Sun flowers for HOPE

Hi Peeps!

Yes, I am beginning to craft again after my broken leg fiasco. While I cannot stand for long I can stand for a while and I can sit. I can also clamber down the stairs - if the cat will get off the stair tread for me - to the festering, dirty craft place. It needs a jolly good going over! I will gradually get that set to rights as the leg improves. But for now - no moon boot! Yeah!

It is Week 4 at Unstampabelles

The current challenge is

#98 March Challenge, 2020 - Hope

What represents Hope?

Flowers (Tulips, Myrtle, Marjoram, Lotus, Daisy); castles in the air; clouds; sunshine; and sunrises; new beginnings and/or birth; energy and youth; to name only a few things.

You can tell us what represents HOPE to you.....

TWIST - use yellow as the main colour

A stunning sunrise over the Lady Nelson on the Hobart waterfront thanks to Katy Morgan.

You can also follow Katy via instagram 👇
www.instagram.com/katypotaty77

Now, my card

I found this image in my box of images collected from various sources but I think this one  I won from Bob's Spinning Wheel a few years ago.  

I won a big prize and picked out some stuff and waited and waited but it didn't arrive.

Six months later I emailed them, didn't hear anything but about 3 weeks after that a big box arrived from them full of lots of stuff.

Some of it was useless for cardmaking but still great images for book covers and such.

I was pleased to get anything really as I thought they wouldn't post it to Tassie. 

I have been using it for a while now and the size of the pile has diminished only slightly.

I added some TH ephemera and a big metal butterfly I have had for ages.

Too big to use mostly but it fit here quite well.

I added a yellow border.

The base card is folded card I have had in the stash for a while.

Don't quite know where I got it from.

I do like sunflowers but am not game to grow them as I have heard they seed and 

spread as a weed in the bush.

Anyway - a face like that can only inspire hope. 

Why not have a go at making something?

You have until Friday midnight (AET) to get it posted

Remember - no stamps

Unstampabelles. 

Bizzy Bec's March Challenge

Hello Peeps

I have made a card for this monthly challenge at Bizzy Bec's, which is usually "Anything Goes"!

While laying on my couch last week I got a parcel from Bizzy Bec's place, with my latest order and in it were two stencils from Taylored Expressions. I had just seen the Exotic Leaves being used on Pinterest somewhere, and had been intrigued by the way it was used - so I stole the idea (or C'ased it).

Unfortunately I cannot find it again and so cannot attribute the original artist. If it is you please let me know. I used it because I could continue to lay on the couch and with minimum effort make this card with the stash I had available on the side table!

I used the following items: 

Taylored Expressions Stencil - Exotic Leaves

Tim Holtz Inks - three greens

Sponges

Scraps from my working desk

SU card - Poppy Parade and poppy die cut

Sentiment from SU

Can you see the complete leaf on the top right side?

Once I had created the background on Whisper White card, using all three inks, 

starting with the lightest and randomly sponging through the stencil, 

I repeated this using just one ink - the brightest green - on just that one leaf (twice).

Then I fussy cut out the two leaves. 

The circle was scrap

The sparkly square was a leftover from another project last year

The red flowers were from a pack of die cuts from SU

I just layered them up with dimensionals as it suited me.

Bizzy Bec's Challenge is open all March

The winner of the challenge will receive:

5 Digital Stamps of your choice

Kindly donated from Bizzy Becs Online Store- a fabulous range of Various Stamps, Dies and Embellishments for all your crafty needs, wants. and must haves!

March challenge at A Place to Start

Hello Peeps- long time mo contact!

That's because I fell over and broke my fibula near the ankle - a subtle fracture they tell me but it hurt at the time! My right leg is encased in a moon boot and I have to have it up quite a bit so I have been tied to the couch for about 3 weeks upstairs away from my stash!

However, I have escaped! Briefly. I have managed to get down the spiral stairs and gather up enough stash to make some things. In addition, laying on my back with my legs up has meant too much time scrolling through on-line stores and too many parcels arriving at the door! So, I might have a few new toys to play with as well that haven't made it downstairs yet......

A Place to Start 

This month, we have an 
"Unconventional Materials" challenge 

for those who want to stretch their creativity!  

In other words use a household item in your crafting to embellish your work!

I didn't quite know what to use but while writing out the shopping list this morning ..... eureka!

You can see what are the important purchases!

Also working out the housekeeping for the fortnight.....

Coffee is so expensive!

He buys the alcohol - thems the rules.

Here is the shopping pad on the fridge ready to someone to write down 

the items needed at the next shop

Here is me working at my 'desk' on the couch, foot in air!

Went with second try...

There are two Darkroom Door stamps (delivered this morning) in this

The strip scribble on the left edge

The sentiment - stamped twice - once with Poppy Parade and then with Memento Black just touched to the stamp for a grungy look

My wonderful woman is from Viva Les Vegas Stamps

They arrived in January but I had not had time to ink them apart from when I put them in the boxes

The sequins are SU sequins from the Poppy Suite

Black and red and orange ones

Old Olive ink used on strip down the side.

I just folded some black card to make the base

and stuck the shopping list to it. 

Done. 

Please enter the challenge at 

A Place to Start

You have four weeks to do so. 

I will enter this at the following challenges:

2 Sisters on the blog: stripes and/or dots. I have those!

A Perfect Time to Craft: Anything Goes - it is a perfect time atm!

Corrosive Challenge: Anything Goes