Week 3 of Challenge #95 at Unstampabelles

Paradise Pretties and Tropical Delights  

TWIST  Into the Wild

I made a tag for this week....

It is quite a big tag made with scrap white cardboard from packaging and cut to size

The front is about a standard Aust card size plus the top

I started with some tropical flowers from a Prima wooden flowers set I have had for ages

Opened it especially!

The I went to my Embossing Powder stash and located all the bright EP's I had

I havent used anything but black,white and clear for sooooo long....

After I juiced up the Versamark I added powder and heat set them 

I now have EP all over the desk and floor and cat!

He was not impressed - hiding in the only spot of sunlight now....

get outa my face Hooman....

 I tried an arrangement for a card front but decided I would then do a tag

I added some extra jungle leaves (Christmas tree boughs, actually) behind to give the impression of a wild and overgrown jungle garden....

Once I was convinced that they would look OK en mass like this I began to glue things down

I created my tag and stuck down the background papers - from a freebie in a magazine

I used glue dots to anchor the fronds in a circle and then 

added several more fronds into the middle as well later.

Once I was happy with that I added it to with a pen and some sparkles and then a sentiment

This one comes from an SU die set and I used Tombow to glue it down

I also swiped some yellow ink around the edges - in this case Hello Honey from SU

I scribbled around the edge with a fine black pen too

The ribbon comes from some flowers I got several months ago and was just the 

correct colour for this

I wrote a big To and From on the back 

There is plenty of room for a message also

I had fun with an old technique, got to use up a bit of stash and added to my big tag collection

People really like the tags rather than a card sometimes

(If you add a piece of plain paper to the back and write on that, 

it can be removed and they can recycle if they want to another person.)

You have two week to go

Hope all is well in your part of the crafting world

I know that many are suffering under floods and fire atm

Soooo sad and too sad for me to discuss this week. 

Take care, 

Susan

Creativity IS FUN!

Hello Peeps

You may have noticed that I did not have a DT piece in this week for Unstampabelles.  I was busy on Saturday at a Craft class with the fabulous Sue Symthe and this sort of fell over into Sunday for me as well as I was making up for lost time at home and with hubby! So, while I did make something, I didn't make it for Unstampabelles this particular week.

What did I make?

Well, I made several things.....I will show you some

Last month I went to Paperific in Melbourne and made a tag with Sue in a class

It is a Unicorn Tag

She provided everything there - tag and ribbons and wings and jewels and paints and potions.

There is texture paste and stencil work, painting of chipboard and gluing down, adding waxes and layers - i.e. the purple behind the unicorn is material - and the unicorn is an eraser purchased at a $2 shop apparently!

There is lots of glitter, gold bits and jewels on this and lots of Gel Medium and gold waxes

I had trouble photographing it - mainly because of the weather (it was raining here) 

so used the spiral stairs - or tried to use it.....

Weasley thought he should be part of it all too!

Izz did not knock one of the houses down Human - must been somfing else did it.....Izz was just

sittin' here mindin'  meez own business.........

I tried outside later and got this one...

However, on Saturday we first decorated a glasses case

It is amazing what black Gesso and tissue paper can create!

The back or bottom of the case

Then we went on to decorate the cover of a small notebook

It is the white rabbit from Alice

Sue made the rabbit in white plaster using a mold and we painted it with black gesso and then other colours were added with waxes and gilts and paints

The background was torn playing cards and lots of Gel Medium plus Black Gesso

The texture is amazing in the end.

It is all held on with Matt Medium and Dimensional (or in my case Crystal Effects)

The back is very grungy and the spine is just black jewels glued on and then painted!

It was so much fun!!!

In Melbourne last month I went to another class as well and made an album

from a paper bag!

This is the finished outside on that day

The spine is a very interesting collection of white folder strips of paper, blued together to form a spine - the papers are then attached to this! 

The album used old DP and a few bits and pieces of of ephemera 

We did quickly paint the inside of the bag with a very thin white gesso

You could do the same to the outside or make the gesso thicker

We didn't have much time to wait for things to dry

The album pages varied in size

...and kind...

The inside back page - not the bag bottom is under there

You could add as many  pages as you wished - I think there are about 16 in this one.

I didn't like it that much to start with but it has grown on me since making it....

Happy crafting!!!

New challenge at Unstampabelles #95: Paradise Pretties

The TWIST for this month is

Into the Wild

Hello Peeps

I decided that Paradise Pretties 

means something Tropical!

This meant the challenge this month at 

Unstampabelles

was easy to do - all I had to do was locate some of the stuff I have been gathering all year 

containing flamingos, big leaves, frangipanni and such...

I gathered up some materials to begin....

Being a little wild was more difficult......

After some consideration I decided that just being Tropical in not-so-sunny Tasmania

at the moment was wild enough!

We are experiencing all four seasons in one day at present and currently it is about 18, raining and grey.

Earlier it was about 20, sunny and blue!

Then I found some background papers....this looked like water to me......

Putting it together was the easy part.

Some diecuts from d'Lish (I will miss her eclectic packages)

Some buttons from same and a sentiment

plus the obligatory (for this one) flamingo....

Cheers,

You have 26 days to enter...

Midway through the October Challenge for Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps!

The challenge at Unstampabelles this month is to make something

to say Thanks or Thank you or Thankful

The TWIST is to use blue in your project

There is NO specification of how much blue though.....

Under the pump as always, I wanted to make something quick and simple

I started by getting my finger dirty........

I grabbed a scrap of white (SU WW) card and then started rubbing the wax onto it

I LOVE these waxes - they're so creamy and full of colour and a beautiful shimmer

The top one is  Old Denim and this one is called Blue Lagoon

They were both buffed with a tissue

I added a bit of the darker one onto the lighter one in one corner too to have a meld occuring

I then punched out three circles using an OLD SU punch that is still going strong!

I die cut the word from the lighter sheet as well

The foliage die is called Fresh Foliage by Memory Box

 and I used gold mirror card for that

I played with my photoshop program and got a few different hues and tints going

for the shots as well as being in several places outside in the overcast light

I could have done this with sparkling card or plain coloured card

but the wax gave me such a sumptuous, rich look.

You can see the shimmer happening in the first photo of the post.

I wanted the recipient to really feel thanked!

So, simple and elegant card

What is your contribution going to entail in this month's

Unstampabelles!

Remember - there is a prize for random number draw. 

Kisses and Cuddles for Bizzy Bec.....

Hello Peeps

Sneeking in with a post for Bizzy Bec

Using a stamp from Penny Black called 

Loveable

I needed a card for a Baby Shower.

I had an order in with Bec and it arrived today - funny story....

I knew that I had ordered this stamp but when I went looking in my stash, I could not find it.....

perhaps because I had not yet received it!

I had also got a "Just Add Card" embellishment kit 

so used it with the stamp to make the card. 

Saves putting it away, hey!

Stamped and coloured it in with w/c pencils and a brush

Added some papers, and embellies from the pack as they came to hand.......

Love the words with the set - it also has a cute hedgehog!

How was it made?

A Cardmaking kit full of embellies

from the Just Add Card kits

I used a few on here, including ribbon, die cuts and bling!

Also the Penny Black stamp - Loveable 30-529

(If it is not there, ask Bec about ordering it)

There is a die set that goes with it - 51-491

I used a Coulture Creations Rectangle Die set

and a Snap Dragon set of Rectangle dies. 

Bec does not carry either of these brands BUT 

there are many other rectangle dies that she does stock - check them out!

Cheers, 

Thank You in Blue - Week 2 at Unstampabelles

Hi Peeps - hope all is going well with you and yours!

Spring is here in Tassie

This is from my garden today

I love rhodies - don't you?

Today I have a tag to share for the DT at Unstampabelles

I took this print from my Gelli Plate last week using blue acrylic paint and a stencil called 

Teen Face by Scrap FX

This was my second print  and it was onto white printer paper. 

My first I did in my journal - it didn't come out as clear but is pretty good. 

Before I remembered to take photo's I had begun to draw in the eyes and mouth

 and colour in the face using a variety of pens at hand

Once I decided on a tag, I added some wide double sided tape to the back of the paper and then 

attached it to the tag, cutting off the excess

I remembered I had Gelato Crayons so found them an began to use a bit of colour on hair and face and top and bottom of paper. 

 A close up of the face...

I added some washi tape by Jane Davenport and hand wrote on the plain one

Some ribbon in the tag and it was done!

What are you going to do for this challenge?

Unstampabelles

Thankful in Blue.....for Unstampbelles

Hi Peeps: well, it is Challenge #94 over at Unstampabelles for the month of October and the challenge is

Well, Thank You 

TWIST Brilliant in Blue

I have on offer today a journal page - it is the second one I have completed in my new 

Jane Davenport Journal

I used Dylusion Paints, TH inks, a black and a white Posca pen and my new gelli plate

along with a Scrap FX face stencil and various other stencils in my stash for texture

I am new to mono printing and had so much fun pulling off these prints

Next time I might be brave enough to do them directly into my journal rather than onto printer paper!

I have some other ones - the ghost print and the first print - so expect to see them soon!

I did add some colour to her face with the Scribble Sticks

Can you see the stencil in the top photo in the left top side?

I had used the left over paint to smear onto the page prior to pasting the gelli image - I had wiped it up with a baby wipe so just used that to transfer some blue colour to the page by smearing it on.

Then I played around with yet more stencils and TH inks

I got a quote from the internet and printed it out on computer paper, 

cut it up and used it on the page too.

I outlined each piece with black pen

While I was working the weather outside was beautiful - a true blue spring day

and this quote just seemed so right

I added the rays of the sun to reflect the day.

The last two photo's were taken outside in the bright light of the late afternoon.

You can see a gelli plate final image on the lh page - the paint had pretty much all transferred by then but I had one more go with getting it onto the page. 

I will add others onto it - probably stamp into it as well

(Horrors! Stamps!)

I am please with my page - number 2 in my journal

and it didn't use any stamps on this one!

I have watched so many video's lately on journalling and gelli plate printing

AND I ordered more acrylic paints!

Shh - don't tell on me....nowhere to store them atm!!!

You can go over to Unstampabelles and see the linky party ready to be used

 and the other work from the DT girls!

See you there!

A Christmas Edge

Hello Peeps:

 A card for October's challenge at Bizzy Becs. 

I used a new Creative Expressions Paper Cuts Die called 

Holly Berry Edger ( CEDPC1049)

It makes making all those Christmas card easy-peasy. 

The sentiment is a Creative Expressions Festive Mini Expressions - Christmas Wishes 

(CEDME036)

Some Christmas DP and gold mirror card behind it

The DP was also die cut using a square die

Plus of course the obligatory sparkle bling!

The dies cuts were using red sparkly card for that extra festive feel

If Bec does not have these in store, 

ask for them by number  and name and she will get them for you.

It's Anything Goes at the challenge at Bizzy Becs this month!