'You Are My Sunshine' Challenge

It is a Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK, a time when many families traditionally flock to the the beach for the day.  Often it is the last opportunity to enjoy the sunshine before the autumn sets in.  Our next Bank Holiday will be Christmas Day, which is not a time we normally think of laying on the beach - unless we are lucky enough to be on the other side of the world.

A new Challenge starts today, Design Team Member Lisette (aka Mrs Beez) has challenged all of us to use sunny colours in our projects for this challenge, which Lisette has called 'You Are my Sunshine'.  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 ...........

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

Card by Lisette

Card 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, 11 September. 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.

Please link your projects here:

1.	Ans Gilbert	9.	Karen P	17.	Lisa J
2.	Karen P	10.	carol gill	18.	Teresa
3.	Diane Hover	11.	Keti's Projects	19.	Kali
4.	Zoechaos	12.	Desire Fourie	20.	Sylvia
5.	Karen P	13.	Lisa J	21.	Vesela soba
6.	Kathie	14.	N-Eva	22.	Gloria Shirr
7.	Anet	15.	Traci L	23.	Gloria Shirr
8.	Deonna B	16.	Gloria Shirr	24.	Gloria Shirr

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'Anything But a Card' Mid Challenge Reminder

We are back today with out 'Anything But a Card' Mid Challenge Reminder. There are some challenges which seem to generate a buzz, the Anything But a Card Challenge is one of them. It makes us think outside the box, to truly challenge our creative selves.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as Guest Designers. Billie A recently won our 'Summer Time' Challenge, Billie is very well known in the crafting world and I am sure many of you will be familiar with her work. If you are not as familiar as you would like to be, check out her blog 'Ink on My Fingers'.

Billie

Hi my name is Billie Anderson. My blog is called Ink on My Fingers. I have always loved doing crafts and paper-crafting took over my life in the late 80’s. I am on four design teams and love bringing cards to life. My style has changed over the years and I want to keep learning and trying more techniques. I keep a yearly journal to keep track of my projects and this is one of journal divider page I made. I am retiring the end of Oct. 2016 and looking forward to more time doing some of my other crafts.

I am married with grown children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We have a little 4 legged kid who is spoiled.. I hope you stop by my blog and take a look. Thank you and Thank you Crafty boots for having me as a Guest Designer.

Our Design Team ladies have been very busy as well and have a few more inspirational pieces for you.

Mini Album By Dionne

Mini Mixed Media Canvass by Lisette

Bookmark by Jess

ATCs by Dionne

Altered Notebook by Lisette

Scrapbook Page by Dionne

This Challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 28 August. Please click here to go directly to the Challenge.

'Anything But a Card' Challenge

It is time for a new and exciting challenge here at Crafty Boots Challenges, for the next two weeks we should like to see your creative side coming up with something other than a card. It could be, for example, an altered box, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie - just as long as it's not a card! You can use any materials you like and you are not restricted to paper, it could be made of wood or fabric - or even embroidery.

Our Design Team have come up with a one of two ideas to get you going.

Mixed Media Altered Heart by Lisette

ATC by Jess

ATCs by Dionne

Decorated Bag by Lisette

Tag 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, 28 August. 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.

Please link your project here:

1.	basslady	24.	kali	47.	Kathyk
2.	Jenna	25.	Julie P	48.	Julie P
3.	Lovely Linda	26.	Tip Top	49.	Anet
4.	Silvia	27.	Lula	50.	Asawari art journal page Time and Music
5.	Nicola Gold	28.	Lizzie	51.	Alicia O'Bryant
6.	Deonna Bemish	29.	~DEANNE~	52.	Anila Dikay
7.	Jana K.	30.	NanaConnie	53.	Jana K. (3)
8.	carol gill	31.	Kym	54.	Lorraine A
9.	carol gill	32.	Desire Fourie	55.	Julie Reed
10.	kristyn	33.	Lou Sims	56.	Sylvia
11.	shylaa	34.	carol gill	57.	Elaine www.achelois.co
12.	Lozzy	35.	Chris	58.	AUNTY SUE
13.	Srebrnolistka	36.	Kleido	59.	Sheryl Hare
14.	Maikreations	37.	Srebrnolistka	60.	Ane Lene
15.	Vesela soba	38.	Lisa J	61.	Rupa S
16.	Mimi	39.	SallyB.	62.	Scatty Jan
17.	Steph	40.	Kathyk	63.	Nick
18.	Narobe hiša - Nataša P.	41.	carol gill	64.	Jane's Journal
19.	Marina	42.	Twisted Witch - Lin	65.	Karthikha
20.	Jana K. (2)	43.	Janis	66.	Karthikha
21.	Kathyk	44.	Judy McKay	67.	Tone K.
22.	Ane Lene	45.	Carole J	68.	Ma-Mi
23.	Petra L	46.	Karen P

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'Use a Stamp' Mid Challenge Reminder

We are back with the Mid Challenge reminder for the 'Use a Stamp' Challenge - what is it they say, time flies when you are having fun?  It is wonderful to see so many entries in this challenge, who would have thought so many of us love to use our stamps.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designer. Andree (Aloha Cards), Lisa (Handmade by Lisa) and Carol (Crafty Stamper) won our recent 'Masculine Cards' challenge. We are so lucky to have three really talented ladies guesting this week and you really should take a look their blogs to see more of their amazing work.

Andree

Hello, my name is Andree and I live in the UK and work in a local school office and so lots of my school holidays get spent in my craft room.  I’ve been making cards for the last 12 years and I love both digi and rubber stamps and colouring with Promarkers.  I also have a bit of an addiction to pretty papers-like most crafters I have far more than I could ever use but just can’t seem to help myself.

I started my blog ‘Aloha Cards’ a few years ago mainly to keep a track of the cards I was making but then I discovered so many other wonderful blogs and challenge blogs and I now have lots of crafty blog friends. 

I’d like to thank the team at Crafty Boots for this opportunity to be their guest designer for this challenge, and I’m very proud to take part.

Lisa

My name is Lisa and I´m 48 years young. I live with my husband and our cat in a small town two hours from Stockholm, Sweden. I´m a dental hygienist by profession. I've been making cards since 2011 and I absolutely love it. I´ve always at least one ongoing project on my desk and always a lot of them on my mind. I colour my images with Polychromos pencils or Distress Ink re-inkers. I spend a lot of my free time crafting but have also other interests like photography, travel, hiking and sports activity. This is my blog: Handmade by Lisa.

Carol

    Hi I'm Carol and live in Kingston Upon Hull in England, I have crafted for many years through knitting, cake decorating and now card making, mini albums and decorated canvas - I have also recently rediscovered my first love of stamping and am delighted to be Guest Designer for Crafty Boots.

Our regular Design Team have been busy too, here are some more of their ideas.

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

Card by Jess

Card by Dionne

This Challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 14 August. Please click here to go directly to the Challenge.

'Use a Stamp' Challenge

A new month and a new challenge here at Crafty Boots.  For the next two weeks we are challenging you to dust of  your stamps and use them to create something a little bit special.  They can be the more traditional rubber/polymer stamps or they can be digital stamps, we really do not mind.

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 - just as long as you have used a stamp to create it.

Our Design Team have come up with a few ideas to get you in the mood.

Card by Jess

Card by Lisette

Card 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, 14 August. 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.

Please link your project here:

1.	Desire Fourie	54.	traceymo	107.	Helen
2.	N-Eva	55.	Jane's Journal	108.	Gabriela U.-Tarjeta Mania
3.	Lorraine A	56.	sammibug	109.	TwistedWitch - Lin
4.	JanR	57.	Jennifer Scull	110.	Mervi
5.	Ine creaine-cards	58.	steph	111.	patty
6.	Nicola Gold	59.	Alicia O'Bryant	112.	patty
7.	Tiziana B.	60.	YvetteCreate	113.	patty
8.	Kleido	61.	Vic	114.	Julie P
9.	Elizabeth Hart	62.	Babs	115.	Vic
10.	AJ	63.	Diane Louise	116.	Ina
11.	~DEANNE~	64.	Jana K.	117.	Kevin
12.	Donna T	65.	NanaDonna	118.	Marilyn Webb
13.	Gloria Shirr	66.	Billie A	119.	Vilinke
14.	MsWipz-Crafting Circle	67.	Desire Fourie	120.	Tzong Rong Yang
15.	patty	68.	lillyb	121.	Elizabeth Hart
16.	Anet	69.	Cheremane	122.	Gloria Shirr
17.	Suzi Mac	70.	Lozzy	123.	AJ
18.	Lisa s	71.	Scatty Jan	124.	Lizzie
19.	Shamita	72.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)	125.	Teresa
20.	Nicola Gold	73.	Tammy A	126.	Jan Thompson
21.	Alicia O'Bryant	74.	Jolanda	127.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)
22.	julye	75.	Jane's Journal	128.	Billie A
23.	Julie Reed	76.	YvetteCreate	129.	Billie A
24.	Maria Tchotcheva	77.	YvetteCreate	130.	Repolainen
25.	Karen P	78.	Bozena	131.	Hussena
26.	bev cole	79.	J. Atterbury Creations	132.	Kate T
27.	~DEANNE~ #2	80.	J. Atterbury Creations	133.	Alicia O'Bryant
28.	Andrea W	81.	Margaret A (Granmargaret)	134.	Marilyn Webb
29.	Leslie Turner	82.	Carol Lutz	135.	AJ
30.	Leslie Turner	83.	Sharon	136.	Darlene Pavlick
31.	Leslie Turner	84.	Marilyn Webb	137.	Nela
32.	ulla	85.	Beebeebabs	138.	Kali
33.	Ursula Uphof	86.	Chris	139.	Ina 2
34.	Billie A	87.	NanaConnie	140.	NanaConnie
35.	Jolanda	88.	Maria D	141.	Gloria Shirr
36.	Lou Sims	89.	niki1	142.	AJ
37.	Lisa J	90.	Lisa :)	143.	Jac
38.	SallyB.	91.	Nicola Gold	144.	Iwona
39.	Anet	92.	Lisa :)	145.	Cheremane
40.	Kathie	93.	Beebeebabs	146.	Karen P #3
41.	Cathie Borowski	94.	Marlene	147.	Marta
42.	NanaConnie	95.	AJ	148.	Ma-Mi
43.	Birgit	96.	Karen P #2	149.	Nikki S
44.	Kleido	97.	Poppet	150.	Helen
45.	Kleido	98.	patty	151.	Deonna B
46.	CREATE WITH JOY	99.	Helen	152.	DebiB
47.	Judy Mckay	100.	Gloria Shirr	153.	Mans de Fada
48.	Billie A	101.	Monica Patel	154.	*Vicki*
49.	Billie A	102.	Ria	155.	bernadet
50.	Jenna	103.	shellshearer	156.	Pauline
51.	Laura	104.	Ann Chuang	157.	Desire Fourie
52.	Lisa J	105.	Lisa :)	158.	Srebrnolistka
53.	Rosina	106.	Hazel (Didos)

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