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  • Craft Stash Buster Card Challenge and Giveaway!

    Do you have a craft stash or hoard? You know, things you just had to have, were gonna use, but after you put them away or stuffed them in a container….poof they went into a crafty black hole? Or is your craft area super organized and you know exactly what all you have and where it is located? Or is it like mine and when you want to find something it’s almost like you are at a craft store discovering things for the first time? Yup, that’s me.

    I was looking for a particular stamp set of Spring critters with its matching dies….for 3 days! While I was looking I found sets and embellishments, etc, that I swear I’ve never seen LOL. Such as this adorable set that I got years ago from Studio Calico. It doesn’t appear to be available now but you might find it on one of the Facebook groups that buy, sell, trade or destash.

    When I found that set I just had to use it, that’s when I decided to do a monthly Stash Buster Challenge here on the blog! The challenge being to pull out an old stamp set and create a new card with it. For the March Challenge I chose this set and here’s the card I created. And yes, there’s a half green cloud lol, I picked up the wrong marker by mistake. No judgments if you have little ‘errors’, I consider them artistic expression lol. Like, hey, I meant to have a half green cloud! Kinda like the cat that falls and tries to act like “What you are gawking at, I totally meant to do a somersault off of the back of the couch”.

    RULES

    • Pick from your stash an older stamp set or single stamps to use.
    • Create one new card using the stamps.
    • You may enter up to 2 times.
    • Email your entry(s) to challenge@aquirkycrafter.com by March 30, 2020.
    • Include what company the set is from (if you know) and what set it is.
    • If you used a special technique please share if you can.
    • USA entries only please.

    The winner will be randomly picked by a random number generator on March 31, 2020. And notified by email as well as announced on this post, and via my newsletter. The winner will receive 3 never used stamp sets from my stash. I will mail them to you the first week of April 2020.

    The 3 sets are shown below and are brand new.

    **By entering you are giving me permission to display your card images on the blog here, I will credit you and if you have a blog I will link it up.**

    Have fun and let’s share some stash busting inspiration!

    xoxo~Dawn

    You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

    Click here to enter

  • Lovely Water Colored Card

    How’s everyone doing this weekend? It’s been a crafty one at our home. I made a card with the lovely Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit. If you didn’t seen my unboxing video check it out! The kit is stuffed full of gorgeous goodies.

    I chose to use the lovely daisy card panel by Suzy Plantamura. The card panels are printed on water color cardstock and makes a lovely water colored card even quicker. The paper is a fantastic weight and die cuts beautifully, check out the stitched border!

    I used the cornflower blue card stock for my card, sorry for the black background, I’m still learning about blog photography. I water colored using the included pencils and a water filled brush pen. After it dried I affixed the panel to the card and attached the hello die cut.

    The stitched die is by Pink Fresh purchased at Scrapbook.Com. I die cut the hello using my new Sizzix Sidekick Starter Kit. The Sidekick is amazing, it came with the plates, some dies, stamps, and it’s so cute! It’s perfect to leave on your craft desk to cut those little dies and even has a suction feature to hold it.

    I can’t wait to create more projects using this amazing kit. I haven’t even taken the stamps out of the plastic yet!

    Happy crafting and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

    xoxo~Dawn

  • An Unboxing of My Crafty Haul

    **this post contains affiliate links I purchased products to create projects to share on my blog, any opinions are mine**

    I’m so excited to show y’all my craft haul from Scrapbook.com! I got an amazing box of goodies to play with. There were some things that I had been pining for that I finally ordered. I had been wanting some stitched dies for a while, I love the way they dress up a card background.

    I created my first ever video, don’t laugh, I was kinda nervous, I was sitting in the floor, and my craft room is a mess right now. Here it is take a peek!

    Some of My Favorite Parts of the Haul

    I am so excited and eager to play with the Sizzix Sidekick, I love how light and portable it is. The Big Shot is too big for my table and most of the dies I use are tiny ones. So this little guy is perfect for me.

    I had a bit of a theme going with stitched dies and stamps, as well as denim lol. It wasn’t really intentional but once I saw the adorable Honey Bee Pocket Full of Love stamps and dies it just kinda happened.

    I love that with any purchase you get a copy of the fantastic magazine Scrapbook and Cards Today. I always read it cover to cover and usually more than once! There are so many great ideas and inspiration. The pages are made with a nice weight of paper, and it’s free with purchase. With scrapbook and card making magazines pretty much obsolete now this magazine is very welcome.

    Coming Soon….

    Over the next few days I will be creating some cards using the new goodies and I’ll be sharing those with you guys! Oh, and stay tuned, I have another haul to unbox, hopefully I’ll get that one posted today. I have to admit even through my awkwardness it was kind of fun to do the video, took me way out of my comfort zone. Next time I do videos I hope to be more organized and less nervous.

    Happy crafting!

    xoxo~Dawn

  • Simon Says Stamp March 2020 Card Kit Unboxing

    Hi everyone!

    I am thrilled to be crafting again. Have you ever taken a long time off from crafting and creating due to life situations? In my case, it was major depression and anxiety. Well, I gotta say I now realize that crafts, journaling, creativity, etc can be forms of therapy.

    Now that I’ve started my new journey with A Quirky Crafter I am finding inspiration everywhere. It’s almost like someone flipped the light switch and I have found new passion! I wanna do all things crafty, and I am totally loving this blogging adventure.

    With the new adventure I’m finding myself trying new things that are out of my comfort zone….and I LOVE it! Such as, I hate hearing my voice on recordings, I’m totally Southern lol, and I’ve never been comfortable in front of a camera. BUT, today I did my first two EVER unboxing videos for two of my very favorite crafty companies. It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s me, real and unfiltered lol.

    This post I’m featuring Simon Says Stamp. I have followed Simon Says Stamp for many years, I love that they offer a monthly card kit. I’ve never been disappointed, this is my first kit in probably 4 years and I’m so excited to share it! *this is not an affiliate post, all opinions are mine*

    Simon Says Stamp March 2020 Card Kit “Stronger Together”

    This kit includes a wide variety of hand selected coordinating supplies, enough to keep you creating for hours! Included in the box is an inspiration sheet with 6 ideas using the kit. You’ll also receive inspiration via email newsletter with even more project ideas and video links using the kit. 
    Included in this kit:
    Simon Says Stamp Exclusive 6×8 Stronger Together clear stamp set
    Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Bold Hello wafer thin die
    ModaScrap Spring Flowers 6 x 6 paper pack
    24 piece watercolor pencil pack
    Simon Says Stamp Craft Tacky Glue
    3 Suzy Plantamura custom floral watercolor cards
    Simon Says Stamp 6 x 6 inch glitter paper 
    Simon Says Stamp Metallic Lavender envelope
    Simon Says Stamp Mint envelope
    Simon Says Stamp White envelope
    Simon Says Stamp Mint 8.5×11 cardstock
    Simon Says Stamp Lavender 8.5×11 cardstock
    Simon Says Stamp Cornflower Blue 8.5×11 cardstock
    Simon Says Stamp White 120#8.5×11 cardstock

    What a tremendous amount of crafting goodies! All of that luscious gorgeousness in one box. Take a peek at my unboxing video. Be gentle, I’ve never done a video before lol, my lighting was awful and so many other things but dang it, I had fun!

    I will be sharing projects made using the products in this lovely treasure of goodies next week.

    Have a lovely weekend!

    xoxo~Dawn

  • What I've Been Up To….

    Hello friends,

    I apologize for being absent the last week or so. Our house has had guests…of the very unwelcome variety. Their names are sinus infection, bronchitis, and we are ready for them to vacate!

    Sitting at the computer has not been in the cards and of course it’s gotten me behind. I’m starting to slowly get back in the groove.

    I’ve decided to extend the deadline on the sketch challenge to February 21st to allow more time for me to get a few samples up. I will update the original post and in case you haven’t seen it yet here’s the link to the Sketch Challenge. I’d love to see lots of lovely entries, one lucky person will be randomly picked to receive a $25 gift certificate to my favorite online craft shop Scrapbook.Com

    I plan to back up and going by this weekend, Lord willing. I hope my guests don’t find your home!

    xoxo~Dawn

  • Wanna Win a $25 Gift Certificate?!

    Hey Quirky Crafters,

    How do you feel about challenges? Specifically, the card making or scrapbooking variety? For me that’s one of my favorite ways to give me the kick in the butt I sometimes need to wake my creative side up. There’s a $25 gift certificate up for grabs to one lucky participant! OH, by the way if you are a digital scrapbooker check out the Month of Challenges #8 at The Lilypad! It runs the entire month of January and there are prizes galore. I usually participate but this year I’ve got too many irons in the fire.

    Speaking of challenges….I’ve got a challenge for y’all! It’s not difficult at all. I created a super simple sketch that can be used for a rubber stamped card(I love stamping!), a computer generated card, traditional scrapbook page or digital scrapbook page(my fave), or even for an art or bullet journal page. The choice is yours.

    Here’s the sketch to follow, add embellishments as desired. The sketch is open to interpretation, please make sure to keep it fairly obvious that you followed the sketch but make it your own! I’m not a stickler to the ‘rules’ I just love seeing other crafter’s creations, what better way to get inspired, right?!

    Simple requirements: ***Please note the date changes below***

    • Create a new project: rubber stamped or computer generated card, traditional scrapbook or digital scrapbook page, or art journal/bullet journal page.
    • Upload to an online gallery, Pinterest, your blog, Photobucket, etc, and comment below with the link.
    • Enter as many times as you like, but with a new project for each entry.
    • Please put in your comment what products you used to create your project.
    • If you used any special techniques please share if you don’t mind.
    • DEADLINE to enter is February 12, 2020 February 21, 2020 at 11:59pm CST.

    One lucky participant will be randomly selected by a random number generator to win a $25.00 gift certificate to www.scrapbook.com which is one of my favorite online shops for paper crafts! Winner will be announced on the blog here and via A Quirky Crafter newsletter on February 13, 2020 February 23, 2020 at 9 am CST.

    Have fun and please share with your crafty friends! The more the merrier.

    xoxo~Dawn

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