Challenge #11 Two Quirky Sketches!

Welcome back everyone to another Quirky Crafts Challenge. This one has been set by me, Lyn (Spyder) so I hope loads of you will come and join in. It's easy, so there's no excuse! It's a fortnightly challenge so there's plenty of time!

I usually choose a sketch so I won't disappoint, I've not only chosen a sketch this time too, but with a little twist, I have two sketches for you! You can do them both or just chose to do one. Don't forget we love to see your cards but also welcome any kind of craftiness! ATC's, Fat Pages, Scrapbook Pages, Inches, Tags, Altered Art, whatever (as long as you use at least one of the sketches)!! We want to see what you can do!!

You can enter the challenge as many times as you like. You may flip or turn the sketches, we don't mind just as long as we can see you've followed them. Told you it was easy!

We have a fabulous sponsor for this Challenge, which means prizes!
The winner of the Design Team Choice will win a Quirky Guest Designer place, a winners badge and...

Any 3 sets from

The Cutting Cafe

The Public Voted winner will also be asked to join us as a Guest Designer and have a winners Badge for their sidebar.
Here are some fantastic examples from our latest Guest Designers for this challenge and of course as always, from Cazzy, Dianne, Caro, and me! Please pop over and visit our blogs, there's always something to see and of course you'll always find a weekly freebie on my blog!

Guest Designer Dawn used the It's About That Time Set from our sponsor with the first sketch to make this stunning monochrome card, see more images on her blog.

Guest Designer Lisa used the One Spring Day set from our sponsor with the second sketch to make this fun card full of 3d flowers.

Cazzy used One Spring Day images for this spring showers card.

Dianne
Has used the first sketch and the tree from the 'One Spring day ' set 7 for this Welcome Spring card, coloured the tree herself and used a sentiment from 'One Spring Day,coloured' set 2.
Caro
has made a scrapbook page using the first sketch with a collage of flower photos from her garden and elements from the One Spring Day set from our sponsor.

Spyder
I've made three cards. On this card I've used the 'It's about the Time, Clocks' set from our sponsors along with the second sketch

I've used the same 'Clocks' in the second card and the same sketch, but have added 'It's About That Time, Big Circles' cut out using Nesties and Woodware punches and placed the clock over itUsing the first sketch on this New Home card, Lyn used the tree from the 'One Spring Day, Coloured' set

That's what we've done, so now it's your turn! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!


Come back and vote for your favourites on Friday 3rd June after 18:00 or Saturday 4th of June before 17:00 BST.

Oh and by the way if you can't vote on this post you need to click on the big lovely Mr Blue Froggy just below this and it will take you to the collection where you will be able to vote. Only one vote per entry is allowed, and if you think you have voted twice don't worry it won't count them both!

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011 - Challenge 9: A Right Royal Affair (read carefully)

Welcome to another challenge here at Quirky Crafts, I hope you will enjoy this one very much, I think it will be good Quirky fun!

Before I start (Cazzy) we would like to wish a Happy Easter to those celebrating Easter, Happy Holidays to those not.

A Right Royal Affair. With the royal wedding less than a week away make something that is inspired by royalty. Use the colours red, white and blue on your project, and then anything that is inspired by royalty or the royal wedding, think romance, weddings, party (street party), crowns, ermine, couples, cake, champagne, flags and so on, there are lots of ideas you could use.

As usual any craft project can be made, this is a mixed media challenge.

The Quirky Crafts Design Team would also like to wish HRHs William and Catherine a long and happy future together.

This week are happy to bring you two generous sponsors. The first of these is Paper Pretties.

Paper Pretties is a full-service online crafting store. We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Prettie Boutique!

In case you haven't heard yet, Paper Pretties has a BRAND NEW owner, Heather Lee-Reppen. Now located in Madison, WI, we are pleased to offer you amazing customer service, faster and cheaper shipping, and a wider variety of stamping "must have" products to go along with all of our fun new stamps!! All orders are shipped within 24 hours.

The prize that the DT choice winner will receive is this lovely stamp set called Everyday Lilly.

Our second Sponsor is Limited Runs.

Write Up

Limited Runs is known to some people as a calorie free sweet shoppe filled with over 80 different Cupcakes something for almost every occasion too but from sweets to fun and even some darker images cause I love Halloween so there is lots to see and play with and almost all digi's are $2.00 with only a few a little more (sets and Mega Digi's for Scrap bookers). Plus I've always got hidden deals thru out the store. When I started making cards I didn't know how addictive this could become and I've become hooked and who doesn't love a handmade anything these days. I've always been into drawing and this just a blend of my drawing and my hobby. May you enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them, and stop by every Friday and pick up a Freebie but be quick cause who knows how long they will be a freebie for.

Have a fantastic weekend
hugs Nikki

The prize that the public choice winner will receive is any 3 digi's of choice.

Here are some great examples by the design team to inspire you.

First up is Guest Designer Zulma who said that the Leonardo Lion Image from Paper Pretties looks like her Dad and made this great card for him.

Our second guest designer is Suzanne who has used a great drawn image of the Royal happy couple on her beautiful card.

Diane has used a Frog Prince digi from Limited Runs and also a lovely cute little Bugle Bear from Paper Pretties on this unusual shaped card:-

Caro has made a fabulous commemorative tag using the Bugle Bear and crown from Paper Pretties, and the Princess cupcake from Limited Runs.

Lyn has used lots of Bugle bears (from Paper Pretties) on her fun and clever Castle Easel card.

Cazzy used the Princess Cupcake from Limited Runs and lots of bling on this right Royal card.

To add your entry click on the lovely blue Inlinkz Froggy (below) and follow the instructions. Be sure to add a link to your actual entry and not just your blog. Please come back and leave us a comment too. We look forward to seeing what you create.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 7 - Twisted Easel and/or Mother's day gift

It's my (Diane's) turn to chose the theme, and it is my first time so I am a bit nervous...be gentle with me!

Challenge 7 is going to be....make either a Twisted Easel Card and/or a Mother's day gift. These are fun to make, they look tricky but are so simple really. Have some fun with it and try to use different shapes. If you haven't done one before there are lots of how too videos on YouTube giving lots of ideas and examples to spark your creative juices. Your card can be for any occasion at all. For those who want to something other than a card I would like to see you create a Mother's Day Gift. Mother's day here is the U.K. is 3rd April and this is the ideal time to make something special.

This week we have two sponsors:-

Our first sponsor is the fantastic Crafty Ribbons

There will be a prize of two gorgeous button towers (pictured above) for the winner of the Design Team Vote. Crafty Ribbons have some fantastic ribbons and gorgeous buttons to choose from on their site...and we all know you can't make cards without lovely ribbons and buttons, don't we?

Our second sponsor is The Stamping Boutique

The Stamping Boutique are offering a digi stamp prize for the winner of the public vote. So get working on your entry for a chance to win these great prizes to add to your stash.

Design Team Offerings

Here is my offering for this challenge using a fantastic digistamp for our sponsor called Jennifer Latte Bubble Bath. My Daughter is called Jennifer so I was drawn to this one. The Stamping Boutique stamps are fabulous to work with:-

Guest Designer Micki who made the DT choice last time made this funky card.

Cazzy  Here at last! Using Train Tracks digi stamp from The Stamping Boutique.

Another card by Cazzy this time using Pocket Patootie Birds perfect for Mother's day.

Caro made a Mother's Day candle using the Daisie's digital stamp from our sponsorThe Stamping Boutique

Caro also couldn't resist having a go at making a twisted easel card for her son's birthday.

Lyn (Spyder)
A Twisted Easel Card andGift Boxusing Digi image from

The Stamping Boutique

Closed.... and best of all open! Yum!!Here's how to enter....

Create your work of art and then take a photo. Make a post on your blog to show us your make and then click on the Inlinkz blue frog button at the end of this post to add your entry and be sure to follow the instructions. Please link directly to your entry post. No back dated posts please. After you have linked please leave us a comment, we love to hear from you.

Don't forget to come back to vote on 8th and 9th April and ask all your friends to come and vote too.

(Whoopsie, this is embarrassing, we accidentally posted that voting was 15th and 16th (which is of course a week too late) - so sorry - blush).

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 5 - Alice in Wonderland

Hi everyone, it is challenge time again, and thanks for all the amazing and wonderful entries we had for the last challenge! It was difficult to choose an overall winner, you are all worthy!

The challenge this time is called Alice in Wonderland. You may have read the book by Lewis Carroll, or seen a film version, but if not you can use Google to find out a little about it. What we want you to do is base your entry on something found in the story, for example the white rabbit, the mad hatter's tea party, the Queen of Hearts, the playing card courtiers, you can find rabbit images, playing cards, a stop watch, drink me, eat me type things to use on your project. Any craft project can be entered into the challenge.

We are really looking forward to seeing what you all do with this theme, so please add your link and photo to this post using the blue Inlinkz frog below.

Inlinkz is a great tool for displaying your entries, I am sure you agree, and easy to use. Unlike other tools the entries continue to be displayed on the post after the closing date, and you can enable public voting.
If you would like an Inlinkz account for your blog (and it works in different types of blog) please use the button in the left hand side bar to go and register. Registering this way will help the Quirky Team to keep using Inlinkz for all of you to use on this blog.

We have another great sponsor this time and they are The Stamping Boutique and here is some information on our sponsor:

Tracey Malnofski's resume reads like a whose who of the Stamping Industry. Besides being the owner and a designer for The Stamping Boutique, she's also a stamp artist for Unity Stamp Company and has also worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and The Digi Shack. Her "Boutique" has it all - fairytale, whimsy, sentimental . . . and Candy! I do not envy the winner who has to choose digi stamps from all those delicious choices. Yep! A winner will be randomly selected to win 5 digital stamps of their choice from Tracey's Boutique!

Here's what Tracey says about her Stamping Boutique.
"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality, as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week.

Store: http://thestampingboutique.com/
Challenge Blog: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/
Monthly Challenge: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/p/monthly-contest.html

Challenge 5: Alice in Wonderland

Here is a sample card from our The Sponsor Stamping Boutique made by Suzi:

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration:

Caro's Birthday card inspired by playing cards, the White Rabbit's pocket watch and Alice's changing size (tape measure)

Caro's Invitation inspired by the Mad Hatters Tea Party and using the scroll stamp from our sponsor


Diane has made Alice's Chair also using a digi by our sponsor

Diane has also made this fabulous Birthday Card

with The Mad Hatter's tea Party as the theme

Our Guest Designer this time is the talented Blackdragon Lyn, who made this gorgeous quirky mixed media art piece.

Cazzy's Card (not late for a change).

Spyder(Lyn's) late Un-Birthday Card
And another very late 'Unbirthday' card by Lyn using our sponsors
Cute Rabbit image .

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 4 - Recycled Romance

It's Challenge time again here at Quirky Crafts! It was a great turnout for our last challenge, with some gorgeous makes, so thank you everyone who entered. There seemed to be a little confusion as to which challenge some of you were entering so hopefully this will make it clear. Each challenge lasts nearly two weeks, going live on Sunday evening and entries closing on Friday evening when you can come back and vote for your favourite three entries. So this new challenge will be open for entries until Friday 25th February (Rules for challenge entry are in the side bar). Now onto this week's challenge

Quirky Crafts 2011: Challenge 4

which was set by me, Caro. We have a lovely sponsor for this challenge.

Digital Delights

Digital Delights are creators of some gorgeous digital stamps. The winner of the Design Team vote will be able to chose 3 digital images of their own choice from this fabulous collection. The DT were given the opportunity to work with some of these images and they are lovely.

Now what is the challenge? Well with Valentines Day tomorrow most of you have probably made your Valentines cards, but we are still feeling romantic so we thought we would continue with the romance theme with a twist...

Recycled Romance

This means we would like to see anything Romantic (hearts, weddings, engagements, Valentines etc) with a recycled element on your card. Specifically we would like to see something that is not normally crafty: think packaging, inside of coloured envelopes, bubble wrap, newspaper, the metal from tomato purée tubes, seeds etc. Make sure you tell us on your blog what you recycled on your creation, just in case we can't tell!

Rules for entering our challenges are in the side bar and we reserve the right to remove any links that don't follow the rules, although we will tell you so you can enter something else. Don't forget, we love to see all your cards but we also accept anything crafty as long as it fits into the current challenge. That includes ATC's, Altered Art, Fat Pages, Scrap Book Pages, Magic boxes, Tags, Book Marks, in fact anything crafty you can think of!

Here are a few creations by our Design Team to give you inspiration.

Caro's altered photo frame with cardboard hearts recycled from a parcel

Diane's lovely card with recycled cardboard and string and an image from our sponsor

Lyn's used a cardboard heart from packaging, flowers made from parcel paper, sweet wrappings and newspaper, ribbon from a jewellery gift box, tiny hearts punched out from packaging, and golden hearts, which were die-cut from a photo glue tube! Lyn has also used an image from our sponsor

Guest Designer Barbara with her gorgeous card, which uses a zip, doily and some foil wrapping and Barbara has used a digi image from our sponsor.

Guest Designer Lena Katrine used a button from a child's outgrown garment and some tulle from an old skirt on this very romantic card.

Caro's ATCs using recycled cardboard from a parcel, lace from a table mat, gold tinsel from a Christmas cracker and a label from a skirt, as well as two different digi images from our sponsor.

Cazzy's altered chocolate box, with heart and wings cut from tissue boxes and old book page.

The Quirky Crafts Challenge Design Team.