Hello Peeps

Just a quick post to explain that our next Challenge does not go live until the 7th April.  The turn around was a little fast for the DT to be expected to keep up, from the end of the last one the the beginning of the next, so I had added an extra few days. It also means I can keep to the timetable of last Friday of the month to finish, and first Monday of the month to begin a new challenge! So, new Challenge goes live on the 7th April!

A sneak peak of the new challenge may be coming before start  - and I will, of course, be announcing the winner's of the last challenge next week anyway, so stay turned for that! In the meantime, think Easter, think soft.................and begin to plan that next entry into the world of creating without using stamps of any kind! It's a great place to be!

Some more inspiration from Margaret!

Margaret has made another card to inspire you all to enter in this final week of Unstampabelles Challenge #33.  In fact Margaret had this card made and ready to be posted yesterday but I was too super organised and forgot to check for any more after pieces from the team after scheduling my post earlier in the weekend! Sorry Margaret - and it is such a great piece of inspiration too!

Margaret

Card is rectangle, picture is circle (it is not a stamp), square around picture, star washi tape.  Ribbon from Annabelle Stamps.

Isn't that nifty! Great card Margaret - thanks!

Don't forget Peeps - we close on the 28th at Midnight

You can find the challenge HERE. 

Last Week for Challenge #33

 Hello Peeps - we have some lovely entries to date but  we are also sure you are just waiting until that last moment to enter our current challenge! Well, the good news is that we have ONE WEEK to go - so you had better get those skates on and go create a masterpiece for our challenge!

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

TWIST: HAVE AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT SHAPES

REMEMBER!

Our lovely sponsor this month is the delightful Andrea from 

and Andrea is offering our winner a

Discount coupon worth $15.00 Aus

We have some further inspiration for you:

Julene:  A circle (under the elephant) and a square plus the shapes on the backing paper

Susan: lots of shapes here!

You can find the challenge HERE!

Midway Post for Challenge # 33 - Geometric Shapes

Hello Peeps!

Well we have six entries as I write this for our current challenge to create a CARD or SCRAPBOOK PAGE (all paper based) without using stamps and following our theme this month

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

TWIST: HAVE AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT SHAPES

Our lovely sponsor this month is the delightful Andrea from 

and Andrea is offering our winner a

Discount coupon worth $15.00 Aus

There are many lovely items available at Annabelle's, so why not pop over and have a look!

The Design team have come up with a few new inspirations for you to get going on your design.  Why not pop over to their blogs ans see how they put these together and leave them some love: 

Susan: circles, squares and the card itself is a rectangle. The bling comes from the lovely Andrea at 

Annabelle Stamps!

Julene: Squares, circles(buttons & bling in shaker box) and  a rectangle.

The buttons and bling are from Annabelle Stamps.

What a nice gift and card combined!

Tracey with the geometric shapes of rectangles, a few hearts and some circles (the bling handles on the little dresser drawers, the eye of the rocking horse).  The ribbon and bling are from our current sponsor, Annabelle Stamps! The entire card has been created using my Silhouette Cameo print and cut features. 

Merry - (Who is DT Guesting here for this one). I had so much fun creating this.  Thanks so much for the Sprinkles from Annabelles.  I will have to look at some other colours as they are so lovely and shiny. :-)

I have circles, rectangles and triangles.  The sentiment is a Stampin Up rub-on.

Margaret:  Card is a rectangle, layered paper tole pixie on circle and then square, sticker Merry Christmas on oval, added star and triangle Christmas tree.  Added circle rhinestones

You can find the current challenge HERE and we would love to see what you can make around the theme of GEOMETRIC SHAPES! You have two weeks to go to get your entry in. 

Challenge #33 - Geometric Shapes!

Well, obviously our last challenge was just that - a bit of a challenge for some of you who don't like to get your hands dirty when crafting - I usually don't but sometimes I just want to dive in and smear and paint and swipe and splash........anyway, those of you who did have a go produced some fabulous pieces and we had great fun commenting on them and reading all about your differing journeys. Just a reminder to read the rules before you enter please. Several entries had to be discounted because they failed to follow the rules.

However, there is only one winner and the person who has won this fabulous prize from

Thanks Mandy!

 is No 7 Scrappellen!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

Timestamp: 2014-03-01 04:31:03 UTC

Please contact me here with your details to collect the prize
and also take the winner's badge from the side bar and brag a bit!

Our DT favourite for this Challenge #32 is

Number 4 Reusing with Quilling

Congratulations!

Please take our badge from the sidebar and display proudly as a DT Favourite

Now, OUR NEW CHALLENGE 

How do you see the world? In circles and curves and bubbles, or lines,and squares and angles? A mixture of both? What colour are shapes? For me anything with a curve is in the warmer colours and all the angles and straight lines and box shapes are in the cooler range. How about you?

Challenge #33 is to create a CARD or SCRAP PAGE 

with geometric shapes

The TWIST this month - if you can face this challenge - make sure you have at least THREE different shapes on your paper-based project. 

Our Challenge this month is being sponsored by the lovely Andrea at 

Annabelle Stamps 

and Andrea is offering our winner a

Discount coupon worth $15.00 Aus
There are many lovely items available at Annabelle's, so why not pop over and have a look!

The DT have come up with some amazing inspiration for you all but we also have a Guest Designer this month. Please pop over to visit Laney and see how clever she is with images and Promarkers too, but for us today she has made this gorgeous card without using any stamps.

Guest Designer Laney

Now the rest of our DT have some more inspiration for you:

JanR 

Jan's sentiment is created with her Silhouette and sketch pens

Beth

Beth used punches, and embossing for texture,with the 4 & U being rub-ons.

Tracey

 

Tracey came across this adorable easel card file at My ScrapChick...and the first thing she did was start counting shapes...rectangles in the fence, circles on the fence posts as well as the centre sentiment, an elongated oval for the card stop, and of course triangles for those adorable birdie beaks! She rummaged through her stash for suitable rub-ons for this project, and came up empty handed...so her own handwriting it was! 

Julene

There's rectangles, hexagons, heart and circle.

From Sarah

Sarah says: "For this card, I used repeating geometric shapes: squares, circles, rectangles and stars. The sentiment is a combination of chipboard and stickers."

Margaret

Susan: rectangles, squares (behind the rectangle), circles, ovals in the leaves

Well, there you have it.  There are lots of geometric shapes represented here and if you visit the blogs of the team you will be able to see how the cards and pages were created.  Don't forget to leave them some love as well! So, great prize and great inspiration -what else is needed? Oh yes, the Linky - see it below?  Just add your card or scrap page to the linky - link directly to your relevant post - and don't forget to mention us and link back. No stamps please. 

An InLinkz Link-up

Not long to get dirty now for Challenge #32!

Hello Peeps

Thanks for looking in at our Unstampabelles Challenge blog - our current challenge "Dare to Get Dirty" is still running for a few more days - it finishes on the last day of February this year, the 28th at midnight AET.

If you were thinking of having a go -now's your time to get busy!

You are asked to get your hands dirty making a CARD/SCRAP PAGE without using any stamps of any kind and the TWIST of this challenge is to document your journey while you were getting dirty! 

We have some new pieces to inspire you from the team - being a Crafter you know there are many ways to get dirty whilst creating your masterpiece. Here are a few of them!

Susan: messy blocks of colour and then some inking through masks and then some scribble - see the journey on my blog!

Julene: we have an inked card using a sea themed stencil.

The background paper suggests holidays and the "sentiment" says where.

This is for a friend going on a cruise.

Margaret: My grand daughter getting dirty helping her in the garden. I did this layout today using Pink Gem background paper, Distress stain and marker for garden at the bottom plus punched leaves, flowers and butterflies and rhinestones.  Typed title with word art on the computer. 

We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge...

http://www.stickerstore.com.au/ 

There is approx $40 worth of goodies in here! WOW!

So, what is your excuse?  Off you go and produce something for our challenge, remembering there  are only a few days to go, and don't forget to take some photo's and tell us the story of the journey in your blog ramblings. Link through the Inkylink Thingy here. 

Midway Post for our challenge - Dare to Get Dirty!

We have some lovely entries to date - you cannot see them without clicking on the Inkylink thingy though. Why not go and have a look!

Remember - NO STAMPs and it has to be paper based.  There are still two weeks to go so go on - get down and dirty! Soap and water cleans it up after all!

We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge...

http://www.stickerstore.com.au/ 

There is approx $40 worth of goodies in here! How wonderful is that!

Some new inspiration from some of the team for you:

Tracey
I'm back with more inking, pasting and paper piecing with a fantastic cut file from SVG Cuts. Unfortunately I forgot to journal my mess along this journey this time, but this is very similar to the last project I posted here...

(Isn't that just gorgeous!)

Margaret

Getting dirty building my daughter's retaining wall   My fingers were dirty after just using the brown distress stain around the edges!

Susan: wet embossing on dry embossing with die cut. Go to my blog to see how dirty it got to make this card!

Remember: NO STAMPS and to enter just click on the Inkylink thingy and follow the instructions!

Challenge #32 - Dare to Get Dirty

Hello everyone:

Well, we are still here and still running! thank you  to the many well wishers who sent such lovely positive comments and to the people who entered the first challenge.  It's funny - I thought I was being quite inventive with the title "New Beginnings" but there were several different challenges out there with the same name this month! Of course, none of them were like ours!

Firstly, on to the winners of January's challenge:

Challenge# 31 - New Beginnings

Our sponsor for this was the wonderful

It was won by:

Here are your random numbers:

2

Timestamp: 2014-02-01 05:14:26 UTC

Debbie Reed

Congratulations Debbie! Please contact me for details on collecting the prize. 

As well each month the DT girls get to select a favorite:

DT Favorite this month is:

Very Belle

Congratulations Very Belle - a truly wonderful CAS card; love the little button

Challenge #32 - Dare to Get Dirty

The sponsor for this is 



and the prize is valued at approx $40 Aust

How generous is that! Why not go and see what they have there and perhaps snag a bargain!

Before we see what the DT has come up with just a quick reminder to you all about our rules:

1. We like your project to be paper based unless it clearly says not
2. We want to see you create something beautiful without using any stamps at all - be they digis, rubber or cling stamps
3. Decoupage is wonderful but please clearly state that is what it is - there are quite a few companies now who are producing their own CD's and decoupage sheets with their stamp images on them.  If you use one of them, acknowledge it clearly please in your blog
4. HAVE FUN - we would really prefer that you see the challenge and then create but reality is that you create and then look-see what you can link it to; that's OK if there is no back linking and you clearly follow the theme of the challenge
5. There is a (not-compulsory-but-gee-would-like-to-see-you-do-it) TWIST each month - are you a crafter who is up to that challenge? It may be just to blog some extra words, take a few more photo's or to use a specific colour or shape or use a specific thing. Extend yourself!

The TWIST this month is for you to document (hopefully with photo's) your journey!

What does this mean? Well, you can make a background using ink or paint or both; you can make an embellishment ink or painty or both! You can use dies and embossing folders with paint and/or ink - either before, during and after; you can use texture paste and glitter and glue and crayons and inkpads........just remember to take lots of pictures and tell us about your journey!

And now the DT's inspiration for you:

Margaret's Scrap page

Grandchildren painting the garage - with a paint background on layout!

A brave parent who allowed that but what fun! Great layout Margaret.

From JanR 

I rolled the wooden circles in ink as well as used mist. Unfortunately, I forgot about the "twist" so I didn't take any pictures which was really too bad as my fingers were stained brown from the Distress Ink!

Deanne
 I used paint and a doily to make my background.

Beth

I used photographic paper and inks and created the Northern Lights technique for my background. I forgot to take photo's of my messy hands, but do have a photo of the inked worksheet which I'll post on my blog.

Tracey

I will confess that I struggled with this one and wasn't sure which direction to go in. To get some inspiration I read over the "Ideas for Creations" which you can find on the tabs here on the blog.  Well, the word "box" just jumped out at me.  I had a cutting file for my Silhouette from My Scrap Chick that I had been wanting to use which was a box treat card all in one! Now cutting with that machine can sure get messy with all the tiny pieces, and all the pieces need to be inked, glued, etc...but my version of "dirty" may be a little cleaner than others...I hope this works for you!
 
Stop by my blog just to see how messy things did get!

Julene

This is a layout that fits with the "Getting dirty" theme.

My daughter was about 2 and a half in these photos and certainly enjoyed her spaghetti.

I did some dry embossing on the tag to resemble spaghetti.

Sarah

For this card, I inked up a piece of transparency sheet, mixed in water and then inverted it and transferred everything onto a clean sheet of card stock.  I then cut up the inked image and used pieces of it for the background of my stickers and rub on sentiment. To see more go to my blog!

Susan

It was my 30th Wedding Anniversary last Tuesday and this is the card I made my husband - of course he didn't get it until the weekend 'cause it wasn't finished or dry.......30 is apparently pearls or diamonds. Still waiting........(lol).  Details of the making on my blog - see you there!

Now, I have been keeping a lookout for the last few weeks at work that uses any of these techniques: a masterclass on mono-printing in Craft Stamper using a gelatine place and ink - very messy!; Ditto magazine (same one I think) on using drywall tape and ink to create patterns (but you could use onion bags or hessian or plastic wrap or bubble wrap....); Australian Simply Cards has lots of ideas using sprays on card and cutting it up; inking edges with the various Distress inks; acrylic paint resist (they use stamps but you could dip a feather in the paint or a leaf or flower petal or die cut or a household item of some type (ie potato masher!) - lots of inspiration and how-to-do-it instructions out there on the web as well..........

Well, that is it - how about you do some careful thinking and designing - not while driving or cooking, we don't want accidents, but all other times are OK - and then get creating. I recommend a G and T or a good coffee while indulging in thinking time!We look forward to seeing what you can come up with and are sure that we will be learning from you and delighting in sharing with you your joy in the creation!

Don't forget to link your creations here and back to your blog post: Your link-up and thumbnail will appear in a new page - and not here. We will still see it though! Just click on the link below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Five Day's to Go!

There are only 5 days left for the first 2014 Challenge#31 - New Beginnings!

A reminder - you need to make a CARD  without any stamps - digital, cling or rubber!

Before I go on:

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY 

for yesterday!

Hope you all had a great time!

Now here are a couple of CARDS to inspire you for this last few days of our challenge

Julene

This is a card I have made for Lucy Maraca. The sentiment says awesome, so it could be for any big news such as an engagement, passing exams - whatever it is, the reason would mean a new beginning for someone.

Thanks Julene - I know life has dealt a difficult few moments for you lately and appreciate the effort to make this for us!

Susan

Babies are definitely a new beginning in anyone's life and we are expecting a few new people in our life this year, so I was just getting in a bit early!

Remember - there is an awesome prize for this challenge:

We are sponsored this month by the wonderful

So, why not have a go in the last few days of this challenge and see if you can produce a CARD without using any stamps - it really is easier than it sounds!