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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.
Reminder time - you have until Saturday 18th Jan to enter this very popular challenge, and the topic is Eyes Wide Open, so I want to see big eyes, lots of eyes, they must be open eyes!
Our sponsor this time is the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps who have provided the team with some lovely images to use.
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 the DT´s chosen images. And our third place winner will win 2 images from the DT´s chosen images.
Now we have some more gorgeous examples from the team: Gemma
We were spoilt this month with the beautiful images we were given from 'Stitchy Bear Stamps'. The images were so easy to use..
For this challenge I used 'Poppy' digi... I wanted to do a large tag, but for a change I used a large black tag. I mixed texture paste with red paint and scraped it through a poppy stencil. I coloured in the image with Tim Holtz distress markers and a waterbrush ......
For this reminder I made a multifold card to place this lovely "Just Purr-fect" digi from our sponsor.
In this image we have many eyes: the beautiful eyes of the girl, the magic eyes of the cat, so I add another beautiful pair of eyes on the from of the card. I used animal print papers to decorate the card and Spectrum Noir pens to color the image.
I have to say I really enjoyed this challenge. For this week I made a simple card, using the Blue Color as a principal. The digi I used :Poppy, from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps. I used watercolor colored pencil Staedtler , lace, brads and some flowers.
I made this card...without using any pattern paper(this is kind of a fever that i am having for not using pattern
papers in my creations,that started in new year!! lol !!!)..I have used only colored card stock in the card overall..I have used the digi 'Han'ing Out' from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps...the image is so pretty and symbolizes kids in a family..so this card is basically a reminder to all families about its
true meaning...the sentiment"F.A.M.I.L.Y" and its full form "Father And Mother I Love You" is hand written by me... for embellishing the card I haven't put on much as it looked elegant the simple way.
I used Fairy Fae from our Sponsors this time. I didn't want to colour her too much, so using ProMarkers I just picked the blue and the gold and the Poppy red for her lips, then added gems, pearls, and lots of Stickles Glitter.
Here at last! I also used Fairy Fae, and decided to go for yellow and blue, didn't know Lyn was also going for those colours, at least our hair is different! She is a gorgeous image to colour and I hope I did her justice. Full details are on my blog, including glitter accident!
Do you want to find out who won the last challenge? OK click HERE or scroll down to find out.
Are you ready for a new challenge?
Yes?
Well how about a simple one to start us off this year. The challenge today is called Eyes Open, and I want to see eyes, lots of eyes, or big eyes, big eyed characters, it must have eyes and they must be open - that is all there is too it!
Here is Taylor Swift singing Eyes Open, for your entertainment.
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 the DT´s chosen images. And our third place winner will win 2 images from the DT´s chosen images.
It is such a pleasure for me to present my card as a guest designer for
you today. I have to admit that working with Digital images holds a
certain amount of fear as I am not a confident painter, but having the
opportunity to work with "Poppy" and bring her to life brought out the
'I can do this' mindset in me! I chose to use Faber-Castell big brush
pens, as they are so vibrant, and I wanted her to Pop off the card, she
is so pretty and pleasing to the eye, how can one not love her.
I used Poppy to make a birthday card and added a die cut poppy as well, I love this image too, and I decided to give her red hair because I can do that best!
My desire is that you have a New Year full of good things. For this first challenge of the year, I worked a punched card with flowers. I used the digi-ss Haning' Out from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps And my point is that some things never change, one of those is the family, so keep your eyes open and do not let anyone change your family. Again, Happy New Year!!
What a fabulous way to start the new year, with a challenge that has beautiful images. The images were provided by Stitchy Bear Digital Stampsand I chose to do a canvas. The image I picked was called 'Just Purr-Fect'.
I enjoyed this project so much, I absolutely love colouring, and these images are just 'perfect'......
I used Dylusionsinks and sprays to create the background as I wanted a bright, vibrant canvas as it was so cold and dreary outside.......Happy new year everyone, It's doing to be a good one!
I've used one of our Sponsors fabulous digi's Delicious Doodles /Stitchy Bear Astrology Aquarius I've used mostly Blues to colour her plus silver and dark blue card. There's a bit of glitter and lots of embossing.
Happy New Year Every one!!
Happy New Year!!!!
For this challenge I chose "Fairy Fae" digi because her eyes are beautiful. I make a triple easel card and colored Fae with Spectrum Noir pens.
To add a final touch, I used Silhouette Cameo Sketch Pens to write down with my cutting machine, this beautiful Marcel´s Proust quote:
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This challenge is the last one for 2013, and we would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and HappyNew Year, and to thank everybody who has entered our challenges, guest Designers, the Design Team, our lovely followers, and most of all - all of our generous sponsors this year!
Now for the Christmas Treasure challenge, where we asked you to use something special to you and tell us why it was special.
We were sponsored by the lovely Regina Easter of:
The team were provided with some great images to show you and we all enjoyed this challenge very much, and sharing our treasures with you.
We loved looking at all of your treasure, and hearing why it was special, you all did so well but in the end there can only be three winners. So the team has voted and here are our favourite three entries and final winners for this year:
who decorated her special bird house which she also has hoarded for a long time!
Congratulations Rea, you have won one set of your choice from The Cutting Cafe.
All of you will also receive a personalized winner's badge, and we would love you to join us as Guest Designers in 2014! Please contact me (using the link in the sidebar) who will arrange for you to collect your prizes, and send your badges, and don't forget to say if you can be Guest Designer!
Don't forget to come back on January 5th 2014 to find out about our first challenge of the year!
Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.
This is your reminder that you have until Saturday midday (UK time) to enter the challenge, and the challenge is all about Christmas projects with a twist! The twist is you must use your treasure (and you must tell us what it is and why it is special to you)! Our very generous sponsor is:
Here's my make for this weeks reminder. When we were deciding this challenge a few months back, it was going to be to use up those papers and other things you've had for ages, because they are just too special. I'd already decided to use the Pink Petticoat papers (Large SnowFlakes) which I bought at the end of last year (2011/2012) and never used, along with the lilac and silver ribbon.
Then we decided on something more, a 'real treasure' so I've picked my one and only snowflake charm that's been waiting for years to be used and the pearls. These pearls are the last strand I have left from my daughter's wedding five years ago, so they are very special as they remind me of a wonderful day, in October 2008. I've used the Noel from Christmas in a Square from our sponsors and because I wanted to keep this monotone, I coloured the Noel in the same colour as the papers. I've added one silver corner peel off plus Crystal Stickles glitter and purple gems.
My treasure for this reminder: ribbon and buttons. These, I got two years ago, was a gift from my friend Laura Carazo and I've kept it all this time with special affection.
I really loved this Christmas in a squaresentiment set from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. For this reminder I used "From our home to yours" to make this quilt card. Here I used two of my treasures: I`m a Graphic 45 addict, I love their paper collections, I buy their paper and try not to use it (LOL). So for this card I used a little bit of my Graphic 45 paper. Also I used this rustic green fiber that I love.
I've been putting up my gorgeous Christmas decorations this week, and I had an idea to make my own, to decorate a twig tree that I'd recently bought.
All of the decorations on this tree, I have made, and it really felt like Christmas was here, especially while singing to Christmas songs, whilst crafting.
I found some very special mini light bulb embellishments deep within my biggest Christmas stash box, and I haven't used them so far because I don't think you can get them now and I really love them! The metallic card printed with Love at Christmas is also quite special because I won it recently and only have one sheet.
I used Christmas Stocking Laundry from The Cutting Cafe on my card, I love this image.
It is challenge time again, and it is getting so close to Christmas, so we want to see Christmas projects with a twist! The twist is you must use your treasure (and you must tell us what it is and why it is special to you)!
(If you would like to see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.)
Your treasure could be a very special keepsake that you have had hidden away safe, like Konica's star, and you can put it onto a project that you will keep and display every Christmas, or your treasure could be a very special item in your stash that you kept for years and didn't want to use because you love it! You can make something for a very special person to receive, or something you will keep yourself. Your treasure could be that last bit of expensive paper, or ribbon, or something else that has nearly run out and you were keeping the last bit!
You must tell uswhat your treasured item is, and why it is so special, it is not enough to say this is special - why is it special to you?
This must also be a Christmas project, so think Christmas and treasure! (Here is a bit of Nat King Cole from Christmas Treasures Vol 2)
Our very generous sponsor is:
The Cutting Cafe
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The prizes for our top three favourite entries are:
1st prize: three sets or images of your choice
2nd prize: two sets or images of your choice
3rd prize: one set or image of your choice
If you have bought from the Cutting Cafe you will know that a set of images contains lots of images and sentiments in different sizes in PDF format to make it easy just to print the size you require.
The files and images the team are using today are: Christmas in a Square (Printables) Christmas Sentiment Shapes (Cutting files and Printables) Christmas Stocking Laundry (Single printable) Christmas Elisha Jean and friends (Printables)
We have some wonderful inspiration for you first some wonderful makes, using the images supplied by The Cutting Cafe, from our Guest Designers (all previous winners):
I've been keeping these Snowflakes for a long time! I was eventually going to cut them up and use just a few at a time lol..as they were on a roll...
but, when I saw this Christmas Tree I decided I could use them down the edges...With two finishing at the top to look like a star!
I then thought they look soooo pretty! I decided to use them the rest down the edges of the paper! Yikes! This Christmas card will have to go to someone special!
On the Christmas tree, I purchased the wire and beads in 2003, which was my first scrapbook convention (Simply Southern Scrapbook Convention) in Nashville, TN. I saw several projects that I wanted to try including cursive writing. Since I didn't get a chance to take the class or pursue the technique, they have been in my stash unused. When I saw The Cutting Cafe Christmas Sentiment Shapes, the tree caught my eyes and I attached the beads to the wire to trim the tree and added the other embellishments to put it all together.
Now we have some gorgeous projects from our talented Design Team:
Sorry I was late, here is my project. The gel medium is still wet so I will replace this photo when it is properly dry (now replaced), it has glass balls in it so should be nice and shiny.
I am still altering, I took a photo frame that I bought in a charity shop, painted it with Fresco paints and added Christmas Sentiment Shapes which were inked with Distress inks, and Christmas Stocking Laundry as the focal picture in the frame. My special items are the Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass acetate overlays. I bought these a few years ago and was so in awe of them they stayed in the pack - until now!
I have to say, this challenge has been one of my favorites. Search my trunk of memories was very special. Now I want to show my treasure. It's something I keep with special affection, because it was the first technique that I taught in my classes, it is also my favorite. I used my manual embossing, patinas paper, glitter and my class'a peel stickers.
To make these cards also used the SVG cut file Sentiments Christmas Shapes Outlines from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe.I embossed card with a snowflake embossing folder, then die cut a snowflake and covered it with glitter. I also added Class´s a Peel Stickers, a little charm, ribbon and some sparks.
For my second card, I used the same file from The Cutting Cafe, our great sponsor. In this case, I also used my double sided adhesive sheets. I worked them with glitter and Class'a Peel stickers Also used the patinas to give light and shade to the poinsettias and some ribbon.
I hope you enjoy this challenge as much as I. Find the full instructions at my blog: dorismolina.blogspot.comFind the full instructions at my blog from Monday morning.
I wanted to share my photo frame in which I've put my mums favorite 'star embellishment' that is so very special to me..but its a bit old, she loved Christmas a lot...and its been a year that she passed away. I have also used the images from Cutting Cafe, CHRISTMAS RUBY J, CHRISTMAS IN A SQUARE, and CHRISTMAS STOCKING LAUNDRY.
I love Christmas, it's my favourite time of year and best spent with friends and family....what more could you want at this special time? I have many birthdays amongst my friends and family this time of year, and as soon as I saw the images from the Elisha Jane and Friends set, I knew it had to be based around friends and family. I used Dylusions ink sprays to make the background and Promarkers to colour the images. To edge the page, I used a pine needle rubber stamp, just to give the page some definition. My special treasured thing: I used a snow pen. I've had
it for years and don't want to use it up, so don't use it very often. I
haven't seen another one since I bought it. I used it around the girls
hats and dresses
For this challenge I used the "Christmas in a square" set provided by our sponsor The Cutting Cafe.
As a 2013 purpose, I wanted to learn to work on vinyl. And I am very happy because I achieved it. I could even teach some friends.
In Costa Rica, you can´t find on the stores Oracal vinyl -for me the best of all- , you can find other brands, but not as good as Oracal. So to have Oracal vinyl, I must make an international purchase. For that reason, my Oracal vinyl is like a treasure.
So, in this project I used some of my beloved treasure: golden matte vinyl.
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We know this are pretty busy days, so we want to thanks to all the entrants for your extra effort. Your makes were all lovely, thank you for joining in!
Sadly we had to eliminate some lovely entries for not featuring an altered project.
We would like to thank our sponsor for this challenge who were: STITCHY BEAR STAMPS
Your digis are so beautiful it was a pleasure to work with it, they were perfect for this challenge In first place is SUSAN with a stunning Christmas box:
Congratulations Susan, you have won 3 images of choice from the whole Stitchy Bear Stamps store. Our second winner is MIRRE, with her beautiful metal heart:
Congratulations Mirre, you have won 3 images from of the DT´s chosen images.
Third place goes to REA, with this her lovely altered frame.
Congratulations Rea, you have won 2 images from the DT´s chosen images.
All of you please email Cazzy, using the email link in the sidebar, and she 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!
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.
