Uniko challenge, reminder

 Good morning folks, time to remind you that there is still time to join in over at Uniko for our Anything Goes, optional twist of dies, challenge. Here's my take using a few Uniko Goodies.

I took inspiration from a card I made at the start of my time at Uniko here,  I love the contrast of the black oval with the white embossed sentiment with the soft hint of green in the stencilling. I think it has a definite air of sunny days, just like we had for the Bank Holiday when I made it, and how unusual is that here in the UK?

For this take, I started by stencilling over the front of my white base card with Twisted Citron DI with the Mid Century Modern Squares stencil, letting the colour fade out towards the edges. Then, on a die cut black oval, I stamped and embossed with white EP, the fab sentiment from Birthday Wishes. The die cut elements come from Originally Organic Additions stamps and dies and I used the mirror stamping technique to get the foliage element to face the opposite way, just like my original card. I tend to die cut the shapes then use a homemade jig in my MISTI to stamp them before colouring with Copics.

Arranging the blooms into a pleasing form I added them to my black oval and the adhered it all over the stencilling.

So for more fab inspiration from the rest of the team and our GD Elaine, Please check out the Uniko blog here. You'll also find all the Ts and Cs there too.

Happy crafting!

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What's Your Superpower?

 Good evening peeps, a new month means a another new challenge. This time I'm up with a post for the CAS challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Here's my card:-

For my take on the theme I went with a masculine interpretation using this Fizzy Moon stamp and a sentiment from Picket Fence.

I stamped the bear and his pint onto a scrap of Copic friendly card, I really must get out and buy some more, coloured him with Copic markers, then fussy cut him out. Still on a mission to use up my odds and ends, I found a circle of white card, a scrap of brown card and a kraft card base that had been stamped and embossed previously but not to my satisfaction. The positioning of the previous stamping dictated where to put my image.

 I first adhered the bear to the white panel with pads, then added a die cut brown frame, edging the whole lot with a matching ink pad so that no white showed around the edges and popped it up again on pads. My sentiment was stamped on a scrap of white and trimmed to size. I have a thing about sentences having a capital letter at the beginning, must be the teacher in me, so this sentiment irked me somewhat. So a bit of judicious masking enabled me to stamp the majority of the sentiment and I added a capital 'I' freehand. After I took a photo, I also noticed that the second line needed one too, so I changed the full stop to a comma with the flick of a black fine liner, it looks much better now! This was also added on pads.

So where will the cue card take you, we'd love to see but please remember to keep your card CAS!

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

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Fussy cutting and Copic Colouring

Color Hues #19

Good afternoon and welcome to my third post of the day to announce the start of a brand new colour combo over at Color Hues. This time we've gone with an unusual combo of blue and brown but those colours work really well together I think you'll find. Here is my take.

This first design has been in my experiments to be made into a card box for quite awhile and I wasn't sure if it had survived unscathed, but it appears to have done so! It uses a Visible Image stamp called Butterfly Inkognito which I purchased from Port Sunlight quite a while ago. I don't recall what inks I used either possibly one was Memento Rich Cocoa, but the sentiment is definitely STAMPlorations! The stamping is a bit uneven on the main butterfly so I decided to have another go with the kissing technique used to create the brown script. This time its an IndigoBlu script stamp, also purchased at a PS stamp fair! 

For this second attempt I used Memento Summer Sky and Espresso Truffle and another STAMPlorations sentiment.

The coverage of the blue ink is better but I prefer the colour combo of the first, the brown is too dark, I think I should have used Rich Cocoa, never mind, you get the overall effect.

To get the text to stamp just on the butterfly I used the kissing technique, where you stamp onto the larger stamp after the initial stamping with the script and stamp again to transfer the same pattern onto the background stamping. You don't need to use text you can use anything that gives the effect of texture.

So that's all from me but please check out the rest of the team for more colour combo ideas.

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Dad, Man of the Moment

 Good morning. It's time for a brand new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This time it's -

FATHER'S DAY

Here's my inspiration card for you.

I took my inspiration from a Jennifer McGuire video featuring sentiment strips here, I loved the graphic quality of her card. She used different sentiments but I thought I could apply the same ideas to a Father's Day card.

On an A6 white note card, I stamped a background using a selection of larger phrase stamps on the theme of Father's Day, using Altenew's Limestone ink. The sentiment strips were stamped with a selection of various stamps from lots of different sets, MFT, Altenew, Uniko and a freebie! The DAD was cut from black card using alphabet dies and the stars from a couple of MFT sets and an ancient Martha Stewart border punch. All the sentiments were added on pads over the background and the stars added.

Quite a simple idea but quite adaptable.

So where will you go with our theme? We'd love to see your cards in the gallery. For more masculine ideas, just check out the Cardz4Guyz blog.

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Any Celebration (not birthday)

Flowers are Nature's Paintings

Morning all, it's the first of the month so its time for a brand new challenge over at STAMPlorations Theme and Photo Challenge. Here's my inspiration for you a water coloured spring bouquet.

For my card I took inspiration from the watercolours in the photo and used that method to colour my stamped Blossom Sprays #2 image. On an A6 panel of watercolour cardstock, I stamped the spray and then used my Zig watercolour markers to colour it. Once I had completed the panel, the sentiment from Carved Flowers, was stamped in black then heat embossed with a clear EP. Very much a clean and simple card but the delicate spray stamp really dictated that!  

So that's about it from me but there's more inspiration from the rest of the team here, where you'll also find all the Ts and Cs.

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