CAS Colours & Sketches - #274 The Double

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Welcome back to another FUN CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. This month Cathy is our hostess and has this week HERE is Timeless Tuesday AKA The Double....

Lovely summery colours this week and a favourite of mine, grey! Here's how I combined the colours and sketch...

This week I decided to reach for the Uniko Stylised Floral Stencil and I matched the Stampin' Up! colours with my Distress Oxide Inks, Fossilised Amber and Spiced Marmalade. I then trimmed the panel down and adhered it to a Basic Grey (my closest match) card panel, die cut with a Pretty Pink Posh scalloped border die.

I then added 2 white card panels to a Basic Grey (my closest match) card base and adhered my stencilled panel using foam adhesive. I added some stamped & fussy cut bees from Bee Happy and also a sentiment from the same stamp set. 

That's all from me today, I hope thatI have inspired you to join in on the challenge?! If you need a little more inspiration, pop on over HERE to see what the CC&S Design Team have created.

Thanks for stopping by!

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May 2018 Release in Review Day 5

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Carol here - I'm stepping in today to help out our super busy Bev! Hope she doesn't mind *grin*

Welcome to the May Release in Review Day 5.

A couple of the Design Team - Rahmat and I -  didn't receive our goodies in time for the countdown and release day festivities, so we're having a grant old play with our 'new' items and sharing our creations in a release in review week.

For Day 5, we're showcasing the new Bee Happy stamps; this is truly one 'honey' of a sweet set!

Enjoy!

Click HERE to see more from Rahmat

Click HERE to see more from Carol

That's a wrap for the Release in Review; we hope you found our cards inspiring and that a few more items caught your eye!

By the way....have you played in Challenge #47 yet? You still have time! Here's the photo, with the optional twist of 'birthday'.

See you soon!

Guest Designer Inspiration with Anna Uhras

Hi Dear Uniko Friends! 

Anna here again today bringing you my last (but not least) page made for my GDT spot here at Uniko. I've had a blast playing with all the gorgeous stamps, stencils and dies Bev sent to me to create with.

Thank you so much sweet Bev <3

For this layout I've made my own background papers using the Paradise Leaves Clear Stamps.  The word "kindness" you can find in the Simply Said II Clear Stamp set. The papers in my layers under my photo are by Heidi Swapp Pineapple Crush collection and my title is also by Heidi Swapp  but from my hoarded stash :)

I fussy cut some of the leafs and mounted them with 3d tape to get some dimension. Lastly, I finished my page off with some stitches my by sewing machine and some dots of Nuvo Jewel Drops. I do really love these leafs, they are absolutely gorgeous.

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I hope that you have got some new ideas and some inspiration from my creations.

Thanks so much for stopping by here today! See you out in the scrappy world​ <3

Take care! Hugs Anna xo

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May 2018 Release In Review Day 4

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Welcome to the May Release in Review Day 4.

Yep! I'm behind schedule again :( Good job I have a wonderful Design Team who continue to post and inspire :)

Anyway, as a couple of the Design Team didn't receive their goodies in time for the countdown and release day festivities, I thought it would be nice to have them be in the limelight and have a release in review week.

For day 4 they created some more inspiration using the Uniko Designer Die Collections released this month...

And here is some new inspiration using them from Carol and Rahmat. Be sure to click on their links for all the details and more inspiration on their blogs....

Click HERE to see more from Carol

Click HERE to see more from Rahmat

I will be back soon to share links to Day 5!

Thanks for stopping by! 

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May 2018 Release In Review Day 3

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Welcome to the May Release in Review Day 3.

Yep! I'm behind schedule again :( Good job I have a wonderful Design Team who continue to post and inspire :)

Anyway, as a couple of the Design Team didn't receive their goodies in time for the countdown and release day festivities, I thought it would be nice to have them be in the limelight and have a release in review week.

For day 3 they created some more inspiration using the Uniko Stencils released this month...

And here is some new inspiration using them from Carol and Rahmat. Be sure to click on their links for all the details and more inspiration on their blogs....

Click HERE to see more from Carol

Click HERE to see more from Rahmat

As you can see the Stylised Floral stencil was a popular hit among the Design Team and on Release Day too! Both Rahmat & Carol have made more wonderful inspiration using the stencils, so be sure to check their blogs out and leave some love.

I will be back soon to share links to Day 4!

Thanks for stopping by! 

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May 2018 Release in Review Day 2

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Welcome to the May Release in Review Day 2.

Anyway, as a couple of the Design Team didn't receive their goodies in time for the countdown and release day festivities, I thought it would be nice to have them be in the limelight and have a release in review week.

Today we are taking a look at Flower Power #8 and Simply Said Blocks II...

And here is some new inspiration using them from Carol and Rahmat. Be sure to click on their links for all the details and more inspiration on their blogs....

Click HERE to see more from Carol

Click HERE to see more from Rahmat

WOW! Again I am so inspired by these 2 cards, both show the versatility of the Simply Said Blocks collection :)

I will be back tomorrow to share links to Day 3 and fingers crossed I might even have a card or two to share myself ;)

Thanks for stopping by! 

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CAS Colours & Sketches #273 - Sketch

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Welcome back to another FUN CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. This month Cathy is our hostess and has this wonderful sketch HERE to inspire your clean and simple card making this week...

So many possibilities with this fun sketch, but here is how I decided to use it...

I reached for the recently released silhouette from Just Because and the Large Background French Script. I thought the sketch lent itself well to some masking and stamping for the lower rectangle and some spotlight stamping for the top focal rectangle. 

I was going to keep my colour scheme totally monochrome, but thought that might be a little too depressing for a sympathy card. So I used Altenew Dew Drops for the silhouette stamped on the upper rectangle. 

That's all from me today, I hope thatI have inspired you to join in on the challenge?! If you need a little more inspiration, pop on over HERE to see what the CC&S Design Team have created.

Thanks for stopping by!

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May 2018 Release in Review Day 1

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Welcome to the May Release in Review Day 1 (a day late).

So I am a little late with my posts due to being ill and being a mummy taking priority. I had all good intentions to be all prepared, scheduled  have cards made, photographed and ready to go and the time (as usual) slipped away from me and illness struck this past weekend too :(

Anyway, as a couple of the Design Team didn't receive their goodies in time for the countdown and release day festivities, I thought it would be nice to have them be in the limelight and have a release in review week.

Today (Monday), we are taking a look at Just Because and Large Background French Script clear stamps.

And here is some new inspiration using them from Carol and Rahmat. Be sure to click on their links for all the details and more inspiration on their blogs....

Click HERE to see more from Carol

Click HERE to see more from Rahmat

WOW! I am so inspired by these 2 projects. I love the rainbow of colours on Carols silhouette, simply seamlessly done and perfectly CAS. With Rahmat's card I had to go for a closer look as she has transformed the silhouette image beautifully and with so much detail. 

Don't go far, as I will be sharing day 2 shortly! 

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Uniko Challenge #47 - Photo Inspiration Optional Twist Birthday

Hey! Welcome to the May/June, 2018 Uniko challenge. 

This month we have a beautiful photo that we hope will inspire you to play along. Lots of ways to be inspired by the photo - the colours, the flowers, the grasses, the gorgeous vase or maybe the suitcase will give you a vacation vibe. Any way this photo talks to you is ok by us, but if you'd like an extra challenge then play along with our super simple twist of BIRTHDAY.

As you've probably noticed the Uniko DT has grown this year with the addition of four talented ladies onto our Stencil Team. So of course there's going to be even more DT inspiration to get your creativity flowing and we also have the most wonderful Guest Designer - Sue - joining in with us for this challenge.

Her winning card from the last challenge really caught our eye here at Uniko and if you go visit her blog you'll find oodles more fabulous inspiration.

Guest Designer - Sue

Loving her use of Uniko goodies on this deliciously pretty card.

The Uniko Design team also have some inspiring card ideas to share, be sure to follow the links to their blogs to find out more and I am sure they'd love a nice comment too ;)

Bev

Carol

Deborah 


Izzy 

Julie


Linda

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that this is only half of the Uniko DT, but never fear the other half will be here with ideas to inspire you on 1st June with the reminder post.

So are you ready to play along?

Well, just in case you need some more incentive to play along with the challenge here are the details of the prizes.

  
THE PRIZES

• Main Winner Chosen By the DT - £25 eGift Certificate
• Random Twist Winner - £4 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Random Uniko Stamps Winner - £4 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Top 3 Chosen By DT - 150 Loyalty Reward Points
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You've got plenty of time to play along with this month's challenge. The deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Friday 22nd June 2018 (7.00pm EDT).

Hugs,

Guest Designer Inspiration with Anna Uhras

Hi Dear Friends!

Anna here today sharing one of my Guest Designer pages with you. I am so happy, proud and very grateful to Bev for inviting me to be a guest here at Uniko, thanks so much!

This layout I have made using the gorgeous Uniko Equaliser stencil together with some Nuvo Embellishment Mousse and the lovely and versatile Simply Said II Clear Stamps.

The papers are by one of the new Bo Bunny collections, Summer Mood, and the title are by Thickers, both from my own stash.

I started up my page making my background using the stencil together with pink and yellow Nuvo Mousse. After drying I builded up my page using a few papers, thread, Thickers and finished my page of with stamping a few words in black.

Sometimes the simple is enough and I think the cool equaliser pattern needs some space without too much embellishments around.

Oh, of course, I made a few stitches with my sewing machine as well :)

That's all for now, see you again for my second and last Guest Designer Inspiration post here May 26th.

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Anna xo