Sweet Inspiration from Stacie

This wonderful Softie Socks Cupcake is from Stacie.

Isn't this a great gift idea and a wonderful paper project without a stamp to be seen.

I just had to share this.  Kaye, was on our Design Team last year shared this and another two desks on her blog.  I was just amazed at all the details and thought this would certainly inspire a lot of our followers too.  Kaye found the tutorial to the desk here.

Be sure to pop over to Kaye's blog to see the other two desks.

You can find our current challenge #7 - Anything Goes here.

As I type this we have a record number 105 entries.  

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to leave a comment too...it is so nice to hear from you. 

100 Followers and one lucky winner

Woohoo!!!!  

We have made 100 followers thanks to everyone for joining up and following our monthly challenges since the start in July 2011.  The Design Team of Unstampabelles have been secretly watching the followers total creep up to 100.  We decided to put together a small prize to celebrate the occasion and send off to the lucky 100th follower......who happens to Cheryl for Cheryl's Creative Art.

Welcome to Unstampabelles Cheryl.....we hope to see many creations from you.  Here are photos of your prizes which will be jetsetting their way to you soon.

Unstampabelles Halfway Inspiration

  Above we have this wonderful sporty card from JanR.

Who has used cardstock, stickers and some paper doll-type punch outs.

Morning everyone....the Design Team have been busy coming up with more papercraft ideas without the use of one single stamp.  We hope this will inspire you all.  

All the members of the Design Team are so excited to see so many entries in our current Challenge #7 - Anything Goes.  There are so many talented people out there and it is a pleasure to visit your blogs and see what you can do with a simple piece of paper.  So keep those entries coming we currently have 82 entries it would be so exciting to reach 100.  Remember you can enter up to three times.

Now on to the rest of our Design Team creations.

This wonderful gift box is from Susan.  Who was very clever and used a Darrel Lea chocolate box she received as a template.  Susan has also made her own rose with die cut leaves.  The label was punched with an SU punch and mounted on some red card, then trimmed, a rub-on coloured up with a Copic pen. It takes several chocolates such as Fererro Rocher.  Apparently the DP is Kaiser and the rose is made with left overs after. There is a Kaiser pearl in the rose as well.

This card is from Beth and is a Pergamano Card. very apt for the current Cricket season (It's summer here in Australia)

Monica has created this beautiful purple card.  Isn't that such a clever way to use a die by weaving a mauve silk cord through a Spellbinder  nestie. Then attaching one of her home-made flowers. The "create a border punch" is from MS. Also used are DP which is unknown and feathers and ribbon. The crystal is from Prima.

This altered Address book is from Stacie.

The Design Paper she has used is just stunning and such a wonderful flower it fits the DP perfectly.

This is from me Merry.  I have created this card for my wonderful sister who has a birthday next Tuesday.  I found a tutorial for this pop up card at QBees Quest I have also cased the front of her card as I thought it was a perfect finish to the card.  I have used Stampin Up papers and cardstock.  The candles I have coloured with my Copic pens.  Added some ribbon to the front and the tag I cut out myself and added the gold rub on sentiment.

You can find Challenge #7 - Anything Goes (No Stamps - Digital or Rubber) here.

Challenge closes 3rd February

Reminder - First Rule for Unstampabelles is No Stamps

Hi everyone, I just have to remind everyone of our first and main rule of Unstampabelles.

No entries are to include stamps (rubber or digital) in their creation.

I realise this is an Anything Goes challenge but the rules still apply.

Thanks so much for your understanding and we are enjoying seeing all the wonderful paper constructions.

It is a pleasure to see how you can manipulate your images or paper.

Example the amazing punched art and quilling of Dr Sonia entry No 18.

The lovely stitching and beading of Fayerose entry No. 7

Or this fun shaped card by Loz entry No 3.

Fabulous Decoupage/3D Paper Tole like this by Kate entry No. 12 we would love to see too.

So dig out all your papers, stickers, rub-ons, scissors, punches, embossing and cutting machines and create some magical paper art.

Challenge #7 - Anything Goes (No Stamps)

Happy New Year

2012

is here!

We have made it through six exciting months of challenges and are now looking forward to a full year of challenges.  We are so happy to see so many regulars in our challenges and to see what amazing things you can create without the use of Stamps.

We hope to bring you a year full of exciting new challenges through themes and techniques.

To help with this we have our new Design Team members starting with this challenge.

Please offer a warm welcome to JanR, Monica, Beth and Susan.   I am sure they will inspire you with their wonderful creations each month.

You were all so creative in our last challenge.  This certainly kept the Design Team busy trying to decide on a favourite but we did it.

The Design Team Favourite is:

Loz

Loz a Grandfather Clock Tent card, isn't it a fantastic shape.   The clock dials are Tim Holtz.  Loz used peel-off stickers for the numbers and sentiment and borders.

Congratulations Loz!!

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Now the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize pack from Sticker Store from our last challenge is:

12 - Sally McD

Random numbers generated Jan 1 2012 at 20:38:31 by www.psychicscience.org 

Congrats Sam please just email Merry and she will organise your prize.

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Challenge #7 - Anything Goes

(Sorry no bonus entries this challenge.....we will leave it up to you to decide on the technique)

We thought we would make it a little easier after all the running around for Christmas and the New Year. 

Also this should give everyone a chance to show off all their wonderful techniques.

Any form of paper creation will be accepted as long as NO STAMPS 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.

Our sponsor this month is me - Merry. :-)

I have tried to put together an 'ANYTHING GOES' prize pack.

This includes: 15 Origami Papers and patterns, purple patterned Washi Tape, double sided tape from Sellotape (12mm x 10m) and three Copic Pens - YR07, Y06 and R27

Time to share what our amazing Design Team have been creating.

Please take the time to visit their blogs and find out more details on how their creations came to be.

Annmaree
(Patterned Papers and Cricut)

Beth
For this I used Tea Bag Folding Squares 5cm x 5cm No.003, FabScraps Heritage small floral C3800314 for the pattern paper, Stampin Up Certainly Celery for the die cut medallion which I inked with SU Old Olive. The die I used is Cheery Lyn Doily Die DL101 'English Tea Party'. I finished the centre of the tea bag medallion with Prima 'Say it in studs' and self adhesive pearls. SU Certainly celery ribbon.

Cathy
Card designed by Cathy and cut using CraftROBO using cardstock & DP from Blue Edge Crafts.

JanR
(Using pp, baker's twine, star embellis and some glittery Thickers.)

Merry

(Linen Texture Cardstock, patterned paper, rub-on words, stickers)

Book Box pattern here. at Stempleleinmaleins

Monica

Dry embossing, ribbon, crystal and my handmade flower.

Stacie

 (Dry embossing, corner rounder, Martha Stewart Stickers and Martha Stewart Punch for the window)

Susan
(Not sure if this was your pattern Susan but you can find a pattern and tutorial here at Craftmad)

I used half a sheet of 12 x 12 Bazzil card to start with, and constructed a sweet box, with a folder card on top.  This pattern I have had for a while but I do not know where I got it from (or who I got it from). I decorated the card using Marianne Design die cuts LR0199, and the clouds are Whimsy Stamps Cloud Die set.  All the dies were cut using scrap papers - the launch is Co'ordinations; the yacht and clouds are from a shimmery card purchased some years ago in a pack and lost in my stash for a long time! The sun is from a sparkly DCWV Citrus pack and cut out with a circle punch (1"). They are mounted with dimentionals or double sided tape. The waves were created with Zva Creative crystal flourishes cut to fit.  I added a tag with a hand-written message, plus a small metal charm of a nautical steering wheel.  The numbers on the yacht sails are stickers and represent the age of the recipient! The message is inside and was computer generated onto white paper and cut to fit inside the card. 

This challenge closes Friday, 3rd February and Winners announced Monday, 6th February.

Remember we are working on Aussie Time.

Embossing and Stickers

Hi just wanted to share two cards I made in a last minute dash to meet the Christmas mail.

I have used my Cuttlebug and Holly embossing folder to create the card front and then finished with a Merry Christmas sticker from Sticker Store our sponsor this month.  More info here on my blog.

Perfect for our current challenge 'Christmas' which you can link up to here.

Challenge #6 closes 30th December so still heaps of time to join in.

New Design Team Members

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their wonderful entries into our Unstampabelles Design Team call.  The current Design Team had a very hard time choosing the people who would join our team when we sadly lose our current team members Mandy, Kerry and Kaye.

Okay drum roll please and in no specific order the people who are joining our Design Team and will participate in their first challenge January 2012 are:


Susan from Time to Play
Here is the creation she shared in the Design Team Call

Monica from Handmade Cards with Love

Here is the creation she shared in the Design Team Call.

Beth from HuggiesCrafts Happy Spot

Here is the creation she shared in the Design Team Call.

JanR from Huh. So this is a blog.  

*****We are still waiting to hear from Jan to know if she accepts the position.  ***

** If we haven't heard anything by the New Year we will offer to another person who entered.********

Here is the creation she shared in the Design Team Call.

As you can see they have a variety of styles.  I hope you take the chance to welcome them on to our Unstampabelles Design Team.

We are also happy to advise that all the remaining entrants will be Guest Designers over the first six months of 2012.

Some Sticker Fun from Cathy

Hi everyone, can you believe we are half way through this months challenge.  So many inspiring entries to date.   Thanks so much for joining in the fun and remember you have until 30th December to add your entry here.  (Three entries per person)

Our challenge this month is all about Christmas and you receive a bonus entry if you add stickers to your creation.  (No Stamps)

This wonderful card was created by one of our talented Design Team members Cathy.

Please visit Cathy's blog - Cathy's Creative Corner to find more details on how this card was created.

Challenge #6 - Christmas - Bonus technique Stickers - Challenge #5 winner

How creative everyone has been with last months Tree entries.

Thanks so much everyone for joining in.

Reminder: we have a Design Team Call happening you can find details here.

Our Design Team had a hard time choosing,
but finally decided that our Design Team Favourite this month is:

Shelley

Shelley used double-sided Christmas paper and some inexpensive red cardstock.  For one of the trees, Martha Stewart fringe scissors were used to cut the strips - once the resulting fringe is curled and then layered, the end tree looks almost fuzzy.

Congratulations Shelley!

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Now the randomly drawn winner of the $10 gift certificate to CMD Cards from our last challenge is:

Deni # 22

Please send an email to Merry and she will provide you details on 9th December.

(She is busy galavanting around the countryside until then but will organise your prize on her return)

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Challenge #6 - Christmas

you will receive a bonus entry if you can add stickers to your paper creation.

Any form of paper creation will be accepted as long as NO STAMPS have been used.

So you can use quilling, parchment, stickers, boxes, books, cards, scrap pages, etc
You can find our rules here for further information.

Our sponsor this month is the fabulous Sticker Store where you will find a sticker for every occasion.

Prize pack plus 10 sheets of DL sized Acetate which don't show in the above photo.

Now it's time to share what the Design Team have created.

First off we have our Guest Design Team member Sandra from Nanagramps Craft Designs.

Sandra was the lucky winner of our prize offer for the Feline Playful bloghop.

Sandra

Supplies Used: White Scalloped card stock, Spellbinders Nested Pine Tree die 3, Various Gem Stones,  Holly Leaves, Snowman, Eskimo & Come in From The Cold Sign, 3D Sticky Pads, Background paper - Dovercraft Let it Snow" 

Merry

Supplies Used: Metallic Silver cardstock, various blue Textured Linen cardstock from Blue Edge Crafts, Stickers from Sticker Store.

Kaye

(Sadly, we are saying goodbye to Kaye .... we will miss your wonderful creations).

Spellbinders dies and 3d die cuts and ribbons from Blue Edge Crafts.

 

Mandy

(Another busy person leaving us this challenge & what amazing creations we will miss seeing)  

Supplies Used: Glitter paper and Glitter sticker sheets, Ribbon, Holographic sticker from Sticker Store, shaped leathergrain card from Blue Edge Crafts. 

Kerry

(Kerry too is finishing up with this challenge we will miss her terrific inspiration).

Supplies Used:  Craft Concepts Merry Christmas embossing folder used, Santa has been cut out using the eCraft, gold stars and Merry Christmas stickers used.

Stacie

Supplies Used: Rosette, Embossing, Stitching and sentiment sticker from The Sticker Store

Annmaree

Supplies Used: Sticker tree, with pattern paper background.

Cathy

Supplies Used:  Stickers & cardstock from BlueEdge Crafts.  Acetate used is a heavier 'binder cover' plastic - it stands up better than the thin 'overhead transparency' plastic.