Challenge 13 - Hand made flowers and ribbons

Welcome back to a new challenge. My turn (Diane). This time I have gone for Hand Made Flowers with Ribbons. So I think that is probably self explanatory really.

I am looking for your entries to include Hand Made Flowers ( from punches, die cuts etc) with ribbons. Bought flowers and blooms are not allowed on your project, and if you use them you won't be included in the top three.

You can make anything you like from a card to a scrapbook page and anything else in between. Lots of scope there for you to have fun.

We are very lucky to have two sponsors this time:

Crafty Ribbons:

who are giving our first place winner (chosen by our DT) this lovely prize of the latest Bev's Bag (available from the shop soon) of teddy bear ribbons.

and Paper Pretties

who are giving the second place winner 6 digi images of their choice.

Here are the Design Team Examples using images supplied by Paper Pretties:-

Guest Designers:

Suzie McFloozy

Suzie used Fan-tastic Sophie and made a wonderful flower to match the designer printed paper on this stunning card.

Margreet

Margreet used "1960" on her lovely vintage altered note book, and said: The flowers are die cut with a Doohickey die (Magnolia), as are the leaves, the roses on top are bought ones. We let Margreet off as she is our guest and we are happy to have this gorgeous make, but challenge entries must not include bought flowers or they will not be counted in the top three.

and the regular Design Team:

Cazzy

I used the "Flourette" image and one of the accompanying sentiments from our sponsor, this is so cute with the kitty stuck in the vase! I made my flowers with Nellie Snellen punches and embossers and added K & Co gems, and a little glitter glue. Image coloured with Promarkers. The dark card is actually plum not brown and matches the ribbon, all ribbons from Bev's Vintage Bag from Crafty Ribbons.

Caro

I have used "1960" from our sponsor to make this vintage tag. I used distress inks round the edge, coloured the image with promarkers and then attached a large number of small flowers punched out of basic grey paper. I also made my own rose-like flower from 5 punched flowers, coloured with distress ink, sprized with water, scrunched up and pinned together with a brad. I finished the tag off with pearls on the jacket and hat, and the ribbon attached witha brad.

Lyn

I used Butterfly Blossoms from our sponsor, which I printed out twice so I could do a bit of 3D-ing. I made my flowers using Woodware punches and coloured with a crimson promarker to match the colour used on the card, then added Stickles Glitter. Paper by Dovecraft

Diane

I have used the Blossoms and Butterfly digital image from Paper Pretties for my example. The colour scheme came from the sunflower images, of course. I coloured the image using promarkers and made flowers from copy paper using various punches and dies. The lace was a Martha Stewart Punch and the backing paper on from Sherry K designs.


Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using the biggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked.Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar).

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 12 Winners

The challenge was Up Up and Away (or The Sky's the Limit), so we were looking for something you would see in the sky, balloons, kites, birds, planes, clouds, rain, rainbow, umbrellas, etc, well there were lots of entries, this one got your imaginations running overtime and it was lovely to see so many entries, however we have to choose our top three and here they are.

Our generous sponsor this time round was the Cutting Cafe . Our first place winner who will receive 3 sets of digital images from The Cutting Cafe is  Gro Tjeltveit Well done Gro.

                                                           
Our second place goes too Allisa.

                                                           

Our third and final winner is Jo L
                                                          

Congratulations to all of you, please email Cazzy via the email link on the side for prize details, and let us know if you can join us for Guest Design Team Member spots. Please also help yourselves to the winners badge.

Come back later today for the launch of the next challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Previous winners and top three please read

Have you emailed me (Cazzy) and not got a reply? I am so sorry if you have, your email may have gone into my Junk folder, my spam checker isn't fussy and I try to check but sometimes miss emails and they get deleted after two weeks. So if this is you please forward me a copy of the email you sent, to the same address and I will check the spam daily.

Many apologies, I normally reply fairly quickly so if I don't please try again!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge 12 2012 - Up Up and Away (or the Sky's the Limit).

Another Quirky Cazzy challenge for you and I hope you will love this one.

The challenge is Up Up and Away (or The Sky's the Limit), and your make must feature something you would see in the sky, simple really. So what can you see in the sky? Balloons, kites, birds, planes, clouds, rain, rainbow, umbrellas, etc, well there is a lot to get you thinking!

Our generous sponsor this time round is the Cutting Cafe who sell not only digital images but cutting files too. The images come on PDF sheets and you buy them in sets and you get a lot of images and sentiments for your money.

The Cutting Cafe provided the team with two sets, Up Up in the Sky and Rain Rain go Away, and here are some examples from the team using those sets.

First our Guest Designer Bev G who stepped in to help us out at short notice, thanks Bev.

Bev added stamped swirls and dry embossing for a lovely effect on her cheerful hot air balloon card.
Caro:

I chose to make two ATCs on a patriotic theme using sentiments and images from the 'Up, Up and Away' set from our sponsor. The backgrounds for the ATCs were made by sponging distress inks through a template that I made (more details on my blog), and then I added the crown shaped corner peel offs, and the For Britain label (generated on my computer). The images were coloured with Promarkers.

Diane:-

I decided to use a digi stamp from the up up and away set. I had so many ideas in my head for this that I ended up starting the card 4 times.....but my MoJo deserted me along the way. I decided in the end to go with the really brightly coloured card I made using the Birthday Balloons Image. Printed onto a blue background and coloured in lots of brightly coloured promarkers I thought this would be nice for any youngster.

Lyn

I've gone for 'Rain' (seeing the lovely sun has gone!) and used my own Digi, Henry In The Rain a long with two images from our lovely sponsors 'These Boots were made for Splashing!' and The 'Happy Birthday Balloons' which I've placed inside the card!Cazzy

I used the ready coloured kites in the Up Up in the Sky set, mainly due to time constraints. I used Microsoft Snipping tool to capture the images and copy them into Serif Page Plus to make a scene, then I printed just the kites and cut them out to decoupage a little. I added a wavy greeting from the set and cut out a Lets Go Fly a Kite to finish it off.

Now lets see what you can do, we love you to play along! Please come back and check if you have won in two weeks time. Please note: if you are a winner and don't contact us within 14 days of the announcement we reserve the right to reallocate the prize to the second prize winner, and so on (if nobody contacts us then there will be no prize allocated).

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using the biggest blue froggy at the top of the collection, the other one (at the bottom) doesn't do anything that we can tell, and please comment after you have linked.Don't forget to mention Quirky and add a link back to here (please read the rules and if you realised you haven't followed the rules and won't be included in the top three, and you want your entry removed to try again - please email us using the link in the side bar).

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Winner of Challenge 11 - spots/dots stripes and ribbon.

Lyn's challenge was very popular, and the team had a hard time choosing their favourites again.

There can only be one prize winner this time, and, using our voting system,  our first place winner (and winner of 5 digi images from our challenge sponsor Robyn's Fetish) is Rina with this very pretty easel card.

Congratulations Rina we loved your card and there was a lot of work put into it. Please contact Cazzy who will arrange for you to receive your prize, and we would love you to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can.

We have joint second winners this time and they are:
Janiel with her lovely card, again a lot of work has gone into this and that image is the cutest ever,

and Suzie Mcfloozy with her sassy Ab Fab shoe card.

Congratulations Suzi and Janiel,  we would love you both to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can by emailing Cazzy using the link in the side bar.

Our third choice is Katy Tate with her wonderful patriotic card perfect for this Silver Jubilee weekend using home made Union Jack bunting due to lack of availability in the USA.

Congratulations Kate,  we would love you to join us in a future challenge as Guest Designer, please let us know if you can by emailing Cazzy using the link in the side bar.

Please help yourselves to a winner's badge from the sidebar all of you and don't forget our new challenge starts later today.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.