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

Thanks is such a simple word!

Thanks to the Firies and all the work they have been doing for the last three months. Thanks to the people who gave up their Christmas and New Year to help others. Thanks to all Volunteers everywhere. Thanks to the Armed Forces for being there too now and helping. Thanks to the ones out there trying to save our beautiful wildlife. Thanks to the ones at home caring for the sick animals and babies animals. Thanks too to all the Nurses and Paramedics and Doctors for going above and beyond day after day.

There is so much to be thankful for at the moment.

Thankful Tassie is being spared most of the heat and wind and fires

although as I key up this post the air outside is overcast with smoke

blown in from over Bass Strait and from local fires.

We need a good shower of rain to wash the sky clear again.

If it wasn't 30 degrees C outside I would think it looked like a cold winter's day.

So, I made a Thanks card

It is for Bizzy Bec's January Challenge - Anything goes!

I chose to work in the colours of a summer rain storm

Hopefully we will see one or two of them this year.

I was half way through when I realised I need to take photo's!

This is when I was making a flower 

You can see the sheet the flowers were die cut from 

I had fun playing with powdered inks and water sprays to create this sheet and my flower has a beautiful sheen on it as a result. 

I started with these three for the base card

I added in the Prussian Blue for the flower sheet

You can see the base card above, with a die cut - it is a sheet of w/c card cold pressed

My flower was also give some foliage using SU Blueberry Bushel card

Once I had all the bits I put it together. 

The SU BB card went behind the die cut and the flower was then added, with it's foliage

Plus some bling!

I then added this topper to a blank card

I used

Spellbinders  Shapeabilities Die D-Lites Blooms Three (S2-046)

for the flowers

Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Alterations Mixed Media 2 (661185)

for background swirls

Watercolour card

White card blank

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Leafy branch 2 (1315);

Pair of leaves 1 (1314)

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder: Rich Gold; Peppermint; Teal Wash

Brusho's Prussian Blue

Bling

You have a month to enter Bizzy Bec's challenge

Anything Goes!

Last Week for Challenge at Unstampabelles for 2019

Merry Christmas Peeps!

Keep safe, keep cool (or warm) and keep ploughing on!

We are travelling well in Tasmania atm as the temp is only around the early 20's with some days getting to close to 30.  We have had minimal fires as well although it has been very windy.

Two day's to go until Christmas Day!

However, there is still time for you to make something for the 

current Challenge #96 at Unstampabelles

You have until Friday the 27th at midnight.

I needed another tag or three, and made this one up using a die from 

 Papertrey ink die set

Bethlehem Die

(contains three scene dies)

I used DP left over from Christmas cards; circle dies, ribbon from SU; and scraps of card

from the stash.

There is gold mirror card behind the stars and gold Stickles inside the biggest star

Some layered die cuts and a bit of white card behind it all for strength and so I can write on it.

I made another style for Bizzy Bec a few days ago (last post before this) and stamped that, but of course, no stamps for Unstampabelles. 

Cheers, and have a lovely day with family and friends on Christmas Day!

Bizzy Bec's December Challenge - second post

Hi to all my Peeps!

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

This is the time of the year you are scrambling for tags for all those parcels. 

I know I am - so......

.....I made myself some using a Papertrey ink die set

Bethlehem Die

(contains three scene dies)

I used a circle die to make the big base (using left over DP from Stampin' Up)

 I didn't cut all round - leaving a small piece to form the top of an ornament

I cut a second piece at the same time in white card

I glued them together, with the gold string between the two pieces

I could use this then as a tag or as a tree ornament

I stamped the second die cut with black ink  using a sentiment from an old

freebie stamp set from a magazine I got back in 2017 - it was chosen for the size of the sentiment and that it fit the scene.

I used three dies to create the scene, cutting the first two in white card
and the last in white sparkly card!

Papertrey Ink Dies - Scene It: Bethlehem Die

Circle dies for base  lots of different ones available, try these

Bling and string from my stash

I used papers from my stash to complete the tag 

plus the sentiment is from a freebie set in a magazine. 

I cut a circle of gold card and glued it behind the first white one so the stars showed up.

I layered the three layers with dimensionals so they sat up from each other.

They are really quick to make once the pieces are all die cut - you can assembly make them easily.

Now, I got these and another set (Skyscapes) from Bec, ordered in September,

but I know they took a while to come.

They no longer appear on Bec's website but I am sure she will order them in for you.

Have a peaceful life before and after Christmas and enjoy the day with family and friends!