Uniko January Release Sneak Peeks

 Morning all. It's time for a sneaky peek at the latest Uniko release.

Over the next few days we'll be revealing them one by one in all their glory, but for today you'll have to be satisfied with just the sneak peeks

Three brand new stamp sets and a one stencil. What do you think? Pop by tomorrow for the first of the reveals, see you then.

Color Hues #55

Happy New Year! 

Hope you had a great holiday period and you are all well. We're straight back in with a brand new colour combo at Color Hues, as well as three new team members, here's my take.

I've got a couple of January birthdays coming up so decided to make one of those, starting with a stencil from Uniko and some embossing paste with EP on top, it gives a lovely dimensional effect.

On a 5x7 panel of white card, I inked through the stencil with some white embossing paste, quickly removed the stencil to some water to clean later and sprinkled some Stampendous Jewelled Gold EP over, then left it over night to dry before heat setting. If you rush before the paste is fully dry it makes nasty bubbles in the pattern. 

Using my Altenew Garden Picks dies and white card and Memory Box's Fresh Foliage die and a couple of different pieces of gold card, I cut out some flowers and foliage. The flower layers I coloured with Altenew's Frosty Pink and Coral Berry inks, trying to keep the effect soft, before assembling them. 

The stencilled panel was trimmed down and a panel of embossed white added, the joint masked using a strip of linen effect gold card. The gold foliage was arranged over the join and the white leaves and flowers added over the top. A sentiment strip, HLS, was stamped and slipped under the posy arrangement. The completed panel was then added to a 5 x 7 base card.

So that's it, what will you do with the colours? We'd love to see your takes in the Color Hues gallery this time. For more fab inspiration from the rest of the Color Hues team, check out the blog.

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Watercolour Holly

 Good morning, just popping by to share a Christmas make in this quiet time 'twixt Christmas and New Year. It's another of my watercolour experiments, this time using clingfilm and watercolour washes.

The holly berries were masked with masking fluid, before the leaves and background painted with washes of watercolour. Before it dried, I added some scrunched up cling film, it's a bit like the technique I've used with Brusho but on a smaller scale. When dry, the cling film and masking was removed and the berries painted. To finish the panel, some branches were painted in with a rigger brush and some snow, splattered white acrylic, added. The frame was simply added over the top and attached to an A6 base card, a sentiment strip completes.

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Christmas

Festive Foliage

CAS

Dachshund Through The Snow

Good morning!

Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and that Santa brought you lots of what you wanted. If he didn't, well I hope that it was still a great time with your loved ones. We got an extra Christmas present, my eldest grandson caught Chicken Pox from his younger brother!!

Anyway, over at Cardz4Guyz we've got a brand new challenge for you to keep you busy in the twixtmas period!!

This time we would like to see your take on:-

A WINTER THEME

Here's my take. I made it before the holidays when there was a hard frost and the overnight temperature on the roof,  according to the solar hot water panel, was down as low as minus 11'C!!!!! As I type, there are still plenty of frosty corners that the sun doesn't reach. I've used this fun LOTV digi- Dachshund Through The Snow, the doggie reminds me of our Max, though not a dachshund nor would he let you put a coat on him! 

The background was lurking in my scraps box, leftover from an earlier project and too good to throw away, works well with this cute boy with his dog and sledge from LOTV.

If I remember correctly, I stamped an arrangement of tree branches with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. Using some Salty Ocean, Blue Print Sketch and Peacock Feathers DI more branches were stamped over. When dry I blended some of the Salty Ocean over the embossed and stamped branches.

After printing off this cute LOTV image, I coloured with Copics and fussy cut him and the pooch out, laying him on pads over the background. A sentiment from Uniko was stamped on the snow and then the whole panel was added to an A6 note card.

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

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Clean and Simple

Another Festive Penguin

Evening. Only just over a week left before the big day and over at Perfectly CAS we are asking you to show us your CAS Christmas makes. Here's one I posted out at the beginning of the month featuring another of the cute penguins from LOTV.

 

I found him in the bottom of the printed but not coloured box, a leftover from a sheet I printed last year. The itsy bit of DP is also from a LOTV pad from many years ago that was in the scrap box too! I slipped it behind a die cut frame and sat my Copic coloured, fussy cut, gift toting penguin inside with just his scarf hanging over the edge. Sentiment, Woodware, stamped along the bottom edge of the frame and then added to a white A6 top fold card. SIMPLES.

This design has lots of 'white space' , in other words no embossing or pattern over at least 2/3rds of the design, please make sure your entry complies. I know that CAS means different things to different people but we are a CAS challenge that requires the patterned area to be 1/3 or less.

If you are still unsure, please check out the rest of the DT for more fab Christmas CAS inspiration.