Crafty Boots Challenges: May 2016

Monday, 30 May 2016

'Butterflies and Bees' Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, where it is time for our 'Butterflies and Bees' mid challenge reminder.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as Guest Designers. Maxine and Carol recently won our 'Spring is in the Air' challenge, as you can see, they are very talented designers and if you would like to see more of their work you should check out their blogs - Kiwine's Kreations and Crafty-Stamper.

Maxine

I am a grandmother who has been crafting in some fashion or another for as long as I can remember, my first attempts were to sew 'pictures' with wool on my dolls blankets.... that has progressed through to crochet, sewing, knitting, embroidery, bobbin lace making, and latterly card making. I live in small town New Zealand, and have the privilege of having my family living nearby, which also means that we see a lot of our grandchildren - my grand daughter in particular is very interested in crafts and my card making!

It has been a joy to guest DT and create this card for the Crafty Boots Challenge.

Carol

Hi, I am Carol and have been crafting quite for many years knitting, crotchet, cake making and decorating and now card making. I started stamping but as I am now on some Design Teams and digis are my passion. I have just recently started experimenting with dies and embossing folders. I am delighted to have been chosen to a Guest designer with Crafty Boots challenges.

Our fabulous Design Team have also been busy ......

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 5 June. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Monday, 23 May 2016

'Butterflies and Bees' Challenge

We have a brand new Crafty Boots Challenge starting today. The summer will soon be here and already you can see flowers everywhere, with butterflies and bees flitting from one to the other. To welcome the return of these important little workers we have dedicated this challenge to the butterflies and bees and for the next two weeks we should like to see your projects featuring 'Butterflies and/or Bees'.

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, or an ATC, an inchie. 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

Altered Notebook Cover 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, 5 June. 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.

Monday, 16 May 2016

'Queens, Princesses and Crowns' Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, we are already half way through our 'Queens. Princesses and Crowns' Challenge.

As always, the winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designer. Susan (aka Aunty Sue) and Maya won our recent 'Easter' challenge. If you should like to see more of their amazing work you should take a look their blog, Aunty Sue's Craft Cavern and Maya - For the Love of Papercraft.

Susan

Hi my name is Susan Aka Aunty Sue and my blog is called Aunty Sue's Craft Caven. I live in the North West of England with my Son and Shetland Sheepdog Buddy.

I have always done some sort of crafting and even made my Bridesmaids dresses. However card making has been my main hobby for the last 10 years after retiring due to ill health. I am on several design teams and not sure if I have a Style. I think I tend to go with the mood I am in at the time. I mainly use my Promarkers but have dabbled with pencils and Distressed inks.

I was delighted to have been asked to GDT for Crafty Boots Challenge. Thank you for inviting me!

Hugs Aunty Sue

Maya

Hi Crafty Boots friends! My name is Maya, and I live in Norway. I have been making cards and other paper things since 2007.
I love to color images, it makes me relaxe, and it is such a joy! For the most I make cards, but I also like to play in my Art Journal, and make layouts once in awhile. It is an honour to be a Guest Designer here at Crafty Boots challenges!

A always, our Design Team ladies have been busy making projects to inspire you.

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Pair of Card by Dionne

Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 22 May. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Monday, 9 May 2016

'Queens, Princesses and Crowns' Challenge

At last the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the trees are once again turning green. It has been a long, strange winter and everyone has been making the most of the recent good weather.

The timing of the good weather could not have been better because there are a lot of events taking place all over the UK at the moment to celebrate the 90th birthday of our Queen. Here are Crafty Boots we wanted to pay our own tribute to this amazing lady, so we have called this challenge 'Queens, Princesses and Crowns'.

The theme is pretty much self evident, we would like to see designs around images of Queens, Princesses or Crowns. 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.

Our Design Team have come up with a few ideas to give you an idea of the sort of thing we had in mind.

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, 22 May. There are very few rules to our Challenges 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.

Monday, 2 May 2016

'Monochrome' Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, we are already half way through our 'Monochrome' Challenge.

As always, the winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designer. Tanvi won our recent 'Something for the Lady' challenge, her winning entry was fabulous, check out her work on her blog - Paper Fantasees.

Tanvi

Hello.................this is Tanvi a SAHM to two lovely girls - Tirthika & Navyaa. We live in Bangalore, India. Crafting has been a passion since childhood, thanks to my mom! Along this creative journey I have dabbled into several crafts & paper crafting is my current my addiction. I have an active blog since October 2012. I love new products & exploring techniques using them!