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.

Please link your project here:

1.	basslady	15.	steinchen	29.	vicky tovar
2.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.	16.	Chrissyxx	30.	Donna T.
3.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.	17.	Kym	31.	Srebrnolistka
4.	ulla	18.	Iwona	32.	Gale
5.	Birgit	19.	Hazel	33.	laila aka koneko
6.	Luke (age 10)	20.	Jane's Journal	34.	Kleido
7.	jackie cornfield	21.	niki1	35.	Elizabeth H.
8.	Tip Top	22.	Nela	36.	Bettina
9.	Lorraine A	23.	Scrapbook Lynne	37.	Pamellia
10.	DebiB	24.	AJ	38.	Iwona
11.	Teresa	25.	vicky tovar	39.	Jennifer Scull
12.	Christine.ingram	26.	Francesca	40.	Angela P.
13.	Teresa M	27.	Lilibet
14.	AJ	28.	Rosina

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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.

Please add your projects here:

1.	Pamellia	50.	Hazel	99.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)
2.	Ane Lene	51.	Christine Ingram	100.	danijela s Cards
3.	JanR	52.	Dawn Frost	101.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)
4.	Kaija	53.	jackie cornfield	102.	Rachel Taylor
5.	Rebecc Wong	54.	Avril Watson	103.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.
6.	Rebecc Wong	55.	AUNTY SUE	104.	Scrappellen
7.	Jane's Journal	56.	tmd	105.	Rebecca Gillard
8.	Teresa	57.	DebiB	106.	Dawn S
9.	Nikki C	58.	Lorraine A	107.	Lisa J
10.	traceymo	59.	Larissa	108.	carol gill
11.	Isobel Hunter	60.	Danijela	109.	Deonna B
12.	Shirley AC1	61.	Jennifer Greco	110.	AJ
13.	Lisa s	62.	Carrie S	111.	Hazel
14.	Maya	63.	Jennifer Greco	112.	Hazel
15.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)	64.	Jennifer Greco	113.	Hazel
16.	Ane Lene	65.	Leslie Turner	114.	Erica Bruton
17.	Darlene Pavlick	66.	Deonna B	115.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)
18.	Desire Fourie	67.	Jennifer Greco	116.	CREATE WITH JOY
19.	Kym	68.	Jennifer Greco	117.	Scrappellen
20.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.	69.	Ines	118.	Ursula Uphof
21.	Tip Top	70.	Lisa J	119.	crafty
22.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.	71.	Jac	120.	tmd
23.	Gale	72.	AJ	121.	Andrea Norris
24.	JanR	73.	Hazel (Didos)	122.	Andrea Norris
25.	Sharon	74.	basslady	123.	Marilyn Webb
26.	Gail L	75.	Diane H	124.	Jennifer Scull
27.	Donna Mundinger	76.	NanaConnie	125.	Imke
28.	niki1	77.	vicky tovar	126.	Iwona
29.	niki1	78.	AJ	127.	Lisa D.
30.	Steph	79.	Mags	128.	Olivia
31.	Srebrnolistka	80.	Kym	129.	Deonna B
32.	Jac	81.	Birgit	130.	Rosina
33.	Jac	82.	coops	131.	Martina :)
34.	Ursula Uphof	83.	jackie cornfield	132.	Katie Tate
35.	Kleido	84.	NanaConnie	133.	Karen Pimblett
36.	Lisa Lynn	85.	valeryanne	134.	niki1
37.	ulla	86.	MARLENE	135.	Sarah-J W
38.	Kaija	87.	MARLENE	136.	Steffi H.
39.	House of Borowski	88.	Gail L	137.	Leona
40.	Pauline	89.	Julie P	138.	Linda Simpson
41.	jackie cornfield	90.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)	139.	Lisbeth
42.	tmd	91.	Lozzy	140.	Ane Lene
43.	Jennifer Bradley	92.	Traci L	141.	Ina
44.	Lynda C	93.	Iwona	142.	AJ
45.	Lisbeth	94.	Louise H	143.	AUNTY SUE
46.	Margaret G.	95.	kozmik	144.	Susan Kennedy
47.	lorraine A	96.	AJ	145.	Rebecca Gillard
48.	Ane Lene	97.	vicky tovar
49.	NanaConnie	98.	Janice

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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.

Please link your project here:

1.	Lisa J	19.	Ane Lene	37.	Andrea Norris
2.	JanR	20.	Lisa Lynn	38.	pinkclover
3.	N-Eva	21.	Jennifer Greco	39.	Elizabeth H.
4.	Helen	22.	Birgit	40.	Julene Matthews
5.	Srebrnolistka	23.	NanaConnie	41.	Angela P.
6.	Chrissy	24.	valeryAnne	42.	Gale
7.	DebiB	25.	Teresa	43.	Meighan Wheller
8.	Tiziana B.	26.	Linda Simpson	44.	Marina
9.	~DEANNE~	27.	Hazel	45.	Veerle
10.	Lynda C	28.	Hazel (Didos)	46.	Stempelgedöns
11.	J. Atterbury Creations	29.	Andrea Norris	47.	Suzette
12.	Marilyn Webb	30.	Elizabeth H.	48.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.
13.	Billie A	31.	Dawn Lancaster	49.	JanR
14.	NanaConnie	32.	Caro-ART	50.	Jac
15.	Katrina Bufton	33.	~DEANNE~	51.	Stempelgedöns
16.	Helen	34.	Karen Pimblett	52.	Jennifer Scull
17.	Billie A	35.	Katie Tate	53.	Chriss America Real
18.	Cre8iveCindy	36.	Suzi Mac	54.	carol gill

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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.

Please link your project here:

1.	AJ	5.	Leona	9.	Tone K.
2.	José	6.	Lisa Lynn	10.	Jane Savage
3.	AJ	7.	J. Atterbury Creations	11.	Jade
4.	Lorraine A	8.	Billie A

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