It is with great regret that over a few months we have had some design team members leave and go on to pastures new. We wished them all the best on their new Journey thanked them greatly for being a part of Quirky Crafts Challenges for the time they were with us.

Sadly I myself now am having to leave the challenges due to time and commitments that are needed within my family and working life.
I hated saying goodbye to the girls and leaving the challenges behind, but I just cannot commit to them and hate letting people down.

Luckily for you the girls want to continue with the challenge blog so the challenges will run as usual on a fortnightly basis. I'm sure they will keep you posted on the goings on.

I wish all the best to Anne, Cazzy, Caro and Lyn with the challenges and I'll try to pop in for a challenge as and when I can.

Thank you for taking the time to read this
Deanne (quirkyboots)

Challenge 33 - 15th August - Anne's recipe

Quirky Crafts Challenge 33

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Sketch Challenge and thank you for coming back to us after our summer break.

Onto this weeks challenge which is a RECIPE by Anne

Your project must include the following:
2 different patterned papers, 1 ribbon, at least 1 eyelet and some shrink plastic.


We'd love to see your interpretation on this recipe and are happy to accept cards although we would prefer to see altered art or scrapbook pages or metalwork or stitching or some other interesting crafty creation.

Leave a link so we can pop by to say hello

Here's some inspiration from our design team:

Anne's Grungepaper Keyring

Caro's card with shrink plastic guinness

Caro's scrapbook page

Lyn's
Christmas Card
With tiny stocking stamped onto white shrink plastic.

Cazzy's Card 
(Double sided paper used)

Challenge 32 - Winner

There were some lovely entries into our Sketch challenge and it was difficult to choose. The Design Team have chosen number 9 Distressed Miss (Clare). We love the way that Clare managed to use the sketch several times on her pretty card - congratulations Clare. Please contact me here so we can send you your prize.

The next challenge will be announced on August 15th so make sure you pop back and see what it is.

Challenge 32 - 11th july - sketch (lyn)

Quirky Crafts Challenge 32

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Ribbons Challenge

The Winner as chosen by our Design Team is No 103 Hannas Hobbyblog you can see her gorgeous creation HERE

Please contact me here so we can send you your prize.

Onto this weeks challenge which is a sketch by Lyn

We'd love to see your interpretation on the sketch be it a card, altered art or scrapbook page

Leave a link so we can pop by to say hello

Some inspiration from our design team

Lyn

Cazzy

Deanne

Caro

Anne

Link your entries here:

Challenge 31 - 27th june - ribbons

Quirky Crafts Challenge 31

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Summer Challenge

The Winner is No 75 Cec and you can see her gorgeous creation HERE.

Please contact me here so we can send you your prize.

Onto the new challenge which is Ribbons

Show us your fabulous creations with your pretty ribbons

We are still being sponsored by the fabulous Stamp Addicts too

Remember to leave a link for us to pop by and say hello

Some design team inspiration to inspire you

Guest Designer - Sarah

Lyn

Julia

Caro

Anne

Cazzy

Challenge 30 - 13th June - Summer

Quirky Crafts Challenge 30

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with our Girlie Girl Challenge

All of the entries were fantastic

Due to the amount of entries and the design team not able to decide we've let the random number generator do it for us :)

Congratulations CABIO

Please contact me here so we can send you your prize.

Onto the new challenge which is SummerCreate anything you like with a summer theme

We have a fantastic Guest Designer this month, Sarah from Stamp Addicts who are also very kindly sponsoring our challenges in June

Here's a little write up from Sarah
Stamp Addicts was started in 1992 by our parents and Vicky and myself have been running the company for over 5 years now but we were always involved before that, even when we had 'proper' jobs.
One of the best things about running our company is we get to go to California every January on a new product shopping spree, we get to play with everything new and we meet so many interesting people.
No two days are ever the same because you never know who is going to walk through that shop door.

Dont forget to visit Stamp Addicts here and see there range of craft goodness
Share your creations with Mr linky so we can pop by and say hi to you

Here are the design team entries to inspire you

Guest Designer - Sarah

Deanne's mini book ready for summer holiday photos

Cazzy's Dolly Mama's card

Caro's bathing beauties inchies

Julia's Summer layout

Lyn's 'Surf's Up!'

Anne's Birthday card

Challenge 29 - 30th May - Girly Girl

Hi everyone (sorry for the delay), we had some lovely entries for challenge 28 Chocolate and Cream and the winner decided by the design team is: Padster  with her Cheer Me Up Bear card here. Congratulations Debbie, please email your details here. Deanne will get back to you and send you goodies, but is in the middle of a house move and off-line at present so please bear with her!
This week we have a challenge that should appeal to lots of you, Fe's Girlie Girl challenge. So get your girlie stamps, photos, embellishments and papers out and enter our challenge. Mr Linky should appear soon if not here already. Note: I can't do anything about Mr Linky but have added an alternative for this challenge which you can use by clicking on the Inlinkz link button at the bottom of this post and following the instructions. I know we already have some entries by comment which will also be considered.

Here are the Wonderful Design Team's gorgeous examples to inspire you, some of us are not quite finished making our examples (cough - blush) so pop back later and there could be a few more.


Lyn's Girlie Shaker Card

Caro's scrapbook page

Julia's layout

Cazzy's Cool Card