Inspire and Thanks for Unstampabelles Final Week Challenge#105

 Hello Peeps......not the best of times but lets not think about that this week and concentrate on remembering who inspired you to start crafting. My Mother was a great knitter and she crocheted and sewed. I did embroidery for a while and knitted but I got drawn to Scrapbooking and as most of you know, I ended up in the rabbit hole of Papercrafting. 

I have lots of people who inspired me in those early days but many of them have left the blog world and returned to life. Some are still around but I cannot remember everybody's names now and I don't want to miss anyone out. 

My team inspire me too - the Belles at Unstampabelles. They rise to the occasion so often and come up with amazing stuff. So, for the Unstampabelle's team.....a tag......

Come Fly with me........

I started with a tag that came with stamps from KaiserCraft

and painted it white with heavy white gesso

I have some wooden letters so spelled out INSPIRE. I was going to paint them too 

but decided to leave them their natural colour.

When the gesso was dry (overnight) I used watercolour paint to scribble some bars of colour down the tag in pastel shades and then glued on the letters

These rub-on booklets came from Joann's in USA (Denver) and that was over 14 years ago - I know because my grandson was 5 months old when I saw him there and he turns 15 next month!

Nothing feels so good as using up old stash!

You can see stickers too - same deal.

The thanks is a sticker

Then I added stuff to the front and turned it over to discover I had not painted the back!

I cut some card and fitted it to the back

-useful to write a note there.....

I used TH stickers to make a story for my birdcage and bird

and added some bling!

There you have it!

You have a week to enter and remember.... NO STAMPS!

Tags for Bizzy Bec's new Challenge

Hi Everyone.

Over at Bizzy Bec's is the start of the new October challenge

Everything Goes

There are some digi stamps on offer as a prize - from Bec herself!

They are gorgeous!

I repurposed two clothing tags for this challenge

Firstly I painted them white with heavy Gesso on both sides

I then scraped of some paint to take this shot so you can see the raw label underneath

because I am not very organised these days!

I repainted it.

I am also not very patient so I used the heat gun to dry them off and the paint 

bubbled a bit but I like this so didn't panic!

Then I used a lot of black ink and some stamps from Dark Room Door

to grunge them up a bit - details on these below

Bec sells DRD stamps and stuff!

Where the bubbles were the ink stuck to the raise bits well and mde for more texture.

The ribbon came with the tags - I just replace it.

Great tags for the male presents

Some paper word chips too from my stash

Darkroom Door: Border Stamps - Abstract08

Stamps set - Wild Africa 3

Stamp Set - Steampunk Inchies 

Various TH inks

White Gesso

Word chips from my stash

Repurposed clothing labels

 

Unstampabelles' October Challenge#105: Inspire

 Hello Peeps!

The newest challenge at Unstampabelles is 

Inspire!

The TWIST this month is to make a THANK YOU CARD/TAG

We all have people who have inspired us and it is time to acknowledge who they are
by making a thank you card or tag for them and mentioning who they are and why this is for them

It may be a generic or specific thing - that is a special person or a group of people or a thought

of a group or people  - and the card/tag can be used for someone else.

I made a card

I love it because I used up washi tape, and an old rub-on I purchased in the USA nearly 15 years ago!

I love the CAS - clean and simple - look but am not very good at it as I keep adding and

 smudging and stuff. Even this card has an error on it if you look carefully.....

Four tapes, one rubon, one wooden chip and one die cut and done!

Love it!

It is pouring outside today so I tried to photograph this on the stairs

hampered by the help of Mr Weasley......

You have four weeks to enter this challenge......