Happy Birthday CAS Colours & Sketches!

Hey & YAY!

CAS Colours & Sketches are celebrating their Birthday today with their 200th Challenge too! This month Patricia is our hostess and has been inspired by the CC&S Blog Header for this weeks colour challenge HERE.

This is how I've used the colours this week...

I originally made a Christmas card using the colours, which I will share later in the week, but as it is CC&S Birthday I decided I should make a birthday card instead. The first birthday card I made, which I will also share later in the week, I thought wasn't quite CAS enough so I went on to make the one above! Third time lucky and all that ;) 

I've gone more down the masculine route too, with all the blues and I've kept to using a grungy geometric style stamp and simple bold sentiments.

I used Stampin' Up! Inks on my card, a couple have retired (sorry) but as blue is one of my favourite colours I kept them. I used Night of Navy, Ballet Blue and Bashful Blue. The sentiment is a mix of Uniko All Occasion Sentiments #2, Simply Said Birthday (partial stamped sentiment) and the circles are from Background Builders: Round In Circles. The enamel dots are My Minds Eye On Trend collection and coordinate lovely with Night Of Navy! 

It wouldn't be much of a birthday celebration without some presents, right?  This time, the gifts are for our challenge participants!  Three lucky winners will be chosen at random from our participants in this week's challenge, and each of them will receive one of the following prizes:

An in-stock stamp set of the winner's choice from Uniko 

A $15 USD gift certificate from STAMPlorations

A gift certificate from Lawn Fawn  

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, we'll be announcing our Weekly Winners for this challenge as usual on Monday, November 28, and we'll announce the Birthday Celebration prizes on Wednesday, November 30.

Ok, that's all from me for now, I hope I have inspired you to give these colours a go and join in on the challenge this week. Be sure to stop on over HERE and check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches DT have done using the colours and I hope to see you in the gallery.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Background Builders:Round In Circles, All Occasion Sentiments #2 and Simply Said Birthday

Ink: SU! Night Of Navy, Ballet Blue (Retired) and Bashful Blue (Retired)

Card Stock: SU! Whisper White, Bashful Blue (Retired)

Accessories: Foam Adhesive and My Minds Eye On Trend Enamel Dots

CAS Colours & Sketches #199

Hey!

It's already Thursday again, which means it is time for another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches. This month Patricia is our hostess this month and has a fabulous CAS sketch HERE for you all to try...

This is what I came up with...

I've had this card design in my head, ever since I saw the sketch! All I needed was the time to sit down and stamp it out ;) 

My creative time has been SO limited these past few weeks, as both the beans and I settle and adjust to the new sleeping times and arrangement. We are all slowly getting there, but each day seems to be different depending on what we have done.

Anyway, back to my card. As you can see I have opted to use Stunning Snowflakes, one of my all time favourite clear stamp sets! I have used a softer and non traditional colour scheme on my card, but I am rather pleased as to how it turned out.

The white stamped panel measures 10 x 7 cm and so does the offset Smokey Slate panel, so it is really easy to achieve the sketch design.

I *really* enjoyed this sketch, so I am sure you will be seeing it more in the coming days ;) 

Ok, that's all from me for now, I hope I have inspired you to give these colours a go and join in on the challenge this week. Be sure to stop on over HERE and check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches DT have done using the colours and I hope to see you in the gallery.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Stunning Snowflakes

Ink: SU! Going Grey. VersaMagic Aquatic Splash, Pixie Dust and Tea Leaves

Card Stock: SU! Smokey Slate. Hobby Craft White

Accessories: Foam Adhesive. Rhinestones

25 Days Of Christmas Tags

Hey and Happy Tuesday!

Uniko is excited and honoured to be taking part AND sponsoring the FABulous 25 Days of Christmas Tags hosted and organised by the lovely Tracey McNeely from In My Creative Opinion. 

All the fun began on Nov 1st HERE and there are lots of prizes and inspiration to be had, so be sure to check it out from the beginning.

Anyway, the Uniko DT myself included have made a Christmas tag or two to inspire and share with you....

CLICK HERE to see more from Beverley

CLICK HERE to see more from Deborah

CLICK HERE to see more from Jane

CLICK HERE to see more from Lindsey

CLICK HERE to see more from Rahmat

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah G

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah P

How about that for eye candy?! 

Now, be sure to hop on over HERE to Tracey's blog as I know that Tracey has created some wonderful inspiration using some Uniko products. Plus the prize information can be found there too ;)

I also have an extra little prize for ONE LUCKY COMMENT! Simply comment on all of the Uniko Design Team blog posts (links above) AND Tracey's post HERE and I will use random.org to select a winner to receive a November 2016 Release Clear Stamp Set!! You have until midnight GMT 26th November 2016 to leave your comment for the chance to win!

I hope we have inspired you to join in on the fun and I look forward to seeing you in the gallery link up! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

CAS Colours & Sketches #198

Hey!

Oh my, how did we get to Thursday already?! This week has been one of 'those' weeks and all my good intentions on getting caught up and even ahead on things has gone astray! 

I knew the time would come when the beans would drop their afternoon sleep of 1-2 hours and this week is the week it has happened - NO! Plus to top it off (as if I am not worn out enough) they decided that they could climb out of the cots and so a transition into cot beds has come earlier than planned. Along with even MORE excited chaos at bedtime! 

So by the time they have both settled and gone to sleep this week I have been too tired and frazzled to do anything! Hence my lateness in my CC&S card today :(

Anyway, it is a new month and so we have a new hostess over at CAS Colours & Sketches. This month Patricia is our hostess and has kicked things off HERE with a beautiful Autumnal colour challenge.

This is what I came up with...

I have used a combination of Background Builders: Vines and Background Builders: Vines Winter Additions on my card today. This wasn't my first choice of clear stamp set to use, but the one I was after has seemed to of walked away from it's space on the shelf I think tiny bean hands may be the culprit there ;) so I opted for these instead and it all turned out better than expected.

I used the current Freshly Made Sketches layout seen HERE and below for my card design and it worked really well with the focal panel.

Ok, that's all from me for now, I hope I have inspired you to give these colours a go and join in on the challenge this week. Be sure to stop on over HERE and check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches DT have done using the colours and I hope to see you in the gallery.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Background Builders: Vines and Background Builders: Vines Winter Additions

Ink: SU! Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip and Always Artichoke

Card Stock: SU! Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie & Always Artichoke.

Accessories: Foam Adhesive

Have you joined us yet?

Hey!

The Uniko Design Team and our Guest Designer are here today with a reminder and a little more inspiration for October Uniko challenge. This month we have another fun challenge to spark your creativity...

Who doesn't LOVE rainbows?! 

You can use any products/stamps to enter the challenge, but we do LOVE to see you use your Uniko products. 

Email entries welcome, just email a photo of your card to bev@uniko.co.uk and I will add it to the Uniko Flickr gallery and link up!

We have an awesome Guest Designer for this months challenge, Hannelie from Desert Diva. Hannelie was also the winner from the Uniko Challenge #35 and she has created another stunner to inspire you...

Isn't this just amazing? The simplicity and monochrome stamping with splash of rainbow hearts is such a unique and fun way to approach the challenge. Please pop on by Hannelie's blog HERE and leave some love and find out more about this creation.

Here's some inspiration from the Uniko Design Team:

CLICK HERE to see more from Beverley

CLICK HERE to see more from Jane

CLICK HERE to see more from Deborah

CLICK HERE to see more from Lindsey

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah G

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah P

Aren't these just super! Now, if you need more incentive to play along with the challenge here are the details of the prizes.

THE PRIZES

• The DT will choose a winner who will get a £15 gift voucher and opportunity to Guest Design.
• The DT choose a Top 3 who will each get 100 Loyalty Rewards Points added to their Uniko customer account.
• We will do a random draw for all those who use A UNIKO stamp. This winner will get 200 Loyalty Reward Points added to their Uniko customer account.

You've got plenty of time to play along with this month's challenge. The deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Friday 11th November (7.00pm EDT).

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CAS Colours & Sketches #197 & Design Team Call

Hey!

It's time for another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches - YAY! This week is sketch week and we have another fun sketch HERE and seen below to inspire you...

I admit I struggled with this one at first, mainly because I was tired and feeling a little stress with things going wrong and breaking round the house - those housewife/mummy woes! 

Anyway, I finally found some inspiration and came up with this...

I started out by masking off a panel to stamp with various mehndi images from Marvellous Mehndi. I then used the current ColourQ Challenge colours seen HERE and below to selectively colour parts of the images in.

For the three elements on the sketch I was inspired by CC&S and Uniko DT member Jane's card HERE. I loved the enamel dots she used, so did the same but added a trio of a trio! They are Stampin' Up! Halloween Night enamel dots from the Autumn/Winter catalogue. The sentiment I used is from Strike A Pose! and I simply cut the film strip edging off and adhered it to the card using foam adhesive.

Before I go, CAS Colours & Sketches are looking for some new members to add to the Design Team in 2017! 

We (CAS Colours & Sketches) are dedicated to creating cards in the Clean and Simple style, alternating between colour challenges and sketch challenges.  If you would like to be considered for a position on our team, you will need to participate in this week's colour challenge and next week's sketch challenge so that we can see your work in both types of challenges.  Please add the letters "DT" after your name when you link your cards for the two challenges, and make sure that your cards follow our Challenge Rules.  Applicants will be contacted during the month of November, and our new members will start on the team in December.

Ok, that's all from me for now, I hope I have inspired you to give these colours a go and join in on the challenge this week. Be sure to stop on over HERE and check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches DT have done using the colours and I hope to see you in the gallery.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Marvellous Mehndi and Strike A Pose!

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black

Card Stock: SU! Whisper White

Accessories: Foam Adhesive, SU! Markers Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Elegant Eggplant. SU! Halloween Night Enamel Dots

Uniko Challenge #36 WINNERS!

Hey!

I'm am here today to announce the winners of our Autumn Challenge.  So many creative and autumnal inspired entries this time and again the team and I had a hard time picking the winner! Thank you to everyone who joined in.


Firstly we have our overall winner chosen by the DT:

#14 Sue

Congratulations Sue! Here is your winners badge:

You have won a £20 eGift Certificate to spend in Uniko store here-please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th November 2016

We would also love to have you join us as our Guest Designer for a future challenge. If you are interested please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th November 2016.

Next, we have our randomly selected winner who twisted with us and created a Autumnal Thank You creation...

#1 Elaine

Congratulations! Please contact Bev at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th November 2016

along with your choice of in stock stamp set and postal address.

Next, we have a randomly selected winner who used Uniko products on their entry and that winner is:

#17 Hazel

Please contact Bev at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th November 2016

along with your Uniko Account Email address and your 200 loyalty reward points will be added.

Now for our Top 3 chosen by the DT and in entry order: 

#21 Karren J
#26 Regina
#42 Wei Wei

Congratulations to you all & here is you Top 3 badge:

You have all won 100 loyalty reward points.

Please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk

by the 8th November 2016 to claim your prize.

Congratulations to ALL the winners & EVERYONE who joined in on the fun!

Our current challenge has just begunHERE, this month we want to see your Autumnal creations,
with an optional twist of thanks.

Hope to see you in the gallery ;)

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