Uniko's Customer Top 10 of 2023 - Number 6

Happy Boxing Day! 

I hope you have all had a wonderful festive period, I've enjoyed a slower day today with less cooking! Plus I squeezed in a little creative time too. 

I am here continuing with Uniko's Customer Top 10 of 2023. Today we have the 6th most purchased clear stamp set and it might be no surprise, it is another Mid Century Modern clear stamp set, Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day.

Being a cat lover, I was pleased to see this beauty make it into the Top 10. It was nice to give it some fresh inky love. I know it is currently out of stock, but rest assured, it will be back in stock early 2024.

Let's have a look at my card today...

It's been a good while since I used the Stencil - Mid Century Modern Shapes, so I decided to pair it with the cat. I used some softer shades of Aqua Sky and Grapefruit to ink the shapes and Cobblestone to stamp the bursts from Mid Century Modern Baubles. 

I used the outline cat and coloured with a dark grey Copic marker, I added some fun green eyes and a sentiment from Bauhaus Blocks. Finally I finished with some Sorbet enamel dots.

Thanks for joining me again today.

Crafty Hugs

Merry Monday BA Inspiration with Mid Century Modern Christmas

Bonjour !

Izzy here with a Merry Monday card to add to my Christmas card stash. I thought I would share two cards from the most recent Uniko release as I was not able to participate.

Before being able to play with this new release, I made sure not to look at my team mates' cards so as not to be influenced by their beautiful creations (I now had a look 😍). It seems that I had the same ideas as some of them, but I still hope that I will give you new inspirations with this release's products.

Today I will start with the Mid Century Modern Christmas set.

For this one I went for a one layer card using this new set together with the cat from the Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day set. I saw afterwards that Julie had had the same idea. 

This little tree together with the presents reminded me the last Christmas when my cat jumped into the bag of gifts I had just put under the tree.

For lack of space we have a thin and tall Christmas tree that I represented on my card by stamping the fir 4 times one below the other thanks to masking. I also used masking for the cat and the presents.

I coloured everything with colour pencils and I stamped the sentiment in two parts. In black for the Merry and in red and clear embossed for the Christmas.

To finish I added some stars, also from the set, and I gold heat embossed them.

For my second card, I went for a slimline one with a CAS look. I started by die cutting a rectangle bordered with triangles on which I stamped 5 trees that I coloured with rainbow colours.

I adhered this panel on a slimline double card and I stamped the sentiment that comes from the Mid Century Modern Baubles set.

That's all the Bright and Merry I have to share with you today, but I will be back next week with more to share with this new release.

Have a lovely day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Luck of the Irish!

Good morning! 

Steph here today with my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration and since we are close to March 17th, St Patrick’s Day, I thought I would do some ‘luck of the Irish’ Good Luck cards. 

For my first card I used the ‘lucky black cat' from the Uniko Purrfect Day stamp set. For added luck the cat has a four leaf clover stamped using small hearts from the Uniko Flower Power #3 stamp set. 

My second card uses the luck at the end of the rainbow. For this I used Uniko Rainbows & Clouds stencil inking the different colours with a very small blending brush. I inked up an extra cloud, fussy cut it and added it to the end of the rainbow with another four leaf clover.

Finally I used Uniko Background Builders Hearts stamp set to make a clover and stem. For the background I used Uniko Scattered Polka Hearts stencil and die cut into a hexagon, just because! For all the sentiments I used the newly released Uniko Everyday Spring Sentiments set. I was very pleased to see the Good Luck sentiment included in this font!  

Hopefully I've given you some inspiration for some Good Luck cards or even some St Patrick's Day celebration cards. Let me know what you think by leaving a lovely comment.

Much love

Steph x

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - BIG & BOLD Love & Paw Print Hearts

Bonjour !

It's Izzy here. I echo Steph's post (see HERE) with her Love cards but this time for another loved one...your four-legged fellow. 

So I made 3 cards using the Paw Print Hearts and the BIG & BOLD Love stamp sets where I show you how versatile but also complementary both sets are.

For my first card I wanted something bold and bright so I stamped the paw prints in different colours all over the double white card and I stamped in a very light grey an outline heart from the BIG & BOLD set between the paw prints. 

Then, I stamped the word LOVE from the Big & bold set, on a piece of Vellum and I heat embossed it with black embossing powder. 

To finish, I fussy cut the word LOVE, I foam mounted it on the card and I stamped in black the rest of the sentiment.

Since I was little, I have always had a cat at home. Currently we have three! Most of my friends also have a cat or a dog. We know very well that they are not eternal and that it is always very painful when they leave us. A card does not replace them but it brings a little comfort in these painful moments.

For my second card I also uses the Scattered Polka Hearts stencil to make the background with a light pink ink. On white card stock I stamped two hearts in pink from the BIG & BOLD set and the heart from the Paw Prints set in red. 

To finish, I stamped the sentiment from the Paw Print Hearts set, I fussy cut the hearts and I foam mounted them on the card.

For my last card I wanted to use the cat from the recent Uniko January release:  Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day and I combined it with the other two sets.

It's a One Layer card since I directly stamped all the elements on the card base. I started by stamping the paw prints in grey as well as the silhouette of the cat. Then I stamped the little hearts in red.

For the sentiment I used some masking tape. I first stamped the heart in red, I masked it and I stamped the "L" of the word. Then I shifted a bit the stamp to finally stamped the rest of the word. 

And that's all for me today. I really enjoyed making these cards and I hope I inspired you to use and combine your Uniko's products. You will be surprised how versatile they all are !

Have a lovely day and thank you so much for stopping by.

 

Introducing... Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day and Stencil - MOD Background Builders Circles

Hello & Happy Thursday,

Welcome to Day 3 and the final day of the January 2023 Release Introductions.

Today myself and the Uniko Brand Ambassadors have two products to introduce. First, a mini clear stamp set called Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day. And a Stencil - MOD Background Builders Circles. Now if you watched me on How To Craft Network back in November 2022, you might recognise the stencil from my show then. 

Let's get to seeing these products in action..

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Just purrfect inspiration! 

Be sure to check out each of the Brand Ambassador blogs or social media for more inspiration and leave some love.

That's all the introductions, which means tomorrow is Release Day! Myself and the Brand Ambassadors will be back tomorrow with more to share and all the products will be available at 10am GMT on the website.

Hope to see you!

Crafty Hugs