Challenge #14 Reminder - Daddy's takin me to the Zoo tomorrow, Zoo tomorrow, Zoo tomorrow, and we can stay all day!

I hope you are all having a great weekend, and here in the UK enjoying the heatwave! I find it too hot, oh for some cool air and a bit of rain to soak the parched garden!
I think a lot of people are enjoying the sun, or are just to hot to craft, we have some lovely entries but not many so I just wanted to remind you that you have until Saturday 20th July midday to enter this challenge, and I want to see lots of zoo projects, the more zoo animals the better and we have some lovely examples to inspire you with images from our lovely sponsors.

We have some great prizes from our two generous sponsors for this challenge.

 1st prize is from Bugaboo

2nd prize is from Doodle Dragon Studios

$10 worth of images.

3rd Prize from Bugaboo

2 Bugaboo images.

Here are some more examples from the team, which will be added to over the next couple of days!

Doris

Doris made a clever pop up stepped card using Doodle Dragon Studios images.

Monica

I made a bracket layered card, giving depth to it. I used the hippo from the Doodle Dragon Studios, 20 Zoo Collection, also working in layers and paper piecing. Mister Hippo is inviting us to go to the zoo.

Lyn

I've made a little Zoo Booklet using Bugaboo Images. Most of them have been 3D-ed. More pictures on my blog!

Cazzy - sorry I'm late!

My book is still not finished, I have the second page, which will feature Cedric and Daddy, with Daddy telling Cedric it is time to meet the other zoo animals, and the last page where Daddy tells Cedric it is time to go back home to bed. Unfortunately I have contracted cellulitis and am resting with my leg raised (doctor's orders) most of the day, and really shouldn't be on here now as I don't have a laptop! 

 Two of the new pages with Bugaboo images Tiger, Giraffe block, and chameleon of course. I love the giraffe one, I see Lyn does too with her lovely book inspired by mine!

The next two new pages, featuring Bugaboo Elephant topper and Zebra, and Chameleon of course!

All images are coloured with Promarkers, and adhered and sealed with Decopatch. I attached the pages with spotty ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, and now I have a whole load of back pages to decorate, maybe I should have gone for less pages and used back and front!

Daire

Wow! I'm so impressed with the gorgeous stuff everyone has been coming up with! I've been a bit swamped this week, but I needed to whip up a quick birthday card so here we go! It game me the opportunity to use the Elephant Topper from Bugaboo (which I love), here they're coloured with Prismacolours and outlined with a black pen (mostly to cover up the places where my cutting was a bit wonky! My background is made of strips of book paper, scrapbook paper and paper tape... extremely random, just like me. I also wanted to test out my new Sakura Stardust gel pens, so I added a few shimmery outlines. Get ready for a bit of extra quirkiness on Sunday, it's my turn to set the challenge!

Come back for some more great examples as the post gets updated in the next couple of days.


Enter the challenge HERE or scroll down to the post below.

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Challenge #14 2013 - Daddy's taking me to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow.....

Welcome to another Quirky Challenge! If you would like to see who won the last challenge click here or scroll down to the previous post.

It's my birthday today so I get to choose an extra challenge! Still on the theme of songs, this challenge is to interpret the song "Daddy's taking me to the zoo tomorrow" ..."we're going to the zoo zoo zoo, you can come too too too".

I want to see lots of zoo projects, the more zoo animals the better and we have some lovely examples to inspire you with images from our lovely sponsors.

We have some great prizes from our two generous sponsors for this challenge.

 1st prize is from Bugaboo

2nd prize is from Doodle Dragon Studios

$10 worth of images.

3rd Prize from Bugaboo

2 Bugaboo images.

Now for some wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, this will be the last challenge for Monica and Marg for now, they both joined us for two months (you can apply using the link on the page for 2 month GDT applications). We would all like to thank Monica and Marg for providing us with some wonderful contributions which I am sure have inspired you to join in. I hope you will visit their blogs and share some love. 

Cazzy

 I decided to make a story book for Kenny, and I only decided this last night! So today I have spent all my time (when awake) preparing this little book which is very much a work in progress (will have to print some words to cover my awful handwriting), and I will show you the rest soon! I used the Chameleon from Bugaboo, (I see that Daire likes him too, too, too), to star in my story about the zoo!

This is the inside of the front cover, and you see I have a lot of pages to go! I hope you will forgive me not getting further, as you read this I am sitting in a restaurant about to order my birthday meal, and had to stop to post this and get ready or there would have been nothing to see! (Lots more Bugaboo animals to follow).

I have completed the first two pages, and one more, and here they are, the image is Lion Topper from Bugaboo, and Chameleon. I am not sure if I need to add more words or an arrow at this point. Can you see the patch? I forgot to take my finger off the Decopatch covered page, ended up ripping a fingerprint size hole in it!

Daire

I'm not quite so skilled as the rest of our design team... so no fancy cards from me! Today I have another art journal page to share with you, using the Chameleon from Bugaboo. I tried something a bit different this time, instead of colouring the image in, I collaged scraps of painted paper to build this little guy. The background is one I've had in my sketchbook for a while... I made it from cleaning excess paint off stencils and brushes, and the colours just seemed to go perfectly with my chameleon, it's like they were meant to be! To finish the page off I outlined each element and added a simple border with a black sharpie... and there you go!

Doris

Today I want to share this stretch card for our new challenge. I used images from our sponsor  Doodle Dragon Studios. I enlarged the images and printed them according to the size of the card, then with watercolor pencil, I painted each of the images then cut them out and stuck them to the appropriate places. You can visit my blog for more images and details. (Note from Cazzy: I will be visiting to see how this wonderful card is made).

Lyn

Fantastic card Doris! Here's my fold out 'zoo' I played with the images on the computer and rounded them all up and put them into cages!

    Marg

 I used the Doodle Dragon images as their wild animal images are so right for this theme to go with the song title Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow.
I coloured them with a mixture of Promarkers & Graph It pens, cut them out, including the cage (which was coloured with Sakura Silver Metallic pen). I cut out the scalloped oval yellow card with a spellbinder die & the music notes were cut with Dies to Die For die (I wrote the song title "Daddy's taking us to the Zoo tomorrow" in a Sakura Glitter pen) & the backing paper with paw prints on is from my own stash as is the sentiment..

 I coloured the Bugaboo Zebra with my Promarkers & Sakura Glitter/Metallic pens. I used my Dies To Die For Music Notes cutting dies to make the notes in both pink & pastel green card. The green backing paper was embossed with my Provocraft embossing folder (leaves) added the wide white ribbon. The Zebra I decided, was going to be made into a musical carousel animal & that made the decision to colour the Zebra in pastel pink & a pale green. The pole the Zebra is stuck to is a plastic straw that I cut down (I don't have the cup that it went to anyway). The last item is the banner which has the title of the song that is this challenge: "Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow"

Monica

  I made a Zoo Shadow Box, showing the panda, the tiger, the ostrich ant the toucan from the Doodle Dragon Studios 20 Zoo Collection. To make these animals I used the paper piecing technique. I love the ostrich, it has a great personality.

Now lets see what you can do, lets see lots of going to the zoo!

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Winners of Everybody wants to be a cat, challenge #13

Thank you all for entering the challenge with your lovely creations, so many cats - and one pig!

 I don't really believe in bad luck, but was it because it was number 13 that nobody got the part about relating their project to the film or song, and I mean not only a cat but music, instruments, roof tops, the other characters from the film or song. Well if anyone did do that they didn't tell us about it and it wasn't obvious at all.

We picked out our favourite top 6, added together the scores and these are the resulting top three:

In first place Tracey M with ther very elaborate cat lady card.

Congratulations Tracey, you have won 5 images of your choice from:

Robyn's Fetish

In second place Leeann who used one of our own Spyder Lyn's digis, and as well as the second most votes, got voted as best by my husband, who hasn't a clue who drew what! This is a lovely cheerful card with lots of layers and detail.

Congratulations Leeann, you have won a $5 voucher from:

Digital Delights

In third place by just one point is Kali with her shadow box card and cute kitten stamp.

Congratulations Kali, you have won 3 digis of your choice from:

Robyn's Fetish

We would like to thank both of our sponsors for once more providing us with some great prizes.

Our runner up is Marina, who did mention she was singing the song and her card does feature a wall!

Congratulations Marina, you get a runner's up badge to display on your blog.

To collect your prizes and badges please contact me (Cazzy) by email using the email link in the right hand side bar. We really hope you can join us as Guest Designers too, either in two weeks time or later, please tell me if you can.

Don't forget to come back later (6pm) to find out about the new challenge!

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Challenge #13 Reminder - Everybody wants to be a Quirky cat!

 It's a Quirky Reminder Time! You have until Saturday 6th July to enter our fun challenge based on the Aristocats and sponsored by:

Robyn's Fetish

Digital Delights

We want you to take inspiration from the film The Aristocats, or the song Everybody wants to be a cat - see the post below for full details and links that will help you if you don't know the film or song.

Here are a few more examples from the team:

Monica

I made a square lever card with the "Too Kewl Cat" from Robyn Fetish. I used a large cello and some cat charms to embellish the card front. Inside the lever card you will find the logo "Everybody wants to be a cat"... don´t you????

Daire

I think my art journal page was heavily influenced by the cold and flu medicine I'm taking, because even I have to admit this is a little bit odd! I used 'I Taught It Was A Putie Cat' from Robyn's Fetish and dressed my birds up it kitty costumes. I used very few materials on this one... a few felt tips blended with water to give a washy effect, a couple of coloured pencils,and some scraps of painted paper from another project. What do you think? Quirky enough?

Marg

Marg has made this fabulous creation! Marg tells you how...
I used "I have a crush on you", coloured the cats with Promarkers, an antique white colouring pencil for the white cat (with a Warm Grey 1 from Promarkers for shading). I used a decorative tent fold ready made card for the base, (Ive had these in for months & this is the first time Ive used them). I downloaded the music from Google, leaving on the details of the gentlemen that wrote the words &music to the song "Everyone Wants To Be A Cat" from the Disney film The Aristocats. I added a small blue metallic bow tie for "Tom" and a pink metallic bow (in her hair) & collar for "Lady." I distressed the outer edges of the card, music & sentiment using a mixture of Scattered Straw & Bundled Sage from Tim Holtz range of Distress Inks. The coloured backing papers & sentiment are from my own stash. See my blog for more photos..

Lyn

 

 I'm sneaking in hoping no one notices I'm late! Here's my reminder card (I did do two last week!) I've used Forever Friends by our Sponsors Robyn's Fetish. I've 3D-ed the chicken, added freebie music paper, (Link on blog) some acetate, a cat button, peel off corners, some punched out cats and a couple of musical brads too!

Doris 

Today is a day to remember our Challenge, Everybody wants to be a cat Cat. On this occasion, I work a Shadow Box, simulating a night in the forest, with small stars and a romantic couple of kittens. The image used is Pussycat Luv, courtesy of our sponsor Robyn's Fetish, and I worked with watercolor  pencil.

 Go HERE or scroll down to join in!!

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