Challenge 22 - Autumn Leaves

Hello All....wow we had loads of entries last challenge, If you haven't already checked out the post, check it out...we had some great entries....

Anyway, on to the new Challenge - Autumn Leaves. I have chosen this Challenge (Diane), because in the South of England, where Lyn and I are based, it has most decidedly turned colder and looking out of my craftroom window I can see some beautiful colours in the leaves on the trees. So there you have it....you can make anything you like...card...scrapbook page, frame etc etc.... absolutely anything...but I must see leaves and autumn colours.

This Challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps.

As always our sponsor has been very generous and offered a prize for the entry the design team judge to be the best. If you are lucky enough to be chosen as the best you will win a $10 coupon to choose digistamps of your choice from the Stitchy Bear Digistamps Store. The winner will also be asked if they would like to join the Design Team as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge.

The entrance receiving most votes from the public will also be invited to join us as a Guest Designer.

Our Design Team having been designing with stamps from Stitchy Bear to give you some inspiration.....

Guest Designer Mandy, who is also on the design team for One Stitch at a Time which is of course our Sponsor's challenge blog. Mandy has used Quackity Quack and great Autumn/Fall colours with lots of leaves.

Cazzy, here I am at last and like my teamies I used the woodland scene but with Park Bench and Brr Lady, not sure they go together with the lady in her coat all huddled and the girls in sleeveless dresses (kids - honestly, they never feel the cold)! All coloured with Trias and Promarkers. Leaves punched with Nellie Snellen punch and emboss set. Crafty ribbons added with bow using Bowdabra. I nearly didn't add this as it is so similar to Caro's, great minds think alike!

Caro
I've used the 'woodland' and 'Brr...its cold' digital stamps from Stitchy Bear, coloured with Promarkers to make an autumnal ATC this week.



Spyder

I've also used the Woodland scene from our Sponsor, but left is as it was with no extra colouring. I've matted it on to black and pearl card with added punched out leaves, the larger leaves are embossed and were also cut from the same backing paper. The paper is my own and is a freebie you'll find on my blog. The Autumn stamp is by Hero Arts.

Diane

I have used Snuggle Birds Digital Stamp from Stitchy Bear, Coloured with promarkers. My leaves were made using a punch and coloured with promarkers, then screwed up and teased out again.

So that's our offerings...now let us see yours...


To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 4th November after 6pm, or Saturday 5th Novemberr before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21 - Something Spooky Winners

Hi Everyone, it is winners announcement  time again. Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge, there were so many entries...everyone is obviously very much in the Halloween mood. 

This challenge was set by, Spyder (Lyn), the theme was .. Spooky/ Halloween! But if anyone was't into the whole Halloween thing then ...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for was challenge is 
Limited Runs! 

 

And now the winners.....
The DT choice winner is...well actually, we couldn't decide between so many fantastic entries....so we are having a Top Three this challenge and they are......First - America,  Second -  Black Dragon and Third -  Deonna. Congratulations to all three of you! As First Prize winner America your prize is your choice of 3 Digi Images fromLimited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. Second  and Third Place - Black Dragon and Deonna - you are invited to join us a guest designers in an up coming challenge. The public voted winner is Sandi Delfalco well done! you are  invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Would both of you please contact Cazzy via the email link on the side bar.
Well done to everyone who entered, we really did find it hard to choose our winner this time, the standard of the entries were amazing!


Come back a little later today for the launch of the new challenge....

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 21#Something Spooky OR Recipe.

Hi peoples! It's that Quirky time again, time for another Quirky Craft's Challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in our last challenge. Scroll down to the post below to see who won!!

It's my turn, Spyder (Lyn) to set the theme this week, and seeing we are so close to Halloween and racing to the end of October, I thought we'd have to have... Spooky/ Halloween! But of course I know there's tons of you who don't 'do' Halloween, so just for you, this fortnight's challenge will be a choice of...

Something Spooky/Halloween OR a recipe: Black, Gold and Glitter!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is
Limited Runs!

If you have some of Nikki's very unusual digi images we'd love to see them, but if not never mind, join in anyway! But for those of you who do use a Limited Runs digi, don't forget to join in with Nikki's challenge too, there's still time!
For this Quirky Challenge, as always, you can make anything crafty, as long as it fits in with the theme, it doesn't have to be a card. ATC's, Altered art, scrapbook pages, book marks, inchies, journals, bunting, anything!
The DT choice winner will be able to choose 3 Digi Images from Limited Runs and join us for a future challenge as a guest designer as well as display the winner's badge on their blog. The public voted winner will be invited to join us as a guest for a future challenge and can display the winner's badge too!
Here's some inspirations from our Design Team!
First, some lovely makes from our Guest Designers, and winners of our previous challenges.

Laurel (Loz) used the funny Bat image, along with Hanging Pumpkin (with the pumpkin used a few more times) and one of the free sentiments from a set of 4 that we are privileged to have first! Love the fence and the grass, and that cobweb and spider. A very clever sidestep card.

Jan used the Bat Wings sentiment to make her wonderfully spooky picture, with lots of spooky embellishments (is that a real bat?) see more photos and details on Jan's blog.

Jan also made this very dark treats box using some more of the free sentiments, complete with a blackbird, or should I say Raven? (No, I think it'sa blackbird) Again more pics and details on Jan's blog!

And here are more great ideas from us on the Design Team:

Diane: I just loved the Bat digistamp from this challenge's choice. I don't really do Halloween, but found a backing paper on my computer of a haunted house on a hill. I have mounted the Bat onto acetate so he really does fly at you!

Cazzy: I found all of my Halloween stash and made a more elaborate card than first planned. The card itself is gold embossed with spider's webs, the image is Witch Splat (so funny) cupcake coloured with Promarkers, and I used one of the set of four free sentiments which I coloured purple. Crafty Ribbons spooky ribbon, eyelets and sequins from stash as well as punched out spiders used.

Inside I used Hanging Pumpkin, another of the 4 images, this time in brown and the Snake image. Both images coloured with Promarkers.

Caro: I also don't do Halloween, but was given the spooky stamp I used as the main image so decided that this was the opportunity I needed to use it alongside the cute bat (which I used twice, flipping it on the computer) and the poison sentiments (all from our sponsor) placed on bottles to complete the tag.

Lyn I've also used the Bat, the Owl with the Pumpkin and one of the sentiments from our sponsor, for my Centre Step card. I've embossed with Gold ink and Sparkling Gold embossing powder. and used Promarkers to colour. The Pumpkin has been 3D-ed to make it pop out a little. There's a link on my Blog on how to make a Centre step card.
Well, that's what we've made, so now it's over to you!! Have fun!!

To enter: please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection just below our signature -this bit I'm typing here (not the small froggy at the very bottom - he doesn't do anything! well, not when we're looking!) Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 21st October after 6pm, or Saturday 22nd October before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #20 In The Jungle. Winners!

Thank you to all those who played along with Quirky Craft's last Challenge, and sorry to anyone who still has that Jungle Song buzzing around in their ears! Not many entries, maybe that scared you all off! But for all those brave crafters who did join us, thank you so much, the Design Team simply loved all your fabulous makes.

As you can see the Winner of our public voting is Sara Beth Burk! from Chronicles of Sarita.
Click over to to see how this was made!
Well done Sara Beth. We'd love you to take a winners banner from the side bar and join us in one of our future challenges as a Guest Designer! Please email Cazzy for details! This of course means you will receive some freebies to use on any project you make, if you do chose to join us on one of our next challenges.

The Design Team winner and winner of the

Digi stamps by digital delights by Louby Loo
is.

Loz
with this Quirky Jungle Card!

(I love those mices!!)

We'd also love you to take the winners banner from the side bar and also join us as a guest designer in one of our next Challenges too!! Please email Cazzy, who can sort out your prize!

Now... because there were so few of you who bravely had a go, and we loved them all, we'd also love to invite both Beverley and Mandy to also join us as Guest Designers in one of our next challenges!

Come back later today for news of our next Quirky Challenge! It's my turn to decide what we should do... so I'd better get a move on!! Thank you for stopping by!!
(Spyder)

Challenge 20# In the jungle, the mighty jungle - a whimaway....

Hi everyone, Cazzy here, and it is time for another little bit of quirkyness. I can't get that tune out of my head (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), so the challenge this week is In The Jungle, and is sponsored by the lovely Digital Delights by Louby Loo who provided some great jungle images to the team to use. Of course there are more in this range and lots of new images in several ranges too.

Your project (and it can be any crafty project, ATCs, scrapbook layouts, altered art, cards, boxes - whatever you can do) must include jungle images. Does your lion sleep tonight?

The Design Team chosen winner will win 3 images of their choice from Digital Delights. Both the DT winner and the Public voted winner will be invited to join the Design Team as guests and will be able to proudly display the winner's badge on their blogs.

So without further ado here are the Design Team examples to inspire you:

First of all Guest Designer Gemma, who used the very cute Dillon the Lion image to make her lovely jungle birthday card.

Our second Guest Designer Tracy J made a fabulous fun side step card and used Dillon the Lion, Mickey the Monkey, the coconut tree from the accessory pack and Wild Thing sentiment all available from our sponsor.

Caro decided to make a scrapbook layout of her son Alex playing in his Grandparents garden...Alex likes to pretend he is in the jungle as their garden is so big, so Caro used Dillon the Lion, Mickey the Monkey and Timmy the Tiger on her layout, all coloured in with promarkers.

Diane was quite inspired by the last challenge still (anything but a card). So instead of making the usual card decided to make a door sign for a nephews bedroom door. Using the Timmy tiger digistamp and also the palm tree digistamp, they were enlarged and then turned into a paper piecing.

Lyn (Spyder)
I've used Dillon the Lion too. I've decoupaged him, printing out and colouring four Dillons and layered him onto animal papers from our sponsors as well as some freebies I found.

Cazzy will be along later!

Please click on the big blue frog at the top of the collection below - it is just below our signature - (not the small froggy at the bottom - that doesn't do anything) to enter. Please add the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 7th October after 6pm, or Saturday 8th October before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 19 Winners

Sorry for the delay people, we had a huge amount of lovely entries into Caro's anything but a card challenge which made it really difficult to decide on our favourite. We all loved Loz's piano which really stood out, so Loz is our Design Team choice and winner of the prize from Robyn's Fetish.


Here is Loz's gorgeous piano:

Well done Loz, please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar, contact Cazzy using the email link to arrange to collect your prize, and let us know if you would like to join us as a guest in the next or a future challenge.


The winner of the public vote is Jan, with this amazing altered toy bus:

Well done Jan, that is an inspirational make. Please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar and contact Cazzy via email if you would like to join us as guest for the next or a future challenge.


We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all who entered this challenge and we hope you will like today's challenge and join us again. Who knows, it could be you next time!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 19 - 2011 - ABC (Anything But a Card!)

Hello and welcome back to Quirky Crafts! It is my turn (Caro) to set this week's challenge and because my son starting school for the first time made me think of ABC (an acronym for Anything But a Card) and because I am really a scrapbooker at heart I thought it would be nice to challenge you all to make us something that is NOT a card! It can be anything else you like (scrapbook layout, ATC, inchies, bookmarks, altered art etc), in any style you like. I look forward to seeing some different inspiration.

This week we have the lovely Robyn's Fetish sponsoring us and they kindly supplied all the super digi images used by the Design Team. The prize for the DT choice winner is to choose either 5 digi images or 4 digi images and a digi paper pack from our sponsors and they will be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. The winner of the public vote will also be invited to join us for a future challenge as Guest Designer and both will get the winners badge to proudly display on their blogs.

Here are the design team examples to inspire you for our Anything But a Card challenge:

Guest Designer Lyn - Twisted Witch created this lovely layout with Emily reading from the back to school range, perfect choice for this layout.

Guest Designer Mona made a great bookmark for her husband (who was very pleased with it). Mona used Bookworm and Backpack and School Accessories all from the back to school range.

Guest Designer Hazel made a very useful notebook using the popular Bookworm image and School Supplies accessory pack. Hazel also said "I used Collage Press Journalling Cards Ledger paper, printing directly on to it and colouring with copics."

Thank you to all three of our lovely guest designers this time, and didn't they do well with their lovely makes!

Caro just had to make a scrapbook layout of her son's first day at school which was this week. She used the school supplies accessory pack and Backpack as elements on her layout (sorry about the photo!).

Diane

I decided to use some of the lovely school images provided to make a pencil box. I made it from scratch using some old mount board off cuts I had lying around. I covered it in some denim look paper, added the images coloured with my trusty promarkers and then I couldn't resist adding some graffiti too!

Lyn (Spyder)
I've made a bookmark using papers from our sponsor and some of the back to School images as well. The Katy image is fixed on with 3D foam pads so she can save your page for you.
I've left space for a name or anything else you feel you'd like to write. 'Hands Off my Book!" most likely!

Cazzy said: I made two book marks, I was going to use the images back to back for a double sided bookmark, but the green card I used for the backing is rather thick so I changed my mind and made two of them. Double the fun! I used Bookworm with ruler from the accessory pack, and Don't Rain on My Parade, as on a rainy day there is nothing better than curling up with a good book! Both images were coloured with Promarkers and Trias, and I decided to laminate the bookmarks (so the mistake I just spotted will have to stay) before adding an eyelet and a tassle to each.

I also made this pen pot using the crayons from the accessory pack, coloured with Promakers and cut out, and I added ribbons to hide the plastic edges and a kraft card liner.

Now let's see what you can do. Please click on the big blue frog to enter and give us the link to your blog post with your entry, not just your blog, and please come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 23rd September after 6pm, or Saturday 24th September before 5pm UK time.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.Please click on this Blue Froggie here to add your project (not the smaller frog at the bottom)
Refresh the page if he does not show.