A Quick, Colourful Masculine Card & YouTube Video

Hello & Happy Tuesday. 

Today I have a A Quick, Colourful Masculine Card & YouTube Video, HERE if you would like to watch and make along with me 😃

I've used Background Blocks Splatter, Background Builders Seeing Stars and Everyday Sentiments on my card here, but really any Background Block, Background Builder and sentiment would work for this layout.

That's all from me today.

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Masculine Monday, Card Of The Week AND a Winner!

Hello & Happy Monday. 

How are we into the second half of June already? The days and weeks just seem to be going by so fast. But I'm back in the studio today after a jam packed weekend to kick this new week off with this week's Card Of The Week.

Continuing with masculine makes for June, I chose this card from way back from February 2014 when Explosion! was originally introduced. 

This small but mighty clear stamp set packs a punch and is perfect for masculine cards. As always this clear stamp set is 15% off this week in the Card Of The Week section on the website.

I'm going to have some fun inking this set up again this week and I'll be sharing inspiration across social media when I do.

Before I go today, I was reminded that I hadn't announced the winner of the May Non-Release Brand Ambassador Blog Hop. My apologies for my brain fog! 

The lucky winning comment is from Kailash.

Kailash

May 14, 2025

Your cards are gorgeous!

Congratulations Kailash! 

Please send an email to bev@uniko.co.uk to claim your £25 eGift Code. 

Thank you to all that take the time to hop along with us and leave such lovely comments. 

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Brand Ambassador Inspiration: Happy Father's Day

  Hello everyone!

Happy Thursday!

Vinita here! Today's card I am sharing is for my Dad! Happy Father's Day to everyone!

Father's Day is observed on the third Sunday in June 15th. Mark your calendar and be sure to let your dad know he rocks!

I am excited to be sharing a Father's Day card! This is a one-layer CAS card with a lot of textures!

I started by stamping the Uniko Background Blocks Art Decoratifs stamp in the centre. I heat embossed the image in Wow opaque bright white EP. I blended some DI and added some water droplets. Then I stamped the floral image in Jet black ink using the Originally Organic Flower Garden stamp set.  I doodled some leaves by adding lines and dots inside. The sentiment happy is from the Bauhaus Blocks stamp set, and the Father's Day sentiment is from the Simply Said Blocks stamp set. Added some pearls for more textures.

Look here...... I have used a floral wooden button! Boy, I hoard these things!!!

I hope you enjoyed!

Happy crafting!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Monday Blues

Good Morning, 

Steph here today with my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post for June. As we are focussing on masculine makes this month, I have dug out some older Uniko stamp sets and focused on blue hues. 

My first card uses the Uniko Block Party Coffee Love stamp set. I started by sweeping my white card with a light grey cube ink pad and then stamped and coloured the image. I added faux 'planks' using an embossing board before attaching to a card blank using foam pads. 

Sticking with the grey ink and blue alcohol markers, I changed my stamp to Uniko Background Blocks Equaliser stamp set. I used the sentiment and the extra musical notes stamps from the set to finish off the card.

And finally for today, I created a birthday card with the Uniko Up & Away stamp set. I stamped the hot air balloon and basket before colouring in and fussy cutting out. I attached this to piece of card on which I had stamped clouds, the flag tail and the sentiment. 

That's all my cards for today which hopefully has given you some masculine inspiration for Father's Day this coming weekend (in the UK).

Much love

Steph x 

Spring/Summer 2025 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop WINNER

Hello & Happy FriYAY! 

Today I am popping by to announce the winner of the Spring/Summer 2025 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Thank you to everyone that took the time to hop along and comment. But before I get to the winner I have one more hot drink card to inspire you.

For my card I dusted off I LOVE Tea. I had this fun idea to stamp the garden of flowers from Originally Organic Flower Garden inside the cup and I was delighted to see the stems fit inside perfectly.

I stamped the solid flower from the set onto the side of the tea cup and added one of the sentiment options from I LOVE Tea, before colouring with alcohol markers.

Isn't it great when you can combine new and old products for more creative options?

Ok, now onto the winner. I used random.org to select a lucky comment. 

And the lucky winning comment for the £25 Uniko eGift Code is...

Judy Rozema23 May 2025 at 17:27

Sun fun cards from everyone - they're all so wonderful. I especially like your second with the pink flowers! Thanks for being a sponsor!

Congratulations Judy! 

Please send an email to bev@uniko.co.uk no later than Saturday 21st June to claim your prize. 

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A Couple Of Masculine Makes

Hello & Happy Thursday.

I'm just about sorted for my travels down south tomorrow for Crafterama Kent, so I thought I would pop by and share a couple of masculine cards I've made this week. 

This first card I shared the other day as a YouTube Short, HERE. I love Background Blocks Perspective for quick (ish) masculine makes. 

For this one I created a mask to add some shading using Dove ink. I then removed the mask and add some simple colouring using alcohol markers. 

To finish I added a mixed sentiment from Simply Said Blocks and Simply Said Blocks Occasions and adhered them using foam tape. 

Today, over on YouTube HERE I am sharing a video making this card using Balloon Bash and Birthday Sentiments. I also share my tip on using and adhering thin frames, like this one from Kristina Werner A2 Thin Frames Die. 

What do you think of this fun colour combo too? 

I saw it somewhere on Pinterest (I think) and I jotted down colours I thought matched and would work together. 

I hope you'll have a look at my video and I'd love to know if you think my tip about the frame is useful. 

Ok, back to making sure I've everything for tomorrow, it's going to be an early start and a long drive down. I'll be sure to check in and share what I can on social media while I'm there. 

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Quick, Clean & Simple 🌸

Hello & Happy Friday. 

With it being school half term here for The Beans, creative time has been limited. So I set myself a challenge of making a couple of cards, both in less than 15 mins from prep to finishing.

I'm still loving Originally Organic Flower Garden and had this fun fussy cut detail idea.

I shared a reel on Uniko's Instagram HERE making this card, time to make in real time was 11 minutes. And I also shared it as a short on YouTube HERE. 

Today a few stencil restocks arrived, including the Stencil - Layering Bright Butterflies. And I've been waiting to share this idea with you all.

I'm determined to use up lots of coloured card panels and both these layout ideas are good for that! The split panel adds a little interest to a flat card with no embellishment. And with the stencil having 3 different butterflies, instantly you have 3 different designs. 

If you want to see how quick I made this card you can catch the short on Uniko's YouTube Channel HERE. It took me 7 minutes real time. 

Stencil Restocks

These popular stencils are back and available on the website 😀

Have a lovely weekend & hopefully I will be back with more to share tomorrow.

Crafty Hugs

Spring/Summer 2025 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hey & Happy Friday!

I'm super happy you have stopped by today, Uniko is yet again honoured to be invited by the lovely Amy from Tsuruta Designs and proudly sponsoring the 2025 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Hopefully you have hopped on over from HERE, but if you missed the start or get lost along the way, be sure to go to start at the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog.

Today, myself and some of the Uniko Brand Ambassadors are joining in and we've created some Uniko coffee and tea inspiration to share with you.

Be sure to hop along the links below and leave a comment to be in the chance to win a £25 eGift Certificate to spend at Uniko. Comments need to be left by 2pm BST Friday 30th May 2025 to be in the chance of being randomly selected as the winner. The winner will be announced Monday 2nd June 2025 here on the Uniko blogspot blog.

Let's have a look at the inspiration.

I couldn't resist pairing the Stencil - Layering Spring Blossom with the I LOVE Coffee cup and friends sentiment from the set. I was channelling coffee vibes and used a trio of browns to ink the 3 layers of the stencil. 

I had to add a little splash of spring colour and decided to add a little cluster of spring blooms from Originally Organic Flower Garden, that I coloured using alcohol markers.                                                                                 

And here are the links to the Uniko Brand Ambassadors for even more inspiration.

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

Thank you for hopping along with us here at Uniko, your next and final stop is HERE.

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Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Alphabet and Animals!

Good morning, 

Steph her today. Did I mention how much I loved the Uniko Alphabet Solid stamp set during the February birthday release? So, I have used this stamp set as my focus for my Uniko Brand Ambassador inspiration post this month and teamed it with Uniko's animal themed stamps, creating some 'play on words' sentiments to add even more fun! 

First we have a 'Hoppy' birthday card using the bunny from the Uniko Hoppy Easter stamp set and the birthday from the Uniko WILD stamp set (currently unavailable).

I'm particularly pleased with this daft sentiment! The cat stamp is from the Uniko Mid Century Modern Purrfect Day stamp set. The rest of the sentiment is made from parts from the 'From our home to yours' in the Uniko Festive Sentiments stamp set. 

And finally, also a slightly daft sentiment teamed with the paw print from the Uniko Paw Print Hearts stamp set and a heart from the Uniko Falling Hearts Serenade stamp set. 

For all these cards I used VersaMagic chalk inks which give a nice effect to the silhouette style of these cards.

Thanks for visiting today.

Much love

Steph x

Stencil Sunday BA Inspiration - Playing with the Last Release

 Bonjour !

Izzy here with some more inspiration with some of the products from the last release.

Once again, I'm going to show you that Uniko's products are very versatile, above all the stencils, since you only have to change your colour palette to decide which kind of card you want to make.

Just like for the last release, I made a Christmas card but this time with the Ink & Flip Diamonds stencil.

Here I used it with different tones of green to make the background of this Christmas card. Once done, I flat adhered it onto a double white card. 

I used the Season of Beauty set to make the flower in red and some leaves that I gold heat embossed. The sentiment comes from the Christmas Sentiments set.

For my second card, I die cut 4 hearts in white card stock. Then I played with the beautiful Spring Blossom Layering stencil, that I used with different colour palettes. These palettes are supposed to represent the 4 seasons. 

For the sentiment I used the Big & Bold - Love set. I stamped in black and I heat embossed the big Love word, I fussy cut it and I foam mounted it over the hearts. 

I played again with the Spring Blossom Layering stencil to make my third card, but this time with a totally different palette and occasion. 

Once done, I cut the panel in the middle with two square dies. I flat adhered the two parts on a grey double card. 

Then I used the Originally Organic Flower Garden set and I stamped the flower on a white piece of card stock. With coloured pencils I softly coloured it, I fussy cut it and I foam mounted it on the card. For the sentiment I used the Simply Said Block II set.

I couldn't not use the pretty frame obtained from the previous card, so I used it to make my last card.

I cut two other frames to add dimension, plus a lilac one slightly bigger that I inserted behind the top frame. 

To fill this window, I used the Butterfly Serenade set that I partially stamped on a square of white card stock. I stamped a sentiment coming from the Everyday Sentiments set. I coloured the butterflies with coloured pencils, then I flat adhered the image on a lilac double card.

To finish, I glued the stencilled frame.

Well, that's all from me today. Thanks for joining me and hopefully I've given you some more inspiration with the last release.

Have a lovely Sunday and thank you for stopping by.

A Blooming Birthday Card And A Winner!

Hello & Happy Monday.

I'm starting the week off with finally announcing the winner of the April 2025 Release Day Blog Hop. Thank you to everyone that took the time to hop and comment.

I also finished this card in honour of todays post too.

This was a panel I stencilled at Crafterama Lincoln using the Stencil - Layering Spring Blossom and some of the new C9 colours. 

I finished the card with a sentiment and flowers from Originally Organic Flower Garden. My reason for the sentiment is because this month the Uniko VIP Facebook Challenge is Anything Goes Birthday. 

Ok, now onto the winner of the blog hop. 

I used random.org to pick a lucky comment and it chose this comment number

And the lucky comment is...

*Vicki*

28 avril 2025 à 20 h 38 min

All of your creations are just gorgeous! I love your composition of each and how you’ve managed to make so many different styles too! Love your use of the “J” for “JOY” creations so much! Thanks for sharing your lovely creations with us at the Alphabet Challenge!

Congratulations Vicki. Please send me an email at bev@uniko.co.uk no later than 26th May 2025 to claim your £25 eGift code to spend at Uniko.

Did you see the wonderful inspiration from the Brand Ambassadors HERE, yesterday? Don't forget to hop along and comment for your chance to win a £25 eGift code to spend at Uniko.

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