Hi all,
Welcome to a new challenge at AAA Colourful. Today we have challenge #30 with a colourboard as follows:
Welcome...
...to a new challenge from AAA Colourful, challenge #28.
Just look at those purples and blues. I actually really like the idea of using the challenge graphic as a prompt and creating a beautiful swirling background, maybe with a gel plate?
Anyway, I didn't do that! I'm not a huge user of purple as I find it hard to use without my creation looking sickly, however I really like the card I've made this month and I think it's because I had to work extra hard to achieve the result I wanted!
What will you do with these lovely colours? Link your project up over at the AAA Colourful blog.
Much love
Steph x
Morning everyone,
We have a great colourboard for you today with AAA Colourful challenge #27.
Just beautiful colours to work with here. I kept my card nice an simple using a stamp set I have had for a good while but not used recently.
There's lots of scope with these zingy colours and I look forward to seeing what you create. Join in over at the AAA Colourful blog.
Much love
Steph x
Good morning,
It's time for a new colourboard at AAA Colourful with the new challenge #26.
An intriguing mix of beiges and blues.
I chose to create a beehive with the colours and added die cut elements from the same die set.
Looking forward to seeing what you create with this simple colourboard. Check out the inspiration over at the AAA Colourful blog and join in too.
Much love
Steph x
Evening all,
I'm just popping by to let you know that I have shelved my blog for a little while as my craft mojo is lacking and I'm just not feeling the love for blogging right now. I am still around on Instagram and Facebook and I am still designing for lovely Bev at Uniko.
There are a few blog posts created last year and scheduled for the rest of this year so they will run as intended but I won't be doing any new ones for a while.
Much love
Steph x
Hi all,
Welcome to the February AAA Colourboard Challenge #25. This month we have a great colourboard for you as follows:
Happy New Year to you all!
My first blog post of 2026 and we are over a week into the New Year already! Back at work and the festive period is a distant memory…as are the chocolates.
Here at Uniko we are having a week of fabulous inspiration using Bev’s clever Ink & Flip designs. Bev was kind enough to let us choose which Ink & Flip stencil we wanted to use and I chose Uniko Ink & Flip Christmas Tree Pattern stencil because I just love it! Christmas may be over but as I’ve depleted my Christmas card stash I wanted to start on some cards for this year. And I decided to mix up the colours for a bit of fun.
All three cards were made from one panel of inked trees and I just played about with the layouts to make it work.
Make sure you head over to the Uniko blog to check out the wonderful work by Natalie today and also the rest of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors from earlier in the week and over the next couple of days.
Much love
Steph x
Almost Merry Christmas!
Everyone ready for Christmas? No me either! Anyway lets not dwell on that when we can be creating something lovely with this month's colourboard from AAA Colourful.
Don't forget you have until 14th Jan to join in so if you are too busy before Christmas, you still have time afterwards.
The colours made me think of ice and snowflakes so I used Uniko's Large Snowflake Two stencil and used three of the colours from the board to ink it up.
Plenty of fabulous inspiration over on the AAA Colourboard blog and that's where you can join in the fun too.
Much love
Steph x
Morning all,
For my Uniko Brand Ambassador post this month I thought I would focus on the Uniko Mid Century Modern Wreath Builder stamp set. I'm bringing attention back to this as a Uniko original design as yet again a large US craft brand has helped itself to some of Bev's design elements.
On this card I have stamped the wreath outline twice, rotating a little between stamping, and coloured with alcohol markers. To this I added some stamped and fussy cut berries and bows. Finally I stamped the sentiment and adhered using foam pads.
Here I have offset stamped the wreath using the outline and block stamps. I have added bows and berries stamped onto coloured card and shaded using alcohol markers. The sentiment has been stamped in blue and black ink giving and offset appearance.
For my final card I stamped the wreath using the block stamp only and onto white card. This was fussy cut before holly leaves and berries were added. The berries also have glossy accents added. Finally I used a piece of green card to add the sentiment.
I do love these mid century modern sets, there is so much possibility with them. I'd love to see what you are inspired to make and don't forget to tag Uniko in your projects too.
Much love
Steph x
Good morning,
Welcome to this month's challenge from The Male Room where we have the theme of 'Christmas Colours', specifically red and green.
For this theme of red and green, you don't actually have to create a Christmas card but they are my favourite type of card to make so I did! I used the Waffle Flower Merry Wreath stamp set and matching dies.
So, are you going to create a Christmas card or just use the theme colours to create something else? Join in over at The Male Room and check out the rest of the Design Team creations while you are there.
Sadly I have to add to the end of this post that this will be my last one for The Male Room as life has become more busy and I have had to take the decision to reduce my crafting time, and therefore my DT commitments. I wish the rest of TMR team the best and hope to join in future challenges when I can.
Much love
Steph x
Welcome!
Today is the release of the new Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles stencil and mask set. This new product teams with the Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles stamp set and can also be used on it's own.
For this card I have used the stencil to ink up the three baubles and with the stencil in place I have splattered them with white and gold paints. Once dry, I added the masks over each bauble and splattered the areas around each one with the colour they are inked in. I added the bauble hangers from the matching stamp set and the sentiment from Uniko Festive Sentiments stamp set.
With this card I wanted to create the opposite effect to the first so I adhered the masks to white card stock and inked around them with Distress Oxide inks. I removed the masks and splattered the card with water (to activate the DO's) and gold watercolour paints. I stamped the hangers and bauble 'shine' using the matching stamp set and finally added a sentiment from the Uniko Most Wonderful stamp set.
So as you can see, there is lots of fun to be had with the new stencil and by revisiting the stamp set. The rest of the Brand Ambassadors have been showcasing these product this week too and we now have a BA blog and socials hop for you to check out the inspiration. Leave some love along the way and you could be the lucky randomly chosen winner of a £20 Uniko eGift voucher.
Steph x
Good morning!
All this week the Uniko Brand Ambassadors are revisiting the wonderful Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles stamp set because we have a fabulous new product to add in the form of a matching stencil!
This really is a fun stamp set which really creates impactful cards. Today is the turn of myself and Natalie to showcase the stamp set and the new Mid Century Modern Baubles stencil and mask set.
My first cards this week use only the MCM Baubles stamp set, you will have to wait a couple more days to see what I did with the stencil and masks!
Here I stamped the outline of the baubles and wreath (from Uniko Mid Century Modern Wreath Builder stamp set) onto watercolour card. I used a water brush to pull the ink from the outline to fill the spaces. I fussy cut the three focal pieces before adding berries to the wreath and hangers to the baubles. The sentiment is stamped also from the Uniko MCM Wreath Builder set. Once I had adhered all the items I added bauble strings with a white gel pen and some Christmas sparkle with crystal stickles.
On my next card I stamped and fussy cut the three baubles from the Uniko MCM Baubles set and coloured them with alcohol markers. I added details to the baubles using Nuvo drops, stickles and pearl drops. Once dry I added the bauble hangers, strings and stamped the sentiment in white ink.
I have definitely had great fun revisiting this stamp set and playing with the new stencil and mask set has been fun too...but you'll have to come back on Saturday to see my makes using those!
Much love
Steph x
