Uniko BA Inspiration and Color Hues #106

Good afternoon.

Today it's my turn to host the new colour duo challenge at Color Hues, so I decided to incorporate a Uniko BA Inspiration post too. I chose a fresh spring combo and when I sat down to make my card I decided to give my Organically Zesty stamp set from Uniko a dust off, here's my card.

As you can see I went with the lemon as my focus with the large, fab lemon and blossom from the set, I think it fit the colours perfectly. I could have gone down the spring flowers route but I do like to ring the changes and try not to get in a rut when it comes to my Color Hues duties!

Starting with a panel of black card, I used the Uniko stencil Scattered Polka Dots to ink through with white pigment ink. A sentiment strip with a sentiment from the set stamped in black was added over the top, 2/3rds down the panel.

I stamped the large lemon from the set onto some MM paper with black ink and added clear embossing powder, much cleaner and easier than using Versamark and black EP. To make sure I had enough EP on, I repeated the stamping with Versamark and more clear EP. What did we do before stamp positioners came on the scene?! Smooshing some Altenew ink pads, Lime, Limeade, Fresh Lemon and Maple Yellow, onto a piece of acrylic to use as a palette water coloured the image. I used a grey Zig marker to create some shadow. Finally, I fussy cut the lemon out and mounted it onto my background with pads.

This was my second attempt but here is my first which you can find out more about by checking out the Uniko blog. 

 So where will these new colours take you. The rest of the Color Hues girls and our very talented GD  Michele have come up with some fab inspiration. We are all looking forward to seeing your makes in our gallery. You've until 29th March @ 9am EDT to get those little grey cells working!

Joining in over at:-

 

                                             Water colouring

Shades of Green

Under the Sea

Morning all, a bit misty again here but hopefully it will burn off just like yesterday.

Hopefully it will be an improvement on yesterday in blogland as I did think of posting this card but Mr Linky was on strike. Not sure if it was just me but all the challenges I tried to look at yesterday had a fault on the InLinkz site. Pressed the blue link then nothing happened just the loading symbol, some had lost the list of entries completely! Anyway all back to normal now I hope.

This is the card I made with a couple of challenges in mind.

 Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Bi weekly sketch

Obviously I went with UNDER the sea with this mosaic style fish stamp using white embossing powder and watercolours. The central panel I inked using DIs then bleached out some bubbles with water then hi lighted a few with homemade glossy accents. I die cut the image using my Cookie cutter squares then inked the waste with the DIs and then cut again to create a border.

OK better get a move on as I'm off to have my boobs squeezed at the hospital. Yep folks it's mamo time again. Hopefully things will be OK but it always makes me nervous, it's 8 years since the last op and it's a new hospital since we moved. 

By for now and thanks for calling round. 

Man's Best Friend

Good morning.

It's been a week since the last challenge at Cardz4Guyz so it's time for a new one.

This week we would like to see your masculine projects based of the theme of -

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

So that's pretty straight forward I think and I thought straight away of the stamp I would like to use and so here is my card for your inspiration.

I made this with a couple of challenges in mind -

    

         Pick ANY sketch 215-324    

Without Words - It's a Celebration 

So it was out with the watercolours and one of my NBUS stamp LOTV's Man's Best Friend. 

I coloured the image then fussy cut it and mounted it on top of the scene which I painted on the base card so that the little fella is looking out at it. To get this looking just right I mirrored the sketch.

OK, so why not pop over to the main blog to see what the other DT have been up to and join in the fun.

Make your mark at ATSM

Morning all, today marks the start of a new challenge at ATSM.

This week we are asking for you to create a project by

Making your Mark

So any project that includes inks, markers, pencils etc as the main focus.

This week we are sponsored by

who are offering a prize of 5 digis

Here is my card for the DT inspiration.

I made it with a couple of challenges in mind.

Less is More - colour challenge

Allsorts -  Favourite things

I so love this die from Memory Box, I don't get fed up using it. I looked to get another similar but the one I got doesn't have the same appeal when I tried to use it. This Glorious Gardenia is just so versatile. 

I used DIs to watercolour the base then put a silver die cut on top with a few spots of colour.

The end result is never very precise using this method but the overlay of the die cut sharpens up the result. I used a few sequins and some lime bling as well as a sentiment die cut from Spellbinders 'Celebration 2' in black. The colour in the photo is a little bluer than the original for some reason.

OK that's about it, so why not pop over to see what the rest of the glorious DT have created for your inspiration, then join in, simples.