Challenge #13 It's A Quirky Stencil and/or Masks Challenge!

 Hi Quirky Guys! Lyn here. For those of you who would like to know who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the  post below. Are you ready for another Quirky Challenge? It's Gemma's turn to set the theme, but she's having a bit of time out, so I'm here telling you all about it! It's simple! We would love to see your crafty creations using a Stencil or Stencils to create maybe your background, or the main picture or anything you like using any crafting medium you like and/or a Mask! Make a mask! Use a stamped image or a digi wearing a mask, use some backing paper with masks on it,  or do a bit of masking, it's completely up to you. We have some fabulous sponsors for this challenge with some fantastic prizes!

  Our First Prize is sponsored by
Paper Pretties

the winner will receive six images of your choice

Second prize is sponsored by 
Limited Runs 

with 3 images of your choice

and the

Third prize is sponsored by
Robyn's Fetish 

with 1 digi image of your choice!

Sadly we are saying goodbye to Doris, she has decided that it is time to go. We will miss her lots and her wonderful projects and challenges. Good luck in the future Doris, and we hope to see you entering our challenges and keeping in touch!

Here's some inspiration from our Guest Designers:

Susanne

Susanne used Alexandree from Limited Runs on her great tag and...

....Cooper Bathtime from Paper Pretties with a fabulous splash and bubble background and Susanne said "I created a bookmark and a page for a mini album. I used stencils from The Crafters Workshop and also one of Tim Holtz."

Fliss

Fliss features Hannah from Limited Runs and said "I’ve used a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stencil For Art called Never Enough Hearts with Distress inks round the corners of my background paper which I made with an ink applicator and Distress inks."

and Graffitti from Paper Pretties, Fliss said "I used a homemade rainbow stencil and used Distress inks. It was inspired by the sentiment which came with the set."

And from our Design Team....

Cazzy

I used Emily with Huggle from Limited Runs. I coloured her with Promarkers, masked her and airbrushed the background with a Memory Box stencil also with Promarkers. I will have another card to show you soon using a Paper Pretties image. The sentiment is by Penny Black, how do you wrap a hug?

Monica

For my card, I made a stencil with regular acetate cut with my Cameo. I used the Studio software settings to cut "stencil silhouette brand" and it works fine with regular acetate. Then I made a background with two coats of Twinkling H2O´s -I used mediterranean and teal zircon colors- and a final coat with Guesso.

This is a closer look of the background and the lovely "Nadia" provided by our sponsor Limited Runs. I colored Nadia with Spectrum Noir and add a 3d touch with pattern paper in her body.

Lyn
 

Here's my make, I've used Super Cooper from Paper Pretties (for my mask) and, a bit of a cheat...for my stencil, I've used 'Top Secret' freebie font  which looks like a stencil!

 

Inside there's a little place to add some birthday money and I've added  circle to add some birthday wishes.

That's it! Looking forward to seeing all your creations!

 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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Winner Challenge #12 - It is a Quirky Fairy World

Thank you to everyone who entered to my last Challenge as a Quirky DT. I have to say, all your entries are so beautiful , and don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge! 

Thank you so much to Crackerbox Palace, our amazing sponsor.

Congratulations to our winners

First Place
 Violent Kittie

You won 4 digital images of your choice Crackerbox Palace

Second Place
Jessi Fogan

You won 3 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

Third Place

Shell B.

You won 2 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Change to challenge #12 - now you only need a fairy and one item from the fairy ring!

We think we have made this challenge a little too hard for you all this time, so there is a last minute change to the rules!

Now you only need to pick one item from the fairy ring and use a fairy, I hope you will all be able to join in the fun!

Here is the Fairy Ring again to remind you:

To enter the challenge link your project HERE.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Reminder Challenge #12 - It is a Quirky Fairy World (Recipe challenge)

Hi, this is me again (Doris) to reminder you about our new challenge, and us you know, this time we are asking you about your Quirky Fairy World, using the next Recipe Challenge. 

CHANGE TO CHALLENGE: you simply need to include one of the items from the fairy ring and a fairy to enter our challenge!

Let me tell you about the prizes. Our great sponsor: 

Crackerbox Palace

1st Prize is 4 digital images of your choice Crackerbox Palace

2nd Prize is 3 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

3rd Prize is 2 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

You can just choose from the rubber stamps and they will be made into digital images for you.

Come with me to see what our Guest Designer and DT has for us this week

GUEST DESIGNERS

Tracy

I love this image, again I wanted to create a dreamy scene.  I printed the Sleeping Faery Dreama and Cloud digis on to acetate and coloured with markers.  I also used sparkle on the wings, glitter glue to write the Faery Tales sentiment and gems on the dress.

DESIGN TEAM

LYN

will be along later...

MONICA

For my card I used the "Sleeping Faerie Dreama" digi provided by our sponsor. For the upper part of the car, I made a sun, mixing different pattern papers and added some clouds. For the down part, I continue mixing pattern papers, to set the fairy and finally added the sentiment "Live in the sunshine". To color my fairy I used Spectrum Noir pens.

KAREN
This is Karen's last challenge with us, and we would like to thank her for being on the team and making some lovely examples.

 I chose Sleeping Fairy Dreama as my final fairy image!  She has been spreading her fairy dust all night and she is taking a well-deserved nap in the warm sunshine, under the Happy Sun.   These digital images are from our wonderful sponsor, Crackerbox Palace!  The sentiment was printed using the free font, The Blue Cabin.  The images were colored with Copics and for Dreama's  wings I used G00 and covered them with Crystal Stickles.  I used Sun, Sentiment, and Sparkles from the Fairy Ring to complete my card.  Thanks again for allowing me to be your Guest Designer!

CAZZY

I used Fairy Constance, and Stars, and the stars have Flitter Flakes on them for sparkle. Then the sentiment which is by Cherry Pie and seemed to be the perfect one to use! The background is starry card matted on holographic silver for more sparkle!

DORIS

To reminder today, I used this pretty fairy: Fayette, which I painted using Spectrum Noir. As elements of the recipe I used the sun, the sentiment, the sparkles and of course the fairy. I want to say this is my last proposal as DT here at Quirky Crafts Challenge and I am very grateful for the time that this was my weekend house.

To enter the challenge link your project HERE


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #12 - It is a Quirky Fairy World (Recipe challenge)

Hello, here I am again (Doris) and  It is time for dream and believe!. How or where is you Fairy World? It is maybe on clouds up in the heavens, which roads are rainbows, as well as the bridge down to Earth? We invite you to leave the real world and invent you own Fairy World. Build up your own enchanted world, using at least three one or more of the following items from the fairy ring (and a fairy of course). We want to know your dreams!

And, for your inspiration

Let me tell you about the prizes. Our great sponsor: 

 Crackerbox Palace

1st Prize is 4 digital images of your choice Crackerbox Palace

2nd Prize is 3 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

3rd Prize is 2 digital images of your choice from Crackerbox Palace

You can just choose from the rubber stamps and they will be made into digital images for you.

In addition to the prizes - every person who enters can have 10% off anything from the Crackerbox Palace website, just contact Cazzy via the email link in the sidebar, or comment to say you would like 10% off. You can have any stamp as a digital image for $3 each less 10% of course.

The team were generously provided with lovely images from our sponsor:

Now I want to introduce you our amazing Guest Designers

Janet

Janet made a gorgeous page, and as well as the fairy (Fairy Constance) she used gemstones (counts as sparkles), a sun, clouds, glitter (sparkles) and a sentiment.

Angela

Angela used a fairy (Sleeping Fairy Dreama), and has the sun and cloud birds and sparkling glitter on her stars!

Tracy

 The fairy laying down (Sleeping Fairy Dreama) immediately shouted reflection to me, so this is my first card using a sentiment, Cloud digi and sparkle/gem flowers.

I wanted my second card to be more fun as this fairy (Fayette) looks full of mischief, so I have used a concertina pop-out with the stars digi, stamped the sentiment and added sparkle to the wings and stars. 

And we want to share with you, the beautiful Design Team creations

LYN

will be along later...

Yes, I know....I'm late again. Can't help it! (added here on Tuesday) It's getting harder and harder to actually get into my craft room, I'm scared I might get lost and nobody will find me! I've made a scene using four of the images from our sponsor, plus the castle, which isn't really a stamp, but I liked it so....that's why it's there!  I've also added silver gel, micro glitter, gems and some tiny flowers. The papers are by Summer Driggs.

MONICA

For my project, I chose to make a non traditional fairy card, using Fairy Constance and just 3 colors: black, white and red. 

I added a whimsical sun, gemstones (sparkles) and a fairy sentiment "Believe" cause I do believe in fairies :o)

KAREN 

I chose my favorite fairy and fairy verse stamp from Crackerbox Palace.  I've had them both for quite awhile.  I colored Fairy Aurora with a Wand using Copics and attached her on a piece of purple leathery paper I bought eons ago from Provocraft.  Both the purple paper and the blue are shimmery to begin with but I thought a little bit fairy dust was needed so I covered the purple paper under Aurora with Distress Glitter. Aurora loves her happy dust!  Visit my site to check out the awesome Hello Happy Dust verse inside!

CAZZY

Nice challenge Doris, thank you! I decided to make a scene using Sleeping Fairy Dreama, sleeping peacefully under a summer sky with Clouds and Happy Sun (like her gold bling eyeshadow?) I have my fairy, sun, clouds and a two sentiments, as well as lots of glitter on the wings, clouds, sun and purple glitter card so lots of sparkles! The sentiment is from Digi Boutique and the Happy Birthday sentiment is LOTV as is the paper. I added some ribbon and a wishing well charm too.

Inside I used the same paper but pale blue with a strip of the check paper to tie in with the front.

DORIS

My project for this challenge is a beautiful and bright card. And as you know, we have to choose at least 3 elements, the elements that I have chosen: a fairy of course, sparkles, stars, the moon and a saying. The digital image I chose is a sweet fairy (Fairy Constance) provided by our fabulous sponsor Crackerbox Palace.  I also used glitter,  sparkle flowers, star brads and .gems stone flourishes. I painted the digi image using Spectrum Noir. Come and join with us in this beautiful challenge. For more details, I invite you to visit my blog.

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

We hope you Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Winners - challenge #11 It's Quirky Winners Time!

Welcome back, yes it is winners time! There were just 11 entries for my challenge, and I thought it would be more popular. Thank you all for playing along with us this time.
All of the entries were very good, we could not visit Kay's blog, it seemed to be by permission only so unfortunately most of us were unable to include her in the voting.

Our sponsor for this challenge was:

The Cutting Cafe

A big thanks to them for sponsoring us once more!

Now you want to know who got the most votes, so here are the top three:

In first place we have Jose, with a stunning male card. 
Sorry Jose, you are disqualified for not linking to Quirky Crafts.

In First place we have Susanne and her gorgeous sunny tag.

Congratulations Susanne! You have won 3 sets or images of your choice.

In second place we have Fliss with her wierd bird card.

Congratulations Fliss, you have won two sets or digi images of your choice, and personally I have tracked down that bird stamp and will buy one - I love it!

In third place we have Teresa with a stunning steampunk card!

Congratulations Teresa, you have won two sets or digi images of your choice.

All of you please contact me (use the email link in the sidebar, or tell me if it doesn't work and I will contact you) and tell me which sets or images you would like, and I will pass on your choices to our sponsor as well as sending your personalised winner's badges. We would love all of you to be Guest Designers in our next challenge - or later if you can't manage the next one in two weeks time. Please let me know if you can do that.

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 - challenge #11 It's About Quirky Time

Reminder Time (get it?), hahahahahahahahaha!

Well here is a little tune by Pink Floyd to get you on the way with this project, I just want to see a clock or clocks, or maybe an egg timer, or time words, (not just one though, birthday time might not do it) it is all about Quirky Time!

Our sponsor for this challenge is the very generous:

The Cutting Cafe

The prizes are:

1st place - 3 sets of choice

2nd place - 2 sets of choice

3rd place - 1 set of choice

The Cutting Cafe also provided lots of images for the team to use.

We used:

It's About That Time

Colorful Clocks

Time (background)

Clock background set

Here are some projects to inspire you, first of all our lovely:

Monica

I loooove pocket watches!!!! They are so vintage and elegant ...
So, here is my pocket watch for this reminder post. The sentiment and the clock are from the file Its about that time, provided by our sponsor.

Cindy

Tag Time!  Sorry for the pun.  I do love the clock and time theme and so I created another tag for my ABC series.  I've got embossing paste, and layers going on here and LOVE the end result!

I have a bonus project this time too!  I used the leftovers from the first project to create a quick ten minute card.

Come check out the details at my blog!

Cazzy

 This isn't finished but I looked at the TIME, and realised it had run out for now! I have been planning to make a challenge book for ages, but not got round to it and I realised that the files provided by our lovely generous sponsor would be perfect for my book. This is the front, not totally finished so I will post updated photos. - Now updated with finished photo.

Inside I have a pocket page for weeks, and for months - I will post photos with challenge slips in later. You can see my pages are not all in line, total mess up with the Bind it All, I clearly need more practice!

I also have a page for completed challenges for weeks and months and one spare pocket page.

DORIS

For this week, I made another page using the  Colorful Clocks as a frame. What I did was print and cut it and then I used Distress Ink for the bordes. As a frame background I used Colorful Clocks, the dots page. I also used the It's About That Time for the sentiment, and finally I added some elements as an extra embellishments. I also have to say I really enjoy using this amazing images from The Cutting Cafe. See you soon!!

Karen

I'm using a new toy I bought, the Sizzix Triple Clip Flip-its!  Everything was cut, except the Time To Party sentiment, from the dies...so cool!  All of the Clock/Time images are from The Cutting Cafe, our sponsor for this challenge.  I printed the images on various papers, attached then and popped up the clock!  That is it.

Lyn - might be along later!

 To enter the challenge link your project HERE. 

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.