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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Color Hues #119

Good afternoon and welcome to a new colour duo from Color Hues. This time teamie  Marcia has chosen an autumnal duo for you or perhaps you think it evokes something else. Anyway here is what I came up with.

Sadly I needed a sympathy card last week and they are never easy cards to make, but the image I chose evokes a calm feeling when used with the colours.

I used a Creative Expressions/Chocolate Baroque red rubber stamp that I picked up in the bargain bucket at Port Sunlight a few years ago. It came without packaging, hence I'm unsure of the brand. To create the soft water colour effect I used a mix of DIs and water colour markers and water spritzing onto MM paper. A mixture of Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey and Barn Door DIs created the tree with a dark brown marker for the branches. Some of the ink was also smooshed onto a craft mat and added with a damp brush to the base of the tree to ground it. 

The frame is MFT and the sentiment Crafters Companion, stamped with Memento Espresso Truffle. The layout a nod to the one at Paper Players.

The trees here are not quite in their autumnal pomp yet but it wont be too long now I don't think, love the colours of autumn.

So where will these colours take you, we're looking forward to seeing your makes in the Color Hues gallery but if you should need more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT here.

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Uniko BA Inspiration and a Challenge reminder

 Good morning and welcome to a post to remind you all about the ongoing Uniko FB VIP Challenge. Here's my take on the colour challenge.

My starting point was this card made by my Color Hues teamie Bonnie. She used a background stamp but as I don't have that exact stamp, I thought I could use Season's of Beauty to create a similar feel.

I started by embossing the poinsettia and foliage with white EP on an A6 panel of Mixed Media paper. I smooshed some of Altenew's Desert Night ink onto a kraft mat then wet the whole MM panel with water and added the ink with a brush and some smooshing. The water makes the ink lighter than the original, literally diluting the colour. To achieve the patchy look, I removed some of the ink with a piece of kitchen roll before it dried. I haven't used Altenew's ink like this before and it is not as forgiving as Distress Inks, which I usually use but the colour was a better match to the swatch.

On some scrap white card, I stamped the poinsettia with Carved Pumpkin and Ripe Persimmon DI for the 2 top layers. I filled in some of the white around the sepals with more Carved Pumpkin. The foliage and green sepals I inked with Forest Moss and Peeled Paint DI, adding water to blend out the lines.

My yellow flowers we originally stamped with Wild Honey DI but they got a bit lost, so I added some dots of white gel pen over and a touch of a yellow Copic marker.

On a circle of white card, I used the Desert Night ink to stamp the sentiment and on a slightyly larger one, I added some of the same ink to create a matte. The elements were then fussy cut and added to my sentiment panel. Meanwhile, I added my inky background to a 5 x 7inch white base card and then placed the layered focal point on to that.

That's it from me for today but please consider joining in over on Facebook for a chance to win an e-voucher worth £10 to spend in the Uniko store. You've got until October 10th to play.

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Color Hues #118

Afternoon, time for a brand new colour challenge from Color Hues. 

For this challenge Jules has selected a calm colour pallette of soft blue and green but for me this was a challenge, the colours are a bit tricky to replicate in Copics but I hope I've managed to get as close as possible with this little chap, neutrals are always welcome!

 

This is a digi image from Lili of the Valley which I printed off onto some Copic friendly card before colouring. For the blue I went with the grey blues of the B90 set and for the sage green I used mainly BG90s with a touch of YG63, E71 for shadow.

The sentiment is from a magazine freebie, which I stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black. The finish panel was trimmed down to just under A6 and then mounted on some really old DP from the stash before being added to a 5 x 7inch white base card.

So there we have it, but there's plenty more fab inspiration from the rest of the girls over on the Color Hues blog, along with our GD Birgit Looking forward to seeing all your makes in the gallery.

Have fun!

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CAS

Sept - Birthdays

Make it Cute

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Morning all.

As it's well over halfway through September we have a new challenge from Cardz4Guyz. Rather appropriately our new theme for you is:-

AUTUMN/ FALL

So here is my take.

Simple, no fuss design, perfect for a bloke.

As well as a couple of challenges, I had a trawl through my old cards to see if I could come up with some inspiration for this challenge and found this card from 2014!!

Using the idea of leaf openings on a square to show the colours underneath, I created the panel. My original was a square so I went with a rectangle. The background panel was one I found in my stash, Brusho in autumnal shades, which I cut down to size before adding the punched squares. The punch is an ancient one and I was surprised it actually worked! Do you remember those days when dies were few and far between and punches ruled. I tried to alter the angle of the openings but with a punch you are limited!

Once I had my central panel, I added it an A6 base card on pads and then the gold embossed sentiment from LOTV mounted on a slither of linen effect gold card.

That's it from me but please check out the rest of the team over at Cardz4Guyz. Looking forward to seeing your makes in the gallery.

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Trees, Leaves and Plants

#317 Fall