Brum, Brum

Good morning peeps.

The holidays are well past now and the girls at Cardz4Guyz are fully recharged and ready to bring you a brand new challenge. This time our theme is -

TRAINS, PLANES and/or AUTOMOBILES

I went with Automobiles for my card, which I made for the OH of my best friend.

I used a page from an old road atlas and a LOTV pre coloured image that she gave me a while back and thought was just the thing!

Using a 5 x 7 white base card, I took the map image and cut two rectangles, glueing them slightly off square after edging them with Vintage Photo DI. The image was fussy cut and added acros the map panels with sticky foam pads. On a couple of black die cut banners I stamped my greeting, part Christmas and part Birthday Sentiments from Uniko and heat embossed with white EP. All in all a very quick and simple card.

Must admit the panels look a bit wonky in this pic but I think it is an optical illusion as both panels were cut from the same panel and match up! Think the card is slightly bowed in the photo!

For more transport inspiration check out the rest of the team here, then why not join in?

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Uniko January Blog Hop

Good morning peeps.

It's the weekend so why not settle down with a cuppa and browse the Uniko DT's favourite stamps and stencils that have been released in 2018.

As usual leave a comment as you hop along for the chance to win, all the details are over on the Uniko site. You should have come from Jane's blog but don't worry all the links are at the end of this post.

Anyway without further ado here is my card using my favourite stamp set.

When I first saw the Pure Florals - Peony set, I just fell in love with this gorgeous blousy bloom.

Pure Florals: Peony £15 Clear Stamp Set

There have been lots of fab sets released in 2018 but although only released in December, this is going to be a firm favourite, I can tell. The large flower stamp just doesn't need anything else to make it shine, so I gave it the CAS treatment.

I used the colours from this month's Flower Challenge of pink and grey to create this 5 x 7 card.

To start, I tool a panel of grey Kaisercraft textured card in Smoke and stamped my layout with Versamark and fine white EP, masking where necessary. The large peony was then stamped on watercolour paper with Versamark and heat embossed with the same white EP. I then added some DI, Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserve and Picked Raspberry, on my craft mat to colour the petals in a w/c technique. The same technique for the leaves but using Pine Needles, Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint and in the end I cut away all of them except the odd few. My flower center was a little bit of Mustard Seed and Wild Honey. 

When dry, I fussy cut it and put it to one side while I dealt with the base panel. It was trimmed to be slightly less than the white base card, then I added my sentiment from Wonderful Day, embossed with white EP. The large pink peony was then added over the embossed design with foam pads.

Wonderful Day £9 Clear Stamp Set

So what was your favourite release? Check out what the rest of the DT decided by clicking on the links below.

Bev
Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - That'll be me
Linda

Rahmat
Sarah G

Sarah P
Wiebke 

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Flowers

Just a couple of Christmas cards

Hi, just popping by to share a couple of Christmas cards I made using the Uniko Snowflake stencil I used here, that fit with a few current challenges. I loved the pinky purple version but these use a more traditional colour scheme. I needed a few rather quickly for my craft class ladies but the colour and lack of embellishments makes them suitable for blokes too!

I used the same technique, a base colour then using a finger dauber to add the darker blues to the pattern before die cutting the letters from Altenew's Bold Alphabet dies and a few silver IO die cut snowflakes that were leftover from another project. 

The negative panel was laid over some sparkly silver glitter paper on a mid blue base card and the letters were popped up on foam die cuts and added to a midnight blue base card. 

I even had another panel of stencilled snowflakes left to make another couple of cards!

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Surprize Party Guest at Seize the Birthday

Afternoon peeps.
I'm back today with a card and a little bit of news.
To start here is my card, I was very much in festive mood when I made this birthday card.

The reason for creating it was because Nancy of STB asked if I would be their surprise party guest over at Seize the Birthday for the next couple of months! 

It was so out of the blue but of course I said yes, STB is one of my favourite challenges!

This time the theme is -

CONFETTI

But as usual so long as it's a birthday card your welcome in the gallery!

I'd seen quite a few black and gold New Year images on Pinterest such as this one, which together with the theme prompted me I to make this OL card. 
To start, I placed a top fold, black, A6 base card under the Uniko Confetti stencil and securing with a little bit of tape. To leave room for the sentiment, I masked off part of the stencil with some Post It tape, then inked over with Versamark and then carefully removed the mask. I chose some sparkly EP and heat embossed the confetti.
Using my MFT small alphabet dies, I cut out BIRTHDAY from some gold glitter paper and stamped the happy from the Happy Christmas in the Uniko Simply Said Christmas set  in Versamark and heat embossed with white EP.

I do like black and gold together, it always looks classy and is very celebratory!
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Party Time


Anything Goes

Caseing Jennifer Mcguire

Good evening and Happy New Year!
New year, new month so new challenge over at HLS CAS.
Here is my inspiration card for this month's theme.

I don't use washi tape much at all and if it wasn't for my bestie who bought me some I wouldn't have much at all! I always struggle using it too, so had to go looking for inspiration and found it over on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube channel here.
Instead of the distress marker panel, I laid down some strips of Washi tape onto some white card then trimmed it down to size. The sentiment is one from STAMPlorations, stamped and embossed with white EP. A very simple design in the end.

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Thanks a bunch