Allsorts Challenge #663

Good morning everyone,

The week has flown by and it's Saturday again already ... so it's time for another weekly Allsorts Challenge. This week Ellie has chosen the theme and it is

CAS with option Elegance

So we would love to see your CAS cards (plenty of white or uncluttered space), which really lends itself to elegance if you feel that way inspired!

This week we have 2 more fab prizes up for grabs:

WOWVOW has kindly donated a £15 store voucher

and we also have this gorgeous AALL & Create stencil from Coleman's Craft Warehouse

Here's my card for this week.

Part of my inspiration for this card was a month long 10th birthday celebration that is going on over at Uniko, which includes a challenge to make a birthday card using Uniko products. I discovered this brand last year when I won a stamp set and chose some birthday sentiments, and I would love to have a few more! As I don't own any physical Uniko image stamps (yet!!) I used one of the digi images which Bev has kindly made available to enter this challenge.

I created a smoosh background on a  piece of card with Distress Oxide inks, then printed off my digi image twice and smooshed one of the images in the same colours. I fussy cut the inked flower head and adhered it on top of the plain image, after I had spattered it with some droplets of watered down DO and coloured the flower stems with Promarkers. I cut my smooshed panel with a deckle edge blade then adhered to my card base and popped up my flower image panel on foam tape. I stamped my Uniko sentiment words direct onto the card base, added a few sparkly gems and I was done.

Stamps: Uniko - Spring Botanicals (digi), Birthday Sentiments;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac, Twisted Citron); Promarkers;

Gems from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Crafty Catz #582 - Anything Goes

Creations In Pink #42 - Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

Di's Digi Challenge - Use Red and/or Pink

Happy Little Stampers: CAS (February) - Inky

Happy Little Stampers: Watercolour (February) - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy (February) - Mostly Red or Pink

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2206 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Pearly Sparkles #70 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Seize the Birthday #231 - Sparkle and Shine

Uniko - 10th Birthday Celebration

Hope you can join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team. Thanks for visiting.

Hugs,