Introducing Ink and Flip Butterfly Pattern Stencil

Good morning, time for another Uniko introduction.

Today we have another of Bev's fun and fab Ink n Flip stencils, Butterfly Pattern. It's from the same stable as the Christmas snowflake and tree stencils. Use sinularly or for an all over pattern, just flip your stencil to complete the butterfly. Here are a couple of ideas I came up with.

This first card uses the French Script stamp embossed with Silver EP to create a resist to the stencilling.

I used a couple of  Distress inks to create an all over pattern, blending Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet in a soft romantic pattern. You can just about make out which halves were done on each pass, but with this flip design you could equally go with a pait of contrast inks or even textures. A fussy cut sentiment embossed in white on black completes.

THe contrast between the two halves of the butterfly are a bit more obvious on this design.

I used the same colours of DI but the background was a final pull on my Gelli plate, giving it a soft mix of the same two colours. This time I die cut the panel with the large English Country Garden butterfly die which I then stamped with a mix of both DIs before placing it back into the apperture on a few more die cuts. The sentiment from the English Country Garden set completes.

So what have the rest of the BAs done with their stencils? Why not click the links to find out?

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

                   Julie-You're here

Natalie

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow for the final intro tomorrow morning, see ya!

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Introducing Layering Bright Butterflies Stencil and Re introducing Bright Butterflies Stamp set

Morning, time for another intro from the Uniko February release. 

Today we are introducing a butterfly stencil and re introducing the Bright Butterflies stamp set.

Here's my take on the stencil incorporating an older stencil and English Country Garden Butterflies Stamp set and matching Dies.

This is a 3 part stencil that allows you to build your own butterflies, so endless possibilities.

When faced with a new set I always struggle to decide on the ink colours to use, a bit like an artist faced with a blank canvas! For this panel I eventually went with a naturalistic colourway, reminding me of the small brown butterflies that I see flitting across the long grass at the edge of the fields, filling the gaps with silhouetted small butterflies from the Bright Butterflies stencil from 2018. 

Each solid butterfly from the layering stencil, was inked with Squeezed Lemonade DI at different angles before darker shades of yellow, orange and brown were added using the second layer. Detail was added in Vintage Photo using the detail layer. To make the bodies stand out, I went over them with a black fine liner and with the same fine liner I doodled some extra detail onto the wings.

The heat embossed, vellum butterfly was in the package of my English Country Garden set leftover from an earlier make and proved to be the perfect foil for my Simply Said Block Sentiment.

Next is my take using the Bright Butterflies stamp set.

I used an array of rainbow colours to stamp this flurry of butterflies diagonally across my card front. The end result had such a joyful feel I decided to use a similar sentiment from Spring Botanicals- Daffodil. The end result a simple OLC!

What do you think? Did you get the Bright Butterflies stamp set back in the day? 

Anyway why not pop along to the rest of the BAs to find out what they've been up to.

 Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

See you back here tomorrow for more intros from the release at Uniko!

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Things with wings

Flippin' Release Day at Uniko, BA Blog hop, Giveaway and Port Sunlight!

I hope you've all enjoyed You're Going to Flip Week here at Uniko and you're as excited about this new stencil as we all are. It's now available on the Uniko website to purchase and if you're coming to Stamping Together in Port Sunlight today, Bev will have stock with her and will be also doing a LIVE demo on the How To Craft Network using this stencil. The live is recorded and will be shared once it is available in case you miss it. 

So down to business. My first card uses the same technique that I've been using throughout the week of Magic Reveal. This time I used the background foliage stamp from Bev's collaboration with Craft Stash and Versamark ink.

After my earlier failure, I tried harder to ensure there was lots of ink on the white panel but as you can see it is still quite pale but at least it is visible!!

After yesterday's card colours, I rang the changes and went for a more realistic look, using Twisted Citron DI for the background and Vintage Photo and Spiced Marmalade DIs for the butterfly. A freehand pair of antennae complete. I chose the sentiment from English Country Garden for a change, stamped in more Vintage Photo on a white panel.

Now for my second take.

This time I used the same resist technique but white pigment ink and the BB Scattered Dots stamp.

After stamping the dots with white ink on white card, I let it dry completely before adding the colour. I used what I thought was Altenew's Deep Iris but what turned out to be Lavender Fields! Think I must have dropped the pack of cubes on the floor at some stage and the tops came off and were put back incorrectly!! I love how the dots look dark against the softly inked sections and paler on the heavier inking, it's just an optical illusion as they are in fact the same colour!

Once dry I cut out the butterfly and carefully folded it along the edge of the body and then added glue just to the body so that the wings were held away from the hammered silver base card

A Simply Said Block sentiment in matching ink and white gel pen antennae complete.

So what's your opinion?

The rest of the BA's have been exploring what's possible with this new stencil, so why not go check them out too.

Be sure to comment along the way for your chance to win a Flippin' Good Prize! Commenting to win will close midnight BST Sunday 28th April 2024 and Bev will announce the winner on the blog 29th April. 

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -that's me

Steph

Vinita

Hopefully I will be on my way to Port Sunlight as you read this post and perhaps if you are going too you'll see me on the Uniko stand, so please say hello. 

Uniko BA Inspiration

Morning all, have you taken part in the great butterfly count, it started over the weekend? 

I did, I love butterflies and try to plant flowers that will attract them as well as keep the banking by our track wild. It's the perfect spot to literally spot butterflies as they land on the various wild flowers or just bask in the sun on the track.

Today I'm over at Uniko with another Brand Ambassador inspiration post featuring butterflies. Last month I used the English Country Garden stamps and matching dies to create a couple of cards, this month I'm back with a couple more.

These two are totally different to the last pair and were inspired by the latest challenge over at Twofer.

I've used the large butterfly die from the set, a positive followed by the negative. First to cut out a vellum butterfly which I then stamped and embossed and secondly to create a mask and inked and stamped through it.

Here's the first inspired by this card I saved ages ago.

I loved the movement that the die cut sweep created. 

Using an Avery Elle curved die to create the sweep out of linen effect card an inset panel was added, made by inking a panel of white card with Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserve DOx, splashes of water and over stamping with the large butterfly in the same colours of DI. The sentiment from Pure Florals - Peony, was stamped in the same two colours for the large sending and black for the small one. I heat embossed the lighter pink with clear EP before moving slightly to create the shadow by stamping again with the darker pink ink. A few PP sequins complete.

Last year my Joe Pie Weed was absolutely covered in small tortoiseshell butterflies, hence the choice of colour.

At one point the flowers looked orange as there were so many drinking in the nectar.

This year there are lots of small skipper butterflies on the wild flower bank as well as the early broods of tortoiseshells, meadow browns, gatekeepers, some peacocks, small coppers and the ubiquitous 'cabbage' or large white. Yesterday was a red letter day as I saw my first Silver Studded Blue of the year. They are extremely rare, just surviving in a few discrete colonies, the nearest is an old airfield about 2-3 miles away as the crow flies. They are very picky eaters, feeding off gorse, heather and bird's foot trefoil. It was next to the later that I spied my female, a little gem who must have been blown in on the prevailing wind.

Talking of wild flowers, this was the inspiration for the second card.

When you look across the wild part of our garden all you see are the grasses and wild carrot swaying in the breeze against the green fields and blue skies, well on a good day!

This technique has been around for ages, all I did was cut a piece of copy paper the same size as my base card, then cut out the butterfly using the same large die. The resultant mask was then taped over the card and the background inking added using Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn.
I used the small elements from Organic Wishes to stamp the silhouettes in black before removing the mask and stamping the sentiment from English Country Garden.

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