Uniko Brand Ambassador Post - Snowflakes

 Morning all. Just a quick post to share a card I made for my Uniko BA inspiration and to join in a couple of challenges.

Over at JUGS it's stencil week and at The Paper Players it's a sketch. I've combined both to create this Christmas card.

I found an ombre stencilled panel using Uniko's Let it Snow stencil and some shades of blue DOx., I believe it was Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean and Broken China. It reminded me of the inspiration card from the Paper Players by Joanne, and combined it with the large snowflake from Rustic Snowflake. I initially looked for some blue card to match but then decided to make my own DP with a Gelli plate pull using all the colours, it was bound to match then!! 

I trimmed down each panel and added them to a white A6 note card as per the sketch. Some of the gelli print I inked over with more Chipped Sapphire to darken it and stamped the snowflake with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. A sentiment from Peace on Earth was similarly done.

The dark navy strip was cut to size and added over the snowflake stencilling and the snowflake was cut out using a circle die and added. The greeting was trimmed down and added to complete. Another card for my Christmas stash!

That's it for today but I'll be back tomorrow with the new Color Hues challenge.

Happy crafting!

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Color Hues #141

Afternoon folks.

It's time for another colour duo from Color Hues today. This is a soft pairing from Sheri that suits florals as well as other design styles as the rest of the team have showcased. I went simple with this design.

I've used a NEBUS set from Altenew that I picked up in a sale last year and hadn't used so thought I'd better! It's called Painted Roses and I've stamped it with some of their inks too, 3 of the colours from Shades of Purple set and the Green Fields set for the leaves and stem. These collections certainly make life easier when stamping layered designs.

The sentiment is from the same set stamped in black and the main panel was edged with the darkest of the greens for some added definition before being added to the base card with foam pads.

So what will you create with these lovely new colours? Please don't forget that it must only be these colours and hints of our neutrals which are listed on the Color Hues page. 

Happy crafting.

 

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Sympathy/Thinking of You/Get Well

#90

To a Fun Guy!

Morning all.

Were almost halfway through September already, I can't quite believe it. It's still very warm as I type this post even though it's now officially autumn!

Over at Cardz4Guyz we have a hew theme for you to get your creative heads around. This month we would like to see your makes on the theme of:-

A FALL THEME or COLOURS

Here's my take, I've used both an autumnal theme and rich autumnal colours.

With all the rain we've had in the last few weeks along with warm weather the mushrooms and fungi are popping up all over the garden and surrounding fields. These are part of a larger stamp set from Chocolate Baroque which I've coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The background is a Gelli plate panel that went wrong but when put behind the mushroom and foliage you can't see it! The foliage was die cut sometime ago and put into a container for times just like this! A simple circular aperture frames the mushrooms and foliage. The sentiment is from Altenew and I popped it on my panel with foam tape as was the rest of the top panel and central design.

I thought I could write 'to a fun guy' on the inside to complete!!!

So where wiill the new theme take you? As always the team have some brill ideas on the C4G blog if you need a little help, so looking forward to seeing your makes in the gallery!

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Masculine Mushrooms!

Masculine

Color Hues #140

A new month and a new colour combination from Color Hues.

Nancy is hosting this challenge and she has gone with a combination similar to this card. I did initially think of using a similar masculine image but while I was rootling through my printed off images I came across one I'd not used before from LOTV, Annabel Roller Girl and I thought the colours would suit this tomboy image.

I used Copics B91,93,95,97,99 for the blues, along with a collection of Es for the browns and found a piece of NitWits paper I bought in a pad many years ago from LOTV's shop in Farsley which matched the colours perfectly. I think I'd been saving the pad and completely forgot about this dotty DP. I have lots of NitWits digi papers but my paper is not as firm as the pad version so I was hanging onto it!!

My top panel was embossed with another vintage EF, Cuttlebug, which I've had for nearly 20 years but is a goodie that doesn't get out to play much these days. The DP was glued to my base card, then the die cut and embossed panel added with foam tape before Annabel was added on top. No sentiment as the EF says it all!

So where will this new colour combo take you? As always the rest of the team have some fab inspo over on the Color Hues blog along with our wonderful GD Michele.

Looking forward to seeing your makes in the gallery!

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There are lots of lines I could have played along with but I think I'll go with 

Layers - For the Kids - Circles

Here's one I made earlier!

I was cleaning up the front end of my computer yesterday and came across this card I made a few months back using Uniko's Pure Floral Rose and it's perfect for a few challenges that are just coming to an end so I thought I would share now!

It's on the same lines as one I made using Uniko's Peony set here. The ladies at my Wednesday art group loved it and so I did a class to show them how to watercolour a stamped bloom but in the end I used the Lily set as it was simpler for them to paint. Perhaps now we have done a simple flower we may go back and try this bloom.

I used watercolours instead of inks to paint my rose which I stamped with a pale ink on mixed media paper so that the outline didn't show. The finished bloom was then fussy cut and attached to my die cut panel on which I'd stamped the greeting, a mix of Doodle Flowers and an older set, You Are, Yes You, with Memento London Fog.

The diecut panel was then added to a white top folding note card.

On another note, the garden is finally looking a little more green after the deluges of the last couple of days. However the water tank isn't as full as we thought it would be. Reason? The heavy rain washed grot off the tractor shed and blocked the newly cleaned gutters and blocked the filter so it was going straight down the overflow! Anyway the OH found out before the next set of thunderstorms arrived yesterday, so hopefully it will get topped up now all the grot has been washed away!

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Summer Blooms