Christmas fun at Uniko

 Morning all, time for a little bit of festive fun in theses strange times.

Uniko is having a Christmas party and we want you to join in.

This is a crafty party of course! Join in the party by sharing your Christmas cards, tags, projects or scrapbook pages using Uniko Clear Stamps, Stencils or Designer Dies. See the Party Rules on the Uniko blog.

How about some prizes as an incentive to join in?

First Prize £25 eGift Certificate

Second & Third Prize Winners Choice of £10 In-Stock Clear Stamp Set
Random Lucky Comment £5 In-Stock Clear Stamp Set

Here's a card or two to inspire you to join in.

Lots of snowflake stamps used here with shades of blue and green and a blue sentiment, a quick and easy OLC.  Or perhaps you more of a magenta and blue person?

This card was made the same as the green and blue one as a quick OLC for overseas posting, only this time I used up some old linen effect card bases, continuing my quest to use up my old but very useable card stock. The card base was made from a Papermania pad I bought a  a while ago and found too flimsy and the white too bright for my everyday use but it needs to be used, so why not now! 

It has a textured surface but I quite like how it affects the stamping, creating a texture on the images.

For both cards I used snowflake stamps from various sets, including Snowflake Serenade and Stunning Snowflakes.  Using a variety of shapes and sizes of stamps in different shades of two colours to create my snow flurry. The colours for the second card are from the current challenge at Color Hues. Adding the sentiment from Stunning Snowflakes in black.

Pop over to the Uniko blog to see what the rest of the BAs have made to inspire you, don't forget to leave a comment as you hop along.

So what are you waiting for?

Pop over to the Uniko blog for all the Ts and Cs and why not join in?

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Slimline Christmas card

 Afternoon peeps, just popping by to share a Christmas card I made for a couple of challenges, that if I hurry up, I wont miss!

I apologise for the photo, the light here the last few days has been awful for taking pics. In fact yesterday I had the lights on well before 3pm!

The challenge at As You Like it, is Snowmen or Penguins, well I went for penguins, I love this cheeky image from LOTV and their images are fab to colour with my Copics too. I did buy it with my daughter and family in mind as my SiL loves penguins but there were so many cute penguin images on their site I bought some a load more, well they were on offer,wink!

I used an off cut of NitWits Ho Ho Ho DP, left over from a previous project with a couple of blue stripes added with a Copic marker to match the image colours. I more or less followed the sketch at Fusion but I suppose the pic was an influence too. Unusually for me I went with a slimline design as I have loads of envelops this size from way, way back when they were popular before and I've run out of the normal C6 ones! To add a little bit more sparkle, I added some stickles to the snow and strips of red glitter paper to the top and bottom of the image.

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Snowmen or Penguins

Color Hues #7

 Good afternoon, back again with a card for the latest challenge at Color Hues.

I decided to go for a bit of blending to create a background for my Christmas tree using the prompt colours.

On a panel of white card, I inked up with DIs in Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire and blended them together. Where the pinks overlap with the blue you get a purply shade and the end result is a pretty sunset background. 

I saw the technique for the tree pop up in my Pinterest feed but decided to make my own take on it as I ended up with too big and bulky a tree!

I used an ancient foliage punch to cut numerous white branches from a piece of scrap white card and layered them up to create my tree.

Using some white linen cardstock, I made an A6 top fold card and cut another panel slightly smaller with an aperture using a Sizzix oval die. Using foam tape I added this oval frame to the background to which I had added a small strip of white card for the snow. Once the frame was in place I added in the tree and a few dots of white gel pen to the sky to suggest snow. The sentiment from a Woodware set was stamped with dark blue to complete.

OK, that's all from me for today but please check out the rest of the team for more blue and magenta inspiration.

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The night before Christmas?

Good morning peeps, back in short order for another new challenge, this time its for Cardz4Guyz.

This time we have the very seasonal topic of:-

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

What does that mean to you, is it all about the traditions, the tree, the prep or the colours? However I'm sure there will be plenty of non traditional Christmas celebrations this year due to the pandemic.

Anyway, there are still cards to be sent out, so this challenge was the perfect opportunity to make another for the stash.

What's more traditional than hanging up a stocking?

Must admit we used to have a pillow case at the bottom of the bed when I was little and Santa now leaves the pressies under the tree, but I thought this cute hedgie hanging up his stocking was too good to leave off. It reminds me of the traditional poem, The night before Christmas.

I watched the very talented Therese Calvird on her You Tube channel for her Same but different Christmas series again this year. She's full of fab Christmas inspiration, traditional or not. I was inspired by her video where she used all those snippets of card you have saved because you couldn't bare to throw them away as it may come in useful! Therese used a fancy die to cut her strips but I just used my paper trimmer and some scrap copy paper to lay them out on. I got carried away one very wet Saturday afternoon when the footie news of my team wasn't great, and made a whole batch of backgrounds. I'm sure some of them will surface in further posts.

The hedgie stamp was free with a mag but I think that the designer is Margaret Sherry as he is very like her Penny Black ones. I coloured him with Copics before fussy cutting him and mounting on pads over my strip background. A simple stamped sentiment with gold EP completes. I veered away from my normal top fold A6 notecard shape and went for a square for this, using some card from my stash. With lockdown curtailing retail therapy, I am trying very hard to use some of the vast supply I have accumulated over the years. I have even thrown out some DP that I didn't think I would use after it had resided in a box for over10 years! 

So what makes your Christmas traditional? We'd love to see your take on the theme in our gallery.

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Starry, starry night

 Morning all, its going to be a busy day here on my blog as three of my DTs are due a post. This is the first one off the block.

So my first post is for STAMPlorations where a brand new challenge for theme and photo prompt is up and running. Here is my inspiration card based on the theme of shimmer and the holiday themed photo.

I started by using the Stitched Winter Landscape die to cut a panel of white card to create the horizon of my scene. Using my Versamark pen and mini ink pad I edged the trees, house and snowbank and added WOW White Puff twinkle EP. After heat embossing that I turned my attentions to the background. Using DI in Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot, I inked a panel of card, keeping it darker towards the top. When dry I added some stars by sketching in some areas of white with a pastel pencil and gel pen. When that was dry I went back with a soft cloth and buffed up each 'star' to soften the effect, I was trying to make the stars look as though they were shimmering. To finish I added the sentiment from Christmas Bell Medley in dark blue ink to the bottom of the front panel and attached it to my background then to an A6 side fold card.

That's about it from me but please check out the rest of the STAMPgirls here for more inspiration.

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