Saturday, 1 February 2025

Color Hues #103 and a Collaboration!

As it's the first of the month there must be a new colour duo from Color Hues. Well there is, but this latest challenge has a bit of a twist, but more of that later!

February is the month for love and the new colours from Tracey are perfect for cards on that theme or if you want another theme you choose! 
Here's my card using a cute LOTV image and a Uniko sentiment.


This image from LOTV, also now available from Penny Black due to copyright lapsing I found out recently, was one that I stamped using my friend Di's stamp and is another that was languishing in my to colour box. So after colouring with Copics, I fussy cut the pair out and put to one side. I then realised that I need to make a card for another DT so it was left for a couple of days on my desk. When I resumed, I went to pick it up and saw it against a piece of scrap paper I'd used to ink another project and it had left a soft halo and my cute duo were looking into it! So that was how I came up with the design.

On my base card, I inked a halo of Weathered Wood DI, glued the duo on top and finished off with a simple stamped sentiment from Uniko.

 Now for the twist I was talking about, we are excited to share with you that we are partnering up for this challenge with Inksprational! Details are shared below from teammate and card maker extraordinaire Carol Mayne who is also a designer and behind the scenes organiser at Inspirational.

"The design team gals and I at Inkspirational are delighted to participate in this first-time collaboration with Color Hues. Creating with Red and Pink – a combination open to such a wide range of hues, as well as occasions/events – makes us even more happy! Hopefully, you’ll find our team’s contributions as inspiring as those created by the Color Hues team.

A wee bit about Inkspirational Challenge, in general:

We’re a two-week challenge that features a rotation of: Word Prompt, Designer's Choice, Mood Board, Clean and Simple, Use Stencils and Seasonal. We’re pleased to have a strong group of participants who embrace our challenges with enthusiasm and creativity on a regular basis. We look forward to introducing them to Color Hues and hope they'll add this engaging challenge to their crafting repertoires."

So what do you think, for no extra effort you get an extra chance to win!

For more colour inspiration check out the Color Hues gals here and the Inkspirational team here, then why not join in?

Joining in over at:-


I choose Heart and Love

Romance and or Music

Happy 13th Birthday Uniko!

Good morning! 
It's February 1st and it's the beginning of a whole MONTH of birthday celebrations over at UNIKO.
Can you believe that Bev started on her journey 13 years ago this month?!

Anyway to kick off the celebrations we are launching with a Birthday Card Linky Party. Simply create a birthday card using any Uniko products (current, retired or digital) and link up in the linky below. More details are at the end of the post including the prize. 
 
The BAs have started it off with some birthday inspired makes, here's mine and what says birthday more than balloons?


Strangely enough this is the first outing for both these sets, even though Balloon Bash was one of the earlier releases I was late to the party, so to speak. It was a very simple card to create and just by changing the balloon colours very versatile too.

To begin I stamped the Block Party Birthday stamp onto an A6 top folding, white note card in Memento Tuxedo Black then on some scrap white, I stamped the balloons from Balloon Bash with the Uniko colours and fussy cut them out. To give them a little dimension, I used a ball tool from the back over foam and attached to my base card with foam tape. There are string stamps in the set but I added mine with a black fine liner and a steady hand. Some white hi lights on the balloons complete, no need even for a sentiment.

So are you all ready to party?!
Why not check out the rest of the team to see what they've been up to?

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - that's me

Steph

Vinita

There is plenty of time to join in on the fun.
The deadline for submission is 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 28th February 2025.

 Prize - £25 eGift Certificate 

Party Rules
Use Uniko Products Only*.
No back linking. Linked cards/projects must be new.
Maximum Enteries 3 Per Person.

*If you don't own any physical Uniko products you are welcome to use THESE FREE Uniko Digital images to create your card. 

Don't use social media or have a blog to upload your card & link from? 
No worries, just drop Bev an email at bev@uniko.co.uk entitled Uniko 13th Birthday with a photo and I will upload for you.

Winners will be chosen by Brand Ambassador votes and announced on Saturday 8th March 2025.
How about this to start the month as well?

There are lots more exciting things happening everyday of February over at Uniko, with faces old and new plus a brand new release at the end of the month, so don't go too far!

I'm joining in over at:-

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