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. 

Bizzy Bec's March Challenge

Hello Peeps

I have made a card for this monthly challenge at Bizzy Bec's, which is usually "Anything Goes"!

While laying on my couch last week I got a parcel from Bizzy Bec's place, with my latest order and in it were two stencils from Taylored Expressions. I had just seen the Exotic Leaves being used on Pinterest somewhere, and had been intrigued by the way it was used - so I stole the idea (or C'ased it).

Unfortunately I cannot find it again and so cannot attribute the original artist. If it is you please let me know. I used it because I could continue to lay on the couch and with minimum effort make this card with the stash I had available on the side table!

I used the following items: 

Taylored Expressions Stencil - Exotic Leaves

Tim Holtz Inks - three greens

Sponges

Scraps from my working desk

SU card - Poppy Parade and poppy die cut

Sentiment from SU

Can you see the complete leaf on the top right side?

Once I had created the background on Whisper White card, using all three inks, 

starting with the lightest and randomly sponging through the stencil, 

I repeated this using just one ink - the brightest green - on just that one leaf (twice).

Then I fussy cut out the two leaves. 

The circle was scrap

The sparkly square was a leftover from another project last year

The red flowers were from a pack of die cuts from SU

I just layered them up with dimensionals as it suited me.

Bizzy Bec's Challenge is open all March

The winner of the challenge will receive:

5 Digital Stamps of your choice

Kindly donated from Bizzy Becs Online Store- a fabulous range of Various Stamps, Dies and Embellishments for all your crafty needs, wants. and must haves!

March challenge at A Place to Start

Hello Peeps- long time mo contact!

That's because I fell over and broke my fibula near the ankle - a subtle fracture they tell me but it hurt at the time! My right leg is encased in a moon boot and I have to have it up quite a bit so I have been tied to the couch for about 3 weeks upstairs away from my stash!

However, I have escaped! Briefly. I have managed to get down the spiral stairs and gather up enough stash to make some things. In addition, laying on my back with my legs up has meant too much time scrolling through on-line stores and too many parcels arriving at the door! So, I might have a few new toys to play with as well that haven't made it downstairs yet......

A Place to Start 

This month, we have an 
"Unconventional Materials" challenge 

for those who want to stretch their creativity!  

In other words use a household item in your crafting to embellish your work!

I didn't quite know what to use but while writing out the shopping list this morning ..... eureka!

You can see what are the important purchases!

Also working out the housekeeping for the fortnight.....

Coffee is so expensive!

He buys the alcohol - thems the rules.

Here is the shopping pad on the fridge ready to someone to write down 

the items needed at the next shop

Here is me working at my 'desk' on the couch, foot in air!

Went with second try...

There are two Darkroom Door stamps (delivered this morning) in this

The strip scribble on the left edge

The sentiment - stamped twice - once with Poppy Parade and then with Memento Black just touched to the stamp for a grungy look

My wonderful woman is from Viva Les Vegas Stamps

They arrived in January but I had not had time to ink them apart from when I put them in the boxes

The sequins are SU sequins from the Poppy Suite

Black and red and orange ones

Old Olive ink used on strip down the side.

I just folded some black card to make the base

and stuck the shopping list to it. 

Done. 

Please enter the challenge at 

A Place to Start

You have four weeks to do so. 

I will enter this at the following challenges:

2 Sisters on the blog: stripes and/or dots. I have those!

A Perfect Time to Craft: Anything Goes - it is a perfect time atm!

Corrosive Challenge: Anything Goes

Week 2 at Unstampabelles!

Hello Peeps!

I have a quick card for you today

to help you make a project for 

Unstampabelles

which is have a new Challenge#97 (first for 2020)

Who Am I?

It must be positive!

The TWIST is to use bright colours!

I make a lot of mistakes

I am quite messy

I am always in a hurry to complete something

I used my SU chalk pen but it didn't give a bright white that I wanted onthis

So I applied my newly acquired Copic White ink

It  comes in a small bottle like nail polish with a brush attached to the lid.

I like the shadowed effect I ended up with!

The sentiment is handwritten.

You have three weeks to enter the challenge at 

Unstampabelles

A Little Birdie......for Bizzy Bec's new challenge

Hello Peeps - welcome to February!

So glad to see you all....

I was sorting out my stamps the other day

 (as one does when nothing else will come that is creative) and found

I have a lot of Dark Room Door Stamps; but they are either older ones or 

random ones from their $50 packs.

I found I had three repeat stamps (unused) 

You are One in a Melon - sentiment and image

a book pile from Book Worm set

A sentiment regarding women and teabags.......

(Happy to pass them on for the cost of postage plus $5Aust each - 

just email me suhoganatgmaildotcom with address and Paypal access)

I have now stamped onto a cover sheet and inserted it into the box so 

I can see at a glance what is there....

I decided to use the frame stamp for a card 

Darkroom Door - Framed Stamp: Mixed Boxes

for Bizzy Bec's latest challenge

which is always 

"Anything Goes"

I wanted to block in some colour, so I stamped the frames onto white card and 

then used the same ink to stamp onto a post-it note.

I carefully cut out the squares by hand

This gadget fits over my middle finger and makes cutting easy

Once I removed the pieces, I placed it over my stamped image

Being a post-it, it stayed in place but I did carefully hold it which working next

Using my applicator, I rubbed some Oxide ink in graduation colours onto the shapes

Then I stamped some images I have from the set 

Darkroom Door - Stamp Set: Love Birds

I don't have this set - just some pieces from it

I found some old stash (remember this?) and matched it with another TH ink pad

Then I didn't take another photo until I had completed the card

I realized I needed the orange stuff to hide a mistake - can you see it?

An easy card to send to a friend when you just want to say hello

or when you are concerned/happy/inquisitive......

I used my newly acquired Copic white ink to whiten up the eggs and the birds eye

You can see the error a bit better here......upside down acrobatic bird.......

I wrote in this blog that I had some old DRD sets in tins 

and a comment was made about the tins....

Here they are.

So - I used the following to complete this card

Darkroom Door - Framed Stamp: Mixed Boxes

Darkroom Door - Stamp Set: Love Birds

Ranger TH Distress Oxides inks

ripe persimmon, fossilized amber, wild honey, crushed olive

Card by Stampin' Up 

Other - from my stash

Don’t forget to play along in our current challenge.

 The theme is always 'Anything Goes' 

and you could win five digis of your choice.  

For more inspiration follow us over at Instagram at BizzyBec3

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

Thanks Mate

The February challenge at A Place to Start is now open.

It is to make a masculine card or project.

Most of you will know by now that we have had a horror few months

here in Australia with 'unprecedented' bush fires.

In fact, they are still occurring.

While there are professional fire fighters in the cities, the country areas across this nation are 

serviced by small, remote and  mostly under-resourced VOLUNTEER groups.

Many of these men and women have been fighting fires for over three months now.

They have lost wages and precious family time.

To date, we have lost nine lives among this group of fire fighters this time, 

three of them being Canadian/American professional pilots helping out

in a helicopter crash just last week.

They are Hero's all.

I know that many, many women are part of these teams; however, mostly they are men so I made this card as a masculine card but the sentiment applies to all members of the Rural Fire Brigades and the people helping them.

I used a stamp set I purchased from Paper Rose for the boots  'Work Boots' and the sentiment 'thanks'

The Seriously comes from another stamp set by IO Dude

The background is created with Ranger Dylusions paints - I made it a few months ago for another 

project and this is the left over piece. 

I chose it because it looks like a fire in the background.

I added the diecut of gum leaves by Uniquely Creative, cut from a scrap of green card, to represent the unburned Eucalyptus saved by the Firies.

The boots were stamped with Ranger Archieval black ink and coloured with my Copics.

The image was mounted onto black card and then onto a white folded card.

I ruled a thin black line around the border and added some small bits to that. 

Your masculine card or project does not have to be as somber as this one.

You have a month to enter this challenge at 

A Place to Start 

Oooops - wrong start time!

Sorry - I posted three days too early, confusing my DT date with Publishing date.

See you then!

Wild Things at Bizzy Bec's

Hello Peeps......

Today is the day I present again for Bizzy Bec's Blog

Who doesn't love Darkroom Door?

I made this card for my eldest's brother's birthday 

He turned 83 yesterday - he laughed when he got it.

I have some DRD stamps that are sooooo old they are presented in tins!

BUT I also have some newer ones and intend to get newer ones again in the next month or so
I love their Quote Stamps - but I love most of their stamps, so.....

The sentiment I used today is not new

but I now that they have four fabulous new ones out this month and I will be getting at least one!

Things used to make this card:

Darkroom Door Quote Stamp

Memory Box dies - 

Versa Fine Pigment Ink black

Small smiling hippo = I found this in my Darkroom Door stamp boxes

but not sure if it is from DRD: however,  it is so cute and it is smiling......

Coloured with Prisma Coloured pens

Card used is by Stampin' Up

Why not to Bizzy Becs and enter the competition

"ANYTHING GOES" 

The winner of the challenge will receive:

5 Digital Stamps of your choice

Kindly donated from Bizzy Becs Online Store 

- a fabulous range of Various Stamps, Dies and Embellishments 

for all your crafty needs, wants and must haves!

Happy 2020! May we all get 20:20 vision in this year before it is too late!

What a week!

Well, what a few months really but the last week was such a terrible time for so many.

My heart is bleeding for those who have lost loved ones, homes and animals 

in the country I love so much.

It is also so sore dealing with the loss of so much wildlife especially the now endangered koala.

Please keep safe Peeps.

🖌: @kassiisaac

We are currently safe and cool and look like remaining so for a while. 

The 30th Dec. was not so good - temperatures here in Hobart got to 41 degrees

I was hosting a birthday party for my husband - boy was it hot!

Now we are into January 2020

A New Year - so, new beginnings!

I am happy to announce that I am on a new Design Team

A Place to Start

The January challenge is:

Anything Goes 

with Optional Twist: CAS

This challenge is being sponsored by Bugaboo

It's a long time since I used one of their gorgeous and quirky digi stamps

but they are still of great quality and price!

This one is called 

Cat Love

Of course, I went to Word and using Insert, put the image onto a blank sheet 

and make it the size I wanted to play with by enlarging it a little

Once I had the printed off image, I used a die from Memory Box to create a

sentiment across the top.

I also cut a piece of SU Bermuda Bay card to fit behind the sentiment.

Once this was done I joined the two together with some double sided tape

Next, I added colour using my trusted Copic pens.

They are all there - I only used 6!

Next I stamped using Archieval Black ink and a sentiment stamp

from Stampin' Up - new from this year's Sale-A-Bration (starting February) Sending You Thoughts.

I then added the topper to a blank card, leaving a white margin

Well - simple, CAS I hope and fun to make!

(My cat currently has a sore tail - how funny is that!)

You have the rest of the month to have a go and enter this challenge

See you there!

A Place to Start

I will enter this in the following challenges:

2 crafty critter Crazies: have a critter (Jan challenge)

Southern Girls: Anything Goes

Crafty Catz: Anything Goes with a Twist of having an animal