Any Quirky frame will do!

 My first card has a window frame on it, the image from Bugaboo is called Snow Friends Window. It is coloured with Promarkers and some Cosmic Shimmer glue on the light bulbs to make them shine. The paper I think is Papermania, and the Ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:
Little Miss Muffet - #96 anything goes with Bugaboo image (Wed)
Pile it on - Cheerful or uplifting message (Sun)

Crafty Little Fairies - one designer paper (Oct)

This image is also from Bugaboo and is called Make it Snappy - Skelekinz Merry Christmas. I coloured the image with Promarkers and added some black glitter glue by Papermania to the tree. The frame is built in to the image, and is coloured with blue Promarker and dots of Distress Stickles in Peeled Paint colour. The paper is from a Daisy and Dandelion pad by Papermania, and I bought the skull and crossbones ribbon from someone on facebook. Now who deserves this little card I wonder?

Left of Centre - sketch or LOC, I did LOC (Fri)

That's Crafty - spooky (31st Oct) WINNER

Pan Pastels - Halloween colours (1st Nov) WINNER

This must be a lucky card!

Here she is with lipstick on!

Finally an image from The East Wind called Kettle Mon Amour. She is coloured with Promarkers and gold roller ball pen, and I added some Polar White Flower Soft, the only Flower Soft I have ever bought, for snow and on her fur trims, I'm not sure you can see it in the photo.This time I die cut my frame with a Spellbinders die, well two of them because I cut out the centre so it would be a proper frame. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, even the Merry Christmas ribbon which I am not sure they do any longer.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes (Oct 20th)

Diva's by Design - texture (Wed)

I love Promarkers - snowflakes (Wed)

Creative Fingers - #53 anything goes (Fri)

That Craft Place - girls no pink (Sun 26th Oct)

Polkadoodles - Christmas (Fri 31st)

Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes (Oct)

Graphit Markers - backgrounds (31st Oct)

Hop on over to Quirky Crafts to see some more gorgeous examples and to join in with any sort of frame!

Let's Quirky Frame it.

It is my challenge this time, and I want to see frames, in the image, round the image, made frames - any type of frame will do.

 I always make cards back to front, that is I normally colour the image first then decide what to do with it, and I decided to make an arch card in black card using a Spellbinders die, I added the image, lace and mother of pearl buttons.
The image is coloured with Promarkers and Spica pens, and is called Lucy Loo Mirror Mirror from The East Wind, she is pretty special, and is emerging from a mirror frame.

I have entered the following challenges:
Daring Card Makers - out of this world (Fri)
Creative Card Crew - black cardstock (21st Oct)

Crafty Boots - Autumn/Halloween (26th Oct)
One Sweet Challenge - Halloween (Oct)
Cards Galore - something scary (Oct)
Paula Holifield - Boo! (Oct)

This is a pretty simple card because I ran out of time on Friday as I was getting ready for my holiday, see the previous post for all I had to do!

This card uses an image complete with a frame, called Make it Snappy  - Hay There from Bugaboo, one of our two wonderful sponsors at Quirky Crafts this time.

So hop on over and see what the rest of the team have done, and join in.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes (Oct)

Crafty Little Fairies - one DPP (Oct)

Bunny Zoes - Animals (Oct - 10th Nov)

Further down The Quirky Silk Road....reminder

For my first reminder card, at the Quirky Crafts challenge blog, I used Lucy Loo Fire Dancer from The East Wind. I printed her in two sizes and this was the largest, she is still very intricate to colour and I think she needs to be bigger still!

I coloured her with Promarkers, added a bit of Spica pen to the flames for sparkle then rough cut her out to go on the dark background. The paper is more (other side of red double sided) Papermania, and so are the stickers.

This card has burned its way into the following challenges:

Graphit Markers - wk#30 Hot Colours (8th Aug).

The Paper Shelter - anything goes (5th Aug)

Paula Holifield Crafts - It's Magic (July)

For this masculine birthday card I used Junk Boat from Squigglefly with Chinese Happy Birthday from Squigglefly also. Both are coloured with Promarkers and I added a few waves with a white Prismacolor pencil.

I die cut the Junk Boat after marking the part that came outside the die which I cut around manually afterwards.

Paper is Papermania, and it has a slightly metallic sheen. The sentiment is not straight but the Affixit tape is so instantly permanent that I daren't try and peel it off to straighten it! I added a Chinese coin charm, might be Woodware.

This card has sailed into the following challenges:

Creative Fingers - #44 anything goes (8th Aug)

I thought I should show you the first prize for this challenge, it is so good!

Just look at all the goodies you can win from That Craft Place!

If you come second or third you can win some digis from Squigglefly or The East Wind, both sponsors have highly desirable digital images.

The Silk Road - its Quirky oriental!

Monica set us the challenge to make something oriental. We have two sponsors at Quirky Crafts and they both have great oriental characters and sayings.

My first card is made with Mewshu Pork cat from Squigglefly, with Chinese thank you also from Squigglefly. I coloured them both with Promarkers and a gold Spica pen, and fussy cut them before sitting the cat on top of the sentiment box. The papers are a Make Me pack of Han-Ji papers of two designs. I added a doubled tassled cord to finish. When I tried to tie on the cord I found I had stuck the cat and sentiment on totally the wrong way round so had to cut the panel out again and mount it on another card blank, so easily done!

This little cat slurped his way into the following challenges:

Squigglefly - over the edge (closes today)

Incy Wincy Designs - strings and things (Mon/Tues)

Graphit Markers - #28 Christmas colours (ends 25th July, winners #30)

My next card features Lucy Loo Bookaholic by Unky from The East Wind. She has such beautiful hair, and it is so so long (and full of wildlife)! I coloured her with Promarkers and die cut her with Spellbinders long rectangles. The papers and embellishments are by Papermania, and the ribbon is Crafty Ribbons. Normally I would keep the two sponsors apart but the Chinese proverb about a A book is Like a Garden.. from Squigglefly, which I cut out with a Spellbinders book die, was so perfect for this image - I hope I am forgiven!

Lucy Loo has read her way into the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs - strings and things (Mon/Tues)

I love Promarkers - Girls, Girls, Girls - (Wed)

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - for the birds (bird and nest in her hair) (Fri)

Creative Fingers - anything goes #43 (closes Fri)

Charisma cards - anything goes (23rd July)

That Craft Place - anything goes (Sun 3rd Aug)

Open Minded Crafting Fun - vacation related (I always read lots on vacation) (Aug 9th)

I am thrilled that Pam picked me as her favourite, it means more to me than to be randomly picked for a prize!

Easter egg hunt

 This image is called Aurora Easter Egg Hunt from The East Wind by Unky. I coloured her with Promakers yesterday afternoon including a shadow around her in pastel blue, the colouring took a few hours, the rabbit is decoupaged because a tiny part of his foot got cut off,  then I added some glitter glue, and then I began to design a card around her. Die cut her with Spellbinders Labels 8, and an ornate rectangle in purple. (I had a few challenges in mind here), I made a gatefold card in yellow using my Scor Pal, the metric version, I creased at 7*, turned the card over and scored at the same place again, I used DCWV papers, Easter eggs at the top and stripes at the bottom. This is a very small pad of paper (with only two of each of the papers left) and I needed two pieces to cover the length of the purple panels, so I covered the join with lime green lace, I love purple and lime green together! I added some bunny brads to 4 outside corners, attached some purple polka dot ribbon to the back and one side of the card, then attached the die cut centre panel. I added a bow in the same ribbon and some lime green pearls.

I found some freebie papers that almost matched the stripes on the front, and made panels of purple paper then striped paper for the inside. The sentiment is heat embossed in purple and is a Papermania die, another fancy rectangle behind the sentiment finished it off.

I think Aurora Easter Egg hunt is only available as a freebie at present if you sign up to the newsletter at The East Wind challenge blog.

I have entered the following challenges:

The East Wind - Use a sentiment (April 10th)

Graph'it Markers - shadows (April 18th)

Allsorts - no flowers (Sat)

Bearly Mine - Spring (April)

Cards Galore - favourite colours (Tues)

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon (Wed)

Creative Card Crew - Spring (Tues 22nd)

Feeling Crafty - anything for a child (April)

Incy Wincy - 321, 3 different papers (and 3 x 2 pearls), 2 pieces of ribbon (and 2 of lace), 1 digi (and 1 sentiment) (Mon)

Moving along with the times - sweet treats (Thurs)

One Sweet Challenge - ringing in spring (April)

Papertake Weekly - Spring has sprung (Tues)

Passion for Promarkers - so sentimental (Tues)

Pink Gems - Ribbon and Lace (Sat) 

Coffee Chocolate and Cards - Stripes - (April)

Ali Crafts - Spring (May 2nd)

I won a challenge!

I won a challenge on the Technique Twist challenge blog (although I was the only entrant lol), with this card using an image from The East Wind by Unky.