More sequins... :)

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Hip hip hooray! It's time for a blog hop, Uniko Studio style! Today marks the official release of some fabulous new goodies and a chance to win some prizes whilst you hop too!

Available in store now are the following stamp sets:

• Accent Essentials: Arrows
• All Occasion Sentiments #2
• Background Builders: Chevrons
• Beautiful Blooms I
• Flower Power #2
• Nature's Treasures I

And in addition to the stamps, there's an addition to the Designer Dies range too:

• Pure Florals: Chrysanthemum Designer Die

Phew! What a release! For my blog hop card I played with Beautiful Blooms I, Background Builders: Chevrons, and All Occasion Sentiments #2 (with an additional 'BIRTHDAY' stamp from Fontiments - Birthday).

I won't babble too much as the card is pretty self-explanatory and there's hopping to be done. But I will give you a few tips if you wanna check 'em out:

• To reduce the risk of embossing powder sticking to unwanted areas - do all of your embossing first! 
• If you want a duller tone to your inks, try stamping on kraft. My bright red ink turned to a darker tone on kraft and I outlined the flower with a white gel pen. The white gel pen makes the flower 'pop' a little more too. :)
• I used a distress ink on my cardbase to add a bit of contrast against the kraft focal point. Super simple but makes a real difference.

Be sure to comment with the hopping as there's a £25 Uniko Studio gift certificate hidden on one of our blogs. And be sure to check out the Uniko Studio blog if you haven't already as there's a chance to win the entire release!

Next on the hopping list is my DT buddy Erika, but if you get lost then here's the map!

Uniko Studio Blog
Amy (You're here!)
Erika
Stacey
Taheerah
Jen Nelson (Guest DT)

Happy hopping! :)

 





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Sequins: The new buttons?

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Happy Monday! It's not your typical Monday today, well not over at Clearly Besotted Stamps as today sees the launch of a new, fun monthly challenge! :D

The Clearly Besotted Challenge will run on every 10th of the month and will mean you get a chance to join in some fun, and maybe win yourself some CBS goodies too!

This month's challenge is an easy one. Anything goes! Yup, really, anything goes. Just use those CBS stamps and create something! And you're really not gonna want to miss out on this first challenge as one randomly selected peep will win five CBS stamp sets of their choice! You heard me right - F.I.V.E! :D

I've been itching to ink up Cute & Cuddly since it landed on my desk. Initially, I wanted to colour those cute animals, but I also wanted to show how you don't need to be a colouring expert to get the most from these stamps. And pairing this set up with Baby Love just seemed so right. I love the soft grey and pastel blue to celebrate a baby boy.

• I used a simple masking technique for this card. Whenever I get a set with images that I know I'll be using a masking technique with, the first thing I do is stamp them all on sticky-notes, trim them out, and keep them with the set. Then I can mask whenever I please with ease! :) 
• This design could so easily be changed to suit a girl - just change the blue to pink. Or if you want to keep it gender neutral - I'm a real fan of crisp white or the traditional yellow.
• I used a cool border punch at the top of my ledger panel to create a note-book style focal point. If you punch before you stamp, you'll find it easy to keep the design evenly spaced across the top.

Oh, and did you spot them? The sequins? Yup, I'm on that bandwagon now as well. Ha! I'd normally use buttons on a baby card, but I like the sparkle of the sequins way more :)

So, wanna win FIVE CBS stamp sets of your choice? To participate, your project must feature some CBS goodness on it somewhere - that's the only requirement. You've got until Sunday June 23rd to enter and if you'd like to be a guest designer then there's a chance for that too! So get those CBS stamps out, ink 'em up, and join us!

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Distress inks...aka watercolours!

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Happy Friday-Eve! Over on the CASE Study blog it's certainly a Friday-Eve for celebrating as we add some amazingly talented peeps to our CASE Study family as well as having a fabulous new muse to admire for June!

So firstly the muse. This month we have the super-duper Lisa Spangler on board for CASEing! Yay!

Week one of Lisa's time with us bring this beauty up for CASEing:

Check out the original post of this card here.

I was really taken with the blocks of colour on this card and payed homage to it with my distress inks and water. A few brushstrokes and I had a nice background perfect for a silhouette :)

• No need to own watercolours to achieve a watercolour look. I tapped my distress inks directly onto an acrylic block and used a damp paintbrush to pick up the colour and paint. More water makes a paler colour, but you may need some watercolour paper/card as it tends to warp my usual cardstock.
• Run out of black card? I have (how did that happen?!?!?) so I used a black marker on white cardstock instead. 
• Trouble sticking delicate die cuts? I like to use a spray adheisieve: it gives a good coatning and is temporarily repositionable with great care...!  

So not only do we have Lisa Spangler on the CASE Study bandwagon as our muse for June, we also have our guestie for June, my buddy, Lynn Mangan! Aaaaaaand (drumroll please) please welcome our newbies to the CASE Study DT family, Tasnim Ahmed, Maureen Merritt and Silke Ledlow! In fact, why not check out what they and the rest of the CASE Study DT created - it'll be a mojo boost like no other! :)

Amy Wanford (That's me!)
Andrea Ewen
Clare Buswell 
Debby Hughes  
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)
Lynn Mangan (Guest DT)
Jean Martin 
Jeanna Jachna
Maureen Merritt 
Maureen Plut
Silke Ledlow
Tasnim Ahmed
Teneale Williams
Lisa Spangler (June's Muse)

Phew! That's enough amazingly exciting news to share from CASE Study HQ - now it's your turn to join in the fun. Take any element of Lisa's card, be inspired and create. It's so simple! :)

As always, thank you so much for visiting this little corner of Blogland today!








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