Who would have Thunk It........

....we are halfway through July! Only six months to Christmas folks! 

However, it is still the middle of winter here, and Santa would freeze his toes off in that get-up, not mention other parts of his anatomy! I realise he would survive in those parts north of the equator however, and expect there are a few people having a Christmas in July party and wondering how we eat all that heavy food at Christmas down here! The answer is of course, we don't usually eat all the heavy food - it's seafood, and salads and cold ham and turkey, with icecream plum puddings, along with ice cold wine and beer! Santa would fit right in in that get-up!

Why am I wittering on about summer and such stuff? Because the DT has been channelling summer and spring in their DT Inspiration for you this week, for the Unstampabelles Challenge #48 Grab a Bunch - of Flowers,  that's why!

 (the sentiment is not stamped but printed onto the card using MS Word)

Jen Leeflang

Susan

Flowers made with old Spellbinders die

Shylaashree

Quilled home decor to refresh

CG

Pop-out Card

So, pop over and give them some much deserved love for their great inspiration this week!

Then pop into your Craft Cabin and Create up a storm (of flowers)

You know you have lots of flower dies - drag them out and use them!

The enter the result 

HERE

You could be in the way to win this!

Prize

Other Stuff:

1. Still only four more people to join up a followers to make the 300 so that a prize will be announced! I decided to have a random draw from the last 10 people to join for the prize. This makes it a bit fairer and people will not be hanging back to the last minute
2. As mentioned earlier, we have said goodbye to several of the Design Team this month - therefore we have some places to fill if you are interested in joining. If you would like to be part of the team, please send me an email with a link to your blog or display page and reasons why you think you would be a good fit with our ideals and team - suhogan(@)gmail(dot)com

Winner's Announcement botched!

Here it is Wednesday morning and I was casually looking at the blog when I realised I didn't actually announce the winners on Monday when I did the Winner's blog! Is that a major senior moment or what!

My apologies to all concerned and here are the winners for June!

Lula

The prize is 

and for

DT Favourite 

(sorry, no prize -only honour and glory!)

it is Alice at Yellow House Studio

Ladies, if you don't already have an email from me, please comment below and I will try again!

Once again peeps, my apologies - don't know what is happening to me!!

Brain Freeze probably from the cold weather!

June Winners announced, DT call and Followers Prize

Hello Peeps, hope you are all warm and snug (or cool and chilled out, if you live north of the equator)! 

Sunrise in Hobart on Saturday morning

Photo by Greg Faull

Only four more people to join up a followers and a prize will be announced! 

It has been drawn to my attentions some of you may be hanging back so I decided to have a random draw from the last 10 people to join for the prize. 

This makes it a bit fairer and people will not be hanging back waiting.... waiting.......NOW!

As mentioned earlier, we have said goodbye to several of the Design Team this month - therefore we have some places to fill if you are interested in joining.

 If you would like to be part of the team, please send me an email with a link to your blog or display page and reasons why you think you would be a good fit with our ideals and team - suhogan(@)gmail(dot)com

On to the current Challenge#48 

Grab a Bunch - of Flowers!  

Get creative and make some flowers - in fact the twist is to make a garden!

Prize

An embossing folder of flowers

To give you some inspiration, we have a Guest Designer this month 

Guest Designer

Alicia O'Briant

Hi, I am Alicia O'Bryant, a mother and wife who also works full time as an office manager.  I have been crafty since childhood.  I owned a jewelry crafting business for over 20 years and have been paper crafting for almost as long.  I enjoy the city of life of Cincinnati, Ohio where I have lived for 18 years.   I love to scrapbook as well as create cards and mixed media projects.  

                                 The butterfly is a store purchased one made of parchment

and from the DT.....

A hatbox style cupcake box by

Jen Leeflang

and from me

Susan

A screen card full of Gerbera's!

Don't forget to enter your project 

HERE 

See you next week!

Challenge#48: Grab a Bunch.....of Flowers!

Yep, we are still here! We go live on the first Monday of each month and that, this month, is the 6th July. Winner's from June will be announced next week,the second Monday.

As well, I have been watching the number of followers creeping up, and I will be offering a small prize for the 300'th follower to join Unstampabelles. The prize for this will be announced next week too! I notice the number is currently at 295.........

If you are a lurker, now is the time to join!

Firstly, to all our American friends: HAPPY 4TH JULY

I hope all you who live in the US of A have had a great 4th of July celebration and are now ready to settle down to the craft desk and create now! 

I believe it has been a bit wet and steamy in the UK and parts of Europe - hope the summer is well and truly in place and you are all enjoying a welcome break. Here in Australia, we are in the grip of a cold spell, although we need rain in many parts, including Tasmania. But that is what winter is about - being cold.   I love winter but I also cannot wait for Spring and the first flowers to push their way forward.........

.....which brings me to our latest challenge for July!

Grab a Bunch - of Flowers!  

Get creative and make some flowers - in fact the twist is to make a garden!

Prize

An embossing folder of flowers

We are saying goodbye to several of the Design Team this month, and wishing them well on their future endeavors. Therefore we have some places to fill if you are interested in joining. If you would like to be part of the tam, please send me an email with a link to your blog or display page and reasons why you think you would be a good fit with our ideals and team - suhogan(@)gmail(dot)com

So, to Tracey Mowbray, Tracey Fehr and Urvarshi Rao - many thanks for being on the team and for your amazing creations and all the best for your future crafting, and life with family and employment!

Now, to inspire you and give you some ideas, the team (those who are still here!)  have come up with the following to get the creative juices flowing.........

Dale

Lou Lou's 

Wynn

Susan

Why not go over to the DT's sites and learn how these creations came into being, and get a closer look.  

Then you can create your own flowers and/or garden and show us what you have achieved by entering your work here.

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Challenge #47 Hero's: Final Week

Hello Peeps!
I have been watching the number of followers creeping up, and so I have decided to offer a small prize for the 300'th follower to join Unstampabelles. If you are a lurker, now is the time to join!

More details on this next month!

On to our current challenge #47:

The theme for June is Who is Your Hero/Heroine? 

We all have someone we look up to and admire

Create a mixed media item to celebrate your hero! 

The twist is to journal about it in your blog

This is the prize on offer

Before we look at some final work from the DT, I have to announce that due to work commitments, the immensely talented Tracey Fehr has had to leave us. We hope that life works out for her and her hubby, and that she can get some time and space to craft with us again, but in the meantime, Tracey we will miss your involvement with us and your fascinating projects. Thank you for being a part of this team.

This means of course that we have a vacancy on the DT - if you are interested in being part of our team, contact me for more details.

Shyla has added a project DESPITE moving house!
Amazing!

Shylaashree

Susan

I made this card to thank my wonderful Design Team for all their efforts!

CG 

(My heroes are my husband & his living kidney donor; 

and everyone who helped us through our journey)

Isn't CG's work amazing!

A real memory box

Well, that should surely get those ideas stirring in the brain and itching to be expressed.

We would love to see what you have made

Remember, no stamps - mixed media with a theme of HERO's

Enter your work

HERE

Week Three for June - Who is Your Hero?

The theme is Who is Your Hero/Heroine? 

We all have someone we look up to and admire

Create a mixed media item to celebrate your hero! 

Your hero may be your spouse or another family member, a national or international figure or indeed a fictional person. 

The twist is to journal about it in your blog

Now, don't tell me you don't have a hero - I am certain we all do - and there are lots of ways you can create a mixed media item to show the world (well, the crafty world) who is your hero currently.

This is the prize on offer

Here are some pieces from the Design Team to lead the way and get your juices flowing with ideas and ways you can describe your hero(s). 

Felicity Aston 

Adventurer and Explorer of the Antarctica (and some more)

by Lou Lou

Jen Leeflang

(My Mom is my Hero)

Urvashi Rao

Altered book. Explained my hero (great granny) in my post

Susan

My first go at a journalling page

Why not go to Pinterest and look up Multi-media items and then adapt/adopt something you find that you like and make it your item to enter!

HERE

May's Winner for Challenge#47

Second week always belongs to the winners. We are announcing only one winner this month, as the Design Team Favourite and the Random Number winner are one and the same person! 

I guess it happens occasionally!

Our winner and DT Favourite for May is.....

.......drum roll, drum roll........

Alicia O'Bryant

who has won this die and our admiration for her beautiful album dedicated to her Mother.

Congratulations Alicia

For those of you disappointed it wasn't you, there is another challenge on for June

 This is the prize on offer - two stencils

The theme is Who is Your Hero/Heroine? 

We all have someone we look up to and admire

Create a mixed media item to celebrate your hero! 

Your hero may be your spouse or another family member, a national or international figure or indeed a fictional person. 

The twist is to journal about it in your blog

Today we have two Guest Designers to inspire you

ChrisC

Chris created two pieces for me as she forgot in the heat of creation the non-stamp rule and had to do over to create this beauty, in praise of the mighty Alice! We have all been down that particular rabbit hole: forgetting about no stamping I mean and then having to remake!

Valerija

...who did exactly the same thing as Chris and had to have another attempt - even experienced players in this challenge fall foul sometimes.  However, you can see that both Guest Designers got around their hiccup and produced lovely multi media items with no stamps to be seen in this lovely layout depicting her daughter who is her hero.

It can be done

Susan

The women who have to live with (and sometimes die from)  Breast Cancer

This one uses a stencil, ink and glitter texture paste!

Your project can be whatever you wish it to be - a card, a box, a tag, a scrap page, a frame or a repurposed object - as long as it is relevant to the theme of Your Hero.

The twist is easy this month - just mention in your blog or wherever you store your image exactly what the Hero thing for you is all about.

You can go 

HERE 

to link up.

June already! OMG!

The first Monday of June is the 1st of June this year - apparently there are a lot of Monday's this month too! We will be following our tradition of posting every Monday for four weeks, then have a bit of a break until the first Monday in July...remember our winner's post is always the second Monday, so pop back for a visit then to see who our winner might be.......

This month, the challenge is to see who can mix it up a bit and try a little bit of mixed media -

A technique involving the use of two or more artistic media, such as ink and pastel or painting and collage, that are combined in a single composition.

For a beginner that might be embossing and/or using paint or ink to create a background or using pencils and ink right up to collage work. There are many different ways to use mixed media in our craft.

This artist is Louise O'Hara, and she uses paint, stencils, ink, paper, materials including lace, paste, and other items to create pictures. Look up her Pinterest site to have some drool time!

 This is the prize on offer for June 

The theme is Who is Your Hero/Heroine? 

We all have someone we look up to and admire. Create a mixed media item to celebrate your hero! Your hero may be your spouse or another family member, a national or international figure or indeed a fictional person. 

The twist is to journal about it in your blog

There are some great pieces of inspiration for you to look at so here they are:

Lou Lou

Dale 

I admire Annie Lennox so much. 

Wynn  

Emily Pankhurst and the Suffragettes

Traceymo 

When I was a teenager in the 80's I loved her!

Susan 

So, just attach your project below!

We look forward to seeing what you have created! In the meantime, I hope you have gone off to the DT's blogs and left them some blog love! 

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