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.

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

Challenge #14 Reminder: Quirky Christmas In July!

Hi everyone. Hope you've had a great week! Lyn here again to remind you about our Quirky Christmas In July  Challenge. You still have  week to make something festive and be in with a chance to win some fab prizes from....

 Our fantastic sponsors!


Crafty Ribbons

Offering these lovely Christmas Bauble ribbons to our first place UK winner (or the voucher if you prefer), and a £10 voucher to our overseas first place winner.

Bugaboo Stamps

Offering seven Digi's for our second place winner

 and...

 Limited Runs...

Who are offering our third place winner 3 digital images of their choice!

Go HERE to find Mr Linkin and join in or scroll down to where you'll find more creations to give you ideas! Here's what the team has done this week!

 Gabriela

I decided to make a decorative accessory used the beautiful image of "Winter Fairy" from Limited Runs.

DESIGN TEAM

MYRIAM

For my card and tags I used Christmas stamps #2 from our sponsor Limited Runs Stamps


Lyn

Here's my card for this week, sorry it's a bit late!(even later than Cazzy!!)  I've used 'Make-it-Snappy--Skelekinz-Merry-Christmas' I've coloured her (or him) with Promarkers, added, buttons, ribbon, loads of stickles glitter, ribbon, a paper clip (because it was red) and a tiny pom-pom. The little Skelekinz has been 3D-ed with about four layers.

I've added some oldies too, just in case I didn't get done in time! (you can add an oldie as long as we haven't seen it or it's no older than the last challenge!) This one's  BearCane from Bugaboo! And below this little cute Santa and the Snowman are from Limited Runs

DORIS

Hello every one, happy Sunday!!! For my today´s project I made a frame using the Christmas-Brat-Boy-Elf from BugabooStamps. I painted it using the Spectrum Noir alcohol makers.

And this is my second one, a gift bag using the Winter May digi from Limited Runs

MONICA

I love Stella!!!! And as soon as I saw this Santa Died digi, it made think of some of my friends, that always said that they are good lol

This funny image was provided by our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps.

KEMLY

Hi everyone! Christmas is my favorite season! Love it the Sunbonnet! I made my card with a adorable Fancy Sunbonnet of our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps. 

She looks beautiful with the littles winter birds. 

CAZZY

Sneaking in late again, and hoping I am forgiven because I have 4 more cards to show you!

The first is made with one of the Limited Runs cupcakes - this one is Trees on a Cupcake, nice and simple and just a small piece of Crafty Ribbons exclusive ribbon on this one.

This is so cute, a little dog who wants to be a reindeer from Bugaboo and he is called Puppy - enough reindeer. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

 Another Stella card, I hope someone finds this as amusing as I do! The image and sentiment is from Bugaboo and is called Stella - Merry Christmas not Happy Holidays. 
 It is an 8"x 8" card, and I thought the Keep Calm ribbon, which is another Crafty Ribbons exclusive, was just perfect with this sentiment.

You might recognise this cupcake from the Limited Runs badge, it is called Snowman on a Cupcake! I used lots of ribbons from Crafty Ribbons on this one, can you see the three different Christmas ribbons here? I added some Stickles glitter glue and it is still wet!

We're looking forward to seeing all your fabulous Christmas Creations! 

 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.