Uniko Product Revisit

Morning, there's no March release from Uniko, so Bev and the other Uniko Brand Ambassadors are revisiting the two releases from earlier in the year.

I've chosen the fabulous Bauhaus Blocks Spring Layering Stencil for my focus, here are couple of ideas.

I started by covering an A6 panel of white card with the various elements of the stencils, using Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxides. When I had covered the white  panel, I realised that I had made an error in one of the flowers, so it stood out like a sore thumb, so not wanting to waste the panel I cut it up and made two cards!

This first card uses a part of the panel.

Another error was that my A6 panel wasn't, about 5mm too narrow! I had to make a decision and decided to use it, trimming it down so that it fit an A6 topfold note card, with a white border showing. To emphasise the gap, I added a panel of paper inked on my Gelli plate. I used the Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistachio to give a kind of speckled effect. The Oxide inks blend so well like this, I prefer it to straight inking. The combination of yellow and the soft green gives a lovely spring feel to the card. A stamped and embossed sentiment completes.

Remember that error on my original panel, well here is what I made with that.

The error was front and central, so I just covered it with the sentiment! More of my Gelli plate paper and some Greetery dies complete.

I wonder what the rest of the team have been inspired to create? Why not pop along and check their blogs and Instagram accounts out to find out?

Don't forget to comment as you go for a chance to win some Uniko goodies.

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - that's me

Natalie

Steph

Vinita

 Hope you left some comment love along the way, Bev will randomly select a comment to win the £20 eGift certificate to spend in store.  The winner will be announced on Monday 13th April 2026. 

Happy crafting!

Introducing Ink and Flip Heart Pattern Stencil

Good morning and welcome to day 2 of the introductions for Uniko's January release. 

Today we are focusing on another Ink n Flip stencil design, Heart Pattern.

I had quite the play with this stencil creating lots of panels with my Geli plate. These two cards came from just one of them!

I have to admit that I got a bit carried away playing with my Gelli plate, even if I haven't worked out why it's marked! To start, I chose a selection of Distress Oxides to blend onto my plate, Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, and Picked Raspberry. I think my first pull was a mix of Abandoned Coral and Picked Raspberry, followed by my stencil and a panel of copy paper, I wasn't going to use this pull. Once the stencil was removed, I added a panel of white card and took a print. The resulting print had a ghostly outline of half the pattern and a lovely textured background. I then went back in with my now clean stencil and added some Worn Lipstick to the ghost pattern then flipped and added what I thought was Candied Apple, to complete the heart pattern. However it wasn't, it was Vintage Photo on my brush so I had to carry on and complete the panel, I quite liked the end result, not brown but a bit rusty red!! 

 

To make these two cards, I die cut a 4 x 4 panel from the stencilling, then with an assortment of different sized heart dies. At first I thought about popping up the hearts but liked the look of the appertures when overlaid on another Geli plate pull, definitely Candied Apple with a touch of Worn Lipstick. A larger panel this time of Abandoned Coral and Worn Lipstick was the added to a 5 x 5 white card, followed by my heart panel on the red. A simple gold embossed sentiment, Everyday Spring Sentiments and some gold mirror dots complete.

 

The die cut hearts from the first panel were mounted onto some matching red fun foam ones and added to a Geli plate panel which I'd made with the Scattered Polka Hearts stencil and mounted on some gold mirror card. A fussy cut gold embossed sentiment from Wonderful Day and more of the gold mirror dots completes.

Two different looks from the one panel!!

Anyway that's a couple of ideas, but what have the rest of the ambassadors been up to? Check out their blogs for for ideas, links below.

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

                    Julie- You're here

Natalie

Steph

Vinita

See you back here tomorrow for more stencil inspiration.

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11th Birthday Release Day and Blog Hop and giveaway at Uniko

Well it's release day and you can finally get to play with the new Uniko goodies for yourselves!

I've loved playing with the new stamps and stencil and had so many ideas on how to use them, but here are a few I got around to making!

You might recognise the background to this card from an earlier post made up of spring sentiments, then it was green behind a rabbit! The fussy cut crocus was stamped and coloured using Copics this time, V04, 06, 09 and V17 for the petals.

I couldn't resist making this next card, another watercolour using Spring Botanicals Crocus.

This time I stamped the central bloom then used masking fluid to mask, then stamped the left one, masked again, then the right and masked with the liquid masking. When dry, I flooded the background with a mix of Cadmium Yellow and Prussian blue, added some crinkled up cling film and left it to dry. I did check carefully that there were no beads of damp colour on the masking before carefully removing it and painting in the petals and leaves. The frame was cut using an Avery Elle die and then mounted over the top of the dry painting with foam pads, I left the sentiment off this time.

Next I have a fun birthday card using the bunny from Hoppy Easter and some pretty NitWits DP, the die is MFT.

Whilst I had my watercolours out, I made this simple card using Up and Away.

Look closely and you may notice that this balloon has an extra panel or two. While I was painting the dark blue panel the dog came in and nudged my arm and so I smudged a bit over the lines, so had to extend the colouring to cover it up! Of course the pinky purple one had to be extended to match too.

Finally I used the Up and Away set along with the Cloud 9 stencil for this slimline design.

So that's it, what do you think? Don't forget to leave a comment before you hop along to the rest of the team for a chance to win a fabulous prize.

Anita

Bev

Julie - that's me

Steph

Joining in over at:-

 
                                               Spring Blooms

Introducing Hoppy Easter and Everyday Spring Sentiments

Morning and happy St David's Day!

It's day 2 of the introductions for Uniko's 11th Birthday release. Today we are focusing on the stamp sets Hoppy Easter and Everyday Spring Sentiments.

First off is a cute Easter card using Hoppy Easter and some scraps of DP.

The set has a solid rabbit and an outline rabbit, so for this I used the outline image stamped on some matching scraps of NitWits DP, fussy cut and added to a die cut panel of white card. I found some white pompoms in my stash and added some cottontails! The sentiment says it all really.

The second card features the same outline rabbit as well as sentiments from Spring Botanicals, Crocus, Tulip, Daffodil and Snowdrop together with the new Everyday Spring Sentiments.

I've used this technique quite a few times to create background panels, setting the sentiments out in my MISTI and stamping and heat embossing with white EP. It takes awhile to do so I made a few and will be using them later. 

This time I stamped my bunny outline and facial features, which Bev kindly added separately and coloured with Copics before adding him to a panel of vellum. To give him added strength I backed him with another simply stamped, fussy cut one on the under side of the vellum panel. The sentiment strip I made stamping Happy from everyday Christmas Sentiments and Easter form the Spring set. I also backed this strip in the same way as the rabbit.

I used a stitched die to cut down my background panel, added it to a white base card, then added the vellum panel complete with sequins.

I'm sure these new sentiments will come in very useful and can be combined with other sets in the same series for lots of useful sentiments.

To see what the rest of the Brand Ambassadors have been up to, just click on the links.

 Anita

Bev

Julie - that's me

Steph

I'll see you back here, same time tomorrow for more of the brand new Spring release.