Uniko Sponsors - Passion For Markers

Hello & Happy FriYAY! 

First Friday of the month and the last few days of the school holidays for The Beans. Hence why I have been a little quiet here on the blog. I have been working around them! But it's been mainly admin and packing lovely orders, thank you 😊

So, I am a little late with sharing this, but Uniko is the proud sponsor of Passion For Markers challenge, seen HERE. 

The theme is New Beginnings and I decided to make a New Year card, simply because it is a New Year and here's what I created...

As you can see it isn't your 'usual' New Year card. So why did I choose the butterfly from English Country Garden? 

Butterflies are a powerful symbolism of growth and new beginnings and to me I wanted a simple but powerful and positive start to this new year. Plus I knew it would look pretty in these shades of peach and hint of aqua! Totally inspired by Pantone Color of The Year - Peach Fuzz.

I used Stampin' Up Blends in Calypso Coral and Bermuda Bay (Light) for simple colouring to my die cut butterfly. I adhered using foam tape and added a few Oceanside enamel dots around the sentiment from Christmas Sentiments. 

There is still time to join in the challenge for your chance to win a Uniko prize. Check out and enter HERE.

Crafty Hugs

Happy 5th Birthday AAA Cards!

Hey & Happy Monday!

Okay, so I am a day late for the start of AAA Cards 5th Birthday party happening over HERE, but I thought I would pop by and tell you all about it! 

I'm super honoured & happy that Uniko is one of the 13 sponsors of the challenge for this awesome occasion :) 

Here's the details on how you can win:

1. Enter a CAS card into our birthday themed challenge using the link up at the bottom of THIS post - 8 prizes!

2. Enter the Treasure Hunt. Visit each of the AAA Cards DT blogs and find the picture five of them have hidden. When you've found all five pictures work out the word that connects them all and email this word to Jane, aaacardchallenge@gmail.com. A draw of all the correct answers will be made. (HINT - the word begins with the same letter as our blog name.) - 1 prize

3. Facebook - (you'll need to join our group if you're not already a member) like and leave a comment on our birthday post to be entered into a random draw - 1 prize.

4. Like, comment & follow us on instagram to be entered into a random draw - 1 prize.

5. Leave a comment on the challenge blog and each of the seven DT blogs. A random draw will be made from each blog - 9 prizes.

That's 20 ways to win!

This evening on the website blog HERE I have shared a trio of cards, FUN with Background Blocks inspiration. One of the cards is perfectly birthday themed ;)

I do hope you'll hop on over for all the details :) I also look forward to seeing you in the AAA Cards gallery! 

Happy Stamping! 

To Bee or Not to Bee Blog Hop

* Edited to Add the WINNER of the Extra Uniko Prize offered by commenting along the Uniko DT participating in the hop.

Random.org was used to select the lucky comment...

LageneDienstag, 21. Mai 2019 um 21:57:00 MESZ

AWESOME creation! Love your bee! This is the BEE'S KNEES HOP! My husband & I host 60 to 80 bee hives on our 5 acre place for the summer (to get them out of the heat) for a bee keeper from California after they are through pollinating the orange and nut orchards.

Congratulations Lagene! I will contact you regarding your prize :)  

Thank you to all who joined in on the 2019 BEE or not to BEE Blog Hop, your comments and participation is truly appreciated. 

Milka has selected the winners for the Sponsor Prizes and is contacting the individual winners. 

Hey & Happy Monday!

Welcome to the 2019 BEE or not to BEE Blog Hop!

Hopefully you have hopped on over from Pretty Pink Posh the hop starts on Milka's blog and all the participants can be found at the end of this post.

The purpose of this blog hop is to celebrate World Bee Day, to support bees and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees and apicultural products.

Source: 

https://www.worldbeeday.org/en/

This year the Uniko Design Team have joined me with creating inspiration to share with you all and we have a mini hop contained inside the BEE or not to BEE Blog Hop! 

Bev

Carol 

Izzy

Jane 

Linda

Lindsey

Rahmat

Sarah P

Wiebke 

BEE sure to hop along all the Uniko Design Team and leave a comment, as I will randomly select a lucky comment from those left on the Uniko DT blogs to win a BEE themed Uniko prize :) You have until 31st May to comment.

ALSO...

For your 1 in 19 chance to win one of the sponsor prizes seen in the graphic above, hop along blogs of the participating designers and sponsors listed in blog hop list below and leave comment on each blog hop stop.

Milka Gubo

Alexandra Suta

Alice Huang

Amy Tsuruta

Donna Mikasa    

Kathy Curry

Larissa Walgemoed          

Neha Bhatt

Nonni Niskanen

Samantha Mann

Sonja Kerkhoffs

Tina Pavlovic                        

Valentina Bizjak

Gerda Steiner Designs

Honey Bee Stamps

Lawn Fawn

Newton’s Nook Designs

Paper Smooches

Pretty Pink Posh

Uniko

Your Next Stamp

After commenting, return back to Milka’s blog and add your name to InLinkz, but prior you do, please read Blog Hop details, terms, giveaway rules and privacy policy which are shared in Milka's blog post below InLinkz.

InLinkz closes on May 31^st2019, 11:59 PM CEST. Winners’ names will be announced on Milka’s blog on June 3^rd2019 during the day.

There will be couple additional giveaways along the hop. Details about additional prizes and giveaway rules can be found on blogs that offers additional prizes.

Giveaway is opened Worldwide (+18) only. 

Happy Hopping!

WINNERS!

Happy Sunday!

I'm here today to announce WINNERS of various prizes I have offered on the blogs the past few weeks, sorry that it has  taken me so long to get round to announcing them, it's been a busy time here at Uniko HQ.

First up I have the WINNER of the April/May 2019 Release Blog Hop. With the help of random.org the lucky comment is...

Dee Earnshaw5 May 2019 at 20:53

super cards - the colors and designs are fabulous!!!

Congratulations Dee! Please send me an email no later than 31st May 2019 to bev@uniko.co.uk along with your postal address. I will then get your prize on it's way to you!

Next up I have 3 lucky winners from the Spring / Summer Coffee Lovers Uniko Sponsor post HERE. I was offering just one prize to a lucky comment, but the Uniko Flash Prizes during the hop were missed out, so I have allocated the prizes to two more lucky comments left on my blog post!

BillieA

karenladd

shartl

Congratulations! Please send me an email no later than 31st May 2019 to bev@uniko.co.uk along with your postal address. I will then get your prize on it's way to you!

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to hop & comment along both these hops, it means a lot to me and the Uniko DT :)

BEE sure to stop by again tomorrow for another FUN hop & chance to win Uniko goodies & other sponsor prizes! 

Until then, enjoy the rest of your weekend or start to the week!

Hugs 

CAS Colours & Sketches #300 - Sketch & Happy Birthday CC&S!

Hey!

Happy 6th Birthday CAS Colours & Sketches!

This month at CAS Colours & Sketches our hostess is Patricia, the challenge owner.  This week Patricia has created a sketch for the Birthday week seen HERE and below...

And here is how I used the sketch...

I thought most people would go with the obvious of balloons for a birthday card, so I thought I'd be a little different and opted for celebratory stars. I used Background Builders: Seeing Stars clear stamp set paired with a *new* sentiment from one of the upcoming December Release clear stamp sets! 

The solid stars on my white layer are stamped in Altenew inks, Coral Berry, Warm Sunshine & Aqualicious. I then stamped the star with the linear detail in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and coloured some of the sections using Stampin' Up! Stampin' Blends and added glitter to the non coloured section. These are then fussy cut and adhered to the card using 1mm thick foam adhesive.

It wouldn't be a birthday celebration without a gift! 

Uniko is super proud to be the sponsor of this CAS Colours & Sketches Birthday Sketch Challenge!

As long as you meet the requirements of the challenge (see the challenge rules HERE). One lucky winner will receive an in stock stamp set (any value) of their choosing from the Uniko website HERE.

That's all from me today, I hope that I have inspired you to join in on the challenge?! If you need a little more inspiration, pop on over HERE to see what the CC&S Design Team have created.

Thanks for stopping by!

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CAS Colours & Sketches #251 - Sketch

Hey!

Thank you to everyone who joined in on last weeks birthday celebration, we all enjoyed seeing your colourful creations in the gallery :)

I can't believe we are into the last week of November and December is just around the corner. I'm am SO behind on Christmas preparations amongst all my other 'things to do', I wish time would slow down a little - argh!

Anyway, Samantha is here THIS week with a sketch to inspire your creative card making...

This sketch is perfect for a quick Christmas card, which is the theme I decided upon quite quickly! Here's how I have used this weeks sketch...

I knew I wanted to use the recently release Festive Sentiments as I am just loving the larger brush lettering sentiments ;) Then I saw the current Inspired by All the Little Things challenge seen HERE and below and had my colour combo all done for me ;)

I die cut a Sizzix Framelits Star from a post it note to use as a stencil and applied Altenew Industrial Diamond ink to get my solid star. I then stamped the 'Merry Christmas' in VersaMark ink and heat embossed with gold EP. The sentiment panel is then die cut using a Lawn Fawn Small Dotted Rectangle and adhered this to a Papertrey Ink Smokey Shadow card base using foam adhesive. A few sparkly gold star enamels finished my design off! 

As I've made a Christmas card, I am entering my card into the current challenge over at AAA Cards HERE. The current theme is Christmas AND Uniko is the sponsor this fortnight too ;)

That's all I have to share with you today, but be sure to head on over to the CAS Colours & Sketches blog post HERE to enter the challenge and to see more inspiration from the Design Team.

I look forward to seeing you in the gallery! 

Hugs

Happy Birthday CAS Colours & Sketches!

Hey!

You're just in time for the party!

CAS Colours & Sketches is celebrating its 250th challenge and its 5th Birthday THIS week!  Everyone at CC&S are so thankful for our challenge participants who have made this milestone possible.

In celebration CAS Colours & Sketches are teaming up once again with UNIKO as their sponsor for this weeks challenge! Whoohoo! 

Five of the participants in this week's challenge will be chosen to receive an in-stock stamp set of their choice from Uniko!  Awesome, right?  Since you have to play in order to win, let's get on with the challenge details... 

Samantha is here with some fun colors for our birthday celebration challenge. All of us are excited to see what you can create with these bright, cheery colours.

We've used Stampin' Up colour names for reference; however, you may use any companies' products for your cards as long as you match our colours as closely as possible. You may also use neutral colours (white, cream, kraft, brown, grey, or black) for card layers, sentiments, and image outlines. However, in order to be considered for our weekly winners, you must not use any other colours.

Here's how I have used this weeks colours...

There are so many wonderful things associated with birthdays, but what's better (apart from cake and presents) than some bright and cheerful birthday balloons?! 

I decided to ink up Balloon Bash for my card today and simply did some creative masking and stamping to achieve a little trio cluster of balloons in opposing corners of my card.

After stamping the balloons I added some hand drawn balloon strings and stamped some circle confetti, adding a shimmery enamel dot to three of the confetti dots.

The simple sentiment is from Simply Said and I've die cut both the stamped panel and Pacific Point blue panel using Lawn Fawn Small Dotted Rectangle Stackables dies. 

That's all I have to share with you today, but be sure to head on over to the CAS Colours & Sketches blog post HERE to enter the challenge AND check out the other Design Team blogs and leave some love to be in the chance of winning blog candy from those who have some on offer this week ;)

I look forward to seeing you in the gallery! 

Hugs

Uniko Sponsors "Less is More"

Hey & Happy Weekend!

I'm super duper pleased you have popped by this morning as today the countdown to the October Release continues AND myself and Uniko are proud to be sponsoring the challenges over at "Less is More" this month  - YAY!

This week is one layer week and the theme is stars, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to create another Guest Design / Sponsor card!

It seemed totally appropriate to ink up Background Builders: Seeing Stars clear stamp set from the September 2017 Release and I just *had* to pair it with a NEW Uniko Stencil being released on Monday - whoohoo!

Can you tell that I am just a little excited about this new product?! 

Last weekend I treated myself to some more Distress Oxide inks and I have used Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry with this fun Wonky Stripe stencil. I did some simple masking on my base card before applying the ink and blending them to create a lovely purple shade too :) I still nee a little practice with stencils, but I am loving these inks! 

I then used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment from Festive Sentiments and the stars in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed them with Stardust EP. The birthday sentiment is from Happy Succulents and I went in and added a few tiny stamped stars.

I hope I have inspired you to join in on the fun?! 

That's all from myself for now, but be sure to head on over HERE to see what the "Less is More" Design Team have created to inspire you and to join in on the fun too. I hope to see you in the gallery!

I'll be back AGAIN soon with the last of the October 2017 product introductions! 

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Uniko Sponsors "Less Is More"

Hey & Happy World Card Making Day!

I'm super duper pleased you have popped by this morning as today the countdown to the October Release starts, it's Happy Stampers Festival Day AND myself and Uniko are proud to be sponsoring the challenge over at "Less is More" this month  - YAY!

Being the first challenge of the month, it's a colour challenge and it's all about Hot & Spicy colours. When I thought of these colours I thought of the Middle East designs and Marvellous Mehndi...

I used my MISTI to stamp the large mandala on both the square layer and base card in Stampin' Up! Poppy Parade ink and then over stamped them in VersaMark ink, to heat emboss them with clear EP. I then went in and selectively coloured the mandala on the top square only.

The sentiment is a peek at one from a NEW clear stamp set being introduced this week and will be available to purchase on Monday 16th October! I've embellished it with some smaller stamps from Marvellous Mehndi and my favourite Stampin' Up! enamel dots!

I hope I have inspired you to join in on the fun?! 

That's all from myself for now, but be sure to head on over HERE to see what the "Less is More" Design Team have created to inspire you and to join in on the fun too. I hope to see you in the gallery!

I'll be back AGAIN soon with the first of the October Release Sneak Peeks! 

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Uniko Sponsors TIME OUT Challenges!

Hey & Happy Thursday!

Yay, finally a 'me' day and a day to catch up on things. It's been a whirlwind of a few weeks here at Uniko and it won't be slowing down anytime soon. There is a new release just around the corner, another release planned for October AND lots of restocks coming too!

Anyway, back to today... I am super happy and proud to announce that Uniko is sponsoring the new challenge HERE over at TIME OUT Challenges. This fortnight is a CASE (copy & share everything) Challenge AND I am your muse! 

As usual there is a prize up for grabs if you join in on the challenge over HERE, the winner will get a £15 eGift Certificate to spend in store. 

Here is the card I made for you to CASE and be inspired by...

I decided to join in on the fun and CASE myself and came up with this card...

I knew I wanted to use stripes and the Lily from Pure Florals: Lily, but I wasn't in a rainbow mood, so I opted to use Background Blocks Horizontal Stipe and chose Aqua, one of my favourite colours from the rainbow on my CASE card.

I opted for a one layer card this time, stamping the block of stripes directly onto my base card. I used my MISTI tool, so I could repeat stamp it until I had a nice solid colour. The Lily is then stamped over the top using VersaFine, as is the sentiment also from Pure Florals: Lily.

That's all from me just now, but if you need some more inspiration, the TIME OUT Design Team have worked their magic and have LOADS of inspiration over HERE for you. You can also find the link up to the challenge there too.

You have until 5pm BST Wednesday 13th September to join in on the fun. I look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

Hugs