Challenge #21 Reminder! Favourite Things!

  Hi Quirky peoples, here's a quick reminder about our latest challenge... 

'Favourite Things!'  

A nice and easy challenge for you all to join in with, thought up by Daire! It's Daire's last challenge with us so let's see LOADS of creations!!  No one's here at the moment so I've sneaked in to show you what the Design Team have come up with so far. But first of all, we'd all love to welcome Gemma, after joining us as a guest designer, (we couldn't scare her off!) is now a brand new member of our Design Team!! So please pop over and say hello!!

 This challenge is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, who have provided the team with some fabulous images and...

 

 Crafty Ribbons :

 

 

 

 1st Place - Your choice of 5 images from Robyn's Fetish.
2nd Place - A voucher for Crafty Ribbons, to buy ribbons, buttons and more!
3rd Place - Your choice of 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

And now here's some of our creations...

First  our lovely  Guest designer with this fabulous creation!

KEMLY (KYSO)

Flowers are one of the things I like the most. I love gardening, I like to take a few minutes a day to water my plants, talk to them and take care of them. My love for gardening is a family tradition, starting with my great-grandmother Celina and her beautiful garden. I also used light aqua color, and color the roses in light colors because I love Shabby Chic style.

The girl with flowers reminds me of myself as a child, I  used to bring flowers to my mom every time, so this beautiful digi reminds me of those moments in my life.
Thank you for this opportunity to collaborate as a guest designer.
Have a nice day ...


And here's what our Design Team have come up with this week!!

Gemma

The theme for this challenge is 'my favourite things' and I loved every second of making my reminder challenge. I fell in love with this bookworm image from Robyn's Fetish, and knew that I had to make a book with him. I painted to covers with my favourite colours and used a crackle glaze on the inside covers. I coloured the bookworm with a combination of Prisma colour pencils and Neocolour wax crayons. I then cut some paper to size and rounded the corners of it and assembled the book and finally added some ribbon to the rings. I hope you like it. Gemma  x

Lyn

 

For my second make I used this little penguin, called Paul Penguin Sleighing from our Sponsors. One of my favourites things is to add a PNG digi over an already coloured background. This snowy Sky is my own found HERE. I then printed out three other penguins, coloured them with Promarkers and used them to 3D the first penguin, which is another of my favourite things to do!  I also have a 'thing' for fonts. I try to link my posts to freebie fonts whenever I can. Another thing, which I don't get to use very often is to use acetate.  I've fixed the snowflakes onto acetate so I can have then off the edge of the card. More to see on my Blog!

Monica

For this reminder I also used a mix of my favorite things.
First I began by choosing the beautiful "Blissful Angel" digi from our sponsor Robyn`s Fetish, because I love angels, as a reminder that God takes care of us.
Then I made a Christmas Card because that´s my favorite holiday. I love family gathering and sharing.
Finally I used one of my favorite paper techniques: Iris Folding.
I also love coloring and this is my first attempt with my brand new Spectrum Noir Pens. I have to say I`m really pleased.

Pop back later, there might be some more!

 To enter the challenge link your project HERE and remember - we love to see any kind of crafts entered. Cards, art journal pages, ATC's, needlework, scrapbook pages, paintings, quilts, sculptures, shadow boxes... EVERYTHING is welcome!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #21 - Favourite Things

Hi everyone!

It's Daire here! I have some big news for you today... this is my last ever challenge as part of the Quirky Crafts Design Team. I've had such a great time over the past ten months; I've really loved stretching my creativity in new and exciting ways but unfortunately I have to prioritise 'real life' things for now.

For my final challenge I'd like you to create something using your favourite things; this could be your favourite colour, your favourite technique, your favourite theme, your favourite brand... whatever you like! The one rule is I want you to tell us which of your favourite things you've used, otherwise how will we know?

Cazzy added this - haha!

This challenge is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, who have provided the team with great images to work with, and Crafty Ribbons :

There are also some great prizes on offer for our three favourite entries:

1st Place - Your choice of 5 images from Robyn's Fetish.

2nd Place - A voucher for Crafty Ribbons, to buy ribbons, buttons and more!

3rd Place - Your choice of 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

Now for some fabulous creations from our guest designers:

Tress

Tress said: "I used the image from Robyn's Fetish, My Little Cook.  As for favorites...this card includes many of them!  Little girls' hair worn in doggy ears (too darn cute!), cooking (I'm a passionate cook), green (my color), chocolate chip cookies (yummy), shoes with embellishments (thankfully they still make sandals for women with flowers on them, lol), and last but not least I used my favorite coloring medium of Copic markers."

Kemly (Kyso)

Kemly said: "Things I like: Within the things that I like and enjoy the most, is Christmas, a time where we have the perfect excuse to share with friends and family. We can give ourselves permission to eat candies and many different meals, enjoy the beautiful decorations, full of brightness and color. Enjoy the illusion of children waiting for Christmas to receive their wishlist, brought by Santa and his good friend Rudolf to celebrate Baby Jesus birth. In my project, I resurrected the idea of the arrival of Rudolf, with his magical red nose, in front of the sled, coming from town to town giving away smiles everywhere.

Thank you very much for the nice opportunity to serve as Guest Designer."

For more ideas and inspiration, look at what our design team have been up to....

Daire

For this challenge I decorated a tea tin (my favourite drink) using a selection of my favourite black and white papers: pages from a colouring book, a page from a Mandarin poetry book, some hand doodled papers (one of my favourite things to do) as well as the book worm digi stamp from Robyn's Fetish (if you you read my blog you'll know my favourite way to spend my time is getting lost in a good book). I pasted all my scraps on using my favourite adhesive (Collage Pauge) and finished it off with some of my favourite sparkly things (rhinestones, glitter glue and sparkly nail varnish). Check out my blog tomorrow if you want to see what I'm going to be using this tin for (I'll also be giving away a free printable!)

Valou

We are also saying goodbye to Valou for now, she has come to the end of her 2 month GD spot, apart from the reminder post and voting, and we would like to thank her for her beautiful contributions to our challenges. Thank you Valou, all the best to you and your family and we hope to see you again in challenges, and of course you can apply for another 2 month GD position.

Valou said:

For my favorite things, they are flowers as well as blue and pink, my two favorite colors. 

Gemma

I made a wall hanging in the shape of a giant tag. The gorgeous digi stamp was provided by 'Robyn's Fetish' and was lovely to use. 

This challenge's theme was to use our favourite things.  This gave me the chance to use all of the items I love to use the most. I used several sheets of my favourite Christmas papers, tore each one into pieces, inked around them and paper pieced them together onto the giant hardboard tag. I coloured the reindeer in with some of my favourite mediums, including Inktense blocks, and Portfolio crayons. I also love to use Prima resist canvas (as the leaves), Treasure Gold, and Distress ink pads. I really enjoyed this challenge.

Cazzy

I used Paul Penguin sleighing (thanks to Robyn's Fetish) on my card, and my favourite colour combo of purple and bright green, I also love penguins and all birds. The card blank is my favourite sparkly glittery purple card, and I raided my stash of precious buttons for some purple and bright green ones. I also love to use ribbon and this bright green ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

Lyn

When I saw this little cook I knew I'd have to hunt out my favourite cooking papers and do my favourite thing, which is lots of layering and 3-D-ing, add my favourite brads and buttons and of course colour her with my favourite Promarkers! See the inside and more detail on my blog!

Doris - may be along later, but is not well.

Monica

Hi!!! this proyect is a mix up of different things I like the most. I´m not a skill crafter, so I have trouble cutting with scissors or cutters. So, since I have met my Cameo machine, I felt in love with it and I do everything with it. This recipe card gift box was cut with it. Next, I love Tim Holtz techniques, so I used a regular white cardboad and ink it up with my distress inks, after that I embellish the cardboard with some blue ink swirls and add some shimmer with blue metallic perfect pearls. I chose "My Little Cook" digi from our sponsor Robyn´s Fetish, because I like to cook for my family. I color my image with my Prismacolor pencils. I like to color, I find it so relaxing. Finally inside the box you will find one of my favorite recipes "Coca Cola Carrot Cake", I hope you try it and you will understand why is one of my favorites. Greetings from Costa Rica.

*Is 1/2 CUP of vegetable oil.

Remember - we love to see any kind of crafts entered. Cards, art journal pages, needlework, scrapbook pages, paintings, quilts, sculptures, shadow boxes... EVERYTHING is welcome!

Note: we have one more image we haven't showed you, and that will appear on the reminder post next week!

 Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Winners - who has the best or biggest pumpkins?

Doris set a very popular challenge and she is very happy that you all wanted to share your makes with us! We had lots of great pumpkins to look at so thank you all for sharing with us this time, and thank you to our two wonderful sponsors who provided great images to the team and great prizes for our winners!
The team had a tough time deciding and of course with so many came up with different favourites, only two entries were eliminated, one didn't mention Quirky or link to the blog, and one had a paper pumpkin in the photo but not actually on the make being submitted! This left us with 35 great entries to compare.
All of you deserve to win, but there can only be 3 prize winners, and the team had a hard job to decide this time (and every time some more votes came it the top three changed), but finally we decided on our winners:

In first place this gorgeous detailed card by Grandma Bonnie, featuring a kitten sleeping in a pumpkin:

Congratulations Grandma Bonnie, you have won 7 images from Bugaboo!

The second person chosen by the team is Katie Tate, who is a little batty about pumpkins:

Congratulations Katie, you have won 3 images from Limited Runs!

In third place we have Billie A, with one of her two entries, this one also has a cute cat by a huge pumpkin.

Congratulations Billie, you have won 2 images from Bugaboo!

If all three of you would like to contact me (Cazzy) using the link in the sidebar to email me, I will arrange for you to collect your prizes and send you a personalised winner's badge. We would love it if you all could join us as Guest Designers - please say you will - let us know when you email about your prize if you can!

Thank you to everyone who entered, and don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge and some sad news!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Pumpkin Time reminder - challenge #20

It is reminder time for this very popular challenge, after all it is Pumpkin time of year!

Here are the details posted by Doris last week:

Hello my dear Quirky friends, it´s my turn again (Doris), and I hope that everyone has a life full of health, love, happiness and creativity. And as you can see, I wanted to pick a theme orange colored:

                       

” When you see me in the fields,

my oranges glowing in the sun.

It is time to say good bye to summer

and Hello to autumn fun!!”

All you have to do is let your imagination fly and participate in projects (any project) that has pumpkins. Pumpkins, happy, sad, funny, scared, friendly, angry … Pumpkins. I can´t wait to see the beautiful creations that you have to share with our Quirky family. And to encourage you to participate, I want share with you who are our sponsors in our Pumpkin Challenge. 

Bugaboo 

Limited Runs

So we have a beautiful color, a nice theme, and of course wonderful prizes
First Place: 7 Bugaboo digi images
Second Place: 3 digi Limited Runs images
Third Place: 2 Bugaboo digi images

Here are some more lovely examples to inspire you:

Guest Designer Gabriela

Gabi has made a great spooky scene with Limited Runs digis: Witch with Pumpkins and Stacked Pumpkins. Thank you Gabi, we love it.

Gemma

I really enjoyed using these Bugaboo digis to make my Pumpkin Bunting. I used Dylusions ink to give the images a great vibrant colour, then mounted them on to black and coloured card with ribbons....
It was great fun to make and perfect for Halloween ...

Monica

Hi, for this reminder I have made a fence card and this lovely "Pumpkin Pie" digi from our sponsor Limited Runs. 
Don´t you think it looks yummy!!!! 
And on the top of the fence a cute squirrel waiting for the chance to steal the pie. 
I used my Prismacolor pencils to color the digi. 
Have a nice Sunday.

Lyn 

For my second make I've used these cutie spookies, they're called Bumpkin-Trio by Bugaboo! They've been 3D-ed to make them pop and coloured with Promarkers. I've added Stickles Glitter the the 'stars' to give them a little bling. Papers by PinkPetticoat.

Cazzy

- will be along later, family things going on!

Here I am, with my first make! Sorry about the delay. 

I used this cute little Witch and Pumpkins from Limited Runs for this card, and added ribbons from Crafty Ribbons and spooky eyelets. Image coloured with Promarkers. 

Back later with more.....

This card features a spooky silhouette tree and the peeking cat image from Bugaboo. 

Probably nobody will see this card here, I have added it the day before the challenge closes! I wanted to use the little witch hanging on the moon which I picked up as a freebie of the week from Bugaboo, with the spooky silhouette tree, there is a pumkin in the silhouette - bottom right hand corner with a cat sitting on it!

Doris

First I want to ask I apologies for my delay. I've been sick and I can only work small spaces of time.

My first project is a recycled bag, for which I used Scarecow-wagon digi image from  Bugaboo .

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My second project is a card, in which I used Monster Sign digi Image of Limited Runs. It is hand painted with watercolor pencil. 

To enter the challenge link your project HERE.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.