Day 3 of the Uniko August release

Well, what have you thought of the stamps you've seen so far, fab aren't they. Well here are two more to add to your wish list.

This card uses the Big n Bold - Hello sentiments.

To start, I inked up a panel of white card with Picked Raspberry DOx, concentrating colour in various places over which I glued die cuts from a Tim Holtz set, they remind me of roses. 

On a scrap of white card I stamped the large hello and embossed it with gold EP before fussy cutting it out. On a strip of black scrap, I stamped the How are you? and embossed with white EP, then cut out the banner. I decided I needed a little more black to balance the pink, so added some home made DP (black Copic and a ruler) down the left side of my card before adding the pink panel and sentiment strip. The fussy cut hello was then popped up on pads over the banner.

The second stamp is Framed Florals.

For this example I stamped it with Versamark on dark blue card then heat embossed with white EP.

I repeated this with the sentiment from the Big n Bold Hello,trimmed down the panel and attached it to a white note card on pads. Simples.

So what do you think? We'd love to hear what you do, so leave a comment here and as you hop around the rest of the DT.

Bev
Carol 
Deborah 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - that's me
Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

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I spy something beginning with B - Blooms, Bouquet and Blue

Uniko Preview Day 2

Morning all, it's day 2 of the previews of Uniko's August release.

Yesterday we re-introduced the 'So Much' mini clear stamp set HERE, be sure to check out all the inspiration and comment along the hop ;)

Today we are focusing on 2 totally different sets, Background Builders: Happy Hexagons & Beautiful. 

Happy Hexagons is great for building backgrounds, patterns or just use one of the elements as the focus.

Here's what I did with just one of the large hexagons

I stamped the Art Deco looking hexagon in gold EP on black then fussy cut eight of them to create this take on a Christmas Wreath. The bottom layer was stuck to the black base panel and the top with pads for added dimension. A scrap of Christmas ribbon was tied into a bow and added along with some Nuovo drops in Red Berry Gloss. The finished panel was mounted on a slightly larger red square and then on a cream 5 x 5 base card. The center panel was cut with a circle die and stamped in matching gold EP using the Simply Said Christmas Merry Christmas.

This is just one idea, but there are lots more over on the Uniko blog and on my fellow DT's blogs.

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AG Christmas

The second set Beautiful is more feminine with a couple of gorgeous blooms and sentiments.

For this example, I used the colours from The Paper Players and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches. The blooms are heat embossed with white EP on Vellum and fussy cut after being coloured with Polychromo pencils in shades of orange. The basket weave strip was inked with Scattered Straw DI and embossed with a EF. I used some foliage from the bits box and a frame made from the same card as the base using 2 dies from the Sizzix Framelits set, Label Ornate #2.

So what do you think? We'd love to hear what you do, so leave a comment here and as you hop around the rest of the DT.

Bev
Carol 
Deborah 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - that's me
Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for more inspiration as we reveal 2 more sets from the release.

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Uniko preview So Much

Morning all. 

It's time to take a closer look at one of the new stamps sets in the summer release from Uniko.

Bev launched this design a while ago as a digital freebie but she's now made it available as a regular stamp set. 

I stared at the stamp set for awhile wondering where to go with it, then decided to use a stencil as the background but the outlines looked lost so I added some black Copic marker to each of the sprays to make them stand out. I used Picked Raspberry DI, one of my fave colours, it's bright and cheerful without being too girly, definitely not a sickly pink. There's lots of that dark pink colour all over our house in curtains and bedding. The sentiment was stamped in black then embossed with a clear semi dull WOW EP. The die cut panel was then attached to a base card.

A simple CAS card but for even more fab inspiration, check out the rest of the team -

Bev
Carol 
Deborah 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie - that's me
Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

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Black and white plus your fave colour

Sneak Peeks at Uniko

Over at Uniko, Bev has been busy getting some brand new stamps ready for a mini summer release.
So here are some teasers of what to expect!

Hope these little teasers have got you intrigued so please popover to the Uniko blog where you'll find all details about the schedule, dates for introductions along with the BIG reveal, release and traditional blog hop GIVEAWAY! 

Come back to visit over the next few days as we reveal and introduce the new sets.

Warp Speed

Morning all.
Well we seem to be back to a typical British summer, rain and wind and sunny intervals! I'm not complaining, we needed the water in the reservoirs,  as did the garden and I can't do at all with the high temps day after day. Anyway as it was pelting down with rain I have been playing in the craftroom!
This week at Cardz4Guyz our theme is:-

GET WELL SOON

What do you think? Here's my inspiration using Paper Smooches Space Cadet set.

I used the layout at CAS(E) this sketch for my get well card, using just the little alien, sentiment and small stars, though they came out looking more like flowers for some reason!

I created my galaxy background before cutting a circle from it and mounting on my top panel. The alien was stamped and coloured with Copics before fussy cut. I added some glossy accents on his eye for added interest and stamped and embossed those stars in silver.

OK, pretty simple but quite sweet in a masculine sort of way!
Please check out the rest of the DT for some fab masculine inspiration.

It's going to be a busy week here so keep popping back for some summer reveals! 

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For the boys

Thomas Pusscat

Hi and welcome to a post to announce the start of this week's challenge over at ATSM.

Here is my card, can you work out the theme?

Well this week we are around to our CAS challenge.

I used a few challenges for my inspiration for this design, LIM would like to see pets, ATCAS masculine, AAA friendship and it's the Male room's 5th Birthday.

As a family we've had a few different pets over the years, Max the current house dog, Gilbert the hamster who escaped and piddled in my A. Doris's mohair coat, Joey the budgie, Chico the poodle and when we got our first house Thomas Pusscat. He, I say he but he could just as easily have been a she as the vet couldn't get near 'it' for flying claws to check, was a stray that the local ruffians tried to hang in a tree behind the house, we took in, or rather he allowed us to feed him. As you can expect he was rather reluctant to trust humans but eventually he became part of the family. He was black with a white bib and a couple of white paws.

When I was pregnant with our first child, he would lay across the top of my growing bump and then prowled around the house looking for me when I was admitted to hospital. Taking one look at the returning bundle he sniffed then walked out with tail erect! He was quite an independant cat and hated catteries so he came with us on holiday once and was even walked on a lead! When my second child arrived he was getting on for eight but took to the youngest and would wait for both to arrive back from school, waiting on the wall at the end of the road, you could almost set your clock by him. The kids loved him and were heartbroken when he walked out one day and never returned, despite a thorough search of the neighbourhood, they'd lost a friend and family member.

Anyway down to the card. The window was cut from a panel of white card using a MFT patchwork die minus the patchwork panels and was replaced back into the panel with some NitWits DP behind. The MFT BB Buddies little boy was coloured with Copics and fussy cut and placed in front of the window. I made the window sill by cutting some banner dies and stamped the greeting on one end.

A very quick CAS card really. For more CAS inspiration, check out the rest of the team here, then why not join us.

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Altenew's Rose Flurries

Evening all, it's time for a new challenge over at HLS CAS. Here is my inspiration card for you.

Can you guess the theme, it's -

   

For my card I went with some die cut flowers, using Altenew's Rose Flurries cut from white card and coloured with Copics. I find it easier than searching out coordinating  coloured card and the results are softer as well I think. I've also used watercolour pens in the past to colour them too, but the look is a little looser. My colour choice was dictated by the photo over at JUGS and out of interest I made it under 10 mins so can enter at INKspirational too! It was easy to get under 10 mins as I had most of the elements already cut and only needed a couple of extra leaves for this design. The whole Rose Flurries set just about covers an A4 sheet so it's just easy to leave the dies on the backing sheet, moving the odd couple that are inside others, and cut them all in one go, I will always find a use for the extras, just as in this case!

I started the design with a linen base card and inked though STAMPlorations Dots all Over stencil with Fossilised Amber DOx in the top left corner, fading the colour out as I went. After arranging my blooms and gluing them down, I stamped the sentiment from Born to be Wild with Versamark on black card, heat embossing it with white EP before using an MFT banner die to cut it out and sliding it under the edge of the spray.

OK, that's all from me but check out the rest of the team and then why not join in.

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