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
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
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
Good morning,
Anyone know what day it is? We are most definitely still in that 'lost' period before the children go back to school and we get back to usual routines! Right, I think it's Friday! Blimey that means I really need to get a wriggle on and make sure the children actually have what they need ready for school on Monday...new school bags (Christmas presents), clothes that fit, shoes that weren't ruined before they broke up for Christmas...!
Taking a break from my household issues (!), lets look at the next two products on the Uniko January 2025 release. Here we have another brilliantly designed Ink & Flip layering stencil, this time a Flower.
I have used both the inner and outer stencils but kept the colours the same when inking up both for a streamlined look. I have heat embossed the sentiment from the Uniko Birthday Sentiments set which is well worth an investment if you don't already have this. I use it all the time.
I love to use the inner stencils from the ink & flip range to create shaker cards like the above. I added some small sequins and glitter to the shaker. Turns out the glitter was a slight error as I don't appear to have a full closure around the edges and every time I shake the card the desk ends up covered in glitter!! I thought this would make a cute new baby card so I used the Uniko Everyday Spring Sentiments stamp set.
The second Uniko product being introduced today is Simply Said Blocks Occasions stamp set which adds to and builds on the Simply Said Blocks series.
This card is from yesterdays blog post and is not at all in season but I was so excited to see the Halloween sentiment and when I picked up the Uniko Mid Century Modern Stars & Circles stencil I saw spooky eyes! I created the 'eyes' using black and white Nuvo drops.
There is lots more amazing inspiration on the Uniko Brand Ambassadors blogs. Hop over and leave them some love.
Much love
Steph x
Welcome back,
We are in full swing with our Uniko January 2025 release introductions and today we have two further fantastic products to introduce.
First up we have an addition to the Flower Power range, this being number 11 in the series.
As you can see this floral is similar to a tulip and has both a solid and an outline stamp with some very lovely friendship sentiments.
Both the above cards use the new Uniko Mid Century Modern Stars & Circles stencil and sentiments from the new Simply Said Blocks Occasions stamp set which will be introduced tomorrow.
Lots of lovely creations by the Uniko Brand Ambassadors on their own blogs as follows:
Good Morning and Happy New Year!
How exciting to start Jan 1st with a new challenge from The Male Room. Just a little change to the phasing of challenges this year, we will no longer be taking a gap between challenges. So as one challenge ends, the next will begin the following day...even more time for you to join in the fun with us!
And for January, our theme is Clean and Simple...right up my street! This challenge will run to 4th Feb.
For my card I used a simple one line stamp from Adventures In Ink. I added the sentiment and ice cubes from another stamp set before doing some very simple colouring with pencils.
I quite like a CAS card as they can be quite quick to make, which this one needed to be as I'm running out of time to get everything done for Christmas before the children break up from school and as I ferociously type this blog post!
Looking forward to seeing what you create and also what you think of the fantastic designs from the rest of The Male Room design team over on the blog.
Much love
Steph x
Happy New Year!
I hope the New Year is starting off well for you? I wonder what excitement 2025 has in store? Well I can't say much about anything further into the year (lack of crystal ball!) but what I can say is that we have a couple of great Uniko product introductions today and even more as we go through the rest of the week and weekend.
Bev has worked her magic once again and created another amazing ink & flip layering stencil set called Geometric Gem. And she has designed these absolutely gorgeous Sparkle Sentiments to go with it. I have used both of the stencils in the set on the above card and also added a few water flecks to add to the 'gem' effect. The sentiment is heat embossed in white to let the gem stand out in all it's glory.
Unlike the first card, this card just uses one of the stencils from the set, which works just beautifully on its own. The sentiment is heat embossed with black sparkle powder which is so gorgeous in real life but of course really hard to capture on photo!
The rest of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors have done a super job with this new stencil and stamp set so make sure you have a look at their blog posts and leave some gems of comments (see what I did there?!! ha ha!).
Much love
Steph x
Good morning and Happy New Year's Eve!
We are very excited to kick of the Uniko January 2025 with an introduction to this fantastic Layering Picked Posies stencil.
This card uses all four layers of the stencil set but only part of the full image which is actually square. I teamed it with a sentiment from the Uniko Doodle Flowers stamp set.
Good Morning!!
How are the festivities going for you all? Do we still have any turkey left that needs used up?! Has the waistband on your pants become suddenly tighter?! Well, lets not worry about all that as we have some exciting Uniko sneak peeks today with introductions coming over the course of the week up to the full reveal, release and of course GIVEAWAY on the 5th Jan, so what a great way to start the New Year!
Here we go, we've got it all:
A layering stencil...
