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.
*********************************************************
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.
**********************************************************
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
 |
| 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.
 |
| JanR has used cardstock, embossing and twine to create this terrific shaped card. |
Merry is from Australia
 |
| 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
 |
| Ribbon punch - Fiskars, Flowers - made with Sizzix dies and Carla craft punches, Embossing on Pot - Cuttlebug, Gems - Prima, Ribbon - from her stash. |
 |
| 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
 |
| Babushka shaped card using the Cricut and stickers from Sticker Store. |
 |
| Beth has used some terrific dies and pearl bling to create this card and a rub on sentiment. |
Cathy is from Australia
 |
| Blue, red & white, shaped card using a Craftrobo. |
Now it is your turn to share your creation.
23 March 2012
Susan's Easter Basket
Susan has created this beautiful Easter basket from a template over at Waltzing Mouse
Be sure to visit her blog to get more details.
Susan has used Martha Stewart punch for edges; SU card - Daffodil Delight and Marina Mist
Eggs and Chicken from the discount shop.
An entry like this in our Challenge #9 Easter. Would definitely get you a bonus entry for all the extra folds.
Can't wait to see who this inspires.
21 March 2012
Birthday Surprise Hop!
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!
- The Unstampabelles :)
17 March 2012
Unstampabelles Halfway Inspiration
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.
05 March 2012
Challenge #9 - Easter, bonus technique Extra Folds (more than one fold)
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.
*****************************************
Now the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize from Cardmaking Online for challenge #8 is:
Random numbers generated Mar 4 2012 at 8:23:4 by www.psychicscience.org
Congrats KimB please email Merry and she will organise your prize.
*****************************************
Challenge #9 - Easter
you will receive a bonus entry if you can add more than one fold to your paper creation to your paper creation.
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 Blue Edge Crafts
Based in Adelaide South Australia we ship our goods throughout Australia. We first started selling on-line in 2000 so we have had over 11 years to grow and mould the business into a totally on-line craft outlet. Our easy to use web site has many features to make your craft shopping a very simple and straightforward thing to do. Registration is free and once registered you can buy or even move items to your own personal Wish List to make your favorite items quick and easy to find when you want to buy them during another visit.
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.
Hannelie has used a pattern papers, ribbon, paper flowers and pearls also a computer generated sentiment on her creation.
Open version of card.
Rabbit cut out with CraftROBO, layered and highlighted with chalks and kindy glitz. All cardstock used in this card came from Blue Edge Crafts.
Gate Fold card using an Easter cardstock sticker from her stash.
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.
A great example of a papercraft project other than a card.
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!
This is a Gate Fold card. The rabbit image tag flap across the centre opening of the card. Annmaree used her Cricut and paper punches for this card.
The inside.
Has used a Greg Sukendro design this month.
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.
28 February 2012
Paper Beads from Merry
I wanted to also share this card today perfect for our recycle challenge here at Unstampabelles. The blue star is a bottle lid which I found on the street in Gordonvale outside of one of our many pubs (4 to be exact). No I had just been to the Florist to have coffee. The silver section of the card is alfoil. I was inspired by our Guest Designer Olivia this month and also one of my tennis partners to use the foil in the embossing folder. Comes out beautifully....this is four layers of alfoil.
I made the paper bead also. Brought back terrific memories. When I was a kid we made heaps of these with our Mum. We hung them in our bedroom door entrance as a curtain/screen.
Remember if you can add a paper bead to your recycled paper creation over at Unstampabelles (no stamps) you will receive a bonus entry.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LinkWithin
