Lighthouse

Good morning.

It's Tuesday and time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This time we would love to see your cards on the theme of:-

LIGHTHOUSES

I thought I had 3 stamps that would suit this challenge but when I went to look for them I discovered I actually had 4! One I'm sure came from my friend Di as I don't remember buying it myself! If I did it's never been used as the other in the same series was used for this card a few years ago! Anyway here is what I made for your inspiration.

As this is a very busy stamp from Micheal Powell for DoCrafts, I decided to use the spotlight technique and just colour the popped out section. I used Copics to colour and popped the coloured panel back over the outline stamp on pads before mounting on some kraft coloured card and adding it to an A6 white base card. The sentiment, a freebie from a mag and also NEBUS, was stamped onto a scrap of white card, mounted on kraft and added. The mount looks larger on one side than the other but it must be the angle as they are both the same in real life!

So where will the theme take you? As always we look forward to seeing your makes in our gallery but if you should need more inspiration then why not check out the rest of the team here.

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It might be old but it's new to me!

Color Hues #102

Good afternoon folks.

As we are over halfway through January it's time for a new colour duo from Color Hues!

Here's my card using the colours.

I was tempted to down the floral route but I couldn't resist colouring in this little chap that I'd printed off ages ago and was languishing in my to colour box!

Copics were used to colour his kit, B32, 34, 37 and 39 for the Navy and paler blue elements and a mix of various YG greens for the grass, if only ours was this colour now! The outline of the grass stopped short of the edges of my panel in the digi, so I squiggled in a few extra blades with a black fine liner to extend it. I stamped the sentiment, also LOTV onto an MFT die cut banner and added to my image. Two strips of scrap card were coloured with Copic B39 to match the rugby kit and added beneath the image panel before being added to my base card to which I had added some DP in a lime green colourway. I was tempted to leave it without but then I saw the challenge at AYLI! This was actually a scrap from another project so I didn't need to print a new 8 x 8 sheet out. 

I love NitWits papers, started when LOTV had a collaboration with NitWits going back over 10 years now. Loved to flip through a brand new pack, the digi ones are easier to store and you only use what you need but I do miss flipping through a brand new pad, one to use and one to keep anyone?

Anyway this is quite a subtle pattern which works with the theme of the card, looks much limier in real life!

So where will these new colours take you? As always we love seeing your makes in the Color Hues gallery but should you need more inspiration please check out our DT as well as our GD Esther. You never know, you could be our next GD, got to be in it to win it!

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Favourite brand of DP

I love NitWits papers, started when LOTV had pads of them going back over 10 years now. The digi ones are easier to store and you only use what you need but I do miss flipping through a brand new pad! One to use and one to keep anyone?

Picture Perfect Pals

Good morning! How about a brand new challenge from Cardz4Guyz to get you back into crafting mode after all the holiday hubbub? This time for our first challenge of the new year we have something different a -

TIC TAC TOE BOARD!

Choose any line to inspire your card making process.

I chose the diagonal for my inspiration card.

Animal/Blue/Plaid

The image is from MFTs Picture Perfect set which I framed with an MFT die cut frame after colouring with Copics. For the background I used a plaid EF with some denim blue card, adding some Faded Jeans DI over the top to darken the raised elements.

The panel was trimmed, added to an A6 white base card, s strip of matching card was added at the join with a simple LOTV sentiment on the remaining card panel. The framed pals were popped up on pads to complete.

So where will this board take you? We're looking forward to seeing your makes in our gallery. For more inspiration why not check out the rest of the team here.

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Uniko Release Day Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Good morning, hope the weather is improving where you are, it's rain falling on frozen ground here in the Welsh borders so treacherous out and about! 

It's finally release day and all the products we've been introducing this week are now available to purchase on the Uniko website.

However, if you need some more inspirational persuasion, get comfy grab a cuppa and keep on reading. 

This card is another using the Flower Power #11 stamp set very like the one on intro day but more tightly grouped. I like the blend of colours this gives but the down side is that the final panel is a tad small.

To compensate for the small panel size, I die cut it with two stacking dies to create the frame and mounted it onto a black base card, then added the leftover as an outer frame. It also means a I have a slim, white square frame to use later!! Another of my ready made Doodle Flower sentiments completes, this time simply stamped on white with black and mounted on a circle of black to match the rest.

Flower Power #11 Clear Stamp Set £6.50

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www.uniko.co.uk

Do you remember my intro for MCM Stars and Circles? Well there was a half a panel left over and here it is!

This time I mounted it on a panel of black, trimmed it down and added it to a square white base card, I also incorporated that leftover frame from the first project! The little coloured circles are also a left over from my Sparkles Sentiments card.

Stencil - Mid Century Modern Circles & Stars £4.50

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

My next card uses three of this weeks release in one card! Central panel Ink n Flip Flower Power #8 stencil, Background Builders Flower Power and the Simply Said Blocks Occasion, plus Happy from a previous set.

You could put any sentiment you wanted to in the center, there are lots of combinations in the Simply Said Blocks series!

Background Builders: Flower Power Clear Stamp Set £11.50

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

Simply Said Blocks Occasions Clear Stamp Set £6.50

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Ink & Flip Layering Flower Power #8 Stencil £8.00

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

After years of making A6 cards, I seem to be embracing the small square format, or is it the tight Yorkshire Lass I am!! 

The leftover from a circle die cut, was stamped repeatedly with one of the Flower Power strips, mounted over a stencilled Flower Power #8 and a die cut frame on a 41/4" base card, simples!!

This card was influenced by one I saw on Pinterest, just a simple gem on kraft.

Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Gem Stencil £8.00

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

This time I used some Dreamweavers Embossing Paste to create my gem onto a Home Bargains Kraft base card! I could have added something from the Sparkles sentiment set but in the end left it with just the gem!

Sparkle Sentiments Clear Stamp Set £11.50

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

Finally we have the fab Picked Posies stencils. Remember that panel I had left from my first intro card, well here it is, mounted on some gold mirror card mounted on a 5 x 7 white card with a vellum sentiment panel embossed in gold.

Quite a different look to the first one, it will soon be winging it's way to my Sister in Law, whose birthday is later this month. I glued the vellum onto the stencilled panel by adding glue directly behind the large stamped and embossed sentiment, a great way to hide those dots of glue!!

Layering Picked Posies Stencils £13.75

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

Well that was a release and a half don't you think? Time to hop along to see what the other BAs have been up to.

Be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win a £25 eGift Certificate to spend in store. Winners of this giveaway and the stencils from the first couple of days introductions will be announced here on the blog, Monday 13th January 2025.

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Bev

Julie -that's me

Izzy

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Reintroducing... Background Builders Flower Power

Good morning!

Welcome to the final day of introductions of Uniko's January release.

Today we are focusing on a RErelease, Background Builders Flower Power. Like others in the series, it consists of strips of floral images that you can use singularly or to cover a larger area. They also coordinate with the Flower Power sets.

Here's my card which uses one of the strip stamps and the matching Flower Power #7 flower head.

I started by stamping a panel of white card with a rainbow of array of daisies, rainbow colours appears to be my theme for this release! I stamped out some of the outline daisies from Flower Power #7 and cut them out using a die from an old Sizzix set that almost matched the outline, adding some Copic to the centers. I stamped the sentiment, THANK on black with Versamark then heat embossed with white EP, the you was simply stamped in black and both were fussy cut. I chose the sentiment as perhaps you might need inspiration for a card at this time of year and it is also the challenge over at MAWTT!

The stamped panel was die cut and mounted onto a slightly larger circle and then onto a small square card.

So what have the rest of the team been up to? Why not check them out?

 Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -that's me

Steph

Vinita

Tomorrow we will be back with the full release and of course our traditional Blog Hop and Giveaway, so until then....

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