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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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Quirky thank you's and lots of news.

We have a lot of thanks to give out at the end of another Quirky Challenge year.

First of all Lyn and I would like to thank all of the Design Team members for their wonderful projects this year. We are sad that they all had to leave us, for various personal reasons, and we wish them all the best in the future.

We said goodbye to Gabriela a few weeks ago; really she said goodbye to us. We are saying goodbye to Monica, Doris  and Gabriela all at once - leaving just the two of us oldies!

This is the reason (apart from the fact I was ill in bed for most of the last two weeks) that you might not have got a comment on your entries, with a record number of fabulous entries and only the two of us - well it could take a while so maybe you will let us off this time round! Some people entered more than once, in some cases more than three times, of course those entries had to be deleted. If you get a comment on one of your entries, please accept it for all of them.

This is also why we are running a DT call, and the good news is we've actually had some good applicants  and three of them have joined the team so far - but we could do with a couple more, so if you would like to become part of our Quirky team please contact me and I will give you the details of what is involved.

Hot off the press: in 2016 Quirky challenges will be Monthly, starting on the first Sunday in each month and not 2 weekly, the reason for the change is because Lyn and I have a lot to deal with in our daily lives and it will take the pressure off quite a bit. It also means you might be more inclined to apply to join us! You might have seen this mentioned on our Facebook page.

We want to thank all of you Quirkettes for playing along with our Quirky challenges all year, without you there would be no challenge blog! We loved visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations, and we hope to see many more in 2016.

We want to give a BIG thank you to all of our sponsors during 2015, they provided us with some great prizes and wonderful images to use too. Here are the sponsors, they have made our challenges special, thank you all:



Crafty Ribbons sponsor Quirky Challenges

Crackerbox Palace

Crackerbox Palace

Digital Delights

Digital Delights


Ditzie Designs

Ditzie Designs

Jiggery Makery

Jiggery Makery sponsors Quirky Crafts

Limited Runs

Limited Runs

Meljen Designs (now closed down)

Meljen Designs

Robyn's Fetish

Robyn's Fetish

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Sweet Pea Stamps (closed down)

Sweet Pea Stamps

That Craft Place

That Craft Place is sponsoring Quirky Challenges

The Cutting Cafe

The Cutting Cafe

So everybody can give themselves a round of applause now - hip hip hooray!

Don't forget to come back on Sunday 3rd January to meet the new team, and to find out about our first challenge of 2016!

Have a great Christmas, or Holiday break and see you in the New Year - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 6 December 2015

WINNERS of Challenge #24 Quirky Christmas!!

Whoopee! Hi everyone Lyn here. Thank you to everyone who entered our Christmas Challenge! It's Quirky's last challenge of the year. We very rarely stop and keep going on and on and.. so this year we needed a rest! (well, I did!)  First, apologies for not commenting on every entry, my computer 'said no!' And then every one on the team voted for different creations! So we took ages looking at all your fabulous works of art, it was soooo hard to decide! (which is why I'm late posting really!) But in the end.... here are our winners!!

First  we have Cicci  with this lovely card and winner of  a lovely prize from....
That Crafty Place!

Second we have Niki  with this fabulous book and winner of...
7 digi's from Bugaboo
 

And Third we have Marilyn's Snowmen Hats Treat Boxes! And winner of

 $5 Gift Voucher from Digital Delights!

Well done everyone! Please contact Cazzy (using the email link or the contact form if the link doesn't work) so that she can send you your personalised winner's badges and get your prizes on the way to you. We would love you all to be guest designers in one of our next challenges, starting in the NEW YEAR! Cazzy will also contact all those who emailed or left DT on their entries as soon as she's feeling a bit better! With any luck the results of the DT call will be posted sometime next week, applications by email are still welcome!

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year to you All!



 
Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.



Sunday, 29 November 2015

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...

 
 
And
Third place winner will receive a $5 voucher from
Proud Designer for Digital Delights


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 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!




To embellish my cup gift box, I used the adorable "Snowman Cocoa" digi, provided by Bugaboo Stamps.
I made a gift box using the  Christmas horse image from Bugaboo 


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.

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Challenge #24 It's Nearly Quirky Christmas! (And A Quirky DT Call!)

Thank you to everyone who joined in  the last Challenge by adding a feather to their fantastic projects! And thank you to our sponsors too! To see the winners go here, or scroll down!
It's the end of the year and we were thinking we really need some more Quirky crafters! (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! Please bear with Cazzy - her computer is very poorly at the moment so she might not get back to you right away. In fact apologies to our lovely guests - your badges will be made when Cazzy's computer is well again.  Good news - it is fixed, and Cazzy will sort out badges and winners tomorrow. (Yippee Cazzy!)
Back to the post! This is Lyn. I was thinking about the  last creations I added to last weeks challenge post  and was suddenly in the mood for making Christmas Cards, and seeing it's almost upon us, that's my next challenge for you!!
 Anything Christmas!
  Any crafty project is acceptable as usual.
  Our Super Sponsors this time are...

 
 
And


Proud Designer for Digital Delights
 Guest Designers
Elena used the lovely "Chibi reindeer" provided by Bugaboo Stamps to make a gorgeous Christmas ornament.


Margreet makes a lovely Christmas gift box with "Big Present", a lovely digi provided by Ditzie Designs aka That Craft Place.

(sorry the next two cards are a little late, due to Cazzy's computer problems)
Cristina used a Bugaboo image she had already to make this lovely red and white card.

Susan used Mixie from Ditzie Designs, isn't she pretty? A non traditional Christmas card that any little girl would love!

Design Team


For my Christmas card I used the adorable "Gift Giving Cedric", provided by Digital Delights.
My today´s first project is a tag. I used the Gift Giving Cedric from our sponsor Digital Delights.

My second one, also a tag, using the sweet twinkle, from  Ditzie Designs aka That Craft Place.
Cazzy 
will be here later

As usual I'm running late so I've added this card, using two Bugaboo snowmen.lil-snowman/star and Lil-Snowman, which I've 3D-ed and coloured with Promarkers. You too can back-link, providing, we haven't seen your creation in any of our challenges and it's no older than ten days old!



  Here's my 'real' DT card for this challenge using  "Gift Giving Cedric" from  Digital Delights.
 
I've finally managed to print out four of him, (my computer run out of coal again!) coloured him with Promarkers,and then cut him up so I could 3D him. I've added extra stick-on presents, loads of Stickles Glitter, red gems and a bit of holly as well as a snowflake button and ribbons. The papers were free from a crafting mag. They're called 'Me to You'  The sentiment was done on the computer.



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.

Challenger 23: "LIGHT AS A QUIRKY FEATHER".- Winner


Here are our winners...thank you for participating and their wonderful designs!!!

Congratulations!!!
1st Prize: from Crafty Ribbons UK winner or voucher form non UK winner.



2nd Prize: 7 imagen form Bugaboo.











3rd Prize: 4 images form Sweet Pea Stamps








Congratulations to all of you, please contact Cazzy (using the email link or the contact form if the link doesn't work) so that I can send your personalised winner's badges and get your prizes on the way to you.
We would love you all to be guest designers in our next challenge, if you would like to, please tell Cazzy if you can - or a later challenge!
Again, thank you to everyone who entered, and don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge!


Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.