Uniko June Release Sneak Peeks

 Good morning all.

This week sees the launch of the June release from Uniko. There's a stencil, a new Background Block and two new Flower Power sets, not a big release but one that will mix and match with stash you may already have.

So let's have a sneak peek at what Bev has in store for you.

First up is a peek at another of Uniko's unique and innovative Ink & Flip Stencils. This new addition is just as fun as the previously released designs and I can also see it being used with previously released ones as well as so many other Uniko images and sentiments.

You know Bev loves a stripe and you probably thought there were no more ways stripes could be done! I think this one will be a fun addition to your crafting stash.

Next we have a couple of sets to extend the Flower Power series as well as enhance previously released sets!

We think this one might cause a BUZZ and keep you busy as you not only create with this new clear stamp set, but have fun pairing it with others in the Uniko product line.

Last, but by no means least for this release, we have another fun Flower Power addition. 

So there you have them, four peeks of this June Release. Tomorrow, Bev and the Uniko Brand Ambassadors will be back with the first of the inspiration posts.

We're so excited for you to see these products in action. I do hope you will stop by and join in on the fun. All the newness will be available for purchase Saturday 29th June at 9am BST. 

Music is the Word

 Good evening.

Just popping by to share a couple of cards I made for my daughter who wanted some music themed ones to give to her choir leaders when she leaves. It should be on a high as her last performance is at the Edinburgh Fringe in August! 

I had plenty of ideas and I thought plenty of time but as she is here tomorrow and the challenge at ATCAS is closing I thought I should better get a wriggle on!

A few years ago I got a sheet of stamps in a mag that were music themed so that was my first port of call and here are the cards.

I hope they fit the bill or I will be frantically make some more tomorrow!

Not sure about which colours to use so I went for a rainbow, I know that Nich loves a rainbow.

For the first card, I stamped the mic then heat embossed it. Then I cut a mask and placed it over it before stamping a circle of treble clefs and notes with DIs, first 1/3rd with Salty Ocean, then overlapping with Picked Raspberry and finally with Mustard Seed to create my rainbow. The sentiment is from the same set simply stamped in black, definitely a OLC!

The second card uses the same rainbow of colours but this time I used some STAMPlorations stash and Wilted Violet, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron DIs as well. The keyboard was stamped on scrap and fussy cut, glued over the rainbow and a few extra notes and sentiment stamped in black.

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Color Hues #89

Good afternoon. My Granddaughter and Son have just gone home after a brief stay whilst mum was on a hen do, lovely to see them both. As usual we ended up playing 'Nanny hide', in other words come with me Nanny and wait in the walk in wardrobe upstairs for Gandad to find us! 

Anyway it's now time to share my inspiration for the new Color Hues challenge.

I've used the sketch over at The Flower Challenge, I do love a good sketch, amongst other challenges and these Altenew Rose Flurry die cuts fit the the bill. As usual, rather that struggle to find enough graduated coloured card, I die cut all my elements from white card and coloured with Copic Markers, RV10, 11, 13 and 14 for the pink blooms and G94 and 96 for the leaves. You may recognise the net die cut from my tennis girl card from a couple of months back but this time I just added it to a plain white A6 base card in it's entirety. I've finally succumbed and got a Glimmer machine, for Christmas from the OH, and this is one of the sentiments I got with at the same time, made using some gold foil. It's a bit tricky to photograph, hence it's laid down on the windowsill to prevent the sun from making the camera and me very unhappy!

So that's it from me but please check out the rest of the DT and our guest here and then join in, we always love to see how you use the colours.

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You Are The Best

Good morning.

It's time for a brand new challenge at Cardz4Guyz and as it's almost Father's Day, how appropriate that the new theme is -

FATHER'S DAY

Here's my inspiration for you.

This is a CASE of a card I made a couple of years ago here, my youngest Grandson loved it so I made him another to give to his dad! I changed the sentiments around, used slightly different ones in the background as well as some different coloured card. 

Not all the sentiments are from masculine sets, I just picked an assortment that felt right. 

After choosing the sentiments, I stamped the base card using Memento Grey Flannel ink, making sure I covered the whole A6 panel, then rifled through my bits for some coloured card strips which I arranged into a rainbow. I then chose the most appropriate sentiment for each strip, some cut using dies, others just with the paper cutter. DAD was cut from black card using dies, as were the stars. My sentiment on the navy strip had to be heat embossed with white EP so that it showed up but all the others were stamped with black ink. All strips were glued flat onto the background.

So that's it from me, looking forward to your Father's Day cards in our gallery. For lots more inspiration check out the rest of the team here.

Color Hues #88

Good afternoon, a new month so a new colour combo from Color Hues.

When I first saw Karen's choice of colours I knew exactly where I was going! The new colours are the colours of a Rugby League team in the UK that my friend absolutely loves, Leeds Rhinos, so I made her this for her birthday back in March.

I bought the MFT stamp set, Birth-Yay, a few years ago and over the years I've made quite a few birthday cards for Jenny, I can't imagine making a card for her that isn't rhino based or blue and yellow at the least!

The sketch for this card is based on one from the MFT site but I changed up the colours from peach and aqua to the yellow and blue. All the different characters were coloured with Copics and then fussy cut out. The die cut circles were coloured with DI, Squeezed Lemonade and Blueprint Sketch and spritzed with a little water and then blotted to give a textured effect.

After adding the inked circles to my base card, I trimmed the over hanging bits off before stamping the sentiment and adding the characters on foam pads.

So where will this colour combo take you?

We'd love to see you in the gallery but if you need more inspiration the rest of the team and our GD have lots of ideas here.