Uniko - Revisit March 2020

Hi there friends, I hope you are all keeping well and safe during these scary times and sending lots of love and crafty hugs your way (from a distance of course)!
So it's another REVIST month over at Uniko where Bev asks us to 'dig out', dust down and bring a previously released set back into the spotlight! 
This month it's an oldie but goodie and has to go down as my all time favourite floral set by Uniko, which is, of course, the Pure Florals - Gerbera set. It's never a chore to play with this one, especially with the co-ordinating dies; it's a dream!
I've gone with 2 shaker card examples, basically because I set myself a stupid task of sorting out my sequins the other day!!!! I'd forgotten how many different types I have!!

As is the tradition there's a blog hop giveaway; the prize being the Pure Florals Gebera set or an alternative prize if you already own this one! You have until midnight (GMT) on Sunday 22 March 2020 to comment along the hop and here's the blogs you need to visit.

Bev

Carol

Hannelie

Izzy

Jane

Julie

Linda

Rahmat

Sarah (That's Me!)

Weibke

You'll find all the details over at Uniko HERE and I'd like to wish you lots of luck on the hop and here's the image of the Gerbera set we've revisited. Hope you enjoyed the inspiration and as always thanks for visiting my blog today.

Less is More #321

Morning friends, are you ready for this week's challenge at
Less is More
This week it's our Recipe week and here's the Cue Card

Not too difficult??? Here's my cards and I seem to be making a lot of 'teal' cards at the moment! Hee Hee ... I obviously can't move on from the 'mainly teal' challenge so here's another

Recipe: Inks: Altenew  Stamps: Paper Smooches: Botanicals 2 & Winnie & Walter: Big and Bold YOU Dies: Paper Smooches: Stitched Frame

It's a Clean and Simple week over at Addicted to Stamps and More so I'd like to pop my card in there 

Not so teal this time and going with an Easter theme in non-traditional colours.

This one uses:

Stamps: Mama Elephant - Carnival Cupcakes and CBS Cool Chicks

Promarkers and Filmstrip Frame die by Pretty Pink Posh

Don't forget to check out the fabulous designs from my fellow teamies over on the  main blog HERE and we also have a guest designer for you this week;  Nonni of Nonni's Handmade Cards who was the winner of Week 1  of our Birthday challenges. I hope you'll pay her a visit too.
Hope you'll play along and have some fun. Thanks for calling by and I'll be back soon!

Less is More #298

Hi friends are you ready for another challenge over at Less is More?

It's our THEME week and we've chosen 

Incy Wincy Spiders or Insects!

Now there's no need to go Halloween on this one but in the absence

of suitable insects and particularly spiders other than in Halloween 

sets I decided to go with that occasion. Fortunately my nieces and

nephews are still of an age where they'll accept Halloween Cards!

I think!!! Especially the sort with spiders!

This one uses the stitched filmstrip die by Pretty Pink Posh 

and I've re-cut it in the orange, green and purple (typically for Halloween)

to add my spiders web and spiders to each aperture. The card looked

a little bland when I'd finished so I decided to grab a stencil I've just

purchased by Tim Holtz and ink it through with Hickory Smoke Distress ink.

I still wasn't happy to decided to go full on distressing up the edges instead

then adding a few extra webs. The Happy sentiment is by Happy Little Stampers

and the reset of the images are by Clearly Besotted 'Halloween Spirit'

The theme over at CASology this week is 'Spooky' so I'd like to pop this card in there!

This one uses the 'In Print' set by Clearly besotted but couldn't resis

adding googlie eyes to the fingerprint spider! The sentiment is from

the Out of This World set also by Clearly Besotted and I was attempting

to CASE one of Jennifer McGuire's recent techniques shown HERE but

think I've not quite got my spacing right ... more practice needed!

So that's all of mine but please head over to the main blog HERE 

where there's links to my fellow teamies blogs and cards.

I'm sure they'd love a visit and they've worked their usual magic on 

the theme to inspire you!

Have a fab week and as always thanks for calling by my blog.

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #8

Hey friends, guess what ... it's time for another day out with the honeys  and I'm the lucky host for this one! It was a little daunting thinking  of what to put together having received such wonderful kits  from the others! In the end I went with a
Monster Birthday theme
There's a picture and list of my goody pack at the end of the post

Here's our team and I absolutely adore playing along with this  wonderful bunch of talented ladies! Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Sandie Munroe: London Days Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!

I had a go at creating a Northern Lights (of a fashion) night sky using Distress Inks

 with multiple planets, spaceships and rockets 'whizzing' by, viewed though the

Stitched Framed 'film strip' die. Adding a couple of extra images from

the CBS set to create a BG and a wrap of twine adds a little more interest.

Well I just can't resist going overboard with silliness when you've got these

cute little monsters in tow! I coloured them with promarkers and set them

inside the circle frames which are filled with clear seed bead or bubbles with

a starry background paper from the Doodlebug papers!!!

I just had to use the googlie eyes somewhere and I also had a bit more of the 

'Northern Sky' panel left so used it as another background here for my googlie

aliens sat on the 'moon' as a space ship zooms by!

You can probably tell I was running out of ideas here but decided to go

full on vibrant and 'busy' with the design paper and mini images, another

googlie eye and I wanted to showcase the sentiment in particular.

I had a lot of fun making these and I'm going to have even more fun

as I zip around the other honeys' blogs to see how they played with my kit!

So here's a little piccy of what I sent around the world which included:

       Clearly Besotted Stamps & Dies: Out of This World, Eye on You, Blast Off

       Lawn Fawn Stamps & Dies: Monster Mash

 Pretty Pink Posh Peek-a-boo & Stitched Frame dies

Doodlebug:Sprinkles, Bakers Twine & Design Paper

Misc. Googlie eyes

As always thanks for calling by and hope you enjoyed

a giggle looking at these crazy creations!

Less is More #290

Morning friends, time to announce this week's challenge over at 
Less is More It's theme week and we've chosen the word Exotic

This one uses a Paper Smooches set called Get Outta Town.

The images are coloured with Promarkers and I've used a 

frame die from Pretty Pink Posh then 're-sat' the 'piccys' inside

again once coloured and popped it up on fun foam for added dimension.

I'd like to pop this one in at Addicted to Stamps and More where

it's the 'Make Your Mark' Week

I couldn't resist creating a creating a card using this fantastic

'Paradise' set from Uniko and if Paradise isn't exotic then I'm stuck!

(Looks like Sarah G and Sharon also had the same idea!)

I decided to show-case the sentiment and keep that panel clean and simple

with the exotic hibiscus blooms in the background.

My teamies have been up to their usual brilliance so please head over 

to the Less is More blog HERE where there's links to their blogs 

and you can swoon with delight at their creations.

Hope you feel inspired to play along and I'll catch up with you soon.

AAA Cards Challenge #70

Hi there friends it's time for a new challenge at  AAA Cards and for this fortnight we'd like to see you use some STITCHING on  your creations. There's no need to drag the sewing machine out from the back of a cupboard unless you want to as there's lots of stitched dies out there or even needle and thread 'by hand' Here's mine using a 'homespun' die from My Favourite Things,  a layered lily flower head from Altenew with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted Brushed Greetings II. To finish a few sparkly sequins from Neat and Tangled plus Pretty Pink Posh.

Here's a little photo inspiration and there's some superb ideas

from my fellow teamies over on the main blog HERE PLUS we have

2 very special and talented Guest Designers joining us for this one.

First up and owner of our generous Sponsor, Uniko it's Bev and Eunji of 

Follow Your Dreams and winner of our recent watercolour challenge.

I do hope you'll pop along to their individual blogs and leave them some love.

As already mentioned our sponsor for this one is Uniko

with our lucky winner receiving a £10 gift certificate to spend in store.

Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back soon.

Less is More #273

Hello there friends; another week has whipped by in a flash so it's back to Saturday morning and a new challenge from Less is More!
It's recipe week and a bit of a tough one ... in honour of  St Georges Day - we'd like to see Saints, Dragons or Heros
Here's mine and I've very little in my stash that ties in with the theme so it's 2 cards using the same 'dragon' from Mama Elephant: Just Hatched.
Certainly not the scariest dragon you'd ever imagine but in an effort to make him a little more 'realistic' I've created a watercoloured surround of 'fire' - that's what it's supposed to be anyway! I've used a new die from  Pretty Pink Posh: Peek-a-boo and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted: Eye on You. I'm not sure if the googlie eyes I've added make this little fella more geeky or terrifying but they were on my desk and I couldn't resist a bit of fun!

Same Mama Elephant set here with a 'Hello' sentiment from the set too plus the 

'You're my hero' from Clearly Besotted. The dragons are coloured using my 

Zig Clear Brush pens and I've added a stitched frame die from Paper smooches.

Ok it's over to you talented folk and I'm intrigued to see what you'll come up with!

No doubt we'll be blown away by your creations as always! Don't forget there's some

magical inspiration from my fellow teamies so I hope you'll pop across to their 

individual blogs to leave some friendly love and encouragement.

Thanks as always for calling by and I'll be back tomorrow with the

latest challenge details for AAA Cards.