October 2026

This month we’re celebrating — fiery orange, smoldering red, haunting black, and ghostly white.

But this is Colorful Options.

You always have a choice.

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🎨 Your Options 

🖤❤️🧡🤍Option 1 — Black, Orange, Red & White

Create a project featuring black, orange, red, and white.

Use all four colors together for bold contrast and dramatic impact. Think fiery glow, deep shadows, and striking highlights—spooky, intense, or graphic, your interpretation.

🧡Option 2 — Pick Your Color

Prefer to focus on a single color? Choose one color from the palette: Black (bold, dramatic, high contrast)  Orange (bright, fiery, energetic)  Red (intense, rich, glowing) White (clean, stark, high impact). bright.

🌈 Option 3 — Rainbow

Go full color with a rainbow-inspired project! Bright blends, bold stripes, soft transitions, or colorful details—all are welcome.

💌 Option 4 – Cards

Create a card featuring Black, Orange, Red, White, or Rainbow. Clean and simple, layered, elegant, graphic, CAS, shabby chic, vintage, mixed media—every style is welcome.

🧶 Option 5 – Other Creative Medium

Painting, crochet, knitting, quilting, sewing, home décor, digital art, scrapbooking, mixed media, and more are all welcome. If it features black, orange, red , white, or Rainbow, it belongs here!

There are lots of ways to play along in October — whether you’re inspired by blazing orange, smoldering red, dramatic black, ghostly white, spooky Halloween hues, or a full rainbow of color, the choice is yours.

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✨ Design Team Inspiration

As you browse their projects, notice the range. Our Design Team explored different color stories and formats this month .

We encourage you to visit their blogs and leave a comment.

 Diane, Nellies Nest: options 1 & 4

Eden, mkccreate: options 2 &5

Makira, mkccreate : options 1 & 4

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📌 How to Join

                   1.  Create a new project inspired by:

                                         Orange, Halloween Tones, or Rainbow.

                       2. Post it online (or email it to us at colorfuloptions@gmail.com)

                       3. Link it below using Inlinkz.

                       4. Include a link back to this challenge post.

The linkup is open through October 30th at 12midnight CST.

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From fiery oranges to smoldering reds, dramatic blacks, and ghostly whites.
Craft your spooky inspiration.

Whichever you choose — we can’t wait to see it.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

September's Winners

  September's rust-brown challenge has come to an end.  I loved seeing all the creative ways you used the colors from the inspiration board and all the rainbow entries as well.  I am so thankful to everyone who joined in and made the month so much fun.

Choosing winners is never easy with so much crafty talent in one place, but today it is time to shine a little extra light on a few makes that caught our eyes. A big congratulations to our September winners!

🏅 SEPTEMBER 2026 WINNERS

🃏TOP 3 CARDS

• Vicki, He"artful" Validation of Vicki — #41

• Donna, Craftying By the Seashore — #49

• Denise,  The Crafty Den — #93

🎨TOP 3 NON-CARDS

• Wendy,  Wendylynn's Paper Whims — #1

• Fiona,  CraftyStamping — #45

• Betta, Bettascrap — #97

🔦DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT

• Jane, Paper, Pencils, and Pretty Things — #2

🏆PRIZE WINNER

• Meghan, Made By Meghan — #35

💌 Badges: Please grab your winner and top picks badges if applicable — and proudly display them on your blog or social media!

🔦 Designer Spotlight: Please email me before October 10th to discuss your design team contribution.  

🏆 Prize Details: 📬 Winners, please email your prize choice and email address to me by October 15th so your $25 gift card can be sent directly. This prize is sponsored by Makira in appreciation of your creativity. 🙏

📅 Thank you again for your wonderful creativity and continued support. We look forward to seeing more of your amazing projects!

— Makira / Colorful Options
📩 colorfuloptions@gmail.com