Week 2 at Unstampabelles!

Hello Peeps!

I have a quick card for you today

to help you make a project for 

Unstampabelles

which is have a new Challenge#97 (first for 2020)

Who Am I?

It must be positive!

The TWIST is to use bright colours!

I make a lot of mistakes

I am quite messy

I am always in a hurry to complete something

I used my SU chalk pen but it didn't give a bright white that I wanted onthis

So I applied my newly acquired Copic White ink

It  comes in a small bottle like nail polish with a brush attached to the lid.

I like the shadowed effect I ended up with!

The sentiment is handwritten.

You have three weeks to enter the challenge at 

Unstampabelles

A Little Birdie......for Bizzy Bec's new challenge

Hello Peeps - welcome to February!

So glad to see you all....

I was sorting out my stamps the other day

 (as one does when nothing else will come that is creative) and found

I have a lot of Dark Room Door Stamps; but they are either older ones or 

random ones from their $50 packs.

I found I had three repeat stamps (unused) 

You are One in a Melon - sentiment and image

a book pile from Book Worm set

A sentiment regarding women and teabags.......

(Happy to pass them on for the cost of postage plus $5Aust each - 

just email me suhoganatgmaildotcom with address and Paypal access)

I have now stamped onto a cover sheet and inserted it into the box so 

I can see at a glance what is there....

I decided to use the frame stamp for a card 

Darkroom Door - Framed Stamp: Mixed Boxes

for Bizzy Bec's latest challenge

which is always 

"Anything Goes"

I wanted to block in some colour, so I stamped the frames onto white card and 

then used the same ink to stamp onto a post-it note.

I carefully cut out the squares by hand

This gadget fits over my middle finger and makes cutting easy

Once I removed the pieces, I placed it over my stamped image

Being a post-it, it stayed in place but I did carefully hold it which working next

Using my applicator, I rubbed some Oxide ink in graduation colours onto the shapes

Then I stamped some images I have from the set 

Darkroom Door - Stamp Set: Love Birds

I don't have this set - just some pieces from it

I found some old stash (remember this?) and matched it with another TH ink pad

Then I didn't take another photo until I had completed the card

I realized I needed the orange stuff to hide a mistake - can you see it?

An easy card to send to a friend when you just want to say hello

or when you are concerned/happy/inquisitive......

I used my newly acquired Copic white ink to whiten up the eggs and the birds eye

You can see the error a bit better here......upside down acrobatic bird.......

I wrote in this blog that I had some old DRD sets in tins 

and a comment was made about the tins....

Here they are.

So - I used the following to complete this card

Darkroom Door - Framed Stamp: Mixed Boxes

Darkroom Door - Stamp Set: Love Birds

Ranger TH Distress Oxides inks

ripe persimmon, fossilized amber, wild honey, crushed olive

Card by Stampin' Up 

Other - from my stash

Don’t forget to play along in our current challenge.

 The theme is always 'Anything Goes' 

and you could win five digis of your choice.  

For more inspiration follow us over at Instagram at BizzyBec3

Unstampabelles Challenge #97: Who am I?

Hello everyone! Welcome to my new followers who are not trying to lure me into a sex group or sell me anything! Anyone else getting some unwelcome members to their blog? If so, how can I stop this? Do you know? I am not interested in anyone else's sex life or in purchasing dodge items.

If you are a new follower who is interested in seeing my craft projects and reading my various blog rantings, then you are indeed welcome.

Now, the blog Unstampabelles has a new challenge

As a DT member (and owner) of this blog I have made a piece for this challenge

#97: Who am I? (Must be Positive) 

Create something that reflects who you are..........

TWIST....use bright colours

and/or explain a bit about yourself and why you created this piece.

(Remember: to be eligible for DT Favorite you should attempt the twist.)

Now, why did I create this particular piece?

The answer is - for fun!

It is a funny representation of Me

My curly hair, my gold earings, my baggy clothes and shorts, my knobbly knees!

Definitely NOT me when it comes to size - I am about x3 wider than this!

Artistic Licence!

I have joined Wanderlust 2020 - an on-line multimedia art class

The first three lessons were about  making a portrait of yourself and family members.

It has meant I have seriously attempted to draw/paint myself a lot over the last three weeks 

so this piece was just for fun!

I decided to make a tag, so found a big TH/Ranger tag to start.

Then I gathered up some bits and pieces that I thought I could use

from the various piles of stash surrounding my working space.

The page from the book was a failed attempt to use this with a gel plate - it has some paint on it though and was dry so I just began to draw on it with the charcoal pencil 

still on my desk from the portrait work.

I also had a piece of yellow card from which an oval had been cut

plus some other cardboard  -  I decided to pull off one layer to show the inside of this.

To this pile I added a piece of computer printer paper which contained 

a mono print from some gel plate work last year.

I then grabbed my Illusion paints and, used an old bent plate from the Bigshot as a pallet,

I painted the figure with some bold, bright colours to suit the TWIST.

I also used some gold on the earings but didn't want to waste the paint on the brush so added highlights to her hair

I painted the fluted cardboard blue with some orange bits too - and punched a circle out of some poster paper with old Italian writing on it - probably Michelangelo......(us famous artist should stick together) - and added some left over ink to this to make it fit the colour scheme.

Once I had created my doll, I glued her (me) to a strip of card and when dry, cut her out and added her to the cardboard as shown. It is all just layered up on the tag.

I wrote the words BE YOU in pencil first and then used a Jane Davenport paint pen to create the sentiment - I should have painted it pink first or let it dry but I didn't. I used another paint pen from JD for this as well as the top of the tag.

Some ribbon and some bling were added at the end.

I guess I am saying, don't look like me but like me, just have fun with your craft.

Be who you are - not who others are trying to make you be through their comments or rules.

I love playing with my paints and inks and papers, but I will never by a Michelangelo. 

It doesn't matter. 

Be yourself and have fun. 

Let's see what you make for this challenge!

Unstampabelles

Thanks Mate

The February challenge at A Place to Start is now open.

It is to make a masculine card or project.

Most of you will know by now that we have had a horror few months

here in Australia with 'unprecedented' bush fires.

In fact, they are still occurring.

While there are professional fire fighters in the cities, the country areas across this nation are 

serviced by small, remote and  mostly under-resourced VOLUNTEER groups.

Many of these men and women have been fighting fires for over three months now.

They have lost wages and precious family time.

To date, we have lost nine lives among this group of fire fighters this time, 

three of them being Canadian/American professional pilots helping out

in a helicopter crash just last week.

They are Hero's all.

I know that many, many women are part of these teams; however, mostly they are men so I made this card as a masculine card but the sentiment applies to all members of the Rural Fire Brigades and the people helping them.

I used a stamp set I purchased from Paper Rose for the boots  'Work Boots' and the sentiment 'thanks'

The Seriously comes from another stamp set by IO Dude

The background is created with Ranger Dylusions paints - I made it a few months ago for another 

project and this is the left over piece. 

I chose it because it looks like a fire in the background.

I added the diecut of gum leaves by Uniquely Creative, cut from a scrap of green card, to represent the unburned Eucalyptus saved by the Firies.

The boots were stamped with Ranger Archieval black ink and coloured with my Copics.

The image was mounted onto black card and then onto a white folded card.

I ruled a thin black line around the border and added some small bits to that. 

Your masculine card or project does not have to be as somber as this one.

You have a month to enter this challenge at 

A Place to Start