Welcome to Quirky Crafts Challenges

Welcome to Quirky Crafts Challenges the 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.
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Challenge #15.-Quirky White





Color White has the virtue to enhance everything, so for this challenge we are going to use that "quirky white power" to enhance our digis.

Requeriments: 
Everthing white: papers, ribbons, embellishments, buttons, etc

Only your digi coloured



This challenge is sponsored by 



And the prizes are:

1st place: 3 images of choice from the whole Stitchy store

2nd place: 3 images from Dt´s chosen images

3rd place: 2 images from Dt´s chosen images

Dt´s chosen images list:

From Digi Blessings

From Floppy Tate Designs

From BB Kakes

From Stitchy Stamps

From Kaz Kraftz

From Ken Benner Designs

From Ike´s Art
New Baby

GUEST DESIGNER

Gabriela - 2 month GD


I chose the beautiful and elegant "Lady Jane" provided by our kind sponsor Stitchy Bear, I decided to use a fan as an accessory related to the image.

Desire

Desire has left all of her card uncoloured, she used the beautiful Ike´s Art
Snow Deer Scene to make a stepper card full of 3d elements. We love those white rosettes too Desire.




Karolina said that New Baby was "perfect as I need to make a card for my friends' child's baptism." I am sure she will treasure the card for many years, it is beautiful Karolina.

Kat






Kat had a bit of trouble with the light because it is Winter in Australia, she has used Sewing Mends the Soul and added some real stitching, clever Kat, we like stitching!


DESIGN TEAM

MYRIAM

I used for my card Orchid digi design by Floppy Tate from our sponsor!






For this project, I´m working with the lovely Mz Emolie design by BBKakes and provided by our generous sponsor. I love how white backgroung enhances the digi.






I used this very happy Cartoon elephant leaning on a large pencil by Ken Benner, and I just had to stamp Happy under the pencil doodle (is that cheating, would you have known if I hadn't told you?). You would not believe the problems I had during the making of this card (or - if you read my blog often you probably would haha), and I will tell you all about it on my blog. I have used lots of die cut layers, two of them embossed, as well as die cut shapes. I used plain white card, some pearlescent white and some glitter card for Birthday. I used white ribbon, clear gems, and white brads and Opal White Liquid Pearls.

 





Hi!! I used  for my card  Sewing Mends the Soul. This adorable digi of our sponsor. I love also the quilting and this little bear is adorable with the wires and other accesories. 





To see who won the last challenge click here or see the previous post below this one. 

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. 
Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. 
If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. 
Good luck! 


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.





Winners! Christmas In July! Challenge #14. Winners!

Hi Crafty Quirky people! Lyn here with the winners of our last Challenge, Christmas in July, and didn't you do well! Better than me, I never did get my third card made in time, it's still sitting there half naked, looking a bit sad, I might re-vamp it later! Well done to everyone who entered, fantastic makes... Here are the winners and prizes from our fabulous sponsors starting with the third place...
   In Third Place 
and winner of  Three digi's of their choice from Limited Runs is...
 #49
Lorraine
Raineys craft room
With this lovely Santa Christmas Card. Well done Lorraine
You have won three digi's from Limited Runs!
  (and a chance to be a Guest Designer)

  In Second Place
   and winner of 7 free Digis from Bugaboo is...
#6
Emma
Em goes cardmaking
 
  With this lovely frame card
You have won 7 digis from Bugaboo and a chance to be a Guest Designer
Well done Emma! 
 
 ***Winner***
  And In First Place 
and winner of these lovely Christmas Bauble ribbons from Crafty Ribbons ~UK only, or the voucher if you prefer~ to our overseas first place winner a £10 voucher!~ is...

#55 
Claire Boelema
'What shall I make today?'
With this lovely Advent Calender

 Hope you enjoy your Ribbons Claire!
And we'd love you to be a Guest Designer too!


Please could all of you contact Cazzy, using the link in the sidebar, with your choice of images etc and she'll send you your winner's badges and pass your choices on to our sponsors. AND, don't forget, we would love all you winners to be Guest Designers in two weeks time - please tell Cazzy if you can! (We will send you a digi to work with!)

Well, that's it, thank you to everyone who entered my first challenge after such a long break! Now, don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge! It's fabulously quirky!
Happy Crafting ((Lyn))

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Challenge #14 Reminder: Quirky Christmas In July!



Hi everyone. Hope you've had a great week! Lyn here again to remind you about our Quirky Christmas In July  Challenge. You still have  week to make something festive and be in with a chance to win some fab prizes from....

 Our fantastic sponsors!


Crafty Ribbons





Offering these lovely Christmas Bauble ribbons to our first place UK winner (or the voucher if you prefer), and a £10 voucher to our overseas first place winner.


Offering seven Digi's for our second place winner
 and...

Who are offering our third place winner 3 digital images of their choice!

Go HERE to find Mr Linkin and join in or scroll down to where you'll find more creations to give you ideas! Here's what the team has done this week!


I decided to make a decorative accessory used the beautiful image of "Winter Fairy" from Limited Runs.



DESIGN TEAM

MYRIAM


For my card and tags I used Christmas stamps #2 from our sponsor Limited Runs Stamps

Lyn

Here's my card for this week, sorry it's a bit late!(even later than Cazzy!!)  I've used 'Make-it-Snappy--Skelekinz-Merry-Christmas' I've coloured her (or him) with Promarkers, added, buttons, ribbon, loads of stickles glitter, ribbon, a paper clip (because it was red) and a tiny pom-pom. The little Skelekinz has been 3D-ed with about four layers.

I've added some oldies too, just in case I didn't get done in time! (you can add an oldie as long as we haven't seen it or it's no older than the last challenge!) This one's  BearCane from Bugaboo! And below this little cute Santa and the Snowman are from Limited Runs





Hello every one, happy Sunday!!! For my today´s project I made a frame using the Christmas-Brat-Boy-Elf from BugabooStamps. I painted it using the Spectrum Noir alcohol makers.


And this is my second one, a gift bag using the Winter May digi from Limited Runs




I love Stella!!!! And as soon as I saw this Santa Died digi, it made think of some of my friends, that always said that they are good lol
This funny image was provided by our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.



Hi everyone! Christmas is my favorite season! Love it the Sunbonnet! I made my card with a adorable Fancy Sunbonnet of our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps. 
She looks beautiful with the littles winter birds. 

CAZZY
Sneaking in late again, and hoping I am forgiven because I have 4 more cards to show you!
The first is made with one of the Limited Runs cupcakes - this one is Trees on a Cupcake, nice and simple and just a small piece of Crafty Ribbons exclusive ribbon on this one.

This is so cute, a little dog who wants to be a reindeer from Bugaboo and he is called Puppy - enough reindeer. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

 Another Stella card, I hope someone finds this as amusing as I do! The image and sentiment is from Bugaboo and is called Stella - Merry Christmas not Happy Holidays. 
 It is an 8"x 8" card, and I thought the Keep Calm ribbon, which is another Crafty Ribbons exclusive, was just perfect with this sentiment.

You might recognise this cupcake from the Limited Runs badge, it is called Snowman on a Cupcake! I used lots of ribbons from Crafty Ribbons on this one, can you see the three different Christmas ribbons here? I added some Stickles glitter glue and it is still wet!


We're looking forward to seeing all your fabulous Christmas Creations! 



 To enter the challenge link your project to the challenge post before this one click HERE or scroll down.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Challenge #14: Quirky Christmas In July!

Hi Quirky People, it's Lyn here. Who? Okay, I know I haven't been in blogland for months and months (actually since last Christmas!) But....well...I'm here now with the next challenge! (so don't faint, get your Christmas stash out, your pretty papers and tinsel, we want you to make something xmastreemenous!) Don't forget to scroll down, or click HERE to see who won the last challenge and also remember you can make ANY crafty project as long as it fits in with our theme, so grand-dad's long woolly red socks might just be the thing! and talking about themes?? Well, it's July, it's half way through the year, have you guessed yet? It just has to be....
   
Christmas In July!

 Our fantastic sponsors are:-

Crafty Ribbons





Offering these lovely Christmas Bauble ribbons to our first place UK winner (or the voucher if you prefer), and a £10 voucher to our overseas first place winner.



Offering seven Digi's for our second place winner
 and...

Who are offering our third place winner 3 digital images of their choice!

  
Here are some  fabulous makes from the Quirky Crafts Design Team: first from our Guest Designer (and winner of some of our past Challenges) ...hope they give you some insnowration!



A big welcome to Gabriela - our new 2 month Guest Designer


Card in the form of snowflakes decorated beautifully with a pretty girl " 
Ava Christmas - sitter " from our sponsor Bugaboo.



Design Team

 For this weeks project, I made a petal box and I used Winter Circle Sentiments digi
from our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.


For this weeks project, I chose the beautiful Noelle, provided by our generous sponsor Limited Runs. I added little adhesive stones to add all the light and shine that I love from Christmas time.


For my card this week I've used this cutie from Bugaboo, called Kidzreindeer She's been 3D-ed and printed straight onto the snowy background, which I've used loads of times, along with the sentiment. The papers were freebies from a crafty magazine, which luckily hadn't been packed away with all my stash! And of course, I managed to find enough Promarkers to colour her in! It's all been layered on to some shinny silver card, with a few silver peel-offs and loads of glitter!

I've also been a bit naughty and added two golden oldies, also from Bugaboo. You can add projects, which are older than the challenge, as long as we haven't seen them, and you've made them within the last ten days!




Hi everyone! I love the Christmas! To this challenge I made this card with the lovely Winter Penguin
to our sponsor Limited Runs.  

The little penguin is playing in the snow. He loves the Chrismas also.


Cazzy will be here later... Here I am!
Cazzy
Oh I'm late, it is 1.00 am Monday morning (there was a good reason, which I will explain on my blog) and I really need my bed, but devotion to duty..... I think this Stella Note to Santa  from Bugaboo is just too funny! I've added two different Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons (hey Ali - how about Bah Humbug ribbon?).

I can't resist Limited Runs cupcakes, maybe because I can't eat the real thing! This one is from a set of two called Penguin Set Cupcake, one has a blank sign.    Again the Singing Penguin ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and is exclusive to them, perfect with the penguin on the cupcake I think!



Very Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.