Quirky Challenge #13. 2011 - Lyn's recipe theme box

Hi peoples! It's time for another Quirky Challenge! This time it's my turn (Lyn) to set the theme and I thought I'd do something other than a sketch as I always do a sketch. I've chosen instead something that will give you more choice but at the same time still be a bit of a Quirky challenge! This time I've come up with...

A Recipe Theme Box!

All you have to do is choose any three or more of the squares (or even all of them if you feel very creative and confused!) and make something crafty, ie... you might like to choose to use Acetate, Ribbon and three backing papers, with a digi...or, five flowers, Pink and blue and Embossing. The idea is to use no less than three of the boxes or more. Any questions just ask!!

This challenge is kindly being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons!

The Design Team's chosen winner will receive a yummy selection of strawberry ribbons from Crafty Ribbons. Aren't they just too scrumptious!!

And!! we are happy to announce a new and second sponsor for this challenge

Robyn's Fetish.

The winner of the public vote will be able to choose EITHER 5 Robyn's Fetish digital stamps OR 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set. How fabulous is that!

Now...because this challenge has a wide choice of embellishments to add to your crafty makes, we on the team have had a little chin-wag, and would really much like you to mention in your Post or your link back to us, what you have used on your creation,ie on your list of challenges please add Quirky Craft-Theme Box. I've used, five flowers, embossing, ribbon, and a stamped image...or whatever you've used. Okay?! Thank you!

And now for the DT and GDT fabulous makes. First we have...

Guest Designer Jeanette Waters on behalf of Robyn's Fetish has made a fabulous card. Jeanette used the English Tea Cup image on this elegant card.

Guest Designer Judy used the strawberry image and the English tea cup on her fabulous Easel card, isn't is just gorgeous! See more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Darling Ho also used the English tea cup on this pretty pink card.

Diane

Also went for the tea cup stamp for her contribution and used 3 backing papers (the third is printed on the mat with the cup), lace, coffee and cream colours, the digi image of course, and five flowers..(if you count the ones on the cup!)

Spyder
I've used Puppy Paws (I've darkened his eyes a little bit more) with three papers, coffee & cream, four card candi, four brads, five flowers (one's a double), embossing and a raffia ribbon.

Cazzy used the Its a Dragonfly Day image and the Polka Dot Dreams paper pack to make her card, with some Crafty Ribbon's ribbon. So got the papers, also 4 brads, ribbon, pink and blue and an embossed sentiment. There are actually 7 flowers.

Caro used the Puppy Paws digital image with a ribbon and the colours coffee and cream





Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 1st July after 18:00 or Saturday 2nd of July before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!


The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #12 Under The Sea Winners!

Afternoon everyone! Lyn here. Thank you all for joining us in Diane's fabulous Challenge Under the sea. Wasn't there some 'fin- tastic' creations!
The winner of the Design Team Choice..is...oh wow this was very hard, we all liked so many different ones!! But after recounting our votes, (I have a code) we chose Lori who wins 3 lovely digi images of her choice from our sponsor Digital delights by louby loo! with this amazing card. So much detail!
We would love you Lori to join us as a Guess Designer in one of our future challenges! Please contact Cazzy via the link on the side bar. Also please take a Quirky Winners Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to us!!

Well you all know who the public voting winner is!!! Leah The Orange! With a Cute little fishy-wishy coloured with Prismacolor pencils! Well done! A really fabulous make, I love the sparkly seaweed! We would also love to invite you, to join us as a Guest Designer on one of our next challenges! (go on say yes, coz there's bound to be a freebie in it for you!) Please contact Cazzy, her link is on the side bar and also take a Quirky Winners banner!

Pop back later to see what the next challenge will be...it's my turn (Spyder) to set it...and no...it's not a sketch this time! (well...there's a first!) Thank you for stopping by!

Challenge 12- Under The Sea.

It's my turn again (Diane). This one has come around very quickly...doesn't time fly?

This time I decided not to tax everyone too much by giving a certain style to follow. I just have a theme for you of Under The Sea. It can be whatever you want...as long as it has an under the sea connection.
We have a lovely sponsor for this challenge....we are very lucky to have wonderful sponsors for our challenges, and this time around it is Digital Delights By Louby Loo.

The winner of the Design Team Choice will receive 3 lovely digi images of their own choice from our sponsor.

Our Design Team Winner and the Public Vote Winner will also get the chance to be a Guest Designer in the future and the right to display our sought after winners badge on their blog.

Our Design Team have been busy as usual to give you some inspiration. We were given some lovely stamps to work with. Here are some ideas from our latest guest designers, and the design team, feel free to visit our blogs (see side bar for details) to see how we made our examples, and to nab Spyder's latest freebie!

Guest Designer Bev G loved these images so much she made two cards, the first using the Whale on a 3D sea.

Bev G's second card using the Mermaid, just check out those real shells! Visit Bev's blog so find how she got that gorgeous shiny background!

Guest Designer Kelly made a very pretty Mermaid and clam card, love the pearls and the colour combo Kelly!

Guest Designer Goldie also made two cards, the first is a side step card using all the images and again real shells, to see more images of this lovely detailed card hop over to Goldie's blog.

Goldie's second card is a fabulous window shaker card, again there will be lots more images on Goldie's blog.

Diane

I love these images..I have used promarkers to colour in the image and then a glaze over the top to create the wet look on the scales of the mermaid. This one is destined to be a birthday card for my 3 year old niece.

Caro

My nephew is into all things under the sea so I used most of the images (except the mermaid) and combined them with his favourite TV characters (Octonauts) to create a card I know he will love for his 4th Birthday!

Lyn's
also used the mermaid on an acetate window and some real shells.

Cazzy (late again) used the whale and clam with the Under the Sea background stamp.

Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 17th June after 18:00 or Saturday 18th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 11 Winners!!!

Hello everyone...thanks for dropping by to see who won Challenge 11.
Challenge 11 was set by our Lyn (Spyder), who gave us two sketches to work with. We were told we could choose either one, and we could do cards, ATCs, Scrap pages...anything really. What a lot of choice! We also had a great sponsor for the challenge in The Cutting Cafe..

The Cutting Cafe have very generously donated a prize of 3 sets of digistamps....yes 3 sets!! to  be given to the winner of the Design Team Choice...who is Judy. Here is Judy's winning entry.

Huge congratulations to you. Please contact Cazzy via the link in the sidebar who will give you details of how to claim your prize, and let her know if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge. Do help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar too.

As regular followers will know we also have a public vote, and the winner of the public vote is Darling Ho with this pretty card. Well done, we also liked this card very much.

Please help yourself to a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy if you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for the next challenge

Thank you to all our entrants to this challenge, please pop back later today for the launch of Challenge 12.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #11 Two Quirky Sketches!

Welcome back everyone to another Quirky Crafts Challenge. This one has been set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I hope loads of you will come and join in. It's easy, so there's no excuse! It's a fortnightly challenge so there's plenty of time!

I usually choose a sketch so I won't disappoint, I've not only chosen a sketch this time too, but with a little twist, I have two sketches for you! You can do them both or just chose to do one. Don't forget we love to see your cards but also welcome any kind of craftiness! ATC's, Fat Pages, Scrapbook Pages, Inches, Tags, Altered Art, whatever (as long as you use at least one of the sketches)!! We want to see what you can do!!

You can enter the challenge as many times as you like. You may flip or turn the sketches, we don't mind just as long as we can see you've followed them. Told you it was easy!

We have a fabulous sponsor for this Challenge, which means prizes!
The winner of the Design Team Choice will win a Quirky Guest Designer place, a winners badge and...

Any 3 sets from

The Cutting Cafe

The Public Voted winner will also be asked to join us as a Guest Designer and have a winners Badge for their sidebar.
Here are some fantastic examples from our latest Guest Designers for this challenge and of course as always, from Cazzy, Dianne, Caro, and me! Please pop over and visit our blogs, there's always something to see and of course you'll always find a weekly freebie on my blog!

Guest Designer Dawn used the It's About That Time Set from our sponsor with the first sketch to make this stunning monochrome card, see more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Lisa used the One Spring Day set from our sponsor with the second sketch to make this fun card full of 3d flowers.

Cazzy used One Spring Day images for this spring showers card.

Dianne
Has used the first sketch and the tree from the 'One Spring day ' set 7 for this Welcome Spring card, coloured the tree herself and used a sentiment from 'One Spring Day,coloured' set 2.
Caro
has made a scrapbook page using the first sketch with a collage of flower photos from her garden and elements from the One Spring Day set from our sponsor.

Spyder
I've made three cards. On this card I've used the 'It's about the Time, Clocks' set from our sponsors along with the second sketch

I've used the same 'Clocks' in the second card and the same sketch, but have added 'It's About That Time, Big Circles' cut out using Nesties and Woodware punches and placed the clock over itUsing the first sketch on this New Home card, Lyn used the tree from the 'One Spring Day, Coloured' set

That's what we've done, so now it's your turn! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!


Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 3rd June after 18:00 or Saturday 4th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #10. Winner.

We were a little disappointed that not many of you had a go at Diane's Quirky sliding window/pull up card. We cried buckets! No, only kidding. But it does make it harder for us to chose a Design Team winner because everyone of the entries were fabulous and we loved them all! But there can only be one winner of The Stitchy Bear Voucher.

So, first, the winner of the 'voting' as you can see is...

Kelly!

Well done Kelly! You squeezed in at the last minute! Please help yourself to a Winners Badge and contact Cazzy using the email link on the sidebar as we'd love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our next challenges!
The favourite creation, most favoured by the Design Team and the winner of the $10 voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Store is...

Beverly G ♥

Well done Beverly! We loved your card and were very impressed on how quickly you entered the challenge! Please would you grab a winners badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy about your prize. We'd also love to invite you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges too!

And!! (there's more) because there were so few entries and because we really wish you could all win, we'd love to invite Goldie to join us as a Guest Designer too in the not too distant future, so please could you also take a winners badge and contact Cazzy about joining the Team as Guest a Designer for one of our next Challenges!
The new challenge should start around about 6ish this evening! Please pop back and join in as it's my turn to set the new challenge so you know it's going to be easy because I can't do difficult! But on saying that, I really enjoyed making my Slide Window/Pull Up Card so Thank You Diane for setting such a Quirky Challenge! That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!!

Quirky Crafts Challenge - Challenge No. 10:- Sliding WIndow / Pull Up Card

Hi All,

It's my turn again already (Diane). This is only my second time to set the challenge, and let me tell you I have discovered already that it is not always easy to come up with something different, but something that everyone will enjoy. So I set about thinking, and I eventually decided that it might be a good idea to revisit a card style that I used to love. I find often that I do several of a card shape and then move on to something new, only to forget how much I enjoyed doing the older styles. So my challenge this time is to make what I always called a Sliding Window Card, but it is also called a pull up card, or pull up easel. I am sure many of you will know exactly what I mean....but just in case I found this video on Youtube which describes it beautifully. Click here to see. Just to make it even more interesting I am going for a Male theme...Fathers Day is not far away, and there are always those dreaded male cards to make for birthdays too. So there we have it, a pull up card in a male theme....and for those of you who would prefer to make something non card related I will set a Challenge of 3 D Male themed gift.

Our sponsor this week is STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS

The Winner of The Design Team Choice will win a $10 voucher from our sponsors Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps so you can choose something from the great range of images and papers, which you'll find in their store. We'd also love you to join us as a Guest Designer in one of our future challenges.

And the winner of the Public Voting will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer .

The Design Team and our latest Guest Designers have produced some inspiration for you, all using digi images from our sponsor.

Diane

I used the Just a Note Digistamp for my sample. Just right for a Father's Day card for a Father who isn't the touchy feely sentimental type. My photo is a little disappointing, but I couldn't get a better shot. The papers used are actually a sage green shade!

Lyn

Lyn AKa Spyder, has used 'Designated Driver' digi along with some brown leather look card and mock white stitching to give the impression of a wallet.

Caro has used Guarding the egg digital stamp printed onto parchment paper with gold embossing round the edge of the card to finish it off in a true fantasy style.

Inside she has used the Just a Note digital stamp again on parchment paper for consistency and an oldy worldy look.

Cazzy

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please use our lovely Mr Blue Frog to add your cards and other makes. Please make sure your link leads to your make and not just your blog. Once you have left your link please also comment. Don't forget to come back Friday 20th/Saturday21th to vote for your top three and ask your blogging buddies to vote for you!!