Goal!

Good morning folks.

Hope I find you well in these strange times.

Today marks the start of a brand new challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

This time our challenge is :-

FATHER'S DAY

I suppose there will be many fathers and sons who will not be together this year so why not make a card and send it.

Here is mine which may make it's way to my daughter for the Grandkids to give to their dad!

I used the football trio from LOTV and a red colour scheme as my SiL is a huge Liverpool fan.

I found a panel of red Bazzil in my stash, yes I'm still trying to be good and use the odds n ends I have and trimmed it to A6, On some more scrap white card, I stamped the images and then cut some circles of white to mount them on after I had coloured with Copics and fussy cut.

I love these trio sets but often struggle with how to use them. LOTV have a wonderful ideas board on Pinterest and there are lots of ideas on Google image, so I had a look about and found a couple of layouts I liked, not with this set but the auto trio I used last month. I tried to save the link but it only took me to a larger pic of the card so I hope that the designer will accept my apologies for not linking back.

The happy die cut is from Wplus9 cut a couple of times from scrap white and once from black before mounting it on foam pads. The stamped and embossed sentiment, from Uniko, was added on a black strip below.

For more Father's Day inspiration, please check the rest of the DT here and then join in.

Uniko challenge, a reminder

Welcome to a post to remind you that there is still time to enter the challenge over at Uniko.

Here is my card, hopefully fulfilling the brief!

I chose some bright and cheerful DOx inks to match the flowers from The Card Concept, to colour this panel which I had previously stamped, masked and heat embossed in white with the Pure Florals Lily set, love the tropical feel to this colourway.
You might recognize the background as I made it at the same time as my watercolour one from the start of the challenge. It was as easy to make 2 as just one using my MISTI. This time I used plain white card.
On the finished embossed panel, I added DOx in Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade,
Abandoned Coral and Candied Apple and blended them from light to dark over it.
Once the ink had dried, I buffed up the panel to remove extra ink from the embossing with a bit of kitchen roll and added some peachy orange fun foam to the back, keeping the glue to the edges only.
Using a rectangle die, I cut the center away to leave the raised frame. The center came away with only a little help from a craft knife as the glue had squished out! The central foam was then free to be used in another project.
The frame was glued to an A6 base card and the unmounted center panel was slipped in to the center and glued flat to the base card.
On a strip of black card, I embossed the sentiment and added a gold glitter die cut 'Sending' popped up on black foam.

That's all from me, 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.


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I was inspired by the colours of the floral elements to create my background for this clean and layered card.

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.

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