Color Hues #97

 Afternoon all. I can't believe that we are over halfway through October, but we must be as it's time for a new colour combination from Color Hues. Here's my take using the new colours.

Having olive in the duo put the idea of foliage into my head but after I found this old biddy in my to colour box I knew exactly which direction I was taking.

Cracking out the Copics, I chose a selection of dark yellows Y21,26 and 28, including one Y26 actually called MUSTARD! The olives were the end of the YG range, YG91, 95 and 97. As neutrals are allowed, I coloured the skin with E50, 00 and 21 and E04 and E 95 for the face. The whites are perversely C5, 4, 3, 1 and clear blender, shadows E71. 

The background panel was embossed using a Cuttlebug EF and as it was too short for my A6 card base, I cut the bottom off and added it to the bottom of the base card, covering the gap with the sentiment strip. Both sentiment and biddy are Ai.

 So where will these two colours take you? We'd love to see your makes in the Color Hues gallery but should you need more inspiration, please check out the rest of the team here.

Country Boy at Heart

Morning all. A busy morning here on my blog, so if you are looking for my Sparkles card then please click here.

Over at Cardz4Guyz our new theme for you is:-

T is for ......

 I've gone for T is for Tractor for my card.

There are lots of other ideas for T but as I needed a card soon for my Husband I went with this!

My tractor is from Woodware and I stamped and coloured it with Copics to match his, though that one is slightly newer and more round on the edges!

The little scene through the aperture was made up of scraps of NitWits DP from my stash, fussy cut and overlaid with each other onto my base card. The top panel was die cut with an MFT die and then added with foam pads over the top of the scene. I fussy cut the tractor and added it along with the strip sentiment from the same set. The circular sentiment is a two part one from LOTV which I die cut and mounted onto a yellow die cut.

So where will this theme take you? The team have some fab ideas and have come up with some great things starting with T! Why not check them out here and then join in!

Chocolate Baroque Toadstools

Morning all. A busy morning here on my blog, so if you wish to find my Cardz4Guyz post then please click here.

Now it's time to share a card for my guest spot over at Sparkles. 

This month our theme is:-

TOADSTOOLS and/or MUSHROOMS

When I saw the theme, I knew the exact stamp I needed, one from a set I bought a few years ago from Chocolate Baroque at Port Sunlight. No trip there this year sadly as the event has been cancelled, so sad. 

There are plenty of assorted fungi in our fields at the moment as well as a large crop of some that are eating my oak sleeper, raised beds, they're loving the warmth and the damp!

Anyway, here's what I came up with.

Rather than use the whole of the stamp, I used the central few mushrooms/toadstools.

To start, I stamped the whole strip with Altenew Morning Frost to create a no line look to the finished image. Coloured with Copics, I then fussy cut the central group, adding some white gel pen to the caps.

I found the aperture panel in my stash and secured the toadstool grouping behind it. It looked a little lost, so added some die cut foliage behind before popping the whole panel onto an A6 note card. A gold foiled sentiment from my stash completes.

So how will you be inspired? We are looking forward to seeing all your cards in the Sparkles gallery, but should you need more inspiration please check out the rest of the team here.

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Season of Autumn

Autumnal Colours

#802

Favourite Card Shape

I used to make only square cards but they are so wasteful when making the bases from A4 cardstock and as a gal from Yorkshire I couldn't 'thoil it' as they say. So now, I usually make A6 sized rectangle cards as I can get 2 from one piece of A4 card!! Square cards are definitely for very special occasions!

Uniko Release Day Blog Hop and Giveaway

Good morning, it's time for our Uniko release day blog hop and giveaway!

So here are a few more ideas using this fun stencil release.

First off is this Christmas card I made using the Geometric Christmas Tree stencil set.

On some white card, I inked the tree with Mowed Lawn DI but on the second pass I wiped the stencil clean then replaced it and added some Cosmic Shimmer Aurora Sparkle embossing paste over the top to give my tree a little extra oomph. When dry, I cut up the tree and glued the pieces over a strip of gold mirror card, adding a freehand cut pot and a punched glitter star. The finished tree was then popped up on pads over a white base card to which I had added a stamped sentiment panel from my stash. I make loads at the same time as it takes ages to set them out even in a MISTI!

 Stencil - Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Christmas Tree £8

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

Next is another piece of my Cobweb panel made using the Cobweb stencil set.

This time I simply added it to an A6 white, side fold card after adding some glitter EP to the back lines in the web.

On some scrap white card, I stamped HAPPY using Alphabet Outlined and filled in with a web effect pattern, fussy cut them out and glued underneath the panel. I stamped birthday in black then drew the spider dropping down from the Y freehand.

Finally another cobweb based card using the same LOTV image as Thursday's card.

For this card my starting point was the panel I made when first trying out the stencil pair. I used some Hickory Smoke DI to ink the background before adding the two cobweb layers to complete the panel.

I had the top panel in my stash from another project, so slipped the cobweb background underneath then added the sentiment by masking off WISHING so that I could write WITCHING and added Happy Birthday. I had this little girl on my desk as I was initially going to use her for my DT post at Color Hues. I simply added her to the front and drew in a few lines to ground her to replace the ones I cut off.

 Stencil - Ink & Flip Layering Cobweb £8

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

www.uniko.co.uk

That's it from me but please check out the rest of the team to find out how they've used their new stash!

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a prize!

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

Make sure you've commented along the hop as Bev will be giving away 3 Ink & Flip Stencils of the winners choice. Comments will close for the chance to win at midnight Sunday 13th October 2024 with the winner announced on Monday 14th October 2024. Any comments left after this time will not be included.

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Introducing Ink n Flip Geometric Christmas Tree Set

Morning all.

It's time to share the second of the new Ink n Flip release from Uniko.

Today we focus on the two part Geometric Christmas Tree set.

It consists of a background stencil and Bev's signature style Geometric Christmas tree. Here is my first idea.

For this card I stencilled the tree element onto some white card. I was going to keep it simple at that point but somehow I got a smudge of black ink in the open space so decided to fussy cut my tree and then ink another background!

On a panel of red card, I inked through the background stencil with Candied Apple DI to leave a paler red tree shape opening in which to place my tree. The tree was placed back over the background with foam pads and a Simply Said Blocks red stamped sentiment complete.

My second card is similar to others I've done this week, inking through a stencil, Scandinavian Christmas, with Unicorn White ink and then when dry, stencilling in the tree to reveal the pattern beneath. 

I used a mix of Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron DI for the tree and Vintage Photo for the trunk. A little masking paper around the truck ensured that the brown ink stayed where it was meant to be! Another red stamped sentiment completes.

That's it from me but why not check out the rest of the team have been up to.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

Come back tomorrow when we will have our tradition blog hop and giveaway.

Introducing the new Ink n Flip Layering Cobweb stencil set

Morning all.

I'm so excited to reveal the first of the new Ink n Flip stencil sets, Cobweb.

Here are a couple of ideas using bits n bobs from my stash as well.

This is my first idea using the web part of the stencil.

I took an A5 panel of black card and went mad adding cobwebs all over it with Hero Arts Unicorn White ink! Then I filled in the gaps with a light covering of the white ink. Spiders are a real problem here in the countryside and I am forever evicting them and removing their webs from windows and doorways. This year seems the worst ever, so webs are very common, in fact the other day I opened the blind in the kitchen window to reveal a huge web complete with giant spider, across the outside of the glass shimmering with dew. They are beautiful and I'm OK with them if they would only stay OUTSIDE!

Anyway as I was looking at the finished panel I thought I would extend the threads from each web and add some extra bits of web with a black fine liner.  I cut an A6 sized panel from the larger one and attached it to an A6 base card. Then, I stamped a large black dot, form MCM Floral on some scrap white card and added some legs before fussy cutting it and adding googly eyes. The BOO was cut from white card using an alphabet die set. 

I had plenty of 'web' back ground left over, so added a narrow panel to some purple card to create a background for this LOTV image coloured with Copics and fussy cut.

This time my sentiment was made by stamping FABULOUS from You Are, Yes You and cutting away the BU section, replacing it with die cut BOO. The rest of the sentiment was made up various Uniko sets, Christmas and Birthday Sentiments.

So what do you think?

That's all for now from me but please check out the rest of the team to see what they've been up to.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

See you back here same time tomorrow for another stencil intro.

New Release Sneak Peeks

Morning all.

Just a quick post to tease you with the Uniko upcoming release sneak peeks.

As you may have gathered, the two stencils are in the fun Ink n Flip series!

 

The whole team will be back tomorrow with the first introduction.

Can't wait to show you these fab new products.

Color Hues #96

Good afternoon folks, it's been a busy day here on my blog but it's also time for a brand new colour duo from Color Hues.

This time it was my choice of colours and as we approach that witchy time of year, I went with a colour duo that reflects that.

Here's my card, not a witch in sight but a similar theme none the less!

Last year I used an LOTV witch for a similar colour challenge so this year I went with a little wizard from them instead. He's a digi called Abracadabra which I coloured with Copic markers, V09, V12,15,17 for the purple and Y38, YR09,YR16,YR18 for the oranges and then fussy cut.

Matching the DP and trim to the image I created this layout. A big tip for matching solid card is to get some white and colour it with the same Copic markers you've used in the image, can't fail to match then, I used V09. The circle of card was in my white bits box but it looked too plain, so I embossed it with a spider's web Cuttlebug EF.

To finish I found this fun sentiment in a magazine freebie sheet of stamps.

So where will my colours take you?

I'm looking forward to seeing what you make with them. Don't forget that as well as the colour duo, neutrals such as brown are always welcome too.

To see what the rest of the team and our GD have done, check out the Color Hues page here and have some fun!

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Make it Masculine

Scooter Boy

Good morning. It's a busy time on my blog with the new Uniko release so if you were looking for day 2 of the seasonal Ink n Flip revisit just click here.

Meanwhile it's also time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. Our new theme for you is:-

WHEELS

So we'd like to see anything that features wheels, tractors, cars, bikes etc as the focus of your card. Here's my take.

The other week I ran off a few images on an A4 sheet of card, I only wanted one of the images for another project, so put the left over images in my to finish box. I try to do this so that they are on hand to colour when I need and I don't have to faff about printing off the odd image and waste card. This cute boy on his scooter from LOTV was one of them and he fit perfectly with the theme. 

I used one of the Jill Foster sketches again as I thought it suited the image. The denim blue panel was embossed with a Sizzix EF before being added to an A5 white base card. I was going to just colour the image and add to the embossed background but my digi panel was just a tad too small. So after using Copics to colour, I fussy cut them out and added them to a scrap panel of white card then onto my embossed panel with pads. The little movement marks were lost when I fussy cut the image, so a black fine liner and a steady hand put that right! 

A very simple CAS card, perfect for a little guy. There's plenty more inspiration from the rest of the team over on the blog here, so why not pop along and then join in.

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M is for Masculine

Flippin' Seasonal Fun at Uniko Day 2, Snowflake Revisit

Good morning, over at Uniko we are continuing our Ink n Flip revisit with a new look at Snowflake.

Here are a couple of ideas I came up with.

Firstly I used a similar technique to the Christmas Star card from yesterday but used a stamp this time.

On a panel of white card, I stamped the BB Falling snow stamp over it with Hero Arts Unicorn White ink, then when completely dry inked lightly over both sides of the stencil with Salty Ocean DI to create the snowflake.

The panel was then trimmed down, added to a top fold A6 card, a strip of holographic card and sentiment complete.

This second card uses the Framed Snowflakes and I repeated the technique.

This time I trimmed away the excess and mounted the stencilled panel onto silver card and then onto a side fold blue card. I found a die cut snowflake in my stash and added it to the center before my sentiment, stamped in black on a strip of white card.

For more fab ideas why not pop along to see what the rest of the team have been up to.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow with a sneak peek at the new release.

Flippin' Seasonal Fun Day 1, Christmas Star Revisit

Good morning, hope you had a great weekend. 

Today sees the start of release week at Uniko but before the new releases feature the team are sharing a couple of previously released stencils. Today we focus on Christmas Star, though as you you can see from my example it can be used for more that just Christmas!

To make this I first took a panel of white card and inked through the Mini Mix Geometrics Stencil with Hero Arts Unicorn white ink and then left it to dry completely!! Don't rush this step as the next process wont work! 

Next I took the Ink n Flip Christmas Star and created a rainbow of inking, I used DIs in Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry. If you take care and only ink lightly the white pigment ink catches the colour to reveal the pattern beneath!

Finally I added a die cut ring of black card, left over from another project and a sentiment made up of layered die cut circles and text from Doodle Flower. I made lots at once in my MISTI awhile ago so they were on hand.

Why not hop along to the rest of the team to see what they've been up to with this stencil.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow with another Ink n Flip revisit.

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One for the Girls

Good morning.

The rain has finally stopped, well for the moment that is. Although it wasn't quite the Biblical single event from the beginning of the month when the yard flooded, we must have had non stop rain for 48 hours. The trough we had out for the dog to paddle in when it was hot the other week is over 6 inches deep and is now overflowing. 

Anyway all this rain means that I've been in my craft room and not in the garden making a few DT cards for later this month and browsing challenges. I found a few that sent me thinking and I thought I would share this cute girlie card I made before the housework and washing call!

The image is LOTV and the papers NitWits, the layout I found online on Pinterest. To compliment the image, I die cut some more balloons and coloured them to match my DP and image, also coloured with Copics. The doily edge is a really old MS edge punch, number 2 MFT small numbers and the sentiment an LOTV stamp. I debated long and hard about drawing in the balloon tails but as you can see went with it.

That's all from me, have a good day and thanks for visiting.

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#198 Birthday Girls

For a Child

Hand Coloured Image

Uniko Autumn Colours

Good morning. 

I'm helping out on the Sparkles Challenge DT up until Christmas and their latest challenge is Autumn/Fall, so I thought I would have a go using some Uniko stash that I haven't used or one not in a while! Here is my card using the Nature's Treasure stencil and the French Script stamp.

On a panel of white card, I stamped the script with Versamark before heat embossing with gold EP, then inked through the stencil, roughly covering the text and trying not to overlap the sprigs.

Rather than use a single colour for each leaflet, I blended a couple to get a graduated effect. The colours used were Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. Once the text was covered, I dried the ink and then as the background looked a little too stark, I blended Antique Linen over the panel before trimming and adding to my cream base card. A strip of gold mirror card and a heat embossed Happy Birthday complete.

While I had the inks on my desk I had a play with the MCM shapes stencil adding a stamped element from Nature's Treasures II.

All the details for this are on the Uniko blog

Thanks for stopping by.

Target Practice

Morning, time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This time it was my turn to choose the theme, so I went with.

EMBOSSING, WET OR DRY

For my inspiration I went with just dry embossing using an embossing folder. Regular visitors here will know I like to use EFs to create focal points for my cute stamped images, some may also recognise one of my favourite layouts in this card!

I used a cute Nellie Snellen stamp from the Little Rebels collection coloured with Copics and teamed it up with some NitWits DP and an old Cuttlebug EF for the central panel. The colours were dictated by those of an archery target. The sentiment was customised from an LOTV sentiment, colouring the outer ring of the stamp in pale blue and then topped with a couple of small die cut circles cut from red and yellow card mounted on white to make the target, the die cut number is MFT.

So where will this new theme take you, as always there's some fab inspiration over on the Cardz4Guyz blog if you need it. 

Looking forward to seeing where my theme takes you.

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To layer or not to layer

Normally I'm a CAS sort of girl but sometimes a design requires a few layers for impact even if there are no twiddly bits! I suppose this is what some term Clean and LAYERED!

CH #95

Afternoon and welcome.

Today sees the start of a new colour combination from Color Hues. I've had fun with this new pairing and a fun technique, so be prepared for a long post!

Here's my first card using the colours.

The ladies over at Group of 7 card makers are playing with vellum and embossing this month, so that was my starting off point. 

I took an A6 panel of thickish vellum and embossed it with an old Cuttlebug EF, then on the debossed side, inked the center with Picked Raspberry DI. I tried Kitsch Flamingo but it was too pale as the vellum dilutes the colour when you look from the front. With this in mind I went with a touch of Salty Ocean DI near the pink but mainly Chipped Sapphire DI for the blue. 

Once complete I flipped it over to the right side and cut in half to make two cards from one panel! This was my second design made using a slimline landscape die set from Whimsey Stamps to create this wintery scene. The sentiment from Uniko was stamped in more Chipped Sapphire.

To assemble I creased the top of my embossed panel where the EF missed and taped it to the back of my base card with doublesided tape so that it draped over the front of the design and secured to the front with more tape. The die cut landscape was glued on top and all the vellum fixings were covered up!

This is the first card I made with the other half of the vellum panel.

This is a much simpler design using a STAMPlorations die cut and a Woodware sentiment.

At this point I was on a roll and decided to try heat embossing on vellum and came up with this.

I started with another panel of vellum and inked it with Picked Raspberry and Chipped Sapphire, I did away with the Salty Ocean this time. Then on the other side I stamped a Penny Black tree, Joy to All, a couple of times along with some twiggy stalks, before heat embossing with white EP. To finish off, I added some chunky EP to create the falling snow 

To secure the vellum panel this time, I used a frame, MFT, but before adding that I had a little leftover snow drift from the previous card which I think neatens up the scene. I left a sentiment off this time.

Here are all three cards together

So what will you do with this new colour duo?

Remember you don't have to match the colours in the challenge pic, just use whatever hues you want so long as its pink or blue, neutrals are allowed too.

The rest of the team and our GD Ishani have some brilliant ideas for you, so if you need more inspiration why not check them out here. See you in the gallery I hope.

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Embossing Vellum

 
Anything Goes option

Nautical

Morning all. 

The summer holidays have come to an end for another year and most are back at school, so the weather is bound to improve! We used to call it an Indian Summer but a local farmer friend calls it Mother's Little Summer and its his hope of making hay after a year when the Met Office has struggled to get the 10 day forecasts as accurate as we would have liked. Rain in the middle of 'hay' making twice ensured that we have no unwrapped hay this year from our fields only wrapped haylage. 

Anyway all the rain means more time for the craft room, as did the mini heatwaves we had!

So this Tuesday morning sees the start of a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz, here's my take on the theme of:-

NAUTICAL

I love this LOTV image Sailing By, one of the first I ever bought. Now no longer available from them BUT the image has a new life over at Penny Black! When I first saw it on their You Tube channel being demonstrated, I was confused as to why would PB pinch the design. I found out later that the design rights had passed, so LOTV's artist was free to sell their rights to someone else.

Anyway, I based this card on another of PBs Jill Foster's Permission to Play sketches, with a slight twist. In her sketch the embossing goes from left to right and covers the whole of the card base.

The reason for the border is simple, my EF was too small for a full A6 panel, but I thought the embossed pattern went well with the Nautical theme. As always, Copics to colour the image as well as the Wplus9 HAPPY die cut. Not sure about the EF make, think it's DoCrafts, and the birthday is part of a LOTV sentiment stamp. This will probably go to my daughter for my Grandson's party card box, that boy has a hell of a social life!

So where will this new theme take you? If you need more inspiration why not check out the rest of the team here and then join in.

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