Introducing... Pattern Building Christmas Tree

Good morning. Its time to reveal the last of the September release sets from Uniko. 

Today we are showcasing the Pattern Building Christmas Tree. Here's my take!

Whilst thinking of my design, I was rifling through my background box and came across a sentiment stamped background, this one is from a batch I made back in October 2019! I thought it showed off the strips rather well, I seem to be on a roll with stamped backgrounds.

To decide the size and shape of the tree, I laid out different elements in decreasing size order on an A6 scrap of paper. Choosing some scraps from the bit box, I cut some strips and laid those out too in a pleasing colour pattern, before stamping each element onto the strips of card and then reassembling onto the panel. To get a different look, all you need to do is change the order of the strips or the colours used or the background!

So that's it for the introductions, tomorrow we will be back with our BA Blog Hop and Giveaway, but if you want to check out more ideas for this set, check out the rest of the BAs first.

Bev
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie -that's me

Rahmat

Steph

Wiebke 

Happy Hopping!!

Color Hues #27

 Good afternoon folks, its been a busy day on my blog, scroll down if you are looking for my earlier posts, as well as busy in the household! We also took Max, our little dog, to have his teeth cleaned at the Vet's this morning. He needed to be put under so that the Vet could get to the back one's without loosing a finger or two!! He will also get his jabs whilst he's there because the lovely lady vet couldn't get to do it last week. Typical small dog, especially the Chihuahua part, very protective and independent. Due to Covid restrictions, we couldn't go with him into the consulting rooms and although she picked him up and carried him in, he wasn't letting her anywhere near with the syringe! Hopefully he'll be back with us soon.

As it's the first of the month, its time for a new colour combo over at Color Hues. This time we've got a lovely autumnal combo to get your creative juices flowing. Here's my take.

I treated myself to some new stamps awhile back and one of them was this Fashion Monger Dahlia Build a Flower set from Altenew. I do love dahlias, mine were a bit of a disappointment this year, some tubers didn't sprout and some didn't flower and the retched slugs grazed the ones I left in last year as well as the ones that actually made it into the border!

Anyway, I thought they were the perfect choice for this challenge.

I used Memento Cantaloupe, Tangelo and Morocco ink for the petals and a new set of Altenew's to me Nature's Wonders for the centers. They are a greeny brown, quite an earthy set of colours, so they were within the rules! The leaves were a combination of Altenew's Bamboo, and Olive.

The background stripes are a stamp called Nautical Stripes, from Uniko, there are several in the series and are great for just this type of background. I stamped them in Altenew's Obsidian ink straight onto an A6 note card and then added the blooms and leaves. The sentiment looks as though it is part of the background stamp but is in fact a strip of black card, stamped and slipped under the blooms to mimic the stamp.

That's it from for today, but please check out the rest of the brilliant team over at Color Hues for more colourful ideas.

PS. Max is back with us and his breath is SO much sweeter! He had more than a few teeth out too so was feeling particularly sorry for himself. This afternoon he was back barking at the hikers who were crossing the field and taking their time to get through the kissing gate! It would appear that normal service has resumed!

We're Back!

Good morning, STAMPlorations are back with their challenges after a long summer holiday. 

So here I am with a card for our first challenge at Theme and Photo prompt.

What has more shine than mirror card, well if you've ever tried to photograph it you'll know all about it!

To start, I die cut a panel of white card using the middle die of the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies, then used the Christmas Icons Christmas Tree #2 die, to cut the shape. I flipped this panel over and added some double sided tape over the opening and flipped it back. Using the same tree die, I cut again using gold mirror card, but this time I was careful to keep all the cut out pieces as I wanted then to inlay into my first tree. The sticky side of the tape allowed me to insert the smallest pieces back into the openings!

To finish off, I stamped my greeting from Hello Christmas and embossed with gold EP. The finished panel was added to an A6 top fold note card.

So where will you go with the theme and photo? We'd love to see you in our gallery with your take.

If you need more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT here.

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Introducing... Stencil - Flower Power #1

This is a busy day on my blog but this is the post to showcase the latest stencil release from Uniko.

Here's how I used it.

Yesterday saw the launch of the new Christmas sentiments, so I made a whole batch of backgrounds using these and some of the older sentiment stamps. I made a whole batch whilst the stamps were in my MISTI, more of them later! This background was clear embossing over blue card, but you can use what ever you want to, some panels were embossed with white over stripes and others using clear and different festive coloured card. For more ideas on this theme check out this post.

I made the white snowflake pattern by laying the Flower Power stencil over the edge of the panel and inked through with Hero Arts Unicorn white ink. When dry, I left it overnight, I carefully rubbed away the excess ink away from the embossed text and trimmed it down before adding to an A6 white note card. With all the sentiments in the background, I felt another sentiment was superfluous!

So what do you think? For more fab inspiration check out the girls below.

Bev
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie -that's me

Rahmat

Steph

Wiebke 

See you tomorrow for the final introduction.

Uniko challenge, a reminder

Good morning, it's going to be a busy day here on my blog but first I'm just popping by to remind you that there's still time to join in the current Uniko challenge. Here's my card for your inspiration.

The cosmos are still flowering in my garden and will continue to do so until the first frosts, so I decided to use them to create this card, using Uniko's Pure Florals- Cosmos stamp set. I'd seen a card on Pinterest that used the same flowers and colours and I loved how it looked.

Using a pale ink, Altenew's Limestone, I stamped the images onto an A6 panel of white card and coloured them with Copics to give a no line effect. 

The sentiment, from Doodle Flower, was stamped with Versamark onto soft grey card and heat embossed with white EP before being die cut, then matted and layered to give more impact. A few homemade gel dots, Copic marker with added Glossy Accents on an acetate sheet, were added to fill in the gaps.

So that's it for the moment. What will inspire you, we'd love to see your take in our gallery. If you are in need of more inspiration why not check out the rest of the DT and our fab GD Nonni here.

The next post in our September release is up in an hour.

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