Showing posts with label Simply Said Blocks Occasions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simply Said Blocks Occasions. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Uniko Release Day Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Good morning, hope the weather is improving where you are, it's rain falling on frozen ground here in the Welsh borders so treacherous out and about! 

It's finally release day and all the products we've been introducing this week are now available to purchase on the Uniko website.

However, if you need some more inspirational persuasion, get comfy grab a cuppa and keep on reading. 

This card is another using the Flower Power #11 stamp set very like the one on intro day but more tightly grouped. I like the blend of colours this gives but the down side is that the final panel is a tad small.


To compensate for the small panel size, I die cut it with two stacking dies to create the frame and mounted it onto a black base card, then added the leftover as an outer frame. It also means a I have a slim, white square frame to use later!! Another of my ready made Doodle Flower sentiments completes, this time simply stamped on white with black and mounted on a circle of black to match the rest.


Flower Power #11 Clear Stamp Set £6.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
Do you remember my intro for MCM Stars and Circles? Well there was a half a panel left over and here it is!


This time I mounted it on a panel of black, trimmed it down and added it to a square white base card, I also incorporated that leftover frame from the first project! The little coloured circles are also a left over from my Sparkles Sentiments card.

Stencil - Mid Century Modern Circles & Stars £4.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
My next card uses three of this weeks release in one card! Central panel Ink n Flip Flower Power #8 stencil, Background Builders Flower Power and the Simply Said Blocks Occasion, plus Happy from a previous set.

You could put any sentiment you wanted to in the center, there are lots of combinations in the Simply Said Blocks series!


Background Builders: Flower Power Clear Stamp Set £11.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

Simply Said Blocks Occasions Clear Stamp Set £6.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

Ink & Flip Layering Flower Power #8 Stencil £8.00
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
After years of making A6 cards, I seem to be embracing the small square format, or is it the tight Yorkshire Lass I am!! 
The leftover from a circle die cut, was stamped repeatedly with one of the Flower Power strips, mounted over a stencilled Flower Power #8 and a die cut frame on a 41/4" base card, simples!!

This card was influenced by one I saw on Pinterest, just a simple gem on kraft.


Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Gem Stencil £8.00
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date
This time I used some Dreamweavers Embossing Paste to create my gem onto a Home Bargains Kraft base card! I could have added something from the Sparkles sentiment set but in the end left it with just the gem!


Sparkle Sentiments Clear Stamp Set £11.50
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

Finally we have the fab Picked Posies stencils. Remember that panel I had left from my first intro card, well here it is, mounted on some gold mirror card mounted on a 5 x 7 white card with a vellum sentiment panel embossed in gold.


Quite a different look to the first one, it will soon be winging it's way to my Sister in Law, whose birthday is later this month. I glued the vellum onto the stencilled panel by adding glue directly behind the large stamped and embossed sentiment, a great way to hide those dots of glue!!



Layering Picked Posies Stencils £13.75
Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

Well that was a release and a half don't you think? Time to hop along to see what the other BAs have been up to.
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, Monday 13th January 2025.

Bev

Julie -that's me




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Friday, 3 January 2025

Introducing... Ink & Flip Layering Flower Power #8 Stencil and Simply Said Blocks Occasions Clear Stamp Set

Morning all.
Day 4 of the intros for the new Uniko January release sees us focusing on another Ink and Flip stencil and an addition to the Simply Said Block series. 

First off I have a couple of cards made using the stencil, no fancy tricks just two cards, one square, one A6. 


This one is inked with Twisted Citron DI for the outside and the flower is a mix of Kitch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry DI. 

For this rainbow I used a variety of DIs and the central motif was done with Hickory Smoke DI.


I found a couple more of my Doodle Flower sentiments, I need to make some more as they have been getting a battering this week, and added them to the centers of the stencilled flowers.
Although the stencil and technique is the same the end results are so different. One is soft and feminine and the other more jazzy and masculine.

The next card uses the previously introduced Picked Posies Stencil and a sentiment made by combining one of the stamps from Simply Said Blocks Occasions. There are far too many different panels that coordinate with other sets in the series to mention them all here but I've combined the EASTER block with the older HAPPY one.


I had a panel of white card left over from another stencil inking, so used the stencil to fill it before adding to a panel of fresh green card and a couple of strips of silver glitter paper to bling it up. Happy and Easter are popped up on slithers of foam pads. Simples!

So what do you think? Why not check out what the rest of the team have been up to. 

Bev

Julie -that's me




See you back here tomorrow for the final introduction.