Uniko January 2025 Release - Introducing...Ink & Flip Layering Flower Stencil and Simply Said Blocks Occasions

Good morning

More Uniko introductions for you today.  First is another Ink & Flip stencil, Layering Flower Stencil, which is a smaller version of Flower Power #8 and another set to join the sentiment sets already available, Simply Said Blocks Occasions.

My first card is very clean and simple, just using the central part of the Ink & Flip Layering Flower stencil, and a sentiment from the new Flower Power #11 set which was introduced yesterday...

I inked through both sides of the stencil, blending from pink, to purple and blue in both directions.  I then simply stamped the sentiment in black and added a few silver gloss gems.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Layering Flower Stencil
• Stamps: Uniko - Flower Power #9
• Ink: Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Accents: Gems from stash

Onto my second card, and here I used just the stencil which inks up the outer background effect and creates a great shape in the centre, and I also used a sentiment from the new Simply Said Blocks Occasions set and also the existing Simply Said Blocks set, and the flower is from Flower Power #11...

I inked up a panel through both sides of the stencil using a blush shade and lemon shade of ink and the overlaps produced the orange shade.  I then simply stamped the flower head and stem in black and the sentiment in the same ink colours.  The small dot is also from the Flower Power #11 set.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Layering Flower
• Stamps: Uniko - Flower Power #11, Simply Said Blocks, Simply Said Blocks Occasions
• Ink: Altenew - Buttercream, Pink Pearl; Versafine Clair - Nocturne

For my last card I used both ink and paste through the stencil...

On a die cut panel I inked up through the first side of the stencil in Milled Lavender Distress Oxide ink.  I then cleaned the stencil, flipped it, and then spread the paste through the second side which had been mixed with some of the Distress Ink for a similar tone.  The "happy" is from the Simply Said Blocks set and the "Mother's Day" stamps are from the new Simply Said Blocks Occasions set.  I stamped these in a co-ordinating grey shade of ink and fussy cut them out and adhered them on 3D foam.  A small enamel dot in the centre finished off the card.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Layering Flower Stencil
• Stamps: Uniko - Simply Said Blocks, Simply Said Blocks Occasions
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Milled Lavendar; Altenew - Silver Stone
• Stencil Paste: Sweet Poppy - Stencil Dimensions Pearl White
• Die: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles
• Accent: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Lilac assortment

Thanks so much for taking a look today.  You can find more projects from the team using these two new products over at the Uniko blog, here.  There are some great creations, I've seen them already.

All the new products will be available from Sunday 5 January 2025.

I hope you'll pop back tomorrow when I will be introducing the final product of this release which is a re-introduction.

Uniko March 2024 Non-Release Brand Ambassador Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hi there

It's time for another Non-Release Brand Ambassador Blog Hop and Giveaway at Uniko.  On non-release months the team revisit previously released products and give them some well-deserved love.  For this month, we are revisiting the gorgeous stamp sets in the Spring Botanicals series.

I have two cards for you today, both were made for Mother's Day, which was yesterday in the UK.  They are both very similar in design but I've used different techniques on each.

First up I've used the beautiful Spring Botanicals Daffodil stamp set...

I stamped the daffodil directly on the card base and then stamped and cut out a mask.  As well as covering up the daffodil, I also masked off the bottom right corner with low tack tape.  I then ink blended the background in three shades of Distress Oxide Ink and then sprinkled some water drops and blotted to remove the colour.  The sentiments were heat embossed in white on some black cardstock and these were adhered on 3D foam.  To finish I added some scattered clear gems.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Spring Botanicals Daffodil
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Distress Oxide - Rustic Wilderness, Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold; VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opague Bright White
• Clear gems from stash

For my second card I used emboss resist with Spring Botanicals Snowdrop and the sentiment is from the Simply Said stamp set...

On a die cut panel I stamped the snowdrops in VersaMark ink and heat embossed in white.  I then blended up from the bottom corner using two shades of Distress Oxide.  I then "painted" the snowdrops with water and blotted with kitchen paper to remove the ink.  I stamped the sentiment in black and adhered the panel flat to the card base.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Spring Botanicals Snowdrop, Simply Said
• Ink: VersaMark; Distress Oxide - Speckled Egg, Shabby Shutters; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opague Bright White
• Die: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Scalloped Rectangles

Here are all the Spring Botanicals stamp sets in their entirety...

Bev is offering  a prize to one lucky comment left along the hop. Simply leave comments along the hop before midnight GMT on Monday 18 March 2024 and the winner will receive a £15 eGift Code to spend in the store!

Don't forget to take a look at the main Uniko post, here, where the rest of the team are sharing their projects.  For ease you can hop along to all the Brand Ambassadors as follows:

Anita (that's me!)

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

Uniko also has some March Madness for you...

Check out the store, here, to pick up some bargains.  Thanks for taking the time to visit today :)

 

Mother's Day Spring Tulips

Good afternoon

So, it's Mother's Day today here in the UK so I thought I'd share the cards that I made.

I needed to make three: one was for my lovely mum, one for my boyfriend's mum and one for a friend to give to her mum too.  

I was a bit short of time and my crafty mojo had decided to run off somewhere so I decided to use the same design in three different colourways.

This also gave me a chance to practice some Copic colouring.  I've got a lot to learn about these markers as I only started adding them to my stash last year but I'm quite happy with these results.

I stamped the tulip image three times on some white cardstock and coloured these in before die cutting with the co-ordinating die.  I then die cut three sentiment strips and stamped the sentiments in black.  I die cut three stitched rectangles and gently ink blended the centres with Distress Oxide inks in co-ordinating shades.  Next I splattered a mix of each ink and water over the panels, then did the same with some water splatters and blotted the colour away, just to add some interest to the backdrops.  I adhered the panels to the bases, adhered the tulips flat and then popped the sentiment strips up on 3D foam.

Here's a closer view of the purple card which I gave to my mum...

The yellow card which I made for my friend...

And finally the pink card which my boyfriend sent to his mum...

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Spring Tulips, Message Me
• Dies: Clearly Besotted - Spring Tulips; MFT Die-namics - Stitched Sentiment Strips; Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versafine - Onyx Black; Distress Oxide - Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Squeezed Lemonade
• Coloured with Copic markers

Challenge entries:

Sweet Stampin' - Spring Mood Board Challenge

Allsorts - Challenge #615 - A Stamped image

CAS on Friday - Challenge #200 - Spring

NBUS - Challenge #24 - First time using this Spring Tulips stamp set

Moving Along with the Times - Challenge #128 - Spring is Coming

Purple card:

The Flower Challenge - Challenge #54 - Shades of Purple

Yellow card:

Alphabet Challenge - Y is for Yellow

I hope, if in the UK, you are managing to have some kind of celebration for Mother's Day today.  Due to lockdown restrictions, there is little we can do, but I did meet up outdoors with my mum earlier today and we sat on a bench in the sun overlooking the sea in our home town drinking coffee and eating cake...pretty perfect!

I'll be back later this evening to introduce the March challenge at Perfectly CAS so, if you have time, I'd love for you to pop back later.

Magnolias for Mother's Day

Hi guys

Just popping by to share the card I made for my lovely mum for Mother's Day last weekend.

Some patterned paper was die cut at an angle and adhered to the card base.  I then stamped the layered magnolia flowers and leaves and cut them out with their co-ordinating dies and adhered in place.  The card was simply finished with a sentiment stamped in black.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Magnolia Moments (and co-ordinating dies), Love You Tons
• Ink: Altenew - Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, Velvet, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Die: MFT - Stitched Basic Edges
• Avery Elle - The Sorbet Collection

Challenge entries:

Use Your Stuff - Challenge #394 - Spring
Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Spring Florals
Penny Black and More - March Challenge - Spring Flowers



Thank you for taking the time to visit :)

Happy Little Stampers April 2019 CAS Challenge

Hi guys

Over at Happy Little Stampers the April challenges are kicking off and today it's the turn of the CAS challenge.  Here are the details...

For all the challenge rules please pop over to the main HLS challenge post.

Ok, onto my DT card, and this is the card I sent to my dear mum for Mother's Day, which in the UK took place on Sunday...

This card is purely just masking and stamping.  I masked the base leaving the square exposed.  I began by blending some blue Distress Ink in from the edges of the square.  Next up was the turn of the script stamp which I stamped in grey.  I then stamped the flower which consisted of the outline, the base colour and two further detailed layers.  The linear images were then stamped in black before removing the masks and stamping the sentiment.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Stampin' Up - En Francais; Altenew - Beautiful Day; Clearly Besotted - Brushed Sentiments
• Ink: Distress Ink - Salty Ocean; Memento - London Fog; Altenew - Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue; Versafine - Onyx Black

Challenge entries:

My Time to Craft - Challenge #393 - Mother's Day / For a Female

All of the Happy Little Stampers challenges run until the end of the month.  The Watercolour challenge is already live and the rest of the April challenges will launch over the next few days.  I hope you can join in and play along.

Muse Challenge #260 - Layered Dahlia

Good afternoon, folks

I hope you've all had a wonderful Easter weekend :)

Today, it's back with me to be your designer over at Muse.  I realised there was a card (actually two cards) I made last month that I hadn't yet shared on my blog so I thought this would be ideal for my next Muse inspiration project.

There were very few products used on this one layer card but I love how pretty it is and it's the first time I used these layering stencils.  This was the card I made for my Mum for Mother's Day.

This was so simple to create.  I masked off the edges of the card as I wanted a white border.  Then I fixed the first of the stencils down and blended the lightest colour, then blended the darker shade through the second stencil to create the layer details.  A simple sentiment stamped in black finished the card.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Altenew - Layered Dahlia
• Ink: Altenew - Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Stamp: Altenew - Extra Special

Challenge entry:

Altenew - April 2018 Inspiration Challenge

And above, I mentioned two cards.  I made this one for my boyfriend's mum...exactly the same but using a different colour palette...

Materials used:

As above but inks were Altenew - Sunkissed and Orange Cream.



Thanks for visiting today, I hope you are able to play along this week.

Better Later than Never - Stencilled Bloom for Mother's Day

Hi guys

I've just been sorting through some card photos on my laptop and found two cards I've not yet shared here on my blog, both from months ago!

So, better late than never, here's the first.  This was the card I made for my boyfriend's mum back in March! 

This was a quick and easy make.  On a panel of white cardstock I stencilled the flower using three shades of Distress Ink.  I then stamped the sentiment in black ink.  To finish I mixed Perfect Pearls with some water and used a brush to splatter it over the design.  The panel was trimmed down and adhered to the base on fun foam.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Stamposaurus - no name on packaging
• Ink: Distress Ink - Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - Framed Sentiments
• Accents: Perfect Pearls - Blush

Challenge entries:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #261 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

ETA:
Linking up at Inspired by All the Little Things #66 - Thanks for the heads up, Ardyth!

I'll be straight back in a few minutes to share the other card whose photo has also been lost in my laptop since June!

Addicted to Stamps and More #184

Hi there

I'm back to introduce another new challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More.  This week it's the turn of my favourite of all our regular challenges...

CAS (Clean and Simple)

If you are unsure of the challenge guidelines you can find them here.

Our sponsor this week is STAMPlorations who are offering a $10 gift certificate to one lucky winner!

Without further ado, here's my DT card...

I made this card for my boyfriend's mum for Mother's Day.  I stamped the daffodil onto a panel of white cardstock and coloured it in with my Zig markers, blending the colour out with some water.  When the panel was completely dry I ran it through my Big Shot using a wave embossing folder.  I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of white cardstock and adhered this over the panel before mounting the whole panel on 3D foam to my card base.  A few sequins were added to finish.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Just Darling
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black
• Coloured with Zig Clean Color Brush Pens
• Embossing Folder: We R Memory Keepers - Next Level 'Wave'
• Accents: Little Things from Lucy's Cards - Icicle Sequin Mix

Challenge entries:

This is the first inking up of the Just Darling CB set and also the first time I've used this embossing folder so I'm linking up over at Darnell's fabulous NBUS Challenge #6 - Anything Goes

STAMPlorations - March AG CAS Challenge - Optional colour yellow

A Gem of a Challenge - Spring

Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Flower Power

Dream Valley - Challenge #126 - Mother's Day

There are some lovely creations in our DT gallery this week if you need some CAS inspiration.  We'd love for you to join in the challenge this week.

Bye for now

Two More for Mother's Day

Yes, me again!

As it's still Mother's Day here in the UK I thought I may as well share two more cards I made for today, one for my brother to give to our mum, and one for his fiancee's mum too.

So, without further ado, here they are...

I die cut a stitched rectangle and started by stamping the tulips with waterproof ink.  Then before stamping the bowl I used a post-it to mask part of the stems so the top of the bowl would appear to go behind them.  The sentiment was stamped next, I didn't want to spend time colouring the image and then mess it all up with the sentiment not stamping properly (I've learned this lesson the hard way previously!).  I then coloured the flowers with Zig markers and water, and added some pale blue to the 'water' before adding some Wink of Stella.  The panel was popped up on 3D foam to complete the card.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - You Are Wonderful, Fresh Flowers
• Ink: Archival - Jet Black, Versafine - Onyx Black
• Coloured with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
• Accent: Wink of Stella - Clear

Challenge entries:

A Gem of a Challenge - Spring

Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Flower Power

Time Out Challenges - Challenge #51 - Easter/Spring/Masking (Happy 2nd Birthday, Time Out!)

Fantasy Stampers - Challenge #57 - Mums Rule

Just Us Girls - Challenge #333 - Flowers

And the next card...

The sentiment was computer generated using Cutie Pop font.  This was then die cut with a fishtail die, as were some bright patterned papers.  Next I stamped some flowers and leaves in bright fun colours onto a white cardstock panel before layering up and adhering the fishtail strips.  The panel was popped up on 3D foam and some co-ordinating buttons were added to the flower centres.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Flower Power #1 and flower Power #7
• Ink: Versa Color - Boysenberry, Rose Red, Orange and Tropical Green
• Patterned Paper: Avery Elle - Brights Collection
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Fishtail Flag Stax
• Tiny buttons from stash

Challenge entries:

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 415 - Mother's Day

Allsorts Challenge - Week 353 - International Women's Day/Feminine

Dream Valley - Challenge #126 - Mother's Day

That is all I have now for today, I hope you've had a lovely weekend and hope to see you again soon.

Wonderful Peonies

Hi there

I'm here tonight to share the card I made for my lovely Mum for Mother's Day.

I was SO lucky to get my hands on the new Altenew Peony Bouquet set which I knew would be perfect for this card.  It's so hard to get hold of American brands over here in the UK and they sell out so fast....apologies to one of my good blog buddies for beating you to the checkout with this one (as I'm constantly reminded lol!), you know who you are! ;)

The one thing I'm very short of in my stash is decent inks, especially colour families for these multi-step stamps but I managed to find three mauve/rose shades which went well together.  I need a lot more practice with lining up these stamps though, they're not the easiest.....I can't wait for my pre-ordered MISTI to arrive!

I kept this card nice and simple with lots of white space...

On a panel of white cardstock (actually the third panel after the others ended up filed under B!) I stamped the large flower first then masked it to stamp the smaller bloom and leaves.  All that was then left to do was stamp the sentiment and I adhered some sparkly sequins to finish off the card.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Altenew - Peony Bouquet; Clearly Besotted - You are Wonderful
• Ink: Versa Color - Misty Mauve, Ash Rose, Burgundy, Evergreen, Sage, Olive; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Accents: Little Things from Lucy's Cards - Lily White Sparkly Shaker Mix

Challenge entries:

This was the first outing for these two new stamp sets so I'm popping over to link up at Darnell's NBUS Challenge #6

Just Us Girls - Challenge #333 - Flowers

Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Flower Power

Dream Valley - Challenge #126 - Mother's Day

Fantasy Stampers - Challenges #57 - Mums Rule

Thanks for visiting, I'll be back soon with more to share.