Uniko April Blog Hop

At Uniko today the DT are re-visiting some stamp sets hopefully to get you inspired of different ways to use these stamps. Also as a little head start on our challenge later this month (see if you can guess the theme???)

I decided to use the Bright Butterflies stamp set. I tried something new to me. I just got some masking fluid for water colouring and wanted to try it out. Here is the result:

I stamped the butterflies then covered them with masking fluid and then water coloured the rest of the card. I then removed the mask-so easy to do. I know we don't see black butterflies but I quite like the look of this.

Here is the set I have used today:

Bright Butterlies

We are having a blog hop and all you need to do to win one of the sets we are showcasing or a gift certificate is comment along the way-so hop away:

Uniko

Amber

Deborah

Sarah G

Sarah P

I will also enter this into the 'Add a Butterfly and/or colour inspiration' at House of Cards

CASEplorations!

A very Happy Monday,

Today I am playing along at the CASEplorations challenge at STAMPlorations.

This month the challenge is to CASE a fabulous card by the very talented and fun Kimberley. I always admire Kimberley's cards and when I saw her card for STAMPlorations I had to join in the fun.

Here is what I came up with:

And here is Kim's card:

As you can I see I kept to Kim's lay out but decided to have my base as a pastel mix of water colours. I had to leave this overnight as I water coloured straight onto the base card so it needed a night to flatten out.

The rest of the card was created with a little help from my crafty friends.

 -I used a die cut that STAMPlorations DT member Maria sent me.

 -I heat embossed the sentiment that is from the STAMPlorations 'celebrate artsy' set-a pressie from Nonni

-the washi stickers are from Kim

Aren't craft friends the best!!

I finished off the card by using enamel dots instead of the butterflies Kimberley used.

I really enjoyed making this card. Kimberly's card was so inspiring-thank you!

I will also enter this into 'Add a butterfly/colour challenge' at House of Cards

Time Out #27

I am very excited this week as our challenge at TIME OUT Challenges is:

CLEAN AND SIMPLE!!

We also have an optional twist of:

Black and White with a splash of colour...remember optional, if you want you can use any colour!

If you do twist with us we will be doing a random draw for a $20 gift voucher from our fabulous sponsor CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Here is my card using the CAS-ual Friday Stamp set  'wait for it'

I have heat embossed the 'awesome' on vellum and then linen embossed the white card. When I made this card I thought I was going with the twist but for some reason I forgot the splash of colour!! However I do love the result of the Black and white so kept with it! I made this card for my blogging friend Kim who is celebration her Birthday today (hope you have got it Kim!)

Our DT have all made some fab CAS cards-take a look here and then take some TIME OUT to join in, twist if you want to be in for a chance of some new CAS-ual Friday stamps

Enjoy!

I will enter this into the 'use enamel dots' challenge at House of Cards-I have used mine here to hold down the vellum!

And the 'Bare Naked' challenge at AAA cards

Inkspirational #71

At Inkspirational this week we have our colour challenge. We want to see:

Gold with any other other colour

Perfect for this time of year and I used it as a chance to continue on with my Xmas cards.

A few weeks ago I used turquoise and gold on a card and loved how it looked so had another go to make this one layer card using the 'Peace on Earth' stamp set from Uniko Studios. Perfect for mailing and I love the gold embossing-quick and easy card but I think makes for a unique take on a Christmas card.

This week our Guest Designer is Deborah. She is a very creative designer and her blog Deborah's Gems really is full of inspiring gems!

I decided to make a few more of these cards with different coloured bases for my sister and a girlfriend. I am hoping to make another one of these for my neighbours-3 guys-I thought grey with silver or navy blue with silver-watch this space!

I will enter my first card into:

House of Cards-photo challenge-see below-I went with the blue colour and the leaves (yes this card stock is blue)

Curtain Call-clearly Christmas

STAMPlorations-Dec challenge-a previous challenge-I am going for Stamps and Embossing

Our DT have made some fabulous gold cards for you, feast your eyes on them here.

Have fun!

    

Inkspirational #57

Happy Saturday my crafting friends.

We had some fabulous entries for our last challenge at Inkspirational. It is going to be tough choosing our favs!

This week we have a code word to inspire you to create and that word is 

BLOOM

What a great word for this time of year and I decided to go with the obvious flower theme and used some Uniko Stamps to create this CAS card with my fav combo of enamel dots, sequins and gems. I finished this off by using my linen impression plate-I so love the texture this gives to CAS cards.

This week our Guest Designer is the very talented Julia who has made a couple of outstanding cards inspired by our code word. Plus our newly expanded DT have some awesome inspiration for you to check out-take a peak here and then get your get inky and have some fun.

I will enter this into the following challenges:

CASology -flower

House of Cards-using 3 of colours and a CAS card

Sunny London Days!

Oh boy, it is so hot here in London I couldn't sleep so I decided to get up and finish a card I started last night.

This card was inspired by the 'water' challenge at Addicted to CAS and the new challenge ran by my fellow DT members at Inkspirational, Ruth and Mynnette. This new challenge is called A House of Cards. Each week they challenge us to make a card using a different style but the same colour palette. This week it is the CAS week. I wanted to try out my new 'glossy accents' from SU-I have added these to the rain drops and the top of the umbrella to give the appearance of water. It as really hard to photograph this so that you could see this 'rain water' look so I have included 2 photos so you can hopefully get the idea.

I think you can see the rain look more in the second photo but I had to take this at an angle so it looks kinda wonky!

Time for a morning cuppa, Have a great sunny Sunday x


Here is the colour palette for HOC