Challenge 36 - 10th October Sketch by Caro

It's Challenge Time again here on the Quirky Crafts Blog, and this time we have a sketch by the talented Caro. We look forward to seeing your interpretation of this sketch and are happy to accept any form of altered art, scrapbook pages as well as cards. Feel free to rotate the sketch, invert it or use it in any way you wish, just so long as we can still see the sketch within your work. We also have a guest designer on the team, Debbie, who won Challenge 34 with her gorgeous card. We had some great entries for Challenge 35 recipe and the winner will be announced later this evening or tomorrow. Caro has kindly offered to provide a small prize to the winner of this challenge, who will also have the opportunity to join the DT for the next challenge and be able to proudly display the winner's badge.

Caro's Sketch

Guest Designer - Debbie (The Padster)

Cazzy's Christmas Card

Caro's Scrapbook layout

Lyn's Halloween Card

Anne's New Baby Card



The prize for this challenge will be these great embellishments supplied by Caro.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 34 - Winner

Here is the announcement you have all been waiting for. The standard of entries was very high for Challenge 34 and it was difficult to choose between them, but the Design Team have chosen and our winner this time is:

Number 7 - The Padster (see the winning entry here)

We loved Debbie's interpretation of the sketch with the line of flowers making this a little different.

Debbie, please help yourself to the winner blinkie from our side bar. We would also like to offer you a guest design spot for our next challenge, please email us (link in sidebar) so we can send you details so that you can join us.

Well done everyone else and thank you for playing along, please do play along with our latest challenge below.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

challenge 35 - 26th September - Recipe by Cazzy

Thank you to everyone who joined in with Deanne's sketch...all your cards were wonderful and we will be back later with the announcement of the Challenge 34 winner.

Get out your sewing box! This week it is Cazzy's turn to set the challenge and here it is...

My recipe is to make something that must include the following:

Stitching (real or faux)

Lace (paper or real)

At least two different buttons.

and finally a colour: teal or turquoise.

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.

Here's some inspiration from our design team:

Caro's scrapbook layout

Caro's ATC

Lyn's Christmas Card

Lyn's Card for a Do-it-yourself fan

Anne's Fabric Heart


Cazzy's Card (late again)

challenge 34 - 12th September - Sketch by Deanne

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with Anne's challenging recipe and welcome back after the summer break. With autumn fast approaching and kids back at school there should be more time for crafting again so we are back to our usual fortnightly challenges from now on.

As you may have noticed from a previous blog entry Deanne has sadly had to step down as co-ordinator of the blog and challenges. We wish her all the best with her new ventures and she will be sadly missed. However, she couldn't leave us without some inspiration and her parting gift to us was this sketch for this weeks challenge. We look forward to seeing your interpretation of this sketch and are happy to accept any form of altered art, scrapbook pages as well as cards. Feel free to rotate the sketch, invert it or use it in any way you wish, just so long as we can still see the sketch within your work.

Here is some inspiration from our design team:

Caro's scrapbook page

Anne's Scrapbook Page

Lyn's Card

Cazzy's card

Link your entries here with Mr Linky and leave a comment too!

Challenge 33 - Winner

We are pleased to announce that the winner of Challenge 33 is Elaine with her Christmas card and wonderful shrink plastic mittens.

Congratulations Elaine, please help yourself to the winner's banner from the sidebar and display it on your blog. We would also like you to join us as guest designer for one of our challenges.

Please check back on Sunday for our next challenge.

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)