Challenge #24 Reminder. Merry Quirky Christmas!

Hi Quirky People. Lyn here. It's not long to Christmas so here's a reminder about our latest Challenge. We what to see... 

Anything Christmas!

 Scroll HERE to enter and see our DT  and Guest creations from last week and to find Mr InLinkz

  Any crafty project is acceptable as usual.

  Our Super Sponsors this time are...

 Ditzie Designs aka That Craft Place

 Bugaboo 

 

 

And

 Digital Delights

Third place winner will receive a $5 voucher from

We'd also love some more Quirky Crafters to join our design team!!! (card makers, mixed media artists we need you!) - interested? If so, contact Cazzy using the links or form in the sidebar or put DT after your name on your entry. If you've never been on a Design Team before, this is the place to have a go!

Here's a few idea's to get you going!

 Our Guest Designer

MARGREET

Margreet made a lovely Christmas card with this adorable digi "Scene it.-Winter Friends" provided by Bugaboo Stamps.

 From the Design Team.

    Lyn

This time I've used Mixie from Ditzie Designs, and coloured her blue to match the blue Christmas papers and letters by Dovecraft.  (Winter Wonderland) I've 3D-ed the frilly bit of her dress, layered the backing papers with silver mirri card and added gems, stick on ribbon, white eyelash wool, silver peel-offs and Stickles Glitter.

Added this  Friday 4th Dec, very later but I really wanted to colour Mixie with Christmas colours. Mounted on to Gold, Green and Red miri card, loads of Stickles Glitter, coloured with Promarkers. Christmas backing paper  and matching sticky ribbon by Dovecrafts. Snowing blue paper my own. Hope you like it!

MONICA

To embellish my cup gift box, I used the adorable "Snowman Cocoa" digi, provided by Bugaboo Stamps.

DORIS

I made a gift box using the  Christmas horse image from Bugaboo 

Cazzy

Here at last, so sorry I missed last week and am late today - I have had a week of Lyn's Hubby's Man Flu I think! I'm still not over it, but better than I was. I just realised that Lyn set the Christmas in July challenge too, must be something about Christmas!

I used two cute Bugaboo images together Skinny Bird Candy Cane and Skinny Bird Christmas Ornaments, they are Robins now!  The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Challenge #22: Quirky Halloween and Autumn Colors

Little leaves fall softly down

Red and yellow, orange and brown

Whirling, twirling round and round

Falling softly to the ground.

Welcome to our new Quirky Challenge, it is me (Doris), and this time we want to celebrate Autumn and Halloween Colors. All you have to do is a project, any project, using the lovely Autumn and Halloween colors. Easy... isn´t it?

So, let me tell you about our sponsor and prizes.

Stitchy Bear

And we are so thankful for the generous prizes which are:

1st prize of 3 images of choice from the whole of the store

2nd prize Any 3 of the images used by the DT

3rd prize any 2 of the DT´s chosen images

The images kindly supplied to the team by Stitchy Bear designer are:

Stitchy Stamps 

Edward & Bella

Straw Hat

 Hang Tite

Floppy Latte Designs

Tending The Vines

Reeces Scrap Pieces

RSP_Lucy_Witch

RSP_Rich Witch

IKEsART

 Castle Room

  Skelly Gossip

Vaguely Goth

 Digi Blessings 

Hang in there

Any images not used this week will appear in the reminder post next week.

You have until Saturday 31st Oct (spooky) to play along with us, but not midnight on the 31st - midday UK time hahahahahaha!

Guest Designers

Mia

Mia used Rich Witch and doesn't she look scary!

Design Team

MONICA

I`m not a Halloween fan, but I love Autumn. It is my favorite color palette. For my make I used this beautiful silhouette "Tending The Vines" design by Floppy Latte and provided by our generous sponsor.

Doris

This is my idea for this challenge, I made a frame, because I love it. I used the lovely and cute image Edward & Bella, provided for our sponsor Stitchy Bear.

Gabriela

I made a Halloween treat box using the lovely witch Hang Tite.

Cazzy

Sorry I'm late again, I was away with family for the weekend and busy last week so I didn't get my card made in time.
I used two of IkeSart images merged to make my dungeon scene: Castle Room and Skelly Gossip. To this I added some bat sequins and some Tim Holtz spiders and webs and the sentiment.

To see who won the last challenge see the previous post below this one. You also can click HERE.

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

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Challenge #21 For the Quirky Girls using only two colours!

Hi Everyone, Cazzy here and my challenge to you is to make something for the Quirky girls, and only to use two colours on your make - except for your image where a few colours are allowed for skin, hair etc.

Your project can feature girls, or be something very girly, or for a girl and can be any type of project that is hand made.

I've not been joining in much and making examples because of family illness and very stressful times, but I am working behind the scenes as usual to keep the challenges going and the brilliant team keep on making wonderful examples for you all to see - thank you.

I have some sad news, Kemly is leaving us and this is her last challenge. She has been a wonderful team member and we will miss her creativity and input to the team and challenges. Good luck to you Kemly for the future!

We have three great sponsors for this challenge and they are:

Sweet Pea Stamps

Jiggery Makery

We would like to welcome Jiggery Makery sponsoring Quirky for the first time.

Digital Delights

The prizes for our top three as voted on by the team are:

1st place - 4 images of your choice from Sweet Pea Stamps

2nd place - 3 images of your choice from Jiggery Makery

3rd place - $5 voucher from Digital Delights

How cool is that!

Our generous sponsors have all provided images for the team and guest designers to use, so let's show you some inspiration using those images, first from our Guest Designers.

Julye

 Julye used Jumping Jemima from Digital Delights, isn't she fun! Julye made a Halloween card, so cute and you can see the two colours are green and purple..

Julye's second card features the beautiful Fairy on a Stool by Sal Scheibe from Sweet Pea Stamps, and her two colours here are pink and brown.

Lorraine

Lorraine used Missy Pin up from Jiggery Makery for her sassy Christmas card and her two colours are red and green. Perfect card for your Husband Lorraine!

and more from our wonderful Design Team.

Doris

Doris used Emmilou Boo- On Broadway from Sweet Pea Stamps on her purple and teal jumbo tag.

Monica

For my vintage TV shaped card, I used "Georgia.-Pin up" provided by our generous sponsor Jiggery Makery and to achieved challenge requeriments, I used differents shades from color grey.

Gabriela

For my card I used a beautiful ballet dancer, is a very feminine and delicate dance !!!! The image is

Katerina Koukiotis's Ballet de Papillion- DIGI, the sponsor THE SWEET PEA STAMPS.


Cazzy

Amazingly I have managed to make a card for my challenge! This digi is from Jiggery Makery and is called Cute Face 1. My colours are orange and yellow, which just happened when I looked for flowers to make her hair and I found a jar of these two colour flowers and went from there. All the details are on my blog.

 KEMLY

 Hi everybody! To this challenge I made a frame card.

 I used the pretty "Elizabeth-Pin Up". 

She's  beautiful in the cup.This girl is fantastic. 

 She looks even a little sexy or mischievous. This digi is very funny.

 My colours are burgundy and yellow cream. 

I decorated with ribbons and small flowers in the colors selected for this card.

So let's see what you can do!

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

An InLinkz Link-up

Let's Have Some Quirky Animal Magic! Challenge #19.-Reminder

Thank you to Monica for starting off this post and doing all the hard bits!! You are an angel! Lyn here, because...

It's reminder time!

Our fabulous Sponsors for this Animal Magic challenge are.

Bugaboo

 

 

 And...

Sweet Pea Stamps!

 

and...

 Robyn's Fetish!

Reminder of our prizes, good or what!? Fantastic I say!

   1st place: Seven Digi's of your choice from Bugaboo

 2nd place: 4 images from Sweet Pea Stamps

 3rd place:  - Robyn's Fetish 1 digi!

Here's some more inspiration from our Design Team:

Guest Designers

NanaConnie

NanaConnie said: Bugaboo Stamps image "Skull Tree."  It was such a wonderful silhouette, I printed it large enough to fill the entire card front and my only embellishment was the added bits of glitter to the eyes and the pumpkin.  Nice CAS design.

Fit Kitty

For my card, I chose the adorable Strawberry Mouse by Karen Middleton at Sweet Pea Stamps. I coloured this little cutie with Prismacolor pencils and fussy-cut so I could pop him up with foam tape.  I made a fun background with some angled panels.  I started by stamping a leaf cluster with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink.  Then I did some ink blending with the same Distress Ink.  I layered red, green, and black cardstock strips and some strawberry-patterned paper strips.  I die-cut the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks in red and added some punny words with my Dymo label maker.  I added a strawberry charm from my stash, tied with baker's twine, and finished off the card with a number of white sequins.

DESIGN TEAM

MONICA

For this heart easel card, I´m working with "How to tame the beast", design by Charity Dauenhauer and provided by Sweet Pea Stamps.

GABRIELA

My tower is to the charming CLYDE, who kindly gives us the sponsor BUGABOO DIGI STAMPS !!!!

KEMLY.

Hi! This week my animal magic is the beautiful and mysterious unicorn. In my card, the adorable  Unicorn   of  our sponsor BUGABOO DIGI .

Lyn

For my second card for this challenge I've used the same image as last week, but instead of using light colours I've gone for darker shades and loads of gems and glitter. The papers I've used this time are called 'Neighbourwood'. Half of the 48 sheets are already glittered. There's leaves, acorns, tree bark, flowers, butterflies and sheets with animlas, which I've punched out. The little bottle contains magical purple fary dust! It's a little cord necklace for someone who's a Pisces... There's a little fairy charm attached too!

Unfortunetly my intended Bugaboo card (which was rabbits and elephants on some rabbit rainbow backing paper) got covered in dust after hubby sandpapered the walls in my near empty craft room and worse still, he can't remember where he put my box of Promarkers! So...here's an oldie from last year, featuring a chick and an elephant.

DORIS 

For this card I used the Monster Rose-Colored, and this is a little different because you don´t need to paint, this cute monster is already colored. Just print and cut it. As additional elements I used a button, orange floss and little Love sentiment.

Cazzy

I had to show you this image and sentiment combo, it makes me laugh so much! I've already seen Christmas tins of biscuits and chocolates in the shops! This is called Halloween Christmas Owl Trio from Bugaboo.

This is a very quick Christmas card to follow on from the owls, using Snowflake Silhouette Reindeer  from Bugaboo, to which I added a lilac shadow then covered in glitter film before die cutting.

 To enter the challenge link your project to the challenge post before this one click HERE or scroll down.

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Let's Have Some Quirky Animal Magic! Challenge #19

Hi Quirky people, hopefully this is me (Lyn) bringing you another Quirky Challenge. Wasn't the last one fantastic! To see who won, click HERE or scroll down!

This fortnights challenge is... (Okay the title gave it away!) 

Animal Magic! 

It's quite easy, we'd like to see Animals! Large ones, small ones, squiggly ones, long ones, short ones, cute ones, funny ones, fat ones, skinny ones...it's up to you. The more 'animal' the better!!

Our fabulous Sponsors for this challenge are..

Bugaboo

 

 

 And...

Sweet Pea Stamps!

 

and...

 Robyn's Fetish!

   1st place: Seven Digi's of your choice from Bugaboo

 2nd place: 4 images from Sweet Pea Stamps

 3rd place:  - Robyn's Fetish 1 digi!

Here's some inspiration from our Design Team 

First, our guest designers 

NanaConnie

BIG apology to NanaConnie - Cazzy totally forgot to add her gorgeous card! NanaConnie used Lisa Victoria's Snowflake Wonder.
Fit Kitty

Thank you to Cazzy and the Quirky Crafts Design Team for inviting me to be your guest designer!  For my card, I chose a gorgeous image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps called Silhouette - Happy Halloween Cat.  I got really inky with my card! This silhouette image is perfect for an inky background. I blended a spooky sky with Distress Inks:  Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Dusty Concord, and Black Soot.  


I wanted to add some tiny stars with silver embossing paste and Memory Box Starry Nights stencil, but I ended up smudging them, so I wiped them off - you can still see a bit of the silver in places and I thought it left a cool shimmery effect!  I added lots of water drops, a Spider Web die-cut (Impression Obsession), and a number of black sequins. The inky panel was die-cut with Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Border and I mounted it on black cardstock and then onto a white card base.  


Auntie Sue

Today I am so pleased to be GDT this week and have made this card using Charmaine Flannery's Dragon's Keeper- DIGI  from our generous sponsor Sweet Pea Stamps. I have coloured my image with a mixture of Promarkers and Lyra Rembrandt Pencils. Papers are from Laura Ashley and lots of gems, lace, ribbons and die cuts added to embellish it. 


  And now...The Quirky Team.

DORIS

For this magical challenge, I decided to paint the gorgeous Charmaine Flannery's Squirreling Around image, from our amazing sponsor Sweet Pea Stamps. I just used the Spectrum Noir Alcohol Makers and a frame.

MONICA

For me, one of the most magical animals are dragons. For my doctor bag shaped card, I used the lovely Clyde Get Well provided by our generous sponsor Bugaboo Stamps. 

GABRIELA

For my card I chose this beautiful unicorn, reminding me of the horses we know, I would gladly take care of an unicorn in my house.  The image Karen Middleton's Unicorn Heart comes from our sponsor Sweet Pea Stamps.

KEMLY

For this week my card has a beautiful and sweet dragon, 

 Bedtime Moon ,

of our sponsor Sweet Pea. This little dragon takes his time reading bedtime. 

He sits in the beautiful moon. 

This is one of my favorite magical animals !

Cazzy

 This is Hedgehog flower from Bugaboo, hedgehogs are always magical to me, I love it when they come through the garden at night eating bugs, is the ladybug about to be eaten I wonder?

This is Charmaine Flannery's We're All Mad Here, she is beautiful and crazy and has a magical crazy (Cheshire?) cat on her lap, and playing cards flying through the air! 

Lyn - will be late for her own challenge!

Sorry sorry sorry everyone!! I'm here now!!

I love this image by  Sweet Pea Stamps. It's called, 'Time For A Tale.' (Please click on the link to see a really fabulous coloured picture of the image)  I've coloured with Promarkers, added loads of Stickles Glitter, foam lettering, felt flowers, a sewn on button, gems and eyelash wool.

And, because I knew I was going to be late, here's an Oldie from Bugaboo.

You too can back date, as long as we haven't seen your creation and it's no older than ten days.

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual. But important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below. If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

An InLinkz Link-up