Color Hues #111

A new month and a brand new colour challenge from Color Hues. 

Sheri is hosting and has chosen a warm summery feel for her colours. Here's my take.

Coral is many things to different people but I went with the colours from Altenew's inks, Coral Bliss and Coral Berry for my take. They remind me of the paper thin petals of the wild poppies that are currently bursting into life in my gravel. I love poppies, so any excuse to paint them is to be embraced!

First off, I stamped the largest poppies from Altenew's Poppy Garden with their Limestone ink onto some MM paper for a no line effect. Then, I watercoloured the flower heads with a mix of Coral Bliss, Vineyard Berry and Coral Berry by smooching the pads onto an old dinner plate to create a palette and then adding some water. For the leaves I used a trio of Zig watercolour markers. The poppy centers were painted with the same markers in shades of black and grey. Another warm grey marker was used to give a little cast shadow to the petals.

I wanted to create a lattice for my blooms to sit on, so after looking through my stash, I settled on a Creative Expressions die and made a mini slimline card for a change. To assemble the card, I glued two of the lattices together and added them to my base, before adding the fussy cut flower heads and leaves. A simple foiled sentiment completes.

So which direction will these two new colours take you? As always the team and our GD have some fabulous inspirational makes, should you need it here!

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Nature

Too Many Candles

 Morning all, rather a damp Bank Holiday for a few of us but the rain was sorely needed to fill the water tanks and quench the parched ground. 

Anyway, it's time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. This time our theme is perfect for masculine cards as it's:-

SHADES of BLUE

Here's my take.

I decided to use some DP in shades of blue from my scraps drawer to cut out a few candles with my MFT Birthday Candles die set, along with the flames cut from card scraps. I've had this set for ages and this is it's first outing so I will be linking up over at Darnell's NEBUS challenge!

I had this aperture panel floating around in my bits box, so before it got beyond use I decided to trim it down and frame my die cut candles with it. A die cut sentiment, sorry can't remember the brand, was added to my top panel before it was popped up on foam pads over my candles, which I'd previously glued to my base card. A very simple and easy to replicate design, just switch up the colours for a totally different vibe!

So what would you do? As always we look forward to seeing your MASCULINE makes in our gallery. The team have come up with some other ideas for you here, if you need them ;) .

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Happy 16th Birthday!

#824 AG

#74

 

CASe a Card and a GD spot

Morning. This is an early morning post for my GD spot at AAA Cards Challenge. I won the challenge a few months ago for this card. So here is my card for the latest challenge.

The theme for this challenge is Follow my lead, so basically it's a CASe of the inspiration card below.

I don't know if you have heard of Ardyth Percy Robb's LIMES concept to help with your inspiration.

L- List

     I- Include

     M- Modify

      E- Exclude

S- Spin

Here Sue's card is a graduation card, white on black, gold embossed edge, long sentiment, negative die cut and sentiment at 90'.

For mine I included the embossed edge, negative die cut, white on dark background.

I modified it by rotating 90', made the background dark blue and the embossing silver and made it a Christmas card.

I didn't really exclude anything.

For the spin I suppose I used an A6 side fold card.

On a panel of dark blue card, I stamped the snow effect with Versamark along one long edge. The stamp was a freebie many years ago so no idea what brand it is.

From a panel of white card I'd trimmed down to be slightly smaller than my A6 base, I cut out the NOEL using Altenew's lower case bold alphabet dies, leaving enough room for my strip sentiment from Uniko to be added below.

For more inspiration check back at AAA for all the details and thanks to the AAA girls for asking me to guest.

Spring/ Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with Uniko

Good afternoon!

Uniko are proud to be sponsoring a prize on the Spring /Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop this year. Here is my contribution to the hop.

On a panel of Mixed Media paper, I stamped the coffee cup from I love Coffee, in rainbow shades before using the same shades to watercolour them. I used DIs in Candied Apple, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, and Wilted Violet. Once dry, I stamped the Uniko emblem from the set in matching ink. The sentiment was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP, popped up on pads.

So what have some of the other members of the team been up to? Why not pop along and check them out, leaving some love along the way for a chance to win a £25 eGift code to spend on some Uniko goodies!

You have until Friday 30th May 2025 to comment.

 Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph 

Vinita

All details of the hop can be found on the Uniko blog.

Happy Hopping!

Color Hues #110

Afternoon. 

Can you believe we already over halfway through May, the days are hurtling by. As it's the 16th of the month we have a new colour challenge at Color Hues. This time we have a very feminine duo, chosen by Karen, here's my take.

 

I'm back to my cute images with this card, using an old LOTV rubber stamp, Coffee Time, it was one of the first stamps I purchased from them, Harrogate Stamp fair I believe nearly 20 years ago! I've also used one of my go to sketches, combining an embossed panel and some DP. I first used this layout way back in 2014 according to my records but can't be sure where I found the sketch! It's been modified over the years and adapted, probably a Sketch Saturday originally!

Copic pens are not great for choice when it comes to purple tones, so the bulk of this plum element is the card, but I did find a scrap of NitWits DP for the background that matched the theme. I used V01, 12 15 and RV34 for the plum, the nearest I could get to the red purple I think was needed and a selection of pinks in the RVs 10, 11, 13, and 14.

After fussy cutting the image, I set it to one side to make my base for it to sit on. From a panel of A6 white card, I cut a circle out with a die and then ran it through a large dot EF, brand unknown! On an A6 panel of plum card, I cut a slightly smaller circle to provide a frame inside the white panel, looks a bit wonky in the photo but it is just the angle. Both these were cut down to reveal the base card and a hint of the purple before gluing together. The DP panel was added to my base card, then the top panels on pads. My coffee drinking friends were then added, foam pads to left the top half off the DP and glue at the bottom and a Uniko sentiment completes.

So what ideas will you have for the new colour pairing? As always we love seeing your makes in the Color Hues gallery but should you need more inspiration, then why not check out the rest of the team and our GD here.

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Favourite Sketch and Why?

I like the simplicity of the sketch as well as it's versatility, male female, cute, graphic. The circle aperture makes a nice change from a circle die cut with which to frame the image. What ever your take this sketch works, just change the image, EF or colours and you've got a different look! Here's one I made 10 years ago for a bloke.