January 2025 Release - Introducing... Flower Power #11and Stencil - Mid Century Modern Stars & Circles

Good morning and welcome to another introduction for the Uniko January release.

Today we are focusing on two new releases a stamp set and a stencil.

My first offering uses the stamp set, Flower Power #11, another in the Flower Power series that you can use with many of the others, especially the themed sentiments. 

Looking for something a little different to make to hi light the versatility of the stamp, I used the sold flower image and stamped it into a wreath style pattern.

No wreath builder required for this simple design simply my MISTI but I did cut my card to be square so that I could rotate it within my MISTI.

Once I'd decided on the position of my first flower head, I stamped the red head, then rotated my paper 90' and stamped again, missing out the next rainbow colour, repeating until four of the heads were stamped. I then removed the stamp and placed it between two of the stamped heads. Closing my MISTI door, I picked up the stamp and inked it with the colour that fit between each colour, rotaing as before to complete the round. A simple sentiment from yesterday's Sparkle Sentiments and a gem complete. 

My finished panel was mounted on some black card and then added to a 41/4" white base card.

This card uses the Mid Century Modern Stars and Circles stencil and is based on a card I saw on Ardyth Percy Robb's You Tube channel. 

I began by inking an A5 panel of white card with rainbow colours and then placed the stencil over the top. More of the same colour was added through to give a tone on tone effect. Thinking what to do with the pretty panel was now uppermost in my mind and whilst I was looking through Pinterest I came across Ardyth's idea. 

I began by cutting a circle from the center of the inked panel and then cut it half. I found it easier to do this whilst the die cut circle was still in place secured with a little tape. On a scrap of thin card, I attached the semi circle and half of the panel and then used the Memory Box die to cut the pattern. 

The MB die I used reminded me of a sparkly sun so the sentiment chose itself really! The sparkle was stamped and embossed with WOW Black Sparkle EP and fussy cut before adding to the center of the sunburst and the other parts simply stamped in black. 

The panel was trimmed and added to an A6 white base card, a few sequins for extra sparkle and I still have half of my panel left for another project!

So that's all from me for the moment but please come back tomorrow for another new intro. In the meantime please check out the rest of the team here -

 Anita

Bev

Julie -that's me

Izzy

Steph

Vinita