Another card for a Grandson

Evening folks, it's been a busy beginning to the month of August here in the craftroom and now it's time for a new challenge at HLS Birthday where its always -

ANYTHING GOES

Last month I had one card for a Grandson and here is another!

I used a layout I'd seen online but this cute image, Computer Fun from LOTV. Image stamped and coloured with Copics before being fussy cut out, but I cut out an advert for Fortnight and placed it over the original image to personalize the card a bit more. The DP is from a NitWits/LOTV pad I have had for years and have tried to eek out, sentiments are LOTV also.

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Down the middle, green/die cuts and masculine

Introducing… Mid Century Modern Christmas

Good morning and welcome to the second of the introduction days at Uniko. Today we focus on another Christmas one with a retro vibe.

My first card uses MCM Christmas to create this CAS design.

In keeping with the theme of a MCM, I kept to a retro colour scheme, stamping the tree with a pale ink and colouring with a selection of Copics. The trunk and star were added and the panel placed onto an A6 base card. The sentiment from Christmas Sentiments added with gold EP.

Check out what the rest of the team have made with the set and I'll be back tomorrow with another introduction.

 Anita

Bev

Julie -that's me

Steph

Vinita

Color Hues #69

Good afternoon folks and Happy Yorkshire Day!!

As it's the first of the month there's also a new colour combo at Color Hues.

Here's my card for your inspiration using the new colours.

I found the perfect piece of DP in my stash, I've had it for simply ages, it combines both orange and teal, although it looks a tad green in the photo.

Orange is my best friend from Grammar School's favourite colour, so I think this will find it's way there before too long. It uses the Ai Live Laugh, Love set. I've used the other stamp from the set before but this is the first outing for this lady! She was coloured with Copics and fussy cut before adding to an embossed circle with pads. I found a small piece of Teal textured card in the stash too, just enough to frame the DP and sentiment

So where will you go with these new colours, we'd love to see your interpretations in our gallery.

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Introducing… Mid Century Modern Wreath Builder

Morning Uniko fans, happy Yorkshire Day and welcome to the first introduction of the new August release. It's all about Christmas with this release so time to get ahead with your Christmas makes with this new stash!

Today we are starting the ball rolling with the fab MCM Wreath Builder stamp set. Here is my first take on the new set.

I've combined the outline and solid wreath stamps for a funky take on a wreath along with a sprig of holly and a circular sentiment.

I stamped the outline wreath with Versamark on an A6 white base card and embossed with gold EP, then stamped the solid wreath to fill in the gaps, more or less. The sentiment was one of my go to ones made up from Doodle Flower and Christmas Sentiments elements. Die cut with a small circle die and mounted on a slightly larger gold mirror card one. A couple of the small holly leaves were stamped and fussy cut along with the small berry cluster and placed alongside the sentiment.

Here's another idea just using the solid wreath stamp.

This is my second go with this card but a couple of splodges sent the first spinning into the waste basket but I did learn from the experience! The second time I started, I stamped the berries first! I know it sounds counter intuitive but my red EP was semi transparent and the green inking showed through! This time I stamped out 5 sets of the small berries from the set in red and again in Versamark before heat embossing with clear. I repeated this step to ensure full coverage.

Then I took the solid wreath stamp and stamped with a mid green, Altenew's Bamboo, carefully removing the ink on the berries with a piece of kitchen paper. The stamp was repositioned and stamped again with Altenew's Moss ink, repeating with the kitchen towel. Finally I rotated the image again and stamped with Altenew's Bamboo and removing the excess ink.

The solid bow from the set was stamped with Versafine and embossed with gold EP and fussy cut. A little bit of shaping and then it was added to my wreath. The completed panel was cut using a die and added to square matching base card.

See what the rest of the team have done with this set and I'll see you back here tomorrow for more introductions. 

 Anita

Bev

Julie -that's me

Steph

Vinita

Sneak Peeks

Morning all, it's Monday and it's also the beginning of  the introductions to Uniko's latest release. So to whet your appetite her are a few Sneak Peeks of the upcoming release.

This first peek is a fun Mid Century Modern inspired set with a mix of sentiments and elements to create some fresh and funky festive makes.

This next peek is a little add on set.

And lastly in the Mid Century Modern theme is another fun builder set, which you've been seeing all month in the Christmas in July graphic below! 

Next we are switching gears a little to an addition to the Art Deco series of stamps...

Lastly, but by no means least for the clear stamps in this release we have an addition to the Everyday Sentiment series.We think you will find this one really useful as well as versatile, not just for Christmas, but all year round.

Finally we have a new stencil.

This might not look much from this peek. However, when you see it in action you'll see how useful it can be!

So what do you think? 

We'd love to know what you are excited to see in action. So please join Bev and the Uniko Brand Ambassadors as we begin the official introductions tomorrow. 

All the products will be available 9am Sunday 6th August 2023.