Featured Artist at Color Throwdown #844

Good morning. I'm here bright and early for a post for Color Throwdown.

I'm the Featured Stamper for this challenge after my poinsettia card here was picked out.

So without further ado here is my make!

I thought for a long time about what I should make for this challenge and as my bestie's birthday has crept up on me, I thought I would make her a birthday card in the colours! Two birds with one stone, so to speak!

I chose to use DIs for my inked background panel, Salty Ocean, Kitsch Flamingo and Mustard Seed, adding patches of colour to a panel of white card. To create some texture, I spritzed the surface with water along with a few more larger drops, that I then mopped up with a paper towel. I tried not to overlap the colours so that there wasn't too much colour mixing!

My snarky sentiment is an old one from a DoCrafts set from over 15 years ago, Nostalgia High Heels, which I stamped onto a circle of white card, leaving space for my Copic coloured Ai lady.

She's from their Sassy Laugh Lines set, which after colouring, I fussy cut and added with foam pads. A few Pretty Pink Posh sequins complete the panel, which I added to a white 5 x 7inch base card.

So there you have it, please check out the team over a Color Throwdown for some fabulous inspiration and then why not join in?

Color Hues #121

Afternoon, hope your weekend is of to a fine start!

As it's the start of a new month, we have a new colour duo from Color Hues chosen by Sheri. It's a fab autumnal palette that I'm sure will have your creative juices flowing. Here's my take.

I've used Stamping Bella's Quinn and her boots, together with some DPs.

After stamping, I used Copics to colour and for a change didn't fussy cut her but cropped the panel instead. A sentiment from my favourite Uniko sentiment set was stamped in black.

On an A6 beige card, I added a panel of diamond DP, NitWits and below some hessian DP from LOTV.  I found a small piece of orange check DP from another project in the bits box to cover the join but it was a tiny bit too small, so I cut it in half, the gap was conveniently covered by the image panel!

So that's it really, but please check out the rest of the team here for more fab orange and brown inspiration!

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#835 Autumnal Colours

Orange Purple Black use 1 or more

 Morning all, time for a new challenge from Cardz4Guyz which I'm also sharing over at Uniko.

This time we have a colour challenge for you:-

USE one or more of ORANGE, BLACK or PURPLE

Here's what I made using Uniko's Nature's Treasures Stencil and all of the colours.

CAS is a great way to make a masculine card and as flowers are a bit of a no no for them too, I turned to leaves. In this case I used Nature's Treasures II stencil, some DIs,Wilted Violet, Black Soot, Ripe Persimmon, Carved Pumpkin, Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon, Spiced Marmalade and a sentiment from Organic Wishes.

I mostly used the smaller of the two stencils moving it around to create the look of an autumnal tree, inking onto an A6 top fold white card. I wasn't sure how the purple element would work out but I quite like it. Where it overlays the orange it gives a shade of brown but the purpley hues suggest depth and the black stencilling, shadows. The sentiment is quite ambiguous and could be used for a variety of occasions, including sympathy.

You don't have to use all of the colours like me but at least one has to feature prominantly. You could go down the Halloween route or perhaps like me autumn is more your vibe, the choice is yours, just make it masculine. The team have a few ideas should you need them here.

As I've use orange and purple in my design so I can share it over at Color Hues, The Paper Players are all for foliage and the mood board at JUGS has an autumnal feel too!

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Color Hues #120

Afternoon folkls, as we are mis way through October it's time for a brand new colour combo from Color Hues. This choice is very of the season, so to speak, here's my card.

You don't have to go down the spooky route but I sort of went down that avenue, using this new to me digi from LOTV, isn't she sweet?

After printing her off, I coloured her with my Copic markers and fussy cut her out. Her wand was originally coloured orange but then I went over it with some gold paint! 

On an A6 note card I created the background using a homemade stencil for the circle and a Tim Holtz star one and some Wilted Violet DI. I'd seen a pic of the spooky background and decided to have a go at creating my own with some scrap card, a circle die and fussy cutting. The shading on the masked area was done with a little bit of Weathered Wood DI.

So where will these colours take you, as always my teamies have come up with some fab inspiration here, alongside our GD Bobby, should you need it.

Looking forward to seeing your makes in the gallery.

For those of you who can remember back to my saga with my faulty washing machine back in August, the manufacturers, Bosch, finally decided that they would replace the faulty machine after nearly 2 months and 5 engineer visits. My new replacement is not the same model as that is no longer in production, wonder why? Three loads in it's working fine but I'm too scared to use the iDOS system in case it goes wrong again. At least they have added my extended warranty to my replacement machine if I pluck up enough courage to try it out!!

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#79

I choose Autumn - Halloween

#503

World Card Making Day

 Morning peeps, happy world card making day!

It's a been a hectic week for me, with visits from one lot of grandkids mid week and another visit today, Flu jabs, dog at the vets for teeth removal, hairdessers appointment, catching up with my bestie, and trying to get my washing machine sorted. As a result I've been absent from my craft room and have only just got around to sharing this card I finally completed last night after the flu jab, 10 to 8 at night! Can you believe it? So here it is.

Bev said I could share an older make for World card making Day, but when I went to look I saw one using this fab stamp and decided an afternoon painting would be just the ticket after a hectic few days, then my bestie rang for a catch up after her month in Portugal. You know what it's like, an hour had sped by and the painting had barely started!!

So down to details. Pure Florals - Poinsettia stamped in Versamark on an A6 panel of plain white card then heat embossed with gold EP. A mix of DIs for the painting, along with a pale orange for the central flowers. My aim was to use the colours from Color Throwdown, hope that tiny nod to orange is sufficient! To fill in around the flower head, I sketched in some foliage with a WOW embossing pen and more gold EP.

The sentiment is from the same poinsettia set and the Christmas from Cheistmas Sentiments.

To celebrate Bev, is having a little competition

Simply make a card that uses a Uniko product. You could use a stamp, stencil, designer die or even a digital product. There are some free downloads HERE. 

Next, share it on social media (Instagram, Facebook or even Pinterest) and be sure to tag @unikoltd so we see it! You can even link up your card up at Uniko here. If you don't do social media or have trouble linking up, email me your entry to bev@uniko.co.uk

You have today and tomorrow (Sunday 5th) to get your entries in.

3 winners will be randomly selected from those entered across all platforms to win a Uniko prize bundle. Winners will be contacted and announced here on Monday 6th October 2025

So what are you waiting for?

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