The Male Room Challenge #203 - For A Baby Boy

Welcome! 

Today at The Male Room we have a challenge theme full of cuteness - 'For A Baby Boy'.

I went with the typical blue colours but of course anything is great for a baby boy. I used my die cutting plate to give a quilted look to the background. I added a die cut frame in a darker blue and stamped the teddy and 'welcome' sentiment from the now retired Uniko Sweet Baby stamp set. Finally I die cut the letters to spell 'baby' and adhered everything in place. 

What colour/s will you choose and what image/s will you select? Check out the fantastic creations by the rest of the Design Team over on The Male Room blog, and of course join in the fun with us too. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Uniko Style

Good morning, 

Welcome to my Uniko Brand Ambassador inspiration post this month where I have chosen to use the fabulous Uniko Style stamp set. I chose this one because of Bev's super card on the latest release which reminded me of my love for this stamp!

I thought it would be nice to pair the stamp set with a variety of Uniko stencils and each one has turned out surprisingly different. 

For this card I have stamped the Uniko Style florals with chalk ink and paired them with Uniko Mid Century Modern Shapes Circles & Stars stencil. I inked the stencil onto green card using a slightly darker green ink and an orange/brown ink.

This time I used dye inks and teamed with the Uniko MOD Background Builder Circles stencil. I kept the design fresh by stencilling onto white card.

Finally I used pink card and stencil paste through the Uniko Quilted stencil for the background of this card. The florals are slightly different too as I have heat embossed the outline and centres onto pink card.

Hopefully these examples will have you dusting off the Uniko Style stamp set and digging out some stencils to have fun getting inky with. I always end up covered in ink when I stencil! 

As the first card is a masculine card I will be entering it into the AAA Birthday challenge Game #71.

I would like to enter my third card into the Addicted to CAS challenge #278 and Stencil Fun's March challenge.

Much love

Steph x

Uniko January 2025 Release - Introducing... Ink & Flip Layering Flower Stencil AND Simply Said Blocks Occasions Clear Stamp Set

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.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Challenge #187 - Ribbon or Twine

Hi everyone, 

Welcome to this month's challenge from The Male Room. Challenge #187 has the theme of Ribbon or Twine. 

I did a little bit of ribbon weaving and adhered it to the back of a die cut heart aperture. Ideal for a baby boy card. 

Join in the fun at The Male Room and check out the other fantastic creations by the rest of the Design Team. 

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Challenge #173 - Stencil and / or Dies

Hi All, 

Welcome to this month's challenge at The Male Room. This month we have the theme of Stencil and / or Dies. 

I hadn't made a card using just dies in a while so that what I opted for. 

I used large alphabet dies from Concord & 9th and added cute button die cuts in the same colour to create a baby boy card. Once arranged onto white card I layered the panel onto blue woodgrain patterned paper to complete my CAS card. 

Will you choose stencils, dies or both for your masculine make? Share your creation with us over at The Male Room Challenge #173. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Feb / Mar Release Introducing Hoppy Easter & Everyday Spring Sentiments

Morning everyone. 

Welcome back to our second day of Introductions on the Uniko Feb / Mar release. Today we have two stamp sets to show, Hoppy Easter and Everyday Spring Sentiments. 

Firstly with the Hoppy Easter set I couldn't help but make some Easter bunting and of course my girls are looking forward to putting this up at Easter!

The Everyday Spring Sentiment set is in the same font as the Christmas Clear Sentiments, Everyday Sentiments and the Everyday Love Sentiments (yet to be released on the Uniko website) so they are super versatile and lots of mix and matching can be done.

Make sure you bunny hop (!) over to the Uniko blog and see the great makes by the rest of the Brand Ambassadors and leave some love. Be sure to spring (!!) back tomorrow for more introductions...sorry I can't seem to help myself! 

Much love

Steph x

Congratulations It’s a Boy

Afternoon all

I’ve been very lucky this week and managed to sneak off to the craft room again for an afternoon. I enjoyed stencilling the other day so I’ve grabbed my Uniko Giraffe background stencil and created this cute baby boy card. 

I used lawn fawn inks ‘butter’ and ‘walnut’ to create my background. I searched through the stash and found this very cute balloon giraffe stamp in the Clearly Besotted Best Balloons set. I then hunted through and found more balloons in the CB All In Onesie set. I coloured them up with alcohol markers, fussy cut and adhered with foam pads. The ‘Congratulations’ sentiment is from Concord and 9th set Layers of Love and ‘it’s a boy’ from another CB set called Little Onesie II. I then mounted to whole thing onto an A6 Kraft card blank. 

My original design was especially for The Male Room challenge who are looking for Animals in their current challenge.

I will also be entering the Happy Little Stampers new stencil challenge as this month Anything Goes. 

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Steph x