Snow and Sparkle Mid Challenge Reminder

It is time for our mid challenge reminder here at Crafty Boots Challenges, the current theme is 'Snow and Sparkle'. We have received some fabulous entries so far, which we are really enjoying.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Cicci. Steffi and Pat were all winners of our recent 'Autumn and Halloween' Challenge. It almost goes without saying that they are all very talented card makers, check out their blogs.

Cicci

My name is Cecilia Gunnarsson and I live in Sweden with my family - 3 Boys and a Big Dog.  When I am not colouring with my Copics I work as a guitar teacher, it is a great job!  I started to colour with Copics about 2 years ago, I LOVE these markers.  Right Now I am a Dt at TTCRD (the Magazine for crafty people) and it's so much fun.  I have drawn and coloured since a was little, now am 40 years old, how time flies!

It's a great thing to be GDT here at your lovely place.  Thank you for letting me be a part of this challenge "Snow and Sparkle".  I have chosen this lovely image from Mo Manning that I coloured with Copics markers...

Steffi

My Name ist Stephanie, I´m 42 years old, live in Germany with my husband and our two kids. I first came across rubber stamps 20 years ago on a vacation in Florida. I totally fall in love with embossing, glitter and coloring images. Mostly I make cards, but I also like to design gifts and boxes. To color my images I use Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolorpens.

I´m really proud to be a guest designer here at Crafty Boots, thank you for giving me the chance to show one of my cards.

Pat K

Hi, my name is Pat K. Thank you so much for having me as your GD this week. My love for colouring started with watercolours but when I discovered Copics I never looked back. My passion for paper has resulted in a very large collection and now it looks like dies are a close second! Digital stamps are my favourite, mostly for their convenience. My style is rather eclectic….one day I love CAS and the next I want to go all fussy and fancy…depending on the image or the recipient. I hope you enjoy my creation today. Hugs, Pat K.

It may have been a holiday here in the UK but our Design Team has still found a few minutes to make some inspirational 

Card by Dionne

Card by Chris

Christmas Decorations by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday 3, January. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Snow and Sparkle

Welcome back to another Crafty Boots Challenge, this will be our last Challenge for 2015.  It has been a great year for us, we have a fabulous following of very talented crafters, some amazing Guest Designers and we hope you have had as much fun as us with this years challenge themes.

We are planning to see the year out with a great challenge, one to really inspire you - ' Snow and Sparkle'.  We are looking forward to seeing your winter scenes, snow, frost, tinsel, glitter, baubles, gems, metallic, in fact, anything with a shinny surface or snow.  As always with our challenges, you can use any materials you like, to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the theme.

Our fabulous Design Team have been busy making projects to help inspire you:

Hanging Decoration by Lisette

Tags by Chris

Two Cards by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

We should like to give you the opportunity to join in the fun at Crafty Boots Challenges and, therefore, we are offering guest design team spots to the winner and two runners up of this challenge.

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 3 January. There are very few rules but, if you would like to read them for yourself, you will find them here.

We are looking forward to seeing your projects, good luck.

Christmas Mid Challenge Reminder

It is time for our mid challenge reminder here at Crafty Boots Challenges, the current theme is 'Christmas'. We have received some stunning entries so far, you are such talented bunch.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Jan was a winner of our recent 'Pink' Challenge. Jen is a very talented card maker, check out her blog, you will be in for a treat.

Jen

I call my blog 'ABC - Art, Bellydancing and Crafting', whichever order I put them in, these are my passion! All done from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa.

Our talented Design Team ladies have also been busy.

Card by Lisette

Card by Chris

Card by Dionne

Angel Ornament by Lisette

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday 20, December. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Christmas Challenge

There is a hint of excitement in the air and Christmas cards have started to trickle through the letterbox.  It is hard to believe that Christmas will be here in a few short weeks.  Are you ready yet?

We have a new challenge starting today at Crafty Boots Challenges today. The theme is of course 'Christmas' and we should love to see your Christmas projects.  As always with our challenges, you can use any materials you like, to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the theme.

As a special New Year gift, we should like to give you the opportunity to join in the fun at Crafty Boots and therefore we are offering guest design team spots to the three winners of this challenge.

Here are a few inspirational ideas from our lovely and hard working Design Team.

Cards by Dionne

Hanging Decoration by Lisette

Decoration by Dionne

Card by Lisette

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 20 December. There are very few rules but, if you would like to read them for yourself, you will find them here.

We are all looking forward to seeing your projects, good luck.

Spots or Dots Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, where it is time for our mid challenge reminder.  Our current challenge is 'Spots or Dots'.  We have had some fabulous entries for this challenge and the Design Team are really enjoying seeing all of them.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers.  Catherine and Lozzy were winners of our recent 'Gold and Silver' Challenge. As you can see, they are both very talented card makers, check out their blogs, you will be in for a treat.

Catherine

Hi, I'm Catherine aka Ammaris Art.  I live in Poland with my husband and two children.  I'm a very young blogger and card maker.  I discovered card making about a year ago and I fell in love with it completely.  My favourite style is vintage and shabby chic.  I love rich embellishments, layers, die cuts, inks and handmade flowers.

Lozzy

My name is Lorraine but I'm known really to everyone as Lozzy.  I'm 45 years old, live in the UK and have a full time career.  I have been Crafting now, as my hobby, for about 5 years and love every minute of it.  My main passion is card making using rubber and digi stamps as I love to colour.  I mainly use Spectrum Noir pens, but do have a tendency to use my Pro Marker pens for a change, as you get different results with the different pens.  I'm still learning a lot of crafty things and I try and vary my designs from CAS, Frilly and Flowery, to a bit on the darker side, but it just depends on when I look at an image to what I am going to create.  Last thing is that I would like to thank Crafty Boots for having me as one of their Guest Designer.

Our talented Design Team ladies have also been busy.

Postcard by Lisette

Card by Dionne

Card by Jess

Christmas House by Lisette

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday 6, December. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Spots or Dots

Welcome to a new challenge here at Crafty Boots, the theme for the next two weeks is 'Spots or Dots'.

What is the difference between a spot and a dot? To be honest I do not know but, whether you call them spots or dots, for the next two weeks we would like to see them in your projects.

As always with our challenges, you can use any materials you like, to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the theme.

Our fabulous Design Team have of course been busy making projects to inspire you:

Scrapbook Page by Chance

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

We should like to give you the opportunity to join in the fun at Crafty Boots Challenges and, therefore, we are offering guest design team spots to the winner and two runners up of this challenge.

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 6 December. There are very few rules but, if you would like to read them for yourself, you will find them here.

We are looking forward to seeing your projects, good luck.

Remembrance Mid Challenge Reminder

We are back today with the 'Remembrance/Giving Thanks' Mid Challenge reminder. There have been some amazing entries so far for this challenge and we have been having a great time looking at all of your fantastic work, please keep them coming.

I am sure that many of you will remember 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' - the fabulous display of remembrance poppies at the Tower of London last year. The display has since been broken up and it has been touring parts of the country.

One of our lovely Design Team ladies caught up with the 'Wave' section of the installation at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Many thanks to Lisette for allowing us to use her photographs.

 

(The 'Weeping Window' section of the display can currently be seen at Liverpool's St George's Hall.)

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Susan and Julie were winners of our recent 'Monochrome' Challenge. As you can see, they are both very talented card makers, check out their blogs, you will be in for a treat.

Susan

"I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada. I'm a mom of 2 grown children, and live with my 2 dogs, 2 birds and fish :) I've always been interested in crafty ventures and have dabbled (or wallowed, lol) in almost everything, except knitting and crocheting, which I just cannot comprehend. I've been making cards, and papercraft projects for 6 or 7 years now, and my New Year's resolution to never buy another greeting card again is the only one I've ever kept!! I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to Guest Design for Crafty Boots, as I've enjoyed their challenges and admired the DT work for some time now!!!

Julie

"My name is Julie Odil, of http://muddypawsinkyfingers.blogspot.com. I am primarily a card maker, but you never know what you might find when you visit my blog — I’m willing to try all things creative. I am most appreciative to the Crafty Boots team for this opportunity to guest design today. It is one of the many things I am thankful for!”

It is impossible to ignore the atrocities that took place in Paris on Friday night. Our Design Team ladies have dedicated their projects this week to the memory of those who lost their lives.

Postcard by Lisette

Thank You Card by Dionne

Think of You Card by Jess

Sympathy Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday 22, November. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Remembrance

Welcome to a new challenge here at Crafty Boots, the theme for the next two weeks is 'Remembrance and Giving Thanks'. Thanks for what we have, for ones family, for the traditional harvest, or the more modern equivalent, and most importantly for those who have touched our lives and have given us the right to live the way we do.

As always with our challenges, you can use any materials you like to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the theme.

Our fabulous Design Team have been busy making projects to inspire you:

Card by Lisette

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Card by Dionne

Tag by Lisette

Card by Dionne

We should like to give you the opportunity to join in the fun at Crafty Boots Challenges and, therefore, we are offering guest design team spots to the winner and two runners up of this challenge.

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 22 November. There are very few rules but, if you would like to read them for yourself, you will find them here.

We are looking forward to seeing your projects, good luck.