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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello there! Happy New Year to all of you. 2015 was a really busy year with many great and not so great things. Pretty much just a normal summary of Life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For 2016 I have a few resolutions. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My One Little Word this year is "relax"; I would like to get this hand-lettered and framed so that I can remember to take a step back and enjoy what is actually going on around me; and also as a reminder to work smarter and not harder</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am going to card and blog more in 2016; and it's really not hard to do seeing what a lack luster job I did last year. However, when I get together with my favorite girls and craft all weekend I realize how much I miss this.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make sure I get a balance of things done that I want to get done for *myself*, I'm going to try bullet journaling; if it works out, I might post it on here <span style="font-size: x-small;">(you see what i did there? very non-committal...;) </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is Fusion's Second Birthday and their design team member <a href="http://bettys-crafts.blogspot.com/">Betty</a> invited me along. So make sure to stop by the <a href="http://fusioncardchallenge.blogspot.com/">Fusion Card Challenge blog</a> and leave some hugs and love on their blog for continuing this inspiration challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally broke and got my first supplies of </span><a href="http://www.winniewalter.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winnie & Walter stamps</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and am so smitten with their designs. And when I received my beautiful shipment of stamps, it was all wrapped up with a nice personalized tag and a little small surprise. Small businesses that really care about the details really impress me. And it's not like this is the first stint; they have been around since 2013, I believe? What a lovely company, and I hope to meet Julie & Shay one day (and their cute dogs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, getting back into making that first cards is always difficult to make, especially when I haven't crafted in a long time. It's being a newbie all over again. But that's why sketch and inspirations prompts are great to get my creative juices flowing in a focused direction.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This card is also inspired and in memory of my dear friend <a href="http://thecrookedstamper.blogspot.com/">Leslie (aka The Crooked Stamper)</a> who I love with all my heart.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello Blogland... It's high time to dust off the three foot of dust that has accumulating. I haven't touched this blog in months, it almost feels like learning how to ride a bike again. But thanks to Google's intuitive WYSIWYG interface, it's not too bad (minus the photo editing...coughcough).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to my brilliant, honest friend <a href="http://thecrookedstamper.blogspot.com/">Leslie</a> I found the courage to dig this old blog up and make a re-appearance. She pointed me to this great page called <a href="http://www.tartx.com/blog/blogging-without-obligation/">Blogging without Obligation</a>. And I love how Leslie reminded me that if I feel like jumping in I should just jump back in, and not blog for the sakes of blogging. Or feel like I need to apologize. Or feel guilty. Or obligated to explain. Or feel overwhelmed or anxious to start again ... or whatever reason there may be...?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here is my one reason to resurface...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Have you heard of this </span><a href="http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2015/11/sharehandmadekindesschallenge.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Jennifer McGuire</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">? I'm sure you have. If not, go check out her </span><a href="http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/blog" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">blog</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> and her </span><a href="https://instagram.com/jennifermcguireink/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Instagram</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> feed. I'm so lucky to be able to say that I have met her a handful of times now, and she is truly one of the most kindest, generous and humblest person I know. Not to mention funny and wise and open to share any good advice. This #sharehandmadekindness campaign really embodies who she is as a person and I absolutely love how she is using the reach of her audience to create an impact - to spread more kindness, more caring, more love, and to bring awareness to the </span><a href="https://www.kindcampaign.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Kind Campaign</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> - a campaign to end bullying. Yes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you for doing this, Jennifer. Thank you for infecting us to share kindness through our craft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She's also packed up some kits made with love and these two stamp sets from <b>Hero Arts</b> are quickly becoming my go-to sets. They are sitting out here and have been winking at me to get my craft back on. And for every purchase made of these stamp sets, <b>25% of the profits</b> go to the </span><a href="https://www.kindcampaign.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Kind Campaign</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pssst - <a href="http://simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=336027&c=1150">Simon Says Stamps</a> has them in stock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I felt inspired to play along in <a href="http://stampingsmilesdesigns.blogspot.com/2015/10/tic-tac-toe-challenge-design-team-call.html?m=1">Ka's Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge</a>. Here is the board in case you haven't seen it and want to play along as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello there! Happy New Year to all of you. I hope 2015 brings each of you good health, big and small successes, happiness, lots of laughter, much time with family, friends and other loved ones, and a healthy dose of creative mojo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year 2014 was a really busy with many high highs and many low lows. Somewhere between normal work and life balance, I switched roles in my job, undergone some massive home renovations, planned a baby shower (not mine :P), planned a wedding and had a wedding in another country (let alone another continent). I've been exhausted and all the commitments seemed to hit at one. I needed to take a step back, take a breather, and re-calibrate my scale. 2014 seemed like a year in constant over-drive, and "normal" load of commitments wasn't that normal anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my breather, I took a bunch of lazy days. Took some weekends to stay in my jammies, binge watched some shows, neglected cleaning, gained 5 lbs, and didn't touch anything in crafting room (but it didn't prevent me from shopping for more crafting supplies ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that being said, I am so happy to be back in blog-land, starting the first day of this year with a guest designer post for Fusion Card Challenge. I have heard so much of this group, so I am honored to be asked to play along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is Fusion's First Birthday and their design team member <a href="http://bettys-crafts.blogspot.com/">Betty</a> invited me along. So make sure to stop by the <a href="http://fusioncardchallenge.blogspot.com/">Fusion Card Challenge blog</a> and wish them a very merry Birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so happy that Betty asked me along and we decided, since we were both home during the holidays to have a FaceTime craft date. With a six hour difference, I scrapped in the late morning and Betty in the early evening. And this is what it looks like...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after lots of catching up and brainstorming for the challenge, here is what I came up with...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bit of pink, some gold glitter paper (which looks way too orange in this picture, and more lovely in person), chalkboard, and a bit of gray. Then I took the sketch and interpreted it, and made the oval my focal point, dropped the banner, because I couldn't find a good place for a sentiment, and then added the star part as paper clips.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/16141108141" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="333" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8680/16141108141_0596775788.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well make sure to hop over to the </span><a href="http://fusioncardchallenge.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fusion Card Challenge blog</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, and of course to my friend </span><a href="http://bettys-crafts.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Betty's</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> blog. Here is a sneaky peek of her card...</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is us waving our cards to each other after we're done... :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for having me as a guest designer! And hopefully I will be back with some cards soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Ink:</i> (Stamper's Select Vellum) Papertrey Ink; (Sequins - Cotton Candy, Raspberry Red) Neat and Tangled, (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12px;">VÄLBEKANT - star clips, silver</span>) IKEA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have a lovely challenge today on the Uniko Studio blog. Yep, still trying to get back into the swing of things and still being slow at making a card.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And our theme this challenge is <b>Clean and Simple</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I completely bombed this challenge, but at least I sort of tried to follow the color palette.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15086473917" title="Wish Upon a Star by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Wish Upon a Star" height="500" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3860/15086473917_3d8ebbab70.jpg" width="383" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to whip out one of the newer Uniko Studio sets <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/big-bold-wish/">Big & Bold Wish</a>. When the sentiments cover up the entire card, it become a nice focal point and I love that it will stand out so well. All we need is a die for that *hint hint Bev* to cut it out nicely.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To create a background I decided to stamp the candles in Versamark and clear embossed them. I then took some Inka Gold Turquoise metallic color, diluted it with water and decided to color the candles in. It behaves similar to water color when it is diluted, only that the color is metallic and shiny. After it tried, I also rubbed it down with some paper towel to polish to a shine. It's one of the special properties of this medium. See the shimmer?</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15269922191" title="Wish Upon a Star by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Wish Upon a Star" height="322" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3839/15269922191_8fecdb9e0d.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think one happy accident is that the clear embossed candles came out metallic and almost gold after applying the Inka Gold Turquoise. I also like how rocking the huge sentiment onto the ink pad and applying more on the top gives it a bit of an ombre effect. My purple happens to be a pigment ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One last "upcycled" item on this card is the tissue paper. It was lying around and came with a gift that I unwrapped, but thought I would use the gold stars in something sooner or later. So when I read the sentiment "Upon a Star" it gave me right shove to use it up. I accordion folded the tissue paper and the messily adhered it with some liquid glue.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15250041026" title="Wish Upon a Star by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Wish Upon a Star" height="333" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/15250041026_93929b6f25.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was thinking of running my sewing machine over the tissue paper portion, but turns out that my sewing machine is still packed away. So I better just let it be ;) Not as clean and simple as it could be, but still a fun card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also check out the rest of the </span><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">girl's cards</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and leave them a sweet comment or two. Remember you don't have to use all the colors - any or all as an inspiration.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenge ends Oct 14th, 2014, 11:59p BST; Check back for the winners after</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prize is £10 Gift Certificate to the random Winner & a Guest Design spot on our following challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three people will win a spotlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like you to use a Uniko Studio product; If you don't have any, check out the <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product-category/super-free-saturday/">freebies</a> here</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope to see you play along, so that I can pop in on your lovely blogs! See you soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Stamps:</i> (Big & Bold Wish) Uniko Studio</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Paper:</i> (Fresh Linen, Plum Pudding) Papertrey Ink</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Ink:</i> (Jenni Bowlin - No. 9 Spice Tin) Ranger; (Versamark) Tsukineko; (Eggplant) Mama Elephant<br /><i>Embellishments:</i> (Inka Gold - Turquoise) Viva Decor; (Creative Cuts - Femme Frames) Mama Elephant; (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stamp 'n Stuff </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Embossing Powder - Detailed Clear) Stampendous!; (Tissue Paper) recycle stash;</span></div>
<!-- inlinkz code end -->Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-5498927474724331912014-09-11T04:00:00.000-04:002014-09-11T04:00:00.993-04:00[Uniko Studio] September Revisited Blog Hop - Peace On Earth<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hello everyone! It has been forever since I have made a card. And it took me ever so long to come up with one. We won't ask how long, since it would be too embarrassing. With all this wedding-schmedding-palooza, I haven't really had a chance to get creative and I feel like the creative muse has left me high and dry - probably frustrated that when I did get hit with an idea, I never sat down to do it, or worst, not even write it down. Instead I just steamrollered on with my mass production craziness and kept telling her to leave me alone...</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well serves me right. So just be gentle when looking at this card...:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This month we are re-visiting a set, just in time to start thinking of the holiday (oh dear, another mass production in sight!)</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/peace-earth-clear-stamps/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Peace on Earth</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I love how this gem of a set is only $8 and has some great elements to make an arsenal of cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided to see if i could convince the branch to be a wreath. So I gathered up all the green inks that I have in my tiny ink collection and went to work.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15180661956" title="Season's Greetings by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Season's Greetings" height="500" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5552/15180661956_89300557b4.jpg" width="428" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stamped a complete circle first, and then tried to find the right sizes in my Spellbinder Small Circle die to cut out a "wreath." Since I wanted this more for dimension, I knew I had to fill in the white space with a bit more green stamping. This is where all the shades of green came into. With a bit of offset here and there, some stamping off and then stamping, I was able to stamp onto the cut out circle as well as the base card stock.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15200643881" title="Season's Greetings by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Season's Greetings" height="409" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5553/15200643881_b003598e5f.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a ton of sequins in my stash, so I thought it would be appropriate to pop them onto the wreath. The dove is embossed in gold, shaded with color pencil and Gamsol, and then popped onto the wreath. Any of the sentiments work quite well here, and I was debating about stamping it in the center or on the bottom edge of the card. Here the card again slightly angled so that you can see the dimension that the wreath gives this card.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15203684105" title="Season's Greetings by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Season's Greetings" height="327" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3907/15203684105_66722dd403.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hope you feel inspired with some samples. </span><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bev</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> is going to draw a winner for this lovely stamp set or a gift card of equivalent value. You have until 11:59p BST September 25 to leave comments along the blogs. I</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n the meantime, I'm sending you off to fabulous, amazing </span><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taheerah</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here the whole list for easy navigation ...</span> <br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/">Uniko Studio Blog (Bev)</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://bellarosecards.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amber</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lillgumman.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Erika</a></li>
<li><a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gillian</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nath-s-cards.blogspot.co.uk/" style="text-align: center;">N@ Ali</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.com/">Nicki</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.com/">Ren-Yi</a> (you are here)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/">Taheerah</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you like what you're seeing. Again, be gentle. I feel like a newbie, but hope to get back into the swing of things!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Stamps:</i> (Peace on Earth) Uniko Studio</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Paper:</i> (Rustic White, Kraft, Basic White) Papertrey Ink</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Ink:</i> (Jenni Bowlin - No. 6 Stick Candy) Ranger; (Versamark; Mememto - Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko; (Shadow Ink - Forever Green) Hero Arts; (Creative Color - Mojito) Mama Elephant<br /><i>Embellishments:</i> (Creative Cuts - Femme Frames) Mama Elephant; (Embossing Powder - Gold) Ranger; (Sequins - Raspberry Red Satin) Neat & Tangled</span>Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-383932387036193192014-09-05T04:00:00.000-04:002014-09-05T04:00:02.756-04:00Bev's Bouncing Baby Boys Blog Hop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today we are celebrating huge huge huge milestone in dear <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Bev's</a>, owner of Uniko Studio and sweet dear friend. She became a mum just a few days ago to two beautiful boy <b>twins</b> and we want to celebrate this momentous occasion with a small blog hop. So some of us design team girls have hijacked her blog ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here is a card to wish the mum and dad all the best...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Josh and Ben are very, very lucky to have you both as parents. And I know you will be make an amazing mum. You are kind, sweet, loving, patient, and generous...and all of these qualities will the key ingredients to raising those boys!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15119583966" title="Congratulations by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Congratulations" height="500" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/15119583966_3c654110e3.jpg" width="494" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember to get some sleep and enjoy every moment. I hear they grow up fast ;)</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/15142201262" title="Congratulations by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Congratulations" height="500" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3925/15142201262_cb37115168.jpg" width="436" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here a list of the girls joining on the blog hop for easy hopping. </span><br />
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<li><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uniko Studio Blog</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bellarosecards.com/">Amber</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://changeofminddesign.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kerry</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nath-s-cards.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">N@ Ali</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://lillgumman.blogspot.se/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erika</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicki</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gillian</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.com/">Ren-Yi</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For all of those who love Bev as much as we do and want to join in on the fun, head back to the <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Uniko Studio Blog</a> - because there is a link up for all of you join in and the link up will remain open for a month. We know everyone is getting back into the swing of things with school starting up and coming back from vacation, but you will have plenty of time to join in on the fun. Spread the word, too, while you're at it? :)</span></div>
Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-43226689483103014722014-06-18T04:00:00.000-04:002014-06-18T04:00:10.556-04:00[Uniko Studio] Challenge No. 11 - A Little Something...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - I can't believe the amazing turn-out on the last challenge. I hope we see a bunch of entries like we had last time. Let' see what you think of this month's challenge and color combo...</span><br />
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And our theme this challenge is <b>Happy Birthday</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I decided to pull out a fun, older <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/background-builders-squared/">Background Builders: Squared</a> set.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/12941671323" title="A Little Something by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="A Little Something" height="500" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/12941671323_76515f17b2.jpg" width="393" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I only inked up a portion of the squares on my bock and then masked off any parts to make sure I got a nice clean 8x8 grid - stamped it a total of 4 times and lined them up. A tip is to take your time when lining them up. I absolutely love clear stamps exactly for this reason. I also wanted to color the grid in both violet and blue hues (for some reason, I only remembered the violet geode rock from the picture - and that's what I went with ;)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to play around with some mosaic and tiling concept, picked 2 hues of blue and 2 hues of violet. Then I added some interest by shading in each square slightly different.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/12941548655" title="A Little Something by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="A Little Something" height="333" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2817/12941548655_b15e5b1850.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The card is finished by adding a little wood veneer piece that I inked up with some pigment ink and then placed as a visual and spatial break, followed by a simple sentiment. Voila and I call it done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also check out the rest of the <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">girl's cards</a> and leave them a sweet comment or two. Remember you don't have to use all the colors - any or all as an inspiration.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, a few helpful things to remember:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenge ends Jul 14th, 2014, 11:59p BST; Check back for the winners after</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prize is £10 Gift Certificate to the random Winner & a Guest Design spot on our following challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three people will win a spotlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like you to use a Uniko Studio product; If you don't have any, check out the <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product-category/super-free-saturday/">freebies</a> here</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope to see you play along, so that I can pop in on your lovely blogs! See you soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello there - today is a special blog hop for a special someone. <a href="http://neatandtangled.blogspot.com/">Danielle from Neat & Tangled</a> is one the sweetest persons I have ever met. And we are getting together to celebrate her sweet self and the delivery of Baby Everlyn. I can't wait to see pictures! And all the best wishes to you, Danielle, and the rest of the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You should be hopping over from talented, amazing </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kartenchaos.blogspot.com/">Christine Drogt</a>, who organized all of this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially I wanted to make a card with lots of Neat & Tangled products, but I started to make a baby onesie and ended up making a card to match. Here it is</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This onesie is super easy to make. Just find a shape as a template, adhere some heat bond to the fabric, trace around it and then you have yourself a fun appliqué. Then just iron the appliqué onto the onesie. If anyone is interested, i can make a tutorial... it's so easy peasy and we used this technique at the recent baby shower I organized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ended up making a matching card out of complimentary fabric. This fabric is just glued down onto some card stock, and then onto some wood veneer pattern paper. The rest is just some fun white doodling to go along with the white sentiment. So that's all from my side. Your next stop is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mprantner.blogspot.com/">Miriam Prantner</a> - another amazing, talented designer. She even designed a few sets for Neat & Tangled ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here the entire blog list in its entirety for easy of navigation...</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://neatandtangled.blogspot.de/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neat and Tangled </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stamp-n-paradise.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amy Kolling</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kissinkrafts.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jessica Pascarella</a></li>
<li><a href="http://evgeniapetzer.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evgenia Petzer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cherryhilldesign.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashley Marcu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.zrobysama.com.ua/?lang=en" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yana Smakula</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lindatracedesigns.blogspot.com.au/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Linda Trace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.simplyelegantpapercrafts.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June Houck</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bettys-crafts.blogspot.de/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Betty J.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amy Tsuruta</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativity-mango.blogspot.ru/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anna Kossakovskaya</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kinsalecreations.blogspot.ca/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Barb Murphy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tracyercole.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tracy Ercole</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mypinkmexico.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Dawn Quirindongo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scrapbookbakery.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heather Ruwe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://candlesinthegarden.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mayuri</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kartenchaos.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christine Drogt</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.com/">Ren-Yi Lo</a> (you are here)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mprantner.blogspot.com/">Miriam Prantner</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed hopping along on this fun occasion!</span>Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-49598625188516740152014-06-11T04:00:00.000-04:002014-06-11T04:00:09.313-04:00[Uniko Studio] June 2014 Release - Release Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello Uniko Studio fans - are you ready for the big day? Uniko Studio is releasing four fabulous stamp sets today. Here are the four in it's entirety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully you're hopping over from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.com/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Nicki</a>'s fabulous creations... if not, start at the beginning at <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/">Bev's blog</a>, because you don't want to miss out on prizes and inspirations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First up, Classic Alphabet set, where the frames can be use by itself to make a pattern, or to use with the alphabet to make monogrammed, personalized cards. Or just spell out fun things (see project for today).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then English Country Garden - Butterflies is another lovely must-have. The largest butterfly measures 2.75" x 2" whereas the small ones measure 1.5" x 1".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So for today's Design Team blog hop, I have created a simple card using the Classic Alphabet set. And I decided to jump onto the nautical trend...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here is very straight forward card with some washi, die cutting some circles and stamping the frame out. It's easy enough to fill in the border of the frame to give the frame and alphabets a different look. And when in doubt, just add Wink of Stella.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are off to *amazing* *talented* *i wanna be her when i grow up* </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/" style="text-align: center;">Taheerah</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ;)</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gillian</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.nath-s-cards.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">N@ Ali</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicki</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ren-Yi</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taheerah</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guest Designer <a href="http://themangoboysandme.blogspot.co.uk/">Lynn</a></span></li>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I'll add a supply list by the end of the week - things have just been super crazy here - thanks for understanding)</span>Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-88040574086219863502014-06-10T04:00:00.000-04:002014-06-10T04:00:07.746-04:00[Uniko Studio] June 2014 Release - Introducing Paradise - Hummingbird<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to work with an unassuming part for yesterday's sneak peek set. So today I thought I'd work with an obvious part of the sneak peek. You know, just to change it up a bit ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there a kind of card that you dread making? I have one particular kind: for me they are sympathy cards. And I know those are the ones that people need the most, but I don't really know how to express my empathy. Probably because I dread writing something inside of them. What do you say? How do you take the pain or loss away from someone? Most of the words sound so generic, mass-produced, repeated... But alas, when friends of yours lose someone, the right thing is to send them a card and let them know your thoughts are with them. And I have been procrastinating on the ones I should be sending :*(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here is my very simple (and yet not very simple) sympathy card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried photographing this card on white background and it was not very flattering. And the best light in the middle of the night is unfortunately the undergoing kitchen space. But hopefully you get the gist with this card.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's simple and effective: Versafine Onyx Black on White card stock. It's back to the very beginning where I bought my first black ink pad, bought myself some white card stock, and a clear stamp set...And yet, it can be quite striking, and impacting. What do you think?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started by making my own frame. I cut a panel to 5.25" x 4". Then measured from each edge 3/8" and made a light pencil park. Then I took a fine liner black pen and drew my frame. After that I took my Prismacolor Double-ended Art Marker and made a thicker border. The next part is to mask off the borders to stamp the bird inside the frame. I decided to use some handy dandy washi tape that was lying around and made sure to tape the edge right up and onto the border, like so...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One humming bird stamped, one sharp craft knife, and one hour later, and here is the finished product up close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To come to think of it, it looks like the sneak peek all over again, doesn't it? But I assure you this one is not a digital file ;) Also another great tip is to use a black marker, fine liner or the brush tip of your Copics, and run it around along the cut edge. It's very hard to cut cleanly, and the cross section of the card stock is white when you cut into it. So running that marker along the cut area jet finishes off the bird more cleanly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a word of warning that this card is not a quick one, and the tiny bits and pieces are slow to cut out. But I'd like to think it's worth your while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you liked this rather serious card. I just wanted to show you another aspect how to use your stamps even for those sombre occasion. Make sure to stop by the other girls' blog to see some more upbeat version of this stamp set. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And make sure to stop by tomorrow, because it's finally Release Day here at Uniko Studio. I'll have something new whipped up by then...Ta for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I went wild and searched all blue and blue-like ink pads in my stash and went wild. Turns out I had a few when put together... ;) After playing around for bit, here is my work in progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is an up close picture. See the outlined circles and the solid circles? Love the texture that it creates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is my outcome of my little tag. Good thing I started with a small canvas, cause if I tried to stamp a whole card panel I might still be stamping furiously and not be done by the time this blog post goes live ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I added some drops of gold confetti across and used Candi Gold Wedding pieces as air bubbles. The Thank You sentiment is also from the set, and I am loving the font.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you liked this little tag. We will be back tomorrow </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for another preview of another set being released. See you then?</span><br />
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<!-- inlinkz code end --><br />Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-31444111026320701662014-06-08T04:00:00.000-04:002014-06-08T04:00:06.569-04:00[Uniko Studio] June 2014 Release - Introducing English Country Garden - Butterflies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - if you're stumbling onto this blog post, we are in the midst of our Uniko Studio release and we're introducing the second of four sets being released this month.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really am loving this set. Just by its name it sounds divine: English Country Garden - Butterflies. Bev has released a pretty lovely <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/bright-butterflies-clear-stamps/">Butterfly set</a> and <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/bright-butterflies-collection/">die</a> in the past, but this one has some fantastic details. It has three butterfly images, and a lovely phrase. All the girls on the design team are already begging for the matching dies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34_u9gcSu-nZ_7ezDemhjgxQdGww2qWh-3gHJcFxZR4urIIuNZ4pX_zEotyJzuEyq3PBQsEE51Ff7_nqzvXKcgqYNN64lMn9JIKsiZ9HUgVpy-2YBgbeqchJujyokFAlN9YnhaisUUwRh/s1600/Jun2014_sneakpeek2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34_u9gcSu-nZ_7ezDemhjgxQdGww2qWh-3gHJcFxZR4urIIuNZ4pX_zEotyJzuEyq3PBQsEE51Ff7_nqzvXKcgqYNN64lMn9JIKsiZ9HUgVpy-2YBgbeqchJujyokFAlN9YnhaisUUwRh/s1600/Jun2014_sneakpeek2.jpg" height="320" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to pull out the biggest butterfly image and stamp the image on Versamark on vellum. And embossed it in white. I kind of had a stained glass in mind, and here is the finished product.</span></div><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/14370805095" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="362" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14370805095_f2c418f949.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I pulled some inks out and went to town coloring this little butterfly. I also dropped some Heidi Swapp Gold color shine onto white rustic card stock. Here is an up close picture of the butterfly and I may like how it came out ;)</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/14184240320" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="358" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3909/14184240320_1704d0d500.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to adhere the butterfly onto a strip of scrap pattern paper and Moonlight Lavender card stock. (I will eventually remember from which collection this came from, and will update the supplies list.) The panel is then adhered on a white card stock made with gold washi strips. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a work in progress with the washi gold strip background.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/14184242590" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="348" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3878/14184242590_84c309eff3.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A quick tip: I lined my first washi strip across the longest diagonal line. Then I worked from the middle towards the outside one strip at a time. This ensures that my strips are straight and at the right angle.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/14184177319" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="333" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2919/14184177319_4618dc18df.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you liked this little card. We will be back tomorrow </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for another preview of another set being released. See you then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - We are back today to introduce one of the four sets being released this month. Are you excited? I am... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This stamp set is a staple. It's called Classic Alphabet and from this sneak you see some amazing frames to go with each of the letters and a couple of important symbols. I can see a lot of fun potential with this set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forgive the awful lighting, but I ran out of time today running to Lowe's to get a few supplies for our kitchen renovations. Between this and our wedding planning, I'm pretty much don't get around to crafting much. So this design release is a perfect excuse to get crafty.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/14177026437" title="Monogrammed Blank Card by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Monogrammed Blank Card" height="372" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3892/14177026437_e2c09f7ba2.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a monogrammed card and I also used one of the older sets <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/background-builders-vines/">Background Builders: Vines</a> which is one of my all time favorite current sets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started with stamping the frame and the letter in the middle of the card stock and then just played with a bunch of flowers around the main focal point. This is an up close picture of the monogrammed image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The camera is horrible at picking up Wink of Stella, but I outlined the small border of the frame in it.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, come back tomorrow for another preview of another set being released.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - It's Day 2 on our little Sneaky Peeky journey and we will get right to introducing samples tomorrow. Are you excited?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the meantime to tie you guys over, here is a few more sneak peeks. This cute, fun stamp set is an addition to a very well-established Uniko Studio Flower line. Yep, it's another Flower Power one ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this new one has an amazing focal point as well as some amazing sentiments and script.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come back tomorrow for an introduction to one of the sets. And be sure to comment along these days, since <a href="https://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Bev</a> is drawing mystery prizes along the way. See you tomorrow!</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one is a cute little staple that you will be needing... I see so many fun potential with personalizations and customization.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And since we don't like being teased, how about a second sneak peek of one of the loveliest sets ever!</span><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come back tomorrow for another fun little sneak peek. And be sure to comment along these days, since <a href="https://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Bev</a> is drawing mystery prizes along the way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - It's time for another Uniko Studio challenge. And I love this month's color combo. Isn't it gorgeous?</span><br />
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And our theme this week is </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thinking of You</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I haven't had a chance to pull out <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/flower-power-4-clear-stamps/">Flower Power #4</a> and give it a spin, so this challenge is just the perfect thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to stamp a background with the silhouette stamp in both Lilac Posies and Blush ink. I then splattered the background with some Mister Huey Calico White. I also colored in the spaces with watered done Mister Huey Aqua mists to give it a more playful look. The colors are really faint, but you can see it in the next close-up picture.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sentiment embossed using a label maker and I decided to mat the whole card on black to match it. I like how the aqua strip grounds the sentiment a little more. Small strips of paper can be a gold mine - so don't toss those away so readily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also check out the rest of the <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">girl's cards</a> and leave them a sweet comment or two. Remember you don't have to use all the colors - any or all as an inspiration.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, a few helpful things to remember:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenge ends Jun 14th, 2014, 11:59p BST; Check back for the winners after</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prize is £10 Gift Certificate to the random Winner & a Guest Design spot on our following challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three people will win a spotlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like you to use a Uniko Studio product; If you don't have any, check out the <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product-category/super-free-saturday/">freebies</a> here</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope to see you play along, so that I can pop in on your lovely blogs! See you soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the US, we are celebrating Mother's Day and we know that is one the toughest jobs out there. I'm so grateful for my mum - she's my rock and she's always there for me! And I'm so lucky to be friends with many of you who are already amazing mums. You are all an inspiration and role-model...</span> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But to get back to why we are really here...Uniko Studio is re-visiting their set today </span><a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/background-builders-circles-clear-stamps/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Background Builders: Round in Circles</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I decided to just work with one of the stamps in this set and pair it with a sentiment from <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/gift/">A Gift For You</a>.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I always love to see how to stretch my stamps and the little vertical striped circle is full of possibilities.</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stamp it one way, then stamp it the other way...and you have yourself some gingham patterns. I stamped me some balloons and carefully masked a bunch of them, and then shaded them in with some color pencils. If you are interested in a tutorial, let me know and I will post one up</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13951247748" title="Happy Birthday by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" height="500" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5231/13951247748_84893e4975.jpg" width="373" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Each balloon also got some Wink of Stella treatment, but my camera is not really picking up any of this fabulous shimmer and bling! For good measure there are also some mint colored sequins. Because sequins just make everything happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hope you feel inspired with some samples. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So some housekeeping: </span><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bev</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> is going to draw a winner for the stamp set AND the matching digital designer paper. You have until 11:59p BST May 14th to leave comments along the blogs. I</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n the meantime, I'm sending you off to fabulous, amazing </span><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taheerah</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here the whole list for easy navigation ...</span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aren't those colors gorgeous? <b>Peach & Mint</b> - just in time for spring. Here is what I whipped up for you guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The notecard base is a from Target's Dollar Spot. I stamped Vellum with Versamark and embossed it with White Zing! powder. I also water colored the vellum with Ranger Feathered Peacock. After it tried, I turned around the speech bubble and embossed the other side with this beautiful white script.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The washi tape is a fun little white polka dot peach roll also from the Target Dollar Spot. I just ran it across the speech bubble and trimmed it out using an craft knife. Then I decided to add some darker, water-colored dots to embellish the speech bubble.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, this was super fun. I miss <a href="http://littletangles.blogspot.com/">Little Tangles</a> and it was super fun to whip up some <a href="http://www.neatandtangled.blogspot.com/">Neat & Tangled goodies</a>. Thank you to <a href="http://www.scrapbookbakery.blogspot.com/">Heather</a> and the team for asking me to join them - it's always fun, especially with these talented girls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone. We are finally able to celebrate the April Release the Uniko Studio way. Poor <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Bev</a> has been battling all those "not in her control" factors, but we all finally have those products in our hands and wanna show you some ideas with these new cool stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This card showcases <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/background-builders-vines/">Background Builders: Vines</a> and since Mother's Day is around the corner, this is the perfect set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The inspiration for my card came from watching this </span><a href="http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2014/01/video-stamping-dimension-giveaway.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">video</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by the ever so talented </span><a href="http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jennifer McGuire</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I picked gold as my center, focal point and this nice, big sentiment from <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/occasion-sentiments-5-clear-stamps/">All Occasion Sentiments #5</a>. I started with embossing the center sentiment with Ranger Gold Embossing Powder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started with stamping the larger blooms in Eggplant, followed by adding some of the smaller flower accents in Ocean and Winter. I then tried to fill in the white spaces with the second largest flowers in the set Lollipop. I love that the roses come in solid as well as the details of the petals. With just two stamping passes, the cute pink roses come quickly to life. I love the added dimensions that the roses have, don't you? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that I stamped a bunch of little detailed dots in Delicata Gold to tie everything together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The background is Background Builders Circles stamped in Versamark and then embossed with clear Stamp 'n Stuff embossing powder. This just finishes the card up together with a little bit of more detail without detracting from the center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make sure to visit all the girl's creations. Here is the list for easy perusing.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.bellarosecards.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amber</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://lillgumman.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erika</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gillian</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.nath-s-cards.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">N@ Ali</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicki</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ren-Yi</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/">Taheerah</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bev will also be drawing a lucky winner amongst the blog to win the entire April Release or a gift certificate of equal value, if you already own the goodies. You have until May 30th, 11:59 BST.</span><br />
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<!-- inlinkz code end -->Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-81289144975527370252014-04-23T08:01:00.000-04:002014-04-23T08:01:00.155-04:00It's a Good Day to be Happy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been really digging this <a href="http://mamaelephant.com/products/up-and-away">Up & Away set</a> from Mama Elephant, so here is another go at the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">challenge inspiration from Mama Elephant...</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The white in this picture really got me itching to ink in white. And I love white ink on kraft. It's one of my favorite go-to combinations.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13954140325" title="It's a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="It's a Good Day to be Happy" height="398" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3782/13954140325_e8462c7da9.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also love the pops of color in the picture, which inspired me to color the balloons with some Ranger Distress Inks. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a upclose look of the white on kraft. I used Hero Hues Unicorn with the Hero Arts Cloud background I love how lush the ink stamps. The rest of the main focal point is colored with Distress Inks and a water brush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cut out this cute little guy and the balloons are also cut out and popped onto the card.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13954595234" title="It's a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="It's a Good Day to be Happy" height="500" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/13954595234_da243d3cca.jpg" width="467" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking at this lil cute guy makes me smile, so here is hoping that this guy brings lots of smile to my friend, too :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey girls - I'm finally uploading some non Design Team projects. Believe it or not, I had some time to just play. OK, granted, I should be working on wedding invitations or baby shower invitations or DT homework, but instead I decide Birthday cards and Wedding cards were more important ;)</span></div>
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm starting off with this challenge inspiration from Mama Elephant</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was also determined to finally join this century of crafters and try embossing paste. My incredible teacher was no other than the expert <a href="http://dustypenny.com/">Joy Ott</a> herself ;) She's a natural at walking me through this and I had a lot of fun playing.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my finished card...</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13907719424" title="It's a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="It's a Good Day to be Happy" height="500" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7295/13907719424_61335040a0.jpg" width="390" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My starting point was this cute little Mama Elephant set. I needed a birthday card and these Cosmic Stars needed to be inked up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The glass inspired me to play with clear embossing paste. But before we get to that, I wanted to create a soft but contrasting water-color background for the starts. Turns out that I was being to soft smushing down the Distress Ink color on the Tim Holtz Watercolor paper. The way to get a nice bold application is to really smush the blender with lots of color really into the paper. Yes, smush is a technical term ;) A little bit of water spritzing and some help with the heat gun, and the background was ready for some embossing paste.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For someone who bakes a lot, applying the embossing paste reminds me like frosting cakes (or cupcakes). First there is this palette knife (hello: icing spatula)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there is this paste, which just looks and feels like creamy vanilla icing.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just remember not to try to lick your palette knife. I'm sure your taste buds would be sorely disappointed. The good news is that the embossing paste goes down very smoothly. Joy gave me the hint to tape down the stencil to make sure it's flushed against the card stock and won't move while you are applying it.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13907364233" title="It's a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="It's a Good Day to be Happy" height="333" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/13907364233_e93ee6c7bc.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also played around with Distress Markers for the first time. It only took me 4 tries to color this wee little Aries before I liked the outcome. For me it's easier to start out with a water brush and pick up color. But this time I wanted to use the markers first, then push the colors around with the water brush. Maybe a bit more practice and I can go both ways.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This little cutie also has some Wink of Stella applied to his horns, to give him a little bit of a celestial look. Unfortunately the camera didn't pick this up, so you'll just have to take my word for it - HA!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13907376163" title="It's a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="It's a Good Day to be Happy" height="174" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/13907376163_cbc384c35a.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I didn't want to cover up the cute little starts in the front, I decided to stamp the sentiment into the card. This one from the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13907376163%22%20title=%22It&#x27;s a Good Day to be Happy by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/13907376163_cbc384c35a.jpg" width="500" height="174" alt="It&#x27;s a Good Day to be Happy"></a>">Mama Elephant Up & Away </a> is one that I find myself grabbing a lot. It's just so fun & versatile: birthday, pick-me-up, random hello.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So who is this amazing <a href="http://dustypenny.com/">Joy</a>? She's the gal on the right chilling with another of my all time favorite gals, Christy. If anyone can make you into an embossing paste fanatic, it's her ;) And this pic makes me smile...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all, it's always a good day to be happy, right? Happy Saturday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - It's time for another challenge, and we're coming up on another big holiday <b>Easter</b>. It's only appropriate to dedicate this challenge to all things springing up and about. I especially love these colors, because they go back and celebrate all the fun colors that are starting to sprout.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is this month's color combo...</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok I was in dire need for a card to say hello to a dear friend I haven't talked to in a long time. She needs some much cheering on and remind how amazing she is. So here is my card (so not fitting to the theme - I hope you forgive me)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, if you're used to seeing the supply list given here and are thinking "she's gone senile and forgotten to post the supplies," don't fret. I'm finally moving into this century when it comes to blogging, and I'm trying out a Product List using the Inlinkz Project Manager tool. So scroll down to the bottom to check it out. And while you're at it, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let me know if you like the old format or new format better. I always eager to hear what you guys think.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really like how Nature Treasures I can be used to make a fun, messy background. I also decide to use the doilies or flowers from Today, Tomorrow & Always Time to add more layers to the background paper I was making.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I cut out the butterflies in duos from some Basic Grey Serenade paper, so that I can stack them onto each other. This gives the butterflies a little bit of more pop off the card. I also wanted to give them some extra shine treatment, so I dabbed each dot from the pattern paper with some Liquid Pearls. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This explains why some of the dots aren't quite perfect, but the effect is quite lovely.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13884196776" title="You Are Simply the Best by Ren-Yi, on Flickr"><img alt="You Are Simply the Best" height="287" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3759/13884196776_f1cbd89e51.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, that's all I have for you. Incidentally, Florian's Teddy was hovering about when I was taking a picture, so I thought it'd be fun to take a picture with him. Here he is wishing everyone a wonderful Easter holiday and reminding you how special each of you are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also check out the rest of the <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">girl's cards</a> and leave them a sweet comment or two. Remember you don't have to use all the colors - any or all as an inspiration.</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenge ends May 14th, 2013, 9:00a BST; Check back for the winners after</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prize is £10 Gift Certificate to the random Winner & a Guest Design spot on our following challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three people will win a spotlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like you to use a Uniko Studio product; If you don't have any, check out the <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product-category/super-free-saturday/">freebies</a> here</span></li>
</ul><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope to see you play along, so that I can pop in on your lovely blogs! Also let us know what you think of this new format of a challenge. See you soon!</span></div><!-- inlinkz code start --><br />
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<!-- inlinkz code end -->Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-66768339140912724742014-04-11T04:00:00.000-04:002014-04-13T14:59:29.798-04:00[Uniko Studio] April 2014 Release<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone. Just dropping in to post a quick Public Service Announcement. Uniko Studio is having a release today. <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">Bev</a> has done it again and is releasing two fabulous sets. Timing was a bit unfortunate for us international girls, so we haven't had a chance to play with them. But come back on April 26, because we will be doing another Design Team hop to showcase these wonderful stamps. Of course prizes will be part of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first set is a Background Builder set. I love a Background Builder concept, because they are so versatile. This one won't be an exception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second set is another addition to the Flower Power series. You have seen me grab the ones in the past a lot to make quick beautiful cards. And I am sure this one won't be an exception. I can't wait to do some fun things with this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On another note, we are super excited to welcome a new teamie to the team. <a href="http://www.nath-s-cards.blogspot.co.uk/">Nathalie from Just Card by N@Ali</a>. She has joined us as a Guest Designer in the past, but you will be seeing more of her lovely creations on regular basis. I can't wait to learn from her :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do remember to check back on April 26. Mark your calendars! You won't wanna miss what the girls do with these stamps.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone - I'm a day late with my Uniko Studio challenge card. Puh, lighting issues. With the weather over cast and me getting home late, I am missing my window of opportunity for clear, crisp pictures. You saw how distorted my purple looked in the <a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.com/2014/03/uniko-studio-march-revisited-blog-hop.html">previous post</a>, but this is just more reason to go invest in a photo tent. Is this something appropriate to add to a wedding registry? HA!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And our theme this week is <b>Hello Spring</b>. I have a lot of friends whose birthday are at the start of spring. There is always a shortage of birthday cards, isn't it? So I used this prompt to make a birthday card for a friend who I was meeting for dinner today. This is also my super basic attempt on mixed media.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13256995603/" title="Happy Birthday by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/13256995603_f9c4bc757f.jpg" height="372" width="500" /></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Stamps:</i> (Background Builders - Lattice, Flower Power #3) Uniko Studio; (Across the Card) Neat & Tangled<br />
<i>Paper:</i> (Paper Basics Card Stock - Vintage Cream, Spring Moss, White) Papertrey Ink<br />
<i>Ink:</i> (Versamark) Tsukineko<br />
<i>Embellishments:</i> (Stamp 'n Stuff - White Opaque) Stampendous!; (Inka Gold - Turquoise, Champagne) Viva Decor; (Idea-ology Tissue Tape - Sketchbook) Ranger; (Gelatos) Faber Castell; (Candi - Gold Wedding) Craftworkcards; (Gesso) Golden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since I bought a set of Gelatos I have been wanting to dapple more in the mixed media trade. So where does one begin with Mixed Media? A bunch of Youtube videos...that's where ;)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to realized that mixed media involves a bit of planning. Think of what parts you want to shine through and have as a focus, because those may require some preparation. In my case, I knew I wanted those flowers from Flower Power #3 to shine through. The way to highlight that area is to create a resist where the Gelatos have no chance for coverage. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I heat embossed a bunch of flowers using both the positive and negative stamps from the set. I also brushed on Gesso onto the Lattice Background stamp. Make sure to clean the Gesso immediately off the stamp, since this is a medium that will set. On another note, make sure that this part is completely dry. If you're unsure, you can run your heat gun over the Gesso.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13257210444/" title="Happy Birthday by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3774/13257210444_377085c333.jpg" height="301" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then applied green, blue and white Gelatos liberally across the card stock, heavier in the bottom right corner, less on the top left. I then applied water ontop of the Gelatos, which allows me to pull and blend the colors according to how I wanted to mess with it. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I will remember is that you can always apply more medium, but you can't apply less. So I should have started off a little less heavy with the Gelato for a more gentler, water color background. Also, paper towel is your friend. Cleaning off the embossed surfaces with paper towel allows the white to be cleaner and crisper. Remember those areas do not take on the medium. I do like how the Gesso Lattices add texture but are not as defined as the heat embossed area. What do you think?</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13257208284/" title="Happy Birthday by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2870/13257208284_6c4c1b7c70.jpg" height="333" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is another up-close look of the embossed part in better lighting. You can see the different layers of colors and textures quite nicely.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13256849505/" title="Happy Birthday by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2839/13256849505_3e5e30ea87.jpg" height="230" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished the card up by adding a bit of Turquoise and Champagne Viva Gold. It gives it that bit of metallic shimmer. I also popped on some Candis in Wedding Gold, added some Ranger tissue paper (which I love since it is so transparent), and added a sentiment to pop off the card.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13257205104/" title="Happy Birthday by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="Happy Birthday" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/13257205104_3fb9bfb895.jpg" height="468" width="500" /></a><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This mixed media thing can be pretty fun. I'm looking forward to playing more with my Gelatos. Hopefully you feel inspired to try this new fun medium too.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also check out the rest of the <a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.com/">girl's cards</a> and leave them a sweet comment or two. Remember you don't have to use all the colors - any or all as an inspiration.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, a few helpful things to remember:</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Challenge ends Apr 14th, 2013, 11:59p BST; Check back for the winners after</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prize is £10 Gift Certificate to the random Winner & a Guest Design spot on our following challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three people will win a spotlight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like you to use a Uniko Studio product; If you don't have any, check out the <a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product-category/super-free-saturday/">freebies</a> here</span></li>
</ul><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope to see you play along, so that I can pop in on your lovely blogs! Also let us know what you think of this new format of a challenge. See you soon!</span></div>Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452868175932224259.post-82606751251994690182014-03-11T05:01:00.000-04:002014-03-11T05:01:00.380-04:00[Uniko Studio] March Revisited Blog Hop - Beautiful Blooms I<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hello everyone! We are having a blog hop revisiting one of Uniko Studio's popular sets </span><a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/beautiful-blooms-clear-stamps/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beautiful Blooms I</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Except this month we have a small twist since Bev is releasing some fabulous dies to go with the set. I was so excited to hear this, since those flowers always are begging to be cut - and this is just so much easier :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since the dies didn't reach me in time, I have created a card with just the re-visited stamp set. I was running off to my best friend's bridal shower and her colors are dark, royal purple. This was just the right amount of inspiration to get my started.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Forgive the lighting on the picture. It's completely off, and since I am not in possession of the card, I couldn't take another picture.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13071941345/" title="May You Live Happily Ever After by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="May You Live Happily Ever After" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7329/13071941345_02c6c4b1d7.jpg" height="388" width="500" /></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Stamps:</i> (<a href="http://www.uniko.co.uk/product/beautiful-blooms-clear-stamps/">Beautiful Blooms I</a>) Uniko Studio; (Big Day - Additions) Waltzingmouse Stamps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Paper:</i> (Paper Basics Card Stock - Royal Velvet, Plum Pudding) Papertrey In</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">k</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Ink:</i> (Versamark) Tsukineko; (Perfect Match Hybrid Ink - Fresh Snow)<br />
<i>Embellishments:</i> (Pearls - 3mm, 5mm) Mark Richards; (Stamp 'n Stuff Embossing Power - White Opaque) Stampendous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I decided to emboss the sentiment with white embossing powder. Then I layered a bunch of white blooms with white hybrid ink, and chose to emboss the one white bloom to give it some layers. I was also trying to "shade" the flower in by sprinkling some embossing powder onto the sides.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13072268404/" title="May You Live Happily Ever After by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="May You Live Happily Ever After" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3574/13072268404_10fd9106a3.jpg" height="223" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few pearls to finish the look. I will have to post up the wedding invites that I did for this shower, and you'll see how I kept it all in the same color scheme and style.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallhanded/13072062853/" title="May You Live Happily Ever After by smallhanded, on Flickr"><img alt="May You Live Happily Ever After" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7380/13072062853_5652f3d90e.jpg" height="333" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hope you feel inspired with some samples. Make sure to stop by <a href="http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.co.uk/">Stacey's</a> and <a href="http://scrapawayg3.blogspot.com/">Gayatri's</a> blog since this is the last blog hop - I will be so sad to see these two lovely girls go. They have been a true inspiration and I really enjoyed sharing an opportunity to design along side them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On a more happy note, we also have one other person joining us - <a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/">Gillian</a>. I'm so glad to see join the team. Your Uniko Studio work has been really impressive thus far and I hope the rest of the fan base is just as equally excited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back to housekeeping: </span><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bev</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> is going to draw a winner for the stamp set AND the designer dies. I</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n the meantime, I'm sending you off to fabulous, amazing </span><a href="http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stacey</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here the whole list for easy navigation ...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/">Uniko Studio Blog (Bev)</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://bellarosecards.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amber</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lillgumman.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Erika</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://scrapawayg3.blogspot.co.uk/">Gayatri</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://madewithsparkle.blogspot.co.uk/">Gillian</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://idreamcreateinspire.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nicki</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://smallhanded.blogspot.com/">Ren-Yi</a> (you are here)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.co.uk/">Stacey</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://littlemisst-papercraft.blogspot.com/">Taheerah</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope you like what you're seeing. Hope to see your creations soon!</span>Ren-Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13611454336447190780noreply@blogger.com21