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. 

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