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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Showing posts with label Spyder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spyder. Show all posts

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.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

Challenge #11 Quirky Dots, Spots, Stripes & Ribbons!

Evening everyone! It's Lyn here, with the next Quirk Crafts Challenge. Thank you to everyone who joined in with the last one, check the post below to see who our lovely winners were!
It's my turn to set the theme this fortnight, very easy. You can make any crafty creation, as well as cards, we'd love to see, ATC's, Fat pages, Inchies, Scrap Book Pages, Altered Items, anything that takes your fancy, but I want to see ....
Dots/Spots, Stripes & Ribbons!

This challenge is kindly sponsored by the lovely...

Our winner (Chosen by The Quirky Design Team) will be able to choose 5 digi images from the Robyn's Fetish Store.
Here is a lovely example from our Guest Designer Crafty Girl, using the 2 Kewl Cat digital image from our sponsor. All you have to do to become a Guest Designer (and receive some digi images to work with) is to win a challenge, or be chosen as one of our Top Three!

I've made an easel card using my own papers, find them Here. The 'Forever Friends' digital image from our sponsors, dotty ribbon, brads, card candi and buttons from my stash. I've 3D-ed the duck/chicken (Ducken?!) and coloured with ProMarkers. Used an XCut punch to make the patterned border at the top and bottom, which flips up at the bottom to hold the easel in place. The font is a freebie, link on my blog.
I used Five Little Froggies, which I have decoupaged a little though it is hard to tell in this photo. I used papers that are free with the latest Card Making and Papercraft magazine, they are double sided. Spotty Ribbon from Crafty Ribbon, stamped sentiment is Hero Arts, buttons Papermania, and eyelets from stash.

I used the very cute 'an elephant never forgets' from our sponsor to make a birthday card for my sister-in-law who loves elephants. The elephant was coloured in using promarkers, and found various scraps of paper in my stash with spots, dots and stripes on them. I folded the ribbon and added very minimal embellishments. I went for a clean and simple and elegant design because she is an elegant lady. The colours are cream and blue although the cream doesn't show up very well on this.
I loved this digistamp. It is called 2 Kewl Cat...and he really is too cool! I decided to use cool colours to compliment him, so the background is cool blue and navy. Unfortunately the colours are a little bleached in this photo. Since I changed craft rooms I haven't been very successful with the photographs....the lighting obviously isn't right for photography. I will have to photograph them somewhere else I think, anyway the cat is coloured in Promarkers, cool grey 2,3 and 4 and then decoupaged...hope you like!

There you go! Lovely easy challenge, off you go and create!! Thank you for stopping by!

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest 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's of Challenge 10 (2012)

It's winners time again here at Quirky Craft's and what a lovely collection of Fabdabidozi cards we had for Caro's Masculine with blue and brown challenge last time! Wow!! We had such a hard time choosing our winners!! Thank you to everyone who played along, hope you will all join us again in for the next challenge coming up in a few hours!
We were sponsored by Paper Pretties, who offered the winner (as voted for by the DT) 6 digi images of their choice. So after a lot of debating and counting of socks the winner is....
With this amazing card using Tim Holtz embellishments and inks. All the panels have been sewn together. Ellen writes:
'I made ​​a kind of tag in a pocket confirmation card for a boy, with room for more tags. It's not so easy to make cards for boys / men, but Tim H. helps well'
Well done Ellen! Fabulous card! You have won 6 images of your choice from Paper Pretties, please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar and she will tell you how to claim your prize.
Bra Ellen! Flotte kort! Du har vunnet 6 bilder fra Papir Pretties, kontakt Cazzy ved hjelp av e-link i sidepanelet og hun vil fortelle deg hvordan få din premie.

Also let her know if you would like to join us as Guest designer for a future challenge. Please help yourself to a winner's badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!

Også la henne vite hvis du ønsker å bli med oss som gjest designer for en fremtidig utfordring. Kan du hjelpe deg selv til en vinner er skiltet fra sidepanel for å vise på bloggen din!
Our Next three, well four favourites as we had a tie are:
With this lovely easel note pad and pen card

Jenni and Margreet
who both tied in our voting system



And one more
JoanW
With this very simple but very effective male card. I love that Steam Punk style embossing!
Well done all of you! We hope we've picked a wide variety of talent as quite honestly we thought all the cards deserved a prize (Except mine of course coz it was there just for fun!)
Please contact Cazzy using the email link in the sidebar to let her know if you would like to join us as Guest Designers for any of our future challenges. Please help yourselves to a winner's badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!!
That's it for now! Tune in later today to see what I've chosen for the next challenge! (My sneaky Peek should already be up!) It's going to be nice and easy, so I hope you can all play along! BFN!
Spyder!

Have Fun - The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Winners: Challenge #6 Recipe For A Special Lady

Afternoon everyone! It's time to chose the winners of our last Quirky Challenge, A Recipe For A Special Lady set by Caro. We had some lovely entries, kindly sponsored by The Cutting Cafe, who offered a prize of three sets of digi stamps for the winner! All the votes are in...and the winner is....
Suzanne, you made a beautiful Mother's Day card. Your other creations all through your blog are amazing. Well worth a visit! Well done! You've won three sets of Digi stamps from The Cutting Cafe! We would also love you to join us as Guess Designer in one of our future challenges! Please take a Quirky Banner for your sidebar with a link back to Quirky!
Here is Suzanne's gorgeous card.After a lot of thinking, counting of votes and umpteen cups of cold tea, our second favourite is...
...with this lovely easel card. We loved all the detail Leah Ann, the more we looked, the more we found!! For loads of inspiration, please pay Leah Ann's Blog a visit, you'll find some amazing creations!!
And our third favourite creation was made by....
...with these amazing flower boxes! Pop over to Deanne's blog to read how she made them!

We would love you all to join us as Guest Designers in the near future, so please contact Cazzy using the e-mail on the sidebar to arrange winnings and details. (You may need to paste and copy the addy into your own email provider) Don't forget to take a Quirky Banner to place on your side bar with a link back to here!
I'll be back later with a new challenge set by me, Spyder/ Lyn. There's already a sneek peek of my DT card on my blog, hope you can all join in!! Bye for now. Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, 4 December 2011

It's Quirky Well Snowing Spyder's.Challenge 25

Hi peoples! Don't worry, it's not really snowing spiders, I think I put the full stop in the wrong place! Welcome to Quirky Craft's next Challenge! It's my turn (Lyn) to set the theme and after a lot of thinking, ouch! drooling, ew, and debating, ooho, I've decided you all need something nice and easy as we're all very busy at this time of year. So the challenge this fortnight is....
SNOW!
We want to see snow in any way, shape or form on your projects. Torn paper, glitter paper, micro glitter, Flowersoft, Liquid Appliqué, punched out snowflakes, even knitted snow!! (I've seen it out there in blogland!) Whatever you can come up with. Of course this doesn't have to be a Christmasy thing, it can be a birthday, a scrapbook page, an ATC, candles, inches, book marks, something altered, anything crafty, as long as it has SNOW on it, we'd love to see it! Real snowy pictures on a scrap-book page would look fantastic!

We have TWO gorgeous sponsors this week: Paper Pretties and Limited Runs!!

Paper Pretties are offering our first winner the choice of a clear stamp set called Giving Thanks Sophie, or 6 digital images of their choice!
Paper Pretties sell digital images, clear stamps, ribbons and more!
Isn't she cute!! Gotta be in it to win it!

Limited Runs are offering our second winner 3 digital images of their choice!
Limited Runs digital images come as a single image as well as a sheet of images to save time copying, pasting and resizing, so you're getting bags of value for your money! As well as the gorgeous images, you see here provided to the DT, you can also find some freebies over on the Limited Runs blog. If you use one of their digi's why not join in with their challenge too!

We still thought it would still be nice to have a third, runner up, who will receive a banner for their blogs side bar and an invite to become a guest designer for one of our next challenges. This offer also goes to our first and second winners too!

So here are LOTS of fabulous makes from the Quirky Crafts Team, first from our Guest Designers (and winners of some of our past Challenges) and then us lot.... hope they give you some insnowation!

Guest Designer Laney used Stuck Santa with the Season's Greetings sentiment from Limited Runs for this lovely snowy card.

Guest Designer Susan Jones used the Snowman and sentiment from Limited Runs, and some embossing to look like it is snowing.
This is a close up of the sentiment Susan used.

Guest Designer Sara used Sophia Snow Angel from Paper Pretties. Little Sophia looks lovely and warm in those cosy colours despite the snow.


Cazzy: I used Snowman on a Cupcake from Limited Runs for my first card, I think this would also look great decoupaged a little and I will probably try that soon. Image coloured with Promarkers and Trias and a little glitter glue added. I love how the Limited Runs sentiments fit my Nestabilities dies, so neat!

My second card is made using Frozen Frog Legs from Paper Pretties, again coloured with Promarkers and Trias. I cut a snowflake frame and snow flakes with my Spellbinders Snowflake Frame set (obviously) and more flakes using the Create a Flake set also used to make the flake above.

Two from me this time. The first using Frozen Frogslegs from Paper Pretties and....




the for second card, I've used Santa's Stuck from Limited Runs....

This is the first DT card I made. I've used The Snowman from Limited Runs. I printed out two images, embossed the first one with snowflakes and then covered it with the other to give a 3D effect.
For my second card I've used Sophia Snow Angel by Paper Pretties. I've 3D-ed her and used Liquid Appliqué for my snow. On the inside you can just see some mittens from Limited Runs.
For my third card I've used Little Tree from Limited Runs, coloured with Promarkers. There's also a little bit of Liquid Appliqué on the tree. and for my fourth card...just for fun, I've used an oldie but a goodie from Limited Runs ....
Mad Madison with her axe...!! (I've finished the inside see it here)

 
  
Caro:
   For this card I used Sophia snow angel from Paper Pretties, coloured in using promarkers and glitter glue on the snow. I aued a cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder for the background and added silver snowflake and sentiment peel offs.
I also made a quick and simple little present tag using Little Tree from Limited runs, coloured with promarkers, and lots of glitter glue, then cut out with nestabilities, mounted on red card, with a gold snowflake brad and gold ribbon in the corner.

Please add a link to your blog post (not your blog) using thebiggest 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. Happy Crafting from The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.


Sunday, 7 November 2010

Challenge 38: Spyder's Quirky Sketch

Hi Peoples! It's Challenge Time again here on the Quirky Crafts Blog, and this time we have a sketch by little ol' me!! Spyder, aka Lyn. It's nice and easy so we look forward to seeing Hundreds of entries!! We'd love to see any form of altered art, scrapbook pages, ATC's, Tags, as well as cards of course. Feel free to rotate the sketch, add bits, invert it or use it in any way you wish, change the circles to squares if you wish, just so long as we can still see the sketch within your work. We also have a fabulous guest designer on the team this week, Kelly who won Challenge #36 with a lovely Snowman Christmas Card! Well done Kelly, we love your GDT Forever Friends Christmas Card even more!

Sadly Anne, Chocolate Fudge Cake, has decided to leave us but has promised to join in with our challenges whenever she can. We will miss you Anne, Big hugs and Good Luck in everything you do!
So who won last weeks challenge? Oh it was sooo hard to decide! They were all lovely and it was a very hard challenge, so me myself and I have (and the other DT members of course) decided that all of you have won, all four of you!
Congratulations everyone, would you please take a winners banner from the side bar, to display on your blog. This also means, we would love you all, to join us as Guest Designers sometime over the next few weeks!

Now, talking about Designers, if you would like to join our Design Team or be a Guest Designer on Quirky Craft's, we'd love to hear from you! When you enter this fortnights Challenge, put DT or GDT after your name in your entry, or if you'd rather, email Cazzy, the link is on the side bar.
Here's the Sketch, see, I told you it was easy!! Add your name and direct link to your make via Mr InLinkz, then leave a comment and we'll pop over and say hi! Have fun!



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