June 2019 Non-Release Design Team Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

Hey & Happy Weekend!

Welcome to the June 2019 Non-Release Design Team Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

For those of you who are new around these parts I will explain what this post is all about...

Here at Uniko HQ it is just myself behind the screen, blogging, designing, packaging stamps & orders through the Uniko online shop, customer service and all the things in between. I *usually* release new product every other month for a number of reasons, but mainly so I can keep up with everything!

On non - release months like this month I like to set myself and the Design Team a challenge to look back at a previously released product and give it some more love. 

With Father's Day just next weekend, I thought it would be useful for some masculine card inspiration! So I set the Design Team & myself the challenge to use the previously released Explosion! Explosion! Additions & Designer Dies Explosion Collection for this months revisited hop!

This collection of Uniko products are perfect for those hard to create masculine cards! The comic book and Pop Art trends are still going strong in the paper crafting world too ;)

As usual we have our GIVEAWAY, so be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win a £25 eGift Certificate code to spend over on the Uniko website. You have until midnight BST Saturday 15th June 2019 to comment along the hop.

Bev

Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie

Linda

Lindsey

Rahmat

Sarah P





Wiebke 

What an inspirational hop, so many new ideas, I hope you all enjoyed it too :)

Thanks for joining in on the fun.

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CAS Colours & Sketches - Colours!

Hey & Happy July!

Welcome to another challenge and a new month at CAS Colours & Sketches. A new month means a new hostess and this month Cathy is hosting the challenges.

As usual we are starting things off with a colour challenge HERE and Cathy has chosen a couple of the NEW Stampin' Up! In Colours to pair with an older colour...

I'm just LOVING the new Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst, they are so fresh and vibrant colours. So this is how I used them...

I used the two new colours on last weeks card HERE and had a couple of pieces of die cuts left over, so I grabbed them and modelled my card design around them. With the vibrancy of the colours I instantly thought of Explosion! (due back in stock on the 15th July) and Explosion! Additions clear stamp sets and set to work stamping the explosion in Island Indigo and the WOW! in black and colouring it in to match.

Both the explosion and the WOW! are adhered to the card using foam adhesive, so quite a bit of dimension on this card. I added a subtle sparkle of clear Wink of Stella to the WOW! quite hard to see in the photo and added some of the new Glitter Enamel Dots to finish. 

That's all from me today, if you need some more inspiration using the sketch be sure to pop by the CAS Colours & Sketches blog HERE and see how the DT and Guest Designer have used the colours.

Thanks for stopping by today.

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