Color Hues #58

Afternoon folks. We're mid way through the month already, so time for a brand new colour combo at Color Hues. Here's my take.

I decided to use my new layering stencil from Altenew, Hill Blossoms with this bright combination of colours.

I love lime green, it represents the fresh shoots of spring, fresh and vibrant. Cyan is a little trickier so looked it up and the dictionary says it's a green blue, made by splitting white light! I do remember the old TV test card where the primary colours were overlapped to make white, now I think about it!

To start, I took an A6 panel of white card and stencilled the first layer of the stems and foliage over it with Altenew's Bamboo ink. I then went in with the second layer using Altenew's Parrot, then blended the first layer again with the Parrot to intensify the colour. My blossoms were inked using 3 of the Sweet Dreams set from Altenew and the centers with a touch of Industrial Diamond. 

To complete, I added a Uniko sentiment on a layered circle of grey card over white and more grey.

So where will these fresh colours take you? We'd love to see your creations in our gallery at Color Hues. If you need more inspiration there's loads over on the Color Hues blog from the rest of the DT as well as our GD.

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Using the Little Stamps, Birthday Candles @Uniko

 Morning, I'm sharing a card I've made for a Brand Ambassadors post over at Uniko. Uniko are celebrating 11 years so I've another birthday themed card using a couple of small stamps from the Big and Bold Wish stamp set. Here's the card but all the details are on the Uniko blog here.

Splattered Heart

Morning all. Today sees a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. Our theme this time is appropriately for the time of year -

A VALENTINE FOR A MALE

I always find, if in doubt, go down the CAS route for a masculine card. So with the help of a few challenges and new stash, I came up with this.

I treated myself to some new bits and bobs the other day including this cute mouse from Anita Jeram, Be Creative Mini stamp. 

I'd seen a few ideas using this painting mouse, so decided to combine the challenges from JUGS, Inkspirational and CAS on Friday. I cut my own stencil using a heart die and the ink splatter die from Tim Holtz and Sizzix which I inked through onto a panel of white card. The colours at JUGS lead me to select Kitch Flamingo DI to create the splatter heart, the mouse was stamped and coloured with my Zig markers, along with a little bit of the DI for the brush. My panel of card was cut using a Hero Arts Rounded Rectangle and mounted onto Kraft before adding to an off white note card. The sentiment is from another Anita Jeram set, Snuggle Bunny, embossed with white EP.

So where will you go with your Valentines? We'd love to see them in the gallery this week at Cardz4Guyz, where you'll also find some more masculine inspiration from the rest of the team.

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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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