Trenouths Crafty Creations: Uniko stamps

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Saturday, 25 May 2024

40th Never ending fold card

Good Morning everyone

My sister-in-law is celebrating her 40th birthday this month. I decided to make a never ending card for her (also known as the infinity fold)

I dug through my 6x6 paper pads and came across this old one in shades of blue, green & yellow so just her colours.(echo park 'for the record 2') I used black for the base card which makes the colours pop.

After making my 6x6" card, i cut panels from this gorgeous floral paper to fit the front sections. Stamped the sentiments onto white, cut out and adhered flat - i edged the sentiments with diamond stickles glitter glue and added a little to the flower centres for some sparkle.

it opens up to this section. I took this numeral black and white paper and coloured the numbers 4&0 with teal and yellow alcohol markers and cut to fit, i adhered them in a jumbled fashion rather than lining up as it worked better and added a bit of the coloured numerals all over rather than on just a couple of panels. I stamped another of the sentiments on white, matted onto yellow paper and adhered flat. I die cut 40 from white card, mounted onto black circle and more of the yellow paper die cut into an inverted circle die and added to the top panel. I edged the black circle with glitter again to draw the eye into the 40.

this is the 3rd section, i used this doily paper from the pad.

4th section - bit of pattern overload! I do find it a bit of a mission using papers all from the same pad but I was determined too! I also struggle to have to stick everything on flat - do like my dimension usually.

I used a small floral paper from the pad on the panels and stamped butterflies onto solid papers from the pad, cut out and adhered flat - i added white pen & glitter highlights to the butterflies. I also cut out some of the doilies from the off cuts of paper i used for section 3 and added randomly - this helped break up the background a bit and tie it in with section 3.

and this just shows how the butterfly panels open up to the front of the card again. Its great to be able to use so many papers from a pad on one card - very busy & colourful. This will be a real celebration of a birthday as when she was first diagnosed with cancer they didn't think she would make her 40th so its extra special.

Items Used:

Echo Park paper pad 'for the record 2' by lori whitlock

technique tuesday sentiment stamp set 'Hi there'

uniko stamps - 'english country garden butterflies'

black cardstock

ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you are enjoying this bank holiday weekend if in the UK. Emma

Id love to enter the following:

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/pinspirational-challenge-313-may.html

https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/05/triple-b-may-2024-challenge.html - Ive used blooms & butterflies

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-114-flowers.html

https://secretstamper.com/2024/05/anything-goes-with-a-fun-fold-for-creative-creases-83/

Thursday, 28 July 2022

Butterflies in an English Country Garden

Good Morning everyone

Summery cards with Uniko butterfly stamps, we have seen more butterflies around since the sun came out which is lovely. The verse with this stamp set says 'Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze, in an English country garden'

6x6" white linen base card. I cut a smaller piece of white linen card and stamped the butterflies with ombre ink, using 2nd & 3rd generation ink to give more faded butterflies in the background. I then used a square frame die in the middle of this panel which gave me 3 pieces of the background, i adhered the outside and middle pieces to the card front flat and then the middle frame piece i attached with foam tape - this is just to add a bit of interest to the design

The butterflies i had left over from previous cards when i made up more than i used. I stamped the butterflies onto vellum, added colour to the back with alcohol markers and cut out, adhere to plain white paper and cut around, using white on the back just helped them stand out and keep them clean looking. I gently shaped their wings and added to the base with glue gel.

I stamped the verse onto more vellum, backed with white paper and adhered to the card front with foam tape. Gold gems hide the glue on the vellum and gold gems on the butterfly bodies to finish.

Version 2. I used distress inks to stamp the background butterflies in shaded lilac, tumbled glass, bundled sage & iced spruce. I spritzed with water and dabbed, this gave a more muted subtle background than version 1. Butterflies again left over from previous project, this time instead of adding the colour to the back of the vellum, i left the vellum clear and added the alcohol markers to the plain paper butterfly i had underneath - again this is a much more subtle effect. I added glitter glue to the bodies and then sprinkled the gold gems about the background.

Items Used:

Uniko stamps 'English Country garden - butterflies'

Kaliedacolor ombre inkpad

Distress inks

MFT scalloped square frame die

Vellum

White paper

CraftUK ltd white linen card

gold gems

Ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you all for stopping by. Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/week-686.html

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Monday, 2 May 2022

Butterflies

Good Morning everyone

Todays 2 cards are using a lovely stamp set from uniko that i was lucky enough to win in a blog challenge, we got to pick the stamp set we would like and i had a difficult time deciding, so many lovely stamp sets that although this is my first set of stamps from uniko it certainly won't be my last😀

The lovely verse in the set reads

'Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze, in an English country garden'

Ive made rare for me one layer cards with just the one stamp set. In the last couple of weeks with the sunshine i saw quite a few butterflies which was lovely.

5.5" square base card. For my first outing with the stamps i stamped the small solid butterfly onto the base with a red/orange ombre ink using the 2nd generation of ink too. As its a textured hammer card it didn't stamp perfectly in places. I then stamped the small details butterfly with grey archival ink and stamped the butterfly quote with black ink.

I stamped 1 large and 2 small detailed butterflies onto white card and cut them out, gently curved their wings and added to the card with glue gel. I then added lots of gold gems to finish.

and take 2. 5.5" white linen cardbase. This time i stamped with a blue/green ombre inkpad - ive had these ink pads years and they are brilliant for this kind of stamping. I stamped the background the same as the first card.

I then stamped the detailed butterflies & verse onto vellum. The butterflies I coloured on the back with alcohol markers and then attached to white paper with just a little tacky pva down the middle of the bodies, once the glue was dry i cut around the vellum & paper at the same time. This meant the paper was the same size as the butterfly but without the detailed stamping so that a nice clean paper was behind the vellum to really let the colours show.....i had tried the vellum butterflies direct on the background but the blue made them look muddy and layering onto a stamped version on white didnt look as crisp either.

The butterfly verse i trimmed the vellum onto a strip and a matching size strip from white paper, i glued the white version to the card and then added the vellum version on top with a small line of glue on either side which i then hid under gems. I also added gems to the butterfly bodies to finish.