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

Papercraft Challenges #113 - Under the Mistletoe

Good morning, 

And welcome to the final challenge from Papercraft Challenges for 2024. This month we have the theme of 'Under the Mistletoe'. We have kindly been provided digi stamps by our sponsor Mirtillamente craft shop.

For this card I have used the digi stamp Christmas Town for the above card. I like the simple design of this digi and decided to use the paper piecing technique, printing the image onto green, blue and yellow card. To finish I added red Nuvo drops to the centre tree, crystal Stickles to the star and windows and 3d Pearl Effects to the 'snow' on the houses and trees. 

This stamp is called Christmas Home. Here I have simply coloured the scene with alcohol markers and layered onto coloured card mats. 

Looking forward to seeing you join in the fun over at Papercraft Challenges. 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Stretch Your Stash

Morning All, 

Last year I used my Uniko non-Christmas stamps to make Christmas cards (see here) and I thought I'd give it a go this year with my Uniko stencils. It's always good to see what other ways we can use our products and stretch our stash with a little 'outside the box' thinking! 

My first card didn't take too much imagination as I thought the fabulous Uniko Layering Stencil - Zesty would fit beautifully as dried orange slices in a Christmas wreath. I teamed this with one of my favourite stamp sets, Uniko Winter Foliage. 

After a look through my Uniko stencils, I spotted that the Uniko Mid Century Modern Shapes stencil had the perfect shapes to 'build' a Christmas tree! A little stickles added some tree lights and a sentiment from Uniko Simply Said Blocks Christmas stamp set completed the card. 

For my final card I used one of my favourite stencils and certainly not one you would class as a Christmas stencil, but it's perfect for an animal print lover at Christmas time! The stencil is Uniko Tiger Print and I have teamed it with Uniko Sparkling Snowflake die.

The good thing about this card method is you get two for one! Here I have used the die cut snowflake to make a second card. 

I hope you have got your Christmas cards well under way but don't panic if not, all these cards are quick to make (but only if you like fussy cutting in the case of the first card!). 

As this may be my last post pre Christmas, I will sign off by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

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

Color My Heart Color Dare #486

Hey everyone, 

Thanks for joining me today as we launch Color My Heart Color Dare challenge #486.

This week we have a 3, 2, 1 recipe PLUS use a coloured card base. It looks tricky at first glance but once I got started I found this a really great challenge. I took my inspiration from some floral patterned paper and the rest flowed from there. 

So my 3 colours are pink, green and light blue and out of these I have used pink for my card base. My 2 neutrals are black and white and my 1 is the glitter (Stickles) I have added to the hearts and bow. I love how Stickles changes colour to match the card you put it on. This card was a simply construct with die cut rectangles and a sentiment stamped from Uniko Spring Botanicals Daffodil stamp set. I die cut a bow using Waffle Flower Mini 3D blow die. This is a great die by the way! And three little hearts in green card which then got covered in Stickles. 

I really hope you will take on the challenge and show us what you make over at Color My Heart Color Dare. I had so much fun making for this challenge. I can tell my teammates also had fun making their excellent creations so go check out the blog now! 

Much love

Steph x

Christmas in January?!!!

Hi everyone, 

Usually by this point I’ve had enough of Christmas crafting but this year I made the cutest card for my daughters and as I was making it I though it would be easy to replicate. So, 20 Christmas cards later…

I really love the combination of teal and red card. The die cut wreath is from Simon Says Stamps and is a eucalyptus wreath. The animal stamps and matching dies are from Concord & 9th called Furry Friends. These stamps are so versatile! I added the hats from a set I got with a UK card making magazine. Finally the sentiment is from the Simply Winter Sentiments by Lawn Fawn. I added some stickles to the hats which can’t be seen well on the photos on the white trim but looks amazing in real life!

It’s so rare I actually get time to create something not for my own design team obligations so I’m entering these into the following:

Happy Little Stampers January Christmas Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches #519

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #578

Much love

Steph x

Uniko Introducing... Stencil - Flower Power #1

Morning All, 

Today it's time to introduce the one stencil on this Uniko Mini Release and it is called Flower Power #1. 

I have used the stencil to firstly ink in green and then I have added the red ink over the top, after adjusting the position of the stencil. This is my modern version of a poinsettia! Initially I heat embossed the edges of the red petals with gold powder but it seemed to need something more...so out came the stickles and the shimmer is fantastic! I used one of the sentiments from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments set (introduced yesterday) and heat embossed in gold. 

There's some fantastic inspiration from the Brand Ambassadors over on the Uniko blog to day so be sure to go check it out and come back tomorrow for the final product introduction. 

Much love

Steph x