Crafty Boots Challenges

Monday, 25 January 2016

Ribbon or Lace Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, where it is time for our mid challenge reminder. Our current challenge is 'Ribbon or Lace'. We have had some fabulous entries for this challenge and, as always, the Design Team are really enjoying seeing them.

The winners of this Challenge will be given the opportunity to be featured in a future challenge as a Guest Designers. Lisa won our recent 'Spots or Dots' Challenge, as you can see Lisa is a very talented card maker. Pop over to her blog to see more of her lovely work.

Lisa

I have been crafting since 1991. I started out learning 3D decoupage and made mainly pictures. There was no die cutting in those days so I used to cut out each layer with a craft knife, one picture took me 22 hours! I played around a bit with rubber stamping and colouring, but found that the lack of tools available back then hindered a good result. A few years ago I discovered die cuts and chalk. Then I met a lovely lady who introduced me to Promarkers and the wonderful world of Digi Stamps and encouraged me to have another go at colouring. I have never looked back. I love colouring both digi and rubber stamps and experimenting with colours.

The fabulous ladies from our Design Team have also been busy this week ......

Trinket Box by Dionne

Card by Lisette

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

Monday, 18 January 2016

Ribbon or Lace

Wow, we have had such a fantastic start to the New Year, so many gorgeous entries for the last challenge. It was great to all of your old and new projects.

A new challenge starts today, the title of which is 'Ribbon or Lace'. We challenge you to use either ribbon or lace in your project - or both is you prefer. 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 ever industrious ladies have of course been busy making projects to inspire you:

Card by Lisette

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, 31 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.

Monday, 11 January 2016

Something Old, Something New Mid Challenge Reminder

Welcome back to Crafty Boots Challenges, where it is time for our mid challenge reminder. Our current challenge is 'Something Old, Something New', where you can use something old from your stash and something new - perhaps something you got for Christmas or treated yourself to in the sales.

The very lovely ladies from our design team have been burning the midnight oil again to make you a few more inspiration projects.

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 from this challenge.

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

Monday, 4 January 2016

Something Old, Something New

Happy New Year, we hope you enjoyed the holidays and are looking forward to the challenges 2016 will bring.

It is time for a new challenge here at Crafty Boots Challenges and in the spirit of the New Year this challenge is to use 'something old and something new'. It will give you that opportunity to use some of the lovely crafty stuff you got for Christmas and mix it with some of your favourite pieces from your stash.

Our fabulous Design Team have been busy making projects to inspire you:

Card by Chris

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 from this challenge.

This challenge will remain open until 12 Noon on Sunday, 17 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 everyone.

Monday, 28 December 2015

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.

Monday, 21 December 2015

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

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.

Monday, 14 December 2015

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.