It's Beginning To Look Like... Introducing Uniko's Background Blocks Snow Flurry

Good morning. As I mentioned yesterday, we are launching a brand new addition to the Background Blocks series, Snow Flurry. Here's what I've made with it.

My first card uses Christmas Pop set against an aperture with the BB Snow Flurry in the background.

On some white card, I stamped the block with Altenew's Turquoise ink and the trees with their Limeade ink. The trees were fussy cut and the BB panel added onto an A6 note card so that it fit under my die cut aperture panel. The layout loosely matches the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, squished down! The snowdrift was cut freehand from some scrap and as I had the Peace on Earth set out I used that for a simple greeting. The trees and snowdrift were arranged around the opening and the top panel added with some foam tape. 

My second card is a simple shaker card.

 

This time the BB Snow Flurry was stamped onto a scrap of white and put to one side whilst I made my shaker element. I cut an MFT frame from white card and glued some acetate from some packaging to it. When dry, I ran my anti static bag over the acetate then added some foam tape before turning it over and adding some glitter, beads and a few die cut snowflakes. The panel was then cut to size and added to seal it all in. The shaker element was then added to a white base card that I'd already stamped the sentiment in matching ink to.

So that's all from me for today but please check out what the rest of the team have been up to.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

I'll back tomorrow with another new release.

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It's Beginning To Look Like... Reintroducing Uniko's Pure Florals Poinsettia

Morning, time for another reintroduction from Uniko. Today we are sharing inspiration using the re released Pure Florals Poinsettia. I'm so happy that Bev has re released this set as it's my go to Christmas floral! I think she might have got fed up with me badgering her to bring it back!

So for my inspiration, I decided to make a card using a technique I've not used before with this stamp, and I can tell you that was difficult!

For this card, I stamped the fab head of the poinsettia twice with Versamark onto vellum before heat embossing with white EP. A poinsettia has really tiny yellow flowers in the center of the head, the red and green 'petals' are really modified leaves. I took one of the images and fussy cut the whole of the head and then cut the center out from the other. 

I chose a lovely festive red base card and using the ribs of the leaves, carefully glued the poinsettia to it. The smaller center was similarly glued over the large one. A simple white embossed sentiment from the set completes.

Here are a few other ideas that I've come up with over the years using this set. Just click the pic to find out all the details of how I made them.

So are you pleased like me that Bev has decided to reintroduce this fab set?

Why not pop along to the rest of the team and our guest Natalia to check out what they've been up to.

Natalia

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

I'll see you back here tomorrow for the launch of a brand new stamp!

Autumnal Trees

Morning, it's a two post morning here on my blog but this one is to announce the new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. This time we would love to see your take on 

 A TASTE of AUTUMN/FALL

Autumn is supposed to be the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and these last couple of days it's been filling the mist part but not the fruitful so much. The winds last week have smashed the climbing beans and the squash, which I managed to get under cover before the fruit was damaged too much. However a couple split with the fluctuation of water levels at the beginning of September. Far too much rain fell, flooding our yard and at one point it was lapping the house wall! Still I think I can use them sooner rather than trying to keep them!

Anyway here is my take.

This is one of my fave tree images from Chocolate Baroque, I think. They were part of a bargain bin at Port Sunlight a few years ago so no packaging!

I used the MISTI to create the image, using a mix of ink, water colour pens to create the soft autumnal look of the foliage. The MISTI allows you to keep adding colour and water to blend the inks without too much hassle. I left a few gaps in the foliage, my art tutor always said to leave some for the birds to fly through! 

I cut the panel down once dry and framed it with a die cut frame cut with an MFT die, slipping my Sugar Pea sentiment under the side edge. The whole was then added on pads to a square base card made from the same card as the frame.

That's it from me but please check out the rest of the team here.

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                    Autumn                           A/G option of Autumn Colours

It's Beginning To Look Like... Reintroducing Uniko's Christmas Pop

Morning all.

Today we are reintroducing the Christmas Pop stamp set. So rather than go for a straightforward stamped image I went for this as my idea.

A couple of years ago I used the Christmas Pop stencil to create these cards but this time I've used the outline image from the stamp set.

The tree outline was stamped with a pale ink, I used Altenew's Limestone, on some mixed Media paper and then I added some plain water to the triangular part of the image, followed quickly by three shades of green watercolour paint and let the water move the colour around. When the paint was dry I repeated the technique with brown for the trunk. Once completely dry, I added the gold embossed lines and star with Versamark and Gold EP plus an embossed sentiment from Peace on Earth.

That's all from me for the time being but why not check out what the rest of the team and our guest Natalia have been up to. 

Natalia 

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie -me

Steph

Vinita

See you back here tomorrow for more festive inspiration with another stamp intro.

It's Beginning To Look Like... Uniko October/November Release Sneak Peeks!

Good morning, it's beginning to look like Christmas at Uniko. 

Bev has a new release this week and here are a few sneak peeks of the stamp sets. Two are reintroductions of much loved favourites along with some additions to stamp series already in the Uniko stable. I bet some of you will recognise the oldies but goodies, so why not see what else there is?

This stamp set had its debut in 2016 and the next, originally debuted in 2012!! 

The next 3 peeks are all brand new.

So what do you think? Are you excited to see some clear stamps return from retirement? We'd love to know what you are excited to see more of .