Being Creative for Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps - it is the last week of the challenge at Unstampabelles and I was moved to create a card by the simplicity of our individual Covid-19 inspired ANZAC Day commemoration.

Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

What does ANZAC stand for?
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.

As a result of the Covid-19 virus we were not allowed to 

have our usual public gatherings and marches

Instead we were encouraged to gather in our driveways at 6.00 am

with a candle and use our phones to broadcast the Canberra Dawn Service and follow

the minute's silence from there.......

In our suburb we had many talented musicians who chose instead to play the Last Post themselves

In our driveway we heard three trumpeters - one of them our son-in-law - from three different spots.

There were also people playing electric guitars and  wind instruments

It made the hairs on my body stand up.

I know this photo is dark - it is my hubby and candles waiting for the show to start

My photo taking skills deserted me at that time

 I lost two Great Uncles in WW1 - one at the start at Lone Pine, Gallipoli and one at the end in Possiers (he was an ambulance man)

My Dad - named James for the one killed at Gallipoli - went to the Middle East at the beginning of the 1939-1945 conflict and after two years was returning to Australia when they were diverted to Timor and captured by the Japanese. He spend the next three years plus as a POW on the Burma Railway ending at Hell Fire Pass.

He eventually came home and raised a family but died at 69 years old of the injuries he received.

He was much loved.

Here is the the result of my creative ability 

 I started by sponging ink onto the card to create a dawn sky

and a green hill

I used a variety of die cuts to create a soldier's grave and the weeds that may grow there.....

I painted my grasses in w/c paint

Starting to build it up

I used some alphabet letters and an ANZAC fundraising badge

The  poppies are hand drawn with Copics

Mounted onto a card base

I might frame this rather than use it as a card.

I know this is not a good piece of work

but I still like it

You have a week to enter your piece at Unstampabelles. 

Challenge#99: Unstampabelle's - Being Creative/Creative Souls

Over at Unstampabelle's this month the challenge currently  is

Creative Souls or Being Creative 

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

My contribution to this this week is a card - but it doesn't have to be a card: you 

can create a scrap page, an off the page, a multi media piece, a painting, a journal page, a tag.......

Before I begin, I hope all you Peeps are OK?

No nasty virus ?

Still physically isolating?

Good. 

Here is some soul food

This is the oldest stone bridge in Australia

It is at Richmond, just a stones throw from where I live

'Golden Hour' over the historic Richmond Bridge thanks to Kirsten Lenck.
You can also follow Kirsten via instagram 
www.instagram.com/tassiekirsten

Anyway - on with my card........

I am continuing to being influenced by the artist Rachel Greig

from Dark Room Door

and also feeling a bit CAS (Clean and Simple)

Using a home made stencil of a circle, I sponged some ink into the circle

onto my topper

I then sponged some ink onto scrap and then

die cut out some leaves by Elizabeth Craft called Pair of Leaves -1

I added a sticker of a butterfly and some words from Tim Holtz.

Simple but sweet

You have two weeks to enter  at 

Unstampabelles

Bees for Bizzy Bec!

Hi Peeps!

Over at Bizzy Bec's Store Blog is the

information on the monthly challenge. 

it is always Anything Goes!

Today for the blog I made two cads using the 

Dark Room Door Buzzing Bees set

I have been quite CAS lately so thee two cards are similar

I saw Rachel Greig demonstrating the idea of the circle and 

stamping into it on the DDR Facebook page and decided to use that s my starting point

I didn't have the DDR circle stencil so created one for myself in card

I then used sponges and added Tim Holtz ink to the centre of both

The card I am using is SU Whisper White normal

Iused washi tape to hold everything in place which sponging the ink into the circle

The cards are the same size and shape and the circles were in the same place initially, but the second one was turned upside down to put the circle in the bottom half and sentiment on top

This one used Wild Honey in the centre - appropriate for a bee

The flower was stamped in Pine Needles and the Bee and Sentiment in Tea Dye

The bee was stamped and fussy cut out and lifted up on dimensionals

I added some bling as well

The second one had the honey comb stamp stamped in Rusty Hinge over Dried Marigold

The bees were Tea Dye and the sentiment was the RH

Again the bling from my stash - this one was from SU

Sorry about the light - it is quite dark here this afternoon.

I do like this new set from DRD

Dark Room Door: Buzzing Bees DDDRS205

(on sale atm 10% off!)

Tim Holtz inks: lots here

White card (Bec carries Spectrum Noir)

Bling from my stash

Remember, Bec has a monthly challenge running that is

Anything Goes!

Some lovely digi images to be won in this.

Week 2 at Unstampabelles Challenge#99

Hi Peeps - please tell me you are socially isolating and washing your hands regularly!

We certainly are and so far we are doing OK

I have even been in the garden weeding and took this photo this morning....

It is a cold spell in autumn but the cacti are still handing in there!

I am also currently back in my craftroom - YEAH!

Not doing that much but starting to sort out stuff that has just been dumped over the last few weeks.

It means I am finding NEW STUFF

soooo I have to play with it as I find it, right!

That's how this card for Unstampabelle's latest challenge 

Challenge #99: 

 Creative Souls or Being Creative with a TWIST to CASE Someone Else's work

came into being

I have been looking at a lot of different blogs too lately - procrastination probably

looking rather than doing......

but it means I have found people whose work I really like

such as this blog by Lynette

My Stamping Addiction

and while I have not exactly CASed a card of hers, I have used her CAS section to good effect

to inspire me to make this!

I used dimensionals to lift the flowers - hope this does not take me away from CAS

 This is what I used to  make it:

Stencil by TH; printed cut outs; scissors to cut them out; pens to w/c them; sponges to sponge ink

(I used Balmy Blue by SU) ; dimensionals; sticky notes to mask.........

The flower's are coloured with the w/c pens from Uniquely Creative

onto a printed w/c sheet of flower and leaf outlines

Although this only costs $2 I forgot to photocopy it first before beginning

 to fill it in, so will have to  purchase another one or two!

The sentiment is on vellum and then sticky tape

It came from a small booklet I got at Joanns in Denver, USA 15 years ago!!!

I can still remember the shiver I got going into that shop - 

the first time I have seen a craft store like that!

I masked off a triangle and then sponged in some ink circles onto the background mount

Just for interest

Hope you like all this!

You have three weeks left to enter the latest challenge at 

Unstampabelles!

Being a bit Arty for Bizzy Bec

Hello Peeps

I hope you are all virus free and hunkered down in the craft space creating up a storm. I am trying to get back into the swing of things after being denied access for so long but it is taking longer than I thought for my mojo to return!

However, I did some painting and made a card for 

 Bizzy Bec's April Challenge

Recently I got some watercolour pen's from an Australian Company call Uniquely Creative, and I decided to see if they could be used for more than just colouring in small images of flowers and such. I wanted to paint a w/c scene and I used a photo taken by my friend Glenda of a local beach.

I discovered that they are not good for this type of freehand drawing - or probably, they are not good for me. 

I taped down the w/c paper and wet it before starting to apply the pens but it ran and they did not work nicely together at all for colour. I think if I have applied them to a pallette first I might have achieved something more appealing but I did get a small painting and so used it to create a card. 

I did this by first stamping over the painting with my Darkroom Door Frame Stamp - Splattered.

I used Versafine Black ink for this and had to add black pen in places as it did not take totally.

I mounted it onto a green card and then added a strip of embossed Kraft.

Behind it I put a bright blue piece of card (SU Pacific Point) on which I had stamped using the 

Sentiment Stamp - Make Art and the V/mark ink. 

As usual my mounting is not straight!

A bit of fun 

I did this for Bizzy Bec's April Challenge

The challenge is as always - 'Anything Goes'

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!

While my w/c painting is a bit shite, I enjoyed just playing and then putting this together.

You have a month to play along - over Easter!

With all this Social Distancing we are doing, you need something to entertain yourself

apart from eating all that chocolate

!

April Challenge at A Place to Start!

Hello Peeps!

Hope that nasty virus is staying right away from you and your friends and family!

We are doing OK here in little Tassie - there are benefits in being an island!

We have a moat!

At the moment our drawbridge is up!

However,my craft room is not banned just yet as long as I am only in it with myself, 

the cat and my Hubby!

So I have been crafting things....

Here I have my April DT piece for 

A Place to Start

Spring/Easter with a ribbon or a bow 

I did both!

This months challenge is sponsored by

Stampers Delights

so there will be some lovely goodies as prizes!

I used a digi from them called 'Fruity Baby'

There are a few of them - mine has an Easter Egg.

She was so cute I just used her as is and printed her off slightly larger then normal 

so she filled the card space.

I used SU Whipser White and then coloured her with Copic pens

This meant that there was a bit of bleeding - I normally used Xpress Blending card but had run out

However, it wasn't too bad. 

I mounted it onto some Crushed Curry card and my folded card is Pacific Blue

The ribbon is also SU Crushed Curry

I used an old SU Easter stamp for the sentiment, trimmed and mounted on the yellow card

before placing it on the card.

I added some blue bling and some Kiddy Glitz for sparkle

This sentiment goes with the Easter lamb from a few years ago

I drew around some false stitching with a fine black pen to create a border

Then the ribbon with a small bow at the base. 

Hope you like her

You have a month to enter

A Place to Start

Don't forget to enter or to

Wash Your Hands!