Uniko Birthday Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Mix and Match

Welcome, 

Today I am using the Uniko Flower Power and Background Builders to mix and match my three cards. I took my inspiration from this lovely card created by Bev during the January 2025 release. 

For this card I have used Uniko Flower Power #11 from the January release and Uniko Background Builders: Delightful Diamonds stamp sets. For the sentiment I have used Uniko Birthday Wishes stamp set. 

Here I have used Uniko Flower Power #2 and Uniko Background Builders: Round In Circles stamp sets with a sentiment from Uniko Birthday Sentiments stamp set. 

And finally, I have paired Uniko Flower Power #1 with Uniko Background Builders: Seeing Stars and again a sentiment from Uniko Birthday Wishes stamp set. 

I hope you like this set of clean and simple cards and I hope they breathe life into your Uniko Flower Power and Background Builders sets again. 

Much love

Steph x

Papercraft Challenges #115 - Love Is In The Air

Good morning, 

Welcome to this month's challenge from Papercraft Challenges where the theme is 'Love Is In The Air'. 

We are sponsored this month by Mirtillamente Digital Stamps and Papers and the winner of the challenge will be able to choose 2 digital images of their choice.

For my card I have used a Mirtillamente digi stamp and coloured using alcohol markers. 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you create and enter into our challenge over on the blog. 

Much love

Steph x

AAA Colourful Colourboard #13

Good morning, 

Welcome to today's challenge from AAA Colourful. As it's our birthday, the colourboard for challenge #13 looks like this:

I do love a little ink blending with rainbow colours so that is what I did! 

I used Distress Oxides in the following colours: Candied Apple, Seedless Preserves, Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, Twisted Citron and Squeezed Lemonade. I then used an intricate die to cut the black card and stamped the sentiment using Uniko Simply Said Blocks stamp set. 

Looking forward to seeing everyone's rainbow creations and don't forget there's lots of fantastic inspiration over on the AAA Colouful blog. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko 13th Birthday Facebook VIP Group Challenge

Good morning, 

As part of the Uniko 13th Birthday celebrations we are inviting members of the Uniko VIP group on Facebook to join us in a birthday themed challenge where the winner will win a £10 eGift Certificate. This will be the start of a monthly challenge over on the Facebook page.

All you have to do is create a celebration card or project featuring Uniko products only please. Then enter it into the album on the Facebook Uniko VIP page. It’s free to join the group so pop over to the page and join in the fun. 

The Facebook page is a fun place for everyone to share their Uniko makes so make sure you turn on the ‘follow’ feature too.

Much love

Steph x

Pink and Red, and Centre Focus

Ooo looky here, I've managed a second quick card to enter into three challenges this time (I coordinated!).

Again a stamp set I received with an old magazine and the red and pink colours for the following two challenges:

Inkspirational: Inkspirational Challenge #334 - COLLABORATION with Color Hues Challenge #103 - RED AND PINK

Color Hues: Color Hues #103-Pink and Red Collaboration

The central focus is from this challenge:

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #275

And that really is all I have time for today!

Much love

Steph x

AAA Cards Challenge #283

Morning all, 

Just a quick one from me today as I found a snippet of time to join in with AAA Cards Challenge #283. They have the following colourboard for this challenge:

This stamp set was one I got from a UK magazine and it came with a lovely embossing folder but I chose not to use that here in order to keep the card more CAS. It's difficult to see but I used the darkest green I own which is a brush marker and it has the most lovely sparkle to it.

The AAA Cards Challenge can be found here if you want to join in too. 

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Challenge #195 - Monochrome

Good morning, 

I'm here today with challenge #195 from The Male Room which has a theme of 'Monochrome'.

I do find this quite a difficult theme and usually cop out by keeping to black and white for safety! But this time I decided to step out of my comfort zone and went with shades of green instead. 

First of all I inked the leafy background onto light green card. I then took three further shades of green card an die cut the Spellbinders Stitched Fall Leaves before arranging them down the left hand side of the panel. Finally I added a sentiment using Uniko Floral Vines stamp set. 

Looking forward to seeing what colour you choose for your Monochrome creation, and of course there's lots of lovely inspiration over on The Male Room blog.

Much love

Steph x

Uniko's 13th Birthday Linky Party

Good morning, 

February is Uniko’s birthday month so we have a month full of fun lined up with lots of Brand Ambassador inspiration including some Uniko Brand Ambassador Alumni.

Today we start the celebrations with a Linky Party and if you are chosen as a winner you will receive a £25 eGift certificate. 

You have until midnight on Friday 28th February to take part. You must use Uniko products only and can enter a maximum of three times. Please no back linking. You can find a link to free Uniko digi stamps on the Uniko blog.

For my card I used part of the stamp set that Bev designed for the Papercraft Society box (sold via Craftstash). I haven’t had chance to use this before now so it was nice to have a play around with it as it’s such a beautiful stamp.

Now head over to the Uniko blog to see the other beautiful creations by the rest of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors and join the Linky Party.

Much love

Steph x

Seven Hills Crafts January Colour Challenge

Good afternoon, 

I'm very pleased that I have found time today to make a card to enter into the Seven Hills Crafts January Colour challenge. It has been ages since I entered a challenge as I'm usually too busy either working or creating cards for the Design Teams I am a part of but today I have found a snippet of time to complete this challenge. Hopefully I will be able to enter more challenges as the year progresses. 

The colour theme has been inspired by fashion and a minimum of three colours from the below need to be used:

My eye immediately went to the gorgeous mustard and teal combination on the top row and I decided to team them with the dark blue on the bottom row.

For my card I used Altenew Monstera 3D die set and Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday Line Border die, both brands are stocked in the Seven Hills Crafts online store. 

That's all for me for today, hope you like the colour match for my card!

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Love Is In The Air

Good morning, 

Since we are on the cusp of the month of love (!) I have used this as my theme for my January Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration.

For this card I have used Uniko Big & Bold Love stamp set which includes the two large heart stamps. It’s quite hard to see but I embossed the middle white section using one of the Uniko Bokeh Layering Hearts stencil and stamped the purple hearts over the larger raised hearts before adding the fussy cut LOVE sentiment.

Continuing with the Uniko Bokeh Layering Hearts stencil I used the second stencil to create an offset design using Distress Oxides in Antique Linen and Speckled Egg.

My final card uses Uniko Scattered Polka Hearts stencil and a heat embossed sentiment from the Uniko Birthday Sentiments stamp set.

Not all my cards are for Valentine’s but hopefully they have given you some inspiration for Valentine’s or just for some birthday or even thank you cards full of love.

Much love

Steph x

Papercraft Challenges #114 - Winter Wonders

Welcome! 

Today at Papercraft Challenges we have the theme of Winter Wonders.

I always love to see robins in the garden in winter time so I used my Xcut die to make Mr Robin my main feature and embellished with foliage die cuts. 

Now it’s your turn to join in the fun over at Papercraft Challenges and if you need more inspiration the Design Team have some more Winter Wonders for you over on the blog.

Much love

Steph x

AAA Colourful Colourboard #12

Morning! 

My exciting news at the start of 2025 is that I have joined the Design Team at AAA Colourful. I’m so excited to be part of the team and I’m happy to be back on a colour based design team again. 

So to kick off 2025 we have the following colourboard for challenge #12:

For my card I die cut lots of trees from the five colours above and created a forest tree line before stamping the simply sentiment. I'm a big fan of CAS cards and I've wandered away from them recently so I'm looking to start bringing this back to my crafting. I'm also still going with the Christmas cards as they are my favourite to create, but I promise to move on for the next challenge!! 

I hope you like my creation and are of course going to head over to the AAA Colourful blog to check out the fantastic work by the rest of the Design Team, and of course join in the challenge. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko January 2025 Reveal, Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway

Yay!!

Here we are with the full Uniko January 2025 reveal, release and GIVEAWAY! 

Uniko Layering Picked Posies Stencil

A fantastic four part stencil set which creates three beautiful big blooms with foliage.

Here I used the first three stencils and added my own detail to the petals using shading and to the flower centres using gold gems. I think Christmas cards are my favourite to make and since I made these pre Christmas, I was still in that mind set. I think it works great as a Christmas card! 

Uniko Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Gem Stencil

Uniko Sparkle Sentiments Stamp Set

I wanted to show this gem in all it's glory by heat embossing it in gorgeous metallics and teaming it with a sparkly glitter heat embossed sentiment. I just used the inner stencil here and fussy cut the gems so I could raise them up on foam pads for an even more stand out effect. 

Uniko Flower Power #11 Stamp Set

I was so pleased when I noticed that the outline flower head would work perfectly with the art deco style of the Uniko Anniversaire Arts Decoratifs and Uniko Background Builders Arts Decoratifs stamp sets. 

Uniko Mid Century Modern Stars & Circles Stencil

I thought this stencil was a nice one to have a bit of a mixed media play about. Not at all my natural style but I think it turned out ok! I have heat embossed the new stencil in white and used distress oxide inks through the Uniko Mini Uniko Logo stencil and for the Uniko Large Background French Script stamp. The sentiment is from the Uniko Birthday Wishes stamp set. 

Uniko Ink & Flip Layering Flower Stencil

Again I was in Christmas mode when I was having a play with this stencil and it absolutely works! I inked the red and heat embossed the gold, adding two greens using the outer stencils. I accidentally made an ink splodge to the top right hand corner so I had to cover it with the sentiment from the Uniko Pure Florals: Poinsettia stamp set and a gold heat embossed floral from the Uniko Flower Power #8 stamp set. 

Uniko Simply Said Blocks Occasions Stamp Set

A super CAS card but definitely focuses on the new stamp set! The Happy is from Uniko Simply Said Blocks stamp set which matches perfectly to the new Uniko Simply Said Blocks Occassions stamp set. 

Uniko Background Builders Flower Power Stamp Set

I really love background builder stamp sets and this one is no exception. The strip I used here matches with the Uniko Flower Power #1 stamp set which I have previously seen used as a poinsettia on Uniko Brand Ambassador Alumni Carol's blog here so I took my inspiration from that. 

Phew! What a great release from Uniko and a great start to 2025. I'm looking forward to what more there is to come! 

But in the meantime, you definitely need to go and feast your eyes on the beautiful creations from the Uniko Brand Ambassadors and leave some love to be in with a chance of WINNING a £25 Uniko eGift certificate.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - you're here x

Vinita

Much love

Steph x