Getting Inky

Good evening. Today I'm here with a card for the brand new challenge at HLS CAS.

It took awhile to get my ideas sorted and I ended up with this Thank You card based on our new cue card.

The other week, this Altenew post popped up in my feed, featuring blue and white cards and it was this that influenced me to create this card.

I've had a piece of alcohol ink on Yupo paper for quite a while in my bits box, it was the other half to a panel I made into a card a couple of years ago. Still it was too good to throw away and Yupo paper isn't exactly cheap, so it was just the thing to use for my background.

Taking the already inked panel, I added some die cut, white sprigs of foliage, cut using a Tim Holtz, Sizzix die. After trimming my panel down to tidy the edges, I added it to a white linen effect A6 base card on pads and added a simple sentiment from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks, also popped up on pads. 

So how will you interpret the cue card, we'd love to see but please remember to keep it CAS!

Color Hues #34

Good afternoon, where did January go? I can't believe we are already into February but then again I have made a card for the new challenge at Color Hues! This time our colour combo has a decidedly romantic feel. Here's my card using our new colours.

I must admit I'm not one for Valentine's Day and neither is the OH, so it's a good job really. Anyway I thought that the colours dictated the theme and this card isn't overly mushy.

To begin, I stamped Uniko's Background Blocks Horizontal Stripes in Altenew's Obsidian Black onto a panel of white card. Using a heart shaped piece of white card, I made my mini envelope, after consulting Pinterest, and added it at a jaunty angle over the background. Using some hearts of various sizes die cut from a mix of plain red, glitter and mirror card, I created an arrangement coming out of the envelope. The sentiment is from a StampingBella set. 

The finished panel was trimmed and added to an A6 base card on pads.

So what will the colours inspire you to create? So far you haven't disappointed us making choosing the winners very difficult!

For more inspiration, please check out the rest of the DT here along with our GD for this challenge.

Uniko's 10th Birthday Bash

Today is a BIG day for all you Uniko fans. We are celebrating 10 years since Bev launched the Uniko brand. A lot has happened to all of us in the intervening years, designers have come and gone but there are still some fabulous stamp sets, dies and stencils in Uniko's catalogue. So to celebrate, we are having a fun party for the whole of February with lots of fun activities for you to participate in.

Here's my card to get the ball rolling, celebrating 10 sensational years of Uniko design.

I always think that balloons are a great way to celebrate, so I dug out my Balloon Bash Stencil and got inky! After adding my balloons using the three different outlines on the stencil using DIs, I added some extra pzazz with a sprinkling of water to add the pattern. The water was removed carefully with a clean piece of kitchen paper and then left to dry. When dry I added the strings freehand with a black fine liner and pencil for the bit of the string behind the orange balloon, to an A6 base card.

For the sentiment I wanted to celebrate Bev's 10 years, so I dug out the first set I ever bought from Uniko called Classic Numbers, now retired and the relatively new Floral Vines set. On a strip of black card, I stamped the 10 and sentiment in Versamark and embossed with white EP. The Happy Birthday from Floral Vines was added in black ink and the sentiment strip added below on pads. The finished panel was then added to my base card with pads.

So, as part of our 10 year celebrations there will be ten quests for you to complete. Each quest will give you the opportunity to win. 

If you complete all ten quests correctly there will be one random draw special prize of an £100 eGift Code to spend in store.

Today sees the beginning of the first quest. Simply create a birthday card using Uniko products and share it using the linky at the bottom of today's Uniko post. There are some more birthday card ideas from the Brand Ambassadors over on the blog too if you need a little inspiration.

There is plenty of time to join in on this first quest as the deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Monday 28th February 2022.

Quest 1 Prize - A Uniko Birthday Product Bundle 

Maximum Entries 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.  

Check out the Uniko blog tomorrow for our next quest and all the other quests that will appear daily on the Uniko blog all through the month of February!

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AG, option of using a stencil

Polishing the Motor!

Good morning, time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. 

This time we are looking for your masculine cards on the theme of -

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH P

Here's my card, which I made for a friend's birthday earlier this month.

I used one of the fab digis from Lili of the Valley called Elbow Grease for my P, for polishing of course!

I started by cutting out two and 1/2 large scalloped circles from white card and two smaller plain circles. The smallest circle I embossed with a Sizzix brick wall EF, then inked with a mixture of Rusty Hinge and Fired Brick DI. The larger of the plain circles, I edged with a brown Copic marker, about 1/4" in, the embossed one was then glued on top leaving a brown border.

After printing off my digi, I used Copics to colour and then fussy cut him out.

To make my base card, I created a hinge on one of the circles by scoring a line down one side. To ensure the card will stand up, I ensure that at least 2 of the scallops are at right angles to the scoreline.

The 1/2 circle was aligned with the base card and excess cut away as required before adding back some of the missing background to the digi with a black fine liner. My image was then added on pads.

The sentiment is actually made from a Woodware birthday stamp, I just stamped it 3 times, inked the sentiments with the same mix of DIs and cut out the letters. The Ds became Ps by inverting them and the H was capitalised with a flourish of a black fine liner. The letters were then arranged onto the background and glued flat.

So where will the theme take you, we'd love to see your take in our gallery.

There's more 'P' inspired makes by the rest of the DT here if you need more inspiration.

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Embossing

Watercolour Snowdrops

Morning, I'm up over on the Uniko blog with some BA Inspiration using Spring Botanicals -Snowdrops. 

Here are my cards, details of which you will find here.

My stating point was the current challenge at CAS Mix Up as well as the one over at The Flower Challenge. Thanks ladies for inspiring me to get my watercolours out from the back of the cupboard!

All the details on the makes are over on the Uniko blog here.

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