June Release Design Team Blog Hop Giveaway Winner!

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Happy Weekend to you all, I hope you are all having a good one so far. I've been at The Paperlane this morning running my little class with a lovely group of ladies. I will be sharing some of the cards we made over the coming days. 

It's been a warm but rainy day here for us in the NE of the UK. Though the beans managed to play outside for an hour or so before the heavens opened this afternoon. They were not very happy at all when we had to come in!

Anyway, I'm here today to announce the WINNER of the June Release Design Team Blog Hop. Random.org helped me choose the winner who left this lovely comment on Lindsey's blog. 

The WINNER is...

Mrs A.25 JUNE 2016 AT 17:47

Love your tropical background colours and love that bird set. This is a company I have not heard of before so must investigate further! hugs Mrs A.

Congratulations Mrs A! Please send an email to bev@uniko.co.uk along with your postal address by the 23rd July 2016 and I will get your winnings on their way to you.

Thank you to everyone who left comments and hopped along with us. We will be having our usual Revisited Blog Hop next week on the 11th July 9am BST with our usual GIVEAWAY too! 

Before I go, how about a little card inspiration...

This is one of the cards we made during the class today. I was getting the ladies to have a go with stencilling and ink blending - good inky fun! 

The diagonal stripe background was created using the SU! Stripe stencil and Peacock Feather distress ink. The outline hibiscus from the Paradise clear stamp set was stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed in detail white EP onto some card which had been ink blended with Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade. 

After fussy cutting the hibiscus out they are adhered to the card using DST and the middle flower raised with foam adhesive. I have also added a good smothering of Wink Of Stella to the flowers! The sentiment is from the set and a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins are added for embellishment.

Ok, that's all from me today, I will be back tomorrow with more to share. Until then, thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Saturday!

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Paradise

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks Peacock Feather, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade. 

Card Stock: SU! Smokey Slate & Whisper White

Accessories: Foam Adhesive, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins and Wink Of Stella

CAS Colours & Sketches #181

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It's a new month over at CAS Colours & Sketches with LOTS of fun challenges in store. As it is the summer months we are taking it in turns to be a hostess for the week. This week our hostess is the lovely Caro.

Caro has come up with this lovely colour combo HERE and seen below for you to try...

I found this colour combination quite hard at first, so I headed over to Pinterest and my Cards I Love board to help spark some creativity. I was inspired by THIS card by Dawn the owner and designer of WPlus9. 

Dawn is awesomely talented and inspiring so I CASEd Dawn's card using Uniko clear stamps (listed in the supplies at the bottom of the post) and just used the Elegant Eggplant and substituted the Cucumber Crush to the closest match I had.

This is how my card turned out...

I started by stamping the sentiment on my die cut panel and then used the stamping off technique to get the two shades of purple for the flowers, just using the one ink pad. Such a great technique for multi step stamps and also if your supplies are limited.

I alternated between stamping flowers and leaves to fill the panel and then went back in with a tiny trio of dots to fill spaces. After adhering all the pieces onto a Soft Suede card base I went in and added some Wink Of Stella to the flowers.

I hope I have inspired you to give these colours a go and join in on the challenge this week. Be sure to stop on over HERE and check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches DT have done using the colours and I hope to see you in the gallery.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Background Builders: Vines, Natures Treasures I and Simply Said

Ink: SU! Elegant Eggplant and Garden Green. VersaFine Onyx Black

Card Stock: SU! Whisper White & Soft Suede

Accessories: Wink Of Stella, Mama Elephant Die and Foam Adhesive.

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Uniko Challenge #32 WINNERS!

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I'm am here this evening and VERY late, to announce the winners of our Masculine Challenge.  LOTS of inspiring entries this time and I thoroughly enjoyed popping by to see all the beautiful creations. 


Firstly we have our overall winner chosen by the DT:

Carol

Congratulations Carol and here is your winners badge:

You have won a £20 eGift Certificate to spend in Uniko store here-please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th July 2016.

We would also love to have you join us as our Guest Designer for a future challenge. If you are interested please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th July 2016.

Next, we have a randomly selected winner who used Uniko products on their entry and that winner is:

Rahmat

Please contact Bev at bev@uniko.co.uk by the 8th July 2016

to claim your 150 reward points.

Now for our Top 3 chosen by the DT and in entry order: 

#2 Julie B

#17 Monika
#24 Corneila

Congratulations to you all & here is you Top 3 badge:

You have all won 50 loyalty reward points.

Please contact me at bev@uniko.co.uk

by the 8th July 2016 to claim your prize.

Congratulations to ALL the winners & EVERYONE who joined in on the fun!

There is still just over a week to join in on our current challenge HERE.
 I hope you will join in on the fun :)

CAS Colours & Sketches - The Double!

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This is the last week in June and my final hostess week for this month over HERE at CAS Colours & Sketches. I will be back hosting again later in the year ;) I have really enjoyed hosting the challenges this month and popping by all those who have joined in each week.

Anyway, as this is week no.5 it is the dreaded double week! Though I have an easy one for you and it uses my FAVE colour combo of ALL time...

What do you think? Fun right...? This is how I went with the sketch and colours...

I amorally getting into the swing of these Clarity Stencil Brushes that I have been using HERE and HERE. I still need a lot of practice especially with this SU! stripe stencil.

I think I should have temporarily adhered in-between the stencil lines to keep them down better and for the ink and brush bristles not to sneak behind them! Practice makes perfect though :)

All the supplies are listed at the end of the post and as I have used stencilling again on my card I thought I would enter my card into the "Less is More" challenge HERE. 

Ok, that is all from me just now. I have so much I want to "squeeze" into a few bean free hours that I know time is just going to fly by! 

Be sure to hop on over HERE to see what the other CAS Colours & Sketches girls have made using this weeks challenge. I assure you that you won't be disappointed ;) Plus all the info on joining in on the challenge and link up can be found there too. I hope to see you in the gallery! 

S:upplies

Stamps: Uniko All Occasion Sentiments #3, Simply Said

Ink: Tim Holtz Mini Distress Inks, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. VersaFine Onyx Black

Card Stock: SU! Whisper White

Accessories: Clarity Stencil Brushes, SU! Stripes Stencil and Wink Of Stella.

Colour Makes Me Happy!

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Happy Monday to you all, I do hope your week has got off to a good start?

My Monday has been the usual, playgroups and fun with the beans. Though they are currently playing up in their cots instead of going to sleep and they know mummy isn't happy and so are doing it all the more. Always happens when daddy out too, to watch the football, England are playing tonight and as it stands are currently loosing!

Anyway, you don't come by for the waffle, it certainly helps me to get things off my chest so thank you for putting up with it! How about a little colour creation...

Colour sure makes me happy and making this card tonight helped me keep calm (a little). I recently splurged on some new Clarity Stencils Brushes as I have heard and read so many great reviews and things about them. They are quite pricey at £20 for 4 brushes, but so far I am impressed with their ease of use and ink application.

I used a trio of Mini Distress Inks (listed below in supplies used) to create a ink blended panel, on which I then stamped and heat embossed the butterfly from English Country Garden - Butterflies. The background circle of distress polka dots was created using a die cut circle mask, Hero Arts ombre ink and a SU! stamp. 

The layout of my card was based on THIS challenge sketch by Freshly Made Sketches, which I am too late to link up to this week. 

As I have used a rainbow of colours I am linking my card up to Virgina's View Challenge HERE and inspiration seen below. I think this is my first time entering a challenge here even though I have wanted to in which seems like forever! 

That's all from me tonight, I have a few jobs in the studio to catch up on! I will be back again tomorrow (fingers crossed) and with this weeks Stamp Of The Week over HERE on the website blog. Until then, thank you so much for coming by today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko English Country Garden Butterflies, Background Builders: Round In Circles and Simply Said

Ink: Tim Holtz Mini Distress Inks Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry. Hero Arts Ombre Ink Butter - Orange. VersaFine Onyx Black. VersaMark. SU! Going Grey.

Cardstock: SU! Thick Whisper White. 

Accessories: SU! It's My Party Candy Dots, Detail White Embossing Powder. Wink Of Stella

June 2016 Release Design Team Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY!

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I am super happy you have stopped by today, as the Uniko Design Team and I are here with a blog hop to inspire you a little more with the NEW Uniko June 2016 Release stamps! 

If you missed the reveal and release day post HERE, I will do a little recap of the two NEW products lining the Uniko shelves. The winner from that post for the £10 eGift Certificate was announced HERE.

The Tropical trend is still HOT at the moment and I just had to jump on the band wagon and put my take on the trend out there!

Paradise £9.00 - £9.95 

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2016

www.uniko.co.uk

Firstly, I'd like to introduce you to Bob, Bob the Toucan! Bob was originally drawn way back in 2007/2008 while I was at Uni, the jungle/tropical trend was evident back then too ;)

I've added in fun graphical modern styled Hibiscus flowers to compliment the paradise theme, which also work perfectly with the previously released Paradise Hummingbird set.

Lastly we have a lovely mini complimentary set called Paradise Leaves. This is not only a FAB add on set to the two mentioned above but is also FUN on it's own.

Paradise Leaves £4.00 - £4.95 

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2016

www.uniko.co.uk

Ok, how about a little inspiration?! As I have shared quite a few projects recently using these sets HERE, HERE and HERE. I have just the one card today...

I needed a little help kick starting my mojo and I used a couple of challenges to help me! First up the layout of my card inspired by the new CAS(E) this Sketch! sketch seen HERE and below. Secondly my colour combo is inspired by the new Color Throwdown colours seen HERE and below.

The little rounded tag is from Pretty Pink Posh, die cut from a scrap of Papertrey Ink Bitty Dot Raspberry Fizz DP. I then stamped and fussy cut the hibiscus and leaves, adhering the flower with foam adhesive. I added some Wink Of Stella for a little subtle sparkle too! 

That's all from me, but I'll pass you over to the AWESOME Uniko Design Team now. Be sure to comment along the hop to be in the chance of winning these two clear stamp sets AND the previously released Paradise Hummingbird set...

CLICK HERE to see more from Deborah

CLICK HERE to see more from Jane

CLICK HERE to see more from Lindsey

CLICK HERE to see more from Nicki

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah G

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah P

Both the new products are available HERE now to purchase, I have increased my stock levels again this month and they are both still in stock! 

We also have a FREE Worldwide Shipping offer on orders of £35 or more (acetate packaging only - sorry). The offer is this weekend ONLY, ends Sunday 26th June Midnight BST.

USE CODE: freeshippingweekend35

Thank you for stopping by today and your lovely comments and support, they are all very much appreciated. 

Have You Joined Us Yet?

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The Design Team, Guest Designer and I are here today to remind you about the June Uniko challenge.  We have another fun challenge this month to spark your creativity...

This is a FUN photo inspiration challenge this month to create a card or project. Simply use the graphic above to inspire your creation, whether it be the colours, pattern or layout. The possibilities are endless! 

You can use any products/stamps to enter the challenge, but we do LOVE to see you use your Uniko products.  And, if you do use Uniko, there's an extra chance to win a prize. There is also an extra chance to win if you TWIST with us too ;)

Email entries welcome, just email a photo of your card to bev@uniko.co.uk and I will add it to the Uniko Flickr gallery and link up!

This month we have another super Guest Designer joining us this month, Anita from My Papercraft World

Anita was the lucky winner from Challenge #31 and has created this beauty to inspire you...

CLICK HERE to see more from Anita and leave some love :)

Now, here's some inspiration from the Uniko Design Team:

CLICK HERE to see more from Deborah

CLICK HERE to see more from Jane

CLICK HERE to see more from Lindsey

CLICK HERE to see more from Sarah P

Aren't these just super!  Now, if you need more incentive to play along with the challenge here are the details of the prizes.

THE PRIZES

• The DT will choose a winner who will get a £20 gift voucher.
• The DT choose a Top 3 who will each get 50 Loyalty Rewards Points added to their Uniko customer account.
• We will do a random draw for all those who use A UNIKO stamp. This winner will get 150 Loyalty Reward Points added to their Uniko customer account.

You've got plenty of time to play along with this month's challenge.  The deadline for submission is midnight (BST) on Friday 8th July (7.00pm EDT).

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