Challenge 24

Quirky Crafts Challenge 24

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Buttons Challenge. It was amazing to see so many fabulous entries.

The winner of the button challenge chosen by our design team is

LIZ and you can see her entry HERE
Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight which our lovely DT member Lyn has set for you, which is......

Flowers

Create anything you like for the challenge - card, scrapbook page, ATC, altered art etc. but it must have a cute theme.This weeks winner will again win 3 bags of ribbons from

Crafty Ribbons

Here are some examples to get your creative juices flowing...

Lyn

Guest Designer - Dawn

Dawn also made this beautiful ATC for us

Gez
Julia Cazzy Anne

Deanne
Caro

Cant wait to see how you work your flowers, leave us a post with your creation so we can pop by and check them out :)

Challenge 23

Quirky Crafts Challenge 23

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Cute Challenge. It was amazing to see so many fabulous entries.
The winner of the cute challenge chosen by our design team is Vicky
from Kips Cards and you can see her entry here

Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight which our lovely DT member Julia has set for you, which is...
...Buttons
You can create anything you like for the challenge - card, scrapbook page, ATC, altered art etc. but it must have a cute theme.

For the month of March we have a new sponsor which is the fabulous online store

Crafty Ribbons

I have 3 bags for the winner of the button challenge, enough ribbon to last you a very long time

We also have a new guest designer which is the wonderfully talented Dawn Simpson,
you can see her artwork on her blog here

Here are some examples to get your creative juices flowing...

Guest Designer - Dawn

Julia

Deanne - one button

Lots of buttons! :) Lyn

Cazzy

Anne

Gez

our wonderful new design team member CaroCant wait to see how you work your buttons, leave us a post with your creation so we can pop by and check them out :)

New Design Team Announced

I would like you all to welcome our NEW Design Team member Caro, she has some beautiful work on her blog and we are so happy to have her join us

Pop by her blog here to view her creative talent

Thank you for joining us Caro

Sadly we are losing Fe-Fe from our design team due to other commitments but we wish her all the luck with everything and hope that she can pop by and join us from time to time

Design Team Call

This post will stay at the top until the 28th February, please scroll down for current challenges

Now we have moved our challenges from the forum to this gorgeous new challenge blog we are now looking to gain a NEW person to join our Design Team.

You must more than anything love to create :)

Our challenges run fortnightly and they are all on different themes, any type of craft technique is used so we're not looking for any particular style

All that we ask is for you to be able to meet the fortnightly deadlines, and be an active member on the Quirky Crafts Forum at least twice a week
A crafting blog is a must

Please send the following details
a little about yourself, blog and online photo album of current work

to this email address please by 28th February

(with a view to start challenges on the 7th March)

Challenge 22

Quirky Crafts Challenge 22

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Valentine's/Foreign Challenge. It was lovely to see so many fabulous entries.

The winner of last fortnights challenge is...

Susan from Susan's Crafty Chaos

you can see her entry here.

Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight which our lovely DT member Gez has set for you, which is...

...Cute

You can create anything you like for the challenge - card, scrapbook page, ATC, altered art etc. but it must have a cute theme.

We are still being sponsored by The Cutting Cafe who are kindly giving the winner of this challenge three downloads of their choice.

Here are some examples to get your creative juices flowing...

Guest Designer Katie

And from the very talented Quirky Crafts Design Team...

Gez

Julia
Lyn

Anne




Carol

Fe

Deanne
You have until Saturday 6th March to enter for this challenge and the winner will be chosen by the DT member that set the challenge.


To enter please leave us a comment with a link to your blog post showing us your creation.


We look forward to seeing your entries


and good luck!

Challenge 21

Quirky Crafts Challenge 21

Hello everyone and welcome to our first official challenge on our new blog.

To start with a HUGE congratulation to ELLIE for winning Challenge 20, you can see Ellies card here

This fortnight it is my (Fe-Fe's) turn to set the challenge and the challenge I have set for you is

Valentine's/Foreign

You can create anything you like for the challenge - card, scrapbook page, ATC, altered art, etc but it must be on the theme of either Valentine's or Foreign or if you really fancy a challenge, include both.

For the month of February we have been sponsored by

The Cutting Cafe

who are kindly giving the winners of this months challenges three downloads of their choice.

We have a Guest Designer joining us this month, the lovely Katie Berberich.

You can find out more about Katie on her blog here or we have feature on Kate over on our Quirky Crafts forum here.

And here is our fabulous resident Design Team with some examples to start you off!

Fe-Fe

Carol

Lyn

Julia

Anne




Deanne

Gez

You have until 8pm on Sunday 21st February to enter for this challenge. The winner will be chosen by the DT member that has set the challenge on the Monday after the challenge has ended.

To enter please leave us a comment with a link to your blog post showing us your creation. We look forward to seeing all your creations

and good luck!

Challenge 20

Lets start by saying congratulations to Caro for winning the last challenge

This week is Deannes turn to set the challenge and she chose 'Teddy Bear'

The crafty pad stamp on offer this week is this beauty

Here's the design teams inspiration, you have until 8pm Saturday 7th February to get your entries in to us

Fe-Fe

Debbie

Deanne

Cazzy

Anne

Lyn

Julia

Gez