Color Hues #114

Good afternoon. We're over the halfway point in July so it's time for a brand new colour combo from Color Hues. Here's my take.

There's not much green around here at the moment, nor yellow for that matter unless you class straw as yellow. The dry and hot sunny weather, has bleached everything. The hay fields are thin and crispy and the flower borders are struggling to show any colour, only the tomatoes and butternut squash appear to be enjoying this hot summer! So as a result I thought of an alternate use for green and whilst flipping through my to colour box, I found this sweet little dragon from Lili of The Valley. Unless you're Welsh I think dragons should be green!

I used Copics to colour and then fussy cut him out. I decided to set him against a sky but as I couldn't use blue, found some grey ones that were a mistake when I first got my new printer! I used some linen effect card for the base and matching die cut panel, popping it up on foam pads after stamping with a Uniko sentiment. My little Dragon with Flowers was similarly popped up and the extra flower head added flat in the space I'd left by off setting the greeting.

So what will you make with the new colours? For more inspiration please check out the rest of the team here along with our GD for this challenge.

Looking forward to seeing your makes in the gallery.

Fun At the Beach

Good morning and welcome to a brand new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. Today we start the first of the new MONTHLY challenges and it is my turn to choose the theme. Bearing in mind that schools here will soon be breaking for the school holidays, I thought I would choose the theme of:-

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

As we are both now retired it seems like we are on holiday all the time but those of you with kids will either be looking forward to the next few weeks or dreading it!! As a kid and when ours were little, it was always a beach holiday, a week in the sun, or more likely rain if it was in this country! Here's my card based on the theme.

I've used this cute little chap a few times, he's on old rubber stamp from Paper Pretties, now no longer in business. 

For my design, I inked the corner of a white A6 base card with Tea Dye and Salty Ocean DIs and stamped the image onto a scrap of Copic friendly card before colouring him in with said Copics. After fussy cutting him out, I returned to the background, adding some sea foam with an embossing pen and white EP and a sentiment from a magazine. The little chap was then added over the top with some glue, simples.

So you have the whole month to think up an idea and join in, there's also plenty of inspiration over at the Cardz4Guyz blog too. 

Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery.

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Sun, Sea and Sand

#180 Masculine

Christmas in July Uniko's FB VIP Challenge

 Morning all. As it's the 11th of the month it's time for a new challenge over at Uniko's VIP FB page. All through July we at Uniko are celebrating Christmas in July, so that's our theme for this months competition. Here's a very simple OLC using Winter Foliage for your inspiration.

I apologise for the pic, it was either too dark or too bright for a photo today!

I used the sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches along with the OLC option at ABC Christmas Challenge as inspiration, it's also Christmas in July at CAS on Friday. All elements are simply stamped using DIs, but I used a small blending brush and more Peeled Paint for the evergreen bough. A simple gold embossed sentiment completes.

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O is for OLC

Christmas in July

Color Hues #113

Afternoon all. A new month has begun, so it's time for a new challenge at Color Hues but it's also Christmas in July over at Uniko! What says Christmas more than a Christmas sweater?

The Color Hues pairing chosen by Tracey had me reaching for the Background Builders Christmas 2018 set to create a fun sweater!

I simply stamped and embossed in white, 3 of the Scandinavian star strips and bookended them with the diagonal stripe one. I cut away the neck opening with a circle die and cut a welt with two more circle dies from the leftovers, trimming the panel down to reveal a white border when added to my white base card. I finished it off with a simple sentiment from Uniko's Christmas Sentiments.

So what will the new colours inspire you to create? Looking forward to seeing your makes in the Color Hues gallery. For more red and white inspiration why not check out the rest of the team and our GD here?