Unstampabelles #17 - Monochromatic (No Stamps)

Great to see all your wonderful recylcing/repurposing ideas last month.  CD's, paint chips, paper bags, packaging, serviettes, muffin containers and wallpaper just to name a few of the items used.  The Design Team really enjoyed visiting and seeing your fun creations.

It took a lot of narrowing down to just one creation to showcase this month.  

The Design Teams Favourite for the recycle challenge is:

27 Filharmonica

Hasn't Filharmonica done a wonderful job on making a brown paper bag look beautiful.  Other recycled items on this card are lace, string, buttons and coffee napkins or doilies.  Please visit blog 'Filharmonicas kreative verden' to see more of her terrific work.

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A little more excitement.......time to announce the winner of our randomly drawn prize donated by Craftmad.  The winner is:

31 Lyla (12 years)

Random numbers generated Nov 4 2012 at 16:15:2 by www.psychicscience.org 

Lyla please email Merry with mailing details for your prize.

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Now to move onto why you came to our blog. 

Challenge #17 - Monochromatic

(mon.o.chro.mat.ic Adjective: Containing or using only one colour.)

Any form of paper creation will be accepted as long as NO STAMPS (Digital or Rubber) have been used.

IDEAS: quilling, parchment, stickers, boxes, books, cards, scrap pages, etc
You can find our rules here for further information.

Our sponsor this month is Cardmaking Online which is an Australian online only business - by not having a retail store, they avoid significant costs such as rent and electricity which enables them to bring you quality products at the lowest possible prices.  They have a wonderful range of cardmaking kits, dies, peel-off stickers, parchment craft materials and much more. 

Cardmaking Online is sponsoring us with a $25.00 gift certificate as our prize for this months challenge.

Inspiration from our talented Design Team

Sarah went with shades of grey and white for her card.   She has used a pre-printed punch-out sentiment, silver brads and grey and white twine.

Susan had a play with acetate for the front of this card.  Although Susan created the rolled roses from the same sheet of paper (shades of green) one rose has turned out bluer that the others.  Die cut leaves, pearls and rub-on sentiments finish this lovely creation.

Cathy learnt this technique of using lace punches and stringing them together a few years ago.  Great seeing old techniques used again.  Cardstock and papers used in this card are all 

purples shades. The paper that looks white is actually a pale pink pearl paper. Ribbon has been woven in an out of the lace punched shapes and pearls added to the centres.

Another card from Cathy....aren't these the cutest cat faces.  Cathy has created them with paper punched hearts and circles.  The card is make up of shades of pink cardstock (Stampin Up) and the sentiment is a rub-on.

JanR created this monochromatic card in shades of brown using her 

Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.  Cutting the tree image out of the newsprint paper and then backing it with the brown cardstock.  An embossing folder was used along the bottom of the card and then a ribbon, button and string attached.

Please welcome JessicaT again to our Design Team.....this is her first contribution to our challenge inspiration.  What a way to start with this shades of gold.  JessicaT has used patterned papers, satin krush ribbon, a brass charm tied on with twine.  Alpha stickers were used for the sentiment.

Lauren has used this wonderful photo to help her create this monochromatic scrap page in 

shades of red. Lauren has painted the chipboard word red and used her rolled flower die for the first time.  As you can see in the section next to the heart this is a wonderful way to use up your extra bits and bobs you wouldn't normally find a use for.

Merry has relied on her Stampin Up papers and cardstock to help her create this monochromatic card in shades of green.  She has cut squares of Design Paper into 3cm squares and attached.  Merry has used her Cheery Lynn Butterfly die for the first time.  Firstly she drew around the outline of the die and hand cut this out and ran it through the Lattice embossing folder then cut the green butterfly with the die.  Added the bling and the rub-on sentiment.

Blue Monochrome from Susan

This beautiful Christmas card is from Susan one of our DT (her blog).  What a wonderful way to create a monochromatic (all shades of the same colour) card.  Susan has used Co'Ordinates cardstock which she ran through a SU embossing folder then embossed to reveal another shade of blue. Cut the embossed panel into three and attached to the front of the card.  Then added some bling and a ribbon and a small stamped sentiment....which we do allow.  However we do like stamp sentiments kept to a minimum as you will see in our rules here.

You can enter your monochromatic paper creations here you have until Friday, 30th November.

Half-way Inspiration Post for Monochromatic Challenge #17

Wow, so many wonderful entries already in our Monochromatic Challenge #17.  I really thought that we would struggle with entries for this theme but you have proved me wrong.  You are all willing to take up the challenge.  Can't wait to see what the second half of this month brings.  You can enter here.

Here are a few more monochromatic creations from the design team to inspire you.

Isn't this such a pretty Christmas card from JanR.  JanR has used the Poinsettia die from Spellbinder and glittery Thickers.  Be sure to visit JanR's blog to find out more about this card.

Cathy has been busy too with her metallic papers which were hand embossed and then hand cut. The flowers are paper punched and bling added to the centre.  Another beautiful card....again be sure to check out Cathy's blog here.

Merry has created this Christmas card by dragging out all the green Bazzill cardstock she owns.  Cut into 1cm wide strips then cut into the shape of a Christmas Tree.  Added a star sticker and sentiment.

Now it's time for your entries to be in the draw for our prize.

A $25.00 gift certificate from

Email entry from Gloria

Gloria's first ever attempt at Monochrome.

Email entry from Patricia

Patricia's card for our Monochromatic Challenge.

Patricia says - "this is one I made with my spellbinder dies, having a lot of fun using these dies at present."

Half Way Inspiration

Here are some wonderful creations from the Design Team to inspire you for our current Challenge #16 - Recycle or Repurpose.  They use Cereal Boxes, Packaging, Wine Bottle Lables, CD's and Can Labels.

From JanR - recycled items are scrappy packaging (the back of the leaf shaker) and cereal box (misted, crimped panel) 

Susan has used a wine bottle label on this card, the sentiment is a sticker.

Cathy has recycled a CD & Stickers

On this beautiful card Cathy has recycled CD & paper tole & stickers.

Merry used labels from the cans of her beetroot to create these flowers.

Now it's time for you to have a try and enter here into our Recycle or Repurpose Challenge.

Remember there is a wonderful prize to be won from our terrific sponsor Craftmad. 

Gloria's third email entry

Gloria is back again with her third and final entry for our recycle challenge.

Yes, you are allowed to enter three times here at Unstampabelles.

Gloria has repurposed the DVD on this card.

Email Entry from Trish

This wonderful easel card entry is from Trish this is how she made it:

The 70 years in the making comes from a box my husband got for his birthday with a mug in it. the piece across the front is from a bit of paper that was laying on my table lol.

Welcome to Jessica - Design Team member

Can everyone help us welcome Jessica to the Unstampabelles Design Team.

Jessica has kindly said that she would like to be part of our team for a couple months.   Even though she has three little girls to keep her busy and a couple of other Design Teams.

You can see Jessica's beautiful work here on her blog Bits and Pieces and soon our next challenge.

Jessica has been part of our challenges on a number of occasions and here are some of her previous entries.

Challenge #14 - Paper Flowers

Challenge #13 - Celebrations

Challenge #9 - Easter

Challenge #7 - Anything Goes

Unstampabelles #3 - Animals

Challenge #2 - Wheels

Glad to have you on the team Jessica.

Second Email Entry from Gloria

Yes, Gloria is liking this challenge and came up with a second card. 

Comments from Gloria.

Hearts and flower are made out of serviettes....and leaves are plastic given to me from Mum......n who knows how many years she had them for.....lol lol