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, 10 November 2013

Winners: Challenge#22 Make us Laugh!


It's me again, (Lyn) here to tell you who the winners are of our last Challenge, (Make Us Quirky Well Laugh!) and you did! (I'm sure Cazzy fell off Ike's loo!) First, just to keep you in suspenders, we'd love to thank our fabulous Sponsor...
and now....drum roll please....
Winner of Our First Prize
with a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
 is
 Winner Of Our Second Prize
with a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
 
And Winner Of Our Third Prize
with a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace

Please note the voucher does not include postage.
Well done everyone! If all three of you would like to contact Cazzy using the email ink on the sidebar, she will arrange for you to collect your prizes and send you a personalised winner's badge! We would love it if you all could join us as Guest Designers - please say you will - let us know when you email about your prize if you can! Don't forget you will be given digi's to work with.
Thank you to everyone who entered. Don't forget to check back later today to find out all about our new challenge.... Is it my turn?? No (phew!) it's Cazzy's turn to set the theme, so see you then! Happy Crafting!
 


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Challlenge #22 Reminder! Make Us Laugh!

It's me again, (Lyn) here to remind you about the latest Quirky Challenge! You still have another week to...
Make Us Laugh!
(or giggle, smile...or even snigger a little!) 
Our sponsors this fortnight are 

who have  provided the team with some lovely stamps to use and you can win a very generous prize from them too:
1st Prize is a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
2nd Prize is a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
3rd Prize is a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
Please note the voucher does not include postage.

Here's some more fabulous creations by our Design Team and Guest Designers! To join in with this challenge, scroll down or go HERE!  and have a look at our last weeks creations while you're there!

First we have our Guest Designers. 
 using Pumpkin Boy
(who won our last Pumpkin challenge with this fabulous make)

I really like this Pumpkin Boy image, it reminds me of vintage Halloween decorations.  He also has a cute expression.  I tried to make this card with a vintage look.  Seeing as it is a digital image you could really make this extra large and use it for decorations as well.  The sentiment would look good all by itself as a mini poster..or a tag on a card.  So many ideas!

This is a great stamp, Helen with coffee, she has such a lot of character! I coloured her with Promarkers and added her to some pretty papers then fixed the sentiment right behind her.

A quirky challenge with quirky images from Crackerbox Palace...I love these digis, they made me smile straight away....
I used a large tag and sprayed it with Dylusions inks to try and get a spooky atmosphere. Then I used a Tim Holtz sizzix die to cut the toombstones and colored them using the same colours .  
The gorgeous images and sentiment are digi stamps from Crackerbox Palace, and were coloured with Promarkers and Distress ink pads, and I thought they would look mischievous sat in the tree.
This time I used this quirky fish Nibbles from our sponsors and also made some backing papers using lots of little fishes and one big fish. I originally coloured it all on the computer, only.... it was nearly out of ink, so instead of a blue watery background I had..a streaky pink one! Shame to waste him, so I ended up re-colouring the big fish (which also came out a streaky-wishy-washie pink) with my Promarkers. He's also been 3D-ed. There's black, yellow and orange card, each edged with a black pen to make it appear  as though there's even more layers. (The lilac is Promarker)  The Font I've used is a freebie, link on my blog.



For this reminder I chose "Nibbles", a very loving piranha from our sponsor Crackerbox Palace. As anyone might expect, she loves bites. So, inside the card, we can find a very scared fellow.


To color Nibbles I used my Spectrum Noir pens and my Cameo to trace and cut all the paper piecing
work.

Doris


Hi and I´m so sorry. I´m a little late this week, but… I´m here. This week I want to share a funny card, which use the Friendly Lion image, from our great sponsor Crackerbox Palace….. I have to say I really enjoyed making this card. Have a great week!

Cazzy
Don't worry Doris, I am even later than you! I used the very amusing Clara and "I used to Jog.." sentiment (I had the stamp for years) both from Crackerbox Palace! I made a background with a Little Claire beach hut.




                                         To enter the challenge link your project HERE. 

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Challenge #22 Make Us Quirky Well Laugh!

 Hi Quirky People, it's Lyn here and it's my turn to set the theme to the nexy Quirky Crafts Challenge, and I thought how about...
Make Us Laugh! 
So, that's easy! Make something fantastic that will make us laugh! (or grin a bit!) We're lucky enough to be sponsored once again by the lovely...
  Crackerbox Palace!!
Crackerbox Palace make real rubber stamps and ship to anywhere in the world, stamps can be wood mounted, foam mounted (printed on the back), or unmounted.
Crackerbox Palace have provided the team with some lovely stamps to use, and you can win a very generous prize from them too:
1st Prize is a $20 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
2nd Prize is a $15 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
3rd Prize is a $10 voucher from Crackerbox Palace
Please note the voucher does not include postage.

 First makes from our fabulous Guest designers
I wanted to use this stamp because I have a very dear friend that must have her coffee in the morning before she can function.  I've made this card for her because my friend makes me smile and I was hoping this would make her smile as well.  Using dies on a card can make the card look fancy with minimal amount of work.  I like to hand cut my images out and this one was a bit challenging and fun because of the hair.
The die I used to mat my image is from Noor/Joy Craft and is the fancy rectangle. I made the sentiment on my computer. More details and list of copics on Bonnie's blog.

Ike said: I fussy cut the Queen and 3D'd her into 5 layers :-D 
Ike used Boo Bug and the Boo-ick joke on this great Halloween card.

Here's my final one... a Diorama using Fairy Guy + A Fairy Tale Sentiment ... I made a toilet too LoL (Definitely the best one last Ike, that is so funny).

And here's some fabulous makes from our Quirky Design Team!
We would like to introduce our new 2 month Guest Designer

I love this little witch, Black Hat Society Witch, she was great to colour with my Promarkers, I figure as we're so close to Halloween now, what would be better than a wreath, I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut a base circle and lots of leaves, from black card, simply stuck them all around and then added my image and sentiment, really simple but effective.


Here's mine: I've used this fabby lion from our sponsors, coloured him with my Promarkers and covered him with a bit a Stickles Glitter Glue. I've also 3D-ed his head and tail tip. I just thought the sentiment went so well .... I mean, you'd give a lion anything he wants if he called at your door one dark halloween night!

I used Chopper from Crackerbox Palace with You're a Classic, and DCWV Rockstar papers, and tartan ribbon. I think Chopper is great, had to use him. I hoped to make a few more but I am suffering with a virus and have lost a few days.

What a spook- tastic challenge this was. The fabulous images were from Crackerbox Palace, and they were so much fun to work with...



I made a large 'secret pocket' journal page this week. The background is made with Dylusions sprays and Tim Holtz stencils.  I coloured the images with Promarkers and Inktense pencils. I wanted the devil boy to be lurking over the witches' shoulder, so I mounted him on a black tag, outlined him in white and slotted him into the secret pocket. Finally I added the sentiment.Happy Halloween...I hope you like my offering !!! 


On this occasion, I made a gift box shaped letter, justifying the message. I used  Helen with Coffee image because I thought it was very nice, or is it that I felt identified with her?. This pretty image is courtesy of our fabulous sponsor Crackerbox Palace . (Cazzy thinks this is D for Doris, love it).


My second one, is a Birthday Card, in which I used Clara, this image is provided by Crackerbox Palace, our great sponsor for this new challenge. I used for the background a pre made card kit and then, I painted Clara, by hand, using watercolor pencils. I used for paste Clara, adhesive foam.

MONICA
When my friend Patri wants coffee, she opens her eyes wide, shakes her hands and starts screaming "CAFE, CAFE, CAFE" (that´s coffee in Spanish). So this project is inspired in my dear friend Patri and the Crackerbox Palace digi sentiment "Mr. Cofffe" was perfect for it.



And I made this coffee mug for her, using this funny "Helen with coffee" digi and again the digi sentiment "Mr. Coffee", both from our sponsor Crackerbox Palace.

Hope you love our creations (next week there will be more to see) and they give you heaps of inspiration! Come and join in!

(Whoops {blush} - sorry, someone accidentally deleted the Inlinkz linky thing, it is back now! The perils of 5 people amending posts!)

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #21Favourite Things WINNERS!

 Wow! It's Quirky Winners time! You loved the last Challenge 'Favourite Things' and it was very hard to choose three winners, as we all have different tastes and love different,. favourite things!  After much debating the one with the most vote equalling the most points was ....

  1st Place -
with a choice of 5 images from Robyn's Fetish, is
Yogi

with this amazing creation!

  2nd Place - 
and winner of a voucher to spend with Crafty Ribbons is....
Gro Tjeltveit.
 

with this fabulous make
All Gro's cards received a vote but this one just pipped in at second place.

3rd Place 
  a choice of 3 images from Robyn's Fetish is.....

   Sharon Hudson

   with this fantastic project!
 Thank you again to our spectacular sponsors!!!
 and 
 
 
If all three of you would like to contact Cazzy using the email ink on the sidebar, she will arrange for you to collect your prizes and send you a personalised winner's badge! We would love it if you all could join us as Guest Designers - please say you will - let us know when you email about your prize if you can! Don't forget you will be given digi's to work with.
Thank you to everyone who entered. Don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge.... I think it's my turn! Ooops! See you then! Happy Crafting!


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Challenge #21 Reminder! Favourite Things!

  Hi Quirky peoples, here's a quick reminder about our latest challenge... 
'Favourite Things!'  
A nice and easy challenge for you all to join in with, thought up by Daire! It's Daire's last challenge with us so let's see LOADS of creations!!  No one's here at the moment so I've sneaked in to show you what the Design Team have come up with so far. But first of all, we'd all love to welcome Gemma, after joining us as a guest designer, (we couldn't scare her off!) is now a brand new member of our Design Team!! So please pop over and say hello!!

 This challenge is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, who have provided the team with some fabulous images and...
 
 
 
 
 1st Place - Your choice of 5 images from Robyn's Fetish.
2nd Place - A voucher for Crafty Ribbons, to buy ribbons, buttons and more!
3rd Place - Your choice of 3 images from Robyn's Fetish

And now here's some of our creations...

First  our lovely  Guest designer with this fabulous creation!
KEMLY (KYSO)


Flowers are one of the things I like the most. I love gardening, I like to take a few minutes a day to water my plants, talk to them and take care of them. My love for gardening is a family tradition, starting with my great-grandmother Celina and her beautiful garden. I also used light aqua color, and color the roses in light colors because I love Shabby Chic style.


The girl with flowers reminds me of myself as a child, I  used to bring flowers to my mom every time, so this beautiful digi reminds me of those moments in my life.
Thank you for this opportunity to collaborate as a guest designer.
Have a nice day ...


And here's what our Design Team have come up with this week!!


The theme for this challenge is 'my favourite things' and I loved every second of making my reminder challenge. I fell in love with this bookworm image from Robyn's Fetish, and knew that I had to make a book with him. I painted to covers with my favourite colours and used a crackle glaze on the inside covers. I coloured the bookworm with a combination of Prisma colour pencils and Neocolour wax crayons. I then cut some paper to size and rounded the corners of it and assembled the book and finally added some ribbon to the rings. I hope you like it. Gemma  x


 
For my second make I used this little penguin, called Paul Penguin Sleighing from our Sponsors. One of my favourites things is to add a PNG digi over an already coloured background. This snowy Sky is my own found HERE. I then printed out three other penguins, coloured them with Promarkers and used them to 3D the first penguin, which is another of my favourite things to do!  I also have a 'thing' for fonts. I try to link my posts to freebie fonts whenever I can. Another thing, which I don't get to use very often is to use acetate.  I've fixed the snowflakes onto acetate so I can have then off the edge of the card. More to see on my Blog!



For this reminder I also used a mix of my favorite things.
First I began by choosing the beautiful "Blissful Angel" digi from our sponsor Robyn`s Fetish, because I love angels, as a reminder that God takes care of us.
Then I made a Christmas Card because that´s my favorite holiday. I love family gathering and sharing.
Finally I used one of my favorite paper techniques: Iris Folding.
I also love coloring and this is my first attempt with my brand new Spectrum Noir Pens. I have to say I`m really pleased.


Pop back later, there might be some more!





 To enter the challenge link your project HERE and remember - we love to see any kind of crafts entered. Cards, art journal pages, ATC's, needlework, scrapbook pages, paintings, quilts, sculptures, shadow boxes... EVERYTHING is welcome!



Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.