Showing posts with label Layering Organic Bloom Stencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Layering Organic Bloom Stencil. Show all posts

Friday, 28 February 2025

Uniko February Birthday Release and Giveaway.

It's finally release day at Uniko and as is customary we are hosting a Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY of a £25 eGift Code! 
But before the details, grab a cuppa, settle in and check out the complete release and a few more ideas of how to use them.

First off is this masculine card using some of the letters from the Solid Alphabet set.



Alphabet Solid Clear Stamp Set £16
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

I used a selection of DIs and the MCM Shapes stencil to create a background for my # sentiment.
When I'd finished adding that, I thought it needed something extra, so stamped over it with the BB MCM in Blueprint Sketch DI.

My next card combines the new Background Block with the Bright Butterflies stamp set.


Background Blocks Waves Clear Stamp Se £6.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date



Bright Butterflies Clear Stamp Set £6.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
On intro day, I used BB Waves as actual waves but it also reminded me of long grass moving in the breeze, add in some butterflies and off I went. I started off with an other idea but it wasn't working but once I saw the sketch from CAS on Friday I ran with that layout.  I'd earlier created a panel by stamping the BB Waves twice onto a panel of white card with Mowed Lawn and then blended more of it over the inked panel to make it look more like grass waving in the breeze. From this panel, I die cut a tag and two banners. The butterflies were stamped and fussy cut before adding to a circle of card from the bits box to which I'd stamped a sentiment.

This next card uses the two stencils, the floral to create the background and the butterfly was cut from a panel made using the butterfly layering stencil. The sentiment is from the Organic Bloom stamp set.



Stencil - Layering Bright Butterflies £10.75
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date


Stencil - Layering Organic Blooms £13.75
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

      

My next idea uses the Organic Bloom stamp set. 
Whilst walking the dog in the field earlier in the week, I saw that the blackthorn was in flower and on closer inspection the blossom reminded me of the flowers from this set, so here is my interpretation!


Organic Blooms Clear Stamp Set £11.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
I stamped the smaller of the two flowerheads and coloured them with Copic markers using a photo I found online to inform my colouring. After fussy cutting them, I used a ball tool to give them some shape and added them to a die cut panel of white card to which I'd added a brown, branch die cut from Memory Box. I stamped the sentiment from the set and embossed with gold EP.

Next my personal favourite of the release, Spring Botanicals- Primrose.



Spring Botanicals Clear Stamp Set £11.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
The image is another of my masking fluid resist panels which this time I've framed simply with circular aperture. Compared to my intro post, I kept to the wild primrose for my inspiration. One of our fields has a large patch of them that have crept through the fence from the railway embankment and make a fab sight, if the rabbits and sheep leave them alone. I decided to leave the frame without a sentiment so as not to detract from the central image.

Finally we have the Happy Birthday stencil.


This stencil is FREE with all Release Day orders of £15 or more while stocks last.
Also, why not take advantage of FREE Worldwide Shipping on Orders of £40 or more 
until Midnight Sunday 2nd March 2025.

Now that we've formally introduced the new products and before you run to the website, how about some more inspiration from Bev and the rest of the Brand Ambassadors. 
Be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win a £25 eGift Certificate to spend in store. Winners of this giveaway and the stencils from the first couple of days introductions will be announced here on the blog, Saturday 8th March 2025, along with all the other 13th Birthday Celebration Winners.

  Anita

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Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Introducing Layering Organic Bloom Stencil and Organic Bloom Stamp set

Good morning.
Today we are introducing a stencil AND a stamp set. The layering stencil echoes the stamp set as you can see from the card below.


I used all 4 layers of the stencil to create an all over pattern on A5 panel of white card with Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves DI for the blossom and Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn DI for the leaves and stems. I cut an A6 panel from the larger one and put to one side for later use ;)!
Using the stamps, I stamped a one of each of the blossom flowers and coloured with matching Copic markers before fussy cutting out. I added a few dots of white gel pen to the centers of all the flowers as well as some around the anthers of the stamped ones.
I had a panel of linen effect card that had managed to get some ink on it and as I can no longer get it from my supplier I wanted to use it up, so cut away the marked section and created two strips. On the reverse of the marked strip, I inked with a mix of the pinks to create a couple of strips which I stuck along the edge of the textured white panels. 
To put the card together, I glued the textured panels over the stencil one, adding the Copic coloured blooms to cover any open areas. A simple sentiment strip using the stamp set completes. 

Here is a card I made using my masking fluid resist and snappy wrap technique.


Bev has designed these blooms to be used with stems but for this I just used the two flower heads.
I saw a video on You Tube one wet Sunday afternoon and now I can't stop making cards this way, this time I've turned the flowers into crab apple blossom! I stamped and masked the two blooms, then added a couple of buds and sketched in some branches. Watercolour was used to create the background and the detail in the blossom but you could use Brusho for the background and DI for the detail or even a mix of all three! 
My panel was mounted behind a die cut woodgrain frame, a pressie from Santa and it's first outing, and then onto a matching textured off white card base.

For more inspiration why not check out what the rest of the BAs have been up to.

 Anita


Julie -me



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