Autumn and Halloween

It's time for a new challenge here at Crafty Boots Challenges.

When I was a child we considered wearing fancy dress and knocking on the door of our neighbour and shouting 'trick or treat' to be something only done in the United States and most certainly not something British children would ever do.  We might have been lucky enough to be invited to an afternoon party where we would bob for apples or race to eat apples suspended on twine whilst our hands were tied behind our backs, but that is as far as it went.  It seems that now there is a buzz in the air as All Hallows' Eve approaches and there is a lot of talk about carving pumpkins and picking costumes.  I have even read that Halloween is now the third largest annual retail event in the UK, following that of Easter and Christmas.

However, not everyone celebrates Halloween, so we are offering a choice of topic for this challenge and for the next two weeks we should like to see either your projects depicting autumn, with all of it's glorious colours, or Halloween.

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 Chris

Card by Dionne

Card by Lisette

 

Card by Dionne

Tag 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 noon on Sunday, 8 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.

Pink Mid Challenge Reminder

It is time for our mid challenge reminder here at Crafty Boots Challenges. As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and in recognition of this, our the current challenge is to use pink in your project. Your project does not have to be about Breast Cancer Awareness, although it is great to get the message out there, you just have to use pink somewhere in your project.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Andrea was a winner of our recent 'Fair and Square' Challenge.  As you can see, Andrea is a very talented card makers, don't forget to check out her blog.

Andrea

Andrea here, you may know me from SheepSki Designs my blogs name.   Living in Yorkshire in the UK, I work full time as an accountant and personal assistant and have hobbies such as competitive badminton and dancing (Argentine tango & Ceroc).   I work for four different design teams at present. I have no actual style as such but I do like quirky and unusual images and I may be known for soft pastel colours.  I started my blog just over a year ago when I really got into making cards.  In the past I’ve used mainly ProMarkers but have a stock of mediums to hand now - polychromos & Lyra pencils and Copics.  I occasionally paint with watercolours but have recently discovered the world of mixed media – so I started an art journal and produce occasional mixed media canvases.

Our Design Team ladies have also been busy making projects to inspire you.

Card by Dionne

Tag by Lisette

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Cards by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday 25, October. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Pink Challenge

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

 Why 'pink'? Each year, as part of an international campaign, the UK celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month during October.  According to Breast Cancer Awareness, in the UK alone, 55,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year – that’s one person every 10 minutes. To show support for this campaign, and to help raise awareness of Breast Cancer, the Crafty Boots Design Team have chosen 'pink' for this challenge and for the next two weeks we should like to see pink 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:

Project Life Layout by Chance

Card by Chris

Card by Dionne

Card by Faye

Card by Jess

Card by Lisette

Journal Page by Sandra

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

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, 25 October. 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.

Gold or Silver Mid Challenge Reminder

It is time for our mid challenge reminder here at Crafty Boots Challenges, the current theme is 'Silver and/or Gold'. We have received some stunning entries so far, our followers are such a talented bunch, but we know that there is more to come to dazzle and amaze us all.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Kavitha was a winner of our recent 'Life's a Beach' Challenge. As you can see, Kavitha is a very talented card makers, check out her blog, you will be in for a treat.

Kavitha

Hello everyone,  I am Kavitha from India.  I have loved playing with colors and crafting as far back as I can remember.  After my studies, I started taking it up seriously and did a couple of diploma courses in fine arts n fashion designing.  I love trying various techniques and crafts, but my favorite is paper crafts and mixed media.  Currently I run an online crafts store for paper crafting and I also make exclusive hand made products on order.

Our lovely Design Team have also been busy making projects to inspire you.

Card by Dionne

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Card by Dionne

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday, 11, October. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Gold or Silver Challenge

It's time for a new challenge here at Crafty Boots Challenges, for the next two weeks our challenge theme is 'Gold or Silver'.

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.  So dig out your gold and silver ink pads, metallic paint, glitter, mirri card, gilding flakes, foil etc and share your shinning creations with us.

Our fabulous Design Team have been busy doing just that and here are a few projects to inspire you:

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, 11 October. 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.

Monochrome Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to the mid challenge reminder for Crafty Boots Challenges, the current challenge is to make a project in 'Monochrome'.

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

Chrissy

Hi! My name is Chrissy and I live in beautiful Napier, New Zealand. I live on my own with my dog ‘Harry’ and work full time [plus] as a caregiver.    I have three grown children and four wonderful grand children ... 2 of each.

Never been a crafting person, but started scrapbooking when the G/kids were small.   My crafting is my relaxing pleasure at night time and sometimes on the weekend ... when time allows.  My style is wherever it takes me at the time ... I don’t usually prepare for what happens when I start a project it just happens, but I do love doing little animated scenes and I have just started mixed media canvases.

Wendy

Hi, my name's Wendy, I live in Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, where the weather is often cold and wet, so having an indoor hobby, such as papercraft, is a good idea!  I've been creative in one way or another all of my life, but over the last decade paper has pretty much taken over my world, but I also dabble in a little bit of felting now and then.

 

If I'm not in my craft room, you'll usually find me in the kitchen, cooking for my family, or chatting with friends over a large pot of tea and home baking.

Our lovely ladies in the Design Team have been very busy, here are a few more ideas from them:

Christmas Cards by Dionne

Scrapbook Page by Emma

Card by Lisette

Scrapbook Page by Stephanie

Card by Dionne

This challenge will remain open until noon on Sunday, 27 September. Please click here to go directly to the challenge.

Monochrome Challenge

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

For many of us the first thing to enter our heads when we start to imagine monochrome projects is black and white, but it can be other colours, providing it is just one color or shades of one color.   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 Chris

Christmas Cards by Dionne

Card by Faye

Card by Jess

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, 27 September. 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.