Hey everyone! This is the DT crew taking over the blog today because we have a very special birthday surprise hop to share with you in honor of our DT leader Merry! Today is her birthday and we would love it if you would be so kind to send her some birthday greetings/wishes and you can also pop over to each of the DT members blogs to see their special message and/or creation for Merry! The links to our individual blogs are located on the left hand side of this page and all you have to do is click on our names! There is no specific order just start clicking and have fun!
Hard to believe but we are halfway through our Easter challenge here at Unstampabelles. Members of the Design Team have put together some new creations to inspire you.
First off we have Annmaree with this pretty card. Annmaree has used her Cricut to cut the image and sentiment on her card.
Next we have JanR who shows you how easy it is to add those extra folds which will give you a bonus entry into our challenge. This is a side step card which JanR has used such beautiful patterned papers and few embellishments.
Just to show that even the Design Team members are moved out of their comfort zone. Monica has created her first ever Easel card just for this challenge. Can you believe that sentiment is Monica's own beautiful handwriting.
This has been handcut and adhered together with silicone glue. The sentiment is computer generated.
Now it's time for you to dig out all those Easter embellishments you have hidden away and create a papercraft creation. Remember our biggest challenge ..... No stamps - rubber or digital to be used.
You can link your project up here and also see all the other amazing entries we have already this month.
Another month is upon us. Thanks to everyone who entered our February challenge with their inspiring recycling and frugal papercraft projects. It was wonderful to see too, that a couple of people put Susan's wonderful paper bead tutorial to good use. I really liked the variety of ways these beads were used on your creations. i.e. create a discus (flower) design, handle for oven, edge a box....all terrific. It was also great to see the array of papercraft projects this month scrapbooking, boxes and flowers.
Our Design Team Favourite for the month of February is...........drum roll please.......
Michelle created this awesome scrapbook page of her son at Little 'A's.
Michelle was being very frugal and using up her scraps of patterned paper to create this dazzling design on her page. Michelle even took up the challenge of adding paper beads to her scrap page.
Visit Michelle's blog Ultimate Whirligig for more info of this very colourful page.
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Now the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize from Cardmaking Onlinefor challenge #8 is:
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Prize pack for March
Time now to share the wonderful creations that the ladies from the Design Team have come up with.
Remember to click on the photos to be whisked off to their blogs to find out more details on how they created their project.
First off this month is our Guest Designer Hannelie.
Hannelie was part of the DT call a couple of months ago. All the runners up were offered a Guest Design spot.
Double step card. Cardstock from Blue Edge Crafts includes - Bazzill, Bazzill Two Scoops, Linen Textured cardstock. Merry has also used Spellbinders from Blue Edge Crafts. Spellbinder Circle die was used for the basket....circle cut in half and the base trimmed although you can't see it. Eggs were created with Spellbinder Oval Classic die.
Has used textured white card stock and have made the bunny with her Cuttlebug round nesties, Mc Gill label punch and Carla craft punch.
The details of how to make this bunny can be found here...
The DP is a free-bie from Card Making and Paper Craft magazine.
For the inners of the bunny's ears, Monica cut the same oval punch into two and shaped it a bit with scissors.
The bunny has been sponged with TH distressed ink - Spun Sugar. The paws have been coloured in with colouring pencils. Monica stuck googly eyes and some ribbon on the bunny.
The lace border on top and picket fence are Martha Stewart punches. The eggs were sent to Monica by a dear friend.
The tiny pink flowers on the bunny's ears and the border have been cut out of a ribbon. The pink ribbon at the bottom is from her stash.
Susan used her Spellbinders Egg die and then embossed with several different embossing folders. The flags are from the Spellbinders Pennants die, which she inked before removing the die. The pebble letters are stick-ons. Susan stitched the white background onto the Pool Party background, then stitched some orange bag nylon onto the card to form the nest!
Beth has used Bazzil basics cardstock, Tim Coffey 6 x 6 DSP, Stampin Up punches and a Kaiser Circle punch. Each piece of the bunny is indivdually cut, inked, shaped then constructed. The sentiment is computer generated. The Card is a Buckle card (tutorial here at Craftmad) in that the tab on the right hand side goes behind the circle topper into a slot.
Inside of card.
Now it is your turn to share your creation.
This challenge closes Friday, 30th March (Aussie Time) and winner announced Monday, 2nd April.
