Uniko October Release Sneak Peeks

YAY! Time for a few sneaky peeks at the upcoming Uniko October Release.

First up a couple of oldies but goodies being shaken out of their retirement.

  .

And then some new Christmas themed stamps to mix and match.

  

And a new addition to Bev's signature style.

And finally a trio of stencils.

   

Tomorrow I'll be back with the first of the introductions, more introductions on Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday and then the release blog hop and full reveal on Tuesday.

Thanks for your time today.

And keep crafting while you wait!

Thursday Thoughts

Today I'm playing along with The Paper Player's Challenge where the theme is CAS and apple.

Here's my card:

It took a bit of time to mask off each layer of apples and a few attempts ended up in the bin along the way - I couldn't decide which way round to make them appear, but finally went for the top apple being at the front.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, An Apple A Day & Thank you Freebie
Inks: SU, real red, old olive
Die: Lil'inker, stitched mats rectangles

Thanks for dropping by today, it's been great having you visit my blog.

And keep crafting!

Wednesday Words

I'm playing along with Calling All Sistahs October challenge today.

Although I've been joining in with this challenge for a while now, it's suddenly taken on a new meaning as one of my closest friends is currently facing her own battle. I made this card for her:

I masked off a strip down the right hand side of my card and blended a mix of distress oxide inks. I then place a stencil on top and added more oxide ink through it.  

I chose the stamp and sentiment because it has such a relevant message and then decided to repeat the ink blending and stencil inking to mirror the base card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Happy Little Stampers, Born To Be Wild

Inks: SU, baked brown sugar; Ranger distress oxides, wild honey, spiced marmalade, candied apple, fired brick

Stencil: Uniko, Pure Florals: Chrysanthemum

Thanks for your time today, i'm so pleased you spent some of it loooking at my blog.

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Today my card uses stamps and water colouring and is going into the October challenges at CAS Watercolour and Stamping Sensations.

       

Here's my card:

I stamped and heat embossed the tree and then added distress oxide inks on top. I spritzed the oxide inks with water and tipped them to allow them to mix and bend together.

Before the inks were fully dry I stamped the leaves using orange, green and brown inks. I like how they are blurry where the ink was most wet and more defined where it had dried more.

Supplies:
Stamps: Visible image, Four Every Season
Inks: Memento, rich cocoa + Stampendous clear embossing powder; Ranger distress oxide, spiced marmalade, twisted citron; Ranger distress, brushed corduroy
Dies: Spellbinders, square; MFT Dienamics, double stitched rectangles

Thanks so much for dropping by today, I'm always delighted to have your company.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moment

A quick and simple card to share today.  It's going into the challenges at Time Out and CAS(E) This Sketch.

   

Here's my card:

I used a piece of scrap card and Copic pens to create the colourful stripes, then die cut the CELEBRATE word.

Supplies:
Dies: Lil'inker, stitched mat rectangles; MFT Die-namics, Celebrate
Pens: Copic, R29, YR16, Y18, YG13, B29, BV13, V12

Thanks for your time today, it was great to have you drop by.

And keep crafting!

Sunday Slot

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the October Challenge at CAS Mix Up.

Now I'm a bit of a lazy crafter and tend to stick to what I already know, so it's quite a shock to the system when a challenge asks for a technique I've never tried before.  But then that is also a really good thing about challenges and I've discovered a fabulous new way to use my inks and stamps.

This card was so difficult to photograph with all the shine, but believe me this technique looks amazing in real life. Here's the link to the tutorial I followed - Black Ice Technique by Melissa Kerman- SCS (8:42)

Supplies:
Stamp: uniko, Block Party Christmas
Inks: Versamark, clear; StazOn, jet black; Stampendous clear embossing powder
Silver fil card and gems from my stash

Thanks so much for dropping by today, I love having your company.

And keep crafting!

Saturday Spot

One of the best things about Christmas crafting is that I know everything I create will get used instead of being stashed for the the right occasion to happen. So today I'm entering the tag challenge at Less is More - can never have too many Christmas tags!

I'm also a bit of a soft touch when it comes to buying Christmas stamps and couldn't resist the new MFT Tweet Holiday plump little birds!

I'm loving black and white and a touch of red for Christmas colours at the moment and think they may just be my 2018 colour scheme. I used Prismacolor pencils to colour the bird and then added a little Copic neutral grey as a shadow.

Supplies:
Stamps: MFT, Tweet Holiday
Ink: Memento, tuxedo black
Colours: Prisacolor pencils; Copic, N1
Ribbon from my stash


Thanks so much for looking today, I really love it when I get company.

And keep crafting!