A Warm Welcome 😃

Happy Wednesday.

I am delighted you have stopped by today as we are giving a warm welcome and introduction to our newest Brand Ambassador, Denise Morgans. I'm sure you are familiar with Denise's work around blog land and social media as she is on a few challenge design teams and is a frequent participant in previous Uniko Challenges here on the blog and an active member in the Uniko VIP Facebook Group. If not, I am passing you over to Denise for a little introduction....

Hi everyone, my name is Denise, and I live in a small town in South Wales, UK.  I have been paper crafting for as long as I can remember and started my blog in 2008. I was lucky enough to take early retirement a few years ago so enjoy crafting even more now that I have more free time. Crafting keeps me sane and I love making anything involving paper [cards, tags, ATCs, etc]!  I am still pinching myself at being asked to join this amazing team, as Bev says I've been a long-time lover of Uniko.  

Welcome Denise.

Here are a few of my recent favourite Uniko makes by Denise...

Stencil - Abstract Triangles 

Stencil - MOD Background Builder 

English Country Garden Butterflies 

Stencil - Layering Picked Posies 

Background Blocks Linear 

Flower Power #6

Now you can see why I am delighted to have Denise join us here at Uniko and I am sure you are all as excited as I am to see Denise in action, not long to wait as we have Release Week coming next week! 

I would love it if you would leave some welcoming comment love.

Until then, thank you for stopping by today.

Crafty Hugs

 

Fond Farewells & Thank You's

Hello! 

Today is a tough day at Uniko HQ as today we say a fond farewell and thank you to not one, but two amazing, creative Uniko Brand Ambassadors. These two ladies have become wonderful friends over the years and are just like family. 

Firstly we say farewell to Steph. 

Steph joined Uniko back in 2021 after being a valued customer for many years and has been a inspirational and valued member of the team. 

Here are a few of my favourite makes that stood out to me when looking through all the beautiful inspiration Steph has made over the years.

There are SO many more wonderful makes on Steph's blog HERE and also her Instagram page. Be sure to take a look when you are wanting inspiration.

Next we say farewell to Anita.

Anita joined Uniko back in 2022, again after being a valued, customer for many years and has been a inspirational and valued member of the team.

I will miss Anita's perfect CAS designs, here are a few of my recent favourites.

There are SO many more wonderful makes on Anita's blog HERE and also her Instagram page. Be sure to take a look when you are wanting inspiration.

Anita and Steph, thank you SO much for all you have done for me & Uniko. You will both be truly missed SO much.

Crafty Hugs

Fabulous Friday - Welcome Natalie Seddons 🎉

Happy Fabulous Friday.

I'm absolutely delighted to be kicking off the weekend with a welcome to the Uniko Brand Ambassadors post. 

I know you will, but please give a warm welcome to Natalie Seddons.

I've know Natalie for quite a few years now and always been in awe of her colouring skills. Natalie has worked colouring and creative magic with Uniko products. 

Here are some of my favourites...

Spring Botanicals Daffodil

Organically Zesty

Mid Century Modern Baubles

Now, I will hand you over to Natalie for a little introduction and a new card...

Hi I’m Natalie aka momma sedds and I’m very excited to be joining the Uniko team. I’m currently on maternity leave and trying to craft away whilst the little one naps! 

I started card-making back in 2011 but I’ve always been colouring and creating away. As soon as I found Copics and Distress inks I really found my style and they are my absolute favourite medium to work. 

I hope you like my creations and I can’t wait to share them with you!

Just look at that beautiful poinsettia. One day I'll be able to have the patience and colour like this. Now, it wouldn't be a Fabulous Friday Welcome without a website discount. 

From 9am today, Friday 24th October - 23:59 Sunday 26th October I have an automatic 15% off all orders on the website 🎉 

No code necessary, discount will show during the checkout process. 

Thank you for stopping by the blog today & happy shopping!

Crafty Hugs

Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration: Delicate butterflies in Swiss dots!

  Hello to all!

Happy Friday!

I wanted to create a card with a vintage, old-style look using a Swiss dots stamp.

To start the card, I stamped the tiny Swiss dots on a grey CS panel using chipped sapphire DI.  I layered my butterflies from the English Country Garden Butterflies die set and stamped them in Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink using the Swiss Dots stamp. The sentiment is from the same set.

I layered my panel on a pink panel, and before adhering it to my blue card base, I tied my panel with a pink ribbon. Then finished off the card with a few rhinestones.

I'm thrilled with the way it turned out!

I hope you enjoyed the card I shared with you today. I love what I do, working on designs, new ideas and much more!

Happy crafting!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration: Snow

 Hello everyone!

Happy Saturday!

Vinita here, Are you ready for a beautiful winter card with snowflakes............ Snow love is here!

  I stamped my snowflakes from the framed snowflakes stamp set on a white card panel using the Unchanted Mariner DI. Then I ink-blended my background using picked raspberry and lumber plaid DI.

Once again I heat embossed in opaque bright white EP for more snowflake elements from the same set and added some splatters using silver perfect pearl. I love the wholesome look!

I used the bold snow die with outline coverage in a white scrap piece, which was left after blending the background with a glitter silver CS. To finish it off, I added the Let It sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed this card!

Happy crafting!

 Hello everyone!

Happy Tuesday and Merry Christmas Eve!

Vinita here! Did you see Uniko's Christmas release last month? I loved everything in it. I spent a whole day creating Christmas cards! I picked a few items from this release and mixed and matched them with old ones!

 

I started by stamping the mehendi mandala design in Jet black archival ink at the top corner representing the Sun in festive colors. I watercolored it with my brush pens. At the bottom corner, I stamped the solid Christmas tree in ombre green DI with its outline image using Jet Black ink.

Then, I added some gifts with a Merry Christmas sentiment. I colored the gifts using acrylic markers. I quickly applied some Bronze Perfect Pearls to the Christmas tree, gifts, and sentiment; it was all magic. The black ink turned into bronze, and I added some bronze splatters.

Here is a close-up image:

I hope I have helped with ideas. This is such a fun way to gift someone. 

Will come back again tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy crafting!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration: Christmas Pop!

Hello everyone!

Happy Saturday!

I hope you all are having fun and having the most wonderful time of the year!

Vinita here with a Christmas card in soft colors.

I started by white heat embossing one of the sentiments from the Season of Beauty stamp set. I added a few elements, like stars and tiny trees from the Christmas Pop stamp set. Then, I blended shaded lilac, cracked pistachio, and saltwater taffy DI over the heat-embossed images. 

I added two stamped trees from the Most Wonderful stamp set using Villainous Potion and Evergreen bough DI using double-adhesive foam tape. Some jewels were added for more fun as an ornament on the trees.

Hope I inspired you to create yours!

Happy crafting! 

BA inspiration post- Poppy Love!

 Hello friends!

Happy Wednesday!

New month, new inspiration!! Half of the November month passed so soon. Vinita here showcasing the remembrance stamp set! I just love this gorgeous stamp set!! Don't you!!

A simple design with the coloring taking centre stage and the sentiment coordinates just perfectly.

I am still in an autumn color mood!

I stamped one of the poppy images on a piece of white CS. I colored it with my clear ZIGwatercolor brushes. 

And just hand-cut it as I desired shown in the above pic. On my white card base, I added the sentiment and placed the stamped panel using adhesive foam. Added some black enamel dots.

Thanks for visiting!

Happy crafting!

BA Inspiration cards using English Country Garden Butterflies set!

 Hello everyone!

Vinita here!

Today I wanted to showcase the English Country Garden Butterflies stamps and challenge myself to use the same color palette on both cards using Distress inks and oxides!

I used scattered straw, squeezed lemonade, carved pumpkin, dried marigold, stormy sky, salvaged patina and forest moss inks.

For my first card, I started by blending a white panel using salvaged patina DO and the stripes were stamped using forest moss inks. I blended stormy sky ink on another panel too and cut them into a strip.

Then stamped the butterfly on a white scrap piece using jet black archival ink and colored it with ZIG water brushes using the same color palette and die-cut it. On my white card base I stamped the sentiment from You are, Yes you stamp set. Added the stripe panel along with blue inked stripes. Adhered that flutterby with another inked butterfly for more interest and dimension. Compliment it with some sky blue and sea green pearl dots.

For the second card, I started with a white panel and placed my stylish floral stencil and inked it with the same color palette. After removing my stencil once again I lightly inked the panel using the same colors.

To be honest, the blending of this floral background was a kind of experiment. I wasn't sure how it would be turned out but I am loving it!

On a white scrap paper, I stamped the little butterflies 4 times and blended some DI and die-cut them.

In the centre, I stamped some tiny hearts and love sentiments from the Big & Bold Love set.

Adhere to that panel on my card base with a black panel underneath.

Compliment it with a ruffled shimmery ribbon and enhance the beauty of butterflies by adding some Nuvo crystal drops for some shimmer to match my gorgeous ribbon.

Hope you enjoyed today's inspirations!

Happy crafting!

Happy weekend!

Brand Ambassador Inspiration: Spring Botanical Crocus

  Hello everyone!

Happy Good Friday to all!!

Hope you are all having a wonderful Friday so far!!!

I wanted to stop by and share this card using the Uniko stamp Spring Botanical Crocus with Cloud 9 Uniko stencil.

I love this brand-new Uniko set. I enjoyed coloring the crocus flower so much, it has a large amount of space to color!

I love the way it turned out after coloring using Altenew inks and distressed inks. It is a one-layer base card where I created an earthy background first and then inked my clouds in pink using the stencil for the sky as shown in the pic:

Added some splatters to the background and fussy cut my flower. 

Gave a dimension to my flower and added some watercolor splatters to it. Now stamped the sentiment from the same set.

In the end, finished it off by adding a black strip and adhered the crocus flower using the foam pad.

I hope you enjoyed this card I created to share with you!

Happy crafting!

Vinita

A Warm Welcome ❤️

Hello & Happy Tuesday.

I am delighted you have stopped by here on this final day of January. As today I get to give a warm welcome to our newest Brand Ambassador, Vinita Jain. 

Vinita has been a long supporter, follower and customer at Uniko. So I am delighted to hand you over for a brief introduction from Vinita herself.

Hello! 

My name is Vinita Jain and I am from India. I am 54 years old. I came to crafting in 2013 when I took early retirement from Kindergarten teaching in 2012. It changed my whole life! Since then I'm addicted and spent my whole time ( and money) crafting as a hobby. I love to experiment with different techniques and colouring mediums. With Uniko Brand Products when I worked for the first time, I noticed their excellent quality, so many universal designs, fun and interesting. To create with them is a pleasure! 

I am honoured to be part of this exciting adventure and hope to inspire you with my creations!

Have a wonderful day!

And here are a few of Vinita's favourite Uniko creations to date...

Beautiful Blooms II, Stencil Scattered Polka Dots & Sentiment from Pure Florals Cosmos.

Stencil - Pure Florals Gerbera & Sentiment from Pure Florals Cosmos.

Marvellous Mehndi 

Stencil - Stylised Floral & Sentiment from You Are, Yes You.

I think you will agree with me how beautiful and colourful Vinita's creations are. I can't wait to see what Vinita creates to share with us here on the blog.

So welcome Vinita!

Crafty Hugs

 

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Special Birthday-surprise for Bev!

Hello there,

today, I have something special to share with you!
Something what makes me proud and thankful and happy in the same time!

Sneak Peek of the Mini UNIKO Logo flower

It's a planned surprise for Bev, so I just put the directe link to the post on my KomMa-designed Blog to avoid her peeking into the post, before I put it online at 11:00!
😉

Hope you like it!

Greetings from Wiebke

Uniko 10th Birthday Celebrations - Featuring Alumni Lindsey Bowe

Hello & Happy Weekend! 

It's a wonderful start to the weekend here as today we're featuring Alumni Lindsey Bowe. Do you remember her wonderful clean uncomplicated design style?

Lindsey was again a valued customer of Uniko and then joined the team and really worked her magic with our products.

The first card she's chosen to CAS(E) is from back in February 2016. How beautifully timeless does her use of the 4th birthday limited edition floral look.

And as this stamp is no longer available Lindsey has given her card a 2022 update using our popular Background Blocks Scandinavian Christmas.

Fired up by her first card Lindsey has taken the opportunity to CAS(E) another of her BA cards. 

This time from not quite so long ago, May of last year, using the In The Forest stencil combined with a greeting from Christmas Sentiments. How stunning is that rainbow blend!

So using the same blend of pastel rainbow colours and machine stitching she has updated her card using Background Blocks Scandinavian Christmas.

Huge thanks to Lindsey for sharing her inspiring cards.

How have you been getting on with the first five quests? 

If you've completed them all you're half way towards maybe being the big prize winner. But don't worry if you're not quite up to speed, there's still plenty of time to play along.

Huge thanks for dropping by today. Check back tomorrow for the 6th quest

Crafty Hugs