layette. Who wouldn't love to get this card!

Sheena

Sheena used Bugaboo Just Married for her delightfully festive card. Sheena would have joined us as guest much earlier in the year but unfortunately was involved in a bad car accident and wasn't able to, hmmm, maybe we shouldn't have sent her a car image to use!

And Secondly The Quirky Crafts team...please welcome Our two new members

Doris

For my project I decided to use Monkey C and Widdle Bear from Doodle Dragon Studios. The advantage of digital images is to be able to use the printer to make multiple copies, and make them any size required. I printed the images, then I used double sided adhesive to make layers (decoupage), different papers and accessories and a base mount double easel panel. For more details I invite you to visit my blog.

  I also made this box with a Doodle Dragon monster for a new baby gift.

Daire

 

I used are my new prismacolor pencils (Merry Christmas to me!) on my cards!

  This digi is from Bugaboo and is called Peapod Boo. (Also available in boy, and a variety of twins).

And these two cards feature Widdle (baby) Dragon and Widdle (baby) Moose from Doodle Dragon Studios.

Cazzy

I love this Happy New Year to Ewe image and sentiment from Bugaboo, and I found some pink Daisy and Dandelion papers that were perfect, and with my favourite dark pink metallic card for a card blank and some Dovecraft pink velvet ribbon I found in my stash it should be pink enough! I die cut 2013 with Sizzix Shadowbox, didn't add the shadow bit. Papers are cut with Nesties and Grand Nesties. Image coloured with Promarkers.

I also love this stork from Doodle Dragon Studios who is bringing a new baby dragon of course! These come in B&W and coloured, so if your printer is working properly unlike mine you can print quick ready coloured images.I coloured mine with Promarkers and Trias, and found this paper which could be Paper Artsy, lots of bits from stash added.

Surprise - it is an easel card, I really like making them but do people know how to put them up I wonder? Heart ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and flower from stash.

 Caro

 I chose to make a cute tag for a new baby using the Peapod Boo digital image from Bugaboo.  I coloured the image in using Promarkers and around it using Distress inks.  I then stamped inkadinkado spotted swirls for added interest in the background. Finally I added lace, ribbon and lots of glitzy embellishments from my stash.

  Spyder Lyn

 I've used Shopping for Two, (from Bugaboo) which comes with the sentiment. Use it in PNG  and you can move the words around wherever you want them! This was a very quick and simple to make, a little note type card I sent my daughter the week before the baby was due, we'd gone shopping for New baby things! I sliced off about an inch and a half off the front of the card. Used Forever Friends backing papers inside and out, added lots of pink Stickles glitter glue, gems, ribbon and baby shoes from my stash... and.

 ...I just had to make a New Years card using this Bugaboo ewe!!
And added here Wednesday 9th .... this Doodle Dragon Stork...

bringing a baby dragon to his mum! Link to the font is on my blog!

(added on the 8thJan)

Don't forget to scroll down to the post below this one to see who won our last Challenge of 2012. We had some fantastic entries!!

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Winner's of Last Minute Christmas!!

Hi Quirky Craft Fans, Lyn here. First!! We at Quirky Crafts hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! and  of course a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wow, is all I can say! What a amazing array of last minute Christmas creations we had for our last challenge! And once again, we all found it very hard to chose a winner and runners up! (Everyone's a winner really!) So after  a lot of debating and vote shuffling... 

Our Winner of the gorgeous Cherry collection of ribbons from Crafty Ribbons.is.....

 Cathy D

who made a lovely set of these fabulous Christmas cards.

Our second prize winner $10 of images of their choice from Doodle Dragon Studio's  is..

Simone

Who made some lovely Christmas tags, I've chosen this one from her site, 

they were all lovely!

 And our Third prize from The Stamping Boutique of 3 digi images of their choice is......

 Sonia

   with this exploding box of the Nativity Scene!

Congratulations! We hope you all will  join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next Challenges, please let Cazzy know by e-mailing her using the link in the side bar and she will give you details of the challenge arrange for you to get your prizes, and send you your winners badge!!  
Don't forget to come back later, on Sunday JANUARY 6th to find out what our next challenge is. I'm setting the theme so it's bound to be an easy one!!!

Challenge #26 - Last minute Christmas!

 ***UpDate** (Sunday 30th) Hello Quirky Fans!! (Lyn here) I know some of you were expecting the winners here today of the last challenge and a new challenge but we've having a bit of a Holiday break. So this Challenge below has now closed. We'll be back next week with my first Challenge of 2013! (And the winners of this challenge) So Look out for it! In the Meantime...

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Welcome to another Quirky Crafts challenge.  If you want to find out who won the previous challenge then please scroll down to the previous post.  It is my (Caro's) turn to set the challenge and as I am still in a bit of a rush running around finishing off the last bits and pieces before Christmas (I can't believe it is only 9 days away) I chose LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS as the challenge theme.

As it is the last challenge of the year we are sadly saying goodbye to Diane as this is her last challenge with us. We wish her all the best in her new ventures and look forward to welcoming Doris and Daire in the first challenge of the New Year.

We would also like to wish all of our followers, entrants, guest designers, and wonderful sponsors a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

For this weeks challenge we have three great sponsors:

Crafty Ribbons

who are giving our first prize winner the gorgeous Cherry collection of ribbons.

Doodle Dragon Studios

 who are giving the second prize winner $10 of images of their choice,

The Stamping Boutique

who are giving the third prize winner 3 digi images of their choice. 

We are sad to say this is the last time The Stamping Boutique will be sponsoring us, and we would like to thank them for sponsoring many of our challenges over the past two year.
The store is closing at the end of December, so the prize winner must contact us promptly to be able to collect the prize!

As usual you are welcome to link any Christmas related make that you want, it doesn't have to be a card (if you are super organised you may have already finished your cards!). 

Here's some fabulous makes from our design team and guest designers using some fantastic images from Dustin Pike at Doodle Dragon Studios to inspire your creativity.

Guest Designer Chana

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Chana used Doodle Dragon Studio's List Machine to make this cute little house with drawers for a secret gift. You can find a tutorial on how to make this right here.

Guest Designer Julia

Julia used the Reindeer Ride image to make this great pillow box with hidden message and two hot chocolate sachets for a sweet last minute gift which she says is perfect for a stocking stuffer or teacher gift.

Diane,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!
For the my last challenge I decided to work with Doodle Dragon's List Machine image. This time of year for me is all about lists, I cant function without them. By now I have bought and wrapped everything so my attention turns to food shopping etc, and for that I have to have lists so a nice little notebook that goes everywhere with me is just the ticket.

Lyn (late again lol)

O.M.Goodness, yes, I'm late again! Unlike Caro who's so organised, I'm waaaay behind! so everything I'm doing at the moment is Last Minute Christmas, but I thought you'd like to see these, some Christmas Shortbread cookies, covered with icing and chocolate using some of Dustin's fabulous digi's as the tie-on tags, nice and easy to make, just print them out the size they come, very small, already coloured, die cut them and add to anything!! 

Cazzy

I am missing Di already and she hasn't gone yet! So I decided to make a tri-shutter card in Di's honour and I used three images from the Doodle Dragon Wolfie set, they are so cute! Instead of patterned papers I used my new ribbons from Crafty Ribbons (and some from last year), I won the Bev's Bag, whoopee. I coloured all images with Promarkers.There are some pieces of embossed card too. Photo below shows the images all in focus, and the photo above shows the ribbons and ribbon words in focus.

I am definitely not ready for Christmas and being ill with a virus all week hasn't helped! I have presents to buy, presents to wrap, cards to make and send or address, and food shopping to do and I am running out of time fast! So this is one more card towards the family and friends cards.

Caro

For once I am organised with cards all made, written and sent, presents all bought and wrapped, the housework all done and the decorations are up so I actually have time for a little fun crafting.  I have been wanting to make a 'run up to Christmas' mini scrapbook for a  number of years now but have never got round to it.  This challenge was the perfect excuse to actually make a start so I made a page using the Doodle Dragons Wolfie Ice skating image and photos of Alex 'ice skating' (sliding on his shoes) in the park last weekend.  The papers, embellishments & sentiment are from Bo Bunny.

We look forward to seeing what you all make for your Last Minute Christmas creations.

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Have Fun and have a very Happy Christmas- The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Challenge 25 Winners - A Christmas Tag

Well what a lot of lovely Christmas tags were entered into our last challenge, really getting us into the spirit of Christmas. All the tags were so beautiful and different it made it really hard for the design team to choose their top three.  In the end after much debate the winner of the first prize was:

ABIGAEL

 

Congratulations Abigael!  You have won 6 digi images of your choice from Paper Pretties. Please email Cazzy using the link in the sidebar to claim 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 second place is….

ELLAPU

 

Congratulations Ellapu! 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.

Finally, in third place is...

SHEENA

 

Congratulations! 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 (by e-mailing her using the link in the side bar) 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.

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Challenge 25- A Christmas Tag

This will be the last time I get to set a challenge, certainly for the foreseeable future, as I am leaving the design team at the end of the current year due to commitments elsewhere. Setting up a business is not easy and I am finding I have no time to myself any more. Something has to give, at least for the time being, but I may return in the future if the girls will have me back.

I digress...back to the challenge. We are all really busy this time of year, so I wanted to make my last challenge something that we would be all doing anyway, making tags for our loved ones gifts. My Children are 21 and 17 now, but come Christmas they are back to ten years old, and they still love the presents, cards and gifts whether they are home made or not. There main present will be bearing these tags this year.

Our challenge is sponsored by Paper Pretties.

Paper Pretties will be giving the maker of the best tag , as judged by the Design Team, 6 digi images of your choice.

We are also sponsored by Dustin Pike of Doodle Dragons Studios

Doodle Dragons Studios are offering a second prize of $10 worth of digital images of your choice.

So that is it in a nutshell....show us your tags for a chance to win some great images.

Here are our offerings for this challenge:-

Guest Designer Bettina

Bettina used two images from Doodle Dragon Studios, and she used Kraft card to make her fabulous tags, and patterned papers all punched with MS punches. She also die cut star banners and has used Distress Inks and Ice Diamond Stickles. The first tag also has flocking "snow". Both images are coloured with Promarkers.

Cazzy

I made a set of three tags with Paper Pretties images, Cocoa, Claus and Oh Tiny Tree, the tags were cut with the eCraft, and I cut different sizes so I could make small tags to bundle together and use some of the sentiments and Claus's bone that come with the images. All coloured with Promarkers, lots of Crafty Ribbon's ribbons used as you can see, and some Ice Stickles. I also used Nestabilties Long Rectangles and the matching scalloped set. Tags edged with Krylon gold leaf pen. Oh boy, laying them down like that it looks like the cloths in the mini photo studio could do with ironing!

Doodle Dragon tags will follow a bit later!

Lyn - will be along later....

Yes...Here I am...only a week late! I've used some of  Dustin's pre-coloured Santa's, who's just flying in, hopefully with some pressies and a Christmas Bear!

Caro

 I have gone for some very quick and simple tags to add to my Christmas presents, so they are all one layer, printed out on the printer, cut to size, coloured with promarkers and then edged with distress inks, and finished off with Christmas ribbon which was curled using scissors. This first set of three used the Paper Pretties images 'wrapped up Rudolph', 'Oh tiny tree' and 'Claus'.  The sentiment was also from Paper Pretties, and round the edge I stamped some Holly leaves (a freebie stamp from a magazine).

The second set were made in exactly the same way using Doodle Dragon Studio images coloured with promarkers and highlighted using pearlescent glue.  The blue distress ink was highlighted with silver snowflake stamps (Hero Arts) and edged with silver ink (not sure how well the silver shows up in this photo mind you!).

Diane

I used Wrapped Up Rudolph from Paper Pretties and their Wrapped and Ready sentiment to make my tags.  The Reindeer has been coloured with promarkers and decoupaged to make his nose HUGE! He looks so cute.

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Goodbye to Diane and Hello to..................

It is with great sadness that the team are saying goodbye and good luck to Diane. Diane has been with us for I think 2 years now, and has kept us on our toes with her paper engineering projects and we are all now more confident with those!

Diane has made some great projects and set some challenging challenges but due to a change in direction in her life she is stepping down from the DT at Christmas. We will all miss her a lot and we hope she will come back and join us in a year or so.

Diane is a hard act to follow and here are a few of her makes to remind you how good she is. I hope you will join us in wishing Di well for the future!

Now we would also like to announce the results of our DT recruiting campaign, and we are saying Hello and Welcome to not just one, but two outstanding new DT members, both of them really impressed us and did everything we asked in our Ten Demandments and more! Thank you to all those who entered too. Both new DT members will be joining us properly for the first challenge of the New Year, and we don't know what that is yet!

In no particular order I would first like to introduce Doris Molina.

Doris has featured as guest designer and always gives the task her full attention, making far more than the rest of us which you can see on her wonderful blog.

Doris said "My name is Doris Molina. I´m from Costa Rica. I´m 44 years old, married and we have a little boy. I´m in love with crafting since 15 years ago.

Also I am a psychologist, but I do not work as such. I'm taking care of my son full time and my spare time, which is a lot, I dedicate to my website , my facebook fan page, and my blog.

I design for The Cutting Café. Also,  I am participating in the Creative Cutting Challenge, which ends next year. About this challenge, I received the Creative Choice award with my second project, you can see it here   http://creativecuttingchallenge.blogspot.com/

I also teach large groups here in my country, and travel every year to update myself at CHA Show."

I would also like to introduce Daire (pronounced Da-ra).

Daire really caught our eye with her very different arty projects and we think she will add a lot of quirkyness to our quirky blog!

This is what Daire said about herself "I think I would be a good addition to the team, because what I do seems to be very different from what the existing DT creates… at the moment I’m leaning more towards mixed media pieces and art journal pages, but I also love to make cards, accessories, and a variety of homemade gifts. I think that being part of something like this would give me the opportunity to explore my creative side even more, and try out new techniques and ideas. I feel inspired by pretty much everything I come into contact with, so that might lead to an interesting challenge or two…"

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.