A Twofer for Cardz4Guyz

 Morning card makers, it's Tuesday so its time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This time our theme is :-

FALL/AUTUMN COLOURS

Here's my take on the challenge.

I think the autumnal colours make this highly suitable for a male recipient.

I used part of a panel left over from my gelli plate experiments and used this lovely silhouette stamp Happy Days from Uniko repeat stamped around the edge in autumnal colours. I did add some texture with a dot stamp and gold ink to each spray but it doesn't really show up unless you look very closely indeed.

My sentiment is also from Uniko, Birthday Wishes, which I stamped in very dark brown. The finished panel was trimmed down and added flat to an off-white A6 top folding card.

Whilst I had my Happy days set out I decided to make another as I wanted to enter Darnell's Twofer challenge. The layout was based on Sharon's card at LIM and the panel insert was a scrap leftover from this card using my Uniko Nature's Treasures Stencil over another gelli plate print so I can also enter over at CAS Mix Up! I do love it when challenges come together like that.

As I was CASeing Sharon's card, I used the layout, and the gold foliage as my inspiration as it was a masculine card, I left the flowers out. This time I stamped and embossed the leafy sprig with gold EP, not that it shows particularly well in the photo, then fussy cut it. My background was made using an Avery Elle stitched snowdrift die and the snippet of stenciled gelli plate print was added in the gap. A simple thank you was stamped on matching off-white card and embossed with the same gold EP. popping the sprig of foliage up on pads but kept the sentiment flat.

So two masculine cards using one theme, leftovers and a few challenges as inspiration!

Please check out the rest of the DT here for more autumnal inspiration.

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Color Hues Challenge #4

Afternoon and welcome to the fourth challenge at Color Hues.

You are certainly enjoying the colour combinations we've chosen so far and are making it really difficult to chose the winner and top 3! So what will you make of the new colours?

Here is my take on our latest challenge.

 

I decided to go a little off piste for my inspiration with this large stamp from Creative Endeavours called Fisherman's Wharf. I've used it before here  and to be fair this started out as my original attempt for that card but I made a slight error in the stamping so put it to one side. Waste not want not, when I saw the colours for this challenge I thought I could rescue it by trimming off the error!

Using DI in Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge in a watercolour style, I coloured the exposed sand and sky, leaving the buildings completely untouched. The Rusty Hinge gave me a burnt orange for the foreground and the Spiced Marmalade the more yellowy tones for the distant sand. DI allows you to get quite a few different shades of the same ink, it just depends on how much water you add! The sky was mainly Salty Ocean with a little of the darker Blueprint Sketch. The water I laid down above the buildings allowed the colour to puddle and mix randomly to give the sky its texture, whereas I used some sea salt crystals on the damp Rusty Hinge to create the texture. It soaks up the colour and leaves darker patches where you brush it off when fully dry. Don't try to brush it off until the ink is fully dry or the effect will be rather indistinct.

It's quite a masculine scene so I kept the layout pretty simple, using a Crafter's Companion sentiment, stamped in black and mounted on a slightly larger panel of black card and just added the finished panel to an A6 base card on pads.

I also made a card using floral image  from Uniko which I've also shared on the Uniko blog. Its totally different from the first card but uses the same colours. I used DIs again and as they are a transparent medium, if you over lay the colours once the bottom layer is dry you get a colour that is a mix of the two. Here the watery Dried Marigold which is a yellowy orange is overlaid with Blueprint Sketch to create a subtle green for the leaves and stems!

For more inspiration from the fab DT check out the Color Hues blog and why not add your masterpiece to the gallery. Details of this second card can be found here on the Uniko blog.

Cardz4Guyz CAS

Morning all. I hope I find you well and ready for a brand new challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

It was my turn to choose the theme and I went with:-

CAS - Clean and Simple

I think this is the way to go with masculine cards, you can't go wrong with a no frills design.

For those of you unsure what we mean by CAS I will list a few pointers,

One main focal point, lot's of 'white' space, minimal layers, and minimal embellishments.

See that's just what a masculine card needs to be!

Here's my inspiration card for you.

This is a one layer card, one main focal point, lots of white space, no layers and definitely no embellishments!

On an A6 panel I stamped my Fizzy Moon bear then coloured him with Copic markers. The sentiment from Hobby Arts was stamped in black and a black, free hand partial frame completes, SIMPLES!

For more CAS inspiration, check out the rest of the team here, then why not join in?

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Snowflake Joy

Afternoon peeps, back again, this time for another colour challenge at the Color Hues.

Here is my take on the colours.

I must admit I was struggling for inspiration, so hopped onto Pinterest and my past cards and came up with this Christmas card.

The base card was covered with die cut snowflakes from Uniko and IO in two sorts of gold card, as well as some cream ones, one textured the other plain. My die cut JOY, from The Range was also cut from the same gold mirror card. I simply arranged the snowflakes, stuck them to my pale cream base card and added the JOY on top, voila!

So what will you be inspired to create? For more inspiration why not check out the rest of the team here and join us.