Happy 7th Birthday Uniko

Good morning, hope you are well.

It's an exciting time over at Uniko as we celebrate our 7th birthday this month!

Here's my card and what says celebrate more than balloons?

It's a wobbly balloon on a confetti embossed background. It uses a bobbler die cut using a die from Stampendous that I picked up at Port Sunlight in the bargain box a few years ago and hadn't used but rediscovered whist tidying my stash over Christmas.

Here's a close up of the die cut 

and here it is behind my balloon

To start, I fixed a panel of white card under the Party Confetti Stencil and inked through with a small Versamark pad, removed the stencil carefully and added some white EP, which I then heat embossed. Setting to one side, I then took a balloon die and cut one in some pink Bazzil card and inked around the edges with some Picked Raspberry DI. Placing the outer of the die cut in my MISTI, I replaced the balloon die cut and stamped the sentiment from the Wonderful Day stamp set in black Memento, heat embossing it in clear gloss EP. I put the die cut back into the negative space so that it was easier to stamp squarely. Before removing the panel, I added a flash of white gel pen using the Balloon Bash stencil as a guide.

To cut the tail for the balloon, I used a wavy strip die, cutting twice close together, then affixing it behind the balloon and adding a tiny extra bit for the tie at the bottom. The bobbler die cut was adhered to the back of the balloon and my trimmed embossed panel was added to a white A6 base card.  The other end of my bobbler was glued to the embossed panel, trimming the tail to fit. A few clear sequins were added over some of the dots on the embossed panel to complete.

OK we've got a balloon but what's a birthday celebration without a PARTY?

With the success of last two Birthday Linky Parties, Bev thought it would be lovely to host another.

To join in. simply create a birthday card, any theme, any style and using any product you like and link it up via the linky on the Uniko blog. You don't have to use Uniko products, but we'd LOVE to see you using your Uniko stash AND there is an extra opportunity to win a prize if you do.

Here are all the details

• Main Winner Chosen By the DT - £35 eGift Certificate
• Random Uniko Stamps Winner - In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing (any value)
• Top 4 Chosen By DT - In Stock £10 Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Randomly Selected comment from the Design Team Hop In Stock £5 Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing

A total of SEVEN chances to win! 

We hope you will join in on the celebrations and link up your birthday card via the Uniko blog. The link up will close at 23:59 Thursday 28th February 2019.  ALL Release Winners will be announced  Friday 1st March 2019.

Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery, but first you better leave a comment here, then continue the hop and commenting by following the links!

Bev
Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie - That'll be me
Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Sarah P
Wiebke 

Happy hopping!

I'd like to join in over at:-


Fave shape or fold
I tend to always go for a top fold A6 card. I think it's the Yorkshire in me, I can get two card bases from one piece of A4 Card and no waste!

Pure Florals - Peony

Afternoon folks.

I'm back again to share a card for this fortnight's Seize the Birthday challenge.

This week our topping is -

BLACK AND WHITE

However, if you are not a topping sort of person, you can still join us so long as its a birthday card.

I started by heat embossing in white this fab Uniko peony bloom on a panel of black card. I then stamped another in black on white and trimmed all the leaves away to leave just the bloom. 

Using a MFT scalloped rectangle I cut the black panel and attached it to a white base card, then added the peony bloom with foam pads. My sentiment strip was also added with pads and a few transparent sequins were added to complete.

Check out the DT here for more black and white birthday inspiration.

Joining in over at :-

Birthday

To the best friend

Evening all.

It's time for another challenge over at ATSM. This week it is -

ANYTHING GOES

Here is my inspiration card for you.

There are a couple of challenges out there that are focusing on friends in one way or another and as my oldest friend loves oranges, I thought I would make a card using the January colours.

I'm afraid I went with the Altenew Rose Flurries dies again, I love them and they are so versatile!

I found some spotty teal DP in my stash and a snippet of Core'dinations teal card there too, so I made a panel to go down one side of my base card then added two roses from the set that I coloured using Copics. The foliage, also from the die set were similarly cut from white card and coloured with Copics, adding detail with a steady hand! A cluster of small white flowers complete my spray.

The sentiment is also Altenew, this time Extra Special. The original sentiment said sister but I managed to leave it un inked by using a Versamark pen and then heat embossed just the To the best with white EP on a black strip. When cool, I stamped the friend word from the same set in the gap instead.

OK, that's it from me but there's more Anything Goes inspiration over on the ATSM blog.

Joining in over at:-

     

It was the friends element that inspired me

#504 Friends

Dapper Gent

Morning all.
It's another busy week here in the craftroom but that's just how I like it!
Anyway here is my card for you to announce the start of a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.
This time our theme is -

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER T

Lots of things to get your teeth into there I think.
Here is my card using T is for Tie!

When I first saw the sketch at Less is More I immediately thought of a shirt and tie so away I went.

To create the 'tie', I used my Uniko Background Builders Christmas 2018 set, repeat stamping two of the strips across a panel of mid blue card in Blueprint Sketch DOx and Versa Colour white ink. I then trimmed it and turned the top 1/3rd 90' to create the knot effect. The white panels were cut to shape and added before being attached to an A6 top fold card.
My sentiment from HLS, Born to be Wild was stamped on a die cut banner and glued over the pinch point of my 'tie'. Voila a crisp white shirt and business tie, very dapper if I may say so!

So for more 'T' inspiration, check out the rest of the team here and then why not join us and prove making cards for guys isn't as difficult as you thought.

Joining in over at:-

Birthday

Uniko DT Spot

Morning peeps, just popping by to say I'm up on the Uniko blog with my DT inspiration spot using one of the fab uniko stencils.

Here's a  few sneaky peeks!

   

    

Why not pop over and check it out?