Color Hues #57

 Good afternoon. A new month begins, so it's also time for a new colour combo from Color Hues.

Here's my take.

I made this card for my son's partner's father's wedding way back on New Year's Eve, it's a design I've used before here, but Alex thought it was perfect for her Dad and Karey's nuptials. I used Altenew's Rose Flurries dies and their large alphabet ones to create the design. 

I find cutting the elements from white card allows me to get the range of colours needed, without hunting through my stash of card, often with disappointing results. I never seem to have the right colours!! This time I used a selection of Copic markers including R24, 22, 02 and YR02 for the coral coloured flowers and BG90, 93, 96 and 99 for the sage green foliage. The letters are mounted on white fun foam, which I edged with Altenew's Coral Berry ink first, on a 5 x7 white card base. The stamped congratulations is from a Sugar Pea set and the tiny sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.

So where will these new colours take you? We'd love to see your designs in the Color Hues gallery this time. There's lots of fabulous inspiration from the DT and GDs over on the Color Hues blog if you need more ideas.

A few months ago I was contacted by Lori at the Turner Syndrome Foundation to see if I was interested in her card auction to raise funds for this worthy cause. I joined in last year so decided I would join in again, this time I was a little more organised! The auction is taking place on her Instagram account @mulchlady6, so why not pop along and join in and help raise some sorely needed funds. There are some fabulous card makers taking part including Sandy Allnock and Jennifer McGuire.

Happy Birthday Uniko!

 Good morning peeps! A new month dawns and also it's the 11th birthday of the wonderful Bev starting the Uniko brand! Today the Brand Ambassadors are celebrating with birthday cards in a Linky party.

Here's my contribution using the Balloon Bash stencil and BB Nautical Stripes, along with a sentiment made up of elements from Wild and Birthday Sentiments.

I've use a rainbow of DIs to stencil in the balloons and a white gel pen for the hi light. The BB Nautical Stripes was stamped a couple of times along a scrap of card using Memento Tuxedo Black, I really must get a reinker or a new pad as it's looking rather faded here.

The stencilled panel was trimmed down and the HAPPY from Birthday Sentiments added with white EP. The birthday part was stamped on a piece of black card and embossed with the same EP. It was trimmed down and added under the HAPPY, the black and white strip added to the bottom of my base card and the stencilled panel added on top to complete.

Want to take part in the Birthday Card Link Party? Simply create a birthday card using Uniko products and share it using the linky at the bottom of the main Uniko post. 

Need some more inspiration then check out the rest of the team.

Anita

Bev

Hannelie 

Izzy

Julie - that's me

Steph

Vinita

Wiebke

There is plenty of time to join in on the fun.

The deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Tuesday 28th February 2023.

 Prize - £25 eGift Certificate 

Party Rules

Use Uniko Products Only*.

No back linking. Linked cards/projects must be new.

Maximum Enteries 3 Per Person.

*If you don't own any physical Uniko products you are welcome to use THESE FREE Uniko Digital images to create your card. 

Don't use social media or have a blog to upload your card & link from? 

No worries. Just drop Bev an email  at bev@uniko.co.uk titled Uniko 11th Birthday with a photo and I will upload for you.

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Cute Puppies

Good morning. Time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This week our focus is:-

PETS

So any project that features a pet for a bloke, young or old! For my take I went with a cute puppy image from LOTV.

 

LOTV had a January sale on and I just couldn't resist this cute chap. He comes with a friend but I chose to use just the sitting pup not his chasing buddy!

I printed him out 3 times, but reversed one of the images. After colouring him with Copic markers, I fussy cut them out and arranged them behind a panel of kraft card that I had die cut some circles from. I found some bright blue card in my stash, cut a strip and edged it with a stitched scalloped die on the long edges. This was glued onto an A6 note card and the pups added on pads. A simple LOTV stamped sentiment completes. I suppose it will be another card to add to my Grandson's party pile, he's already used the last one I made!

So where will you go with this theme? The DT have come up with lots of ideas for you so why not check them out on the Cardz4Guyz blog, then join in.

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For a Child

BA Inspiration @Uniko, Don't forget the small elements!

 Good morning. I'm over on the Uniko blog with some more inspiration using the new stencil, MOD Background Builders Circle stencil. Here are a couple of ideas using just the large semi circle.

All the details can be found over on the Uniko blog.

Color Hues #56

Well we're half way through January already, so that means a new colour combination at Color Hues. With Valentines Day only a month away we've gone with a romantic combination for you. Here's my take.

I've used a panel of smooshed ink under a die cut Sizzix Scattered Hearts die cut panel and an MFT sentiment.

On a MM mat, I added DI Kitsch Flamingo and Candied Apple, spritzed them with water and dragged a panel of MM paper through. Allowed that to dry then went in again to add some more texture and repeated again until I was satisfied with the depth of colour.

From a panel of linen textured card, I cut the Scattered hearts and glued the white remainder onto the inked panel. The hearts outline was added back along with the extra cut outs to leave the panel showing through the heart shapes. A simple sentiment was added on a strip of matching card, along with a couple of die cut hearts in gold. Finally I glued the completed panel onto a white linen textured base card.

So where will these colours take you? We'd love to see your takes in the Color Hues gallery. For more inspiration please check out the rest of the team and our GD here and then why not join in?

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