Are you a Winner?

Well, we are all winners really, aren't we? I guess I meant are you the random number winner for September for this challenge? If your name is Alise  then you are!!!

6 Scrap and C

The DT Favorite for September is 

20 Leanne at LeeArts

We have an encouragement award as well 

No 1 Aurora
 

So much concentrated effort shown in the making!

October is moving along fast - and you have three weeks left to complete your project and enter it for the current challenge #73

Tic Tac Toe 

TWIST journal about the decision making process

There is a prize on offer

You an go HERE for more details and to enter

The DT have some other bits of inspiration for you to draw on

CG - String, Brad, Stickers

Susan: Flowers, Diecuts, Stickers

Enough inspiration? No. You want another photo?

A gorgeous female pink robin in the snow on kunanyi/Mt Wellington thanks to Photography By Nikki Long who says:

The little female Pink Robin 💕 They are so tiny and sweet and this one has just a tinge of pink on her chest which does happen from time to time with females. And bless her for landing in some snow for me. She was a fair distance away but kept still long enough for me to get a shot. 

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Final Post for Challenge #72

Helloo Peeps, especially new Peeps and there are a few new ones lately!

We hope you are all well, happy and crafting up a storm! 

There is a final week to go for Challenge #72

The theme is sets of three

The TWIST is to use cardboard

There is a prize on offer for a random number draw but

 you will not get a chance to win that 

unless you enter and 

your entry has 

NO STAMPS PLEASE.

Prize

The Design Team has a last hurrah to give you something to think on

Vicki

Susan

Now, you can go 

HERE

and link up!

Week Three for Unstampabelles:

Hello Peeps - another week of world uncertainty! Hope all you who were stressed over flooding and windy days are now OK or on the road to recovery and that all the nasty extremes of climate change have dissipated around you for the moment! Beautiful autumn is arriving for those of you who live on the top part of this big blue ball we all inhabit; while it is spring for the rest of us!

That mean's it has been mighty cold lately! And snowy! With a bit of a frosty morning thrown in. Oh, and overcast - however, we have had lot's of Aurora's too - know by the northerners as the Northern Lights! We call her (yes, she is female) Aurora or The Lady. If you want to get up in the middle of the night in the cold and follow her siren call, you can get some amazing photo's. Me, I prefer my bed and then drool over the work of others!

The historical Ross Bridge… like you’ve never seen her before thanks to Scott Wilmot Bennett who says:

Just after midnight all the warring elements seemed to align. The wind dropped, the clouds started to clear, the moonlight, the fog and even the bridge spotlight, yielded to Aurora's mighty light.

I have taken a photo of a playpus in this river just under the left side of the bridge on cold winter's day a few years ago. This township is about 1.5 hours away from us in what is know as the midlands of Tasmania. It is bypassed by the highway, so you have to deliberately mean to go there and when you do the bridge is a hidden gem.  Can you see the stars shining through as well?

There are some stars on my DT as well!
They have some more inspiration for you for the current challenge

The theme is sets of three

The TWIST is to use cardboard

There is a prize on offer for a random number draw but

 you will not get a chance to win that 

unless you enter and 

your entry has NO STAMPS PLEASE.

Prize

So, here is the inspiration:

Wynn

Susan

Dale

While thinking of the Design Team, a shout-out to one of ours Shylaa who is currently experiencing medical problems and is in hospital for a while. Get better quicker and keep well, Shylaa - we are all sending positive thoughts your way. Hope you can play with a bit of crafting to keep you from going bonkers in there! Colouring-in is a great calming activity!

You can go HERE to enter your work Peeps.

Winners for August and latest challenge!

Hello Peeps!

Today, I have to announce the random winner for August's challenge - and to tell you who the DT voted for as Favorite(s)......yes, too many to pick between this time!

Therefore, Judy from Judy W Blog, who surprisingly also won the random number prize, was a DT pick - I think it that cheeky smile that did it for us all!

Congratulations on the prize and DT pick Judy

However, two other's were also nominated for the DT Favorite and rather than split them (impossible and they were in no particular order) I decided to go with both of them as well:

5 Scrap and C

So ingenious

and 

6 Vicki R

So pretty

These pieces showcase show one can use the paper arts without using a stamp to create a beautiful project and have fun along the way. I love my stamps and play with them often but this challenge blog is all about not using them and finding a way to make something attractive without resorting to a stamp of any kind, including digital.

Congratulations creative people!

Judy also managed to get a request for a Guest Designer piece to me in time for this post!

It is based on Father's Day which was just last week here in Australia - that is fast scrapping!

Guest Designer - Judy

Her newest work.....

Hi, I am so honoured to be asked to be a guest designer for Unstampabelles this month.  Although I do make cards for friends and family, scrapbooking is my passion at the moment. I also enjoy many other crafts including sewing and embroidery and find that I can often combine these crafts. I live in tropical north Queensland and now that I have retired I spend quite a lot of time travelling (but always with some crafty project keep me busy) .

I loved this challenge and really enjoyed finding ways to incorporate scraps of cardboard to include on my layout - the photo is mounted on biscuit box cardboard and the corrugated card is from a packing box. I have used lots of “3”s in my layout - stars, pennants, tags and paper strips behind the photo!

Another stunning piece of crafting without using a stamp!

As you can work out from Judy's words above, the challenge is 

#72: Sets of Three

TWIST use cardboard

Don't like me become obsessed with using cardboard and 

forget that the challenge is really about sets of three!

I saw you could make this basket from a toilet roll on Pinterest so had a go - 

then didn't know what to do with it so used some of my new pixie powders and water on it (after I made it!!!!) and then filled it with flowers.....

Susan

There are more details on my blog

CG

The cactus pot & flowers were die-cut from the cardboard front of a package of Tim Holtz paper.

Hope this gives you some inspiration to go off and create!

You can enter it HERE

and have the rest of the month to do so!

Challenge #72: Sets of Three TWIST use cardboard

Time for the September Challenge!

We switched into Spring on the 1st September, and we had a lovely day 

but the night sky was the best!

Franklin last night (1st Sept) thanks to Julien Johnston from Mojoh Photography who says:

Boy the Lady Wowed us last night !

This was taken at Franklin on the Huon River and I lived at the next township (Castle Forbes Bay) for quite a few years - or my parents did  and I occasionally lobbed in - but I cannot say I ever saw an aurora while there - perhaps I had my head in the pillow!

Anyway, the weather has decided to bring all four seasons now and lots of wind 

so we can say Spring has arrived!

On to the challenge:

#72: Sets of Three

TWIST use cardboard

Sets of three please the eye apparently so when designing and adding embellishments, remembering to work in odd numbers and in particularly, sets of three enhances your work. It is a rule to abide by until you get to a stage when breaking it works better - I am far off that stage!

Now, you can either use three different papers, or embellies or three of an embellishment or three of something......really, it is your interpretation but if you break out of the design one, please plead your case in your blog explanation as it makes it easier for us to decide if it fits the theme.

Now, the word cardboard has different meanings in the craft world depending where you come from. In the USA, chipboard is mostly cardboard while in Australia it can be cardboard or wood. We are looking for the more malleable, softer card-board rather than a solid wood or softer thick card. It is used to make food boxes and so you can repurpose or re-cycle or you can use a chipboard embellishment if it is cut from a thick card. 

You could go to this length:

or this:

or even this:

Pinterest has wayyyyyy too many ideas.............for using chipboard BUT where is the theme of three?

Remember, the theme is sets of three

The TWIST is to use the cardboard

There is a prize on offer for a random number draw and you will not get a chance to win that unless you enter and your entry has NO STAMPS PLEASE.

Prize

The DT has a bit of inspiration for you to draw on:

Wynn

Susan

You can follow the links to the blogs and find out more!

Then come back and link your entry!

Remember, NO STAMPS PLEASE

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