Welcome toQuirky Crafts Challengesthe place where any craft project is allowed.
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.
It's reminder time, you have until midday Saturday 23rd to enter my challenge with your chilly makes featuring a nice hot drink to warm us all up.
This time we are lucky to be sponsored by Crafty Ribbons, and by Bugaboo who provided the team with the perfect images for this challenge, and you can win some fabulous ribbons or some great images if you are picked by the team to be in our top three!
Our first place winner will receive a voucher to spend with Crafty Ribbons to the value of £10
Our second place winner will win 7 digis of their choice from Bugaboo.
The third place winner will win 2 images of their choice from Bugaboo.
We are also very grateful to Gloria who is providing a special extra prize of a stamp set for USA entries, see details on the post below!
How about a cozy fireplace with a hot cocoa cup to warm up???? Don`t you think is a good idea???
For this week reminder I made a fireplace gift box and decorate it with this cute "Girl Gingerbread Cocoa" digi from our sponsor Bugaboo and some cozy mittens. I used my Cameo for the cutting files work and my Spectrum Noir to color the digi. (I think that is a great idea Monica, it is so cold here today I would love it! Cazzy x)
Well this weeks Quirky Crafts challenge couldn't be more appropriate "Baby it's Cold Outside", it's so cold here today, but I'm nice and cosy with a mug of tea and a log fire....
The lovely Bugaboo images (I used Poppi Xmas Cocoa) gave me an idea to make a 'Do Not Disturb My Cuppa' sign to hang on your door. I painted gesso onto the hanger so the surface would be better to paint on. I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints in 3 shades of blue, then applied some Molding paste through a stencil, to give it a 'weathered wood' look.
I found a piece of corrugated cardboard and added a little paint to it, then some 'treasure gold' gilding wax, to use as a background for my image.
I coloured my image and heat embossed a flower, then stamped my message on the back.
I'm already looking forward to using this, especially as it's getting colder.....xx
I used Cocoa to make a background paper and coloured in parts of the mugs and cocoa by hand, and then used Lil Snowman Star as the main image. The ribbon is another Crafty Ribbon exclusive.
The left over cocoa images were used as fragments on the inside, on top of matching paper and with a plain panel to write on.
I've also used Poppi Xmas Cocoa, 3D-ed his mug of cocoa and used the spare straw so I have two. Then added the spare penguin inside my card. Coloured with Promarkers, added Stickles, Pearls, Corner Peel offs, punched out snowflakes, I've also used a little plastic snowflake from a thrown out Christmas decoration. I've edged all the layers with gold mat card. Ribbon by DoCrafts, papers by Pink Petticoat.
It's my turn again, Cazzy, and it has to be Quirky with a twist! I want to see projects about the colder months of the year (if it is warm where you are, think snow, ice, Autumn or Winter) and they must include a hot drink or two!
I love the Tom Jones version, but this is more in keeping with the theme heehee! If you get a chance watch the Tom Jones Cerys Matthews one on You Tube.
To see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.
This time we are lucky to be sponsored by Crafty Ribbons, and by Bugaboo who provided the team with the perfect images for this challenge, and you can win some fabulous ribbons or some great images if you are picked by the team to be in our top three!
Our first place winner will receive a voucher to spend with Crafty Ribbons to the value of £10
Our second place winner will win 7 digis of their choice from Bugaboo.
The third place winner will win 2 images of their choice from Bugaboo.
We are also very grateful to Gloria who is providing a special extra prize for USA entries, see below!
Here is some inspiration from our guest designers:
Billie has used Margaret November, and Margaret (Margaret Calendar Month - November) is holding a cup of cocoa, or it could be tea or coffee! Billie has added some pine branches and torn paper snow, because "Baby it's cold outside".
The inside is also decorated, please visit Gloria's blog to see the photo and more details.
Here is a special extra prize donated by Gloria for USA entrants only (due to postage costs), if you would like to be considered to win this prize please put USA after your name when linking your make. Gloria will chose the one she likes the best from your entries to win this set!
Glorisa said: the stamp set is called Scandinavian Wishes and has die cuts that coordinate with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.
(many apologies for not putting these on right away).
Val used Girl Gingerbread Cocoa for her cute card, with some snowflakes on snowy paper. and for her gift of coffee sachets Val used Cocoa (which is a $1 image) on the tag.
I've used Girl Gingerbread Cocoa, she's so cute! I thought I might make something a little different this time, when I spotted these little marshmallows I thought they'd be delicious on top of a hot cocoa, perfect for this time of year in Yorkshire, So I've made her into a little bag topper, coloured with my Promarkers and finished with a little ribbon and buttons.
Hi, a little late, but just a little. My health has been a little broken. For this challenge I made two beautiful projects. The first is a box for Mixing Powdered Chocolate with marshmallows. In this I use Cocoa image provided by our sponsor Bugaboo.
My second one, is a special envelope for an special friend, and for this, I used the TedXmas image provided by Bugaboo, our great sponsor.
But is not just a envelope, it is a beautiful card too.
I put in, two Mixing Powdered Chocolate envelopes, but you can also put in, Tea Bags or any other details you want to add.
For the challenge this week, I wanted to create something that you could give as a gift, and these lovely digis from Bugaboo gave me an idea.
I had a 'hidden box' book in my stash and painted it, inside and out. Once dry I distressed the edges and tried to make it look old and used.
I chose some of the bugaboo images and coloured them with 'Distress Markers'.
Once everything had been coloured and cut out, I arranged the images and glued them in place.
Then I created my gift....I filled the inside of the box with tea bags, hot chocolate and coffee sachets, and herbal tea.
Because the images were all holding hot drinks I thought it would make a good gift for a tea/coffee/chocolate drinker.... It certainly made me thirsty making it!
I've used this super cute snowman from our sponsors calledSnowman Cocoa and of course I've coloured him with Promarkers and 3D-ed him and his mug of hot chocolate. (Love hot chocolate with either a spoonful of Nutella or a flake (or both!) The snowy paper is mine own, the backing papers were freebies from a magazine called Ginger bread Lane. I've added gems, stars, beads on a wire and snowflakes plus a real red pompom to his Santa hat. Inside I've left it blank but have done a bit of embossing. The font is a freebie, link on my blog!
Monica
In Costa Rica we don´t know what real cold is about. December is our coldest month of the year and the lowest temperatures reach about 17 or 15 °C (that´s about 59 or 62 °F). But when we reach 15°C, we are almost freezing, because none here has heaters at home (I know most of you will laugh about ticos freezing at15°C). So we, tropical people, use to warm up ourselves with a good cup of hot coffee, or tea, or cocoa, and sometimes with a good soup. With that in mind, I made a cute 3d teapot (I love to work 3d) and I used this lovely "Christmas Mouse" digi from our sponsor Bugaboo.
Inside the box I added some good tea bags, to turn it into a lovely treat for someone special.
Now let's see what you can do! There will be some more great inpiration next week, and more images.
Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below. Don't forget to put USA after your name if you are in the USA and wish to be considered for Gloria's prize.
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
It's me again, (Lyn) here to tell you who the winners are of our last Challenge, (Make Us Quirky Well Laugh!) and you did! (I'm sure Cazzy fell off Ike's loo!) First, just to keep you in suspenders, we'd love to thank our fabulous Sponsor...
Well done everyone! If all three of you would like to contact Cazzy using the email ink on
the sidebar, she 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! Don't forget you will be given digi's to work with.
Thank you to everyone who entered. Don't forget to check back later
today to find out all about our new challenge.... Is it my turn?? No (phew!) it's Cazzy's turn to set the theme, so see you then! Happy Crafting!
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
Here's some more fabulous creations by our Design Team and Guest Designers! To join in with this challenge, scroll down or go HERE! and have a look at our last weeks creations while you're there!
(who won our last Pumpkin challenge with this fabulous make)
I really like this Pumpkin Boy image, it reminds me of vintage Halloween decorations. He also has a cute expression. I tried to make this card with a vintage look. Seeing as it is a digital image you could really make this extra large and use it for decorations as well. The sentiment would look good all by itself as a mini poster..or a tag on a card. So many ideas!
This is a great stamp, Helen with coffee, she has such a lot of
character! I coloured her with Promarkers and added her to some pretty
papers then fixed the sentiment right behind her.
A quirky challenge with quirky images from Crackerbox Palace...I love these digis, they made me smile straight away....
I used a large tag and sprayed it with Dylusions inks to try and get a spooky atmosphere. Then I used a Tim Holtz sizzix die to cut the toombstones and colored them using the same colours .
The gorgeous images and sentiment are digi stamps from Crackerbox Palace, and were coloured with Promarkers and Distress ink pads, and I thought they would look mischievous sat in the tree.
This time I used this quirky fish Nibbles from our sponsors and also made some backing papers using lots of little fishes and one big fish. I originally coloured it all on the computer, only.... it was nearly out of ink, so instead of a blue watery background I had..a streaky pink one! Shame to waste him, so I ended up re-colouring the big fish (which also came out a streaky-wishy-washie pink) with my Promarkers. He's also been 3D-ed. There's black, yellow and orange card, each edged with a black pen to make it appear as though there's even more layers. (The lilac is Promarker) The Font I've used is a freebie, link on my blog.
For this reminder I chose "Nibbles", a very loving piranha from our sponsor Crackerbox Palace. As anyone might expect, she loves bites. So, inside the card, we can find a very scared fellow.
To color Nibbles I used my Spectrum Noir pens and my Cameo to trace and cut all the paper piecing
work.
Hi and I´m so sorry. I´m a little late this week, but… I´m here. This week I want to share a funny card, which use the Friendly Lion image, from our great sponsor Crackerbox Palace….. I have to say I really enjoyed making this card. Have a great week! Cazzy
Don't worry Doris, I am even later than you! I used the very amusing Clara and "I used to Jog.." sentiment (I had the stamp for years) both from Crackerbox Palace! I made a background with a Little Claire beach hut.
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