I am so sorry....for some reason I am a week ahead of myself . I gave the wrong closing date for the current Unstampabelles challenge #10 in the post below (Monica's Inspiration) but have since corrected this.
The closing date is Friday 4th of May. Sorry for any confusion.
27 April 2012
Inspiration from Monica
Hi everyone, just one last piece of inspiration for this challenge (Enter here).
Plenty of time left to create a papercraft using the colours of your country's flag.
Closes Friday 4th May
Monica, has done done just that here. Monica is from Indonesia and the flag colours are red and white.
Isn't the texture of this card just wonderful. Find out more details about this card in Monica's post here.
Thanks to everyone who has entered we have people from Austraila, UK, USA, Finland, and Germany.
You can find all the other entries here more amazing inspiration. These people show how easy it can be.
17 April 2012
Inspiration Time for Challenge #10
Time for a little more inspiration from the 'Belles' at Unstampabelles.
This challenge seems to be proving a little difficult for everyone. Those that have taken the challenge and entered are in for good odds of winning our wonderful prize from Sticker Store. Thanks for having a go and entering.
Our first 'Belle' is Beth who has Corner Wave card using the colours of her Australian flag and even the flag appears. Each of the waves have been raised to give a 3D effect.
Next 'Belle' JanR shows how to use the Canadian Flag colours here and also a card that is not a square or rectangle as this gives the entrant a bonus entry.
JanR has used mists, masks and rub-ons to create this terrific card.
A touch of another colour is permitted in this challenge as long as the majority of your card shows your country's flag colours.
Third we have "Belle' Merry who as stitched this cute little basket to create a little 'Thank You' notelet.
The card is the white scalloped edged circle....the blue was used as the background for the photo.
The sentiment is a gold sticker from the Sticker Store who is our sponsor this month.
Merry has used Red, White and Blue the colours of the Australian flag.
Be sure to click on the 'Belle's name to visit their blog and find out more about their creations.
15 April 2012
Email Entry for Challenge 10 from Loscann
This card was emailed to Merry to be entered into Challenge 10 by Loscann as she does not own a blog.
This card absolutely meets the challenge. Although this is an Union Jack card and Loscann is from Australia it fits the challenge perfectly. What we require is a papercraft creation using the colours of your country's flag. In Loscann's case Red, White and Blue.
You do not have to enter a card with a flag on it. The creation does not have to have anything to do with your country either except that it has the majority of the creation has to be the colours of your country's flag.
Be sure to give it a go....it is much easier than you think. Odds are good for winning the prize at this stage too. As I post this.....there is a one in four chance of winning. :-)
02 April 2012
Challenge #10 - Theme Colours of your Country's flag bonus technique Shaped Card not square/rectangle
April is here and this means a new challenge. Thanks to everyone for joining in our last challenge. So many beautiful Easter designs and great to see a lot of people adding those extra folds to their creations to get their bonus entries. Now the Design Team has thought long and hard and their Favourite for challenge #9 is:-
Isn't Donna's Easter basket just stunning. It has been filled with chocolate eggs of various sizes, and Lace Eggs.
To make this Easter basket Donna has used cardstock, patterned papers, punches, smallest nesting egg first on heavy acetate coloured with Tria Markers. Then poured some crystal Waco pearl maker over it to cover the whole egg and sprinkled glamour dust. Donna cut a second Lace Egg out of gold mirri card and glued one to the front and one to the back of the egg. Then attached a gold puffy bow on the front of each egg.
Please click on the photo to be taken to Donna's blog with more details and photos.
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Time for the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize from Blue Edge Crafts for challenge #9 is:
Random numbers generated Apr 1 2012 at 10:30:40 by www.psychicscience.org
Congrats Holly please email Merry and she will organise your prize.
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Challenge #10 - Use the colours of your Country's Flag
you will receive a bonus entry if your creation is not a square or rectangle.
We would like your entries to be made up of majority of your flags colours the addition of black and white is very acceptable. If your country happens to have a sporting supporters flag we are happy to see you use these colours - see our Design Team Susan's inspiration for this.
All entries are subject to the Design Teams discretion.
Any form of paper creation will be accepted as long as NO STAMPS (Digital or Rubber) have been used (this includes sentiments).
IDEAS: quilling, parchment, stickers, boxes, books, cards, scrap pages, etc
You can find our rules here for further information.
You can find our rules here for further information.
Our sponsor this month is The Sticker Store
This store was created to make it easier to track down the stickers needed for your craft projects. Sticker Store is a sister company of Blue Edge Crafts . Blue Edge Crafts have been supplying all sorts of paper craft products to the public including card making and scrapbooking accessories at very affordable prices since 2000.
When we select our products we make sure that they are of the best quality because we want to you be happy with every purchase you make.
Finally, it is now time to showcase the Design Teams wonderful and very creative paper crafts.
To start with we have a Guest Designer Kym of Kym's Crafty Cards with us this month. Kym was part of the DT call a couple of months ago. All the runners up were offered a Guest Design spot.
Kym is from the United Kingdom
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| Kym has used a great collection of dies to create this wonderful Easel Card |
JanR is from Canada
Jan has used a hint of black to make this card work which is totally acceptable in our challenge. As long as the majority of your papercraft creation represents the colours of your country's flag.
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| JanR has used cardstock, embossing and twine to create this terrific shaped card. |
Merry is from Australia
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| Merry has used Linen Textured Cardstock and Bazzill patterned paper from Blue Edge Crafts, paper flowers, bling brads from Pizzazz Aplenty. |
Monica is from Indonesia
Another first for Monica....a flowerpot card.
It is wonderful to see that we are even getting the Design Team out of their comfort zones
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| Ribbon punch - Fiskars, Flowers - made with Sizzix dies and Carla craft punches, Embossing on Pot - Cuttlebug, Gems - Prima, Ribbon - from her stash. |
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| Card is cut using Cricut and Wild Card cartridge. Sentiment is from The Sticker Store. |
Susan is from Australia
Susan has opted to use the Australian Sporting Flag which is totally allowable as this flag does represent Australia any sporting events. So you can do similar.
Annmaree is from Australia
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| Babushka shaped card using the Cricut and stickers from Sticker Store. |
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| Beth has used some terrific dies and pearl bling to create this card and a rub on sentiment. |
Cathy is from Australia
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| Blue, red & white, shaped card using a Craftrobo. |
Now it is your turn to share your creation.