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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.
Well, wasn't that the Quirkiest Challenge yet?! I'm still dreaming of ants!! All our entries were included in the voting. Our Quirky challenge was sponsored by...
With this fab card of the ant roasting marshmallows!!
Thank you to everyone who joined in! Would all you winners contact Cazzy via the link on the sidebar and she will sort out your prizes for you. Please take a banner to add to your sidebar with a link back to Quirk Crafts and of course we'd love you a join us as Guest Designers in one of the next Quirky Crafts Challenges!! So please contact Cazzy about that too! (we like to keep her busy!!)
That's it! My new challenge is coming up later today so come back again and join in!
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
Hello Quirky People, Doris again to remind our current challenge Great Picnic/BBQ. I want to tell you even have time to participate and show your talent. I also want to remind you about our fabulous prizes and generous sponsor.
My first project is an Easel Card, taken from an SVG file. For this card I used several images, all of our sponsor Crackerbox Palace, and painted it with watercolor pencil. Then, I tried to give a three dimensional appearance. When the card is closed, all the images will retain their original appearance.
Here are some tags ideas, decorated with small ants and flowers. Images provided by our generous sponsor Crackerbox Palace. These are ideas that can help us, when we are invited to an activity and we have to bring a bottle of wine or something similar.
Here's my card."Is that all you've done Lyn?!" I can here someone say! Well, no... I'll add the inside as soon as my batteries are charged up!! I've used Pink Petticoat papers, the freebie gingham I linked last week. The flowers, ant and sentiment, in fact all the images are from our sponsors! Now that I've added the 'pop out' inside you can see more little ants, pies, melons, a BBQ, as well as a picnic table! It should all fold up, so it fits (tightly!) into it's envelope!
I decided to make the jolly ants into a gatefold card this time, and I remembered I had some gingham paper for the inside.
This involved a whole load of paper peicing and decoupage, I will be cross if I find my Promarkers would have coloured the green card. Well paper peicing with coloured images is better I think anyway!
Here I am with a very late addition, I made the table into the card! Not an ant in sight on this one.
The table continues on the back of the card, so open from the back you get the whole table.
Inside I kept mainly white and black, so a greeting can be written. Sentiments by me!
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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:
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.
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!)
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).
These images are such fun to work with, I had a fight with the printer which made me late!
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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.
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.
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.
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. Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
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:
I used the image Birthday Octopus fromSquigglefly.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!)
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.
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 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.
At last, I'm here too! I've used this lovely little fish fromSquigglefly. 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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Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
P.S. Don't forget to pop back over next weekend for some more Design Team inspiration!
