Last Week for Unstampabelles in September

 Hello Peeps!

This is the last five days of the Unstampabelles September challenge - Greetings and Salutations and I made a card for the DT. A Christmas card! My first for 2021. 

Spring had arrived the day I made this - there was sun, rain, wind, snow and more sun all day. Ignoring the weeds - this is the first of the orchids blooming in the space outside the workshop door....I have about 25 pots of orchids and about 12 spikes at this stage. I must feed them before they all bloom!

this challenge requires a background stencil, so I got out the old pizza box I use for sprays and began with some TH stencils and sprays. I used SU Whisper White card for this.

Red and green seemed appropriate for Christmas.......after I set the box up to eliminate spray drift on the desk using waste paper

I decided it needed a golden touch so went to Dylusions Yellow too

Because there is a lot of spray on the top of the stencils, rather than just mop it up with paper towel, I used a piece of w/c paper to soak up as much as possible to be used later in a project, then used the paper towel to mop up the rest.

I was left with these two and chose the rhs one for the card - trimming it up left me with some nice bits for later work. 

This green spotted card has been laying on the desk for nearly a year - finally used it.

The greeting is embossed on SU Whisper White and a sponge with red ink lightly applied across the top

I think it is very vintage - maybe the 60's?

A bit of gold thread, some mounting and bling finished it off.

You have five days left to enter!

Unstampbelles newest Challenge : Salutations and Greetings with a TWIST of stencilled background

 Hi Peeps - welcome to week 2 over at Unstampabelles where the current September Challenge is 

Salutations and Greetings TWIST stencils in background

I made a couple of cards with one idea I had

I used some Paper Rose stencils I have and the ink is Stampin' Ups latest in-colours

I used sponges to apply the ink through the stencils onto some white card

(SU Whisper White)

I love how you can get depth into areas by applying more ink and it gives s 3 dimentional look

When I was happy with the result, I cut the pieces to size and made a card with each one.....

I love the backgrounds this created

A Kaiser topper and I cut the candles out of scrap card, adding the flames with some smooch paint (red)

Plus bling!

My COVID card went to family in Canberra and was a great hit.

The sentiments come from Uniquely Creative

I fussy cut those Covid germs and my hands knew it for at least 24 hours.......

The wonkiness of the background goes well with the theme

Lets see how you approach the theme and TWIST for the Unstampabelles Challenge!

Need for a Thank You Card or Two

 I need to send out a few thank you cards and so I made a couple of small ones to slip in with some photographs as a Thank You to various people. 

I used a Die-Namics die set by MFT called In Focus Floral Frames which I had gotten from Bizzy Becs a few weeks ago and they subsequently had been buried under a whole pile of papers until recently!

What a lovely find!

I die cut out all four in white card and mounted them onto various circles of scrap DSP floating on my desk. The cards are made from leftover white card and are all 4 x 4 cms, folded.

This size is useful as it can be a gift card or just a small card to tuck into something and I am planning on printing off some photo's and sending them to people with the card as a Thank You for attending my party last month.

I stamped each with the Thank You stamp from SU's new Nature's Harvest Set

In retrospect I should have dropped them down lower on the cards to allow more room for the circles. I had to trim several to make them fit better.

I added a bit of bling to each as well.

The gold one has a shimmer going on but is missed in these shots

All different but the same......

Bizzy Bec no longer has this die set on her site but if you tell her the name she can order it in for you asap - takes about four weeks to arrive.