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.

Scratchie Holder Card Tutorial here.

Paper Bead Necklace from Stacie

Isn't this so pretty.  Who would think that these beads started out as paper.  Please visit Stacie's blog to find out more detail on how she achieved this wonderful look.  It has been so terrific seeing how many people have been travelling outside their comfort zone and having a go at paper beads and adding them to their project.  Also so great to see you have been putting Susan's wonderful Paper Bead Tutorial to good use.

This is the last week of our February Challenge.

You have until Friday, 2nd March to enter our Challenge #8 here.

Remember you receive a bonus entry if you can add a paper bead to your recycled paper project.

Also there is a wonderful prize up for grabs from Cardmaking Online.

More Inspiration from the Design Team

We have seen some inventive ideas for recycling in your entries.  The mesh bags are proving to be a big favourite for adding texture to your creations.  Thanks for joining in.  Here are a few more ideas from the Design Team on ways that you can recycling those items around the house.

All perfect for our Recycling Challenge #8

Annmaree made some monsters from bread tags on a card. She has used a little paint and googlie eyes.  Aren't these just the cutest......I am now saving all my bread tags.

JanR has used ribbon scrap, bling from a card that she describes as an epic fail and an ancient Dymo Labeller that she rescued from being thrown in the trash.  I just love the whole grunge look...the background is so terrific.

Monica - has made a quick card with bits of an old birthday invitation...
Thomas and the borders have been cut out from the invite while the clouds stickers and balloons are from her stash.
Monica popped up the balloons and Thomas image with dimensional foam dots.
Ordinary sewing thread was used to tie the balloons.

 Susan has very cleverly used the packing that came with this terrific frame.  The black is the backing card for the frame package.  Susan has also reused the acetate that the frame was sitting on to put inside the frame.  The flower image is the background packing to the beautiful adhesive stones she has used.  What a wonderful way to recycle using the item and the packaging.

So come on in and join in our wonderful recycling challenge #8 here.  Remember if you include a paper bead on your creation you receive a bonus entry.  Which gives you and extra chance to win the fantastic prize pace from Cardmaking Online.

You have until Friday the 2nd March to enter.

Challenge #8 - Recycling bonus technique Paper Bead (No Rubber or Digital Stamps)

Hi everyone, well that certainly was a huge month.  So great to see so many new followers to our challenge blog.  As you may have seen Cheryl was our lucky '100th follower' who received a surprise prize package.  We now have 110 followers.  The number of entries for our 'Anything Goes challenge #7 was just awesome.  A total of 131 entries.  Thanks so much for sharing all your amazing work.  I must also say a special thank you to the Design Team members for taking the time to visit all your wonderful works and leaving a comment. :-)

Now on to the important issues: -  Our Design Team Favourite.  This was really hard work for us this month as we had so many entries to choose from.  We did finally come to a decision and the Design Team Favourite for January is:

Dr Sonia

Isn't this the most amazing quilling and Dr Sonia has even created the vase from scratch.

If you would like to see some amazing tutorials especially for kids be sure to visit Dr Sonia's blog.

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Now the randomly drawn winner of the terrific prize from Merry Made Cards for challenge #7 is:

36 - Dawn 

 Random numbers generated Feb 4 2012 at 6:57:43 by www.psychicscience.org

Congrats Dawn please email Merry and she will organise your prize.

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Challenge #8 - Recycle, Frugal 

you will receive a bonus entry if you can add a paper bead 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.

Our sponsor this month is the lovely Anne from 

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.

Here is the prize that Anne is offering:

Now the Design Team ladies have been working hard this month to come up with some fantastic ways to recycle and be frugal with items from around the house.  Be sure to visit their blogs for more details.

First off this month is our Guest Designer Olivia.

Olivia was part of the DT call a couple of months ago. All the runners up were offered a Guest Design spot.

Olivia used My Mind Eye-Love 6x6 Pad for paper.  Made the embossed background with aluminum foil and just embossed it witha her Cuttlebug.  Olivia used coffee filters for the making of the flower and the background behind the tag simply by spraying them with reinker and then smearing gold ink all over it and then using Stickle Glue to edge it with.  Pearls are self-adhesive and the sentiments are stickers. 

Beth recycled wrapping paper (the blue metalic) the brown is recycled packing paper which comes in her Stampin Up order. The paper beads are her fist ever attempt at making these.

Cathy has recycled the white panel which is the cardboard divider in the Lipton's Tea Bag box.

JanR has used these recycled items: some scraps, buttons from a shirt being cut into rags, paper beads from a flyer/magazine destined for the recycle bin (Sentiment is computer-generated from Word.)

Monica has used a newspaper print of Sawunggnaling Batik. This is a special type of Batik (apparently there are many different types of Batik in Indonesia). The edges have been hand torn to add more charm to it. The round nesties have been punched using scrap paper lying on her table. Monica has used her deckle edged scissors to make the second nestie smaller as she only has one circle that size. The flowers are home-made and the crystals are from Prima. Monica has used green crepe paper for the leaves - folded it into two and then cut it manually. The ribbon is from her stash.

Merry started with a base box from a Christmas present - mobile phone.  She then made a lid out of card stock and adhered Magazine Reeds to the lid.  Tutorial here. Magazine Reeds are pages of a magazine rolled up.....bit like a large paper bead. The maroon flower is from a flower that Merry used to have in the house on display for a couple of years and has pulled it apart.  The button is from her stash. 

Stacie is clever and used paper beads for her entire project.  Don't they make the most wonderful necklace.  Now if you were to enter something like this.....this would be your entry and a bonus entry also. :-)

 Susan has used a cheese box made from balsa wood, decorated with scraps and old bits and bods from her stash.  Please be sure to visit Susan's blog as she has taken the time to do up a Paper Bead tutorial

Annmaree has used ribbon off a package, also used up 'scraps' from her desk for the rest of her card. Annmaree used her Cricut to cut the image.

Now it is your turn to share.

This challenge will remain open until Friday, 2nd March.

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.