Papercraft Challenges #104 - Easter

Welcome all, 

This month the theme at Papercraft Challenges is Easter. I love creating Easter cards. I think it's because Spring is my favourite season! 

I stamped my spring wreath and then rather stupidly decided to fussy cut it out. Stupid really because it was a real pain to do and it doesn't add to the card by being cut out in any way!! But never mind, lesson learnt. I added the Easter eggs using foam pads and stamped the sentiment in the centre. 

Looking forward to seeing your Easter cards and of course you can see the other lovely makes by the rest of the design team over on the Papercraft Challenges blog. What will this month's prize be? It's a surprise from our sponsor Little Crafts. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Spring Botanicals Revisited Blog Hop & Giveaway

Hi all, 

Every other month the Uniko Brand Ambassadors are doing a product revisit. This month we are bringing inspiration using the Uniko Spring Botanicals range.

I love to see the spring flowers emerge so in these cards I’ve used spotlight colouring to highlight the beauty of the blooms as they emerge from the ground. 

Here I have used Uniko Spring Botanicals Snowdrop. I stamped it onto two pieces of card colouring one with grey tones and one with true spring colours. I die cut a large circle from the grey tone piece and lined it up with the coloured version, adhering with foam pads for dimension. 

I applied the same principle to my next card but used Uniko Spring Botanicals Tulip and die cut three smaller circles for the spotlights. 

For my final card I wanted to see what the spotlight would look like if it was a square. I think it looks like a window and works well with the Uniko Spring Botanicals Daffodil. 

You can get lots more amazing inspiration from the Brand Ambassadors on our blog hop. If you leave some love along the way you could be the lucky winner of one of the Spring Botanicals stamp sets. 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

There’s currently lots of Spring challenges out there so I’d like to enter my cards into:

Double D challenges First Signs of Spring

The Four Seasons Spring Season March 24 challenge 

Stamping Sensations March challenge

🌷 Spring 🐣 - Card 2

Inkspirational Challenge #311 - Clean and Simple 

Much love

Steph x

Papercraft Challenges #93 - Spring

Morning all, 

I am delighted to let you know that I have joined the Design Team over at Papercraft Challenges. 

I am very excited to get on and introduce my first challenge post to you so here is my card for Challenge #93 - Spring.

Spring is definitely a time to start eating ice cream! I chose to reflect the lovely Spring colours that are popping up in the garden too from the beautiful purple hyacinths to the wonderful pink tulips. I’ve even spotted some blue grape hyacinths on my walks around our village too. 

This digital image was kindly supplied by Mirtillamente Craft Shop and the winner of this month's challenge will be entitled to two digital stamps of their choice and a spot as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

So head on over to the Papercraft Challenges blog where you can see the other wonderful creations from the rest of the Design Team and you can join in the fun! 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Feb / Mar Release In Review

Hi all, 

Due to the various postal issues around the globe, some of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors did not receive their Uniko Feb / Mar goodies in time for the introductions and release day so we are doing an end of month 'Release in Review' so they can join in. 

I chose to use the wonderful Uniko Spring Botanicals Crocus stamp set again because it's just so lovely! I also loved the way Bev mixed it with the other Spring Botanicals stamps here so I decided to do the same. I don't have as much patience for masking as I do for fussy cutting (despite it being a fairly similar process!) so I stamped and fussy cut my florals before arranging them on to a card front stencilled using Uniko Quilted stencil. I like the sentiments on the Uniko Spring Botanicals Daffodil stamp set so I used those here. 

My next project is a recreation of the Easter bunting I made during the introductions as I have been asked to make some for my great niece! This time I used the Uniko Hoppy Easter stamp on patterned papers to change it up a bit. 

I hope you liked my little review of the Uniko Feb / Mar release and don't forget that there is lots more fantastic inspiration from the rest of the Brand Ambassadors on the Uniko blog hop (as well as a GIVEAWAY!)

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph - that's me

Vinita

Much love

Steph x

Uniko's 11th Birthday Reveal, Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

Hi everyone, 

Welcome to Uniko's 11th birthday reveal, release, Brand Ambassador blog hop and GIVEAWAY!

Spring Botanicals Crocus

These beauties took a little while to colour and fussy cut but I think the final result is worth it. It’s hard to see from the photo but this is a floating frame which really does look quite impressive with the beautiful large crocus heads. 

Hoppy Easter

When I saw these cute bunnies I immediately wanted to make them into bunny shaped cards! They are quite small as the whole stamp set is A6 in size but honestly it just makes them cuter! 

Up & Away and Everyday Spring Sentiments

Quite often when I look at the component parts of a stamp set I see how it can be used in different ways and for me the hot air balloons in this set made me want to create a fantastic large floral bloom! The sentiments from the new Everyday Spring Sentiments set matched perfectly too.

Cloud 9 Stencil

Earlier in the week I mentioned how well the Up & Away stamp set would work with the Cloud 9 stencil so I created this card to prove it! 

Falling Hearts Serenade

For this card I had the great idea that I would attempt to mirror stamp the image and create a full heart…many attempts later and I gave up with the mirror stamping…clearly not a technique I’m cut out for! In the end I lined up each individual element on the left hand side and stamp and heat embossed them one by one. Yes, I’m that insane! Looks good though I think. 

Everyday Love Sentiments & Bokeh Layering Hearts Stencil

I love the font style of this set and teamed up with Uniko Everyday Sentiments, Everyday Spring Sentiments and Christmas Sentiments you really do get a very useful group of mix and match sentiments for many occasions.

Unfortunately I don’t have any inspiration images to show using the Bokeh Layering Hearts but I do know they are going to be just fab! The hearts have been sized to fit within each other and also to work with other heart stamps in the Uniko range such as Big & Bold Love.

So that’s the lot! It’s always great to find out which release items have captured your heart so do let us know. Be a bunny and hop over to all the Uniko Brand Ambassador’s blogs to leave some love and be in with a chance of winning a £30 eGift Certificate to spend in the Uniko store. 

Anita

Bev

Julie

Steph - that’s me

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

Uniko Feb / Mar Release Introducing Spring Botanicals Crocus

Morning all, 

Welcome to our first Introduction of the Uniko  Feb / Mar release. Here we are showing the beautiful Spring Botanicals Crocus. A wonderful addition to the Spring Botanicals range which already features a daffodil, tulip and snowdrops. 

I love crocus and I’ve been using the wonderful inspiration of nature all around at the moment to help with this design.

Pop over to the Uniko blog to see what beauties the rest of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors have created and leave some love. Come back tomorrow for the next introductions on the release.

Much love

Steph x