AAA Colourful Colourboard #25

Hi all, 

Welcome to the February AAA Colourboard Challenge #25. This month we have a great colourboard for you as follows:

A really good selection of colours to work with here. And this is what I came up with.

I had the mustard frame left over from another project so I put it to use here and added a smaller die cut and embossed panel of dark blue to the centre, topped with the floral, sentiment and finally the bow (just to get the purple in there!). 

Please check out the fabulous inspiration over on the AAA Colourful challenge blog and link up your wonderful creation too.

Much love

Steph x

Uniko August 2025 Release - Introducing Background Builders Mid Century Modern

Hi all, 

Welcome to our first product introduction for the Uniko August 2025 release. Here we have Background Builders Mid Century Modern stamp set.

I have had a great time playing around with this stamp set which focuses on elements Mid Century Modern pattern design making it very easy to create beautiful backgrounds. I have teamed the stamp set with starburst elements from the Uniko Mid Century Modern Frames stamp set and Uniko Mid Century Modern Florals stamp set. 

As I was stamping my next card I thought about how these stamps from the set could be used on an Easter card...a thought to bank for later! This is a really great set if you like playing around with pattern. 

Pop over to the Uniko blog to check out what the rest of the Brand Ambassadors have created with this delightful stamp set. 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - you are here

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Coffee

Good Morning, 

Thanks for joining me today with my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post. For this month I have chosen to use Uniko Block Party Coffee Love stamp set. 

I first stamped in brown (coffee) of course! I like the combination of teal and lime green so I set about colouring the different areas of the stamp with these colours and a little more brown. To bring out the colours I die cut and layered the stamped image onto brown and then teal card. 

Using the same stamp I wanted to create a different effect so I stayed monochrome and used tones of grey along with some grey woodgrain patterned paper. With this card I also stamped and fussy cut the banner and coffee cup raising them up with foam pads, although it's hard to see this from the photo.

Which is your favourite? Leave me a comment letting me know and if you are inspired to get this lovely large block party stamp out to play with. 

Much love

Steph x

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #490

Good afternoon, 

Welcome to this week’s challenge at Colour My Heart Color Dare. Challenge #490 requires you to use browns plus one colour of your choice.

Again I found this a tough challenge because I don’t often reach for brown, but I do enjoy being pushed out of my comfort zone so here is my inspiration for you.

I do love a Kraft card base so that’s where I started. I dug out various scraps of brown card and patterned paper and played around until I was happy with a combination of three. As the scraps were long and thin in shape this sort of led me to using them as banners across the card front. Finally I die cut some decorative elements from brown, white and green card. To emphasise my one colour choice, I added a green button over a twine bow. I’m short of ‘New Home’ cards so that was the sentiment I dug out for this card. 

If you need more inspiration check out the fabulous makes by the rest of the Design Team over on the Color Dare blog. I cannot wait to see where you guys take this challenge! 

Much love

Steph

Color My Heart Color Dare #414

Good Morning Everyone

Up on the blog today is challenge #414 for Color My Heart Color Dare. For this challenge the prompt is a selection of photos with an autumnal feel. 

Please note that the DT have decided to open the range of free use colours to include all metallics, not just gold and silver. A lovely copper would work well with this fortnights challenge. 😊

For my card I took inspiration from the leaves and scarf to the right hand side of the photo.

To recreate the tartan scarf I used two of the stamp strips from the Uniko Background Builders: Christmas 2018 set to build up my background. I tried to match the inks to the picture as closely as possible and chose to use Memento Teal Zeal and Rose Bud along with Lawn Fawn's Carrot and Merman. 

Seeking out matching card, I die cut the leaves with a leaf dies that came with Papercraft Essentials Issue 177. This is a UK magazine which is a really good read and the craft items that come with it are great, like the leaf die!

I cut the leaves twice, once with the detailed vein die added and once without. The detailed vein die cut was layered onto the outline die cut except for the blue leaf. With the blue leaf I heat embossed the Clearly Besotted statement from the Say What? set using Wow! Bright White powder onto the outline only die cut. I snipped the inner leaf veins from the detailed die cut and layered just the outer edge on top so as not to obscure the sentiment.

Drop me a comment below to let me know what you think and we would love to see you pop over and join in the challenge! #414 for Color My Heart Color Dare

Much love

Steph x