Festive Friday Mid Century Modern Style Part 2 and 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways Day 8

Happy Festive Friday!

Today I am back with more festive Mid Century Modern Style Christmas cards and 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways Day 8.

Today I decided to ink up Mid Century Modern Baubles and share my quicker colouring tip. You can watch it HERE on my YouTube short. You know me, anything for a quick colour option! 

As you can see I went with some softer more pastel shades and it's funny as I seem to always reach for similar colours when using this stamp set. I must challenge myself to use some brights and traditional Christmas colours with these baubles! 

I've added a little dimension with adhering the upper bauble with foam tape and I also added a little bit of sparkle using a jelly pen.

Before I go, the giveaway. Be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win this stamp set I've used on this card If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own the products, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

A Very Merry Mid Century Modern Monday Part 1 and 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways Day 6

 

Happy Merry Mid Century Monday! 

I had this idea in my head to use Mid Century Modern Florals and make a festive wreath. I do love a wreath on a Christmas card, and although there is Mid Century Modern Wreath Builder, I always like to stretch my non Christmas stamps.

This is what I came up with. 

I love this off centre look and I've done it a few times with wreaths, I think it adds impact. Anyway, I started by drawing a circle with a pencil as a guide to stamp the leaves. 

I used the larger pair from the stamp set, first stamping in Parsley and then again in Evergreen to fill in the gaps. 

Usually I would go for evenly spaced leaves, but I stamped with a block and like how it is quirky and uneven. I think this adds to the Mid Century Modern look. 

To finish the card I added a sentiment and bow from Mid Century Modern Baubles and some Cranberry enamel dots. The Cranberry card bases ties in the reds and makes the wreath pop a little more. 

When I had finished and photographed the card, I thought about how I should have used the smaller pair of leaves to stamp one of the shades of green. So I went ahead and made a second card.

This time I went for a more central wreath. Again I started with the larger pair of leaves, stamping them in Evergreen ink. I then used the smaller pair, stamping in Parsley and again in Sprout to create more depth and fill in the gaps. 

As you can see I stamped a different sentiment outside of the wreath and balanced the design with the same bow on the upper diagonal. A trio of enamel dots finished the design, along with a Cranberry card base again.

Now I have made both I can't decide which I prefer 😂 I'd love to know your favourite.

Before I go, the giveaway, be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win both these stamp sets I've used on this card If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own the products, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Fairy Lights

Good morning, 

Following on from the lovely new release from Uniko at the end of Oct, one stamp really called out to me and that was Uniko Framed - Fairy Lights. I have used this stamp for my Brand Ambassador inspiration post this month and found that it teams very nicely with Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles. 

Here I have heat embossed the fairy lights using red glitter embossing powder and coloured the lights in using a green alcohol marker and silver and gold gel pens. The bauble and sentiment are also heat embossed. 

This card is similar to the last one but I have used green glitter embossing powder instead and also used the embossing powders for the bauble and sentiment. 

Switching to gold embossing powder and colouring the background in meant I could leave the bauble white to let it stand out. 

Finally I used the fairy lights stamp in a landscape setting and stamped using dye ink. I coloured the lights using alcohol markers and added some shimmer with a Wink of Stella brush pen. 

I hope you loved the new Uniko release as much as I did. Look back on the Uniko blog to see lots and lots of brilliant inspiration from the Brand Ambassadors during the release introductions.

Much love

Steph x

Merry Christmas & Uniko's Customer Top 10 of 2023 - Number 7

Merry Christmas! 

Wishing you all a wonderful day and sending much love from me here at Uniko. I am here continuing with Uniko's Customer Top 10 of 2023. Today we have the 7th most purchased clear stamp set, Mid Century Modern Frames. 

Seems as though there is a bit of a theme appearing within the TOP 10! So my card today as it is Christmas Day has a festive spin...

Mid Century Modern Frames joined the Uniko Mid Century Modern line up in January this year and it fits in just nicely. You might wonder where the large star is from & that is from the most recent Mid Century Modern Baubles. 

If you know me, I like Uniko products to compliment each other and that's what I did here. Mid Century Modern Baubles was designed with Mid Century Modern Frames in mind. I chose the same font for the sentiments and I added the star in a larger version from this frame.

With all the chaos of Christmas, I kept my card simple today. I used gold pigment ink on Midnight card to stamp the large stars and simply stamped the frame and sentiment, fussy cut it out and adhered using foam adhesive after adding a little colour.

That's all from me today, I am now off to veg out before I fall asleep with a full belly and a happy heart. I wish you peace & love whatever your Christmas Day is for you.

Thank you for joining me and Merry Christmas from my home to yours. 

Crafty Hugs

12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Bonus & Winners

 

           Hello & Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Bonus & Winners

Join me over HERE on the Uniko YouTube Channel for the final day of this festive series. This week I have a BONUS using non Christmas clear stamps to create Christmas cards. 

I was inspired by this card I made back in November 2013...

Here I used our popular Background Builders: Round In Circles to create hanging baubles. You can read more about this card HERE. 

I was challenged to used Mid Century Modern Florals to create a Christmas card and here are two I came up with in my winging it video. You can watch me create them on todays bonus video HERE. 

Along with Mid Century Modern Florals I used Mid Century Modern Baubles and Most Wonderful. Now onto the bit you've been waiting for and probably stopped by for, the winners! 

Week, Prize & Winner

Week 1 - £15 eGift Voucher - Alice P @alice1183

Week 2 - 3 in-stock Background Blocks of winners choice - Gail Knapton @gailknapton9206

Week 3 - Framed Snowflakes- Dee Earnshaw @deeearnshaw9551

Week 4 - Mid Century Modern Bundle - Stephanie Adams @stephanieadams84

Week 5 - Winter Foliage Collection - Sue D @SueD.

Week 6 - Ink & Flip Star - Suzanne Harkinson 

Week 7 - Mid Century Modern Christmas & Stencil Layering Bauhaus Blocks - Glennis F @glennisf9523

Week 8 - Cracking Christmas, Explosion Additions and Explosion! Clear Stamps - Sue Hall @suehall3389

Week 9 - Background Builders Christmas 2018 - Deborah Brewis @deborahbrewis922

Week 10 - Mid Century Modern Baubles - Greta H @stampnurse

Week 11 - Stunning Snowflakes - Denise Morgans @DeniseMorgans

Week 12 - £25 eGift Voucher  Bev K @57bev

Congratulations Everyone 🎉  AND Thank you everyone for your comments, likes, shares and following me/Uniko on YouTube. 

Winners, please send me an email to bev@uniko.co.uk along with mailing addresses if your prize isn't an eGift Voucher. Plus, let me know if you have any of your prize contents. 

Before I go, I have one more winner to announce from the recent December 2023 NEW Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY we had HERE. 

The lucky comment was left by....

Linby10 December 2023 at 10:24

Great new release and as always fab inspiration from the DT.

Congratulations Linby. Please end me an email to bev@uniko.co.uk to claim your £20 eGift Voucher. 

Thanks for joining me today. Crafty Hugs

12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Day 10

           Hello & Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Day 10

Every Friday, I will have a new Christmas themed card or project to share with you, along with a video showing how I made it. Plus, if you watch the video you will find out what the giveaway is and how to enter for your chance to win 😊 All the videos are HERE on the Uniko YouTube Channel.

This week I am using Mid Century Modern Baubles and along with this card, I am also sharing another fun and creative way to use your stamps. You'll have to watch the video to see what it is!

I've gone for bold colours this week, red, white and navy blue with a touch of gold embossing. I talk about this set a little more and my ideas behind adding the elements it contains.

 

I share a few of my tips when embossing and of course tell you about the giveaway during the video HERE and how to enter! Only two weeks left, but you've still time to catch up on all the videos posted.

Still time to shop Uniko's Thankful for You SALE too and receive a surprise discount code with your order...

I decided to do #blackfriday a little different this year. Of course there is a SALE. 

BUT, I am also giving back to everyone who places an order between 21st - 27th November 2023*. Receive a surprise discount, from £5-£25 to use with your next order. 

* Code cards look like this (with a code on them obviously 😉) and they are tucked inside an envelope. So even I don’t know what I’m putting in your orders. It’s totally random as to who gets what discount. But you are guaranteed the minimum of at least £5. 

Crafty Hugs

BA Inspiration - Mid Century Modern Baubles

Hi all, 

Steph here and this month I wanted to do a Christmas Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post as even if you aren't Christmas crafting yet, you can always look back on these posts for some inspiration. I focused on the Uniko Mid Century Modern Baubles stamp set as I had so much fun playing with it for the Jul/Aug release and I liked the way some of the other BA's concentrated the smaller stamps.

First I went with a traditional bauble design but gave it a twist by using other Uniko stamp sets to 'decorate' my baubles. The yellow bauble uses Uniko Background Builders: Christmas 2018 to create the scandi pattern. The teal bauble uses Uniko Background Blocks Scandinavian Christmas to create the gorgeous Christmas pattern. The navy bauble uses Uniko Pattern Building Christmas Tree set to create the striped pattern and the sentiment is from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments set. 

For my next card I went with a similar colour set but used the smaller stamps from the set and a nifty tool called a Rotate Mate. This time I used the sentiments from the same set too.

My final card uses a different colour set and as I was adhering the Christmas sentiment I realised this could easily be a birthday card also. This card uses the one bauble to create a mandala or flower effect. I used orange, red and maroon to stamp the baubles.

That's it from me today but I hope you found something to inspire you to break out the Christmas stash! 

Much love

Steph x

Merry Monday BA Inspiration with Mid Century Modern Baubles

Bonjour !

Izzy here. Today I'm back with a new Christmas card. This time I used the beautiful Mid Century Modern Baubles set from the last release to make my card.

This baubles set is a beautiful addition to the Mid Century Modern (MCM) collection so I wanted to show you how I got inspired with this set combining it with other sets of the MCM series.

For my first card, at the beginning I had the design in mind but I didn't know which colours to use and it naturally came to use Uniko's colours.

So I simply stamped the baubles on three different coloured card stock. I used some of the little stamps from the set to decorate them, and I used one of the Mid Century Modern Frames to stamp the sentiment. I fussy cut the baubles and I glued them on a slimline card. 

I kept on with a slimline design for my second card, but this time I used the Mid Century Modern Florals to decorate the baubles.

I simply stamped the baubles on a white card stock and I used some elements of the Mid Century Modern Florals with Distress Oxide inks to add some colours. 
I stamped the sentiment and I glued the panel on a black slimline card. Done !

Before leaving, I remind you that the July/August Release sellouts are back in stock !

That's all for me today but I will come back next Monday with other Christmas cards. Have a lovely day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Good News!

Happy Wonderful Wednesday.

I'm back today with good news and a card. 

So before I get to my card, how about the news. You might have seen on the website, or the post I shared on social media the day after release. My sincere and HUGE thanks to you all for the overwhelming love, comments, support and record amount of orders, that I have (apart from the backorders) now completed and posted. That all but two of the products sold out.

I know a few missed out on ordering, which shows with the backorders that are already stacking up, thank you! 

The good news is, you don't have to wait long for the restocks to arrive. They are due in the studio Thursday 17th August along with a few other restocks. I will share here on the blog, social media and via our newsletter to announce their arrival. Backorders will be my priority as soon as they land in the studio.

Now onto my card...

If you saw my release day Facebook Live or caught the replay HERE. You might recognise the bauble on this card. I demonstrated my reverse masking technique with Mid Century Modern Baubles and then I used the Stencil - MOD Background Builder to add the detail. 

I decided my base card needed a little pattern too, which for a clean & simple card maker is quite unusual! I was looking through my stamps and felt I have neglected so many of them that I am going to try my best to give some older clear stamps some love and pair them with the new release. 

One of the clear stamp sets I've neglected is Background Builders Classics. So I used the stripes to create my own simple tone on tone plaid. I finished off with a sentiment from Simply Said Blocks Christmas (back in stock next week) and some enamel dots.

I think that's all I have to share today. Once again, thank you for making this an amazing release.

Crafty Hugs