Crafted by Jules

BIG & BOLD Happy £10

Also available are the matching dies

Designer Dies BIG & BOLD Happy £18.50

You Are, Yes You £5

This little gem is a Release Day FREEBIE clear stamp set.

It will be automatically added to release day orders of £25 or more up until Sunday 17th Feb 9pm GMT or while stock lasts.

After 9pm GMT Sunday 17th February, if there is stock remaining it will be made available for purchase at £5.

My second card uses the sentiments from the You Are, Yes You set and the Graffiti Background Block stamp.

I used the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch for my layout, stamping some pink card with Memento Love Letter ink then added some semi dull EP and heat embossed. The hearts were die cut from a panel of the pink card inked again with Love Letter and the embossing powder. I decided to add some Glossy Accents to the hearts and popped them up on pads. My sentiment is stamped with the same Love Letter ink.

Background Blocks Graffiti Texture £5

My third card again uses the sweet bloom stamp from You Are, Yes You as well as the fab Pinstripe Background Block stamp.

This time my inspiration were the colours from Color Throwdown.

I repeat stamped the pinstripes using my Zig brushes to ink it up to create the pattern. On a separate panel of white, I stamped a row of blooms and then cut it down with a scalloped edge die from MFT.

I used my Copics to colour and added a sentiment from the Birthday Sentiment Blocks set, white EP over red.

Background Blocks Pinstripe £5

My final card combines the Abstract Triangle stencil with the Passiflora stamps and dies.

Over at CAS stencil the theme is Ink powders and stencils, so I thought I would get my Brushos out and have a play with the new stencil. I'd seen this photo on Google whilst looking for colouring inspiration and thought the stencil could work as trellis.

I taped down my panel of Mixed Media paper to my board and placed the stencil on top. Carefully adding my Brusho, Turquoise and Prussian Blue and Sea Green, I think! The blue suggests sky, a tad brighter than the brick wall in the pic, the green and purple echo the blooms of the passion flower. I then spritzed the stencil with water and whipped it away quickly before the liquid oozed underneath!

Once dry I trimmed it down to size and glued it behind a die cut frame from my stash.

The passion flower was stamped using Momento inks and die cut, then arranged in the top right.

I originally put the finished panel on a white base card but for some reason the frame looked a different colour so I decided to use a coloured card and plumped for this purple which I think works better, picking up the purple of the blooms and inked panel. My sentiment from Birthday Sentiments is stamped in matching purple Memento.

Passiflora £10

Designer Dies Passiflora £15

Stencil Abstract Triangles £3.50

That was quite an introduction, BUT we are not finished yet! We have our traditional Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway with a difference!

As it is our 7th Birthday Blog Hop Bev wanted to add a little more FUN to the blog hop and she has decided to incorporate a Treasure Hunt!

Hidden in photos along the blog hop are these letter balloon icons.

All you have to do is -

1. Comment along the Blog Hop & find the icons

2. Email bev@uniko.co.uk with the following information

- Design Team Members Name & Balloon Letter Found

- What the Balloons spell out

Entries need to be emailed no later than Thursday 28th February 2019, for the winner to be announced Friday 1st March 2019 (winner will be randomly chosen from all the correct entries).

Prize...

The ENTIRE 7th Birthday February Release! (6 clear stamp sets, 2 co-ordinating designer die collections & 1 stencil design).

So what are you waiting for? Better get hopping.

Bev
Ruth GD
Carol

Jane
Julie -- That's me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

PLUS... Bev will still randomly select another winner! Be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win ALL SIX Clear Stamp Sets!! You have until Midnight (GMT) Thursday 28th February 2019 to comment and the winner will be announced with ALL the 7th Birthday February 2019 Winners.

I'm joining in over at:-

With Love

Sunday, 10 February 2019

Introducing Uniko's Yes You and Background Blocks Pinstripe

Morning all.

It's the final day of the release introductions at Uniko, tomorrow is the big release day!

Today we are introducing another addition to the background blocks stable - Pinstripe.

I love this new stamp and saw lots of possibilities for its use! Here is one of them.

Using my Misti, I inked up the stamp with white ink and stamped a panel of grey card from the stash. The width was too small for full coverage so after cleaning, I repositioned it and reinked and stamped to create my panel.

The second element of my card is the flower. This set is being offered as a freebie with orders over 25 pounds. until stocks last. I stamped the bloom and a couple of leaf sprigs and coloured them with Copic markers, before fussy cutting them and arranging them into a spray on a die cut white panel.

This was then stamped with one of the Birthday Wishes sentiments and popped up on pads. A few Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins complete.

So that's all of the intros complete, tomorrow you can purchase them yourself . What are your thoughts on the release we'd love to hear.

If we have we inspired you to grab these stamps for yourself our job is done but below are the links to the DT for more inspiration, should you want it!

Bev

Ruth GD
Carol

Jane
Julie - that'll be me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Introducing Uniko's Passiflora stamp set and matching dies

Hi and welcome to day four of Uniko's February release intros.

I so excited to get my hands on this new flower set with matching dies, I haven't seen anything like it around!

Here's what I did with my first play.

I first stamped my various elements, after first acquainting myself with the form of the passion flower. Then I simply die cut the images and arranged them into a pleasing spray. The dies for the tendrils are a boon for cutting out these tricky elements!

On reflection the design was missing something, so I die cut a thin frame using a couple of stacking dies from matching white card and attached it to the base card before adding the die cuts and a stamped banner die. I decided to trim off the overhanging leaves so it would fit inside a C6 envelope!

For more inspiration check out the rest of the team.

Bev

Carol

Jane
Julie - that'll be me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

I'm joining in over at:-

Friday, 8 February 2019

Introducing Uniko's Background Blocks Graffitti

Morning peeps.

Back again with day 3 of the February Uniko release introductions.

Today we are focusing on one of the background blocks - Graphitti!

For this example, I inked a panel with Blueprint Sketch DOx and then stamped the graffitti image with plain water to create the pattern. The water acts like bleach, removing some of the ink which you can mop up with a piece of kitchen paper. I also splashed a few drops of water over the panel to remove even more of the ink.

My top panel was cut using a double sided curved die and the panel trimmed down to size. A scrap of bright yellow card was also cut and then slipped behind the white panel to create added interest. My sentiment, from Wonderful Day was stamped in navy ink and embossed with clear semi dull EP and the white panels popped up over the distressed blue one, trimmed to size and added to a white base card.

For more fab inspiration, check out the rest of the team.

Bev
Ruth
Carol

Jane
Julie -that's me!
Linda