Flippin' Fabulous Ink & Flip Masculine Inspiration Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway @ Uniko

Good morning. Today at Uniko we are focusing on Masculine cards featuring Ink n Flip and other stencils. Over on the Uniko blog there are plenty of ideas from Bev and the other BAs and whilst you're checking them out why not leave a comment for a chance to win! Here are a couple of cards I made using the Ink n Flip Delightful Diamonds stencil which was recently released.

To start, I inked a panel of A5 white card with the stencil and a selection of green and blue DIs, moving the stencil around until the panel was completely covered. On my first pass I used Twisted Citron and added a hint of Peacock Feathers at the edges. After wiping the ink off, I flipped and went with Salty Ocean and a hint of Blueprint Sketch.

Now how to use the panel? This first card is very simple, a panel attached to an A6 base card followed by a die cut speech bubble stamped with the sentiment and a few punched stars and dots from black card added.

This second one came about after I die cut a circle from the trimmed down panel to place my sentiment but it didn't look quite right, so I popped the circle back in and noticed that if I rotated it 90' most of the white lines matched up to create a fun pattern over which I could add the sentiment stamped on a white circle die cut. Think I will play around with this idea further, a series of circle die cuts perhaps.

The end result has a sort of Pop Art vibe which I think is great for a masculine card, but change the colours and it would work equally for a female recipient!

So that's all from me but why not check out the rest of the team here:-

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - that's me

Steph

Vinita

Don't forget to leave a comment and you could win an Ink n Flip stencil of your choice.

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Uniko April Release Day Blog Hop and Giveaway

Good morning, hope your weekend is going well.

Today marks the full release day for Uniko's April release and as per usual we having a Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY!!

Simply leave some love along the way for a chance to win!

So buckle up, grab a cuppa and join me for some more release inspiration, then hop along to visit Bev and the rest of the BAs.

First off I've used the 2 small solid butterflies from Butterfly Serenade to create this.

Butterfly Serenade Clear Stamp Set £11.50

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I chose some of my favourite colours and CASed a card of mine from way back. 

To create my opening for the sentiment, I cut a large butterfly mask using English Country Garden dies, then stamped the coloured butterflies around it. Removing the mask I stamped a sentiment. I had planned on using the larger sentiment from the set but couldn't fit it into the opening made by the mask, so used one from Originally Organic, stamped a couple of times in the darkest plum from the butterflies. The finished panel was going to be kept as is but after stamping I put it to one side which happened to be over the envelope from my daughter's Mother's Day card which I'd saved. It looked so pretty I decided to cut the panel down to reveal the thin pink edge!

Next up is a card using the Ink n Flip Delightful Diamonds and the spray using Flower Fusion stencil, which I fussy cut out.

Stencil - Ink & Flip Delightful Diamonds £4.50

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Stencil - Layering Flower Fusion £13.75

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I found a card mask in my bits box which had rounded corners but was the correct size to create my central panel on the base card. Using the Delightful Diamonds stencil, I inked through the stencil onto a white A6 base card with Salty Ocean DI. 

The large daisy in the stencil reminded me of a very old daisy punch I had and I wondered if it would fit, so had a play. The punched daisy was coloured using the stencil which left the white collar in the center which I really liked and no fussy cutting involved!! The punch is a yellow Woodware one, 11/2" diameter, if you're interested. Unfortunately the rest of the spray had to be cut freehand. Each element was shaped using a ball tool before adding to my base card which I'd stamped the sentiment from Organic Flower garden.

Speaking of which, here is the second panel I mentioned on Wednesday using Originally Organic Flower Garden.

Originally Organic Flower Garden Clear Stamp Set £11.50

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This panel was created the same way, using masking fluid but I spritzed water over the MM stamped panel before sprinkling some Brusho over and adding salt. This technique really does require good masking as Brusho powder gets everywhere!! 

Once the panel was dry I brushed off any loose powder before removing the masking fluid and watercoloured the blooms. A simple frame stamped with a sentiment from the set was added on pads over the trimmed down panel on a linen effect base card.

And finally I have this card using Spring Blossom layering stencil and the outline stamps from Organic Flower Garden.

Stencil - Layering Spring Blossom £10.75

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The background was created using the stencil and a grey palette and the central panel was created using colours. A bit of fiddling around using a mask to identify the correct area to be used, before cutting it out. I softened the coloured panel by running the blending brushes used over each element and stamped the made up sentiment as before. The panel looked a bit bare so I stamped the blooms in a no line ink and used Copic to colour the large one and the stencil and DI for the smaller. All were fussy cut along with a few stencilled leaf clusters.

So that's all but for some more fab inspiration please check out the rest of the team below, leave some love and you'll be in the running for a £25 e gift card, the winner of which Bev will draw randomly from all comments on Monday 5th May 2025.

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph 

Vinita

Happy hopping!!

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Spring

Introducing Originally Organic Flower Garden

Morning.

Another day of introductions for the Uniko April release. Hope you're loving these new stamps and stencils because I am!

Today we focus on one set from the Originally Organic group featuring some fab little stems and blooms plus a cute new font for the sentiments.

Here's my first idea using the stencil from yesterday and the larger flower outline, there are two, and the stem.

On a panel slightly smaller than my base card, I inked through the stencil with Salty Ocean DI, feathering out my inking to get the desired effect. Next I stamped the stem, followed by the largest outlined flower. I coloured the bloom with black marker pen to create a silhouette but decided to keep the leaves open. My sentiment from the set was stamped and the panel popped up on foam pads.

My next card is one of a couple I made from stamping onto MM paper, when I first got my stash, more of the other later in the week!

For this panel I stamped and heat embossed with white EP. When cool, I added some liquid masking fluid to the flowers and leaves and left it to dry. If you are very careful by using EP you could get away without masking but it is easier this way. 

Using my water colours, you could use DIs smooshed onto a suitable surface, I wet the stamped panel with plain water then painted a wash of blue across the top half and green across the bottom. Before it was dry, I added some rock salt crystals to the bottom half and left it to dry thoroughly. Once it was, I swept the salt into the bin to reveal the pretty pattern where the water/paint had been absorbed by the salt, clever eh? I think it looks a bit like tiny wild flowers in the grass. The masking fluid was then removed and the flowers and leaves were painted in with more watercolours. 

I cut a frame for the little scene by die cutting a rectangle from a panel of white card, smaller than my base card, stamping the same sentiment in black before gluing the MM panel to my base card and popping the frame up over on foam pads.

Enough from me, why not check out the rest of the team here to see what they've been up to?

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

So that's all for today but pop back tomorrow to see an other intro from the Uniko April release.

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April AG, no option

Use a stencil

Birds, animals, flowers, nature

Clean and Simple or Fussy and Fancy

I'd choose clean and simple nearly every time, as I find the simple no clutter style lets the image sing. Also I find it difficult to add layers and fussy things up, the end result always look wrong to me!

Introducing Ink n Flip Stencil - Delightful Diamonds

Good morning. 

It's day 2 of the Uniko April release intros. Today we are focusing on another of Bev's Ink n Flip stencils, Delightful Diamonds, here are a couple of ideas.

This card was made by inking an A5 panel of white card, with a rainbow of DI inks diagonally across my panel. Starting first with Wilted Violet. then Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and finally Picked Raspberry. After wiping down the stencil, I flipped it over and continued the pattern, blending the colours as I went. The stencil only covers part of the panel at one go so I needed to move it around to get the whole A5 panel covered. I love how the colours blend so that the transition from one to another is subtle. 

I cut my panel in half, then trimmed once again so that I had a thin white border when added to an A6 white card base. The sentiment white EP on black card, was made up from a selection of Uniko sentiment stamps, I made a few some I used yesterday, some for later use too, cut with a couple of nesting circle dies. The circles were glued together then popped on to the panel with foam tape.

Here's what I made with the rest of the panel. 

This time I simply added a die cut white panel over the top and one of the sentiments from Tuesday's intro, a few black punched stars and dots complete.

What do you think? Why not check out the rest of the team to see how they've used this fab new stencil.

  Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie - me

Steph

Vinita

I'll be back tomorrow with another introduction.

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