Final Week for the 100th Challenge at Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps!

Have you had a busy week? I have - it just sort crept up on me and then I was in the middle of a busy time dealing with a million things. Funny thing is I did craft too in this time - it seems the busier one becomes, the more time one has to create!

I do hope you are all well - both in body and spirit. This virus has us all in its thrall but we will overcome it eventually.  We are lucky in that we can now venture out a bit and see friends and family.

The Unstampabelles blog is running it's 100th challenge

This is the last week in May for it

If you had intended entering, now is the time.

I made another card

The photo is taken at night with the lamp light rather than a flash

so it looks off-white but rest assured I used Whisper White card

The die set from SU called Butterfly Beauty came in handy for this

The DP is out-of-date paper mounted on blue card and then a white folded card.

I cut two different die cuts and then mounted one on the other

The simple layout created a pretty card. 

We have been trying to do some general maintenance

- seven steps to be replaced

Hubby eventually has acceded that he cannot do it so we can get someone in

A funny thing - I made another card for this challenge

Then became aware that it was a blue and white TWIST!

Here is the card

Yes, it is autumn here. 

Had to make another in a hurry!

Let me see what you can make over at Unstampabelles. 

Walk on the Wild Side

Hello Peeps 

Just a quick post for Bizzy Bec's Store Blog

for her May challenge

Anything Goes!

My card this month is featuring Dark Room Door again.

My card  is a little wacky - OK wackier than ususal......

I went back to the Darkroom Door part of my collection

and had a bit of a play

Firstly I cut a circle using one of the bigger circle dies and used this as a stencil. I  laid it over my card while between the two I slid in the small stencil from DD (see below for details)

The I got out my Brusho's and others that are similar.

I lightly sprayed some water to begin with  and then

sprinkled various paints onto the wet surface.

I did lay another piece of w/c card over this and take another impression for later use

as well as rolling over some paper towel to dry it off a bit more before beginning work.

Then  I ran a fine line black pen around the edge of my circle

before undoing all the layers to revel the take.

It was a bit messier than I expected but I made do with it.

 I took the sentiment and randomly added ink using my w/c markers to the stamp.

When I assumed it was pretty well covered, I huffed on it

 and then held my breath while I stamped it.

I wanted to mimic the mess in the circle a bit.

After fussy cutting out my girl, I added her on dimensionals.

The gold banner was in my stash

Of course I had to have a supervisor when I was trying to get a good photo of it in the sunshine

Details:

Circle die was from an early Sizzix set

The circle was decorated using a Small Stencil - DDSS036 Grunge Borders

The sentiment comes from the set

DDRS167 - Wild Africa Vol 3

This was coloured with water markers

(I used SU markers but anything will do)

My girl was fussy cut from a G & T Design (NZ) 2017 Paper-Arts

The gold banner is from my stash

All card is from SU

I walked today - not too wild where I went, on the path outside the house around the waterfront.

Why not enter the May Challenge at 

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog

I am entering this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine blog:  Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments: Anything Goes + Sentiment

Southern Girls: newlink

Wings and/or Wind for Unstampabelles!

Hello Peeps 

Hope you are all travelling reasonable well in the Pandemic and keeping safe.

It is certainly cutting a swathe through the world.

I have discovered worrying about people makes you very tired. 

What have you discovered in this time?

Meanwhile it's week 3 over at Unstampabelles and I have made another card  

to get some people inspired to enter - hopefully that includes YOU!

This is the 100th Challenge for 

Unstampabelles

They have been in operation for over 11 years continuously.

There are extra prizes available for Entrants this month as a result. 

The challenge is 

Wind and/or Wings
TWIST : must be predominantly White and Blue?

Oooops - mine is a white card with a blue background

and gold elements......I think it just fits the TWIST

What do you think?

I used my Tim Holts elements to create a sentiment

I looked up quotes using Google and then found bits I could use

and just hand wrote the rest.

They were a little quiet so I went over them again with the black pen

 and now I think they are a bit too big

I started by creating an early morning sky with TH inks and sponges

I used Whisper White card for this and my sponges

Then it was a simple matter to add a small gold feather die and some sequins

s well as my quote

I tried to line them up with a ruler

but of course they don't look even now......

so, A feather drifting in the breeze represents both wings and wind........

What can you come up with?

Backgrounds for A Place to Start

Hello Peeps!

Hope you are all keeping well!
If you are stir crazy from being isolated - I feel for you
I can go out for a walk and I still feel it!

We are currently knee deep in autumn and the weather is being autumnal, of course

While our native trees are mostly not ones that loose their leaves, some of the first white settlers

did bring trees from the northern hemisphere and they do shed.

This is at a winery in the North East of the state. 

I have sat at that bench and consumed a tasting plate of local goodies with

some tasting of champagne style wines, admittedly about two years ago now......

Some bottles were purchased for home as a result!

photo taken by Murray's Day Out

http://www.murraysdayout.com.au/

Anyway - today's card was made for the Design Team at

A Place to Start

where the challenge in May is to 

create your own background (no Designer Papers)

I created my background by pressing onto the card with the small Tim Holtz ink pads

in a random pattern.

The colour palette was an influence from the weather around me I think.

I then stamped and w/c painted up this Mo's Pencil girl

before fussy cutting her out

The background is very loud but I think she just gets away with it

The sentiment is a stamp that I have in my stash but no idea where it comes from

although I found it in the box with the Darkroom Door stamps.

I am pretty sure it is not one of their's though....

This is my first attempt where I was adding some marks to it

Hated the outcome and just pulled the girl off and

did new background.  

You have a month to enter at the site of

A Place to Start

Let us see how artistic and original you can be!

Bizzy Bec's May Challenge

As always at Bizzy Bec's there is a monthly challenge 

Anything Goes

If you win you get a choice of

5 Digital Images

Kindly donated from Bizzy Becs Online Store-

with a fabulous range of Various Stamps, Dies and Embellishments for all your crafty needs and wants.

I hope you are still coping with endless time to craft and being locked in!

We can go for a walk as long as we socially distance 

The other day I went for a wander around the bay to the bridge over the creek that runs into our bay

Geilston Creek runs into what is now known as Geilston Bay

We are in Autumn and that day was beautifully autumnal

The Yacht Club is featured in the middle ground with kunanyi/Mt Wellington in the backgound

 Colonel Geils was a Governor of Tasmania at some point and had an estate here so of course it is named for him but the first peoples had another name for it, now lost in time.

Whatever the name it is a beautiful spot - 

yesterday morning there we a pod of dolphins playing in this bay.

Back to Bizzy Bec's Challenge

i went straight to my Dark Room Door Stamps and got one of the tins out

Almost an antique stamp!

I had seen a similar card made using one of the other vintage car sets DRD has

and this clever use of paint and ink over at the DRD f/b page

- so I sort of cased it!

I had a scrap of this DP left (I think it is an old SU) and I used a roller

and white acrylic paint to create a space to stamp into with black ink

You can see how well the black looks stamped onto the dry white paint

A good way to use up bright DP 

The sentiment comes from the same set

I added the sequins for a bit of male bling!

I used a Pacific Blue card mount behind the DP 

I like the contrast here.

A simple card but quite effective for a male - or a female.

Bizzy Bec has lots of goodies to purchase and she will order in stuff from USA and other places

for you at reasonable prices (especially now with postage costs). 

In addition there is a prize for the monthly winner of 5 digital images created by Bec herself.

You can see them on her website

Unstampabelles has had 100 Challenges!

Did you know that Unstampabelles has been running for 100 Challenges? 

That is 11 a year for 9 years.......how about that?

The new challenge is 

https://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.com/

I made a card - I am running low on energy atm

Wonder why?

Anyway - it was a card and I was mulling this over in my head for several days

When I came to make it - it didn't exactly turn out as I had imagined but it will do

A collection of die cuts and some blue card.......

My sun is fussy cat from a yellow doily - I used a stencil as a template......

I like the raggy rays....

The rewst is a collection of scrap card and various dies

I started with the kids and went from there

Some dimensionals helped with spacing

It is autumn here - so sunny one

minute and cloudy/raining at another time

Thiw photo was taken yesterday from the deck in the morning

It was blowing a gale and cold as but pretty!

Anyway - you can enter over at Unstampabelles and you have amonth

Lots of good prizes this month!

Being Creative for Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps - it is the last week of the challenge at Unstampabelles and I was moved to create a card by the simplicity of our individual Covid-19 inspired ANZAC Day commemoration.

Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

What does ANZAC stand for?
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.

As a result of the Covid-19 virus we were not allowed to 

have our usual public gatherings and marches

Instead we were encouraged to gather in our driveways at 6.00 am

with a candle and use our phones to broadcast the Canberra Dawn Service and follow

the minute's silence from there.......

In our suburb we had many talented musicians who chose instead to play the Last Post themselves

In our driveway we heard three trumpeters - one of them our son-in-law - from three different spots.

There were also people playing electric guitars and  wind instruments

It made the hairs on my body stand up.

I know this photo is dark - it is my hubby and candles waiting for the show to start

My photo taking skills deserted me at that time

 I lost two Great Uncles in WW1 - one at the start at Lone Pine, Gallipoli and one at the end in Possiers (he was an ambulance man)

My Dad - named James for the one killed at Gallipoli - went to the Middle East at the beginning of the 1939-1945 conflict and after two years was returning to Australia when they were diverted to Timor and captured by the Japanese. He spend the next three years plus as a POW on the Burma Railway ending at Hell Fire Pass.

He eventually came home and raised a family but died at 69 years old of the injuries he received.

He was much loved.

Here is the the result of my creative ability 

 I started by sponging ink onto the card to create a dawn sky

and a green hill

I used a variety of die cuts to create a soldier's grave and the weeds that may grow there.....

I painted my grasses in w/c paint

Starting to build it up

I used some alphabet letters and an ANZAC fundraising badge

The  poppies are hand drawn with Copics

Mounted onto a card base

I might frame this rather than use it as a card.

I know this is not a good piece of work

but I still like it

You have a week to enter your piece at Unstampabelles. 

Challenge#99: Unstampabelle's - Being Creative/Creative Souls

Over at Unstampabelle's this month the challenge currently  is

Creative Souls or Being Creative 

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

My contribution to this this week is a card - but it doesn't have to be a card: you 

can create a scrap page, an off the page, a multi media piece, a painting, a journal page, a tag.......

Before I begin, I hope all you Peeps are OK?

No nasty virus ?

Still physically isolating?

Good. 

Here is some soul food

This is the oldest stone bridge in Australia

It is at Richmond, just a stones throw from where I live

'Golden Hour' over the historic Richmond Bridge thanks to Kirsten Lenck.
You can also follow Kirsten via instagram 
www.instagram.com/tassiekirsten

Anyway - on with my card........

I am continuing to being influenced by the artist Rachel Greig

from Dark Room Door

and also feeling a bit CAS (Clean and Simple)

Using a home made stencil of a circle, I sponged some ink into the circle

onto my topper

I then sponged some ink onto scrap and then

die cut out some leaves by Elizabeth Craft called Pair of Leaves -1

I added a sticker of a butterfly and some words from Tim Holtz.

Simple but sweet

You have two weeks to enter  at 

Unstampabelles

Bees for Bizzy Bec!

Hi Peeps!

Over at Bizzy Bec's Store Blog is the

information on the monthly challenge. 

it is always Anything Goes!

Today for the blog I made two cads using the 

Dark Room Door Buzzing Bees set

I have been quite CAS lately so thee two cards are similar

I saw Rachel Greig demonstrating the idea of the circle and 

stamping into it on the DDR Facebook page and decided to use that s my starting point

I didn't have the DDR circle stencil so created one for myself in card

I then used sponges and added Tim Holtz ink to the centre of both

The card I am using is SU Whisper White normal

Iused washi tape to hold everything in place which sponging the ink into the circle

The cards are the same size and shape and the circles were in the same place initially, but the second one was turned upside down to put the circle in the bottom half and sentiment on top

This one used Wild Honey in the centre - appropriate for a bee

The flower was stamped in Pine Needles and the Bee and Sentiment in Tea Dye

The bee was stamped and fussy cut out and lifted up on dimensionals

I added some bling as well

The second one had the honey comb stamp stamped in Rusty Hinge over Dried Marigold

The bees were Tea Dye and the sentiment was the RH

Again the bling from my stash - this one was from SU

Sorry about the light - it is quite dark here this afternoon.

I do like this new set from DRD

Dark Room Door: Buzzing Bees DDDRS205

(on sale atm 10% off!)

Tim Holtz inks: lots here

White card (Bec carries Spectrum Noir)

Bling from my stash

Remember, Bec has a monthly challenge running that is

Anything Goes!

Some lovely digi images to be won in this.

Week 2 at Unstampabelles Challenge#99

Hi Peeps - please tell me you are socially isolating and washing your hands regularly!

We certainly are and so far we are doing OK

I have even been in the garden weeding and took this photo this morning....

It is a cold spell in autumn but the cacti are still handing in there!

I am also currently back in my craftroom - YEAH!

Not doing that much but starting to sort out stuff that has just been dumped over the last few weeks.

It means I am finding NEW STUFF

soooo I have to play with it as I find it, right!

That's how this card for Unstampabelle's latest challenge 

Challenge #99: 

 Creative Souls or Being Creative with a TWIST to CASE Someone Else's work

came into being

I have been looking at a lot of different blogs too lately - procrastination probably

looking rather than doing......

but it means I have found people whose work I really like

such as this blog by Lynette

My Stamping Addiction

and while I have not exactly CASed a card of hers, I have used her CAS section to good effect

to inspire me to make this!

I used dimensionals to lift the flowers - hope this does not take me away from CAS

 This is what I used to  make it:

Stencil by TH; printed cut outs; scissors to cut them out; pens to w/c them; sponges to sponge ink

(I used Balmy Blue by SU) ; dimensionals; sticky notes to mask.........

The flower's are coloured with the w/c pens from Uniquely Creative

onto a printed w/c sheet of flower and leaf outlines

Although this only costs $2 I forgot to photocopy it first before beginning

 to fill it in, so will have to  purchase another one or two!

The sentiment is on vellum and then sticky tape

It came from a small booklet I got at Joanns in Denver, USA 15 years ago!!!

I can still remember the shiver I got going into that shop - 

the first time I have seen a craft store like that!

I masked off a triangle and then sponged in some ink circles onto the background mount

Just for interest

Hope you like all this!

You have three weeks left to enter the latest challenge at 

Unstampabelles!