It's Beginning To Look Like... Uniko October/November Reveal, Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

Good morning, time for a few more ideas using the stamps from the new release which are available on the Uniko page now.

My first card is simply another way to use the Framed Fairy Lights.

Once the lights were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP, I added dark blue watercolour to the background and coloured the lights with Zig markers. The panel was trimmed to the edge of the embossed frame and added to a note card, a simple white embossed sentiment from the set completes.

My second card uses the BB Snow Flurry and Christmas Pop stamp sets to create this little scene.

The Trees were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP before cutting out, the snow flurry was simply stamped in dark blue ink and cut to leave a small border. A small panel of matching white card was scored using a scoreboard and added to the Snow Flurry panel and the trees added on top. The sentiment from Peace on Earth was with Versamark and Silver EP.

 

This next card was inspired by a comment my daughter made when she was over about it being the lines of a carol so why not include some music in the design.

On a panel of white card I stamped the JOY from Big n Bold with Versamark and heat embossed with gold EP. I then added the text and music in black and a couple of holly sprigs for added festive charm. I hope I haven't infringed any copyrights with my stamped snippet of score!!

My final card uses that fab poinsettia stamp. 

I have to admit that this should have been used in a card earlier this week but life got in the way as well as an inky splat on the OLC I was making!! Anyway I decided I had spent too much effort on colouring it to not make a card and while pondering what to do I came across the Case a DT member at JUGS. When I saw Elizabeth's card I knew I could use my poinsettia!

I used the same orientation as her card, the circle aperture, the floral motif, red and green colours along with gold embossing on the flowers but put my own spin on it.

I stamped the poinsettia with  Altenew Silver Stone ink first as I wanted to colour it with Copic markers and they don't mix well with EP, so I left the stamp in my MISTI whilst I coloured it.

Once coloured, I placed it back into the MISTI and stamped over it with Versamark and embossed with gold EP and fussy cut it out, that got rid of the red inky splodge!

The top panel I had in my stash and I used the Festive Foliage stencil to emboss a panel to put behind the opening. The Merry, instead of a die cut, was stamped, embossed with gold EP and fussy cut and the Christmas part stamped onto the embossed panel. 

My fussy cut poinsettia was added to the aperture so that a few sepals were hanging over the edge and then the whole panel was added onto a base card with foam tape. I know the original card had layers of die cuts to give dimension but you can't do that with fussy cutting so easily, the foam pads have the same effect.

So that's all from me but please check out the rest of the team to see what they've been up to. Don't forget to leave some love along the way for a chance to win the entire release!!! The winner will be announced on November 11th 2024.

Natalia

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

So what do you think about the new release? Looking forward to seeing what you all think in the comments!

Joining in over at:-

It's Beginning To Look Like... Introducing Uniko's Framed - Fairy Lights

Morning, it's the final day of introductions at Uniko. Today we are focusing on a new framed stamp, Fairy Lights! Here are a couple of ideas I came up with.

First of the block is this card.

To start, I took a panel of white card and stamped the frame image with Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. I then coloured each of the fairy lights with Zig watercolour markers before using an embossing pen and clear EP. Once cool, I inked over the whole piece of paper with Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot DOx.  The clear embossing resisted the inking to let the lights shine! The panel was then cut in two across the middle and I added each half of it to the edge of an A6 note card. The top and bottom of the framed fairy lights were then covered with a sentiment panel to fill the gap.

This next card shows that you don't need to use the whole stamp. 

Here I've just stamped the long edge onto some white card, coloured with Copic markers and added to a base card, followed by two panels of black, one stamped with the sentiment. A couple of thin strips of gold glitter paper glued at the join add a bit of festive sparkle.

So that's all from me but please check out the rest of the team to see what ideas they've come up with.

Natalia GD

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow with our traditional blog hop and giveaway, see you then.

Color Hues #98

Afternoon folks. 

It's the first of the month so there must be a new colour duo from Color Hues.

This time Karen has chosen an unusual combination for the time of year, well that's what I thought at first but then I thought and decided it was VERY appropriate and came up with this take on a sketch I found online.

What says red and black more than a Santa?

To start, I stamped the MFT Santa, coloured him with Copics and fussy cut him out to use later.

On an A6, top fold, white note card, I added a panel of black and white striped DP, followed by some white card embossed with a Cuttlebug EP. In my bits box I found 2 circles of white card, embossed the smallest with a Honey Bee EF and glued it over the stitched one. A hand cut banner from a scrap of red card and HO HO HO, cut from the same using MFT's small alphabet dies, were added to the embossed panel followed by the circles and Santa.

So that's it from me, but please check out the rest of the team here along with our two GDs Izzy and Colleen B.

We are looking forward to seeing your takes on the new colours in the gallery.

It's Beginning To Look Like... Introducing Uniko's BIG & BOLD Joy

Morning all. It's the penultimate day of the new release introductions from Uniko.

Today we are introducing another in the Big n Bold series, Big n Bold Joy.

Here's my first idea using this set.

Using the sketch from The Paper Players, I started by embossing a panel of white card with my Winter Foliage stencil. This was then cut in 2 and added to my base card, as per the sketch. On a circle of matching white card, I stamped the JOY with Versamark and heat embossed with gold EP before stamping the small leaflet repeatedly to create a wreath. A few red berries were then added with a stamp from BB Vines Winter Additions.

On a strip of black card, I stamped the To the World with Versamark and heat embossed with gold EP, adding it to the joy wreath. Finally using the Peace on Earth set, I stamped a further sentiment. 

My next card mixes Christmas Pop, In the Forest stencil, Big n Bold Joy and Christmas Sentiments.

On a panel of white card, I started by adding some lime green trees in a grid using the small tree from Christmas Pop, I then added more, firstly with a dark green, then a mid tone green. I wasn't completely satisfied so used a small section of the stencil to fill in the gaps. I centered the similar shaped stencil tree over the palest tree in each group, before softly inking through with Twisted Citron DI, moving the masked stencil until I was satisfied with the coverage.

The JOY was stamped in red on some scrap white card and fussy cut before gluing onto my tree panel and the sentiment strip was stamped with part of the Wishing You A stamp from Christmas Sentiments and then embossed with  gold EP.

Why not check out what ideas the rest of the team have come up by clicking the links.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

So that's it from me for today, see you back here tomorrow for another brand new release from Uniko.

Joining in over at:-

It's Beginning To Look Like... Introducing Uniko's Background Blocks Snow Flurry

Good morning. As I mentioned yesterday, we are launching a brand new addition to the Background Blocks series, Snow Flurry. Here's what I've made with it.

My first card uses Christmas Pop set against an aperture with the BB Snow Flurry in the background.

On some white card, I stamped the block with Altenew's Turquoise ink and the trees with their Limeade ink. The trees were fussy cut and the BB panel added onto an A6 note card so that it fit under my die cut aperture panel. The layout loosely matches the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, squished down! The snowdrift was cut freehand from some scrap and as I had the Peace on Earth set out I used that for a simple greeting. The trees and snowdrift were arranged around the opening and the top panel added with some foam tape. 

My second card is a simple shaker card.

 

This time the BB Snow Flurry was stamped onto a scrap of white and put to one side whilst I mad my shaker element. I cut an MFT frame from white card and glued some acetate from some packaging to it. When dry I ran my anti static bag over the acetate then added some foam tape before turning it over and adding some glitter, beads and a few die cut snowflakes. The panel was then cut to size and added to seal it all in. The shaker element was them added to a white base card that I'd already stamped the sentiment in matching ink to.

So that's all from me for today but please check out what the rest of the team have been up to.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

I'll back tomorrow with another new release.

Joining in over at:-

It's Beginning To Look Like... Reintroducing Uniko's Pure Florals Poinsettia

Morning, time for another reintroduction from Uniko. Today we are sharing inspiration using the re released Pure Florals Poinsettia. I'm so happy that Bev has re released this set as it's my go to Christmas floral! I think she might have got fed up with me badgering her to bring it back!

So for my inspiration, I decided to make a card using a technique I've not used before with this stamp, and I can tell you that was difficult!

For this card, I stamped the fab head of the poinsettia twice with Versamark onto vellum before heat embossing with white EP. A poinsettia has really tiny yellow flowers in the center of the head, the red and green 'petals' are really modified leaves. I took one of the images and fussy cut the whole of the head and then cut the center out from the other. 

I chose a lovely festive red base card and using the ribs of the leaves, carefully glued the poinsettia to it. The smaller center was similarly glued over the large one. A simple white embossed sentiment from the set completes.

Here are a few other ideas that I've come up with over the years using this set. Just click the pic to find out all the details of how I made them.

So are you pleased like me that Bev has decided to reintroduce this fab set?

Why not pop along to the rest of the team and our guest Natalia to check out what they've been up to.

Natalia

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

I'll see you back here tomorrow for the launch of a brand new stamp!

It's Beginning To Look Like... Reintroducing Uniko's Christmas Pop

Morning all.

Today we are reintroducing the Christmas Pop stamp set. So rather than go for a straightforward stamped image I went for this as my idea.

A couple of years ago I used the Christmas Pop stencil to create these cards but this time I've used the outline image from the stamp set.

The tree outline was stamped with a pale ink, I used Altenew's Limestone, on some mixed Media paper and then I added some plain water to the triangular part of the image, followed quickly by three shades of green watercolour paint and let the water move the colour around. When the paint was dry I repeated the technique with brown for the trunk. Once completely dry, I added the gold embossed lines and star with Versamark and Gold EP plus an embossed sentiment from Peace on Earth.

That's all from me for the time being but why not check out what the rest of the team and our guest Natalia have been up to. 

Natalia 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

See you back here tomorrow for more festive inspiration with another stamp intro.