Challenge # 16 Great Picnic / BBQ

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It's time for new Quirky Challenge, and this time it falls to me (Doris) make your imagination is translated into beautiful projects. The theme is Picnic / BBQ, you can choose one of the two suggestions and mix it or just choose a single topic. You must remember and use some of the elements that usually surround these activities, such as grill, tables for camping, picnic baskets, checkered tablecloths, ants (never fail). Let your imagination run wild. Our fabulous and generous sponsor for this challenge:

Crackerbox Palace

They are giving us the following prices

For the First Place

$20 Crackerbox Voucher

For the Second Place

$15 Crackerbox Voucher

For the Third Place

$10 Crackerbox Voucher

And, now the inspiration time.  Look at these amazing creations from our Guest Designers and Design Team for some ideas:

Guest Designer Janet

 Guest Designer Tracey

Doris 

My first project is a picnic basket. It is decorated with images painted in watercolor pencil. Ants, watermelon and flowers, all provided by our fabulous sponsor Crackerbox Palace. 

My second project is a Center Step Card. In this, I used, ants+melon_1.jpg, 4306+3+ants_1.jpg, picnic+table_1.jpg, grill_1.jpg, life+a+picnic_1.jpg. All provided for our sponsor Crackerbox Palace. Additional I used for Mr. Cook, a cutting file, and some grasses. I invite you to visit my blog, so you can find more images of these projects.

Lyn

Here's mine! I made an easle card with 'table attachment' and went with a green table cloth in gingham, added sentiments, melons, baskets, ants and flowers from our sponsor  Crackerbox Palace. The melon papers are from PinkPetticoat.

  I coloured everything using Promarkers.

  

The knives, spoons and folks are Woodware brads.

(And no ants were harmed in the making of this card!)

Daire

For my first art journal page I used a 'spontaneous background' created when cleaning of my brushes and stamps. The Watermelon from Crackerbox Palace was coloured in using normal felt-tips (with a few gel-pen doodles), before being covered with strips of paper from a Mandarin poetry book. I redefined the watermelon and coloured those areas with Prismacolor pencils. Finally, I added a gel-pen quote and border (quote reads "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it")

I started my second spread with a quick sketch - using two felt-tips I drew a picnic blanket kind of pattern before blending with a waterbrush. I coloured the flower (and dots) with Papermania Watercolour Markers and an orange Sakura Souffle pen. The ants were hand-doodled with a simple black pen, and the quote was added using Tipex (and outlined using a PITT pen).

Cazzy

These images are such fun to work with, I had a fight with the printer which made me late!

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Winners of #15 Octopus' Garden

It is winner's time, and although we only had 7 entries into Octopus' Garden they were all very good, so all of them were included in the voting.

We can only give 3 prizes, so here are our top 3:

In first place is Emily with her gorgeous rocking step card, which has a great garden dolphin splashing in the sea.

Squigglefly

Congratulations Emily, you have won 3 images or sets from Squigglefly.

Our second choice is Sheena with her macarbre mermaid sitting in her skull strewn garden.

Paper Pretties

Congratulations Sheena, you win 6 images from Paper Pretties.

In third place is Cazro with her altogether more normal mermaid in a pretty garden.

Robyn's Fetish

Congratulations Cazro, you have won 3 images from Robyn's Fetish.

To claim your prizes and badges please email Cazzy using the email link in the side bar. We would love all of you to join us as Guest Designers in a future challenge, please also let Cazzy know if you can.

Don't forget to come back later for a new exciting challenge!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Reminder for a Quirky Octopus's Garden (in the sea)

Here is your reminder everyone, you have until midday Saturday the 3rd August to join in. So lets see those sea creatures in their gardens!

The theme is An Octopus's Garden (in the sea) set by Daire, and there are three great prizes to be won.

Squigglefly

Squigglefly will be offering three images or sets to our 1st place winner.

Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties will be offering six images to our 2nd place winner.

Robyn's Fetish

Robyn's Fetish will be offering three images to our 3rd place winner.

Here are some more examples from the team to inspire you!

Cazzy

This is my first ever centre step card, and I followed instructions from Split Coast Stampers to make it. I thought it was perfect for the octopus and other images from Squigglefly. I added some greenery to the garden with Martha Stewart punches.

Lyn

 

 Here's mine (I'm not late this time!) I've used some of  Squigglefly digital images. 3D-ed the main fishy and his umbrella. I've used paper-backed felt for the tiny leaves.
  

Doris

My first project is a LO. I found some pictures that I thought were very funny and appropriate to our theme. In this case I used images provided by our sponsor, Squigglefly, which I painted with watercolor colored pencil. Also I added some additional details and placed on a paper background with octopus and jellyfish.

My second project is also a LO, for which I use photographs of a family trip. In this case, I used a background with lots octopus, on which I place the photos and I decorated with images of Paper Pretties, which I painted with watercolor pencil. I added some more details like flowers and buttons.
I want to tell you that starting next week, all my projects will have their step by step, for the convenience of each of you.



Please link your project up HERE.

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Challenge 15 - An Octopus's Garden

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone (in the UK) is enjoying this uncharacteristic stretch of summer we're having... we don't usually get more than a week of sun! 

If you would like to find out who won the last challenge click here.

It's my (Daire's) turn to set the challenge this week, and there's a theme (and a song) that's been bouncing around my brain for a while... Octopus's Garden by The Beatles. So this time I want your creations to be inspired by this song... it doesn't necessarily have to feature an octopus, but to be eligible for one of our prizes you must incorporate something from a garden and something from under the sea.

Here's a video of Octopus's Garden to get those juices flowing:

Now check out our great sponsors for this challenge, who are generously offering prizes to our top three entries:

Squigglefly

Squigglefly will be offering three images or sets to our 1st place winner.

Paper Pretties

Paper Pretties will be offering six images to our 2nd place winner.

Robyn's Fetish

Robyn's Fetish will be offering three images to our 3rd place winner.

Are you ready for some inspiration? Look at these awesome creations from our Guest Designers and Design Team for some ideas:

Guest Designer - Leeann

Leanne used  Billingsley from Paper Pretties, look at the fishes on the backing paper, and bubbles paper too.

Guest Designer - Kali

I used the image Birthday Octopus from Squigglefly. I coloured the image with my Copics. I cut out the image and cut a frame for the image freehand. I chose a blue design paper for the background, because it remind me a bit of water. As decoration I used lace and rhinestones. I hope you like this card. 

(We love it Kali - you've included two things we love here at Quirky Crafts, vibrant colour and yummy texture!)

Guest Designer - Marina

Marina used Bubble Fish from Squigglefly, we love the realistic bubbles! With the bubble backgrounds and the matching flowers and sign this is perfect for the challenge.

Daire

I started out this art journal page by copying out the lyrics to Octopus's Garden with a Sharpie, and then covering it in an acrylic wash. I then added another layer of paint, by sponging it over an octopus shaped mask. I coloured the 'Butterfly Blossoms' image from Paper Pretties with felt tips and gel pens, and added a few smudges of craft paint and gesso, to make my garden seem like it was under the water. Originally the butterfly was joined to the flowers, but I snipped him off and moved him, because I thought a butterfly flying around under the sea was appropriately whimsical. My final touches included a doodled border, and a sentiment borrowed from an old copy of Cosmo. I have something else planned for our reminder post, so make sure you head back over next Sunday!

Doris

Doris used images from Squigglefly to make her first card, on the front are Crabby and I think a made up octopus! The paper is like bubbles underwater too.

Inside the card a pop up garden with more Squigglefly images clearly having a great time in the garden with umbrellas and buckets and spades.

For her second card Doris has used Paper Pretties images, and added her own octopus tentacles. Ocean backing paper finishes off this frame card.

Cazzy

This card is made using images from Paper Pretties, I used Daisy (fish in bowl), Billingsley (diving duck), Butterfly Blossoms, Max Splasher (dive bombing dog) and Hani (parrot in treasure chest). Most of these come with several great sentiments, Best Fishes is one that comes with Daisy.

 Lyn

At last, I'm here too! I've used this lovely little fish from Squigglefly. The colouring was done on the computer and most of the background too. The backing paper I did myself. You'll find that and my card on my blog on a Tuesday post!!

Remember, we want to see both something from a garden and something from under the sea in your project, now go get quirky!

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P.S. Don't forget to pop back over next weekend for some more Design Team inspiration!

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Winners of Daddy's Taking Me to the Zoo

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:

In 3rd place, winning 2 images from Bugaboo...

Tracey B

In 2nd place, winning $10 of images from Doodle Dragon Studios...

Ike

 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!

- The Quirky Crafts Team -

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.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.