Introducing... Christmas Sentiments

Good morning folks, time for a look at another of Bev's Uniko September release sets, Christmas Sentiments. I love these new sentiments looking a lot like the font on the recently released Doodle Flower! 

When I first saw these new sentiments, I knew they would become a favourite, so they became the star of this card, based on one I saw on Pinterest.

Using some sentiment bubble dies from Lawn Fawn, I die cut some bright Christmasy bubbles and stamped the greetings in Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. The largest one was glued flat to a linen effect base card and the two green ones attached with pads. A few die cut hologram snowflakes complete the design.

A simple design and easily repeated, just change the colours and the text included for a totally different look.

For more ideas, check out the rest of the girls and hop along with us.

Bev
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie -that's me

Rahmat

Steph

Wiebke 

I'll be back tomorrow with another new introduction.

Joining in over at:-

Introducing... Background Builders: Winter Wonderland

Good morning. 

This morning sees the reveal of the first new stamp set from Uniko.

Here's my idea for using Background Builders: Winter Wonderland.

This is part of a larger panel, you may have spied the other half here from the Funky Fossil/Uniko Instahop, earlier in the week! 

On a panel of dark blue card I stamped the hillside in Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. The snow stamp, part of the Uniko BB Winter Wonderland set, was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with more white EP around the trees and deer and then a second row stamped upside down. Any glaring gaps were filled in with a Versamark pen and more EP! 

Using a pierced rectangle die, I cut out a small section of the larger panel, attached it to a white linen effect base card, adding the sentiment from the new Christmas Sentiments set in dark blue ink.

A quick CAS card, I think you could get up to 3 small panels from each stamped one, so great for mass production!

For more fab inspiration, check out the rest of the team.

Bev
Hannelie

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie -that's me

Rahmat

Steph

Wiebke 

Happy hopping!

Uniko September Release Sneak Peek

Good morning folks, it's release week over at Uniko and as always we start off with a few sneak peeks!

So 3 stamp sets and finally another large flower stencil.

Have we intrigued you, would you like to see more? 

Well pop back tomorrow at the same time for the first of the reveals and some fab ideas on how to use them from the Uniko team. 

Instagram Hop with Uniko and Funky Fossil

Hi, Uniko and Funky Fossil DTs are getting together to share some new Christmas designs in an Instagram hop! Here are a couple of examples that I shared over on Instagram, @sportyjules56.

My first uses a Funky Fossil stencil and gnome image from Nordic Noel and a Uniko sentiment from the up coming release.

I simply added Ranger Texture paste through the stencil onto kraft card, coloured and fussy cut my gnome and added the sentiment on a red die cut banner using Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. Two white, die cut panels on a scrap of card, were wrapped with red butcher's twine, then the stamped and heat embossed sentiment panel and gnome were added. The gnome was added and the whole attached over the trimmed down kraft background on an A6 white card base. 

My second card uses a Uniko stamp set and a Funky Fossil sentiment.

This is actually part of a panel I made for the upcoming Uniko September release. On a panel of dark blue card I stamped the hillside in Versamark and heat embossed with white EP. The snow stamp, part of the Uniko BB Winter Wonderland set, was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with more white EP around the trees and deer and then a second row stamped upside down. Any glaring gaps were filled in with a Versamark pen and more EP! 

The remaining panel was trimmed down to a square and the sentiment from FF Nordic Noel stamped and heat embossed with white EP, nestles neatly in the bottom right of the trimmed down panel. My blue panel was mounted on silver mirror card and then glued flat onto a white square base card.

The rest of the girls cards can be found on Instagram at:-

@unikoltd
@cornelia_fun_stamping
@inkyandquirky 

@purplejetjt 

@sportyjules56 - You are here

@hannelie.bester 

@funkyfossildesigns
@momma_sedds
@sam_squires_
@morticraft
@wiebke.kommerell

Happy hopping!

Red Hoodie?

 Morning folks. My, the last two weeks have flown by and the new challenge at Cardz4Guyz has crept up on me but I still have a card to share! Our new theme is -

ADD SOME METAL

OK, where to go, in the end I added a simple metal eyelet for the string of my hoodie to poke through!

I made this for my Son in Law's birthday, he's a tricky age, too young for some ideas and too old for the cuter images in my stash! In the end I revisited my MFT Zipper Die-Namics set to create this fleece hoodie in his football team's colours. I like using the die set as it is very versatile, allowing me to create a variety of zipped themed jackets over the years.

For this one, I found some red Bazzil card in my stash of bits just big enough for one side of a hoodie and some linen textured white to make a T-shirt.

Once the red jacket element was made, I added my eyelet and threaded some string through, knotting the end. 

 To create the T-shirt, I cut an A5 panel of textured linen card, folded to make a side fold A6 card, trimmed away 1cm from the top front, then cut the neck shape with a large circle die into the top right. From a scrap of the same card, I cut a slightly larger part circle with a stitched circle die and cut away the excess with the first die, creating a piece that suggested the welt around the neck of a T-shirt. This was glued in place then the jacket front, complete with white heat embossed STAMPlorations sentiment, was added to the base card with pads to accommodate the string. 

So where will the prompt take you? What metal will you add to your design, we'd love to see you in our gallery. If you need more inspiration check out the rest of the team here.