Inkspirational #70

This week at Inkspirational we have a new challenge for you chosen by the fun and creative Kim. Kim is asking us all to create:

 A Christmas card with the optional twist of no red or green

If you twist with is you have chance of winning some prizes chosen by random (check the bottom of my post for details)

As most of you know I love using non traditional colours for Christmas and this time went with blue and pink glitter card to die cut my bauble. The pink glitter card was a pressie from DT member and very dear friend Nonni-straight after opening my goodie bag from Nonni I got the idea for this card-so thank you Nonni for the inspiration. I have stamped  the holiday song as my string and one single bauble then layered up each bauble to give lots of dimension.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Janet. You can check out her inspiring blog here.

Janet and our DT have made some very funky Christmas cards and you can check them out here

Our Prize:

If you use the twist of no red or green you will be entered into a random draw and win:

A Uniko Studios £10 Gift Voucher plus this bag of wonderful crafty goodies....now we know you want to twist with us!

I will enter this into the Glitter challenge at Make My Monday

Happy Holidays!

A very Happy Friday to all

I have another Holiday card for you today:

I have played along again at Always Playing with Paper but this time I also used the colours-an unusaul combo for Xmas but you know I like this! I actally I got this idea when I saw the 'Flag' challenge at CASology this week. I had just got a new set of Uniko Stamps called 'Label Love' Chrstmas and thought these would make for a good flag especially this striped one. This was a fun card to make and a little touch of Wink of Stella for that Xmas feel.

Have a fun day x

     

Time Out #19

At Time Out Challenges this week we have our theme challenge and this is what we have for you:

Embossing with the optional twist of Sparkle

Any kind of embossing and if you want to twist with us just add some sparkle. And if you do twist you will be in for a chance of winning a stamp set from our fabulous sponsor Avocado Arts-chosen by random.

I decided to twist and came up with this:

Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Lesley. Take a look at her blog Always Playing with Paper and I guarantee you will be inspired.

Our DT have created come out standing projects for you this week. See them here and then take some TIME OUT and play along with us.

My sentiment is from STAMPlorations and I will be adding this to their Anything Goes Challenge

I will enter this into the Glitter Challenge at Make My Monday

Muse #94

Me again!

I don't normally post 2 cards in a day but I just made a card for the Muse Challenge and the next few days I have pre-scheduled posts so wanted to share this now.

I haven't played at Muse for a while but this week as soon as I saw Marion's  card I knew what I wanted to make. I loved the mix of colours and the design. I have stayed very close to this but used a butterfly stamp instead of a balloon. The stamp is from Uniko (Bright Butterflies) and the font also from Uniko (Fontiments-Birthday)

I have also added some sparkle!

I hope the photo isn't too dull, I used my daylight lamp to help brighten it up as it is dark outside now. I do love the end result and I got use my enamel dots and gems again....where have they been recently??

Thanks Marion for the inspiration.

 Here is her card:

Gold Glitter Ink!

Have you tried gold glitter ink?
I first heard about this on Tracey's blog. I loved the look this ink gave and hunted to down and now have some. It is called Delicata Golden Glitz. It looks like it has been embossed not stamped-thank you Tracey!

Here is my card today using my new ink:

My butterfly stamp is from the Uniko stamp set 'Bright Butterflies' and the sentiment is also from Uniko 'English Country Garden'-I have embossed the sentiment but the butterfly is all ink!!

I was inspired to make this after seeing a few challenges. The sketch came from a new challenge to me Always Playing with Paper-Challenge #19 and the photo at Runway Inspired is where my idea of gold and a strip of vellum came from (check out the gold striped dress).

I will also enter this into the glitter challenge at Make My Monday

And I will take this opportunity to remind you that the challenge at Uniko Studio this month is Anything Goes with an optional sketch and you can use any stamps you like and be in for a chance to win Uniko Stamps.

            

Uniko Studio Challenge and some news!

I am very excited to finally let you all know that I am joining the fabulous Design Team at Uniko Studios. Many of you may know that I use their stamps a lot! I was thrilled when Beverley asked me to join the team and at last I can let you all know!

Today I have my very first card for Uniko and it is for our challenge. The challenge this time is:

Anything Goes

or

Anything Goes & the sketch:

I do love this sketch but decided today just to make a Holiday card using the Uniko Stunning Snowflake stamp set

I actually used the sketch at Retro Sketches for this card.

We have introduced a few changes to all our challenges from now on. The main one is you can use any product not just Uniko products. So if you don't have any of the fabulous Uniko products then this is your chance to get hold of some! Just enter our challenge. If you do use a Uniko product you will get an extra chance to win a random prize.

There are lots of prizes to be won, check out them out here

What are you waiting for??

If you need a little more inspiration the Design Team have all made some fabulous cards for you-check them out here.

We have a new release very soon at Uniko and if you don't want to miss this or any future Uniko posts you can now subscribe by email to Uniko Studios-check it out here

Time to create and have fun x

         

Happy 2nd Birthday Addicted to CAS

Have you got your party hats on? 

Is it our 2nd Birthday at Addicted to CAS and hostessing our party is the very lovely and talented Karen. And to help the celebrations get started Karen has chosen a sketch to inspire us:

I really should have gone with a Birthday card but decided to get on with some more Xmas cards and created this:

I cut down on the layers in the sketch and used my snowflakes to represent the square panel-so a very CAS take on the sketch. I have used my fav Xmas colour combo with a touch of glitter card.

We are very lucky to have Scribbles Designs sponsoring us for this challenge. Check out their store here

Our Guest Designer is Linda and you can check out her card along with our DT's projects here.

We would love you to join us in our Birthday Celebration and are looking forward to see your take on our sketch.

I will enter this into CASology-Festive

And Marina's Festive 48-Any Xmas card

Enjoy!