Uniko April Release - Fun Flowers

Hello!

Today is the second day of Uniko's fabulous April release and this time we are playing with fun florals.  Flowers work perfectly for every occasion and these florals are perfect for layering up.  Their open design also lends itself to lots of techniques too.

Here are a few examples of cards that I have made with this lovely set:

I masked and stamped the flowers in bright colours to create a cheerful floral corner and combined them with a sentiment from All Occasion Sentiments #1.

On a similar theme I randomly stamped the flowers on a card panel in this next card and popped it over some blue card with a sentiment white embossed from All Occasion Sentiments #6.

They create such fresh, summery designs and are lots of fun to play with!

This set and yesterday's cupcake designs will be available for purchase at Uniko tomorrow and we will be having a DT blog hop and giveaway to celebrate!  In the meantime check out all of the fab inspiration from the DT over at Uniko.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Uniko April Release - Celebrate with Cake

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It is time to share some fabulous new designs from Uniko Studio and today we are celebrating with cake :)  Bev has designed the sweetest cupcake set and here is what I made with it:

I masked and paper pieced the cupcakes in mint and pink and white embossed the sentiment on dark grey.  The cupcake wrappers are pencil shaded.

Next up I stamped the full images to create a background pattern:

I used soft pinks, yellows and greys to create a light pattern and gold embossed a sentiment from Simply Said Birthday.

We have another set to share with you tomorrow and the new designs will be available from 11 April when we will have a design team blog hop and giveaway to celebrate! 

Check out the rest of the yummy inspiration from the DT over at Uniko and stop by tomorrow :)

See you soon,

Sarah x 

Less Is More #271

Hello!

Here at Less Is More this week we are challenging you to create a one layer card featuring a geometric pattern.  I love geometrics and there are lots of great products to work with.  Here are some of the ideas that I had:

I masked off a square and inked through a MFT stencil in Salty Ocean, Cracked Pistachio and Tumbled Glass distress inks.  A sentiment from Mama Elephant completes the design.

Next up I stamped the Hero Arts Tiny Flags background in pink on the top third of a card and added a black line to give it some definition.  The sentiment is from Altenew and I stamped a few single triangles from Uniko to soften the white space below the line.

 

I finished by stamping triangles from Uniko's Triangulate set in blues and greens.  I masked a strip for the sentiment and that was it.  I am beginning to really enjoy making one layer cards :)

 

 

 

I could have carried on making geometric cards but ran out of time!  I look forward to seeing all of your geometric designs.  The DT have lots more inspiration to share with you over at Less Is More.

 

Thank you for stopping by,

 

Sarah x

Less Is More #270

Hello!

As we head in to another weekend we are back with a new challenge from Less Is More.  This time we are looking for white space that is NOT white!  This was lots of fun and I was inspired to make several cards :)

First up I white embossed on to a navy card base:

I masked off a square and white embossed the lovely chrysanthemum stamp from Uniko Studio and combined it with a sentiment from Hero Arts.  I added some white ink around the mask to create a frame effect and used white pencil on the flower to give the image a bit more depth.  I quite like how this turned out!

 

I continued with the theme of white embossing on this card, embossing one of the fabulous Tim Holtz fashion stamps on a charcoal grey base.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.  A few white enamel dots finish that card off.

Finally I decided to use a kraft card as my not white space and embossed a Persian Motif stamp from Altenew which I coloured with pencils.  I love the look this gives on kraft.  A simple one layer card.

I hope these cards demonstrate that you can create a CAS design without white space!  Do check out the rest of the fabulous inspiration from the LIM DT.  To top things off we are joined by the lovely Liz from Crafty Sunflower - she is such a talented cardmaker!

Thanks as always for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Less Is More #269

Hello,

I hope you are having a fabulous Easter weekend and are ready to play along with our latest challenge at Less Is More :) This week we are challenging you to use polka dots!

I have used a strawberry stamp from Waltzingmouse Stamps for my polka dot element and teamed it with some stripy paper.  A bit of pencil shading grounds the strawberry and that is it!

Next up I have made a very simple card which is aimed at a masculine birthday.  The patterned paper is combined with a graphic birthday sentiment from PaperTrey Ink.

 

 

Finally I have used some sweet new baby stamps from MFT.  The elephants have polka dot ears and I have stamped them in pale pink combined with grey stripy paper and hearts.

 

Polka dots work for all occasions so I hope you get dotty with us this week :)

The fabulous DT have lots of inspiration for you as always and we are joined by the lovely Kay Wallace from Art from the Main House - her blog is an absolute treasure trove of gorgeous design - definitely worth checking out!

See you again soon,

Sarah x

Less Is More #268

Hello!

Another weekend has come around and we are back with our next challenge at Less Is More :)  This is a theme week and the theme is What's Outside Your Window?

This should be lots of fun!

We have lots of birds in the garden at the moment and that was an excuse to use my new set from Avery Elle:

I used watercolour pencils to lightly colour the image and combined it with a sentiment from Paper Smooches.

Continuing with the bird theme I also made this:

 

I die cut a Memory Box bird out of the white card panel and layered it up over some vintage text paper.  I used a sentiment from Stamplorations.

However, to be honest it seems to be raining most often when I look out of my window so I made this one layer card:

I inked through a Stamplorations stencil in Bluepring Sketch, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass distress inks and added a sentiment from Hero Arts.

I look forward to seeing the view from your window :)  Check out the fabulous inspiration from my LIM teamies too!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Uniko Challenge

Hello!

Thank goodness its Friday :)  What better way to celebrate the arrival of the weekend than with another Uniko challenge?  We have been having some blue skies recently so this month's Uniko theme of Spring/Easter is just what we need to enjoy the longer days and spring flowers....

I have made a very simple, CAS design:

I simply stamped the flowers from Flower Power #7 in bright colours and combined them with a few Uniko sentiments.  I think the happy is discontinued and the easter is from the recently released bunny set.  The white card panel is popped up over a strip of green. 

I went for fresh and happy! 

The challenge runs until 8 April so there is plenty of time to get inky and play along. Head on over to the Uniko blog to see the fab spring/easter inspiration that the rest of the fab DT have created for you :) 

While I am here, I will also link up at AAA Cards Challenge where the theme is Easter.

Thanks, as always, for stopping by,

Sarah x