Time for some Quirky Rosettes.

Kemly set the challenge over at Quirky Crafts this time, and all we had to do was add a rosette, or rosettes.

Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, who provided us with some lovely digital images to use. I have used two images by Ike's Art: Cushion Kitty who I gave a crown, so she could be queen for a day (or king for a day) using Coronet.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added some Liquid Pearls and Stickles glitter glue to the coronet on the jewels to make it pretty. The image is die cut and the coronet cut outside of the frame, then mounted onto a die cut gold panel which looks quite regal, all with Spellbinder dies. The rosette was die cut with a Sizzix Sizzlet Tim Holtz rosette die in red paper with gold circles and the number 1 is cut with an Accucut Zipemate die. I found an oddment of red ribbon from Crafty Ribbons to add a tail to the rosette.

The sentiment is stamped with a clear stamp from a Hero Arts set. This could be for a birthday, or to say well done to someone I think.

I am late posting this, but at least I managed to make something this week, but I managed to mess up the Quirky post royally. First it didn't go out on time - my fault for not pressing the button and thinking I had, second I mixed up two of the guest designers, only put one card on with the wrong name and link against it. It is all sorted now, but what a prat, I put it down to tiredness - I knew I was out all day today and would be late, and I should have realised what I had done with the guests last night when I did it. So big apologies to everyone.

Having said that, if you would like to see what the team have done and maybe play along just hop over to Quirky Crafts now.

I have entered the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - oh so pretty (Tues)

Passion for Promarkers - anything but square (Tues)

Crafty Gals - #24 red, white and blue (Wed)

Left of Centre - ribbon, twine (Fri)

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes (2nd July?)

Crafting from the Heart - cheeky or anything goes (Mon)

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - N

The Alpha Challenge at The Craft Barn is on N, and I chose night in the English section of my dictionary. There was only one other option here for me and that is now glued down between pages! I don't think there was much in the French section either. See the stars at the top of the page? I wanted to stencil stars and the only stencil I had was sequin waste, and I used clear ink and holographic embossing powder which was heat set before applying distress inks to make my sky.

The owl on a branch, bats, sentiment and cat are by Cherry Pie Art stamps (and have featured before), the row of houses is a Hero Arts stamp, the branch on the right is Crafty Individuals and the moths are Paper Artsy, big moths don't you think, rather Dr Who like, the invasion of the giant moths!

I used various colours of Ranger Distress ink to create the sky, and finally I die cut a moon and stars from an Accucut Zipeslim die.

Quirky reminder, and new cards.

Just a reminder that you have until midday Saturday to enter my Quirky Challenge - Everybody wants to be a cat. So far we don't seem to have many (if any) entries that are inspired by either the Aristocats film or the song, and that means if anyone does enter with anything inspired by either they stand a really good chance of making the top three!

I don't have a reminder card to show you, but if you hop on over to the Quirky Blog you will find some great new examples from the team.

 On Sunday we had a stall at the Canon's House fete in Devizes. Canon's House is a respite home for disabled children, and they can have 8 at a time but have 54 on the books. I took my spare stash to try and sell some, and I took all of my cards, which I took out of the shop, and made a few more. These hat cards were last minute but I am quite pleased with them, I have a bag of the hats, goodness knows where from. The middle card sold on the day, one of the three I sold! Die cut panel is Locking Loops by Spellbinders.

This little Papermania Rabbit image has been sitting waiting to go on a card for ages, and finally he is there! Hero Arts greeting and panel, Spellbinders butterfly circle and circle and some baker's twine to finish. Image coloured with Promarkers.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Stamping for the weekend - anything goes.

 I was told the theme was By The Sea, but it had changed to Hawaii on the day, I made some flip flop cards with a Sizzix Bigz die, which fitted either theme! The shell is a Accucut die, stamps I think are Papermania and Hero Arts sunglasses. The flip flop opens to reveal Fun in the Sun from the Hero Arts set.

Pink flip flop which I had to stick down as I had problems with some of the hinges which had cut through on the eBosser, maybe due to me cutting 3 sheets at once.

Several flip flop cards, some are topped with funky foam to look like real flip flops. I made envelopes with the WR Memory Keepers envelope punch tool which was so easy.

Beauty in the water, mermaid on the beach....

This card reminds me of the Josh Grogan song that has been playing on the radio all week! The characters are all from Limited Runs who are sponsoring the latest Quirky Challenge A Quirky Supernatural Love Story, along with Doodle Dragon Studios. I coloured the mermaid with mica paints and the frog prince and butterfly with Promarkers. The die cut island and waves are cut with an X Cut build a scene set, the sun is cut with an Accucut die and the heart with a Spellbinders shapeabilities die. Romance is stamped with an Inkadinkado set, I don't know if I will keep that or come up with something better! Birds are doodled. The mermaid has a few small hearts which dropped out of punched corners which have some red Stickles applied.

The challenge runs until next Saturday and there are three prizes.

I hope to show you anothe Doodle Dragon creation soon!

I have entered this in the I love Promarkers challenge - 4 legged friends.

One for the boys

The latest Quirky Challenge is masculine with brown and blue as the colour combination. The sponsor is Paper Pretties, and I used Boat and the sentiment in the circle which is from the Zzzzzz set both from Paper Pretties.

The frame and circles are cut with Nestabilities, the sky and sea papers are by DCWV, sun is cut with an Accucut die. Striped card was some I got from Payperbox. Ribbon from stash is double sided and wired. The waves are cut with the wave blade on my Fiskars rotary trimmer. Finally if you decide to try stamping and embossing on ribbon it is probably best to try before you have the card fully assembled (and not as I did, afterwards)!

The Quirky team are expecting a wonderful response to this challenge, and you could win 6 digi images from our sponsor if you are picked as our favourite.