Quirky Crafts Challenge 23 - Layer it up and Let it Snow

Hi Everyone!

The new challenge at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog is Layer It Up and Let It Snow. We have two sponsors this time, The Cutting Cafe and Dustin Pike at Doodle Dragon Studios. So prizes are on offer if you are the lucky winners.

The challenge being layers immediately made me think of this style of card, which I believe is a Double Concertina Cascade Card, quite a mouthful. Also a bit of a pain to make. Templates are available to download online for free, but they need careful measuring and scoring to make sure the card is level when completed. That is not so bad in itself,  ut what I really hate doing is working out the sizes for all the panels! I have been intending to make a cut file for this style of card for ages....so now I have. I will make more of these now they are going to be easier. The Let It Snow frame is from Cutting Cafe and has been cut down to fit the front of the card.

Quirky Crafts Challenge 22- Anything but a card and some Autumn Colour

Caro has chosen the challenge theme this time and she has chosen Anything but a Card with Autumn Colours..
I love all the Autumn Colours, not so ken on the rainy windy weather that comes with though!. I especially love the really deep reds that appear on the leaves and the ivy in my garden just before they drop. When you say deep reds though I always think Poinsettia. Luckily the sponsor for the challenge is Robyn's Fetish, and they just happen to have a lovely poinsettia stamp that was just crying out to be decoupaged.

 As it is anything BUT a card i decided to make the poinsettia stamp into a cutlery holder for my Christmas Table. This is number one of many more to come! I enjoyed making this though as I normally opt for a card, so the challenge for me was to come up with something different.

Regular followers of the Challenge blog will have noticed a Design Team call after last fortnights challenge. That is because I have made the decision to leave the team at the end of the year. So come on you regulars....throw your name in the hat......

Quirky Crafts Challenge 20 - Wha'ts coming over the hill......

It is Spyder's turn to set the challenge this time around (Lyn). The theme is monsters and we have two great sponsors this challenge. The first are well known to us, Bugaboo Digital Stamps. But we have an exciting new sponsor...Doodle Dragon Studios with the art work from Dustin Pike. So we have prizes to be won, just come to the challenge blog and join in. Here is my contribution this challenge:-

 This very handsome monster was printed on the backing paper using Craft Artist software, I then printed him separately so I could decoupage him, which i have done using a spring so he is a bongy (technical term) monster. The inside features more monsters from Doodle Dragons Studio, in fact I used them all because they were so darn cute I couldn't choose between them. The monster bunch on the final page is also decoupaged and the front character is again "bongyfied"

I have also used the Temperamental Monster digi stamp from Bugaboo. He reminded me of my Son when he was little. Hope you like him too...

Come and join the fun.....

Challenge 18 - Recycled Farmyard

Caro's turn this week and this is her theme. We have sponsorship for this challenge from Digital Delights and Crafty Ribbons, so two prizes up for grabs.

My camera flashed red battery at me when I tried to take this shot, so I apologise, I had to take it very quickly and it not actually a very good picture. I used the Clara Cow stamp from Digital Delights. I think she is cute with the little hearts for a nose! Coloured with promarkers and decoupaged ( sorry, I know that doesn't show). The backing papers are from Pink Petticoat, and sort of recycled as they were originally printed for another project and then rejected. The real recycled element is the lace and flowers. Both were cut from some foamy packaging material that protected an item I purchased in the post. I used Edgeabilities for the lace and bitty blossoms for the flowers.

Come to the challenge over at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog to check out the other design teams ideas, and of course to enter and win yourself some goodies.

Challenge 17- School's Out For Summer.

It is time for the next challenge. The fortnights zip by so fast!


It is my turn to set the challenge this time and  I was thinking about what to set, a new shape card?....an old shape card we have all forgotten about?....a certain element? colour?...so many choices!
I decided in the end to go for School's Out For Summer. I want to see children having fun. I decided on this theme because i was thinking about how hard my Children had worked this year towards their exams. Not that they are children any more at 20 and 17, but they have worked so hard and really were ready for the Summer Break. So that's what I want to see, any project that shows or involves children having fun!

We have a sponsor for this challenge. Robyns Fetish.






They are offering a great prize of your choice of 5 Digital Images to the winner, as decided by our Design Team. There is such a choice on their website, I would be hard pressed to choose. Come to the challenge blog at Quirkycrafts Challenge Blog, show us your entry and you might have the difficult choice to make.