TCN CRAFT CHALLENGE ~ A Halloween Craft-fest ~ Please Vote!

THANK YOU VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS CRAFT CHALLENGE ~ ANY VOTES MADE AFTER 8PM WILL NOT BE COUNTED. THE WINNER AND RUNNERS UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT 9PM.

Welcome to The Crafty Network Blog Craft Challenge.  We are now asking for people to VOTE for their favourite entry from the selection of entries below, to enable us to declare a Winner and 2 Runners Up of this challenge on Friday evening.

(Not sure what this is all about, then please visit: Challenge Rules and see details about the theme for this challenge in the previous post.)

Thank you so much everyone for entering this challenge, the number of entries this week has been amazing and who would have thought you could get such a great selection of crafty items and gifts just for Halloween!  I am really loving the great variety of crafts and I’m really pleased that we have so many people doing the challenge for the first time.

Now the hard part is handed over to you, to decide which of the 27 fantastic entries is your favourite.  Please take the time to vote and support these people, I know it is going to be very difficult to choose.   Also, if you could share and promote this challenge to encourage more people to vote, it really would be appreciated.

THE VOTING! 

In order to declare a WINNER of this Competition, we need YOU our lovely Followers to comment below this post quoting the No. of the photo you like best.  For those of you who are undecided, you can vote for more than one, but limit it to choosing just 3 and please make it clear which is your first, second and third choice.

ie. No. 1 = 3pts (1st choice),   No. 2 = 2pts (2nd choice), No. 6 = 1pt (3rd choice).

If you pick just one, this will count as 3 points.

You can also send in your votes via email if you wish to:  thecraftynetwork@gmail.com or message me via the TCN Facebook page

(Please Note:  The Crafty Network, will not use or retain your email addresses for any marketing purposes and once the vote has been counted, your emails will be deleted).

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The voting will close at 8PM on FRIDAY and the winner with the most points will be announced at 9PM, along with the 2 runners-up. 

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Thank you & Good luck with your choices, as always this is a really hard decision.

Please click on the first photo and this will take you to a bigger view of all of the photos.  (Sometimes this can take a little while to load, sorry!)  Also, below the photos are the pages links and the information about each entry.

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No. 1 Ellabella All things Crafty

No. 2 The Sparkly Fairy

No. 3 Crafty Bags

No. 4 All That Glitters

No. 5 Lollipops and Daisies Childrens Boutique

No. 6 SarahscardCreations

No. 7 Pale Moon Creations

No. 8 Urchindian

No. 9 Nichola Foster Designs

No. 10 Heidi Made This

No. 11 Lizzie Made

No. 12 The Old School Club

No. 13 Jill Wood Craft (AstroJill)

No.14 Earth Goddess Designs

No. 15 Felt Enchanted

No. 16 Rylands Crafts

No. 17 The Red Queen Boutique

No. 18 Lisa Bushells Wallart

No. 19 Heart Crafts

No. 20 Quirky Purple

No. 21 Waterlily Cards

No. 22 Lilibets Buttons

No. 23 Handcrafted By Picto

No. 24. The Glassy Gift Shop

No. 25 Itchy Crochet

No. 26. Connie Rose Designs

No. 27 Scotch Mist Handcrafted Jewellery

CONTACT LINKS & INFORMATION FOR ALL THE ENTRIES:

(Lots of the above items are for sale, so please visit the pages listed below if you are interested in seeing more or purchasing any of them, thanks.)

1.       Ellabella All things Crafty ~ https://www.facebook.com/TheCraftyNetwork?ref=hl#!/pages/Ellabella-all-things-crafty/199880876751311?fref=ts

Although it only shows one flag pennant in the bunting, it consisted of 12 flags and was made for a friend.  Just thought the fabric was very apt.

2.  The Sparkly Fairy ~ FB Link : http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509741752369362&set=pb.240225492654324.-2207520000.1350042421&type=1&theater  Blog link : www.thesparklyfairy.blogspot.com

Halloween Card

3.       Crafty Bags (Teresa Connolly) ~ www.craftybags.folksy.com

Here is a photo of the cushion I made for the Halloween theme monthly craft challenge on the Folksy Craft Talk Forums.  I decided to make this cushion for the challenge.

4.  Kathy Lake, All that Glitters (Vintage Dreams) ~ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vintage-Dreams/362782413780749

Beaded Spider

5.     Lollipops and Daisies Children’s Boutique ~ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lollipops-and-Daisies-Childrens-Boutique/173403732719775?ref=hl

Cute Halloween Onesie

6.     Sarahs Card Creations ~ www.facebook.com/sarahscardcreations

Monster themed mini canavs clock.

7.    Pale Moon Creation ~ www.facebook.com/pale.mooncreation

Please find attached my little ‘witches’ for the halloween challenge.

This pair of earrings are Small shell discs with little witch on broomstick charms set onto them, cost £4.oo plus £1.00 UK postage.

8.       Urchindian ~ www.urchindian.com

Trick or treat charm bracelet

9.     Nichola Foster Designs ~ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nichola-Foster-Designs/190615480975141

Hi, this is “Dennis loves his web” !  I’ve handwired his web and fly and embellished it with Swarovski crystals.  I made this in August so it has now sold but I can make similar to order.

10.      Heidi Made This ~ http://www.heidimadethis.co.uk/.

This is one of my hand drawn and hand finished cards. Despite what you might think there is a market for Halloween cards in the UK and it is growing all the time. I love Halloween and, like Christmas, it is a great time to get creative! Once I have come up with the design I colour my cards with a mix of watercolour and promarkers. Finally I finish my cards with a whole load of glitter!  The particular card I have attached is my favourite from my Halloween collection and it’s called Pumpkin Pile. The glitter in the eyes, nose and mouth really look like they are lit from within! I am only a small business but I love drawing and hope to make my cards my full time career.

My website is http://www.heidimadethis.co.uk/. Or I can be found on twitter @HeidiMadeThis and Facebook Heidi Made This. I also have a shop on Etsy: Heidi Made This.

11.   Lizzie Made ~ http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizzieMade My Facebook Page is https://www.facebook.com/TheCraftyNetwork?ref=hl#!/LizzieMade?fref=ts  I also have a blog here: http://lizziemade.blogspot.co.uk/

I have been making Halloween notebooks. The pair of books in the attached photo have hand-cut lino prints on the covers. They are pocket notebooks (6″ x 4″ size), with cream coloured pages and stiff scrapbook-type paper covers (printed on both sides). The lino-cuts are hand cut and hand printed.

12.   The Old School Club ~ www.theoldschoolclub.blogspot.co.UK)

This is a skull appliqué tshirt that I have made for my son. It is also the first project of my make along.  I have used a tartan scrap of fabric for the appliqué and finished it with a hand blanket stitch, which looks very cool!

13. (AstroJill) Jill Wood Craft ~ http://jillwoodcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ Folksy: http://folksy.com/shops/astrojill

Well, the colours are right – it was either these mitts or… a moo hat.  I think the mitts win hands down (in my choice of what to enter, I mean).

14. Earth Goddess Designs ~ https://www.facebook.com/EarthGoddessDesigns

The blue scary skulls set is handmade by me. I made the sculls with hot enamel (enamel casting). Earrings with matching pendant.

15.   Felt Enchanted ~ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Felt-Enchanted/317134718381728?ref=stream  My website is: http://www.feltenchanted.com/  My Etsy shop is: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Butterfae?ref=si_shop

Needle Felted “Sock Monkey Trick or Treaters”

16.   Rylands Crafts ~ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.475254379159849.115434.188589574492999&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=477880322230588&set=a.475254379159849.115434.188589574492999&type=3&theater

Halloween Bunting

17.  The Red Queen Boutique ~ FB page: http://www.facebook.com/theredqueenboutique13  Website: www.theredqueenboutique.co.uk  eBay store: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theredqueenboutique

This is one of my eyeball rings which has been named Lucille by the lady who bought her! I have been making these since late 2011/early 2012. Each one is an OOAK and I use new and vintage eyes to make them. I usually make around 4 or 5 at a time until they sell, then I make more. They do get mixed reactions from people~some love them, some are just freaked out!

18.   Lisa Bushells Wallart ~ Www.facebook.com/lisabushellswallart  Www.lisabushellswallart.co.uk

Large Pumpkin on wooden board

19.   Heart Crafts ~ Blogspot : http://heartcraftsuk.blogspot.co.uk/ FaceBook :http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heart-Crafts/311438485599399?ref=hl 

email address : sales@heartcrafts.co.uk

These are some puppets I make to sell specially for children – they love them. Not one is the same!

20.   Quirky Purple ~ Website: www.quirkypurple.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/QuirkyPurple

Jack O Lantern knitted hat

Other contact details: Twitter: www.twitter.com/Quirky_Purple
eBay: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Quirky-Purple
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/

21.   Waterlily Cards ~ https://www.facebook.com/TheCraftyNetwork?ref=hl#!/WaterlilyCards

This is a tag shaped mini photo album (3″ x 5″) – all the pages are halloween themed with witches, bats, ghosts, spiders,pumpkins and more and the front can be changed to incorporate names/year or any wording!

22.  Lilibets buttons ~  www.facebook.com/lilibetsbuttons    or  www.lilibetsbuttons.co.uk.

Lilibets Buttons makes handmade buttons and embellishments out of clay all unique, quirky and for any occasion.  This is my interpretation of Halloween using a selection of my handmade buttons and embellishments.

23.   Handcrafted By Picto ~ http://handcraftedbypicto.blogspot.co.uk  My Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/HandcraftedbyPicto

This hand painted Chalk Board is a great way to ‘countdown’ the days or sleeps to Halloween or any other occasion. Great for Christmas, birthdays, holidays or any other occasion you want.  They measure 6″x5″ and have a little felt bag for the chalk, the bag can double up as a wipe.  These can also be personalised to suit you.
These are £5.00 + £2.00 P+P.

24.       The Glassy Gift Shop ~ https://www.facebook.com/TheGlassyGiftShop  www.theglassygiftshop.co.uk

Glass Pumpkin Candle/tea light bowl.

25.    Itchy Crochet ~ My facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/itchycrochet?ref=hl  And (If you’re interested) My blog is http://itchycrochetdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/of-cooking-and-hooking.html

This is “My first Hallowe’en” a crochet pattern by ItchyCrochet

26.    Connie Rose Designs ~ https://www.facebook.com/Connierosedesigns 

My name is Marie Palmer. I make Chenille Stem (pipe Cleaner) bears and 12th scale Dolls House Miniatures. My work can be found on my facebook page.

27.       Scotch Mist Handcrafted Jewellery ~ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scotch-Mist-Handcrafted-Jewellery/210995505601858?ref=stream

These are Tibetan silver spiders webs, blackened! with magnesite skulls, and flying witches.