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

Aloha!

Hey!

So, I am back again with even MORE paradise inspired cards! I have two to share tonight as yesterday, I simply ran out of time in the day to prepare a post. 

Anyway, lets get to the projects...

This was the card I made last night, I used both the Paradise and Paradise Leaves clear stamp sets, along with a sentiment from Simply Said. Again, the bill of Bob is coloured with Copic markers and the ribbon is from Papertrey Ink.

Next I decided to make a more feminine card...

I combined both the sets again, using the two smaller leaves from Paradise Leaves to create a larger smaller leaf! I was inspired by the new Freshly Made Sketch sketch seen HERE and below for the layout of my card, so I masked the lower section to stamp the leaves.

After stamping the outline hibiscus flower, leaves and fussy cutting them I added a good dose of Wink Of Stella before adhering them to the card using foam adhesive. I added a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins to finish the card off.

Ok, that's all I have for you today using the NEW Uniko release stamps, by the way there is still time to comment on THIS post here to be in the chance of winning a £10 eGift Certificate. I do however have a Stamp Of The Week card over HERE, if you are looking for some more inspiration ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

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Aloha Butterfly!

Aloha!

I'm popping by today, all be it later than I had planned with another card using the NEW Uniko Release stamps! This time I have combined them with another older set, English Country Garden - Butterflies...

I though I would use my sketch over at CAS Colours & Sketches HERE and seen below again. There is still plenty of time to enter the challenge this week, I'd love to see you in the gallery ;)

Another quick and CAS card, the tag is stamped with the solid hibiscus flower and stem using SU! Summer Sun and Melon Mambo. The butterfly is stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black and selectively coloured using my SU! Markers. I added a good covering of Wink Of Stella to the butterfly too ;)

As the Aloha! challenge is still going on over HERE at Addicted to CAS, I thought I'd enter in over there again too. 

That's not quite all from me today, I have one more card to share over HERE with this weeks Stamp Of The Week. Yep, I am finally back into the swing of things and have a few cards lined up this week over on the website blog.

Thanks for stopping by today, I will be back tomorrow with more to share.