AAA Colourful Colourboard #24

Good morning and Happy New Year from AAA Colourful!

How is your New Year going so far and did you have a good Christmas break? We spent Christmas with family in Northern Ireland, which is always tricky to organise since I don't have the 'magic' of Santa and have to get the presents over there without the children seeing! 

So here we go with the AAA Colourful Colourboard #24.

As I prep my January cards before Christmas I am usually still in the festive mood when designing my cards and they are my favourite cards to create anyway! I went a bit overboard with this month's challenge as you will see!

Since the 'JOY' is die cut from the three different shades of pink, I then used them on further cards. 

At least I got to add to the Christmas card stash! And now it is your turn to play along. Create your card and join in the fun over on the AAA Colourful blog.

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Ink & Flip Inspiration Week

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

AAA Colourful Colourboard #23

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

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Wednesday Wreaths

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

The Male Room Challenge #205 - Christmas Colours

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

Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles Stencil Release, BA Blog and Socials Hop

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.  

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Natalie

Steph - you are here!

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles & Introducing MCM Baubles Stencil & Mask

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

AAA Colourful Colourboard #22

Hi all, 

Welcome to the AAA Colourful challenge where this month we have a festive inspired colourboard for you.

I wanted to use the colours to create poinsettia for my card and I was going to have a plain white die cut background but then I remembered my Spellbinders Circular Stitch Background die and decided to do a bit of stitching! 

Can't wait to see what you decide to create and of course there's lots of lovely inspiration over on the AAA Colouful blog.

Much love

Steph x

AAA Colourful Colourboard #21

Hello! 

Welcome to this month's challenge from AAA Colourful where we have a lovely colourboard for you.

When I first saw the colours I thought they lent themselves to a Christmas card so that's what I made! 

I have used a stamp set from Clearly Besotted to create my card above which is a very simple stamp and colour with alcohol markers. 

Will you create a Christmas card or can you imagine something different with the colours? Join in the fun at the AAA Colourful blog and see what wonders the rest of the Design Team have created. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Christmas Blossom

Good morning, 

As with our revisit of the 2025 Uniko release products earlier this month, I have focussed my Brand Ambassador inspiration on Christmas and a 2025 release product, namely Uniko Layering Spring Blossom stencil.

I have used one inking of the Spring Blossom stencil to create all three cards and added elements to the last card using Uniko Layering Bauhaus Christmas stencil. 

Once I had inked the panel in Christmas colours, I placed a stitched die so that half of it contained the florals and half did not. I then stamped the 'Peace, Love &' part of the sentiment onto the blank half. On another piece of card I stamped 'joy' from the Uniko Big & Bold Joy stamp set, fussy cut, adhered to vellum and fussy cut leaving a border. 

From the remaining inked panel I die cut a circle and mat it to a larger die cut circle of dark green card. I stamped the sentiment from the Uniko Simply Said Blocks Christmas stamp set and adhered this using foam pads.

This left me with just a small amount of the inked panel remaining so I die cut an oval and used the Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles stamp set to add a bauble hanger. I inked up two circles using elements from the Uniko Bauhaus Christmas Blocks stencil and added bauble hangers. I threaded all three 'baubles' with twine and adhered to a rectangle of card which I then adhered to the card blank using foam pads. Finally I added a sentiment from the Uniko Simply Said Blocks Christmas stamp set.

Hopefully I've given you some inspiration today and shown you how you can create Christmas cards without necessarily using Christmas stencils or stamps. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko September 2025 Non-Release Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

Good morning, 

As this is a non release month at Uniko we are having a Brand Ambassador product revisit, blog hop and GIVEAWAY. 

This month we are revisiting our favourite products from all those release so far in 2025, listed here for reference.

January 2025

Background Builders Flower Power

Flower Power #11 

Simply Said Blocks Occasions

Sparkle Sentiments

Stencil - Ink & Flip Layering Flower 

Stencil - Ink & Flip Geometric Gem

Stencil - Layering Picked Posies

February 2025

Alphabet Solid

Background Blocks Waves

Bright Butterflies

Stencil - Layering Bright Butterflies

Stencil - Layering Organic Blooms

Organic Blooms

Spring Botanicals Primrose

Stencil - Geometric Happy Birthday

April 2025

Butterfly Serenade 

Originally Organic Flower Garden

Stencil - Layering Flower Fusion

Stencil - Layering Spring Blossom

Stencil - Ink & Flip Diamonds

July 2025

Background Blocks Merry Christmas Scramble

Background Blocks My Favourite Colour

Flower Power #12

Stencil - Layering Bauhaus Christmas Blocks

Stencil - Ink & Flip Christmas Tree Pattern

Stencil - Ink & Flip Snowflake Pattern

August 2025

Background Blocks Bauhaus

Background Blocks MOD Builder Circles

Background Blocks Swiss Dots

Background Builders Mid Century Modern

Stencil - Ink & Flip Mid Century Leaves

Stencil - Layering Retro Lines 

Wow there's more products there than I expected!  

I decided to focus on Uniko Background Blocks Merry Christmas Scramble. For all my cards I stamped the Merry Christmas Scramble and masked it before stamping a series of background / frame stamps. For my first card I used another of the new release stamps, Uniko Background Blocks Swiss Dots

To finish my card I simply coloured the large letters in two shades of green. 

I then wanted to see how the stamp would look with the Uniko Framed - Fairy Lights stamped around the large lettering. 

For this card I fussy cut some extra letters and adhered them using foam pads. 

And finally, I used the same method of masking and stamped the Uniko Framed - Holly over the top.

To make this image stand out more I also coloured outside the frame. 

I hope you like this revisit and encourage you to follow the Brand Ambassador blog hop. If you leave lovely comments along the way you could win a £25 eGift code for the Uniko store. 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - that's me!

Vinita

Just a reminder that Bev is currently on holiday so any orders placed will be a little delayed in being sent.

And finally, today we also have a new challenge over on the Uniko VIP facebook page. If you enter a card, you could win a £10 eGift code to spend in the Uniko store.

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Christmas In July 2025 - Reveal, Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop AND Giveaway

 

Hooray!! 

Release day is here and we have the full product pics to share today along with some more creativity using our favourite pieces from the release. Oh and of course the Uniko Brand Ambassadors blog hop and GIVEAWAY where you could win a £25 eGift code if you leave a lovely comment along the hop.

Layering Christmas Bauhaus Blocks Stencil

Background Blocks Merry Christmas Scramble Stamp

Ink & Flip Christmas Tree Pattern Stencil

Ink & Flip Snowflake Pattern Stencil

Background Blocks My Favourite Colour Stamp

Flower Power #12 Stamp Set

So which of all those lovely products catches your attention? 

I really love the Ink & Flip Christmas Tree Pattern stencil and the Background Blocks Merry Christmas Scramble stamp which I used to create this card:

The card front features a pocket for the tag, or decoration to sit in and it can then be used by the recipient in the future. 

So now for the blog hop and that super generous giveaway:

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - you are here

Vinita

And if you lose your way you can start over on the Uniko blog.

We hope you have enjoyed this release, let us know your favourites and don't forget to join us again for another fantastic release in August! 

Much love

Steph x