I'm so honoured that she thought of me and of course said yes straight away. The theme for this challenge is:
CHRISTMAS with the optional twist of CAS (Clean and Simple)
Now you know I love making CAS designs, so was definitely going to make something with the optional twist:
Blue and white is one of my favourite colour combo's for Christmas cards, and now I have a few more ink pads to choose from, I could have a bit of variation with my images.
I was also dying to try out a stamping technique made famous by the forever fabulous May Park of 'Mayholic in Crafts'. She is the Queen of creating backgrounds etc with lots of small stamp images and have included a link here so you can see how she does it.
This actually started out as a one-layer card but I'm such a messy stamper I had marks all over the place, so had to cut it out. I started though by lightly drawing a triangle with pencil on the card front. I then randomly stamped the images from Uniko Studio 'Background Builders: Vines Winter Additions' in the different colours. Once I was happy with the placement, I cut the triangle out and mounted it on foam tape on another card base. I then stamped the sentiment from Uniko Studio 'Rustic Christmas' in Navy ink.
I absolutely love how this turned out and all the little images from this stamp set were perfect for the technique. Might have to make a few more of these in different colour combo's!!
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Christmas'.
You have until Friday 4th December to link your projects to the Uniko Challenge, so that gives you two weeks to make a lot more cards for your Christmas stash!! The Design Team have some amazing cards to inspire you on the blog if you need any help with ideas. Thanks again Bev for the invite and I can't wait to see the Gallery full of Christmas goodness!!!!
Take care
Shona
I love this - so beautiful and elegant! I love the soft colours.
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Dreamy, CAS and absolutely GORGEOUS Shona! I'm thrilled you are one of our Guest Designers for this Uniko challenge. Love your work and this is simply perfect. Definitely worth CASing! Sarah x
ReplyDeleteDreamy, CAS and absolutely GORGEOUS Shona! I'm thrilled you are one of our Guest Designers for this Uniko challenge. Love your work and this is simply perfect. Definitely worth CASing! Sarah x
ReplyDeleteOh your stamping is fabulous Shona. I think this is absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteSo pleased you're joining us a a Guset Designer Shona, welcome. And I absolutely love how you've used this stamp set and will definitely be checking out that video link.
ReplyDeleteyay you! This is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteoooh, i love this!
ReplyDeleteCongrats my friend..
ReplyDeleteAnd yes I remember May from CASology with tiny stamp and you did so well..I love the soft colors you choose..absolut sweet xmas three card..
Luv this.
Hugs
Monika
Nice that you got this Guest Designer gig. So we'll deserved. Love May's technique, as well and it looks like you aced it. This is lovely...love that blue & white, too. You, most definitely, are NOT in a creative slump.
ReplyDeleteNice that you got this Guest Designer gig. So we'll deserved. Love May's technique, as well and it looks like you aced it. This is lovely...love that blue & white, too. You, most definitely, are NOT in a creative slump.
ReplyDeleteAn elegant CAS beauty, Shona! Love the cool tones and combination of mini images. Great to have you joining us as GD :)
ReplyDeleteCAS perfection! I love the way you've used the little images and the soft shades of blue - looks absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for being of our Guest Designers this months. xx
ReplyDeleteSimply gorgeous, Shona ... you know how much I love this colour combo ... and you've used it to perfection with this wonderful 'little image' tree ... it's fabulous! Hugs, Anita :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool Shona! I absolutely love it. The color scheme is so refreshing ;) It's so great to have you as a Guest Designer with Uniko this month!! Love your work!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your GDT! and some beautiful stamping on your card! Fun design and great stamping! Hope you had a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteWow, amazing card Shona. I absolutely love how you created the tree and the blues are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Such a fabulous design! Very pretty!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!
hugs...
Melissa
What a great idea! Lovely card x
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