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Anniversaire Arts Décoratifs £5

Background Blocks Arts Décoratifs £5

Background Builders Arts Décoratifs £10

Background Blocks Pinstripe II £5

Happy Days £5

Spring Botanicals Tulip £10

Designer Dies Kindness Blooms £16.50

So that's it. You have seen all the new stamps and die sets but be sure to comment on all the Brand Ambassador blogs for your chance to win the ENTIRE Release! You have until Midnight GMT Saturday 29th February 2020 to leave a comment. The winner will be announced Sunday 8th March 2020 along with all the other 8th Birthday Celebration Winners ;)

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

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Saturday, 22 February 2020

Introducing Happy Days and Background Block Pinstripe II

Well it's the final day of introducing the Birthday release at Uniko.

What do you think of it so far? Lots of Art Deco inspired stamp sets but also some floral ones as well.

Today we are looking at two new stamps, Happy Days, a silhouette foliage set and another background block, Pinstripe II.

Here is my card using both stamp sets using both together in a kissing technique.

I don't know what made me try this technique but I'm certainly glad that I did, as I think it adds interest to the foliage spray.

I used my MISTI for this technique but you don't need to but it certainly makes things a lot easier!

The spray was stamped first with the solid colour then I inked up the Pinstripe Background Block on an Acrylic block in a slightly darker colour and tapped onto the spray whilst it was still in the MISTI. As the card panel was still in the same place as was the leaf spray, the lines only stamped onto the original stamped image. You only have one go at this technique as there is no chance of a second inking. I didn't get 100% coverage but the overal effect works I think.

I decided on a rainbow of colours as I couldn't decide on which colours to use, moving the spray each time and re positioning it before stamping each time.

The space left after all this cried out for a large bold sentiment, so I used the largest one from Birthday Wishes stamped in black.

For more release inspiration check out the rest of the team below.

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda

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Friday, 21 February 2020

Introducing Spring Botanicals Tulips

Morning all.

We are rattling through the introductions of the new release from Uniko.

Today we introduce another member of the Spring Botanicals, Tulip.

This is a lovely bold image, perfect for colouring in what ever medium you prefer. I chose to use a no line watercolour technique for my card.

I stamped the large flowers with Altenew Limestone ink onto mixed media paper and then used a mixture of Seedless Preserve and Dusky Concord DI and Altenew's Evergreen, Forest Glade and Frayed Leaf to watercolour the flowers and leaves. I had a snippet of NitWits paper that I wanted to use so that really dictated the colour choice for the blooms.

On an A6 base card, I added the DP down one side then my trimmed down watercoloured panel.

I made my sentiment from a few stamp sets, one black straight onto the w/c panel the other white heat embossed on black then up on pads. A few sequins complete.

For more BA inspiration check out the links below.

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda

Sarah P

Wiebke

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Thursday, 20 February 2020

Introducing Designer Dies - Kindness Blooms

Good morning folks.

It's day 3 of the new release from Uniko. and today we introduce another set of dies to go with a previously released set. This time Bev has chosen Kindness Blooms to be the next die set release.

In my card I've used the dies to create my own letterpress elements, just to show you how you can get more from your dies.

I took the large looped outline from the set and cut 3 from card and one from vellum. I did the same for the leaf die but cut another two sets. Each element was then glued together, 3 card then one vellum to create your type-press block. The vellum needs to be the top layer as this is how you add the ink!

I prepared my BigShot for embossing, adding my tan mat over my base cutting plate. After deciding on the layout I carefully added the stacked die cuts to a panel of white card which I had previously laid onto the tan mat and placed the top plate over, trying very hard not to disturb the die cuts.
After running the sandwich through, I again moved carefully to remove the letterpress elements from the machine to reveal the design.
To complete I stamped the sentiment in matching ink and added some sequins and a large gem to the bloom center. I decided to trim the panel down a little and added it to a matching pink base card.

For more inspiration using these new dies, check out the rest of the team below.

Bev
Carol
Hannelie

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

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I used die cuts to make my letterpress images

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Introducing Anniversaire Arts Decoratif and Background Builders Arts Decoratifs

Hi, and welcome back to the second day of the February Uniko release.

Today as the blog title suggests, we are introducing another Background Builder and a sentiment stamp set with an Art Deco feel.

My first card just uses the largest sentiment as the focus with a frame made with one of the small patterned stamps included with the sentiments.

I kept with the Art Deco feel and made a background to echo the small stamp in black, gold and off white card.

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with sparkly black EP before adding the gold embossed pattern top and bottom on a die cut circle. It's such a fab sentiment that I didn't think it needed much else!

My second card uses one of the strips from the Background Builders set and the Outlined Alphabet set, just gold on black this time.

The strip was stamped repeatedly onto a panel of black card before the sentiment from Pure Florals Cosmos was added and the fussy cut letters embossed with the same gold EP were added. The finished panel was simply added to a black base card with pads.

So what do you think of the release so far?

For more release inspiration, check out Bev and the rest of the team below.

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda

Sarah P
Wiebke

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Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Introducing Alphabet Outlined and Background Blocks Arts Decoratifs

Good morning.

It's day 1 of the February release at Uniko.

My first card uses the Alphabet Outlined set. Big and bold outlined letters and numerals. Here I've gone with the numerals to make a masculine card, but change the colour way and it could be made feminine or even by changing the sentiment you could turn it into an anniversary card.

The outlined numerals were stamped in grey on a white base card before the 40 was coloured with Copics and the sentiment from Wonderful Day stamped in black.

My second card just uses a snippet of a larger panel made by adding dark grey, turquoise, and blue alcohol inks to a panel of Yupo paper and smooshed around with an air puffer and a blender. When dry, the panel was stamped with the BB Arts Decoratif a couple of times in Versamark and heat embossed with gold EP.

The main part of the panel will come up later but this snippet was added to the base card and then to match the embossing on the panel, I inked the edge of two strips of white card with Versamark then heat embossed with gold EP. On the smaller white panel, the sentiment was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with sparkly black EP.

Assembling the card, the gold strips were attached to each white panel and then added to the base card. I think this would work well as a card for a man, as the colours are quite dark and masculine.

For more fab inspiration using these two new stamp sets, check out the rest of the BAs and Bev.

Bev
Carol
Hannelie

Jane
Julie - That's me
Linda