Uniko Studios D.TBlog Hop CASE #2

Happy Sunday all, and to all you mummies in the U.S, Happy Mother's Day! We have our Mother's Day in March, so I've just bought myself some flowers for today haha!

Yesterday I joined in with the Uniko Studios D.T CASE challenge, case-ing my blog buddy Ren-Yi Lo's beautiful CAS design HERE. I know now that CAS doesn't come easily to me, I do like to have layers, flowers, bling, ribbons and stuff on my creations! But sometimes it's nice to sit down and try a more CAS approach, especially when the images are as beautiful as this:

 The Uniko D.T are showcasing this stamp set, which was released last year, and I have nestled on my stamp shelf with some other Uniko sets! I just had to play along with the CASE, and I loved Aimes beautiful and very elegant design:

I took my inspiration from the masked Gerberas and sentiment placing with the simple addition of gems and some ribbon. And here's my take:

I used MFT Naturals card as my base, and stamped the Gerbera using a mask three times onto some Sno Cone card using Sno Cone ink. I then fussy cut the panel and then smooshed some Marina Mist and Midnight Muse inks from Stampin' Up! onto some acrylic blocks, and painted the petals in.

 In the centre, I dabbed some London Fog.

Inside I stamped the outline in Sahara Sand, and overstamped the elegant sentiment using FONTtiments: Birthdays from Uniko Studios.

I added the painted panel to the card, and finally I added some striped navy ribbon from The Ribbon Reel, and some Prima gems.

There's a chance to win some prizes over at Uniko Studios, so pop over and take a look at the D.T inspiration, and flex those CAS muscles. Mine are getting a nice workout lol! I am inspired to create some more, so may be back later!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline