Challenge#118: To the most Wonderful Time of the Year with a TWIST of KIS

  #118: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!  

TWIST:  Keep it simple please

Yes, it is that time of the year again - Christmas!

I cannot believe (truly, this time) that another year has flown bye.... and we are well into the month already. There are officially 19 days to go until the big red jolly man climbs down the chimney (sounds a bit creepy, doesn't it) and delivers presents under the tree. 

But only if you have been good all year!

Dale as usual has produced a fabulous piece to start us off so what can you come up with to fit this theme?  The TWIST is to keep it all simple - and when making Christmas cards that is what I know I try to do. Remember, it can be anything that is paper based except for using stamps. NO STAMPS PLEASE.

Oh, and sorry for the ear worm with the theme

Dale

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#117 Colour My World November Challenge

 Hello Peeps

Welcome to November

The challenge this month is.......

#117: November: Colour my World 

TWIST: make it colourful

This is quite an open theme - it can be about someone colouring your world, or about something colourful in your world or about colour -what is your favorite?

My favorite colour would have to be green but red is a close one behind: then I think I like all the other colours equally but I sure do like a world in colour rather than black and white or worse, multiple shades of grey

What is your favorite?

Remember, your entry can be anything paper related but cannot have a stamp - people sometimes think sentiment stamps don't count but they do......NO STAMPS at all please.

Dale created a beautiful pair of cards for this month's theme and TWIST

Dale

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October's Challenge: #116: Every One has a Story....TWIST: use a book page somewhere in piece

 

Hello Peeps!

October has snuck up and so we have a new challenge

#116: Everyone has a Story                     

TWIST: use a page from a book somewhere in your piece

This challenge is quite open to interpretation - it can be about birthdays, adventures, events or even a 'just because' or perhaps even a sympathy card. You can make a scrap page or pages, a journal page or a card, or make a 3D object that reflects a story. Just remember, no stamps please and if you want to be in the running for DT favourite or the $15 random number draw you should also have a go at the twist.

My story this week - we had to get a new printer (old one was 10 + years and just refused to work)

This is Bingo while I was setting it up and putting it through the test print....

Always have to have an office manager......

Hope you are having a safe and happy time and that there is a positive story going on for you....

Dale opens the DT inspiration each month and does not disappoint yet again

Dale

What are you going to do for this challenge?

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Challenge #115: Salutations and Greetings TWIST stencils in background

 

September's Challenge is : Salutations and Greetings 

TWIST stencils in background

Hello Peeps!

Welcome to another challenge here at Unstampabelles. This month it is a bit open to interpretation and will suit all mediums. You can either make your greeting the centre of your piece or refer to different greetings in different languages perhaps, or create a piece that is all greetings, or just greet someone,  or.......or......or do whatever comes to mind to suit the theme - just remember, no stamps please. 

The TWIST of a stencilled background is to get you using those stencils laying around in some form or other - or you can make your own stencil and use that to create a background. The background can be in chalk, paint, ink, whatever (might draw the line at blood and other bodily fluids)  but we must see the stencilling clearly to make sure it is not a stamp. Some stencils and stamps look so alike. 

A 3D object made from card that has been stencilled or a scrapbook page or a journal piece....or a card! Whatever direction your creative juices can take you with this is fine. 

Dale introduces her piece to you as inspiration - a scrap page......and its a beauty! Subtle stencilling behind the image makes the photo grounded in the page. 

Dale

What can you come up with I wonder?

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August Challenge#114: It's All About Me! Twist is to use a self portrait

Hello Peeps!

Well, its August already and time for a new challenge, but first a check in to the state of Tasmania!

We are only a small island off the bottom of the Australian mainland BUT
this is where Ariane Titmus grew up!

Who is she?

She has just won a few medals at the Olympics and they are all the colours - Gold, Silver and bronze!

We are all so proud of her.

Not only that but we are COVID FREE at the moment and able to move around freely

Soooo,

As this month is my birthday as well,  I made it 

ALL ABOUT ME!

with the TWIST of  using a self portrait
BUT the portrait does not have to be a photo!

What can you make of that?

Remember, it an be a card, a tag, a scrap page, a journal page or a 3D paper thingy!

BUT no stamps please!

Dale made a scrap page to inspire you!

Dale

 

You have a month to get and idea and enter it 

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Challenge #113; Art and all that Jazz TWIST is make it multi media

 

Hi Peeps,

Welcome to July!

The challenge this month is quite open to interpretation

It is called

Art and all that Jazz   

The TWIST is to make it a multi media piece of work

mul·ti·me·di·a

(mŭl′tē-mē′dē-ə, -tī-)

The combined use of media

OR

Of or relating to the combined use of several media: a multimedia installation at the art gallery.

Now, techniquely  any piece of multi media is ART so the twist is done along with the theme! However, you can create with whatever art you are into: music, painting, carving, writing, drawing, making stuff................the art of craft........... as long as you don't use stamps and it is paper craft related.......

PS: You don't have to incorporate jazz into it either but if you want to....let it rip!

You have four weeks to apply your brain to the task and create something to enter.....              

Here are some idea's to get you started

Dale

I created a canvas

Susan

 I coloured in and played with new stuff....

(I did not draw this girl)

Let's get started!

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May's Challenge: #111 Adventures with a TWIST of use something three times

Hello Peeps

Hope you are travelling well and enjoying life. At least hope that you are safe and well. Can you believe it is May already?

We have an new challenge for you:

#111: ADVENTURES - TWIST use something three times

The adventure can be one you are having or someone else has had or will be having.....

it is up to you to interpret the theme!

Repetition is the key - three buttons; one word - repeated there times;

three different papers or ribbons or die cuts.....whatever is in threes.

We have some excellent inspiration for you

Remember, you can do anything that is paper craft related BUT NO STAMPS!

Dale

Let us see what you create for this one!!!

It can be any adventure of course.........

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April - Challenge#110:Animal Fun TWIST layer it up!

 

Hello Peeps!

Happy Easter for all those who follow this path!
For those who just like the chocolate, Happy Easter!

Can you believe it is April already?

Challenge #110: Animal Fun!

TWIST: Layer it Up!

Any animal you use - human or non-human - will fit this one

Plus it is around Easter so you can use the rabbits and chicks and ducklings to your harts content!

Just Remember please: NO STAMPS!

Dale is holding the fort here (again)

LOVE her cute cat!

You can scrap a page, make a card, do a journal page, a piece of multi-media or
 a three dimensional piece. Just try and stick to the theme (Animals) and maybe have a go at the

TWIST -  Layers

to be in the chance to win the prize of 

$15 Aust

paid to your Paypal account or as a Gift Voucher

(Amazon are being dodgy lately so prefer not to use them)

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March Challenge#109 Lockdown TWIST: Scrap It!

Welcome to March, Peeps!

Hope all is going well with you and yours and that you are keeping away from the worst of the weather and that nasty virus!

I have had a helper lately..........

Mr Weasley is still not happy and is being mean!

Well, March is here and we have a new challenge

 Challenge#109  Lockdown 

TWIST: Scrap It! 

(but card/journalling will be accepted if you follow the theme--of using scraps--if you don't create a scrap page)

You can  let your hair down here and show us what is happening at home while in lockdown!

We have some inspiration to help

Susan: 

Dale

What did you do in 2020?

PLEASE NOTE: THE THEME FOR THE MONTH IS 

LOCKDOWN!

The TWIST is to scrap it or scraps

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February Challenge #108: Anything Goes!

 Hello Peeps - Welcome back!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope your 2021 is going much better than the last

Get that jab!

A breathtaking sunrise over Wineglass Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula from the summit of Mt Amos thanks to Luke Tscharke from 

Beauty of Tasmania

 

We have had a hectic start so this month is 

ANYTHING GOES

Wynn

Dale

If I have time I will add something else later....

However, this is why I have been soooo busy

Day 3 of Bingo with us

He is 8 weeks old here - Weasley is not impressed

Day 14

Nearly Best Buds!

Bingo was nearly Harry but he had been called Bingo from 1 day old so 

we kept it for him. He is just so energetic and such a play mate for my beautiful big ginger boy!

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December is Here! Yah! New challenge #107: Joy, with a Twist of music!

 Hello fellow crafters!

Hope you are all well and staying away from that crazy Covid until the needle is ready 
and keep on crafting away!

We are supposed to be in summer but in Tasmania it is snowy and raining and 

windy and bloody cold! I have the heater running - amazing!

However, by midweek they are telling us it will be back up into the 20's again....

Want to see a spectacular walk here in Tassie?

https://www.facebook.com/510433652440037/videos/1155420361574420

Now you know why I live here and love it so much

December's new challenge is simply 

JOY

with the TWIST being a musical one!

Joy is defines as : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : DELIGHT; the expression or exhibition of such emotion : GAIETY: a state of happiness or felicity : BLISS: a source or cause of delight

It does not have to be a Christmas card but it might well be one - or a tag or a scrap page, 

or a 3D item or even a bit of multi-media!

        The Design Team are all over this one!

  

Wynn

Dale

I have made a fancy fold card.

Susan

Mine is all about recycling last years cards....

Gift card

What are you going to show us?

You have a month to decide and enter, so let's get going.....

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November Challenge#106: Believe with the TWIST of Unusual Fold

Well, it is November already! The Challenge this month is 

Believe

What does that word mean?   To have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something or someone, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so. 

Can be in a person or a myth or fairy tale.........or yourself.

                    TWIST : use an unusual fold 

Wynn has made an intriguing fold here. 

I will need to go to her blog to see how it is done!

Wynn

Now both the samples today have the word 'believe' in the text but it is not necessary as long as the  theme of 'believe' is clear in the scrap page, tag, card or whatever you make

You must follow the theme but the TWIST is up to you........

Susan

(sorry, only an ordinary fold on this one)

My first Christmas card for 2020

Let us see what you can create with the theme of 'BELIEVE'!

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October starts and so does Challenge#105: Inspire with the TWIST of thank you

 Hi Peeps

Time for a new challenge and we have the idea to inspire!

How did you start out in the world of crafting?

Who were your inspirations in the early days?

Let's say THANK YOU to them (the TWIST is to say this) 

by making either a CARD or a TAG!

The Design Team have turned out trumps again......

Wynn

Dale

A tag on a card. Inspired by my Mum who introduced me to crafting at a young age.

Susan

All the women who played with Clean and Simple in the 2000's 

Got me started and interested in card making.....

There is a prize for the random draw so the more often you enter the better

chance you have - but not more than four times please (one a week)

There is also the DT Favorite award (no prize)

Remember: NO STAMPS PLEASE. 

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Week One for September Challenge#104: Phoenix (rising from the ashes) TWIST use an embossing folder

 Well Hello peeps!

Welcome to the first Monday in September! I hope you are all doing well and keeping clear of that nasty old virus. It is Springtime here and we are enjoying sunshine and warmth as well as winds and snow. We are feeling hopeful though - and our island has no COVID19. we feel like we are coming out of adversity ....a bit like the Pheonix really, rising from the fire and ashes. 

'Golden Hour' over the Southwest National Park , Tasmania
Thanks to Benjamin Alldridge.
www.instagram.com/benjaminalldridge
https://benjaminalldridge.com/

You know, I set these challenges back in January - well before we had heard of the pandemic and each month the challenge titles seem more prophetic. There is a lot of hardship out there and a lot of people suffering but I know from history that we will rise again from this. We don't know in what shape or condition but we will be OK in the end. 

So, let's see what you can produce with a theme of rising from adversity like a phoenix and don't forget to use the TWIST of an embossing folder somewhere in your work.

There is the normal prize available 

$15 Aust

You have four weeks to entr

Here are two of the DT's Inspiration Pieces

Wynn

Dale

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August Already! Challenge#103:

Hello Peeps!

Sick of all the bad news? So are we!

This month the challenge is to only celebrate

Good News 

It can be any form of Congratulations  - a clear scan; a pregnancy confirmed; a new baby; 

an engagement; an educational achievement; a new job.........

                TWIST  

you must make your own background

How is that!

Prize is as usual - $15 Aust

for Random Number Draw

Here are the first of the Design Teams take on the theme:

Wynn

Dale

Susan

Love the backgrounds the team has come up with!

Remember - NO STAMPS

You have a month to enter

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