Challenge #5 "The Secret Garden"

Hi Quirky friends, is my turn -Monica- to set the theme for this new challenge.
The first thing you have to do is to take a few minutes of your time, relax, take a big breath and watch this video, because this will be your inspiration:

This challenge is inspired in 1993´s movie "The Secret Garden", that  shows place full of flowers, in where you can hide away.
So your projects must show a lot of colorful flowers and that beautiful hidden place.

Our fabulous sponsors for this challenge are:

SAMAFLORA

And we are thrilled to introduce a brand new very talented sponsor:

UNKY

who has supplied our team with some fantastic digital images, which  we've showcased here.

1st Prize: £15 on Samaflora products

2nd Prize: 5 digital images from Unky

3rd Prize: £5 on Samaflora products

Here some inspiration from our Quirky Team:

GUEST DESIGNERS

PRINCESS

IKE

  Ike used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy to make a gorgeous card with a secret garden verse, and used a garden image as her background with some flowers and a butterfly, perfect for this challenge!

Ike also used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy to make this gorgeous frame card and added lots of die cut foliage and insects, and the background has a pretty rainbow.

KAREN

Karen used  "Flower Fairy and Birdie on her card, with an added bloom and background foliage on the paper.

And the Quirky Crafts team:

CAZZY

For my first card I used the gorgeous Aurora Cherry Blossom, and kept her to fresh subtle colours. I made my own cherry blossoms using dies I had and a punch in honour of Samaflora, and added them to the die cut frame. I haven't decided if I will add a sentiment yet!

My second card features Vintage Doll with Teddy (who is also available in a pre-coloured version), and she is sitting in a secret garden on her picnic rug. 

CINDY

Cindy used "Flower Fairy and Birdie" on her twisted easel card.

DORIS

On this occasion I chose to work with the digital stamp  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy from our great sponsor UNKY. I worked on one of my favorite colors: black, in different degradations. Also I painted the image with the Spectrum Noir and I put it on the bottom of the card frame. I also added paper flowers in bright colors, cardboard butterflies  and a sentiment that describes the meaning of My Secret Garden.

And finally this is the inside of my card.

GEMMA

I absolutely love the images we have for this weeks Challenge from Unky, they're beautiful.  

I wanted to do something slightly different for this challenge, so I decided to make a journal from scratch.....

I chose several sheets of decorative and plain, heavy weight papers, cut them to size and decorated them in various ways. I sprayed some ink through a stencil, I added tags, made pockets, stamped images and some sentiments, just to personalise and add interest to the pages, but you can do whatever you want to do, to decorate your book.

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To bind all of the pages together, I cut a strip of sticky canvas and cut a scalloped edge to each side, sprayed it with ink through a stencil, then held the pages tightly in one hand and applied the canvas to hold it securly.  I coloured the gorgeous UNKY image in with Twinkling H20s. It gives the image a delicate sparkle which  suited the fairy image......

Happy crafting.............xx

LYN

I've also used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy from our sponsors UNKY. Coloured her with ProMarkers and green micro glitter. The paper's I've used are called 'Frabrications' and were freebies from a Crafting Magazine. A link to the free font, which I've used on the inside, is on my blog!

 

MONICA

For my project I used this magical digi "Flower Fairy and Birdie" from our talented sponsor Unky -The East Wind-.

My perfect "Secret Garden" hideaway must have a beautiful gazebo surrounded with lots of flowers. That´s just what I´m trying to show in this card.

I used Spectrum Noir Pens to color the digi and Silhouette Cameo to make all the cutting work.

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

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.

Please leave us a comment after you have linked your creation. If you followed the Quirky Rules you will be considered for the the top three, you could win a prize and be guest designer too  - good luck from the team. Please come back and check if you won within 14 days of the challenge close.

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Winners of Challenge #4 Layer it up

Hi everyone, Lyn has all sorts of computer problems right now so I am posting the winners for her!

What a lot of wonderful entries, everyone loved layering it up and piling it high! The team have all picked their favourites, the scores have been added together and here are the winners!

Our Fabulous sponsors for this challenge were...

  Robyn's Fetish

  and 

 Digital Delights

 1st Prize: 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

2nd Prize: $5 of Images from Digital Delights

3rd Prize: 1 image from Robyn's Fetish

In first place and winning 3 images from Robyn's Fetish with this stunning card is:

Alexandra

Congratulations Alexandra, such a lot of detail, loads of layers and definitely piled high and it all works to make a beautiful card.

In second place and winning $5 worth of images from Digital Delights is:

Sandy

Congratulations Sandy, your card is great fun, and that turtle is just so funny!

In third place and winning one image from Robyn's Fetish is:

Anna

A beautiful card Anna, congratulations!

Also we have a recast winner from the last challenge. Leeann won 3 images from Bugaboo for coming 3rd, but because she is on the Bugaboo DT she has kindly asked us to give her prize to someone else, and so for Challenge 3 we have a runner up who will receive 3 images from Bugaboo (and a runner up badge) and that is:

Gabriela

Gabriela made this fun peace card with hippie, (she also entered challenge 4 with a lovely card).

Please all of you contact me (Cazzy) using the email link in the sidebar and I will send you a winner's badge and arrange for you to get your prizes. We would love you all to be Guest Designers in two weeks, or later if that isn't convenient - please tell 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.

Challenge #4 Reminder to Quirky Well Pile it, Layer it and 3D!

Hi Quirky Peoples it's me again, Lyn, just to remind you my challenge of...

 Pile it High! Layer it Up and try some 3D!

...still has a week to run, so come and play! Go HERE to see our creations from last week and to find Mr Linky to join in.

Our Fabulous sponsors for this fortnight are...

  Robyn's Fetish

  Who have supplied our team with some fantastic digital images, which  we've showcased here.

and 

 Digital Delights

 1st Prize: 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

2nd Prize: $5 of Images from Digital Delights

3rd Prize: 1 image from Robyn's Fetish

Here's a few more of our teams makes, first Cindy our new 2 month Guest Designer!
Cindy.

'Lambchop' is the image I chose to use this time.   This image also spoke to paper piecing, but also embossing!  I used Stampin' Up's new Decorative Dots embossing folder to emboss parts of the lamb and give her dimension.  I used my markers to colour the flowers a few times and also pop dotted them.  I have more detailed photos and steps on my blog if you are interested :)

and the rest of the Quirky Crafts Team

Gemma

I chose to make a layered tag for this challenge using and image from ''Robins Fetish' . It is a mantilla tag and as a base layer I chose 3 colours of paint and randomly covered the tag.

I used pieces of lace, trimmings, hessian and corrugated card to give more layers and texture paste through a stencil to add depth..

I added a piece of mount board and a smaller tag painted  the same colours, and wrapped some 

hessian 'ribbon' a around each piece. To the mount board I added my image, coloured with 'Montana 

Paint Pens' and to the small tag I glued a metal embellishment...

                  

You can see all of the different layers in these photos, and the final thing I added were a few buttons.

I think each layers adds further interest to the tag. It's a very tactile piece and each time I look at it, I see something slightly different.....happy crafting folks x

Lyn

I'm not late honest!! I  added  my make yesterday but it vanished along with all my links!! Never mind! Well, as you can see I chose to make a box for my last weeks card, seeing it wouldn't fit into it's envelope! I've used almost the same coloured card and papers as before but didn't 3D Smart Owl  (from Robins Fetish) as I thought there was enough layers for a box lid! I have glossed over the Owls Glasses/eyes just to make them pop out and shine a bit more with Glossy Accents. I've also added yellow foam shapes and an owl charm.

 By the looks of it... other makes may have gone missing too.... so watch out for them later!!

Cazzy

Monica

For my project, I used the digital stamp "Shells 4 Sale" from our sponsor Robyn `s Fetish. To make the perfect setting for the business of this child, make a card with layered waves. Seal the color with Spectrum Noir markers and cut the waves, I used the Silhouette Cameo.

Doris

Belinda Bunny is the image that I chose for this week reminder. Belinda Bunny ,is one of the beautiful images you can find in Robyn's Fetish, who is also our sponsor for this challenge.

In my case, I used layers, both in the images and in the rest of the card. I painted three sets of flowers, two sets of clouds and a complete image. Once I painted with my Promakers, cut out one by one the images and I placed them in layers.

Finally, I emboss  the bottom of the card to add dimension. I placed a frame, which stick with double layer foam adhesive. Also with double layer foam adhesive,  I placed a sentiment and a flower, that is also made into layers. Enjoy the challenge and see you soon!!!

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That's it for now!  It's your turn to have a go and join in. Let's see some fabulous layering and pile it high! Scroll down or go here to find last weeks challenge and Mr Linky!!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #4:Let's Quirky Well, Pile it High! Layer it Up and 3D it!

Hi Quirky people, It's New Challenge Time Again! It's Lyn here and my turn to set the theme! Well you may have noticed I like to 3D my cards, soooo this is a nice easy challenge because all you have to do is...

Pile it High! Layer it Up and try some 3D! 
The more you do the more we'll love it!!

Our Fabulous sponsors for this fortnight are...

  Robyn's Fetish

  Who have supplied our team with some fantastic digital images, which  we've showcased here.

and 

 Digital Delights

 1st Prize: 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

2nd Prize: $5 of Images from Digital Delights

3rd Prize: 1 image from Robyn's Fetish

Here's some inspiration from our Quirky Team using images supplied by Robyn's Fetish, first our Guest Designer....
Cindy.

Cindy is our new 2 month Guest Designer, welcome Cindy!

I had this paper from Kaisercraft called 'What a Hoot' that I had picked up because I LOVED it but no plans.  This image gave me a plan to do with it. :)

I started off by printing 4 copies of the image onto copic paper, about 3" square (the nice thing about digi images... you can resize to your use!) I coloured the images with my Stampin' Up markers, then cut out layers from two of them. Once finished colouring, I cut out a full image with Spellbinders Labels 2.

The spare image was roughly cut out and used as a mask to cover the colouring and then sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang: Treasure Island Turquoise.

I covered a card front with a 5x6.5" piece of the pattered paper, then a 4.5x6" of the reverse side.

The ribbons running down the side are from Magenta and Maya Arts.

The die cut image was matted with a piece of the same paper then pop dotted onto the front of the

card.

The pieces I cut out of the other coloured images were then pop dotted on top of the main image.

Finishing touches include the 'Thanks' stamp by Stampin' Up, White Zig Wink of Stella brush on the glasses and a couple of green plastic squares from my kit.

and Our past winner.....

Desire

Desire used It's a Beary Nice Day from Robyn's Fetish, what a great sentiment, and lots of layers and 3d elements.
and the Quirky Craft's Team

Monica

I love to work on 3D paper crafting, so I`m really excited about Lynn`s challenge.

For this project I chose this beautiful Robin`s Fetish digi "Rain, rain go away".

I made a round easel card and piled up some brown doily border dies over a pale rose shades, to finally show this lovely girl looking trough the window.

For a final 3D touch, I added two delicate butterflies with their wings up, as if they were flying.

To color the digi I used Spectrum Noir Pens and Silhouette Cameo for all the paper cutting.

Doris

First I have to thank Lyn for this challenge. Working in layers is something that I like, and I especially loved working with this image. To give dimension to the layers, I used double-sided foam adhesive and I highlighted some parts of the image.

Secondly, I have to say I am very happy because I used my Valentine gift, my Spectrum Noir Markers to paint this beautiful image. By the way, this image is Smart Owl and is courtesy of our great sponsor Robyn's Fetish.

Once I finished with the image. I placed it on a base card, I used an adhesive edge and a sentiment according to the theme. I hope you enjoy this challenge as much as I have enjoyed.

Lyn

 Well, here's my 3D card and I've also used the Smart Owl from Robin's Fetish. I've added loads of layers starting with red and black to cover the blank card and then have layers up some 'school words' backing paper, more layering for the topper plus of course, I've 3D-ed the Owl! I've also added an apple brad and a pencil and ABC  buttons. The other papers were from my stash. The sentiment I made on the computer...black background with white writing!

Gemma

I love the theme of this challenge, it's right up my street. I love layers, 3D projects and anything mixed media...... Our sponsor is Robyn's Fetish and I chose the image of a bird and bird box..

I used a small canvas and tried to add depth to it by adding several layers. Unfortunately the photos aren't very good at showing the layers clearly...

The first layer was paper blocking, which is basically creating a background using varying sized, patterned, and coloured papers (which are from my stash).  There was then a layer of paint, added embellishments, and a large paper flower which I made.

I finished the canvas off by edging it in black and applying a couple more embellishments, and not forgetting the use of Treasure Gold gilding wax over some embellishments and around the edge.......

Cazzy

This image is called Ms Lamb Chop, and I didn't immediately think baby card (though it crossed my mind), once I had coloured the flowers and added layers of HOTP papers and a gorgeous grosgrain spotty ribbon from Crafty Ribbons the card just yelled out Baby Girl! I coloured the image with Promarkers, and cut out several layers of the lamb to decoupage it (I will take a better photo to show this soon) added some Stickles glue to the flowers (and having decided to do this today as I was trying to finish the card a few accidents were inevitable, so I had to reapply it a few times and it is very much wet in the photo).

Sorry I am late again, seems to happen every time, this is due partly to ongoing computer problems and family visiting - details on my blog! (Also I added this earlier and it disappeared again).

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