Lego Box Card

Good morning, I hope you've survived Storms Eunice and Dudley without too much disruption or damage. I did manage to get to the hairdressers on Friday as it wasn't too gusty by the time I went but I know that for many it was much worse. It wasn't as bad as the storm of 1961/2, when I remember seeing rubbish everywhere including a bicycle wheel slung around a neighbours chimney stack!

Anyway, with the weather bad, the garden has taken a back seat and there's been lots of time in the craft room.

Today see's the start of a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz, where we would love to see your masculine take on -

FANCY FOLDS

For my card, I went with a box card.

I made this for my SiL's 40th birthday in a couple of weeks, he does love his LEGO!

After making the base card from an A4 piece of red card, I added panels of green embossed card to represent the bases of LEGO and then made a variety of bricks from card. The lugs were punched circles popped up on rectangles and squares of coloured card with foam pads and then a white gel pen was used to hi-light them. They were arranged over the box card and a stamped sentiment added together with a die cut 40. A greeting panel was added to the rear of the tall panel.

So what fancy folds will you use to impress us? We would love to see your takes in our gallery.

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

Uniko's 10th Birthday Release Sneak Peeks

The 10th Birthday Celebrations are continuing and it's time to share the sneak peeks for the 2022 February Release and make an announcement!

We have a new member of the team joining us, the very talented Anita Bowden of Neet and Crafty! I'm sure you'll all make her very welcome.

This month we have 5 new clear stamp sets and 3 new stencil/mask designs. All the new products will be available to purchase on Sunday 27th February 10am GMT. 

First off, are a couple of Background Blocks with a decidedly masculine feel.

 

Next a new entry in the Big n Bold series and some very useful everyday sentiments

 

Finally, we've got a new entrant into the frame series, this time using balloons and a definite party vibe!

Bev has also re-released Fun Flowers as well as a couple of stencils that can be paired with the stamps

                              

Finally there's another addition to the stencils with a fun retro flower stencil that can be used with the fun flowers

So what do you think? Are you as excited as the team was to get your hands on these fab new goodies?

All the new products will be available to purchase on Sunday 27th February 10am GMT but first, tomorrow and the rest of the week, you get to see what the Brand Ambassadors have been up to with them!

Color Hues #35

Good afternoon.

February is rushing on and spring will soon be here but first we have a new colour combo for you at Color Hues. A lovely classy combination chosen by Kristie and one of my favourites, here's my take.

A classy combo deserves a classy card and nothing is more classy than this Stamping Bella, Uptown Girl, Audrey loves make-up image.

For my layout I CASEd myself, switching the brown and orange of this card to the challenge colours.

My background DP has been in my pink drawer for many years, I think it's from a Forever Friends set, I can't tell as the front of the block is missing! I thought it a good background for this classy lady, together with the die cut panel, CheeryLynne and the sentiment Personnel Impressions, both from the early days of my card making! I picked up the colour from my DP for Audrey's accessories and matched the Copic colouring of her dress to the die cut. The MFT banner was stamped with the sentiment in matching navy ink.

So where will you take these new colours? If you need a little more inspiration, check out the rest of the DT and our GD here, if you join in you could be a GD for a future challenge.

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Faux Cloisonne

Evening folks, Happy Valentine's Day!

Were are half way through the month of February, so it's time for a new challenge at Perfectly CAS.

Here's my take on this month's cue card.

The ladies over at CAS Mix-Up would like to see Faux Cloisonne projects this month so I though that I would use that as my metallic element.

Cloisonne is the art of filling outlines of wire with enamel to decorate items, jewellery, vases etc. usually on a metal base, before firing to create a lasting design.

Think exquisite Faberge eggs, Russian silver, Chinese or Japanese vases and you get the idea.

Here's a cloisonne tea caddy that I found on Google that inspired my panel.

For my Faux Cloisonne, I used gold EP and metallic paints on black card.

The Macintosh Rose panel was stamped with Versamark on black card before heat embossing with gold EP. Once cooled, I added the colour using my metallic paints. Red for the flowers, green for the foliage and blue for the jewelled elements. The rest of the design I filled with a silvery white. Each cell created by the embossing was flooded with paint, just like the real thing!

Once I was happy with the panel, I cut it out and added it to a slimline, black card blank on pads. The sentiment from the same freebie set was stamped to match using gold EP.

So where will you go with our new theme? We'd love to see your takes in our gallery, but don't forget to keep them CAS.

There's more metallic inspiration from the DT over on the Perfectly CAS site.

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Clean and Simple (CAS) with option of Elegance

Joy Ride

Good morning folks. We've a brand new challenge for you at Cardz4Guyz.

This time we would like to see your take on the the theme of -

LOVE

Well it is coming up to Valentine's Day!

Here's my take.

I don't send Valentine's cards and neither does the OH, he said he could surprise me one day but then he would also be surprising himself!!! Anyway, I made this card which is not sentimental or mushy.

Using my MFT Die-Namics Joyride die set, I cut the car and assembled it but not the number plate, that I had to have a think about. The set comes with an assortment of fun messages that make up the plate but nothing I could use here, so I used the 2 letters from a couple of the plates and added a punched heart to a fussy cut yellow panel of card. I know the driver would get stopped by the police if they actually used the plate as is, but the red had more impact than the regulation black letters!

The background is made from some die cut green hills and trees, Marianne Designs, some NitWits DP and a strip of black card for the tarmac, with added white lines. All added onto an A6 base card.

So where will this theme take you, we'd love to see your masculine creations in the gallery. If you need some more inspiration, please check the rest of the DT here.

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With Love