More BA Inspiration

Afternoon peeps.

Just popping by to say I'm up on the Uniko blog with some more background sentiment panel ideas for Christmas cards.

For more details check out the Uniko blog here but these are the finished cards.

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Uniko Christmas Release Inspiration and Blog Hop

Morning all.

If you've been reading Bev's blog posts over the last week or so, you'll know that she has released a few brand new Christmas inspired stamps and also some dies, some to coordinate with existing stamp sets and some to stand alone. 

So as is tradition we are having a blog hop and giveaway, YAY!

So comment here before you hop along to the next stop for a chance to win and get some Christmas Uniko inspiration as you go. You know it's never too early to start those Christmas cards!

So grab a cuppa and settle in 'cos this is a long post!

My first card uses a stencil launched last year and a brand new large die cut snowflake. I spent many years looking for a large die so Bev has answered my prayers!

First I took a panel of white card and stencilled around the edge with Salty Ocean DOx and the 'Let it Snow' stencil. I started off pale and increased intensity as I went around. I also added a light colouring of the ink closer to the centre to take away the whiteness of the card. When dry the different layers give a sense of depth.

I trimmed the panel to just a shade smaller than an A6 base card and edged the cut edges with a little Salty Ocean DOx. Centring the die, I cut the snowflake but was careful to keep the small cut outs for replacing later. The inked and die cut panel was glued to an A6 white base card and then a blue fun foam snowflake was added back into the opening, adding back the small diamonds from the first die cut. The snowflake was then glued over the fun foam one, matching the pattern. My sentiment is from an older snowflake set,  Stunning Snowflakes, stamped in black onto a white panel.

My second card uses Background Blocks- Scandinavian Christmas and Winter Foliage stamps and matching dies.

To start I stamped the BB Scandinavian Christmas and heat embossed with white EP, then cut a circle  from it with a die. I inked this circle with Salty Ocean DOx, keeping the ink darker towards the edges. To darken the edges further, I added some Blueprint Sketch DOx to the very edge.

On a separate piece of white card, I stamped the evergreen bough from Winter Foliage twice in Altenew Olive, adding further contrasting green with my Zig pens before die cutting with the matching die.

From a scrap of matte silver card, I cut an ornament hanger and attached it to my inked circle, then threaded it with some silver chord and added a silver bow. 

I arranged the foliage branches in the top left of my base card, added my 'bauble' on pads and stamped a sentiment from Festive Sentiments in blue.

My third card uses the new Winter Foliage stencil and the gorgeous poinsettia from Season of Beauty.

For the background panel I used the trapped colour technique, inking through with Versamark onto a panel of W/C card inked with Antique Linen DI, embossing with clear EP then washing away the DI with a paper towel and water.

The poinsettia and leaves from Season of Beauty, were stamped then fussy cut with a few dots of glossy accents in the center, a banner sentiment completes. 

My next card uses Winter Foliage stamps and dies, the new Festive Sentiments Outlined as well as Christmas text from Season of Beauty and other festive sentiments.

Using my MISTI, I arranged the sentiments to cover an A6 panel before stamping on red card and embossing with clear EP. The white panel was cut using a border die before the foliage and sentiment were stamped. The pine cones from Festive Foliage were stamped and die cut and slipped under a wrap of jute twine. The white panel was then popped up on pads to complete.

Finally, I've used the new dies Big n Bold Snow, with the Let it Snow stencil and Big n Bold Snow sentiment 'Let it'.

Using the stencil, I inked Weathered Wood DI with varying levels of intensity over a panel of white card, then cut three of the snow words from it, I used grey fun foam to cut three more snow words and stamped the Let it in dark grey ink. The main panel was glued to an A6 white card base, gluing the inked and foam words together but retaining the small inked bits to one side. The popped up words were glued in place and the retained bits popped flat into the appropriate spaces to complete the look.

And breathe, told you it was a long post!

Now you can check out the rest of the team's inspiration, but you may need to refresh that cuppa!

Bev
Carol 
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie  - that'll be me
Linda

Rahmat

Sarah P 

Wiebke 

Be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win the ENTIRE Release! You have until Midnight GMT 2nd November 2019 to leave a comment and a winner will be announced shortly after.

Happy hopping!

  

Ho, Ho, Ho

Morning all.

The weeks are whizzing by and it's time for a brand new challenge for you over at Cardz4Guyz.

This time our theme is:-

FOOD/ DRINK

As my collection of Christmas cards has not been added too much since last year, I thought I would hunt through my Christmas stash and found this little pudding stamp and die set from Clearly Besotted. The theme at the Paper Players and CAS on Friday is to include a large word or sentiment in a CAS design, so this is what I came up with!

I stamped the largest of the Christmas puddings, then die cut them to make into the 'O's of my sentiment. The holly sprigs and berries were created in the same way before adding them to the top of the puddings. The 'H's were cut from red card as well as red fun foam using an Altenew alphabet, sticking the two layers together before adding to a die cut rectangular panel. A piece of matching red card was added to create a thin frame before adding to an A6 base card.

Simples.

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Big Sentiment

Small is beautiful

Evening folks.
I'm back to announce the start of another challenge over at Perfectly CAS.
Here's what I came up with.

My design did start as something else completely but then I decided it wasn't CAS enough, so had to think again, more of that card at a later date!
This month I've used the middle third for my design, which is loosely based on the current CAS(e) this Sketch layout.
The 5 bars are represented by the letters of happy and the stamping was kept to those as well, the sketch also reminded me of this card from a couple of years ago. My sentiment is incorporated with the stamping.

The original idea was to use the die cut outlines of happy but I used the die cut letters instead, which I stamped with some of my smaller flower images whilst they were temporarily adhered to a strip of Post it tape. I used a couple of Altenew sets containing small flower stamps, Vintage Flowers and Wild Flower Garden and the colours from their latest challenge. The die cut letters are also from their large alphabet die set.
Once I was happy with the stamping, I removed the letters and added a die cut foam letter to each of them so that they would pop up from the background panel. Before gluing down permanently, I stamped the Birthday from STAMPlorations Balloons and Banners in black.

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Guesting at Color Throwdown

What am I doing posting this early on a Wednesday morning?

Well I'm here as the guest over at Color Throwdown!

I won their challenge with this card and was asked to be their Guest Star Stamper for this week's post.

Here is my card for your inspiration.

I've used the colours from this week's swatch plus some kraft card for the base and frame.

The stamp set used is a cute new one from MFT called Piles of Fun, that I picked up after my last Copic class up in Warrington, I couldn't resist the cute woodland creatures.

I stamped each of the coloured elements with black Memento ink before using Copics to colour, then fussy cut them.

My frame was cut from kraft with an MFT frame die and some outline leaves from the set were stamped in the centre with Peanut Brittle Memento. They were much darker when stamped originally but even with two inkings, they don't show up that much against the kraft but it adds a little added texture to the background.

The little mouse was glued flat and the barrel and leaves popped up on pads, as was the frame, once I'd stamped the greeting from the set. I think the mouse looks like he's blowing a kiss of thanks!

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Trees and/or leaves and/or Autumn

You are Freakin' Awesome

Morning all.

It's time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. As the witching season is almost upon us we've gone all spooky on you! However if you don't make those sort of cards, then we have an alternative for you.

SPOOKY or USE ORANGE

Here's my take on the 'Spooky' theme.

All it is is a panel of card wrapped with torn paper inked with Old Paper DI, a couple of red googly eyes and some fangs dipped in Nuovo red Crystal drops popped up over a panel of kraft card! The sentiment, embossed with white EP on the kraft base is from Create a Smile.

Simples.
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Clean and Simple

Thelma and Louise

Evening all.
Is it really October already? It must be because it's time for a brand new challenge at HLS CAS.
Here's my take on this month's theme.

Did you guess correctly?
When I saw the theme I thought of this fun image from Stamping Bella, Thelma and Louise.
I didn't use the sentiments that came with the image but one that came free with a stamp set in a magazine a couple of years ago, works perfectly I think. The card would be the perfect card to celebrate a gap year or just to say good luck in a new situation such as a new job or going to university.

After stamping and colouring it with Copics, I used a scalloped, pierced, stitched edge die to create a little bit of interest but still keeping it CAS, and popped the panel up on pads on an A5 card base.
Simples, no frills, just lots of white space.
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CAS or FAF
Never have been a girl for frills and fuss, bit of a tomboy at heart. It took me awhile to discover the CAS style, didn't have the confidence to leave off the embellishments when I first started making. Now you wont find many if any embellishments on my cards, I'm def a no frills kinda gal!