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

Uniko January 2025 Release - Introducing... Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Gem AND Sparkle Sentiments Clear Stamp Set

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!). 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - you're here!

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Christmas In July

Good morning, 

As it’s July, I’ve chosen to go with the Christmas in July theme for my Uniko Brand Ambassador inspiration. Uniko has lots of wonderful Christmas stamps and stencils (matching die sets available too!). 

For my cards I have focussed on the Uniko Let It Snow stencil. 

For my first card I have used Versamark ink through the stencil and heat embossed in white embossing powder, directly onto the Kraft card base. I then die cut a smaller rectangular piece of white card and used the inner word die from the Uniko Big & Bold Snow die set to cut the word snow towards the bottom of the panel. I used a separate piece of white card to stamp and heat emboss the snowflakes and 'let it' sentiment all from the Uniko Big & Bold Snow stamp set. 

For this card, I started with a panel of white card and used glitter paste to create a fabulous background (so sparkly!). On a smaller piece of white card I heat embossed the sentiment and snow swirls from the Uniko Big & Bold Snow stamp set. 

My final card uses a 'smooshed' background created using Picked Raspberry and Broken China Distress Oxide inks. Once dry I used Versamark ink through the stencil and heat embossed in white. On a spare piece of smooshed card I die cut the inner word die from the Uniko Big & Bold Snow die set and white heat embossed the smallest snowflakes from the Uniko Big & Bold Snow stamp set. I die cut the inner word from white card two more times and adhered them behind the smooshed one to create dimension. I adhered this to the outer word die cut from white pearl card, before adhering directly to the card front. Finally I added the rest of the sentiment from the Uniko Big & Bold stamp set, stamping this in Pickled Raspberry ink. 

Which one catches your eye?

Much love

Steph x

Uniko You're Going to Flip - Ink & Flip Snowflake Revisited

Morning all, 

Welcome to our next product revisit from the Uniko You're Going to Flip week! Today we are using the Ink & Flip Snowflake which was originally released in July 2023. 

This card sort of organically came about as I played around with the stencil. I wanted a colourful background so I started off using some Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders but honestly ended up in a very inky mess! I think maybe I'm a over waterer like I am with house plants. So I switched to coloured card instead and was interested to see what Kraft card would look like. I used Pickled Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Oxides and created a pretty panel. I wanted to add some more interest so I die cut the layering squares and raised up the second panel with one layer of foam pads and the innermost panel with two layers of foam pads. Now this is perhaps where I should have stopped, but of course I decided to add some glitter due to it being a Christmas Card and my strange need to make those glitzy! Unfortunately the glitter has taken away the definition between the two colours so it's not quite as nice as I would have liked but at least it sparkles!! The sentiment is from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments stamp set.

Now to check out the rest of the Brand Ambassadors fabulous inspiration too:

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - that's me

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko 12th Birthday Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

 

Hooray! 

We are finally here at the Uniko 12th Birthday release day! No hanging about, straight into the full product reveal we go:

Uniko Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Heart Stencil Set

The main feature of the card is of course the gorgeous red and pink heart created using the inner stencil only. The background has been created using the Uniko Large Background: Scattered Polka Hearts stamp set. And I have only just discovered glitter embossing powder...oh my heart, like the sentiment, I LOVE the stuff!! The sentiment is from Uniko Big & Bold Love stamp set.  

Uniko Mid Century Modern Birthday

Although we are celebrating Uniko's 12th Birthday, I have used the Mid Century Modern Birthday stamp set to show how it could be used for Christmas cards too. The presents and bows were stamped in festive colours and the outline versions of the stamp were heat embossed in gold. The sentiment is from the Uniko Mid Century Modern Wreath Builder stamp set. 

Uniko Mid Century Modern Everyday Sentiments and Uniko Background Blocks MOD Builder

I have mixed these two stamp sets to create my last card. The Background Blocks MOD Builder makes for a lovely background which can be coloured in any way. 

Now you have seen my creations please do follow the Brand Ambassador blog hop to see the wonderful creations by the rest of the team. Leave some lovely comments along the way and you could win a £30 eGift voucher for Uniko. 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko December 2023 Introducing - Ink & Flip Snowflake

Hi all, 

Welcome back to the third introduction day for the Uniko December mini release. Today we have a stencil and it's a festive one. It is also another one of Bev's very clever 'ink and flip' designs.

Here I have inked the stencil using Broken China Distress Oxide ink and then made the edges slightly darker using Blueprint Sketch DO ink. After cleaning the stencil I flipped it over and inked it with Seedless Preserves DO ink, using Wilted Violet DO ink on the edges. I stamped the sentiment in black ink using Uniko Festive Sentiments stamp set. Finally I added some sparkle with metallic watercolours splattered across the card (and everything else in the vicinity!).

Of course my curiosity then wondered what this stencil would look like using texture paste and I managed to remember I had this magnificent glitter paste in my stash (I created my own last year using clear gloss paste and glitter having forgotten I had purchased this beautiful stuff!). Oh my...this card is so beautiful and sparkly but it's typically hard to catch all its beauty in a photo. The sentiment is from Uniko Christmas Wishes stamp set and I just love this scrawling script. 

Now head over to the Uniko blog and check out the beautiful creations by the rest of the Brand Ambassadors as they are simply gorgeous! 

Don't forget to come back tomorrow to see the full release and join in with the Brand Ambassador blog hop and GIVEAWAY! 

Much love

Steph x

Something a little different

Hi all, 

I’m here today with something a little different. It’s been ages since I’ve had time to make anything that isn’t required for a DT role and I certainly haven’t entered any challenges for ages. 

This weekend I found time to have a play around with the electronic cutting machine and made a cake topper for my great nieces 3rd birthday. There were lots of things learnt during the process and I definitely think the machine has a lot more potential than I’ve had time to figure out before!

I’m entering this make into:

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #226 - G is for Glitter

Papercraft Challenges #90 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Introducing Stencil Large Snowflake 1 and Large Snowflake 2

Welcome! 

Today we are introducing two new stencils, Uniko Large Snowflake One and Large Snowflake Two. These are perfect to get your Christmas crafting started. 

The Uniko Large Snowflake One stencil makes a really great impact due to it's geometric edges. For this card I used the mask, rather than the stencil, and inked around this. I added a sentiment from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments stamp set.

For my second card I wanted to do a very sparkly snowflake. Not having any glitter paste (or so I thought until I discovered some in my stash after I had made my card!!), I mixed stickles with translucent gloss stencil paste. I wanted the Large Snowflake Two stencil to stand out so I kept the sentiment simple, using one of the strips from the Uniko Background Builders: Winter Wonderland stamp set.

Go check out the rest of the Brand Ambassadors inspiration on the Uniko blog and don't forget to pop back tomorrow for the full release, blog hop and GIVEAWAY!

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Challenge #168

 Hello everyone, 

The theme this month for The Male Room challenge is to include a pop up element.

Oh gosh, I think I rather overthought this make and decided to try and make pop up weaved element. It was a nightmare!! I strongly advise avoiding trying to recreate this card and I am in awe of anyone who can just make one of these up with ease! 

So my pop up element is meant to be a bauble and would probably benefit from a hanging element but by the time I got to this stage I’d had enough. This was my third attempt to get the mechanism to work. Safe to say I’ll not be making anymore of these! 

Here’s a closer look at the pop up.

I left the outside of the card simple so that all the surprise is in the opening of the card. 

I did however get to play with my foiling machine for the sentiment on this card so it’s not all bad! This sentiment uses the ‘waste’ part of the foil as I have a solid plate which transferred this to the card and I was able to die cut it with the sentiment outline die. 

Now we want to see your creations with their pop-up elements over at The Male Room challenge. Please head over to the blog and give the rest of the Design Team some love. Join in the challenge and show me how it’s done! I need to see some inspiration for next time I come across a pop-up challenge as I can’t attempt this one again!! 😂

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Challenge #68 - Reminder

Morning everyone, 

Here’s a reminder about the current Uniko challenge #68. The theme is ‘Celebrate’ and the optional twist is Reds & Greens.

Again I made a Christmas card, well it’s rather close now and celebrate we will!

For this card I used the Uniko Winter Foliage stamp set (which is one of my favourites!). I simply marked out a pencil circle as a guide in the top left corner of a square of white stamping card. I then stamped the berries three times and again on masking paper. After I had masked the berries I stamped the holly leaves in two shades of green. I stamped the pine cones on a different piece of card before cutting out and adhering with foam pads. The sentiment is from a now retired Uniko set which I inked up in brown. I then adhered the panel to red glitter card before adhering to the card blank. 

Please do pop over to the Uniko blog to check out the amazing inspiration from the Uniko Brand Ambassadors and to join in the fun!

Much love

Steph x