Uniko Challenge #57 Anything Goes + optional twist Cool Winter Colours

Hey!

Welcome to the January/February 2020 Uniko Challenge.

We're kicking off 2020 with an Anything Goes theme and have added in the optional twist of Cool Winter Colours for those of you that like to challenge yourselves even more.

We've the amazingly awesome Trina P joining us as our Guest Designer and I know you'll adore her awesome card.

How fabulous is that! 
Do pop over to her blog and let her know how clever she is - HERE

And of course the Uniko Brand Ambassadors have also created spectacular inspiration cards to kick start your creativity and get you in the mood to play along.

Bev

Carol 

Izzy

 

Julie

Linda

Are you ready to play?

Well, just in case you need some more incentive to play along with the challenge here are the details of the prizes.

  

THE PRIZES

• Main Winner Chosen By the DT - £25 eGift Certificate
• Random Twist Winner - £5 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Random Uniko Stamps Winner - £5 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of Winners Choosing
• Top 3 Chosen By DT - 150 Loyalty Reward Points

You've got plenty of time to play along with this challenge. 

The deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Friday 21st February 2020.

Crafty Hugs,

Brand ambassador inspiration : Seeing stars - Background Builders

Hi there!

Hannelie here today sharing three cards I made using the Background-builders : Seeing Stars set!

It works for so many occasions, depending on the sentiment you decide to add and of course the colours you use !

Today I decided to go for a more masculine look :

Card #1

For this card I combined the set with a two layer die cut sentiment from Designer-dies : Big and Bold collection. The "birthday" sentiment is from Simply-said-blocks stamp set.

The background was randomly stamped with one of the stars in distress oxide inks as shown in the photo above. I popped up the sentiment with foam dots and finally added the small sentiment strip.


Card #2

For this card I used the smaller stars to stamp the background on the card base. I added a second popped up panel, stamped with three of the larger stars from the set and once again a sentiment from Simply-said-blocks stamp set.


Card #3

Last but not least... a clean and simple birthday card. Larger stars cut out and popped up over a background strip. Another sentiment from Simply-said-blocks stamp set. Finished off with some of the smaller solid and outline stars.

I hope you found some inspiration today!

Hannelie

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Originally Organic Additions

Hello! 

Sarah here with my first Brand Ambassador Inspiration post of 2020! 

Firstly, I'd like to wish you all a Very Happy New Year. I hope you've all enjoyed the festive season and ready to move on to a little 'spring time' theme. I certainly am with all the dark and miserable early mornings we're experiencing of late in the UK!

With Spring in mind I'm featuring the beautiful Originally Organic Additions Collection. The set has coordinating dies and easily teams up with lots of other Uniko sets; as I've done here using a sentiment from the Wonderful Day set plus a die-cut butterfly from English Country Garden: Butterfly collection.

For the first one I stamped the 'heart' image directly onto my cardbase using the Misti to line up a second panel to use for the negative die-cut areas of the card and for the image on the second card. The images are coloured using Promarkers with some added detail using Polychromo pencils plus a touch of glamour dust. 

The first card shows the focal 'heart' image slightly off-set and tilted to the left whereas this one has the image straight on the cardbase and popped up on 3d foam. I die-cut the centre section in turquoise cardstock to coordinate with my colour scheme and having heat-embossed the sentiment in-laid it inside the 'heart'

I hope you feel inspired by these ideas. Personally I find this set brilliant for many occasions; due to the 'heart' style image. It works well for weddings, anniversaries, mothers day as well as general birthday / every day cards. Adding the dies into the mix opens up loads more opportunities for shaker cards and other techniques making it super versatile. 

Thanks for calling by and I hope you too have a wonderful day!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Organic Wishes

Bonjour !

Izzy here and first of all I wish you a very Happy New Year ! Today I share with you some cards I made with the Organic Wishes stamp set.

I took advantage of this time of year to use one of the dandelion stamps to illustrate fireworks ...

 

... to celebrate the New Year ! I almost used the same design for both cards, with a few small modifications.

For the following card I used the dandelion whose ends are shaped like a heart to make a birthday card...

I stamped the image on three die cut squares in rainbow colours and I foam mounted them on the card. I used the Sentiments Outlined set for the sentiment.

For my last card, I used three of the dandelion stamps, including the biggest one that sows its seeds in the wind...

I made the background with new pearlescent watercolours that I received for Christmas then I stamped and white heat embossed the dandelions. I cut the edges with notched scissors.

Well that's all for me today and I hope I inspired you with this versatile and so beautiful stamp.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous crafty week !

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Uniko Christmas Party WINNERS!

Hey!

Happy Monday & happy shiny new week! It's back to normal routine here today as The Beans are back to school. Such a bittersweet day, I'm happy in some respects as it means I can get back to my work routine and really get stuck into all the exciting things I have in store this year ;) But, then I'm going to miss my little sidekicks and all their little quirky ways. It's been lovely making memories with them and as a family this holiday season.

Anyway, I'm here to start the week off with some lucky WINNERS! Firstly I want to thank all those that took the time to join in and link up to the party. I thoroughly enjoy seeing how you all use your Uniko products, it is so inspiring and makes me so, so happy.

As there were only eight participants who used Uniko as their main focus in their cards, I have changed the prizes, so everyone is a winner - yay! To keep it all fair, the top prizes were selected randomly and the winners are as follows...

First Prize £25 eGift Certificate 

#11 Anita

£10 In Stock Clear Stamp Set

#3 Meghan 

#10 Greta

£5 In Stock Clear Stamp Set

Mugdha

Nancy

Helen

Andrea

Rosali

Congratulations to all!

Please send an email to bev@uniko.co.uk no later than 17th January 2020 to claim your prize. Please ensure to include your choice of in stock stamp set and postal address.

Have a wonderful day & Crafty Hugs!

Stencil Sunday - Introducing Mid Century Modern Squares!

Hey & Happy Sunday!

Today I am introducing a new 'ish' stencil, Mid Century Modern Squares. I say new 'ish' because this stencil was designed way back last year and you might have been lucky to snag one at Happy Stampers Festival in October! 

I've been meaning to formally introduce it since October, but other things have taken forefront in my head and then I simply forgot! That was until I received an email last week about the Uniko feature in Craft Stamper magazine, which yesterday I shared sneak peeks of over HERE.

It was this sneak peek that reminded me that I hadn't introduced the stencil and that it wasn't available on the website. 

So today I introduce Stencil - Mid Century Modern Squares and it is now available to purchase HERE on the website.

This stencil is designed to fit in with the Mid Century Modern collection of stamps, Background Blocks Mid Century Modern, Background Blocks Mid Century Modern II and Mid Century Modern Florals. Though it is perfect to use with other designs and with the geometric style, it is perfect for those masculine makes too! It wouldn't be an introduction without a couple of cards to share with you. 

First up I was inspired to use the Pantone colour of 2020, True Blue and paired it with Living Coral from 2019. I was aiming to create more of a CAS design, so that I could join in on the current challenge over at "Less is More" HERE. As they are using these colours, but I feel it isn't CAS enough.

I've used Nuvo Black Diamond Glimmer Paste through the stencil onto some navy card. I then stamped the flower using stamps from Mid Century Modern Florals and a sentiment from Simply Said Blocks II.

One of my goals this year is to make colour more of a focus and use more coloured card for base cards. So as I already had the colours and supplies out I went on to make this second card...

This time I used Altenew Coral Berry to ink through the stencil onto some white card. I've then trimmed it on an angle and die cut the The Stamp Market 'Hello' die, keeping both the positives and negative of the die to fill in the gaps of the word once the panel was adhered to my card base. 

I've then added some simple enamel dot embellishments that I had in my stash which matched the colours I had used as close as possible.

That is all I have to share today using this stencil, but I am sure it'll be getting more use in the near future and there are also MORE new products coming on Saturday 18th January. 

One last little bit of goodness for you, how about FREE Worldwide Shipping on orders of £20 or more. No code required, qualifying orders will see the FREE Shipping Option during checkout. This offer will expire 10am GMT Wednesday 8th January 2020.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Crafty Hugs

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Hello!

Hello! 

It's Jane here today to wish you a very Happy New Year and share a few cards made with the BIG & BOLD Hello stamp set. I also added in some stripes from Background Builders Classics.

     

Here's my cards: A set of three ................

............... and a singleton.

The trio of cards all follow the same design just switching up the greeting and base card colour. While I was making these cards I kept looking at the smaller stamps that often get neglected in a set and decided to give them some love too. I used colours that were similar to the base card colours of the set of three and changed up the stripes to horizontal.

Well that's my little share all complete for today. I hope I may have inspired you a little with these CAS cards.

Jane

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