'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.

'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.

'Picture Challenge' Mid Challenge Reminder

We are back today with a quick reminder about our picture challenge.  This gives us a second chance to show you the fabulous photograph we have for this challenge, it is an amazing sunset .....

Here are some more ideas from our lovely Design Team:

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

Tag by Dionne

This Challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 31 July. Please click here to go directly to the Challenge.

'Picture' Challenge

Crafty Boots Challenges has been been going for many years and every other week we try to challenge you with a different and exciting idea. In all of those years we have never had a picture challenge and we think it is time we rectified this.

The idea of the picture challenge is to use one or more element from the photograph to inspire your project. It could be the colours, sunsets, poppies, fields, that amazing sky, in fact, anything from the photograph. 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. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the the photograph.

As always, our fabulous Design Team have been busy doing just that and here are a few projects to inspire you:

Card by Lisette

Card by Jess

ATC 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, 31 July. 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, have fun and good luck.

'Christmas in July' Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, where it is time for our 'Christmas in July' mid challenge reminder.

The Design Team have been having a wonderful time seeing all of your stunning Christmas projects but we are sure there are more still to come.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as Guest Designers. Pat K recently won our 'Queens, Princesses and Crowns' challenge, as you can see, Pat is a very talented designers and if you would like to see more of her amazing work you should check out their blog - Paper, Markers, Ink, Oh My!

Pat K

Hi, my name is Pat K. I’m so happy to be here today as GDT Thank you to the lovely Dionne and the rest of this talented team. I’ve been blogging for almost 5 years now and still feel I have a lot to learn. I love the colouring process in card making and collecting paper is a passion. There are so many wonderful techniques out there that I’d love to try…all on my wish list. Hugs, Pat K xx

Being a Christmas in July challenge we could not stop our lovely Design Team from making yet more cards to, hopefully, inspire you.

Card by Chris

Card by Dionne

Tag by Lisette

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 17 July. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

'Christmas in July' Challenge

We have a brand new Crafty Boots Challenge starting today, for the next two weeks the challenge is one a good old favourite amongst crafters - 'Christmas in July'.

I think most of like this opportunity to get a bit of a head start on our 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, or an ATC, an inchie. It is entirely up to you how you choose to interpret the theme.

As always, our fabulous Design Team have been busy doing just that and here are a few projects to inspire you:

Card by Dionne

Card by Jess

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

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, 17 July. 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.