Email Entries for our Paper Flower Challenge #14

A beautiful card with frangapani's.  This is an email entry from Trish for our current paper flower challenge #14 which ends 31st August. 

Halfway Inspiration for our Paper Flowers Challenge

The 'Belles' have been very busy during this month and have come up with these wonderful ideas to inspire you to take part in our Paper Flowers Challenge #14 which runs until 31st August.  Entries here.  It has also been such a pleasure visiting all the terrific entries we have had so far this month.  Such variety and a lot of new faces.  Just one reminder our first and foremost rule at Unstampabelles is no stamps (rubber or digital) and this does include sentiments.  Thanks.

Our first card is from Beth who has used a Dufex 3D Cherry Blossom

Another paper flower from Beth, this time in a terrific pop-up form.

I think Beth likes her flowers as we have another wonderful example here.  Beth has used her Spellbinder dies to create this terrific flower.  Be sure to visit Beth's blog for more details.

This fun layout is from Lauren who created the beautiful layered black flower for this page.  If you visit Lauren's blog you will see a close up and a quick 'how to do'.  It involves Glimmer Mist and scrunching.

Here we have two terrific cards from Susan.  These beautiful flowers are printed embellishments from Ormolu on Etsy...link here but she appears to be on a mini vacation.

You can visit Susan's blog here to find out more details.

Isn't this just the cutest card and the paper flowers certainly finish this card off nicely.  The amazing creator is Sarah and you can see more of her work here.

I have loved seeing a lot of our entries including quilling this time and JanR has joined in creating this beautiful fridge magnet.  Something so handy or even a terrific gift idea.  Visit JanR's blog to read her story.

Time to show us what you can do.  

Unstampabelles Challenge #14 - Paper Flowers ends 31st August

Unstampabelles Challenge #14 - Paper Flowers (No stamps)

Thank you so much everyone for joining in our First Year Celebrations.  So many wonderful entries this month..... you are all so talented.  This months Design Team Favourite was only won by a hair as there were so many close contenders.  The person with the most votes from the Design Team for our July Celebrations challenge is..............

Hussena  

Congratulations!

Be sure to visit her amazing Quill and Punch Works blog to find out more about this beautiful card and to see more her terrific quilling and punch work.

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Now to do some random prize drawing.  Remember we had two prizes to give away for last months challenge.

Drum roll please..........

Our first winner of the lovely handmade journal from Cairns Bookbinders is.........

51 Barbara

Random numbers generated Aug 5 2012 at 20:52:20 by www.psychicscience.org 

Drum roll again........

Our second prize draw winner of the terrific $25.00 gift voucher from Cardmaking Online is.......

26 LindaV 

Random numbers generated Aug 5 2012 at 20:53:38 by www.psychicscience.org  

Congratulations to both of you ladies.  Please email Merry to discuss collection of your prize.

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One more prize draw (blog candy) to go and that is for the followers that left a comment telling us their favourite post here at Unstampabelles.  It seems that our Recycling/Repurposing challenge was a big hit with a lot of the followers so we will be adding that to our future challenge list.  Thanks so much for taking the time to come in and comment on our post we do love hearing from you.  If you ever have any suggestion we would love to here them too.  Now to choose a winner, I assigned a number from 1 to 18 in the order the comments appeared.  When the number was chosen I then checked if this person was indeed a follower.

So here goes those drums again..........the winner is:

36 Irene M

Random numbers generated Aug 5 2012 at 21:13:4 by www.psychicscience.org 

This is the lovely comment from IreneM.....thanks so much.

Congrats on clocking up your first year!!
What a lovely challenge and super DT work.
I am late adding my entry as I was away from home and forgot to add the link here, duh!!
My fave post was Feb - recycling and the paper beads.
x

IreneM please email Merry to arrange mailing details for your prize.

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Yes, finally I have made it to our current challenge.  Thanks for hanging in there.

Challenge #14 is all about Paper Flowers.

So we would love to see your creations with an addition of Paper Flowers.  Remember NO STAMPS (Rubber or Digital).

Our wonderful sponsor this month is Blue Edge Crafts who have donated this terrific prize pack of flowers in many forms from their online store.  Be sure to visit here and see all the other goodies they have to offer.

Included in the prize are paper tole sheets, stickers, ribbon roses and butterflies, a Spellbinders Tulips Pendant die and not shown will be a special pack of our new flower paper. 

Time to be inspired.   The Design Team have been working extra hard this month and have come up with amazing Paper Flowers for their creations.  They show how this challenge is open to so many people with the wide range of flower making techniques.  Punches, dies, paper tole, paper embellishments, stickers, origami.

Beth:- has created this beautiful Shadow Box Card.  Beth has used paper tole rose images on the inside of the card and rolled roses trimming the outside.  The sentiment is computer generated.  Beth has also made a beautiful box to place this card in...so be sure to visit her blog for more photos and details.

Looking down into the Shadow Box Card.

Cathy:-  Has used paint samples from the hardware shop to show off her pretty paper flowers on this card.  Two different sized flower punches were used to create these flowers and then a brad added to the centre to hold them together.  Look at that beautiful wire embellishment too.

JanR:- has created this beautiful spray of paper flowers and leaves with her dies and punches.

Lauren:- has been busy scrapping again.  Lauren has used the flower and little girl embellishments from the Kaisercraft Lil' Primrose Collectables range.  Aren't they so sweet.

Merry:-  has been busy with origami this challenge.  Merry has created the Verdi Vase using this video tutorial and then the lilies using this photo tutorial.  The flowers were attached to small branches from around Merry's yard with florist tape.

Sarah:- has created this bright and cheery card with layered paper flowers stickers and a chipboard sentiment.

Stacie:- Paper flower was created using Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die and Distress Inks.  White sentiment is a rub on and the scalloped background is a great use of Stacie's scrap pieces of paper.

Susan:-  has used a Martha Stewart border punch and the Score Tool from Stampin Up to create these wonderful flowers.  The sentiment is computer generated.

Now it's your turn, we can't wait to see your entries.

****Remember, no stamps (rubber or digital) this also means no sentiments stamps.***

Halfway Inspiration Time

JanR

Hi everyone, we are now halfway through our July challenge #13 - Celebrations.  You have all been so busy and sharing so many wonderful entries.  Remember you are allowed to enter up to three times here at Unstampabelles.  So with that said here is some more inspiration from the Design Team to get you going.

First off we have JanR who has used her Silhouette to create this wonderful 90th Birthday Card.  Be sure to visit her blog as she has promised more photos and details.

Lauren

Next card is from Lauren. Aren't the papers perfect for this Miracle Baby card.

Merry

Last card is from Merry who has seen a few creations in blogland lately using this technique and had to have a try.  Also helped clear out her scrap box.  Merry found this great tutorial for a weave card.

Click here to enter your CELEBRATIONS papercraft creation.

Remember we have two prizes on offer this month.  We also have a blog candy prize drawn from all the followers who leave a comment letting us know their favourite post in the past year.

Celebrating two new Design Team Members

Hi everyone, it is time to introduce you to the crafting creations of our two new Design Team members.  

They have both been wonderful and created something special for our current CELEBRATIONS challenge.  

Firstly, we have Lauren from the Gold Coast, Australia.  You will find Lauren here at her 'Get Messy' blog.  As you can see Lauren does wonderful scrap pages.  No one else on the team currently does a lot of scrapbooking so it will nice to have Lauren to inspire a whole new world of paper crafters to Unstampabelles.

Next we have Sarah....that does Simple and Clean cards so beautifully.  This card just says it all and is so bright and cheery.  You will find Sarah in Las Vagas, Nevada, USA and also at her blog 'Paper Pie'.

We are all thrilled that Sarah and Lauren are part of our team and can't wait to see future creations from them.

A reminder that we have two prizes this month for our CELEBRATIONS challenge (here).  There is also a chance to win blog candy for those who are a follower and answer a couple of easy questions.

Two New Design Team Members

Thanks so much to the eight talented people who applied to be part of our Design Team.

Unfortunately, we can only take on two new people.  So we had the hard task reducing the number.

Our two lucky winners for the Unstampabelles Design Team are:

Lauren from Get Messy

and Sarah from Paper Pie

Off to notify for these lucky winners by email and hope to be back in a short while with some wonderful creations from them both. 

One Year Old - Unstampabelles Challenge #13 - Celebrations

Happy Birthday Unstampabelles

We are now One Year old and it is time to celebrate.

First things first.  I would like to thank everyone one for taking time to enter our Ribbon challenge #12 we had an amazing 38 entries.  It was wonderful see some new paper crafts entered like scrap pages, boxes, a bell and decorated paper bag.  With so many choices you did give the Design Team a hard time choosing their favourite creation for Challenge #12 but we did come to a decision and our Design Team Favourite is:

Laney 

of Laney's Place with this amazing exploding box.  Be sure to visit her blog for many more photo views as this box opens out.

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Time for the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize from Beth at Huggies Crafts for challenge #12 is:

29 - Debbie J

 Random numbers generated Jul 1 2012 at 16:25:26 by www.psychicscience.org   

  

Congrats Debbie J please email Merry and she will organise your prize.

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Now let the party begin!!!!

To start with we have a Blog Candy prize to be won by one of our loyal followers.

3 Australiana Phone Charms, Cadbury Chocolate 5 x 15g pieces, A5 Textured Paper Pack, 30 Diecut Paper Flowers, Grand Adhesion Stickers, 40 x Rhinestone Florettes.

We are going to make you work a little bit to be eligible for a chance to win this Blog Candy you will need to:

1. Be a Follower

2.  Leave us a comment; 

• we want to know what your favourite post from last year was. 
• we'd also love to know what you would like to see more of. 

Blog candy winner will be drawn randomly from all appropriate comment entries at the end of Challenge #13 and the winner announced at the start of Challenge #14

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Challenge #13 - Celebrations

We want to see all your Celebrations - Birthday, Anniversary, Baby, Wedding, Blogaversary, Anniversary, etc....

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).

  

You can find our rules here for further information.

One of our Sponsors this month is Cairns Bookbinders a small Book Bindery who create menus, compendiums, wine list covers for Motels and Hotels throughout Queensland.  Like them here on Facebook.

1st Prize - One A5 Handmade Journal and three lengths of ribbon.
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Yes, we have a second prize on offer this month.......what a celebration!


Cardmaking Online is offering a $25.00 voucher to their store.

Cardmaking Online has been running for two years and offers a large range of card making products, including Parchment Craft, European style card making, card stitching, 3D Decoupage, embossing folders and dies, Hobbyjournaal magazine, cardstock, peel-off stickers and more.

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Now to see what our Design Team are Celebrating.

Reminder we currently have a Design Team Call which closes Friday, 6th July....more details here.

Stacie:- Paper pinwheel with a rub-on sentiment.

Susan:- a baby card: a new life so lots to celebrate! This card was made using washi tape, a magazine freebie, a rub-on (coloured with a Copic pen), some stickers, some Kaiser roses and bling (coloured with Copic pens) and a paper doily.

Inside of Susan's card.

Beth:- a tri-fold, zig zag card with an inked embossed number one (1) on the front.  Beth used rub-on letters to write the word Unstampabelles.  The Birthday sentiment is a sticker and letters 's & t' are diecuts.  The image inside the card is fussy cut from a birthday card that Beth received this year.  The 3D butterfly came in a pack of butterflies of different colours. The papers are new Bazzill Papers - Avalon.

Inside Beth's card.

Cathy:- has used a 3D paper tole of the car, corrugated card and brads.

JanR: has made this Wedding Card using a rub-on for the sentiment, embossed background and paper flower.

Merry:- found a fantastic Star Card tutorial at Night Owl Designs. Used Bazzill cardstock and new Bazzill Papers - Avalon.  Sentiments are stickers.

Inside of Merry's card.  More stickers.

Time for you to Celebrate and show us your creations.

Please remember we want to see PAPER CRAFT creations.

Design Team Call

Unstampabelles is looking for a person (1) (2) two people who enjoy manipulating paper.


Annmaree has thought long and hard but after a year of being on our Design Team she feels it time to move on.  We will miss her a lot and wish her well, however.......


This is good news for everyone else as now we are looking for two people to be part of our Design Team and we have extended the closing date....so heaps of time left to apply.

Do you enjoy any of the following:-  iris folding, papertole/decoupage, quilling, parchment, creating boxes, books or scrap pages?  

Would you like to take up the challenge of creating a paper craft without the use of a stamp (rubber or digital)?

Would you like to be part of our fabulous and friendly team?

If you answered ‘yes’ we would love to hear from you.

Please email Merry with a couple of details about yourself and why you would like to be part of Unstampabelles.  Also your blog details.

As a Design Team member you would be required to make a paper craft creation once a month and if time permits another creation for our Halfway post.   You would also be required to leave comments on entrants blogs but we do have a roster system for commenting.

Benefits to you:

You will be challenged to think outside the square.

You will make some wonderful new friends - the other Design Team members.

Your creation will be featured on Unstampabelles with a link back to your blog.

Occassionally, products may be available from sponsors to use in your creations.

This Design Team Call will remain open until Friday, 29th June  Friday, 6th July and the successful applicant will be advised by email by the 7th July.

This call is open to everyone whether you have been on a Design Team or not.   Even if you have just started up a blog we would love to hear from you.

Cathy's Inspiration Card

Here is another card provided as inspiration for our Ribbon Challenge.

This card provided by Cathy

You can enter your paper craft creation with ribbon attached here.

Unstampabelles challenge #12 - Ribbons.

Design Team Call information here.

Beth's turn for some inspiration

Here is a wonderful card from Beth with a variety of ribbons added to her creation.

What a terrific way to use up those scraps.

For more info visit Beth's blog here.

You can enter your paper craft creation with ribbon attached here.

Unstampabelles challenge #12 - Ribbons.

Design Team Call information here.