Stenciling with die cuts and foiling

Good evening and happy Valentines Day!
It's time for a brand new challenge at Perfectly CAS.
Here's my card for your inspiration.

So we would like you to use any shape or shapes as your focus but keep your design to just 1/3rd of the card.

My choice of shapes as you can see was hearts.

I used a homemade stencil made from an IO heart die and scrap card, adding some embossing paste to create dimension. (I must admit that I added a second layer as I thought the hearts were still a little flat looking.)

 CAS Stencil are asking you to use foil so I decided to have a go. Mind you my foil is positively ancient, at least 20 years old and I found to my cost that as I was using it, it might have become a little compromised! 

I used some Indigo Blu Flitter glue to attach the foil as I don't have a reliable laminator and besides I'm not sure that the foil was suitable for heat! Any how I persevered and I quite like the distressed look which resulted, instead of a silky smooth finish.

My sentiment from Uniko was added to a thin card strip and heat embossed with gold EP.

The photography of foil is notoriously difficult but the textured surface added extra twinkle!

For more shape inspired CAS inspiration, check out the rest of the team here.

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                                                      Foiling, embossing paste,
                                                   heat embossing

Love

Just the picture

    

Looking Good Birthday Boy

Good morning peeps.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This time we would like to see your projects using:-

BRADS or EYELETS

So how will you treat that? Simply add them to your design or incorporate them into your design. I had a look through my stash and I came up with lots of brads, large and small, shaped and plain and eventually decided to use simple silver ones in my design.

I've made a few cards using the MFT Zipper die set, it makes a great masculine card.

To start I took a side fold linen effect base card and cut a part circle from the top left, then cut another slightly larger part circle from a scrap of the same, then cut away the waste with the smaller circle die to create a welt. 

From a panel of leather effect white card, I cut the front jacket panel and cut away a couple of the zip dies. To get the distressed leather look, I first inked with Black Soot DI followed by Altenew's Permanent Black, hen buffed up the panel.

From some silver mirror card, I cut the zip parts and added them onto the inked panel. 

The sentiment, made up from a Woodware and STAMPlorations phrase was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed using white EP. 

Using a hole punch, I pre cut the holes for the brads before adding them and then popping up the panel up on pads over the base card.

That's about it from me but there's lots of inspiration over on the blog by the rest of the DT.
Why not join us, but don't forget to make it masculine!

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Happy 8th Birthday Uniko

Good morning Peeps. Today is the official birthday of Uniko Stamps, yes 8 years ago Bev bravely started her one woman business. It can't believe its that long ago, I still use my first Uniko set of stamps, the fabulous Pure Florals Gerbera from July 2012!

Last week we got the party started with an inspirational Design Team Blog Hop & Birthday Linky Party. If you missed it, be sure to catch up HERE and join in on the fun. 

However, today Bev is offering a HUGE prize package for ONE lucky person to celebrate Uniko's official birthday.

This is a BIG deal for Bev to offer another prize package like this to another lucky winner, but without you the customer, Uniko wouldn't be celebrating 8 years of being in business. 

In 2019 Uniko Released 19 Clear Stamp Sets, that's a whole lot of stamps & in 2020, there might possibly be more. Anyway, to be in the chance of winning this HUGE prize, simply add your name to the linkyot the Uniko blog. The link up will close at 23:59 Saturday 29th February 2020.  

Winners will be announced Sunday 8th March 2020 along with all the other 8th Birthday Celebration Winners.

Rules etc...

* One entry per person 

* You don't have to link just from a blog, you can use any of your social media http links. 

* If you don't have a social media or place to link, you are more than welcome to link to your favourite Uniko product on the website ;)

* This giveaway/prize package is sponsored purely by Bev/Uniko and it is open internationally, we'd love to share this amazing prize far & wide!

For Beautiful Eyes....

Evening all.
It's time for a brand new challenge over at HLS CAS and here is my take on this month's theme.

I must admit I was a bit of a loss as what to do but eventually I decided on the positive sentiment route with this pairing from Stamping Bella.
It's quite a large sentiment so I kept the design very simple, the white sentiment banner contrasting with the black base card and the red shades of her dress. I used the colours at Color Throwdown for the dress and accessories, colouring with Copic markers. The sentiment was stamped with Altenew's Industrial Graphite ink.
For more positive inspiration check out the rest of the fab DT here.

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Uniko 8th Birthday Linky Party and Blog Hop

This month Uniko turns EIGHT and to celebrate we have a month full of fun in store, with a new release at the end of the month and bags of inspiration from the Uniko Brand Ambassadors.

Today we are kicking off the celebrations with a linky party, what's a birthday without a party?

We had lots of success with the last three Birthday Linky Parties, so it's become a tradition to celebrate this way.

All you have to do is create a birthday card, any theme, any style and using any product you like then link it up via the linky on the Uniko blog. You don't have to have a blog to enter, you can link your card from your Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or as with all challenges you can email Bev with your entry too.

You don't have to use Uniko products, but it would be great if you did. It's lovely to see you using your Uniko stash, including Uniko Digital Freebies or ones from Magazine Features plus there is an extra opportunity to win a prize if you do!

So to start here is my birthday inspired card.

This is a take on a technique I saw on You Tube by the talented Jennifer McGuire that I've wanted to try for awhile.

It's a very simple OL card involving masking and repeat stamping.

To start I stamped the cosmos stems from Pure Forals Cosmos to make a mask for the flowers from a couple of full sticky Post It notes. An A6 white card panel was placed in the MISTI and then stamped the flowers and sentiment from the same set in black. Removing the flowers but keeping the sentiment in the same place in my MISTI, I placed the mask over the stamped blooms and started stamping the sentiment in pale lilac, moving the card panel 1/4" up or down each time until I was satisfied with the coverage. 

The mask was then removed and the blooms coloured them with Copics.

Need a little more incentive to join in on the fun? How about some prizes...

• Main Winner Chosen By the DT - £25 eGift Certificate
• Random Uniko Stamps Winner - In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing (any value)
• Top 5 Chosen By DT - In Stock £5 Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Randomly Selected comment from the Design Team Hop In Stock £5 Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing

Thats a total of EIGHT chances to win! 

Winners will be announced Sunday 8th March 2020 along with all the other 8th Birthday Celebration Winners.

Why not take advantage of this fabulous discount code too! The code celebrate8 is valid for the whole month of February 2020 and can be used on any order placed, even if you place multiple orders during the month!

There's more birthday inspiration from the BAs, check them out.

Bev
Carol 
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - That's me
Linda

Rahmat

Sarah P
Wiebke