Challenge #5 "The Secret Garden" Reminder

Hi everyone, have a great Sunday!!!!

Quirky team wants to remind you about our current challenge

"The Secret Garden"

You still have a week to come and play with us. Just link your post HERE

Remember our fabulous sponsors for this challenge:

SAMAFLORA

UNKY

1st Prize: £15 on Samaflora products

2nd Prize: 5 digital images from Unky

3rd Prize: £5 on Samaflora products

Here's a few more of our team's makes:

GUEST DESIGNERS

Ike

Image was coloured using Copics. I had the perfect Sizzix die for the shape of this lovely image and edged it with some pale pink Whispers ink.  I used some gauze behind and some die cut swirls. The backing card is from First Edition  'Love Letters' pad. The rose and ribbon to finish my hanging is from my stash.

And the Quirky Crafts team:

Cazzy

 I used Hipster Goddess on my first card, she reminds me so much of what I thought I looked like in the early 70's (but didn't), I had the hot pants - I will tell you more about that on my blog! I tried to make her as psychadelic as possible with the colours and patterns.

I am working on a very special second card and will add it as soon as I am finished - it will be this evening!

This gorgeous young lady is Ashley, a friend of Unky's who has cancer and Unky is giving half the money from the sales of this image to her friend to fund her chemotherapy, how cool is that!

So I thought  would make my card about breast cancer, and I die cut the ribbon with a Sizzlet die, and added a sentiment using a Unity stamp, it says "Be brave, strong and courageous". 

Cindy

I used Unky's image 'Hipster Goddess' for our reminder post.  Watercolour crayons and a water brush were used to colour her in, then I fussy cut her.  The papers are from a Michaels paper pad called Boho Chic and I used my new Spellbinders Labels 25 too! 

MONICA

For this week project, I used a Tina Fitch cut file, to make this gorgeous stargazer gate fold card.

As en every SECRET GARDEN, something is hidden inside.

Inside you will find this stunning digi "Aurora Poppy"  from our sponsor Unky.

For coloring the digi, I used a mix of Spectrum Noir pens and Prismacolor pencils.

I hope you have enjoy this challenge as much as I did.

DORIS

For the reminder today, I chose to work Pinkrose. It is a beautiful image provided by UNKY, our sponsor. I worked with Spectrum Noir and in addition I added some flowers and a charm. I have to say that these images are fabulous and I really had fun working on them.

GEMMA

I have a confession to make.....I have fallen in love with the digi images provided to us this month by 

our sponsor Unky - they are strikingly beautiful. I really did enjoy using them.

I made a journal page with the focal image being my Unky digi stamp. The background has been sprayed with Dylusions inks , and the image is coloured with Tim Holtz DistressMarkers.

 

I also added some crackle texture paste through a vine stencil to frame the page, adding some gilding

 wax to give it a sheen.  

I then sprayed some flowers the same colour as the background

 

I hope you have all enjoyed this challenge and the images as much as I have... X

 Lyn

Just got home and I'm not here! Where did I go!? But I'm sure no one noticed! Here's my card! I've used the digi Hanbo, along with some of my favourite Dovecraft papers. Mostly red, grey and black, so I've kept to those colours in the rest of my card. I even re-coloured the white and pink flowers with  a red Promarker. I've added black eyelash wool and red ribbon along with grey and black pearls and loads of Stickles Glitter glue and a black vinyle butterfly.

Inside I've continued with the same papers and added 'Just For You' and a Happiness sign....I think! (Perhaps you know better!) Go  HERE to join in this challenge!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #5 "The Secret Garden"

Hi Quirky friends, is my turn -Monica- to set the theme for this new challenge.
The first thing you have to do is to take a few minutes of your time, relax, take a big breath and watch this video, because this will be your inspiration:

This challenge is inspired in 1993´s movie "The Secret Garden", that  shows place full of flowers, in where you can hide away.
So your projects must show a lot of colorful flowers and that beautiful hidden place.

Our fabulous sponsors for this challenge are:

SAMAFLORA

And we are thrilled to introduce a brand new very talented sponsor:

UNKY

who has supplied our team with some fantastic digital images, which  we've showcased here.

1st Prize: £15 on Samaflora products

2nd Prize: 5 digital images from Unky

3rd Prize: £5 on Samaflora products

Here some inspiration from our Quirky Team:

GUEST DESIGNERS

PRINCESS

IKE

  Ike used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy to make a gorgeous card with a secret garden verse, and used a garden image as her background with some flowers and a butterfly, perfect for this challenge!

Ike also used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy to make this gorgeous frame card and added lots of die cut foliage and insects, and the background has a pretty rainbow.

KAREN

Karen used  "Flower Fairy and Birdie on her card, with an added bloom and background foliage on the paper.

And the Quirky Crafts team:

CAZZY

For my first card I used the gorgeous Aurora Cherry Blossom, and kept her to fresh subtle colours. I made my own cherry blossoms using dies I had and a punch in honour of Samaflora, and added them to the die cut frame. I haven't decided if I will add a sentiment yet!

My second card features Vintage Doll with Teddy (who is also available in a pre-coloured version), and she is sitting in a secret garden on her picnic rug. 

CINDY

Cindy used "Flower Fairy and Birdie" on her twisted easel card.

DORIS

On this occasion I chose to work with the digital stamp  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy from our great sponsor UNKY. I worked on one of my favorite colors: black, in different degradations. Also I painted the image with the Spectrum Noir and I put it on the bottom of the card frame. I also added paper flowers in bright colors, cardboard butterflies  and a sentiment that describes the meaning of My Secret Garden.

And finally this is the inside of my card.

GEMMA

I absolutely love the images we have for this weeks Challenge from Unky, they're beautiful.  

I wanted to do something slightly different for this challenge, so I decided to make a journal from scratch.....

I chose several sheets of decorative and plain, heavy weight papers, cut them to size and decorated them in various ways. I sprayed some ink through a stencil, I added tags, made pockets, stamped images and some sentiments, just to personalise and add interest to the pages, but you can do whatever you want to do, to decorate your book.

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To bind all of the pages together, I cut a strip of sticky canvas and cut a scalloped edge to each side, sprayed it with ink through a stencil, then held the pages tightly in one hand and applied the canvas to hold it securly.  I coloured the gorgeous UNKY image in with Twinkling H20s. It gives the image a delicate sparkle which  suited the fairy image......

Happy crafting.............xx

LYN

I've also used  Braided hair big eyed flower fairy from our sponsors UNKY. Coloured her with ProMarkers and green micro glitter. The paper's I've used are called 'Frabrications' and were freebies from a Crafting Magazine. A link to the free font, which I've used on the inside, is on my blog!

 

MONICA

For my project I used this magical digi "Flower Fairy and Birdie" from our talented sponsor Unky -The East Wind-.

My perfect "Secret Garden" hideaway must have a beautiful gazebo surrounded with lots of flowers. That´s just what I´m trying to show in this card.

I used Spectrum Noir Pens to color the digi and Silhouette Cameo to make all the cutting work.

To see who won the last challenge scroll down to the next post. 

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button below.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Please leave us a comment after you have linked your creation. If you followed the Quirky Rules you will be considered for the the top three, you could win a prize and be guest designer too  - good luck from the team. Please come back and check if you won within 14 days of the challenge close.

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Challenge #19 "It´s a Small Quirky World" Reminder

Here is your challenge reminder, you have until Saturday Sept 28th midday to enter our challenge and here are the details again:

We want to see different places of the World represented in your projects.

It could be the place you live, the place you had born,  the place you will like to live, the place you will like to visit, even the place you need to see before you die.

Feel free and let your creativity fly and show us “it´s a small World after all”

Our sponsor for this time are:

Samaflora 

Paper Pretties

The first place winner will get £15 worth of Sam's gorgeous flowers; the second place, 6 Paper Pretties images; and the third place, £5 worth of Sam's lovely flowers.

Here are some more examples from the team to inspire you:

Monica

As soon as I saw the "So Tropical" digi provided by our sponsor Paper Pretties, I knew have to do a project that represents my country beauties. I have born in Paradise. This beautiful beach is only 1.5 hour drive from my house. This is Costa Rica!!!!

Gemma

For the background, I used Tim Holtz distress paints, applied straight to the tag and then spritzed with water to make the colours blend. I used some texture paste to add some depth to the background, and to give the characters something to stand on. The gorgeous digi stamps are from Paper Pretties and I love them! They were coloured in with Copic markers. The quote is also Paper Pretties..

Cazzy

I used Merci Beaucoup on my card, along with some freebie papers, and I added some floral ribbon (from Crafty Ribbons) with roses on to match the paper, and some pink Prima blooms with pearl centres in honour of the lovely floral prize you can win from Samaflora.

Lyn

I'd already made  two makes last week, but I wanted to do something with the little Fantastic Sophia image from our sponsors. (She also comes as an EZ Mount). This card has been turned inside out, as I suddenly realised the topper was going to cover the paper and the ribbon, so what is now at the back and inside, was the front and outside! Little Sophia has been 3D-ed and coloured with Promarkers.(Free font link on my blog)

Doris 

is very ill, we send her our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Thank you Cazzy. Hi, a little late this week, but here I am. My project is a card with very positive messages. I've painted by hand and I used Fantasticsophia image, courtesy of our fabulous sponsor Paper Pretties. See you at our next Quirky challenge, but not before inviting you to participate in this Quirky Small World Challenge. Hugs, Doris!

More projects may be added in the next few days, watch this space!

To enter the challenge link your project HERE

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.