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We're a small design team with big inspiration.
On the first Sunday of the month, at 6pm UK time, we will set a new challenge which will close on the 28th of that month at midday. The DT will pick their top three favourites and you could win a prize and join us as a Guest Designer. Winners are posted on the first Sunday in the month (midday usually) before the new challenge - don't forget to come and check if you are a winner.
Hey, just a quick post to announce the winners of our 'Daddy's Taking Me to the Zoo' challenge - we've had some great entries for this one, so it was a difficult choice for us! But without further ado here are our top three:
And last but not least, our first place entry, winning 7 images from Bugaboo ...
Janet O
Congratulations!
We'd also love to offer all our winners the opportunity to be a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges. To claim your prizes, and for more information on being a Quirky Crafts Guest Designer, please email Cazzy on the address in the sidebar.
Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, and to our generous sponsors for providing us with prizes. We hope you'll all come buy and check out our latest challenge, which goes live later on today!
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.
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!
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.
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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).
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"
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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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 placeTracey Mwith ther very elaborate cat lady card.
Congratulations Tracey, you have won 5 images of your choice from:
In second place Leeannwho 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:
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!
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team
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