Introducing Background Builders Mid Century Modern

Good morning, hope you survived Storm Floris without too much damage and inconvenience.

Today sees the start of another series of intros for Uniko's summer releases. This set of stamps and stencil are great for building backgrounds with a retro, MCM vibe.

First out of the blocks is another Background Builders stamp set that will coordinate with lots of the other MCM style stamps in the Uniko range. Here are couple of ideas.

First is this panel made by stamping just 2 of the elements from the set.

I used DOxides in Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade Vintage Photo and I think Twisted Citron but it does look rather dark for that! Each of the large elements were stamped alternating the stamp between stampings and then the smaller open oval added into each center for a funky 70's vibe. 

One of my stash of  Doodle Flower sentiments on kraft with white heat embossing completes. The busy panel needed a simple sentiment I think.

My second card uses a few more elements from the set this time stamped onto green card with more Doxides. This time I used Rustic Wilderness, Squeezed Lemonade, Vintage Photo and Black Soot.

This has a more 50's feel about it I think.

Ok that's all from me but the rest of the girls have been busy too so why not check out what ideas they've come up with?

 Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow with another introduction, see you then.

Happy Birthday Nich

Today is my daughter Nichola's birthday and this is her birthday card which I'm also sharing over on the Uniko blog.

It's a full on year in the Beech family for birthday's, both our son and my OH have big 0 birthdays whilst Nich and Grandson Ben have one's that end with a 5, my other grandson, granddaughter and myself are the odd ones out! Anyway here is her card, hope she liked it!

I'm sharing this as my BA post for Uniko using the recently released Bright Butterflies layering stencil.

Introducing Layering Stencil Spring Blossom

In our final day of intros for Uniko's April release we have another layering stencil for you, welcome Spring Blossom!

Here are a couple of ideas for you.

To start the design process, I first stencilled over an A4 panel of white card, then cut it into 2 A5 panels. Here's the first idea I had.

I had the remains of a white die cut A5 panel from earlier in the week, so decided to use it to make the card. I wanted a sentiment to follow the line of the die cut, so used the long sentiment from Pure Florals Cosmos and bent it to fit before stamping. A stamped bloom from Organic Flower Garden was inked with the same DIs as the panel before cutting out and added to the die cut panel. I used the stamped version as it is slightly larger than the stencilled one and gave more impact. A couple of green leaves were fussy cut and added under to complete the top panel. I thought it needed a little something to contrast with the two panels, so added an inked curved trim to match the edge of the die cut. This was then added over the inked panel to create the card front.

Next is this design using the other A5 panel made using the stencil.

This is very simple. I just cut my remaining A5 panel at about 2/3rds and marked the base card where the edge would come before stamping the bold Happy Birthday which is a mix of MCM Christmas and MCM Everyday Sentiments in silver EP a couple of times. The panel was then glued down and the leftover glued beneath, trimming away the excess.

Wondering what the rest of the team have come up with, then why not check them out below.

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

See you back here tomorrow for the full release and blog hop!

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Release Day Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway

Good morning!

It's finally here, release day for the fab new release from Uniko.

As is tradition we are having a blog hop and giveaway where you can win a £25 eGift certificate simply by leaving some love on the BAs and Uniko blog!

So without further ado here is the full release in all it's glory!

First off is the fab new MCM Birthday.

This card uses the new MCM Birthday along with MCM Christmas and a few from other older sets to create this masculine card. 

Blue for a male recipient or change the colours for a more girlie take!

                                                      

 Mid Century Modern Birthday £11.50

                                                                                                                                                 Copyright  Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

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Next is a card using MCM Everyday Sentiments and BB MOD Builder.

If you remember yesterday's card this is another piece of the same panel but I played around with the background, bleaching out some of the cells, then die cutting the panel to fill the openings. Bold white on black embossed sentiments complete.

       

                                                                                                                             Mid Century Modern Everyday Sentiments £6.50

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This card has BB MOD Builder front and center, with a little help from Hello Lovely and Birthday Sentiments.

On a panel of white card, I stamped the BB MOD Builder in a very pale ink, Altenew Limestone I think, then coloured each cell with Copics in a rainbow effect. The panel was trimmed and the sentiment added. Next I stamped the large floral image across each corner of my A6 base card in black and added the rainbow panel on pads.

Background Block MOD Builder £6.50

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Finally I played around with the new Ink and Flip stencil and Bokeh Hearts stencil.

I used the more open stencil as a mask whilst I inked the Bokeh Hearts then the smaller one for the Geometric Heart element. I used a couple of DIs for this, Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry. As it's so busy, I left off a sentiment.

Stencil - Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Heart £8

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So that's it. What do you think? There's lots more up on the BA's blogs for you to explore but don't forget to leave some love before you go for your chance to win. Bev will be selecting someone from all comments to win the prize!

 Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

Happy hopping!

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For a Male /Boy

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Mid Century Modern Everyday Sentiments

Good morning, it's day 3 of the 12th Birthday release from Uniko.

Today we introduce an addition to our sentiment stamps, a smaller version of our MCM Birthday from yesterday. You might recognise the font from this card. It also matches with the Christmas MCM set previously released. Here I've just used one of the sentiments in a graphic style card.

The inspiration was a card I saw using strips of colour to create a pattern. Instead of strips, I used the stamp to create squares in different colours, Altenew's Bamboo, Galactic Stream and Turquoise. Once my panel was covered, I added it at an angle across the white base card. The Fabulous You was stamped onto a panel inked to match with white EP and a couple of strips were also added above and below.

That's all for today but I'll be back tomorrow with the final introduction before the big release.

In the meantime why not check out the rest of the team's ideas.

 Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita