There is still time to play......

Yes, there is still time to play along our Challenge #4.
It is a colour challenge.



Gorgeous autumn colours. Love it. And this is Gayatri here today sharing with my card for the challenge. I decided to brighten things up and make a pretty card using the brighter tone of the same colours.

Come on and play along the challenge and win a £10 gift certificate and also a guest design spot for the next challenge. Here is the original post and the linky to the challenge.

Cannot wait to see your take on the challenge.

Design Team Inspiration - Quick Christmas cards!

Hello Everybody,

Gayatri here today! I have started on my Christmas cards for this year. Today I am sharing a very quick Christmas card which can be easily mass produce or even upscale it if you like.
Here are the cards.

I have used Pure Florals- Poinsettia to make my cards.

 I have inked the Poinsettia with Pale Tomato and Green Hills Hero Arts Shadow Ink and spritz with water using mini mister. Then directly stamped on the card front. Then stamped the sentiment and accented with rhinestones. You can stamp a single flower like the first card or in threes like the second card. This is quick and easy to make and you can whip out a few of them watching television. Here are a few I whipped out.

 

Hope I have inspired you to start your Christmas cards. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Design Team Inspiration-Inspired by Pinterest.

Hello everybody,

Gayatri here today sharing with you a card I made using a photo from Pinterest as inspiration.

Here is the the inspirational photo.

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I was looking for quilt covers to buy and got distracted and started pinning them lol! Ooo, this is perfect inspiration to make a card, Pin it! lol!

Love the chevron background and the gorgeous bold flower cluster on the top. I made a little twist to it to make my card. First here is my card.

 

The twist here is I have used multi-coloured chevron as on the background and beautiful bold black flower and leaves. The flower and leaves from Beautiful Blooms stamp set is nice modern flower and leaves which is perfect if stamped in black. And the single chevrons from Background Builder: Chevron stamp set is perfect to stamp in various colours. I have used sentiment from Fontiment stamp set. Love the gorgeous curvy yet modern font. I have accented using rhinestones.

Here are the stamp set I have used for this card.

    

If you are inspired and make a project, please link your project to our Flickr gallery.

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Design Team Inspiration - Inspired by Pinterest!

 Hello everybody,

Gayatri here once again! I was browsing through Pinterest and saw this picture. I immediately thought of Background Builder: Round in Circles Stamp Set from Uniko Studio. Pinterest never fails to inspire me. Never! If you are not on Pinterest, you are missing out on something awesome! But a word of warning: it is very addictive! lol!

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Here are the stamp sets I have used to make my card.

   

Anyway, here is my card inspired by the picture above.

 

 

Now the Background Builder: Round in Circles does not have a solid circle. The trick is to flip the stripped circle stamp and ta da.... you get a solid circle to use:) I stamped the circles in cluster of three leaving the center for the sentiment.The sentiment is from All Occassion Sentiment #1 I love this font. So elegant and beautiful. Here is the closeup of the card.

 

You can do a lot of variations here. I have done pretty much one layer card. You can emboss some of the circles and stamp the others. You can use gold embossing on the sentiment and stripped circles as shown in the inspirational photo. You can use any colour combination you like. You can even use Thickers Alphas for the sentiment. Hope I have inspired you enough to pick a picture form Pinterest and make a card. If you do make it. Please tag it into Uniko Studio Gallery on Flickr.

Thanks for stopping by!

Design Team Inspiration - How to stamp a background!

Hello dear friends,

This is Gayatri here today! I am going to share with you a simple technique for you today. This is a new feature on the blog where the design team members are going to share projects with you. I am making the start today!

I am sharing with you a basic technique but very effect technique - stamping your own background on your card front. I am not going to use a background stamp for it but I am going to use stamps from three different stamp sets to stamp my background. But first here is my card.

Here are the stamp sets I have used. They are Pure Florals: Gerbera, Pure Florals: Chrysanthemum and Time Stamp Sets.

    

Here is the picture tutorial on how to stamp your own background.

Once you have filled the gap with tiny stamps, here is how the card front looks. 

 Now that the background is so pretty and colourful, I want to showcase it. So I stamped the sentiment from Pure Florals: Chrysanthamum on a strip of white cardstock and mounted using foam adhesives. Here is the finished card.

Here are two more cards using the same set of stamps plus Flower Power #1 stamp set. I have also interchanged the colours. So the card are similar but not the same.

You can choose your colour combination, combine stamp from different stamp sets and stamp your own background and make a beautiful card gift set. If you make them please upload them into our Flickr gallery. We love to see your gorgeous project.

 This is not all, there is another new exciting feature on this blog this Thursday. Yay! Stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting!

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