Uniko's 14th Birthday Release, Sneak Peeks

Good morning. 

I don't think there's a better way to to start a new week, and end a month, than with a countdown to a new release at Uniko.

So let's have a sneak peek at what is coming up.

First up is a new Background Block, and one that we at Uniko think will be just as popular as the Background Blocks Christmas Scramble! 

As you may know, Bev loves a bit of retro design,  so it seems fitting to expand the collection with a new addition. 

This next peek is perfect to accompany it, and is a result of a customer suggestion too. 

Finally but my no means least a two layer Ink & Flip.

This is another nod to Bev's love of retro and MCM design.

That about wraps up the peeks, I'm sure there will be something for everyone in this new release. I hope you will find time to join me, Bev and the other Uniko Brand Ambassadors from tomorrow, as we start the introductions.

All these products will be available at 9am GMT Saturday 28th February 2026.

Cardz4Guyz Challenge #383

Morning, time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This time our theme for the month is to use:-

A MONOCHROMATIC COLOUR SCHEME

Here's what I came up with.

This card uses an old LOTV grey rubber stamp along with some equally ancient NitWits DP from LOTV. Not sure of the collection but it matched the kraft cards I bought sometime ago from Home Bargains. I don't paricularly like the kraft card they are made from but the DP goes quite well with the yellowish card.

The image was stamped with Memento Toffee Crunch and coloured with matching Copic markers, E50, 51,53, 55, 57 and 59 together with W1 and 5. I embossed the kraft card with an Avery Elle square die to create a frame and stamped a freebie sentiment in more Toffee Crunch before adding it to my DP and base card.

For more inspiration, please check out the reat of the team over on the Cardz4Guyz blog.

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Color Hues #127

 Afternoon folks. As we are over halfway through the month of February, it's time for a brand new colour combo from Color Hues. Here's my take using a digi from the new to me, All Dressed Up, that I won before Christmas!

According to Google, Peach is a soft warm pastel colour, ranging from pale pinkish orange to light yellow orange and Teal is a rich blue green colour, neither of which are especially suited to the Copic colour range I have. So after more googling, I went with a mix of E93 95, YR21 02 for my peach tones and BG45 and 49 for the teal elements. Luckily the elements I'd decided to colour in Teal were small so it didn't need the full shading.

After printing and colouring in Copics, I fussy cut her out and concentrated on my background panel. Luckily I found a perfect sized and coloured snippet of some DP from an earlier project and placed it behind my apperture cut into some linen effect white card. A few flowers were punched, yes you read correctly PUNCHED from some white card, coloured with the same Copic markers and shaped with a ball tool. They echoed the flowers in her hair and on her necklace. The cute girl was added on top and a Uniko sentiment in black finishes it off.

For more peach/teal inspiration please check the Color Hues blog where as always the rest of the team and GD Gundi have done a stellar job of inspiration.

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Hearts and or Flowers - I chose flowers

February Challenge - AG

Celebrating Uniko's 14th Birthday

 Today is officially Uniko's 14th Birthday. 

Here's my card to celebrate.

This day 14 years ago Bev opened the website with the launch of two clear stamp sets. And the rest they say, is history. 

Today we celebrate with a birthday linky party!

Simply create a birthday card using any Uniko products (current, retired or digital) and link up in the linky HERE, Uniko VIP FB page or on the Uniko blog. More details are at the end of the post including the prize.

Here's one I made earlier, as they say!

I seem to be on an 5 x 7 roll at the moment, perhaps the larger card base allows the design to breathe.

I started by creating the coloured panel using the silhouette stamp from Happy Days, stamped in a range of pastel shades of Altenew inks, I filled in the open spaces with black dots after seeing a card on Pinterest. Using a couple of stacked circle dies, I cut out the center of the panel and mounted it onto a slightly larger black piece of card, The large central die cut was added back in and the sentiment panel mounted on black added on top. The completed panel was popped up on the 5 x7" card base on foam pads. A few Copic coloured die cut dots complete. 

OK, that's my card so why not have a look at the inspiration from Bev and the other BAs?

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

                    Julie -you're here

Natalie

Steph

Vinita

There is plenty of time to join in on the fun.

The deadline for submission is 23:59 (GMT) on Sunday 8th March 2026.

 Prize - £25 eGift Certificate 

Open Worldwide

Party Rules

Use Uniko Products Only*.

No back linking. Linked cards/projects must be new.

Maximum Entries 3 Per Person.

*If you don't own any physical Uniko products you are welcome to use THESE FREE Uniko Digital images to create your card. 

Don't use social media or have a blog to upload your card & link from? 

No worries. Just drop Bev an email bev@uniko.co.uk titled Uniko 14th Birthday with a photo and she will upload for you.

Winners will be chosen by Brand Ambassador votes and will be announced on Wednesday 11th March 2026, along with all the winners. 

Happy crafting!

Uniko BA Inspiration Post Featuring Spring Botanicals - Tulip

Good morning, how was your weekend? Mine was not what I had anticipated as a workshop I was helping at got cancelled at the last minute, so I had some time to play in my own craftroom! 

I still have onion sets and shallots to get in the veg beds but it has been SO wet these last weeks, that they are best left until it dries up or if not I will have to put them into individual cells until this deluge is over! 

Anyway, I hunkered down in my craft room for some watercolour painting to make a card for an old friend, here is the end result.

I was inspired by a card that popped up on my Pinterest feed and one that Bev made before Christmas and decided to mix my Uniko stash with Waffle Flower's Postage stamp die set.

On a panel of Mixed Media paper, I used the stencil from the die set to plan my placement of the tulips, sketching in the open areas lightly with a pencil. Next, I stamped using some masking, a bunch of Uniko's Spring Botanicals- Tulips with Memento Toffee Crunch.

I used some watercolours to paint the blooms and was about to cut the Postage Stamp panel when I realised I'd had the stencil the wrong way around and my planned design wouldn't work!

So with a little bit of thought, I decided to cut the panel anyway and see what I got. Instead of placing my panel face down, I placed the wrong side face down into the die panel. I had initially intended to cut out each of the panels along the stitched lines and place them on a new die cut panel, but now couldn't do that but with the help of an old fashioned embossing tool and a foam mat, I sort of rescued it with some manual embossing!

To cover where the masking hadn't worked I inked through the stencil with some Mustard Deed DI, then stamped a few bits in Toffee Crunch at strategic places.

I'd purposefully left the small rectangle in the bottom right clear so that I could stamp my sentiment, Doodle Flowers in more Toffee Crunch.

The die cut panel was mounted on some black card and then onto a trimmed down 5 x 7inch white card base. The black seves to hi-light the die cut as well as masking the different white of the MM paper.

Well the rain has stopped for the moment but for how long is anyone's guess. So that's all for the moment, see you soon.

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