Second week for Unstampabelles

The challenge this month at Unstampabelles is to

 It's all about the cake.... 

TWIST use mainly the primary colours 

(RED, YELLOW and BLUE!)

So, anything with a cake is OK for the challenge, 

and then you can see how primary you can go with your colours! 

It really is not that difficult. 

My card (again) this week is a Wedding Card, I think......or maybe a Congratulation card...

It has lots of sequins and bits and bobs from my scrap pile......

My yellow is gold (well, that's yellow)

My scraps were all red - including the bits I dyed as well with ink refills and sprays

It's a wonky cake - wouldn't want to carry it across the dance floor......

Taken out of direct sunlight....

Finally, a photograph taken from from the front/back garden - the front door is on the other side of the house but this looks out across the bay so is the front of the house....if you know what I mean...

It's only taken 15 yeas to get the arch covered. The top is a little thin still but that is because the possom's eat the new shoots off it all the time!!!

11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month.......

Playing......

Saw it in a magazine, thought "that's nice"; made it

I used my Promarkers -not that impressed -just big Texta's

Die cut is a freebie

Do love shakers.......so much fun to make.

Challenge#74 at Unstampabelles begins

....and it is ALL ABOUT CAKE!

This month I have lots of birthdays and so I have lots of cards to create along with the usual number of Christmas cards. So, when I decided to make a Christmas card with cake for this challenge.....

Mmmmm.......I'm just made that way I guess: contrary!

Still, I eat Christmas cake - don't you?

The TWIST this month is to use only the primary colours

RED, BLUE and YELLOW

Don't do what I did initially and think GREEN was one of them!!

You will probably pick my error but I did make a hasty correction.

I love a good shaker card, don't you?

Christmas cake/tree/cake???

You can go over to UNSTAMPABELLES  and see the details and entry

Nature seems to work in the primary colours too:

Red skies, blue skies and yellow crops.......

Feast your eyes on this dazzling scene of a canola field beneath an oh so pretty sunset. Cam Blake describes feeling utterly compelled to keep photographing these gorgeous fields located in Tasmania’s Midlands - Discover the Heritage Highway and how hard it was to wait for the sunset ...your patience was well worth it Cam 😍🙌
Image: www.instagram.com/camblakephotography

Crafting with Dragonflies - first November challenge

Hello Peeps - and a special hello too to the newest ones!

It is time for the challenge blog Crafting with Dragonflies to issue their new challenge and it is to

Use Your Stash with Bling!!!!

This challenge is always a card challenge unless otherwise stated.

I used only materials that were on the desk around me but I did open a new packet of bling.

I am glad when my stash is depleted somewhat - 

and I don't have to make that decision to throw or keep!

I had been pretty good and not purchased any magazines for a while but I saw this one (Papercraft UK) and had to have it as it had a lovely corner die and a cute stamp set too as give-aways.

This card is a copy of one made by Tracy Evans but there are a few changes.

I liked it because it hitched it up a few notches.

The hydrangea heads were made by repeat stamping the small flower and then fussy cutting them out

- all 20 of them!!!! I used TH inks and stamped off as well to get colour vibrations.

The stems are wire - Tracy used silver wire but I had some purple wire so used that

The flower pot was hand-drawn and then I die-cut the corner piece and glued it to the pot.

My background was Dylusions paint and it was rolled on with a small roller - lots of other pieces created as well to mop up the waste paint so look for blue backgrounds!

I added some purple bling and a purple mount.

The card is a 6 x 6 blank.

Happy Crafting!

Table Cape Tulip Farm in full bloom thanks to Nic Betts Media.

The purple are iris

www.instagram.com/nic_betts_media

Something Poetic......

At Eclectic Ellapu this month, we are giving you full rein to create as the challenge for November is

 'Anything Goes'!

My garden is currently in full bloom - it is very much a spring garden as a summer garden needs too much water and work! Here is an example of some of the flowers taken today.

Don't you love flowers!

Back to Eclectic Ellapu.....

I decided to use a small canvas ($2 shop find) which is about 4 x 2 inches.

This is because I saw a similar canvas multi-media in Craft Stamper magazine using the free stamp from that month - my canvas is bigger, the colours are different and Tracy Scott got her white to stay white but mine soaked up the spray and just went light blue!

Her canvas says "we are all a little fragile" and I think it was that that drew me to it first!

My sentiment is from a new set from stampin' Up called Here for You 

It is full of sprays and paint (Dylusions -such beautiful stuff) 

I added some gold flake and then some glitter to the centre of the flower - got it everywhere of course! Some flitter glue smooched about the canvas and along the edges allowed me to bling it up to another level - I drew the stalk and leaves, and painted them with Dylusions paint.

This stamped and Copic coloured flower head was the Freebie from Craft Stamper. 

I made it over two days to allow for drying time

I tried to photograph it in the sunlight but it was just too blingy!

You have a month to enter over at Ellectic Ellapu

Off you go!

Final October post for Unstampabelles Challenge #73

Tic Tac Toe 

TWIST journal about the decision making process

RIBBON	LACE	STRING
BUTTONS	BLING	BRADS
FLOWERS	DIE-CUTS	STICKERS

There is also a random number prize on offer:

I got stuck of the Ribbon-Lace-String line and made a card with those three things on it for the challenge. I saw something similar on Pinterest so had a go at making my take on it:

I have a number of dies and punches for hearts - this was a SU die - and I tore a page from a Mills and Boon I have especially for this sort of thing, and glued the thin paper to piece of big double sided tape (Stacy tape?)

I then sort-of pleated the lace around the edge of the heart and used lots of small bits of double sided tape to keep them in place (the sticky back of the heart also helped)

I used Helga glue to position the string around the edge

Then I got some papers from my huge box of co-ordinating papers that I thought would suit the colour of the page paper and layered it, distressing the edges and adding a bit of TH ink as well

The sentiment is die cut from a piece of scrap and the ribbon is SU ribbon wrapped around yet another piece of scrap

I also tried to make a flower with some more lace and ended up gluing the paper flower over it - I did think of adding several more buttons and making it ribbon-buttons-flowers but I couldn't find any with that aqua colour and didn't think of colouring them myself at the time!! duh

I lifted up the second heart so it hovered over the first  using dimensionals 

I could add some aqua bling too (lace-bling-diecuts) I guess but I was done!

Still in Spring here so we go from 30 to 18 within 24 hours, but there has been a few showers so the garden is happy! The photo I am sharing is of a Pelican - we often have them here all through the year now, and thy always make me say "whose beak can hold more than his belly can!" whenever I see one - one of those Dad sayings that seem to stick for ever......love his blue feet!

Pelican Pete on Duty at Binalong Bay boat ramp thanks to Ranee Lloyd from Formerly Known As Vintage.

www.instagram.com/ranee.lloyd 

https://formerlyknownasvintage.com/

Let's use a Kit

Hello Peeps - hope you are all well and fit! A few years ago I had the incredible privilege of flying to the remote south west coast of Tasmania for a few days and staying on a magnificent private motor sailer there, fishing and swimming and exploring. We were two of maybe 25 people in the area, 10 of whom were on the boat with us. We flew to and from Port Davey. Today's photograph is from the entrance of that area - Bathurst Harbour. Wild and beautiful.

The epic, incredible view of the Breaksea Islands, guarding the entrance to Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour, from a Par Avion Wilderness Tours flight.
For our tips on exploring the Southwest National Park, see:
http://hobartandbeyond.com.au/news-posts/lost-world-four-ways-explore-southwest-national-park/
Image: instagram.com/clickedbynic | clickedbynic photography

On to crafting.......

You may know that I am a Demonstrator for Stampin' Up and spend far too much money on their products (because they are so good) so when they put out some card kits a few season's ago I was curious. However, I was a bit sceptical - OK for the beginner I thought. Then they did a tin of tags for Christmas and it was so good I had to have it. The tags made up very quickly and were nearly all used up last Christmas so I got left with a cute tin (how sad is that). Put to good use now of course.

They were sooo good and quick

This last month there was a new lovely kit available and it teamed nicely with their new blender pens - yes, they have bought back the alcohol ink pens: better and same colours plus three new colourways. So of course I got it - called Colour Me Happy there is a stamp set and a kit containing all the material that you need for the making of 16 cards: 4 of each type x 4 different cards, plus their envelopes.

I made them up - all 16 - in an afternoon.

They match their envelopes in both size and colour.

Lovely bits of bling and a gold tape

Sentiment pieces were die cut ready for use once stamped

This one I will use for the latest challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies

where Hilde is asking that we use

#92: Just Designer Papers and a Sentiment - no images. 

Tic Tac Toe again!

Spring has Arrived in Tassie!

This cute little lamb at Ross is getting pretty good at this whole walking thing.

For more info, see:

http://heritagehighway.com.au/ross

Image: instagram.com/stevenbrahms

However,  this time I am thinking of Christmas (it was cold here today) and decorations and I was on Pinterest OK so I cannot be blamed for this as they just  appear on the screen and I was just tempted to make it.....

Hum hum..... as I was saying, I made a Christmas decoration today for the latest  October challenge at Unstampabelles, which is 

Tic Tac Toe 

TWIST journal about the decision making process

RIBBON	LACE	STRING
BUTTONS	BLING	BRADS
FLOWERS	DIE-CUTS	STICKERS

I went for Ribbon, Lace and String this time........

Yes, there is a prize

I started with a polystyrene ball and a ball of garden string.....oh, and some glue!

Put glue on ball, wind on string.....

Keep doing it until you get to the middle and turn ball over - keep going

Leave to dry overnight - then add a loop. The pin holds it in place. 

Meantime, pick all the glue off your fingers and fingernails......

Add a strip of lace,followed by a strip of ribbon... and then some baubles and bling!

Hung it on the lime tree

Another angle

and another (on the rhododendron this time in the sun) 

A final shot to see the bottom and sides more clearly

Cute, huh!

You have two weeks left to enter the challenge

Remember, no stamps please!

Unstampabelles