More than Two Folds is what CWD wants!

That's Crafting With Dragonflies for the uninitiated. 

We are asking you to make a card with more than two folds.

Pinterest is very helpful if you need some assistance.

This card has four folds and was shared by Lyssa at Songofmyheartstampers

There is a tutorial on her blog on how to make this one and other multi-fold cards

I used SU papers and card and half of a sheet of 12 x 12 Bazzil for the basic card base.

SU Falling in Love DS set of papers

Mediterranean Moments Stamp Set

WC Pencil set from SU

WC card from SU

The front is the smallest size

Inside there are two areas for stamping - this sentiment is from LOTV

Keep turning and there are two more spaces to decorate.

It opens as a concentina and is small enough to be posted in a normal sized envelope. 

I will be writing on the back of the last page.

It would be good for showing off photo's too! 

There is no reason why you cannot decorate the back of each page either.

My Four-fold card for Crafting with Dragonflies. 

An end to Punctuation in sight!

ED: I cannot believe I didn't get this up yesterday! So sorry about that. Late AGAIN!!

We are coming up to the last week of the challenge at Unstampabelles to Add Punctuation to your work and to take the twist challenge and make it (slightly) amusing!

For my last piece I have reverted back to making a card and have CASed one from Pinterest as it made me laugh out loud when I first saw it. However, before showing that I will show you some more of my State Tasmania.

My regular photo selection this week contains three photos by Jason Robinson. 

He went up in a helicopter above the Huon River, in a valley just south west of my place. 

This is the river Huon with Huonville to the left of the bridge in the distance

Mt Wellington is behind the helicopter and they were travelling south.

This little township below is called Ranelagh (pronounced Ran-e-la)

You are looking south to the Hartz Mountains and the river 

This area used to be full of apple orchards and still grows lots of cherries

and a lot of vineyards.

Yes, we need some rain now - things are a bit dry....

Now on with my card

I started with some letters and a pencil and ruler.

Who still has letter stickers in their stash?

They do occasionally get a run now. 

I started with the letter A in the middle of the card and built the word letter by letter out each side until I had the whole word. You can see the ruled line to keep me on the straight and narrow. 

I winged it with the words on the top of the sheet - not too badly out of alignment.

Die cut of a pair of spectacles and some small googly eyes....

...and some pen work...

...then some mounting onto the card to complete.

Isn't that too cute!

Love a good pun. 

You still have a week to complete a project and enter it at Unstampabelles 

Go HERE and scroll down to the link to enter. 

Toowhit, Toowhoo!

It is midway through the current challenge at Unstampabelles, which is to Use Punctuation somewhere in your entry piece. Before I show you my latest bit of inspiration, here is a lovely photo of my home state to drool over.

Another superb dawn at Freycinet National Park this morning... What a privilege to be out there and watch it unfold.. Tassie always turns it on!! 

Thanks to Ian Rolfe for an amazing capture and beautiful words

www.instagram.com/iancrolfe 
www.ianrolfelightscapes.com

I have walked those beaches and across the Hazards - often accompanied by myriad kids on a school camp. I have sailed around them too back in the day. It is truly a beautiful spot. 

On to my latest piece: I made a tag

I have a lot of chipboard and it is carefully put away and rarely see's the light of day. I decided it was time to raid the stash! One problem with it of course if that it soaks up paint so it took me several goes to get this own painted - I originally intended him to be green!

I used TH Distress Paints to get the final coverage. 

The foliage is a mixture of stencils and ink, ribbons shaped like leaves and diecuts.

The background is texture paste and stencils with paints

My word - WHOO!

I added a Scrapmat HB bit and inked it green to match

I added some ribbons to the tag and was going to add some glitter but decided against it.

A fun tag to add to a birthday present. 

You can go to Unstampabelles and see what else the team have created - be amazed!

Second Week of Unstampabelles March Challenge

The days are winding down a bit earlier and the chill is beginning to make its way into the evening but I just went outside and my tomato plant is taller than me and laden with fruit, the sun is shining and the air is laden with steamy moisture, as it rained last night and again this morning. It is probably only about 21 but it feels warmer. Autumn is upon us but my tomato's don't want to know about it!

This photo was taken several weeks ago

Now you can see it is taller and leaning over to the right because it is so top heavy and I need to restring it to the balcony for support. Also the leaves are turning yellow.

You can see how the chilli plant is also much bigger and is flowering

These are the other ones on the other balcony below. They are also taller and fuller and yellower now and producing lots of green fruit with a few yellow and red ones gradually appearing.

They are all potted and so need to be watered every day

The fruit is still primarily green but everyone is experiencing the same problem apparently unless you are growing them in a glasshouse. 

I have had a very busy fortnight with my husband rushed off to hospital again with a temperature of 40 and quite sick. He spent 10 days in there and has just come back home. His diagnosis was an apparent bacterial infection in the blood. Many antibiotics later he is home and seems to be getting better.

I could not really settle to make anything crafty so started to tidy away some of the mess that has built back up after Christmas and found a photo of my husband and myself taken quite a time ago in Melbourne at a birthday party for hubby's best friend. Ian was just turning 70 - he has since died and so the photo was quite poignant for me. Instead of putting it away I stopped cleaning up and scrapped it!

It was put together using another kit from D'lish and some pretty and bright buttons given to me by Meg at PMT (Polly and Meg's Treasures). The buttons were on my desk so I just picked up stuff from the stash that went with them and built it around them, the kit and the wooden sign. 

I added a line under the wood - an you see it does not have any colour or sparkle on it here?

The stencil was part of another kit from D'lish and I used some Cosmic Shimmer paste

This stencil was with the kit I used called 'Geometric Crush' 

I decided to colour up the wooden sentiment and used Copic pen and then went over it with Kiddy Glitz to get the same look as the Cosmic Shimmer.

The heart die is Elliana Heart Memory Box and it is cut from SU Curry Crush card

The paisley shimmery card is from packaging that came with Christmas present of PJ's - they arrived in a box with a sleeve, and this is part of the sleeve. The box is now being utilized to store my bling! The glassene envelope was in the kit as was the journalling card.

I apologize for the red hair - I have no longer got henna in my hair but it was all the rage in 2002 I believe! I still have the curls and the double chin and that scarf! The clothes have long been passed on - no longer fit me!

This is a photo of it with the wooden piece uncoloured. 

Which one is best? Not sure myself but what is done is done. 

It took me about an hour to pull stuff out, put it together, apply the paste and dry it off and journal. 

Where is the punctuation? 

In the journalling!

I don't think a plus sign is punctuation.

You can enter HERE by scrolling down to the linky at Unstampabelles!

I need to get me a Calendar!

Except I have a lot of them and just don't use them! 

I am late (again) in getting my post for Crafting with Dragonflies up and running. At least I did make my card - last week in fact!

It is a new challenge: #67 Under the Sea

Well, we are surrounded by the sea here, and rivers too abound. This river runs right past my house and up into the hinterland of the island. The area this photo is taken in is called New Norfolk.

There is no name of the photographer but here is the blog site I got it from:

http://hobartandbeyond.com.au/news-posts/river-life-five-things-around-scenic-new-norfolk/

If you went under the water there you would probably find lots of fishes and plant life.....and this river flows out to the Southern Ocean

I started to create my underwater scene by smearing around some Dylusions Paint......

.....and then spritzing it with lots of water.......

then adding some texture paste........

.....then I inked the paste with TH inks.....

...and stamped an underwater scene onto the remaining card with my Momento Black ink - however I didn't get a clear black sharp look - I have since purchased a Ranger Archival ink which I think will improve matters. Still, it does gives me a watery look....

I stamped out the big fish and then coloured him in and positioned him on some dimensionals 

Mounted on some purple card and then some white ink and pen added in places - I hope it does the trick!

Best fishes to you all and please go over to 

Crafting with Dragonflies 

ans see the other work by the Design Team and then enter the fortnightly challenge!

Second Challenge at Unstampabelles for 2017

Guess what it is?  Bet you will never guess correctly! 

It is to use PUNCTUATION in your work

Twist: be amusing if you can!

No, that could be quite hard BUT

.....there are lots of ways you can use punctuation in a scrap page, or a card or tag

This is how I did mine!

Firstly I looked through all my die sets and found suitable dies that could be used for punctuation signs - you will be amazed at home many the are - all the fiddly little things. The skull and crossbones came from a kids pirate set! There are flower centres and swirls cut in two and stars and of course the ampersand from a Stamping Up' set. 

Then using an idea from Pinterest from flashcards for punctuation signs, I made a card for my BIL whose birthday is on the 29th February. 

That means this year he didn't have a day to celebrate it on - as it was wedged between the the 28th and the 1st and over in a second!

I made the signs on the outside into a little story leading up to the inside.....

The colan was easy but the rest had to be hand drawn and fussy cut.

Then I layered them onto SU Suede, and Very Vanilla, and put them on a black card blank.

That made the front - now for inside

You can make what you want of the inside

 eg Happy:

"81st plus 1/4" Birthday

or

'Unbirthday"

or 

"Bloody 81st"

Your turn - as long as there are 10 letters or numbers in there.......I know, very warped isn't it (my sense of humor, that is....)

There is a Random Number Prize from the entries - it will be an unopened package of a magazine, with a die and embossing folder

So - off to Unstampabelles to see what else is there from the Design Team and where to enter!