Uniko Blog Hop, revisiting all over stamps and stencils

Over at Uniko on non - release months like this, Bev and the Design Team look back at a previously released product and give it some more love together with a Blog hop and GIVEAWAY!

Usually it's just one product that was released the previous year or a once favourite that hasn't seen much air time. However, this time Bev couldn't decide on the product, so as a team we randomly selected a stamp set and then went a little polka dot crazy and added in some popular sentiment sets too!

I went totally polka dot crazy with this card for my daughter's Brother in Law's forthcoming nuptials in the Big Apple. She's not big on flowers, so requested something that was more suitable for an urban style wedding.

On an A6 panel of white I inked through the stencil in an arc with a Versamark pad, before embossing with silver EP. I then moved the stencil around and repeated, 1st with Silver Pearl EP, then Hologram Sparkle EP and finally with Memento London Fog. The sentiment from Birthday Wishes was also stamped in the grey ink but embossed with a clear EP. 

I wanted to have a hint to the NY event, so added a skyline with 3 strips of a die cut in shades of grey card that matched the confetti effect of the stencilling.

My finished panel was trimmed and then added to another of silver glitter paper, before beiging glued to a 5 x 7 white base card.

My second card uses the two Simply Said Blocks sets for an all over background pattern.

Using Autumnal colours I stamped my brick background using 5 of the blocks, Thanks. Thank You, Hello, Smile and Just a Note. The thanks was then cut from the finished panel with an alphabet die and again from brown fun foam. Before replacing the thanks into the die cuts, I stamped the 'You're Awesome' in Brown and heat embossed it with clear EP. The stamped die cuts were glued onto the foam ones then replaced into the spaces. The whole lot was mounted onto a white basecard, 

You don't have to use the thanks idea, different blocks would work just as well with a different die cut word or phrase.

For more inspiration check out the rest of the team here.

Bev
Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - that's me
Linda

Lindsey

Rahmat
Wiebke 

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Went with the orangey colours from the photo

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Bricks, blocks and brown

Guesting over at LIM

Morning again friends.

I'm back to share a card I made for today's new challenge over at Less is More where I'm guesting.

Can you guess the theme?

Well it's one layer week and the theme is:-

Oh no I hear you cry, but hold on. OLcards just need a bit of planning and are really no harder than other kinds, so go on have a go!

I started by deciding on my layout on a piece of scrap paper before going ahead with the real thing.

I went with Altenew Amazing You as well as their September colour challenge colours.

Instead of using black ink to stamp, I went with Memento London Fog, embossed with WOW Semi dull EP as I wanted to use watercolours, masking with fussy cut Post it masks as I went.

My card is just bog standard premium card and is fine for watercolouring so long as you don't over work it. If you do, it becomes all rough and messy as the fibers breakdown with too much water.

I chose to work with DIs for this, basically because as I was too lazy to ferret out my watercolour pans from the bottom of the drawer! The blooms were coloured with Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry and the leaves with a mix of Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Peeled Paint.

I wanted a fairly airy sentiment so went with a Marion Emberson one from Personal Impressions, stamped in black.

So what will you come up with, check out the rest of the LIM ladies here for some fab OL inspiration.

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Flowers

       

Congrats to you both

Morning and welcome to my 3rd post as GD over at JUGS.

Here's my card for you for this week's colour challenge.

I chose green for my optional colour.

My son is of an age when his friends and colleagues are getting married so it's been Mum, have you got a card ...... .

Well, I decided to use that request as my inspiration using the colours of the challenge, my extra colour had to be green for the foliage. 

After a traumatic wait for my Concord and 9th prize and almost £15 in import VAT and handling, I thought I better use it! As it was from a guy, I thought I would keep it pretty simple with just a few PPP sequins added.

The background was stamped on white using Memento London Fog and trimmed down to fit. On a separate scrap of card I stamped just one of the bouquets and die cut it before stamping in the foliage and flowers. A separate die cut flower was cut and stamped with Abandoned Coral DOx 1st and 2nd generation and some extra green ferny branches coloured with Altenew's Parrot and Olive and added to the bouquet.

The sentiment panel was stamped with a greeting from HLS in London Fog and a XCut Congrats coloured with the same Abandoned Coral. I decided to pop the finished die cut up on fun foam for added dimension.

OK, that's it from me but please check out the rest of the team here and join in.

It's a busy day here on my blog, so I'll be back again in a few hours with some more inspiration.

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Sailing by to wish you ...........

Morning all.

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

This week our there is:-

ALL AT SEA

Here is my take on it.

I used the sketch at AAA and the Woodware set Sailing By.

With a small black ink pad, I inked the lighthouse part of the large stamp and stamped on white card, then coloured with Copics and a little white gel pen for the waves.

My porthole was made using two Avery Elle Double pierced circle dies and matching white card, glued over the trimmed down image. A few shaped, punched circles added to the porthole effect.

The sentiment is also from the set but as I only wanted the words not the frame and knot, I used my Zig pens to ink up the words before stamping onto a 5 x 5 white base card. My porthole, popped up on pads was then attached.

So what will you come up with?

Go on have a go, making masculine cards isn't that difficult, honestly! Keeping it CAS is a great way to make a masculine card.

Check out the DT here for more sea inspired cards.

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Stretching your dies

Afternoon peeps.

I was lucky enough to win a gift voucher in Altenew's July Challenge and I bought the Fantasy Florals dies. I must admit it was a hard decision as to which items to put in my basket but decided on die cuts as they can be so versatile. 

Instead of cutting out the separate sections of the flower from card I used kraft foam and turned them into stamps!

Here is what I ended up with.

After stamping the base shape, using Memento Angel Pink, I added the 2nd with 2nd generation Rose Bud and the final layer was stamped with Rose Bud, just as it comes. I quite like the blotchy look of the large leaf clusters which I stamped with Altenew Olive with some hand drawn veining using Moss. It was missing something so using a couple of stamps that came free in a mag, I added 3 single leaves and a thank you from the same set. To finish, I added some splatter in the same colours, masking off the flower and leaves with die cut Post its.

What do you think? Can you tell it's not a proper stamp? The flower turned out better than the leaves but overall I think it worked.

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Make it Feminine