Final Week in March for Unstampabelles

Welcome to the last week of March

and welcome to Autumn in the Southern climes!

Grove | @katypotaty77/Instagram

Over at Unstampabelles the last week of the current challenge is beginning

I decorated a gift bag from some empheria I had from D'Lish

I would be great for a boy who was getting some sports shoes!

Firstly I arranged the bits on a sheet of black card made to fit the size of the reused carry bag.

Once I was happy with the placement it was just a matter of gluing it all down

The basketball hat is on dimensionals.

I even used a ready-made tag from D'Lish to tie to the handles.

All closed with a PEG

The TWIST at Unstampabelles  this month is to use a peg or staples

You have five more days to enter - Happy Crafting!

Just to let you know as well I have been accepted as a Design Team Member at



So excited to get started!
See you soon!

Week Three of the March Challenge at Unstampabelles

What can one say - last evening a terrible thing happened in our family. Our Nation's family. It was perpetrated by someone who is apparently an Australian. Against others from our family across the Tasman Sea.

I will not name him

I will not give him the satisfaction of that.

I will just show this and say that the rest of the 'family' are not like him.

Thank you to Brisbane illustrator Rebel Challenger for allowing us to share her work with you all. | ABC Brisbane

My condolences to the people of New Zealand

Unstampabelles

Week Three at Unstampabelles means it is half way through the month - and it is getting a bit Autumnal here. We had some drizzly rain a few days ago and there were rainbows popping up everywhere!

WOW… a very rare early evening double rainbow at Cockle Creek, in Tassie’s far south, thanks to Salty Summits.

www.instagram.com/saltysummits

For the Design Team this week I made a card.

I used the old Umbrella Man die from Sizzix and a newish die from Crafter's Companion for the sentiment on the side

The Awesome Classic was computer generated and attached to strip of gold spotty card from a chocolate box!

I can see a brother receiving this!!!

You still have two weeks to go at Unstampabelles

Go for it!

One for the Rooster's Today!

What is that saying? "One day a Rooster, the next a feather duster!"

Let's hope these chooks get a better run - they certainly seem to be ahead of the game already! 

Not sure how much better their run could be with that view!

Margot Kelly, on location, at Sheffield.

Margot says: “Former dairy farmers, Phil and Angela Glover, now run 3400 hyline brown hens on pasture for eggs. It takes three hours a day to harvest the eggs by hand.
Last year the standard for 'free range eggs' was changed to be 10,000 birds per hectare.
This niche operation stocks 1,000 hens per hectare.
I was amazed to see the girls spread out across the entire paddock they were given.
🥚🥚🥚🥚🍳🍳🍳🥚🥚🥚 I was more amazed by how friendly they were! I had them running between my legs and stepping on my boots! 

www.instagram.com/margotkelly123

The Rooster's today are the Men and boys from our lives

It always seems harder to craft for them but really it is not - if you just  plan your colours

I did this by picking a sheet of patterned paper first and building around it. 

After finding a great quote, I then decided to make a wallet for a present of money.

Most kids like money these days as a present and it makes life easier but it always seems to be to be a bit impersonal so this was a way to make it more personal!

My green peg made a great closure

The sentiment (quote) on the front was obviously hand written

I could hold quite a few notes - this is Australian currency for those unfamiliar....

we are up to the 4th series of polymer notes and they are very colourful

I added another sentiment inside to go with the quote!

This is the back of the wallet.....

This is the wallet standing up - can you  see where it fell over and got crinkled?

I made this for Unstampabelle's 

where the challenge is to make something for Boys or Men 

TWIST is to add a staple or a peg (or both)

You have three weeks to enter

I will be entering this in the following:

Dare2BArtzy : Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge: Anything Goes

Send a Smile 4 Kids: Male cards

A Little Stampin' Up Play Time

I gained a lovely stamp set during Sale-a-Bration (which closes on 30th March) which contains a chook (slang in Australia for chicken). I'm always partial to a chook. This big boy is a rooster!

Al products used in these cards are Stampin' Up

I used the Stampasorus to stamp and then mask the rooter to stamp the foliage.

They were coloured with the alcohol markers

The embossing folder is an older one

A closer look at one

Inside I attached a note page,stamped with a big stamp

To match the sentiment on the front

I did 6, added some envelopes and tied them up with a ribbon.

They were gifted to a friend. 

A Little wine, anyone?

Hello Peeps!

Wish I could photograph as well as Angela!

Isn't this a magnificent bird!

A native Taswegian

'In motion'
Wedge-Tailed eagle
www.instagram.com/angelasiejka

I made a couple of wine bottle tags for the March challenge at Unstampabelles

It is a 

 Makes for Men and Boys 

TWIST Use a Staple or a Peg

Male focused items. I always need these.

 $15 Gift Voucher 

(via PayPal or direct to on-line store, whichever suits)

I made two different ones from one sheet of A4 card

They can be used for a variety of reasons for an adult male

One has staples holding on the message

and the other is held by a peg!

Here they are without the bottles of wine

The hole was cut with a die for the bottle neck - it could have been a bit smaller

The message is hand written on the top one

This one uses sparkly stickers

You an go to Unstampabelles and see what others have created for the first week