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 #333

Hi there crafty friends, are you ready for this week's challenge at Less is More and it's another fun one so hope you feel inspired to join us and play along. I've 3 cards for you today, with a couple of family birthdays coming up soon and several friends also it seemed the perfect opportunity to get ahead of myself.

I'm on a bit of a shaker roll at the moment and loving this curly 'friend' die-cut sentiment from Paper Smooches, which certainly works a treat in glitter cardstock and adhered directly on to the acetate window. Having tried brushos with cling wrap I was fascinated to see a video by the fabulous Jennifer McGuire HERE using watercolours with cling wrap. I need to get a little more practice in to make them as vibrant as JM's but for a first attempt I was pretty impressed and I've used a piece as the background to my shaker window. I used a stitched circle die from Simon Says Stamp for the window and the sprinkles from Little Things by Lucy.

It's an 'Anything Goes' week over at Addicted to Stamps and More so I'd like to head across there with this one.

... here's the family ones!

First up for my niece followed by her mum's below. Their birthdays fall on consecutive days next month. The images are from Clearly Besotted: Time to Party and Laugh Out Loud, plus the Basic Alphabet also by CBS. For a change I used my Memento dew drop inks, that have been neglected of late but I'm loving the colours and they were easy to blend for the 3 matching stripes behind the balloon panel.

Another example using Jennifer McGuire's Watercolour 'cling wrap' technique inside a die-cut heart shaped aperture from WPlus9. The inlaid 'sister' word die is from Clearly Besotted and 'Happy Birthday' by Avery Elle.

Ooooh! before I forget ... here's our Cue Card for the Less is More challenge and there's still time to be in with a chance of a prize from our generous sponsor for this month, STAMPlorations.

Don't forget to check out the fabulous designs from my fellow teamies over on the main blog HERE 
Hope you'll play along and have some fun and thanks for calling by and I'll be back soon!

Uniko Challenge #32 - Reminder

Hi there friends I'm back with a little reminder for you as you've still time to enter our latest challenge at Uniko where the theme is 
Masculine Cards - With the option of Father's Day

Here's my card and I've used some inky blending with Distress Ink

in Peacock Feathers, a frame from Paper Smooches and the Sweet Baby

and Simply Said sets from Uniko to create my shaker card.

I hope you'll play along with us and all the links to my fellow teamies blogs

and details of prizes and how to win them can be found on the main 

Uniko blog HERE

We also have Tanya of Little Art Cottage who is our Guest Designer

for this challenge having won last month's challenge. I do hope you'll

head over to her blog and check out her awesome creations. 

It's an Anything Goes week at Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge

so I'd like to pop my card in there too.

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

with details of the latest challenge from Less is More. 

AAA Cards Challenge #63

Hello there crafty friends I'm here to announce details of our latest challenge over at AAA Cards and we'd like to see  CAS shaker cards for this one.  Here's mine and there's plenty more inspiration from my fellow  teamies over on the main blog so I hope you'll check them out.

Here I've used a Shaker Word die from Clearly Besotted, Happy Birthday

sentiment from Avery Elle: Sentimental, Die-cut balloons from Paper Smooches,

patterned paper and sequins from Doodlebug.

It's celebration time at Time Out challenges - well that's the theme

with the optional twist of die cuts / fuzzy cutting! No fuzzy cuts

here but plenty of die-cuts and a birthday occasion for celebration so

I'd like to hop across there and enter my card.

Our sponsor is Stampendous 

Thanks as always for calling by and I hope you feel inspired to play along with us.