Tech...no?...Florals...yes?!

Hey!

So, you might know that I'm a bit of a technology lover, it kinda comes with the job really but I really do LOVE what I do! I am a bit traditional still with my crafting & I do love to ink my stamps up but to keep up with the times Uniko Studio decided a while back to offer some digital products mainly patterned paper collections to purchase and download and a couple of digital stamp collections.

Today I thought I would focus on a couple of digital products available from Uniko Studio. First up is English Country Garden, 

English Country Garden is a digital stamp collection featuring 3 flowers a butterfly & 2 sentiments and all of the come as an Adobe Photoshop Brush & as a PNG file. This digital set was released along side this next collection...

This set of Classic designs in Summery colours is perfect for creating that country feel to your card whether it be a totally hybrid creation or a traditional hybrid mash up! 

So how about a few NEW projects to show you...

For this first card I used the Retro Sketch challenge sketch is used yesterday HERE and you can see the challenge HERE. I created the floral file the size I wanted in Adobe Photoshop and stamped the flower and sentiment. Once printed trimmed to size and coloured with Distress Markers.

This next card was also created digitally...

I started out by choosing the polka dot paper and resizing it so the dots were smaller and then I created another layer to stamp the butterfly image in different sizes and used the transform too to change their direction.

I filled the butterflies in 2 colours contained in the paper collection and the larger butterfly in white. I the printed the same size larger butterfly onto another of the patterned paper which I had resized smaller. Fussy cut it out & mounted over the top to give some dimension.

Now for a couple of projects using these products...

The card above uses the rose image from English Country Garden and I have used the Copic gradient technique for the ombre effect.

I just LOVE using the butterfly image! 

That's all I have for today, but I will be back again tomorrow, hopefully at the usual time! Thanks for stopping by!

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Better late than not at all!

Hello!

Sorry I'm way behind schedule today, but as they say better late than not at all! It's been a scorcher of a day here in the UK & I had an unexpected invite to a birthday celebration, it was lovely in the sunshine celebrating with my friend.

Anyway, I managed to squeeze in time whilst tea was cooking to make this card ...

It's been a while since I used Uniko Studio digital products so I thought I'd give them a whirl! I originally planned it to be a one layer hybrid card but it turned out to be a layered card instead, mounting the digital panel onto a lovely Sweet Blush card base.

Here is a close up of the digital images ...

Instructions:

1. Open Adobe Photoshop & create a custom sized document. Mine was 8 X 13 cm, the size I wanted my panel to be. making your document the size it will be cut to makes placing & centring images easier.

2. Open another custom document 4 x 4 cm. I then placed the Certainly Celery Gingham digital paper from Classics Summer into the document & resized slightly using the transform option. I then flattened the layers to be able to copy & paste to my first document.

3. Once I was happy with the placement of my gingham square I added a new layer to my document. With the new layer selected I used the butterfly brush from English Country Garden digital collection. I then used the transform tool to rotate & change the size until I was happy.

4. I repeated the process for the second smaller butterfly. 

5. The last step was to type the sentiment. I typed what I wanted, in this case 'Thank you' then I selected the font & size I wanted. 

6. Print document, measure & cut panel to size.

7. Tie ribbon & adhere scalloped edge.

8. Adhere to base card using foam adhesive for dimension.

I'd have liked to of made a short video showing you how quick & easy this card was to make but my neighbours house alarm has been going off all day :( very frustrating. IF the alarm plays nice tomorrow I'll add a video! 

The colours for the card were from the current Dynamic Duos challenge colours HERE and seen below...

 That's all from me today. Thanks for stopping by.

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Shades of Pink

Hello & Happy Monday!

Today I have a card to share which uses a gradient of Pink. I've been seeing this technique using Copics for a while now and decided it was time I had a go myself!

I started out by opening a new Photoshop document that was 6 X 13.5 cm. I then selected the Rose brush from my brushes pallet & repeatedly stamped it across the document & then printed the document onto an A4 sheet of white CS. Before I trimmed my panel I used a trio of Copic markers to colour the panel.

Both the Rose & Sentiment is from the English Country Garden digital download available HERE. I'm looking forward to using this Copic technique again soon in a variety of colours! 

Hope everyones week has gotten off to a good start. Thanks for stopping by today.

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Hello ...

Hello!

A quick post today to share a card I have made for the current Retro Sketch, here is the sketch ...

And here is my card ...

For my card I started out in Photoshop with a 8.5 X 8.5cm square. I used the Daisy brush from the English Country Garden digital collection & digitally stamped it in the lower right hand corner of my document. After printing the document I used my Prisma Colour pencils & Gamsol to colour & blend the flower. After adhering all the card elements & stamping the 'Hello' sentiment from Time, I added some Glossy Accents to the flower centre.

This was a fun CAS sketch & no doubt I will be reusing this sketch again! Hope your all having a good weekend?! Thanks for stopping by.

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