Uniko 12th Birthday Card Linky Party & Brand Ambassador Blog Hop

Happy Sunday & Happy Official 12th Birthday Uniko 🎉

12 years today Uniko officially opened their virtual doors to the public and I am so happy & proud to still be here. So as tradition holds during Uniko's Birthday Celebrations today we have a fun party everyone can join in on, Uniko 12th Birthday Card Linky Party & Brand Ambassador Blog Hop.

As usual the Brand Ambassadors have an array of beautiful birthday inspiration, so be sure to hop along and leave a comment below.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

WOW! What an inspirational party that was. Now I can't wait to see what the gallery looks like. 

There is plenty of time to join in on the fun.

The deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) on Thursday 29th February 2024.

 Prize - £25 eGift Certificate 

Party Rules

Use Uniko Products Only*.

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

Maximum Enteries 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 12th Birthday with a photo and I will upload for you.

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Celebrating 12 Years 🎉 Uniko Birthday Inspiration

 

Hello & Happy Weekend! 

I'm here today with some more birthday card inspiration. I've been creatively itching to ink up the Block Party Birthday clear stamp. So today I did and created two fun shaker cards inspired by Uniko brand colours.

For my first card ink blending Oceanside, Carnation and Aqua Sky inks. It's hard to see in the photo's, but I then stamped the Block Party Birthday over the top in VersaMark ink and heat embossed with WOW Clear Sparkle embossing powder.

I then created a full shaker and finished with Balloon Bash and the Happy Birthday sentiment from Floral Vines. I've adhered these using foam adhesive.

For my second card I again heat embossed the Block Party Birthday using black ink and Stardust EP. I added the Uniko brand colours using alcohol markers.

With the background being more visible and prominent I decided not to embellish the full shaker card. 

That's all the creativity I have to share today, but I also want to say, don't forget the 12th Birthday Discount on all orders. Simply use the code BIRTHDAY12 during checkout 😃 I hope you will join myself and the Brand Ambassadors tomorrow for the party of the year!

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Brand Ambassador Birthday Inspiration Cards!

 Hello everyone!

Happy Friday!

Vinita here, We are celebrating Uniko's 12th Birthday this month! Bev has so many surprises this month with some new releases, blog hops, and giveaways as well! So keep an eye on all upcoming events!

I made two Birthday cards with CAS style to celebrate this fab Birthday month!!

I have used the Background blocks Mid-Century Modern II design on a grey panel. I love this background block, it is so cool!

This is a great retro design for creating a card in one go. I heat-embossed the design using Wow Primary Ebony EP. I colored the semi-circle blocks using my Chameleon pens. Adhered that panel to another black panel on a grey card base.

The birthday sentiment completes the design from the Up & away stamp set.

Now my other card has some shimmery touch in pastel colors.

The white pearl embossing powder looks so well on this textured white paper. Again colored the semi-circle blocks using Chameleon pens. Adhered the white panel to shimmery peach CS and again on a textured white card base. The sentiment is from the Mid-Century Modern Frames set.

Simple card but perfect for celebrations! I hope you feel inspired to make some Birthday cards.

If you missed any Feb month posts at Uniko, here is the link to visit and comment to win a special giveaway Bev is offering!

Happy crafting!

Uniko Birthday Inspiration - 12th Birthday Celebrations

Morning all, 

Steph here with my Uniko Birthday Inspiration post. Each one of the Brand Ambassadors is sharing birthday inspiration as we celebrate Uniko's 12th Birthday!! 

I decided to dig out some of the older Uniko stamp sets here and also realised that some of these are ones I haven’t used before. It’s always lovely to ink up a new stamp, even if it’s been sat in your stash for a while 🤦🏻‍♀️!!

For my first card I inked up the Uniko Large Background Tropical Paradise stamp using green ink. I coloured the leaves using various shades of green alcohol markers and coloured the open spaces with a pale yellow. On another piece of card I stamped the toucan and flower from Uniko Paradise stamp set and coloured with some bright oranges and yellows before fussy cutting and adhering to the background. I stamped the sentiment from Uniko Floral Vines stamp set onto a strip of card coloured the same as the background and adhered everything onto a Kraft card base. 

Sticking with the same stamp sets I created my next card with a watercolour style.

Again I inked up the background using green inks but before I stamped, I sprayed the inked stamp with water and stamped onto watercolour card. I did the same with the flowers and additional leaves from the Uniko Paradise set and fussy cut before adhering with foam pads. The sentiment this time is from the Uniko Anniversaire Arts Decoratifs stamp set.

Don’t forget to check out the other Brand Ambassador Birthday Inspiration posts and come back to join in all the fun with the linky party, sneak peeks, introductions and blog hop with giveaway. 

Much love

Steph x

Brand Ambassador Birthday Inspiration

 Good morning everyone Julie here. We are well into our birthday celebrations here at Uniko. The Brand Ambassadors have all been sharing some birthday inspiration all week and today it's my turn to share some too. I've gone with a pretty, feminine birthday card using Pure Florals - Rose.

This card uses the small rose and leaves from Pure Florals - Rose and some DP from my stash. I decided to use watercolour for this design, stamping in black ink onto MM paper before heat embossing with clear EP. The raised embossing creates little cells for the colour to sit in and is much quicker and easier if you aren't that confident with a paint brush.

I could have got my watercolours out but instead decided to use some Altenew inks that I smooshed onto and acrylic block, then used as watercolours. Adding a thin layer of water to each petal in turn before adding colour allows the ink to spread and not leave harsh edges to the colour. I wasn't too bothered about completely filling in each petal as the white left adds life to the rose, I think. Once dry, I fussy cut the flower and the two leaf sprigs.

The blue dotted DP is some NitWits paper which I glued onto a DL note card, then added the frame which was hanging around from another project. In another card here with the same layout, I did use the BB Dots stamp to create my own background which gives you another option. The leaves were glued flat but I popped up the rose on some foam pads before adding the simple stamped sentiment.

One more thing before I go, don't forget Bev's birthday present to you. The discount code 'birthday12' is valid for the whole month of February 2024 and can be used on any order placed, even if you place multiple orders during the month!

Hope you are enjoying the birthday celebrations here at Uniko and there'll be some more birthday inspiration tomorrow, so for now happy crafting!

Celebrating 12 Years - Another Grand Prize Giveaway 🎉

 

Hello & Happy Tuesday

I'm back today with Another Grand Prize Giveaway 🎉  

Last year I added this prize to the giveaway line up and although I don't release as many stencils as I do stamps, I still think it's a pretty grand prize to win. Especially if you enjoyed the unique and innovative stencils that were released last year.

So who wouldn't LOVE to win this?? 

This is a BIG deal for myself & Uniko to offer another prize package like this to another one lucky winner, the last few years haven't been easy, BUT without YOU I wouldn't be celebrating 12 years of being in business. 

So THANK YOU!

Thank you for supporting me, for supporting Uniko, for cheering me on, for purchasing the products I design, for sharing your purchases, wins & makes on social media and for simply being wonderful loyal customers.

Here's a little card I made in honour of todays giveaway using one of my favourite Uniko Stencil designs, MOD Background Builder.

I'm slowly getting better at this soft stencilling! I realised it's best to attempt it with blending brushes that have been heavily inked. That way I don't re-ink the brush and simply use what's left on it. This is what I did with a yellow brush and a pink brush, which created a lovely peachy colour in the middle.

I chose the sentiment from Big & Bold Love, one because it's almost Valentine's Day. But also because you can send a With Love card on someone's birthday. I would just stamp, on your birthday inside the card. 

I used a mix of Hearts from Big & Bold Love and Background Builders Hearts and the with sentiment is a partial stamp from Everyday Love Sentiments.

Anyway, to be in the chance of winning this prize, simply add your name to the linky below. The link up will close at 23:59 Thursday 29th February 2024.

The winner will be announced on Monday 4th March 2024, along with all the other 12th Birthday Celebration Winners 🎉

One last thing before I go, how about a  fabulous discount code too! The code birthday12 is valid for the whole month of February 2024 and can be used on any order placed, even if you place multiple orders during the month!

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Rules etc...

* One entry per person 

* You don't have to link just from a blog, you can use any of your social media http links. 

* If you don't have a social media or place to link, you are more than welcome to link to your favourite Uniko product on the website ;) Please make sure you use your name and email address so I can contact you if you win! 

* This giveaway/prize package is sponsored purely by myself/Uniko and it is open internationally.

* I'd LOVE you to share this amazing prize far & wide!

Good Luck!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Birthday Inspiration

 Bonjour !

Izzy here. As Bev already mentioned it, February at Uniko is a month of celebration, and this year Uniko is celebrating its 12th birthday ! As every year, there's so much planned for February at Uniko so stay tuned to discover what Bev has prepared to enchant you !

Today I'm here to inspire you with a card and of course it is a birthday card. As I already told you, I always struggle when it comes to make a masculine card but recently my teamie, Steph, made a post (see HERE) where she shows that stripes and a good colour combo solve this problem.

So that's what I've done. I dug out the beautiful Bauhaus Blocks set and I used it with a more or less masculine colour combo.

First I stamped with no-line colouring ink each square of the set on a piece of white card stock. With alcohol markers, I coloured them. Then I put them back in the MISTI and I used Versamark ink to be able to heat emboss them with gold embossing powder.

I fussy cut each square and I flat adhered them on the white double card and then to finish, I gold heat embossed the sentiment coming from the Sentiment Outlined set.

Et Voilà ! That's all for me today but don't forget to come back everyday since you will discover all the great surprises Bev has prepared for you. You can also treat yourself with the great 12th Birthday Stamping Retreat where you will have a fun day of stamping ! For more information click HERE.