Reminder time - Challenge #24 - Christmas Like In the Good Old Days

It's reminder time, you have until midday December 7th to enter this challenge with your vintage altered christmas projects.

Remember, it could be a bottle, a thin, a notebook, a frame, etc, whatever you want, but you must meet the 3 requirements: vintage, Christmas and altered project. (Sorry no cards are allowed, if you enter a card you will not be making it to the top three).

This time we are lucky to be sponsored by STITCHY BEAR STAMPS  who provided the team with the perfect images for this challenge, and you can win some fabulous prizes if you are picked by the team to be in our top three!

Our first place winner will win 3 images of choice from the whole of the store.

Our second place winner will win 3 images from of the DT´s chosen images.


And  our third place winner will win 2 images from the DT´s chosen images.

Stitchy Bear Digital stamps provided the following images to the team:

Stitchy Stamps
Magic of Christmas
Window Shopping

Coosty Creations
Poinsettia Digital Stamp and  a paper from the Paper Pack

Lil Diva
Winterville
Lil Angel

Now here is some more inspiration from the team:

 First, we would like to welcome our new 2 month Guest Designer -

Konica! 

Konica is so excited to be on the team, and she has started a week early and made this gorgeous altered tin:

Konica said: I just wanted to share with you my altered creation - well...I have used Li'l Diva Stamps - Li'l Angel and poinsettia paper pack.
Well done Konica, we love it, and I hope everyone will visit your blog to see more information(and more of your creations) and to welcome you to the team!

And here's some fabulous makes from the rest of the Quirky Design Team!


                                                          Cazzy  (Here at last)

will be along later, busy with schedule for next year!                                             

Here I am, sorry I am late but life got in the way of crafting this time, and you might wonder why this is all I have to show for my hours of work, well I did alter a watch box but when I looked at the photos it is so awful I am not even going to show you, I might put it on my blog though. This is an altered sweetie jar, I used Winter Ville and painted the lid gold, finally adding some tinsel ribbon I bought from Crafty Ribbons.

                                                             DORIS

might be a bit later too

     GEMMA

Christmas is fast approaching, and this challenge has really filled me with Christmas spirit.

The focal Digi image in this wall hanging is from the fabulous Stitchy Bear Stamps, which I coloured with Inktense Pencils, Portfolio Oil Crayons and a waterbrush.  I distressed the edges of the Digi stamp and made small tears which I curled over, then edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  This made it look worn and old.

The background was a collage of vintage papers and replica vintage Christmas postcards from my own stash. I punched some snowflakes out of canvas and embossed them with silver powder to stand out.  I just love the way the main image stands out so much on the muted background, and I know exactly where I'm going to hang this for Christmas.... Xxx

                                                                  Lyn

 I altered some beer mats, strangely we appear to have rather a lot of them! I've covered them in some vintge papers  I had from a magazine and then inked them and the digi images from our sponsor with Vintage Photo and then tore around them. I printed out the word SNOW and tore this out so on each beer mat it reads 'Snow', Noel, Oh Christmas Tree and Winter. Then I added glitter glue. The reindeer is a stencil, also from a crafty mag.

Vintage really isn't my favourite, or altering things, but I also hate to give up! This was a Nuttella glass jar (Nuttella long gone!) I printed the digis onto thin acetate..and then threw some embossing power over it as soon as the sheet came out of the printer. I gently heated it, adding a bit more embossing power to make the actetate look frosted. It then went through my Xyron and was stuck to the glass. The candle was lit and the lights turned down...

                                                                             

 MONICA

For this challenge reminder I used this beautiful digi, "Magic of Christmas", provided by our generous sponsor, Stitchy Bear Stamps.

I altered a plain wooden tray, painting it with dark brown acrylic paint, then a coat of crackle medium and then a light coat of french vanilla acrylic paint.  When the wooden tray was already crackle, I apply distress ink to the borders. Then, I cut a dark brown background with a lacy border to add the digi. I colored the digi with Spectrum Noir pens, using golden and browns, to keep the vintage look.

To enter this challenge link your post HERE


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #24: "Christmas like in the good old days." Altered items only.

Yey!!!!!! It´s my turn -Monica- to set the theme for the next challenge.

Christmas is just around the corner and really it feel like Christmas everywhere.

I love Christmas, but I looooooveeeee vintage. So, what about to go back in time:

So this new challenge is all about that: We want to see VINTAGE CHRISTMAS ALTERED PROJECTS. It could be a bottle, a thin, a notebook, a frame, etc, whatever you want, but you must meet the 3 requirements: vintage, Christmas and altered project. (Sorry no cards are allowed, if you enter a card you will not be making it to the top three).

Our sponsor for this challenge is STITCHY BEAR STAMPS, that provided us with their fabulous stamps.

We have some bad news, Helen has stepped down early from her 2 month Guest Designer spot due to finding it too much with family pressures, and so we will be recruiting a new GD soon.

And they are giving you the chance to win:

1st price: 3 images of choice from the whole of the store
2nd price: 3 images from of the DT´s chosen images.
3rd price: 2 images from the DT´s chosen images.

Stitchy Bear Digital stamps provided the following images to the team:

Stitchy Stamps
Magic of Christmas
Window Shopping

Coosty Creations
Poinsettia Digital Stamp and  a paper from the Paper Pack

Lil Diva
Winterville
Lil Angel

                              First, the makes of our fabulous Guest Designers:

Leeann

Leeann said: "This "Lil Angel" adorns a little box, perfect for filling with treats or other smaller gift items.  I lined the inside with a coordinating pattern.  The wooden heart was painted yellow then distressed with Tim Holtz paint before I added the pearls.  There are also Liquid Pearl dots in the background to further accent the heart and angel."

Mian

Mian has altered an unusual box, and used Winterville on the front with some vintage style embellishments.

                         And here's some fabulous makes from our Quirky Design Team!

DORIS

First, I have to say I love the Vintage. For this time I made this altered frame, using the window-shopping image, from our fabulous sponsor STITCHY BEAR STAMPS. I used a frame from a dollar store, and also I made a pin using some flowers, bottoms, gems and tull. I also used a stamp phrase. Hope you enjoy this challenge.

GEMMA

 I just loved these lovely wintery digi images this week from Stitchy Bear Digi Stamps.

I had a wooden icon triptych in my stash, and wanted to create a vintage leathery look. I used a crackle paste with the paint and when dry used some Distress ink over the cracks

 I coloured in the beautiful digis with Inktense Pencils to give a contrast to the darker background.

 I stamped around the edges with an evergreen bough stamp in green, to again, add some interest and contrast in colour...

....I really enjoyed making this, I had great fun and got really messy!

LYN

Well I was waaaay out of my comfort zone, with altered art and vintage! But had a go anyway. It's an old diary 2004, never used, so I thought it would make a great Christmas Wish List/Note Book. I roughed up the vintage papers, to make them look even older (Free from a magazine a few weeks ago) I've inked up the edges with TM Distress Ink Vintage Photo and coloured the digital image  Magic of Christmas from our lovely Sponsors with Promakers. I've added glass charms and little ties of scrap ribbon. The large snowflake was recycyled from an old Christmas card. Link to font used is on my blog.

CAZZY

I covered one of my hot chocolate tins to hold a Christmas gift, and I used Winterville on the front adding colour with Promarkers, and sparkle with Mod Podge. 

The lid is covered with paper from the Poinsettia pack, and I used the poinsettia corners from the pack, a dab of Treasure Gold, and some gems, round the rim I added some ribbon (badly).

 The Window Shopping lady is about to step into the snow and head for the shops, or maybe the church!

On the back is the Li'l Angel saying her prayers. You can see the paper has a 3d appearance of poinsettias.

MONICA 

For my project I made an altered bottle. 

First I covered the bottle with small vintage paper pieces and modge podge (I want to thank my dear friend Kemly, who taught me that technique). 

Once the bottle was covered, I distressed it with vintage photo distress ink. 

To add some Christmas look, I made a big poinsettia flower with vintage distressed papers.

Finally I chose the "Winter Ville" digi, provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear. 

This was my real challenge because it was the first time that I colored a scene stamp. 

I colored it with Spectrum Noir pens and after coloring I distressed it with vintage photo distress ink to keep the vintage look.

To see who won the last challenge scroll down to the next post. 

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winners of challenge 23 Baby It's cold outside - so let's make cocoa!

We didn't have many people enter my chilly challenge, some of the entrants were very inspired and entered up to three makes! Your makes were all lovely, thank you for joining in!

Sadly we had to eliminate one lovely entry for not featuring a hot drink.

We would like to thank our three great sponsors for this challenge who were: Crafty Ribbons, Bugaboo and a special prize from GD Gloria Shirr!

As usual every team member has chosen their top 6 in order of favourites, these were all entered into a spreadsheet and the marks were aggregated to give us the following top 3, so here are our favourites.

In first place is Simone with these really cute tea boxes.

Congratulations Simone, you have won a £10 Crafty Ribbons voucher!

Our second winner is Chrissy with this very different curved tri-fold card with lots of cocoa drinking characters.

Congratulations Chrissy, you have won 7 images of your choice from Bugaboo!

Third place goes to Nela with her pretty card with a cocoa drinking girl, and lots of stitching and detail.

Congratulations Nela, you have won two images of your choice from Bugaboo.

All of you please email me, using the email link in the sidebar, and I will send you your winner's badges and arrange for you to get your prizes. We would love all of you to be Guest Designers in the next challenge if you can, so please let me know if you can join us, and you get another badge for that and an image or two to use!

As well as a top three we had a special prize from Gloria, and the winner of that prize is Gloria's favourite USA entrant, and that is Princess with this lovely get well card.

Congratulations Princess, you won the gorgeous stamp set from Gloria!

We would also love you to join us as Guest Designer, please email me 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!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Reminder time - Challenge #23 Baby It's Cold Outside - so let's make cocoa (or a hot drink)

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!

Now here is some more inspiration from the team:

Helen

Helen used Poppi Xmas Cocoa on this very heartfelt card with homespun background.

Monica

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)

Gemma

 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

Cazzy 

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.

Lyn

 

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.

Doris


I made a card for this reminder, using the Snowman-Cocoa image from Bugaboo. 
I painted this beautiful image with watercolor pencil.

To enter the challenge link your project HERE.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.