12 Days of Christmas Giveaways - Day 4 Festive Flower Power

 

Happy Thursday.

Today I am back with the fourth of twelve giveaways and inspiration. I came across this card recently where I used the Stencil - Flower Power 1 to create a Christmas card.

So I thought I would make a new version inspired by this card and this is how it turned out. 

This time I went for a white card base and opted to stencil in the top corner. I also layered the flower by inking once with Poppy and then rotating the stencil and inking again with Cranberry. 

I finished with the Season's Greetings sentiment from Christmas Sentiments and added a few Cranberry enamel dots. 

If you fancy watching me make this quick, clean & simple Christmas card you can watch the YouTube short over on the Uniko YouTube Channel. 

Now the giveaway, be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win this stencil and I'll throw in Flower Power 1 clear stamps too. If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own this stencil & stamp set, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

Christmas in July Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Colourful Christmas

 Bonjour !

Izzy here with an inspiration card for celebrating Christmas in July with Uniko !

To make my card, I focused on the two words Christmas and July. For me Summer is the season of colours, whatever they are. So I decided to make a Christmas card with lots of colours and here is what I came up with.

Of course I had to use my favourite stencil when it comes about Christmas : In the Forest. On a double white card, I simply brushed different colours on top in a diagonal way. 

Then I used one of the trees of the Christmas Pop Trio stencil to make the big tree. I stencilled it with the same colours then I fussy cut it all around.

To ground it on my card, I stamped in black and I clear heat embossed a sentiment line (from Background Builders Christmas set) on a strip of white card stock that I flat adhered on the card.

Finally, I foam mounted the tree on top.

Well, that's all from me today. Thanks for joining me and hopefully I've given you some more inspiration to start your Christmas stash. I will come back soon with more inspiration. 

Have a lovely day and thank you for stopping by.

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Christmas Tree Tuesday

Good morning, 

Steph here with my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post. We are focusing on Christmas in July this month and I have specifically chosen Uniko stamps which include Christmas trees. 

To start off I heat embossed the Uniko Background Blocks Arts Decoratifs Christmas stamp. I then used a craft knife to cut some apertures behind which I laid different colours of tissue paper. The idea being that the light could shine through the tissue paper like a stained glass window. 

For my next card I used Uniko Rustic Christmas stamp set and created a 'forest' using different colour inks before decorating my main tree with fussy cut small elements from the stamp set.

And finally a super quick card made using the outline tree from the Uniko Christmas Pop stamp set and coloured using alcohol markers. I then teamed this with a sentiment from the Uniko Christmas Wishes set.

It's never too early to start your Christmas cards! And hopefully there is a style here to suit most tastes. 

Much love

Steph x

12 Days of Christmas Giveaways - Day 3 Festive Stencil Sunday with Ink & Flip Christmas Tree 🎄

Happy Sunday.

Today I am back with the third of twelve giveaways and inspiration. Festive Stencil Sunday with Ink & Flip Christmas Tree 🎄

Ink & Flip Christmas Star got the limelight on Friday, so it was only right that Ink & Flip Layering Geometric Christmas Tree receive the same inking treatment. 

This card being two layers took a little longer to create, but only 15 minutes. More non traditional colours for this card too and I quite like how it turned out.

If you fancy watching me make this quick, clean & simple Christmas card you can watch the YouTube short over on the Uniko YouTube Channel. 

Now the giveaway, be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win this stencil. If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own this stencil, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

Christmas In July - Vellum Frosted Christmas Trees

 

Happy Weekend. 

Today I am off south with Uniko for Stamperama Bracknell, the show is tomorrow and I am super excited to be going somewhere new. 

In between show prep and restocks arriving, I still managed to squeeze in a little creative time. On Thursday I shared a card on the Seven Hills Crafts blog HERE and seen below using the Kristina Werner Merry Trees, yes, I am doing Christmas in July over there too! 

I stencilled the background, but wanted to add a sentiment. So I decided to add a vellum panel to do that. It adds a wonderful frosted feel to the card and perfect to stamp a gold heat embossed sentiment. 

Anyway, I thought I would replicate the look with Uniko products and this is how it turned out...

I decided to use Background Builders Christmas 2018 and stamped the line of trees in black ink up my card panel. I then coloured the trees with a Stampin' Up! Stampin' Blend. For the sentiment I used the popular Christmas Wishes and added a few Poppy enamel dots to finish. 

I love how you can use the same layout and similar supplies, but achieve different looks. Well, that's two more Christmas cards added to my stash. 

That's all from me today, but I will be back tomorrow with more to share. 

Crafty Hugs

12 Days Of Christmas Giveaways - Day 2 Ink & Festive Flippin' Fun ⭐️

 

Happy FriYAY!

On Tuesday we kicked of Christmas in July with Uniko.

A whole month of inspiration using current Uniko Christmas AND non-Christmas products used in Chrismassy ways. 12 Days of Giveaways AND a New Release at the end of the month! 

Julie started us off with inspiration using the popular Background Builders Christmas 2018 clear stamp set HERE, be sure to check the inspiration.

Then on Wednesday there was the first of twelve giveaways and inspiration using this week's Card Of The Week product, Season Of Beauty and a fun Christmas Linky Party for you all to join in on, be sure to check it out HERE.

Today I am back with the second of twelve giveaways and inspiration. And as I like titles to rhyme, how about Ink & Festive Flippin' Fun ⭐️

And, because Ink & Flip Christmas Star was the first Ink & Flip Stencil, it was only right this one got to shine today.

If you fancy watching me make this quick, clean & simple Christmas card you can watch the YouTube short over on the Uniko YouTube Channel. 

For my colours I used Concord & 9th Marmalade and Poppy. My sentiment choice is from Christmas Sentiments and I added a few Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie star enamel dots to finish.

Now the giveaway, be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win this stencil. If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own this stencil, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

12 Days Of Christmas Giveaways - Day 1 Christmas Linky Party 🎄

 

Happy Wonderful Wednesday. 

Yesterday we kicked of Christmas in July with Uniko.

A whole month of inspiration using current Uniko Christmas AND non-Christmas products used in Chrismassy ways. 12 Days of Giveaways AND a New Release at the end of the month! 

Julie started us off with inspiration using the popular Background Builders Christmas 2018 clear stamp set HERE, be sure to check the inspiration.

Today I am here with the first of twelve giveaways and inspiration using this week's Card Of The Week product, Season Of Beauty. 

Let's start with the inspiration.

It seemed only right that this modern layering Poinsettia styled flower got the Kristina Werner A2 Thin Frame Die treatment!

Yes, I am still obsessed with this die and I simply love it die cut in black against a white background. For the flowers I used Honeysuckle, Poppy and Cranberry ink and the leaves I used Evergreen. 

For my second card I opted to use the foliage from the set, it's my favourite foliage. I also decided to make my card a little rustic looking.

My simple way of making it a little more rustic was to use a leftover piece of Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream card.

I stamped the sentiment first so I could arrange the foliage to frame it on the diagonal. I used Evergreen and Parsely ink and both sizes of the foliage from the stamp set. I finally added some Cranberry 'berry' dots, which is actually the stamp used for the centre of the flower. 

Okay, so now I thought I would make the 12 Days Of Christmas Giveaways - Day 1 a Christmas Linky Party 🎄 

Simply link up a Christmas Card using Uniko stamps, stencils or dies to the link up below by 23:59 BST Thursday 31st July 2025 for your chance to win a £25 eGift code. The winner will be randomly selected from all entries. Open Worldwide (If you are in the EU, you will be able to choose £25 worth of product to be sent as a gift.)

Party Rules

Use Uniko Products Only*

No back linking. Linked cards/projects must be new.

Maximum Entries 3 Per Person.

*If you don't own any physical Uniko products you are welcome to use THESE FREE Uniko Digital images to create your card. 

Don't use social media or have a blog to upload your card & link from? 

No worries. Just drop me an email bev@uniko.co.uk titled Uniko 2025 Christmas Linky Party with a photo and I will upload for you.

I look forward to seeing your Christmas cards. 

Crafty Hugs

Christmas in July - Brand Ambassador Inspiration with Background Builders Christmas 2018

 Afternoon, Julie here with the first of many posts celebrating Christmas in July with Uniko!

Over at Color Hues their new colour combo is red and white, so I thought I would use that to spark an idea using Background Builders Christmas 2018, some red card and white heat embossing. Here's what I came up with.

I've used this set a couple of times to make 'jumper' style cards as the patterns always remind me of Christmas sweaters! There are a few strips which you could combine to make a pattern but I stuck with just two.

For this card, I simply stamped and embossed three of the stylised snowflake strip onto an A6 panel of red card and bookmarked it with the hatched lined stamp strip. A simple partial circle die cut out of the red panel followed by a die cut welt made from two stacked circle dies, suggests a neckline. The red panel was then trimmed to leave a border when attached with glue to my A6 white base card.  A simple white heat embossed sentiment from Christmas Sentiments completes, a very simple card in the end.

Here are a couple more ideas along the same lines from a few years ago.

This uses a zipper die set from MFT and the tags below are simply strips of card with fussy cut collars, die cut circles, butchers twine, a couple of buttons and some ribbon bows!

So that's all from me today but don't forget to look out for more Christmas inspiration to kick start your Christmas stash from the BAs as well as a new release later in the month.

So for the moment I'll say bye and happy crafting!

Flippin' Fabulous Ink & Flip Masculine Inspiration Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway 🎉

Hello & Happy Weekend. 

I thought it would be nice to wrap up a month of masculine card inspiration with some FLIPPIN' fun 🤩  

Uniko's Ink & Flip Stencils launched in August 2023. A concept I discovered when designing a star. Originally I thought I needed one or more layers to achieve the look I wanted, but to my surprise I realised I only needed one. 

I'm proud of where this concept started and how it has expanded and evolved. From a single layer stencil, to two layered stencils for a more complex look and more recently all over patterns. 

Ink & Flip adds a new level to simple geometrics, which I often reach for when making a masculine card. So let's have a look at which stencils the Brand Ambassadors were inspired to use for the hop today.

Be sure to leave a comment along the hop and on any or all of the Uniko socials for your chance to win your choice of Uniko Ink & Flip Stencil. Comment by Sunday 6th July 2025 and a random winning comment will be selected and announced week of 7th July 2025.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

That was FLIPPIN' inspirational. 

Thank you for joining in with your hop and for all your comments of support on Friday on social media. If you feel you'd like to see more of these stencils in action, be sure to check out the videos on Uniko's YouTube channel. 

Crafty Hugs

BA Inspiration - Bright Butterflies Layering Stencil

Good morning, Julie here with a little bit of BA Inspiration using a stencil released earlier this year, Layering Bright Butterflies .

It's my daughter's birthday today and she loves the colour purple, and hates florals, so butterflies are always a good option for a card theme. Here is what I came up with. 

This is a 5 x 7 inch card, so it needed quite a few butterflies to cover it. My idea was to give them a bit of dimension by layering the top wings over the base ones. To achieve this I started by inking through the outline stencil with a soft lilac, Wilted Violet DI and a light hand. On some scrap white card, I also inked the top half of the butterfly. Each layer was then added using more of the Wilted Lilac, increasing the strength of the inking with each layer. A white gel pen was then used to add a small dot to the center of all the circles and a larger center for the flower.

Now to the tricky bit, fussy cutting all the elements. I chickened out on the body and antennae and used a die from an MB set cut some from silver glitter paper. The top half of each butterfly was added with foam pads and the silver body with glue.

I made a base card from an A4 piece of lilac card and cut a smaller rectangle with a die to create the raised central panel. This was raised up over the card front with a panel of purple fun foam. The butterflies were then arranged over the whole card and attached with glue or foam pads where necessary. All over hanging bits were trimmed away. To add more interest, I mixed up a thick mix of white acrylic paint and water and splattered it all over. A few clear sequins were added for even more bling!

My sentiment, MCM Everyday Sentiments, was stamped on white and heat embossed with silver EP before being fussy cut and glued to the finished card.

So that's all from me for today, I did veer from my normal clean and simple style but it was for my daughter's birthday card!

Happy crafting! 

Amazing Layering Bauhaus Blocks Stencil

Happy Thursday.

What a scorcher for The Beans sports day today, so proud of them for doing their best, supporting each other when they were in the same race, supporting their friends and fellow key stage 2 students. It was a lovely morning spent.

After I got home I decided to ink up the Layering Bauhaus Blocks Stencil, because it simply wouldn't be a masculine month of inspiration if this didn't get used.

I've got into the habit to record my card making and I have shared a YouTube Short HERE of the process. Twenty four minutes reduced to 60 seconds! 

I chose a random colour combo of Blueberry, Oceanside and Lemongrass to ink the three layers of the stencil. It can be a bit of a lengthy process, especially if like me you fill the card. But I quite like how relaxing it is.

Originally I only had the one card in mind, with the panel trimmed into a triangle and adhered using foam tape. But when I trimmed the panel I instantly thought the offcuts were too good to go to waste. So I simply adhered them to another card base.

My sentiment choice is from Everyday Sentiments.

Crafty Hugs