A Snowy Scene

Afternoon all.

Just sitting down after hoovering the kitchen and snug prior to the OH mopping down ready for tomorrow's visitors! Only the utility loo and lounge to do now!

Anyway I've got a few minutes to share this card I made for my Son and wife, which also fits with a few challenges out there!

Over at Inkspirational they want COLD and those two skaters are all wrapped up from it as they skate through the snowy landscape that's just right for the latest Allsorts challenge! As I've used Copics to colour them that fits with the Promarker Challenge too!

The DP is some NitWits paper which I printed off and glued to an A5 white base card, leaving a little border of white card. Next, I made my landscape by die cutting an aperture into a smaller white card panel, embossed with a falling snow design and some white card die cuts of trees and hills to create a scene for my skaters to slide through! These were a LOTV digi which I printed off, coloured with Copics and then fussy cut and added to the scene, together with some freehand lines to replace those cut off from the original. A stamped sentiment, Uniko, completes.

So that's all from me for the moment, I may grab a little me time to share some more Christmas makes next week, fingers crossed!

Happy Christmas!

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#838 Create a Scene

Mega Christmas Challenge - add a sentiment

 

Christmas Critters

Morning all.

It's the final challenge of the year at Cardz4Guyz where this month our theme is:-

CHRISTMAS CRITTERS

I love a cute critter at Christmas and have lots of images in my stash but eventually I went with this cute Margaret Sherry image that came free with a magazine some time ago.

The background was created awhile ago from strips of red and green card made from scraps which were glued onto a piece of white card to create a pattern. It's a great way to use up all those oddments we all have that we keep because you just never know when you might need it!!

So, after glueing the strips onto a square green note card, I stamped my image and coloured using Copics, then fussy cut out. A very old Woodware sentiment was stamped onto my background and the mice added with foam pads.

We are open for entries all across the festive period so it's the perfect opportunity to share some of your Christmas makes or dare I say it get ahead with your Christmas 26 stash!!

For more inspiration, please check out the rest of the team on the Cardz4Guyz blog.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Reds and Greens

 Red and Green

Uniko BA Inspiration

Evening all. Have you got all your Christmas cards made and posted? I hope I have but I do have a few spare just in case.

So today I'm up on the Uniko blog with an idea for a New Year card that was inspired by a couple of challenges. What do you think? 

On an A6 top fold, white note card, I stamped the Background Blocks- Party Confetti in Versamark and embossed with jewelled gold EP. On a separate panel of white, I used the numerals from the Alphabet Solid set to create the 2026 in more of the jewelled gold EP. This was mounted on a slightly larger black one then added over my confetti with foam pads. A simple sentiment from Simply Said Blocks Christmas in black completes.

The layout of this card is also a nod to the CAS Colours and Sketches as it users the square layout of this former 2025 sketch made seasonal.

This layout is a square one and mine is rectangular but the 4 squares are represented on mine by the numerals of the year! The gold EP always says celebration but it also reflects the saris in the photo inspiration over at Time Out!

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I chose the sketch #560

Color Hues #123

Afternoon peeps, is it really December already?! November passed me by in a haze of Olbas oil, tissues and menthol sweets as I tried, along with my OH, to get rid of an awful cold that seemed to drag on for the whole month. Anyway as I wasn't feeling upto housework, :), it gave me the perfect excuse to play with some new stash that I'd bought back in the summer, Waffle Flower's Postage Collage starter set.

Here's what I made for the new Color Hues challenge.

Initially, I bought just the starter kit but finally decided to buy the Christmas stencil set at Port Sunlight back in October. There are far too many lovely sets and they aren't cheap as they consist of 4 separate stencils, so it took me awhile to choose. I love poinsettias so this one spoke to me!

I have restricted my colours to those of the latest Color Hues colour duo and some neutrals, so my poinsettias are shades of pink, as are my scandi stars, all arranged on some new to me card I also picked up at Port Sunlight, Warm Taupe from Lime Tree Crafts. It has a subtle texture that I liked and hope to get more next time I see his stand. I do like kraft card but sadly getting some that's not too dark is difficult of late, this might become a good substitute in the meantime!

Once I'd filled in the patterns using the stencils, including a bit of sparkle using a gel pen on the reindeer, cut up the panel and stamped some of the postage elements in black before rearranging onto my panel. I stamped Merry Christmas, Uniko, onto black and heat embossed with white. All the postage elements were glued flat but I popped the sentiment up on foam pads. The trimmed down taupe panel was then added to an A6 white note card.

So where will this colour duo take you? We're looking forward to seeing your makes in the Color Hues gallery which will be open for the whole MONTH!! So lots of time to make something, perhaps use some of your gifts from Santa, once all the relatives have gone, or perhaps in a quiet moment whilst they're still here ;)!

For more fabulous inspiration please check out the rest of the team here along with our GD.

MERRY CRAFTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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white/Christmas/die cuts

Uniko Blog Hop featuring MCM Baubles

Morning all. It's release day at Uniko for the MCM Bauble stencil and masks and as per usual we are having a blog hop and GIVEAWAY!! 

All week Bev and the Brand Ambassadors have been using the new stencil and masks together with the MCM Baubles clear stamp set to create some fab inspiration. Now you can get it for yourself but first there are a few more ideas on how to use it and the matching stamp set, here's mine.

I used the masks and the stamp set coloured with Copics, to create this image. 

I started by stamping the larger of the two baubles and then masked it with the mask before stamping the two smaller baubles. Keeping the masks inplace, I then stamped the evergreen bough from Winter Foliage with Altenew's Evergreen ink. Still with the masks in place, I used a small blending brush to flesh out the boughs before finally removing the masks and colouring the baubles with Copic Markers.

The bauble hangers from the stamp set were added and heat embossed with platinum EP, drawing the strings with a black fine liner. A simple sentiment completes.

If you aren't the colouring sort, here's the same layout but using the stencil and mask.

I used a mix of DIs and gold EP for the hangers in this example.

This final card is what you get when it's dark and miserable outside and you really don't want to do much at all. I found myself looking at tutorials on YouTube! 

I'd seen a tutorial for watercolouring Christmas lights a couple of years ago here and found getting the shape of the bulbs consistent problematical, I needed a stencil! So after using the stencil as intended, I went a little off piste so to speak and created this.

Using the oval apperture I drew lightly around the shape with a soft pencil, but as the bauble had a point, I had to freehand the bottom of the bulb. Once all five bulbs were spaced out evenly on my panel of mixed media paper, I drew in the screw heads and the wire before following the video as best I could. I don't have the specific watercolours that were used, so substituted those I did have. When fully dry, I stamped and embossed the sentiment from Christmas Sentiments in WOW Platinum Sparkle. Once complete, I trimmed the A5 panel down and mounted it onto some silver holographic card in my stash and then onto an A5 base card.

So that's all from me but as usual we have a traditional Blog Hop and Giveaway, so lets look at what Bev and the other Brand Ambassadors have created for today. Be sure to leave a comment along the hop for your chance to win a £20 eGift code to spend in store.

 Anita

Bev

Julie -that's me

Izzy

Natalie

Steph

Vinita

Happy hopping!

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