Inspire and Thanks for Unstampabelles Final Week Challenge#105

 Hello Peeps......not the best of times but lets not think about that this week and concentrate on remembering who inspired you to start crafting. My Mother was a great knitter and she crocheted and sewed. I did embroidery for a while and knitted but I got drawn to Scrapbooking and as most of you know, I ended up in the rabbit hole of Papercrafting. 

I have lots of people who inspired me in those early days but many of them have left the blog world and returned to life. Some are still around but I cannot remember everybody's names now and I don't want to miss anyone out. 

My team inspire me too - the Belles at Unstampabelles. They rise to the occasion so often and come up with amazing stuff. So, for the Unstampabelle's team.....a tag......

Come Fly with me........

I started with a tag that came with stamps from KaiserCraft

and painted it white with heavy white gesso

I have some wooden letters so spelled out INSPIRE. I was going to paint them too 

but decided to leave them their natural colour.

When the gesso was dry (overnight) I used watercolour paint to scribble some bars of colour down the tag in pastel shades and then glued on the letters

These rub-on booklets came from Joann's in USA (Denver) and that was over 14 years ago - I know because my grandson was 5 months old when I saw him there and he turns 15 next month!

Nothing feels so good as using up old stash!

You can see stickers too - same deal.

The thanks is a sticker

Then I added stuff to the front and turned it over to discover I had not painted the back!

I cut some card and fitted it to the back

-useful to write a note there.....

I used TH stickers to make a story for my birdcage and bird

and added some bling!

There you have it!

You have a week to enter and remember.... NO STAMPS!

Tags for Bizzy Bec's new Challenge

Hi Everyone.

Over at Bizzy Bec's is the start of the new October challenge

Everything Goes

There are some digi stamps on offer as a prize - from Bec herself!

They are gorgeous!

I repurposed two clothing tags for this challenge

Firstly I painted them white with heavy Gesso on both sides

I then scraped of some paint to take this shot so you can see the raw label underneath

because I am not very organised these days!

I repainted it.

I am also not very patient so I used the heat gun to dry them off and the paint 

bubbled a bit but I like this so didn't panic!

Then I used a lot of black ink and some stamps from Dark Room Door

to grunge them up a bit - details on these below

Bec sells DRD stamps and stuff!

Where the bubbles were the ink stuck to the raise bits well and mde for more texture.

The ribbon came with the tags - I just replace it.

Great tags for the male presents

Some paper word chips too from my stash

Darkroom Door: Border Stamps - Abstract08

Stamps set - Wild Africa 3

Stamp Set - Steampunk Inchies 

Various TH inks

White Gesso

Word chips from my stash

Repurposed clothing labels

 

Unstampabelles' October Challenge#105: Inspire

 Hello Peeps!

The newest challenge at Unstampabelles is 

Inspire!

The TWIST this month is to make a THANK YOU CARD/TAG

We all have people who have inspired us and it is time to acknowledge who they are
by making a thank you card or tag for them and mentioning who they are and why this is for them

It may be a generic or specific thing - that is a special person or a group of people or a thought

of a group or people  - and the card/tag can be used for someone else.

I made a card

I love it because I used up washi tape, and an old rub-on I purchased in the USA nearly 15 years ago!

I love the CAS - clean and simple - look but am not very good at it as I keep adding and

 smudging and stuff. Even this card has an error on it if you look carefully.....

Four tapes, one rubon, one wooden chip and one die cut and done!

Love it!

It is pouring outside today so I tried to photograph this on the stairs

hampered by the help of Mr Weasley......

You have four weeks to enter this challenge......

Stamping Bella Stamps from Bizzy Bec's

 Hello Peeps.....

Keeping safe? Good. Hunker down there and craft up a frenzy! That's what I say! Not always what I do but definitely what I say should be happening!  We are well into Spring on our little island and atm we have no COVID19 with us here. They are talking about bubbles and opening up borders soon so who is to say what is going to come but today we are safe and able to live a pretty normal life.

Some of you don't know that I very strangely and madly took on another on-line Uni course - Diploma of Dementia - and am currently knee deep in my first two units. Stretching my brain but also my time: it is making me even more untidy with my punctuality and fitting stuff in........

Still, maybe by the time I leave this place I will have managed to have organized myself so that I am always on time and completely reliable! Pigs of course might also be flying in the skies above.......

Today I am showing you a card I made for Bizzy Bec's DT

(I am a farm girl at heart)

September Challenge

Always Anything Goes

I used w/c paper to stamp on and then after colouring up the images, I 

fussy cut them out and put them to white card on dimensionals

I layered up the card before putting it on the blank

The stamp sets are from Stamping Bella

Stamping Bella - the Oddball Collection - Farm Animals Set eb969
Stamping Bella  - Sentiment Set - Down on the Farm eb948
Watercolour Card Stock
W/C pencils or pens

My background was made using Jane Davenport paints - the ladybug dotters

Also the w/c I painted with came from these

If you "dot" them onto glass and spray them with water, you can then use them as paint as well

with a paint brush - I have all the dotters but not all of them are in this photo.

I used some of white and black pens also to highlight

You could use any w/c medium you have or use the inks and water as well

or your Copic pens or Zigmarkers

Any medium would work to colour up these colourful characters. 

You have to the end of September to enter Bec's challenge. 

There is always a prize on offer

Challenge#104 at Unstampabelles: the Phoenix

 Hi Peeps....today it is time for the third week of the challenge at Unstampabelles to begin.  I made another card for a woman - someone who has faced uncertainty and made it through the hard times. 

RECIPE:

Take one embossing folder, three die cut feathers and one quote printed off the computer

To the sheet of quote, add various inks (I smeared my small inks over the top - 

it is a bit too dark but I wanted the sense of fire).

Emboss a sheet of card (colour choice is yours: mine is SU Misty Moonlight)

This folder is Culture Creations - Vintage Plumes

(It has a feathery look and also created movement)

The feathers were die cut from three different scraps (silver, gold and grey

Add bling

Mount the piece on suitable card

(SU Bumblebee and Real Red)

So, that's it. 

You have two weeks left to enter.

A Phoenix from the Ashes!

 Hi Peeps

Over at Unstampabelles the second week of the current challenge has just begun

The theme is The Phoenix or Rising Above (adversity or trouble)

I made a card to give to a female friend who has had a bad year but is surviving....
I took a sheet of w/c paper and halved it
It is cold pressed so has a bit of tooth but is not very rough.

I started by using my newly acquired dot daubers from Jane Davenport
I saw someone painting with these and followed the idea
Just dab them onto my glass and spray with water and then use  paintbrush to apply

I had drawn an outline with pencil and using that I added some w/c paints 

I managed to get a big blob of red as well - of ink so it would not spread but I am ignoring it!

Then I used my fine line pen (after drying the sheet a bit) to put the black lines in

I added the sentiment to a sheet of scrap and painted it as well before

cutting it up and adding black ink on the edges.

When it was stuck down, I wrote the name of the person the quote is supposed to belong to....

...and some bling.

I forgot to do the twist but my w/c paper is textured......does that count?

A bookmark to mark September!

 Hello Peeps

I have a bookmark to share with you - made with Darkroom Door Stamps (the old ones) 

 and it is for the DT at Bizzy Bec's September challenge - 

Always Anything Goes

My stamp set  is Book Worm DDRS 139 

The card is scraps of Stampin' Up card and 

old Designer papers

This was using up stuff I have on my desk, trying to clear up a space 

Sometimes you want a big book mark 

This one is a tag rather than a bookmark but it works well

The book is a great read too if you haven't come across it yet

Set in Tasmania, with all the places I know and characters

 I can relate to - a political romance thriller. 

Fits nicely in the book

The sentiment is quite prophetic lately......

You have a month to enter the challenge at Bizzy Bec's!

Last Week of Unstampabelles Challenge#103

Cradle Mountain Lodge (Cradle Mountain, TAS, Australia)

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One word...... SNOW!

(Pic via Jacque Beven Photography)

It's the end of winter here and we are having a cold front go through - it has been raining and cold all week but enough sun to make it feel very Spring like!

As this is the last week of the challenge over at Unstampabelles and I have been seeing some wonderful entries over there, especially of art journal pages, I decided to have a go with my art journal and also at the same time try out some new bits I recently got from Jane Davenport for journalling.

As I was trying out new paints and a new technique, this is a CASed piece. However, I cannot remember whose work it was and I didn't take a note so if it is yours, please let me know so I can credit the right person with it. Mine is not exactly the same but it is quite like it.

The challenge is 

Good News

and the TWIST was to make your own background

I started with a photograph image from a magazine

and just cut out the face to use

My journal has several pages where I have being playing with a gel plate 

and cleaning off rollers and I chose this one because of the colours.

This became my homemade background

The paints I used,apart from Modge Podge to glue down the face and glasses, 

were the Jane Davenport bits I have accumulated.

This is all the paint I used and not all of that!

The sunglasses were from google images and printed off and then cut out

 and stuck with Modge Podge.

I hand drew the arrows - initially I was going to cut them out of paper but I didn't like the 

result so threw them away and hand drew the arrows. 

The saying is exactly from the one I copied.

It is good news in this time of pandemic

We need to believe in ourselves a little more in this time of isolation.......

Many of you have commented on the fact that your mojo is hiding away atm

So is mine but by forcing myself to make this I enjoyed a good period of time when I did

not think of the trouble this world is in and just concentrated on making something creative. 

It was fun!

Why not have a go at an art journalling page?

Nothing is wrong and if you don't like it you just paint over it with some black gesso!

See you over at Unstampabelles!

Awesome News! Challenge#103 at Unstampabelles

The current challenge theme at Unstampabelles is all about 

GOOD NEWS

and the TWIST for the challenge is to make your own background

I made another card this time

It's been a busy week really - Hubby had a stint in hospital with pneumonia and then there are al the follow up appointments and checks and stuff....

It gets a bit hard to fit everything in.

BUT.....

the good news is that he is doing OK!

There are many times when we hear good news but don't acknowledge it in any way except perhaps verbally to someone. To have a card to send or pass on acknowledging that the recipient is to be congratulated for this piece of news is a positive thing - the person has it to hold onto and perhaps display over time. 

My background was to create a quilted patchwork sheet

I started by selecting some papers that went together - these have a slightly male look to them I think.

I cut them into squares - mine are about 3.2 cm square

I placed them onto  the card in a pleasing pattern and then glued them into place, trimming the edges to create a card front.

This was the result

Then I used an embossing folder--this is the argyle pattern one from Stampin' Up.

You can see the pattern on the back of the sheet and then below on the front - 

it is quite subtle.

Then I just added the sentiment and mounted thefront piece onto a card blank.

The second half of my sentiment was computer generated. 

I should have possible used blue ink rather than black

It looks fresh and clean

What are you going to create here?

The theme is GOOD NEWS and that can be general or specific, right?

You have three weeks left to enter at Unstampabelles.

Welcome Little Joe Joe!

Hi folks

Hope all are keeping well and no one is testing positive!

This month over at Unstampabelles there is a new challenge 

Good News

with a TWIST of making your own backgrounds

I have a new Great Great Nephew - Joe - born about 12 days ago in Brisbane.

He has had some health issues but the good news is he is a bonny little scrapper 

and he is currently doing well.

He was born with a full head of black straight hair!

This card is for him.......

My background in this piece is the embossed card as the base  to be mounted on the card

I used some pieces from an older Kaiser kit and the blue stars are from my stash and are quite old!

The embossing folder I used is one from SU - I thought it had a bit of a masculine look

I added a yellow doily for contrast and interest

You have four weeks to enter this challenge