BA Inspiration - A Masculine CAS card

Morning all.

I'm up over on the Uniko blog with some more Brand Ambassador inspiration based on a new to me technique, layered stenciling, inspired by the challenge over at CAS Stencil.

I decided to show you how I made this CAS masculine card.

For the details check out the Uniko blog here.

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Look what I've found!

Morning peeps.

Another Tuesday, my they are coming around fast these days. I said Tuesday so it must be time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

This week it's my choice and as you may know I love a sketch so that's what I went with. Here is my card based on it.

I saw this cute chap in the new LOTV release and he reminded me of my grandson who is having a great time toddling around his small back garden keeping his parents amused and busy! I've seen lots of photos of him pointing to things he's found in the garden and I thought this image would fit him down to a tee.

This is the little chap in question watering Nannee's garden last year!

After printing off the image, I coloured with Copic markers and fussy cut him out.

From an A6 panel of white card, I cut a circle and then cut a frame from a slightly larger circle of blue card and the same die, gluing it around the opening. The fussy cut image was then slipped behind the panel and glued down to the bottom of the opening, adding a scrap of NitWits DP behind to complete. 

The number 3 was cut from the same blue card as the frame, as was the larger of the two die cut circles. The number was then added to a white circle and mounted on the blue one before adding to the design. The LOTV stamped sentiment finishes it all off.

A simple CAS design but for more inspiration check out the rest of the DT here for their interpretation of the sketch. 

We'd love to see how you interpret the layout for yourselves.

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Men and Boys

Stargazer Lilies

Morning Uniko fans, it's time for another fun challenge.

This time I'm going bright and happy!

I know a lot of us are spending more time in our gardens than ever before, so I was thinking about what I still had to plant out and what I would like to buy now the garden centers are open and thought about some stargazer lilies. Lilies aren't good if you have cats but we don't, so perhaps these bright and happy blooms will find their way into my basket one day soon.

Using a panel of watercolour paper, I stamped and embossed in white these Pure Florals -Lily images, creating my own masks from Post-its, before colouring with my Zig watercolor pens, great for detail and larger areas!

I chose a purple and deep pink against a pale blue background, washing in some pale colour to the petals first, adding some darker areas whilst still wet, before going back to add the details once the background was dry. I finished by adding my blue background wash of dilute Salty Ocean DI.
My sentiment strip is from the Pure Florals - Cosmos set.
The completed panel was trimmed down to size before adding to an A6 top folding note card.

While I had my lily stamp set on the table, I saw that over at Twofer the theme was Flowers, so I thought I would make another card using the same lily stamp. This time I used just the one bold bloom and coloured it using Copics. Now I have to say that due to the current situation, my stash of Copic friendly card is rather low, so I used some other white card for this to see how it would work. The end result isn't all that bad but not as good as the right card would have been. The surface of this card is more absorbent so the blending is rather patchy. Hopefully I shall be able to trot off to get some more of the good stuff from my normal local supplier very soon.

I went with a bright orange lily for this card and a sentiment from the Pure Florals Rose set.

Here are both cards together.

The Copic coloured one is more graphic compared to the arty looking watercoloured one but I do love this large lily stamp.

That's all from me for the mo, but for more bright and happy Uniko inspiration, please check out our fab GD Viv and the rest of the team here, along with all Ts and Cs.

We'd love to see your efforts, who doesn't want a bit of cheeriness in these dark days. You don't need to use Uniko stamps either but it would be great if you did.

All challenge details can be found on the Uniko blog.

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Fabulously Feminine                                             

Say it with Flowers                                         

    

If life gives you lemons ....

..... make lemonade!
It's time for a new challenge over at Perfectly CAS, here is my inspiration based on this month's theme.

I've had this set for awhile waiting for the right moment to use it. With all that's going on at the moment, I thought hit hit the nail on the head, of course you could add G and T instead! The set is from Penny Black, called Homemade and features these cute mice.

Rather than use Copic markers, I decided to colour these small, cute mice with Zig watercolour markers ,before stamping the sentiment and embossing with clear EP. I kept the design and sentiment in the bottom left corner to keep the design CAS. If you are unsure of the definition of CAS, here it is.



Simply put, keep 2/3rds of your design free of anything!

For more animal CAS inspiration please check out the girls here.

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Anything Goes

Perfectly Vintage

Morning all, hope I find you well in these strange times.

It's Tuesday, I did check, so it's time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. Must admit that if it wasn't for having to post challenges on specific days, I would have no idea what day it is, how about all of you in lockdown? When I was teaching I knew what the day and date was because I wrote it on the board  every day but since retirement days tend to blur!! 

Anyhow, the new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz is:-

VINTAGE

So for my card I went with a vintage motor and used Vintage Photo DI!

I used the LOTV Auto trio stamp set, coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The background was made by stamping a map stamp with Vintage Photo DI on some kraft card. I inked a cream top fold A6 note card and added the inked panel. A sentiment from the set completes.

Check out the rest of the team here for more Vintage inspired guy cards.