Final week for September's Challenge: Greetings and Salutations

 The TWIST of course is to have a stencilled background

The inspiration for this week is a vintage feel Christmas card

You can see how it was made here

This week we are knee deep in spring - with snow and sun and rain and blue skies and wind.....

Mount Wellington (kunanyi) covered with snow

from the Eastern Shore (Rosny) 

(photographer unknown)

Orchid spike from my collection - I currently have about 14 spikes out....

Cheers, and you have five days to enter!

Challenge #115: Salutations and Greetings with a TWIST of stencilled backgrounds

Salutations and Greetings 

with a 

TWIST of stencils in background

This month it is a bit open to interpretation and will suit all mediums. 

Either make your greeting the centre of your piece or perhaps 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. We must see the stencilling clearly to make sure it is not a stamp. Some stencils and stamps look so alike. 

This week the inspiration is from

Vicki

 

One of those cards we all hate to make but which are so much needed 

This one is so beautiful

Love the paste through the stencil!

What idea are you brewing?

Hopefully it will become a great vintage - you have two weeks left 

Challenge #115: Salutations and Greetings TWIST stencils in background plus August Winners!

 Hello Peeps....

Welcome to Week 2 of Challenge #115

Salutations and Greetings 

with a 

TWIST of stencils in background

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 perhaps 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. 

Talking of Greetings, Weasley say's Hello!

Well, perhaps he was saying "Don't take a photo of me or I will bite you!"

Anyway, he is a big handsome boy.

Before we show you the inspiration for this week, it's time to announce the winners for the August Challenge

Random Number Winner

No 7: Repolainen

Congratulations

send me an email with your PayPal address at

suhoganatgmaildotcomdotau

(obviously unscramble this first)

DT Favorite

No 5: Karen B

Congratulations to both 

Now, let us see some inspiration for the challenge!

Susan

Two cards using similar techniques

What can you do with this theme and the TWIST?

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?

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

No challenge yet!

 Remember..   we start our challenge on the first Monday of each month, so see you next week with the new challenge for September.

Keep safe.

Last Week for Challenge #113: It's all about Me! Twist - a self portrait?

 

113: It's all about Me! Twist - a self portrait?

Hello Peeps

Welcome to another week of creativity.

Last five days to create a self-portrait or to create something reflecting self.....

I used a piece from my journal for inspiration this week

Gel plate and stencil work, with lots of mark making

That is of course me......ahem, as I imagine my internal me to look like ......obviously she is young and vibrant and her hair is NOT curly!

I found a lot of joy creating her and the page

and it was a beautiful day outside too....

Let's see what you can make in these next few days

Cheers!

Week 3 of Challenge#113: It's all about Me! Twist - a self portrait?

 Hello Peeps - thanks for being patient with me

I had a big birthday at the start of the month, and a bigger party next weekend

Thenlife intervened and avery time I started to do the post and create for it, I ran into an obstacle - the phone rang, a visitor arrived, or we had an appointment

Sooo, I decided to just miss last week and announce the winners of the prizes this week instead!

DT Favorite

Number 1 Wendy

Random Number Draw 

Number  14 Chris

Congratulations to you both - please contact me at 

suhoganatgmaildotcomdotau

for the prize (Random Number) and/or a blinkie for the DT Favorite and the RN Prize

While I was waiting to do this post, I made a small album to contain the photo's about last weekend.....

Susan

I based my album on one I made at a workshop last year but swapped out the paper bag cover for DT papers and made it to suit the size of my large photos. It doesn't close - I wasted several vital minutes looking for the magnets I know I have somewhere until I finally gave up and left it!

(That's me on the left - the big girl with the red curls and the green jacket!)

and Vicki made this gorgeous folder cover

Vicki

We already have some lovely pieces for the new challenge

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!

Day late

 Hi Peeps. Been celebrating. The post will be 24 hours late this week. See you tomorrow!

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 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Final Week of Challenge #113: Art and All the Jazz

 The challenge this month is 

 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, technically  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!

Today there is only a  piece from me

Susan

If you go to my blog you can see how it was created

You might recognise the inspiration?

by Romare Bearden: Collage Portraits 

You have until Friday to enter

Lot's of lovely work there already!