Time Out # 33

Happy Friday Eve,

It is time for our 'Inspired by Words' challenge at Time Out Challenges and our words are:

'Happy is the bride that the sun shines on'

You can use any of these word-just one like 'happy' or 'sun' or perhaps combine 2 or 3 or be inspired by the whole phrase. I have gone with the whole phrase and made a Wedding Card-I actually made this some time ago as it was for Wedding in March but have saved it until today to share;

Some of you may remember I posted a card way back in Feb for the same Wedding. The card base is the colour of the Bridesmaids' dresses. Quite a hard colour to work with but the silver embossing works for me. All the sentiment stamps are form Uniko Studio. My linen embossing plate added texture to my card.

Our DT have made super cards to inspire you, check them out here.

Then you know what to do-

Take some TIME OUT and join us x

Inkspirational #84

A very happy weekend to all!

At Inkspirational we have a photo challenge for you. Here is the card:

And here is the photo:

To me this lady looks like she is having a very relaxing day and enjoying what she really wants to do-I went with this idea and picked up the colours of the flowers.

Our Guest Designer is my very dear friend and super talented Kylie. Take a look at her blog here, it is full of the most creative and inspiring projects. We are so pleased that Kylie is joining us this week.

Next stop by Inkspirational to see what our DT have created for you and then get inky and join in the fun.

  I will enter this into the Butterfly challenge at Addicted to CAS (thanks Loll)

Time Out Challenge #32 Reminder

Hi All,

Have you taken some TIME OUT yet to enjoy the latest challenge at Time Out Challenges?

If not, you still have a week to take part. For this challenge we are CASEing the very creative and inspiring Deepti.

This week I decided to pick out the flower focus of Deepti's card but to brighten up the colours and make a one layer cards using all Uniko stamps

Here is Deepti's card:

Our Guest Designer for this week is the amazingly talented Maura. Her cards are always so very creative and you can check out her Splitcoast stampers gallery here

Deepti has started designing her own stamps and the winner of this challenge will get her Blooming Buds which is one of the sets you can get if you sign up for the STAMPlorations Stamp Club

Time to take some TIME OUT and create!

Uniko Challenge #21 reminder

Have you joined in the 'FLOWER' challenge at Uniko yet?

We are still celebrating Bev's Birthday so get those floral stamps and out and create!

I am here to remind to that the challenge is still open for one week.

Here is what I created this week using Flower Power #7

I simply stamped the flowers on card and die cut. I do love the bright a cheerful look.

We are joined this week by Jane and Carol, both fabulous Guest Designers-check out their cards and the DT cards here then get those flower stamps out and ink away!

Don't forget you can use any stamps you like, no need to only use Uniko stamps.

Prizes to be won!!

Have fun!

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #35

It is my third week at Guest Designing at The Challenge.

This week it is the 'Inspiration' challenge. These are my favourite kind of challenges and this week here is the inspiration:

Be inspired by: The Colours, The Theme, The Objects in the Photo or anything else that inspires you about the photo ABOVE.

I have gone with the yellow flowers and came up with this:

The flower stamp is from Uniko and the sentiments are from Winnie and Walter.

The team have all come up with some amazing inspiration for you-take a look here then get out those inks and join in.

I am going to enter this into the Birthday Celebration at AAA cards-they are 1!!

And the 'Blossom' challenge at One Layer Simplicity Challenge

Enjoy x

Uniko New Release and Blog Hop

Time for the Blog Hop at Uniko

My first card uses Flower Power #7 

And this card uses Nautical Treasures with a combo of Uniko's stamps.

Here are the graphics for these new sets:

    

Now it is your turn to hop along with us-don't forget to comment along the way to be in for a chance of winning the whole release:

Amber

Bev

Deborah

Nicki

Sarah G

Sarah P

I will enter my second card into the 'embossing' challenge at Just Us Girls

Have fun!

Uniko-introducing Nautical Treasures

Hi there!

Today at Uniko we are introducing Nautical Treasure. 

I went for the vintage map look by distressing the edges of the centre card and the card base. Using stamps from this new set combined with Uniko's Background Builders-round in circles

Here is what this set looks like:

Tomorrow-release day! The entire set will be released and we will be running a blog hop where you will have the chance to win the entire set.

 From today until Monday we will randomly draw winners for mystery prizes. I'm not giving any hints as to the prizes or their value, you'll just have to join in on the fun!

Places to join in on the fun & possibly win a prize are by commenting along the way on the Uniko Studio Blog, DT & Guest Design Team Blogs, liking the Facebook, following on Twitter and Pinterest!

Uniko Flower Power #7

Hello All,

I am here to introduce the new Flower Power #7 set from Uniko.

Here is my Spring Themed card:

I went for bright a cheerful colours and did some masking. The sentiment is from the Uniko Simply Said set.

Here is what the set look like:

Don't forget to pop on over to the rest of the DT blogs to see how they have used this set.


This is how the next few days will go:

Tomorrow-we will be doing the same for another new set

Monday-release day! The entire set will be released and we will be running a blog hop where you will have the chance to win the entire set.

 From today until Monday we will randomly draw winners for mystery prizes. I'm not giving any hints as to the prizes or their value, you'll just have to join in on the fun!

Places to join in on the fun & possibly win a prize are by commenting along the way on the Uniko Studio Blog, DT & Guest Design Team Blogs, liking the Facebook, following on Twitter and Pinterest!

Uniko May Release Sneak Peek 1

A very Happy Friday Eve,

It is time for a new release at Uniko and I am here today with a little teaser of one of the new sets.

We have some flowers going on here with a touch of love:

Yep, I agree, looks fab!

Here is how the next few days will go:

Tomorrow-sneak peek 2

Saturday-the DT will all be introducing one set giving you ideas of how it can be used.

Sunday-we will be doing the same for another new set

Monday-release day! The entire set will be released and we will be running a blog hop where you will have the chance to win the entire set.

 From the today until Monday May we will randonmly draw winners for mystery prizes. I'm not giving any hints as to the prizes or their value, you'll just have to join in on the fun!

Places to join in on the fun & possibly win a prize are by commenting along the way on the Uniko Studio Blog, DT & Guest Design Team Blogs, liking the Facebook, following on Twitter and Pinterest!

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge'

Happy Monday to All,

A few weeks ago I was thrilled to be asked by Lesley to be the Featried Guest Designer at The Challenge. I was amazed to be asked and naturally said a very loud 'YES'. 

Today it is a sketch challenge and here is the sketch:

This sketch did scare me a bit as it didn't seem to suit my CAS style however once I decided to use the Uniko sentiment as the bottom strip the idea for my card came to me quite quickly.

I silver embossed the Uniko butterfly on vellum and fussy cut it out. Then did some masking and stamping in gold and silver delicata ink to finish off my card

The DT have all created the most stunning cards. You can check them out here and then it is time to get inky and join in the fun!

I am sneaking my card in at the last minute to the 'Flight challenge at CASology-better late than never!

 I will also enter this into the 'wings' challenge at Mixed Media Card Challenge-yes, it is CAS but I have embossing, vellum and dimension!

   

Less is More!

Hello my crafting friends,

Today I have a card for you inspired by the latest 'Colour' challenge at Less is More. They are asking us to use opposites on the colour wheel. As soon as I saw this I knew I wanted to go with purple and yellow. I love this combo especially when using water colours. Today I wasn't in the mood for water colouring and wanted to just stamp.

Here is what I came up with using Uniko's Balloon bash stamp set and Winnie and Walter's dies

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

Happy Days with Fusion.

Hi All

I am here my card for Fusion's Happy Days Challenge. The photo this week totally inspired this card-the stripes was the big pull but the other colours and the red flowers I have also used. I challenged myself to make this a one layer card.

The stripes and flowers are both from Uniko and the sentiments are a mix of Stamplorations and Winnie and Walter

Here is the Fusion photo:

Time Out Challenge reminder

Have you joined our CASE challenge at Time Out Challenges?

We are CASEing the very talented and creative Kim. Check out her blog Art Keeps Me Sane. It is full of inspiring cards and you can't miss out!

Here is the card I made inspired by Kim:

This week I was inspired by Kim's flowers and colouring but decided to use water paints instead of crayons and heat emboss and not stamp. All these stamps are from Uniko

Here is Kim's card:

So what inspires you-the coloured base, the flowers, the white ink..so much to choose from.

Check out what our DT and very talented Guest Designer Claire have created here.

We are sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps and the winner of this challenge will get a £20 gift voucher to spend in their store!

Have fun!

I will enter this into the 'Spring' challenge at Just Us Girls

Uniko Challenge Reminder

Have you joined in our challenge at Uniko? This month the challenge is:

Anything Goes with the option of using this sketch:



Emily is our Guest Designer for this challenge and she has created a really fun and colourful card-check it out when you pop over to our blog.

Here is what I created not using the sketch. I went with masking the new Beautiful Blooms set.

If you play along you could be winning some fabulous Uniko Studio goodies and also you could be a Guest Designer in our next challenge!

Need some more inspiration?

Check out what our amazing DT have created here and then get stamping!

Fun with Balloons!

A very Happy day to you all!

I have been doing quite a lot of water colouring recently-more cards to show you next week!

After doing all this water colouring I was in the mood for a 'stamp and go' card. A quick stamp and off I go!

I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and decided it was all the inspiration I needed to 'stamp and go'

A quick one layer card using different shades of green so I could enter the 'green' challenge at Addicted to CAS

Even the masking was quick and easy. This was fun to make and I think I need to make a few more 'stamp and go' cards as I feel I need more of a fix!!

All these stamps are from Uniko-check out our latest 'Anything Goes' challenge here-you can use any stamp not just Uniko stamps and lots of prizes up for grabs.

Also this card could be entered into our 'CAS' challenge at Time Out-check it out here-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps to be won here.

Here are the 2 challenges I will enter my card into

CAS(E) this Sketch

Addicted to CAS-GREEN

     

Let it Snow!

Hi All,

I had hoped this year to make a few cards Christmas cards each month but so far I have made only one and this is my second. I am very behind my target but I do find it hard to get inspired when the big day seems so far away!

However this week I really liked the colour combo at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and wanted to play along. I also loved the 'splatter' challenge at Just Us Girls. I had the idea of combining splatters and snowflakes to create this card:

I made it one layer so I could join in the challenge at One Layer Christmas Cards-twist of circles-my splatters are circles-right?
I will also enter the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland-Blue Christmas
Christmas card challenge-photo

The snowflake stamps are from Uniko and the splatter stamps are from Paper Artsy

Xmas card 2 done!!

Have a good day x

Time Out reminder #26

Happy Friday Eve!

At TIME OUT Challenges we are still celebrating our 1st Birthday!
We are so excited to have made it to our first Birthday and thank you all for supporting our challenge.

I decided we all needed to 'Strike A Pose' in celebration and made this for us all!

I have used the stamp set Strike a Pose from Uniko to make this, embossing the sentiment.

Our Birthday challenge is to be inspired by this photo-I have again gone with the photography theme.

There is so much to inspire you here-colours, white space, tree branches and so much more!

What would a Birthday be without presents! And we are very lucky that are DT members Beverley (owner of Uniko) and Shery (owner of STAMPlorations) are both sponsoring us for this challenge.

The winner of the challenge will get a gift voucher from STAMPlorations and Uniko plus we will do a random draw and the winner of this will get a Celebration/Birthday stencil pack from STAMPlorations.

Lots of presents to be won so we sure hope you join in and celebrate with us. 

We all need some TIME OUT to craft and now is your time!

I will enter this into the embossing challenge at Virginia's View Challenge

And the 'Tropical' challenge at CASology-you would want a camera if you were on a Tropical Island!

Addicted to Stamps and More #125

We have a new challenge for you at Addicted to Stamps and More. This week we are asking you to be inspired by this photo:

There is really so much here to inspire you but my eyes just kept returning to the chevron pattern on the straws. I really wanted my brain to go with rainbows but nope it wanted chevrons so this is what I made:

I masked off the side panel of my card and used the tiny chevron stamp from this chevron set from Uniko Studio.

I just used a subtle patterned paper to cover the rest of my card and embossed the sentiment in orange and popped up the blue panel to add dimension. I think this will be used for a masculine Birthday card.

Check out what our DT have created to inspire you here and then join in the fun!

I will enter this into the 'masculine' challenge at Just Us Girls

I will enter the enamel dot challenge at The House of Cards

Time Out Challenge is 1 year old today-Lets Celebrate!

We are celebrating our 1st Birthday today at Time Out Challenges.

When Nonni and I started to chat about starting our own challenge we had no idea if it would work but here we are one year later and we are still around and having fun! I want to thank you all for supporting us, with out you we would not be here. This last year has been so much fun and we have loved being inspired by all your wonderful cards. I would also like to thank our amazing Design Team who have all worked so hard to make our little challenge grow!

For this challenge we have this photo to inspire you. All our photo challenges are based around interior designs and this collection of brightly coloured frames would look great in any home. You may be inspired by the frames, the colours, the wood grain panels, the branch-just any thing that you spot that makes you want to create.



I decided to go with the bright frames and took the photography angle-especially as I have a niece who is studying photography!

All my cameras are from the Uniko stamp set Strike a Pose!

Our Guest Designer this week is Mandi. Her blog Faith Hope and Crafts is full if inspiring and creative projects. Take a look here and I am sure you will come away ready to craft!

As it is our Birthday Challenge we have some prizes naturally!

And our very own DT members Shery and Beverley have both very generously offered these prizes for this challenge.

-The winner chosen by our DT will get a $15 STAMPlorartions Gift Voucher and a £15 Uniko Gift Voucher 

-A randomly chosen winner will get a Celebration/Birthday stencil pack from STAMPlorations

Our DT and Mandi have come up with a fabulous collection of Birthday cards to inspire you-take a look here.

Now kick back and please take some TIME OUT and celebrate our 1st Birthday!

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Uniko Studio Challenge #18 Reminder

Have you joined in our BIRTHDAY challenge at Uniko Studio.

If not you have one more week to play along.

You can use any stamps you like and join in as many times as you like.

I did make a completely different card for this reminder then when I was browsing around blogland a few challenges caught my eye and I decided to make the above card using my Uniko stamp sets-English Country Garden and A gift for you. I stamped the solid butterfly using Delicata gold ink. Then heat embossed the lined butterfly in gold on vellum and fussy cut it.

If you play along you could be for winning some fabulous Uniko Studio goodies and also you could be a Guest Designer in our next challenge!

Need some more inspiration?

Check out what our amazing DT have created here and then get stamping!

This card was inspired by the following challenges:

Less is More-wings

Showcase your style-Birthday

CASology-mini-mini butterfly and mini mix of gems, sequins and enamel dots.