Uniko October/November 2024 Release - Re-introducing...Pure Florals Poinsettia

Good morning

Pure Florals Poinsettia is a beautiful stamp set which is making a comeback as part of the upcoming release from Uniko at the weekend.

The set features a beautiful poinsettia bloom, together with many two-part sentiments.

So I'll get straight to it with my first card...

I began by stamping the bloom image on some hammered red cardstock and then added some shading with some Copic markers.  With my stamp still in place in my Misti, I restamped the image in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it in gold.  I then die cut around the flower with a stitched rectangle die.  The sentiment from the same set was heat embossed in gold on black cardstock and die cut into a sentiment strip.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Pure Florals Poinsettia
• Ink: VersaMark
• Coloured with Copic Markers
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Dies: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles; MFT Die-namics - Stitched Sentiment Strips

And for my second card I kept it fairly simple, just heat embossing the linear image...

On a die cut panel I stamped and heat embossed the poinsettia bloom using a pink metallic embossing powder.  I stamped the sentiment in white on a raspberry coloured sentiment strip and adhered this on 3D foam.  To finish, I added some pink Stickles to the centre of the flower.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Pure Florals Poinsettia
• Ink: VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Strawberry Sundae, Opaque Bright White
• Dies: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles; Altenew - Featured Sentiments
• Accents: Stickles - Pink

As always, my teammates are sharing more makes over at the main Uniko blog, here, to showcase this set.  Why not take a look at their individual blogs too, there may be even more projects being shared.

This set, along with all the products being introduced this week will be available from 9am GMT on Sunday 3 November 2024. 

Please do pop back tomorrow if you can when I'll be introducing one of the new products from the release.

Winter Foliage Bundle

Hi guys

Today I'm sharing another card I made this Christmas, using some new goodies from The Greetery.  I can't take credit for this design as I saw a few examples from The Greetery where they used these products together and that's what encouraged me to buy them.

I'll get straight to the details...

I began by die cutting a panel with a stitched rectangle die.  I lightly ink blended from the centre using Distress Oxide ink and then laid a snowflake stencil over the top and inked through with white pigment ink.  On some watercolour paper I sprinkled various shades of Brusho pigment powder and spritzed with water.  Once dry I die cut all the foliage.  I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it in gold.  I layered up and adhered all the foliage before die cutting the string tie from gold cardstock and adhering this over the stems.  To finish I added some red Stickles for the berries.

Materials used:

• Dies: The Greetery - Inside & Out Berry Branch, Fit to be Tied; Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Tumbled Glass; Hero Arts - Unicorn; VersaMark; Brusho - Leaf Green, Emerald Green, Dark Brown
• Stencil: Memory Box - Tiny Snowflakes
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - O Christmas Tree 
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Accents: Stickles - Ruby

Challenge entries:

AAA Cards - Game #205 - Christmas

Happy Little Stampers - December Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers - December Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

NBUS - Challenge #33 - The Greetery dies are new to my stash

CHNC - Challenge #574 - Anything Goes Christmas

STAMPlorations - December Theme and Photo Prompt Challenge (I used the photo prompt)

Uniko - Challenge #68 - Celebrate (Reds and Greens)

I'll be back with another later, thanks for visiting.

Poinsettia Ribbon

Hi guys

Apologies for not posting for a while, over the last couple of weeks I've been frantically making, writing and posting Christmas cards because, as usual I had nowhere near enough in my stash, I was about fifty short!

So I've been making a few multiples which I'll be sharing with you over the next week.

I love how the card I'm sharing today turned out, but I only made four of this one as it wasn't the ideal design for mass production.

Here it is...

I began by die cutting the poinsettia ribbon and I masked off the ribbon parts to enable me to blend the petals with Distress Inks, where I used two shades.  Once coloured I adhered the die cut to a panel of black cardstock which had been cut slightly smaller than the card base.  I then used a clear stamp which was manipulated to follow the curve of the die cut and stamped and heat embossed in gold.  The panel was then adhered flat to the card base.  To finish I added some gold Stickles to accent the centre of the flower.

Materials used:

• Die: Poppy Stamps - Poinsettia Ribbon
• Ink: Distress Ink - Candied Apple, Aged Mahogany; VersaMark
• Stamp: Hero Arts - Color Layering Christmas Tree (sentiment)
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Accent: Stickles - Gold

Challenge entries:

CAS on Friday - Challenge #148 - Make a Christmas Card #2

Happy Little Stampers - December Anything Goes with Dies

Cards in Envy - The Spirit of Christmas Challenge

Dream Valley - Challenge #192 - Christmas

Inkspirational - Challenge #175 - Anything Christmas Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I should have more to share with you over the weekend :)

Less is More Challenge #381 - Lucky Dip Week

Hi guys

After having a little break and sitting out of the last challenge, I'm back today to announce the next challenge at Less is More, which is starting right now.

As an extra Saturday has fallen in September, today we have a Lucky Dip challenge for you.  For this one we've decided to give you a Designer's card to CASE.

And the designer we have joining us is the fabulous Rebecca of Mellymoo Papercrafting.  Rebecca is an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator and is kindly sponsoring this Lucky Dip challenge and offering a prize too :)

So let's get to it, here's Rebecca's lovely clean and simple card for you to draw inspiration from...

We also have JoJo, an earlier winner joining us as a Guest Designer this week so please do pop over and say hi, and see how she interpreted Rebecca's gorgeous card.

Now onto my card.  I loved the rich berry tone with the gold and the first thing it reminded me of was Christmas so that's the direction I took (and it also means I'll have a Christmas card in the bag...something I've still not started to even think about yet!)

I stamped the holly in VersaMark ink and heat embossed in gold, before die cutting with its co-ordinating die and adhering flat to the card, and off the edge which was then trimmed.  Afterwards I realised I could have stamped this directly on the card, but the way I did it also meant I avoided any warping of the card base!  Next I stamped the outline poinsettia image with VersaMark and embossed in clear onto some dark red cardstock, this was also then die cut with the co-ordinating die.  I popped the flower up on 3D foam squares.  Then, as a nod to the gold sequins Rebecca used, I used gold Stickles in the centre of my bloom.  I finished with a simple sentiment stamped in a co-ordinating red ink.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Chirstmas Poinsettia (holly), Pretty Poinsettia II (flower); Uniko - Pure Florals Poinsettia (sentiment)
• Ink: VersaMark; Altenew - Ruby Red
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich, Clear Gloss
• Accents: Stickles - Gold

Challenge entries:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #311 - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers - September Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Happy Little Stampers - September Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Don't forget, there's two weeks to play along with this challenge, and it will be great to see how you are inspired by the elements of Rebecca's card.

Hope to see you in the gallery! :)

Partial Die Cut Poinsettia

Me again!

Next up is, yes you've guessed it, another card I made at the retreat last month.  I was on a roll!

And another using the partial die cutting technique, but this time the panel was mounted onto the card base rather than being cut direct from the card base.

I partial die cut the poinsettia from a panel of white cardstock and then trimmed off the excess horizontally.  I then stamped the co-ordinating poinsettia in VersaMark and heat embossed in silver.  I also heat embossed the sentiment in silver.  I adhered the panel to a card base to which I'd already adhered a panel of black cardstock.  I then added some red Stickles to the centre of the flower to finish.  The embossing is a little clearer in the next photo.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Pretty Poinsettia II, Christmas Poinsettia (sentiment)
• Die: Clearly Besotted - Pretty Poinsettia
• Ink: VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Silver
• Accents: Stickles - Red

Challenge entries

Allsorts - Challenge #447/8 - Seasonal Flowers

Stamping Sensations - December Challenge - Winter Trees / Flowers

AAA Cards - CAS Game #105 - Sparkle

Uniko - Challenge #44 - Christmas

I hope I'm not boring you by bombarding you with all these posts this afternoon.  There's more to come! :D

Less is More Week #357

Good morning!

And this morning I'm introducing this week's new challenge over at Less is More which is a Colour challenge.  This week we want to see...

Any projects will do but this is perfect for those traditional

Christmas cards if you still need to create more....I know I do!

Our Sponsor for this month is the fab Happy Little Stampers so do play along

with our challenges this month for a chance to win the monthy prize.

I have two samples for you today, and that's two more to add to my Christmas stash!

Here's the first, and another I made whilst away at the Happy Little Stampers craft retreat where we were having fun with light up cards using Chibitronics LEDs...

On a panel of watercolour card I stamped the image in VersaMark and heat embossed in gold.  I then watercoloured the leaves and berries with Zig markers.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set in black, and the sentiment is the push point to activate the light.  You can find a tutorial here where Kylie of Happy Little Stampers explains how to create a light up card.  I pierced a number of holes around the berries to allow the light to shine through, and chose a red LED to add more colour.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Woodware - Sprig of Holly
• Ink: VersaMark; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Watercoloured with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
• Tools: Chibitronics - Red LED Circuit Sticker (adhesive copper tape and battery)

Challenge entries:

Christmas Cards All Your Round - December Challenge - Anything Goes
CAS on Friday - Challenge #122 - Christmas
AAA Cards - CAS Game #104 - Christmas
Uniko - Challenge #44 - Christmas

And next up, another Christmas card and this one using stamps by our sponsor...

A classic layout and fairly simple to execute.  The poinsettia was stamped in alcohol friendly ink and coloured with ProMarkers.  The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed in gold.  I double matted the panel to add some border interest and finished by adding some detail with gold Stickles to the centre of the bloom.


Materials used:

• Stamps: Christmas Joy and Mixed Christmas Sentiments
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Accents: Stickles - Gold

Challenge entries:

Crimbo Crackers - Challenge #146 - Anything Goes
Fusion - Red Christmas (challenge photo)

For more inspiration please do pop over to the challenge blog to view my teamies' projects this week, and click on their links where you could find even more makes this week.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I so appreciate your visits and comments.

I'll be back this evening to tell you all about this month's Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge, hope to see you then.

Twelve Days of Christmas Cards Challenge with Kylie and Friends!

Hi there

Today I'm excited to be sharing a card as part of Kylie's Twelve Days of Christmas Cards Challenge.  

For twelve days Kylie is sharing a different handcrafted Christmas card and has some friends from blogland joining her each day along the way.  I'm delighted to have been asked to join her today, which is Day 11.  So please do click back through Kylie's posts if you've missed the previous posts with some wonderful inspiration.

Kylie is my 'boss lady' at Happy Little Stampers (and also at Addicted to Stamps and More where I was previously a DT member).  I also had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful lady back in July at the Happy Little Stampers Craft Retreat, she's an absolute star.

Ok, back to the challenge, you can enter as many times as you like and there are prizes up for grabs too! The linky tool will be open until 12pm on the 17th of December (AEST).

$20 Gift Certificate

$20 Gift Certificate

20€ Gift Certificate

So, onto my card, and I've used one of the new sets from the latest Happy Little Stampers release, Christmas Joy...

On a panel of white cardstock I masked off the top half and firstly stamped my holly images in VersaMark before heat embossing in white.  I then used the emboss resist technique to blend over three different green shades of Distress Ink before removing the mask.  I then used the watercolour lift technique by adding water to the leaves and lifting the colour away with a paper towel.  I stamped the sentiment in black and adhered the panel onto the card base using 3D foam.  I then added some Stickles in pink....after looking for red Stickles which I don't actually own! lol

Materials used:

• Stamps: Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Joy
• Ink: VersaMark; Distress Ink - Forest Moss, Pine Needles, Lucky Clover; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White
• Accents: Stickles - Pink

Challenge entries:

A Gem of a Challenge - Challenge #184 - Anything Christmas Goes
Dream Valley - Challenge #146 - Christmas
Fantasy Stampers - Challenge #77 - CAS Christmas
AAA Cards - Game #79 - Christmas
Inkspirational - Challenge #123 - CAS with Sparkle

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope you'll play along by linking up your Christmas creations.  We would love to see them and you might even win one of the fantastic prizes up for grabs.

Bye for now

Addicted to Stamps and More #188

Hi there

It's late on a Tuesday, or perhaps early on a Wednesday which can only mean it's new challenge time over at Addicted to Stamps and More.  We've moved onto the next theme in our regular sequence which is...

Holiday

(a public holiday such as Christmas or Easter, or vacation themed cards this week please)

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous A Day for Daisies who are kindly offering a $12.00 gift certificate as a prize for this week's winner.

Easter has passed and so has Mother's Day here in the UK so I decided to add another Christmas card to my 'very small' stash of 3 so far this year!  It did seem a little odd creating a Christmas card when Spring has finally sprung but it's never to early to build that collection is it?!

Here's my DT card this week...

I used my shiny new Mini MISTI for the first time to create this card.  It's so great for getting crisp images but I will say, it's not very user friendly when stamping off the edge as there's not enough free space around the card area, the original MISTI would be better for that.  But I must say it's well worth purchasing...I will certainly be using it when stamping within the card area and especially sentiments so as not to ruin my cards right at the end!

This design was pretty simple.  On a panel of cardstock I stamped the leaves.  I then stamped the poinsettias and die cut them out with their co-ordinating die, and then did the same with the sentiment banner.  I adhered the panel to the card base using 3D foam strips and then adhered the poinsettias, one on 3D foam as was the sentiment banner.  I finished by adding some dots of gold Stickles to the flower centres.

Materials used:

• Stamps and Dies: Clearly Besotted - Christmas Poinsettia, Mini Basic Banners
• Ink: Versa Color - Evergreen and Cardinal; Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Accents: Stickles - Gold

Challenge entries:

Creative Card Crew - Challenge #110 - Die Cut

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #275 - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for April 2016 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers - April 2016 Christmas Challenge - Die Cuts

Thanks so much for visiting and please do pop over to the main blog for more inspiration from my teamies.  We'd love for you to join us this week.