Uniko May Release Sneak Peeks

Its time for the May 2019 Release over at Uniko!

There are 4 new clear stamp sets, 2 designer die collections to match previously released clear stamps and a brand new stencil design. These will be available to purchase on Sunday 5th May 2019 at 9pm GMT. 

Let's have a look at the peeks...

This set of clear stamps is inspired by Bev's love of the design movement - Mid Century Modern (1933 - 1965). 

More retro designs have inspired two new Background Blocks clear stamps...

There's also a stencil that fits in too.

Lastly for the stamps this release, there's a new Large Background clear stamp design...

Recently, Bev did a poll on the Uniko Facebook page to see whether stampers prefer small or large background stamps. the majority of you preferring lager backgrounds. So Bev listened and will be bringing more of these larger background stamps in the near future.

Lastly, there are two coordinating Designer Die Collections to previously released clear stamp sets. Can you tell which ones from these peeks?! 

That is all the sneak peeks for this release, which means tomorrow the FUN starts!! We'll be back along with our Guest Designer Jenny from Crafting in the Country to start the product introductions with lots of inspiration. 

We'd love to know what you are most excited to see in this line up of products and what your favourite is! 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you will come back in the next few days, to see how this new release can be used.

Getting there

Hi, hope you are well.

I'm getting there, that is my shoulder is getting back to something like normal after breaking the top of my humerus in a fall, but I still have to be careful and not over do things. So slow and steady wins the race as they say. I'm still very frustrated about my inability to do things but I have been trying out a little bit of crafting, just to see how it fares.

My Big Shot has been out of bounds as I couldn't turn the handle and keep the plates level with one hand but I tried this week after the consultant said that there were no bits sticking out where there shouldn't be! 

I decided to use it to cut some foam flowers with my Altenew Rose Flurries dies, not much force needed to cut these out, just a bit of stabilising with my left hand. The cut outs could then be turned into stamps, adding them to acrylic blocks with a Pritt stick!

Here's the end result, albeit that it took me all week to finish!

Over at CAS Mix up, they are focusing on layered embossing so as the die cuts are meant to be layered, why not stamp with them too. 

On a panel of blue card I stamped the base layer with Versamark and embossed with clear semi dull WOW EP. The top layer was added over the top, this time using WOW sparkly platinum EP. The Sugar Pea sentiment was stamped over a strip of matching embossed blue card in the same platinum EP.

The idea for the card was sparked by this super card, here, using single die cut elements.

The physio gave me some more advanced exercises yesterday to help build up the muscles and gently stretch those tendons. My range of movement has improved, some directions better than others, but still a way to to go until I'm back to full mobility.
So as it says at the top I'm slowly getting there and hopefully I will be back with some more makes soon.
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