Thanks for joining me, Steph, today for my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post. I thought it would be nice to show off the range that Bev created exclusively for Craftstash called Picked Posies.
My first card uses the Uniko Picked Posies Fresh Cut Foliage background stamp and adhered this to the card blank at an angle. I then stamped and die cut the florals from the Picked Posies set. The sentiment is from the sentiment set of the same name and I have fussy cut it and adhered it over vellum before adding to the card front.
This time I created a monotone card and stamped the background in two shades of purple. Directly onto this I stamped the outline and solid Picked Posies stamps. Finally I die cut the word ‘smile’ using the Uniko Picked Posies Smile layering sentiment.
My final card uses the Picked Posies Plaid layering stencil set over which I have added flowers and foliage stamped and die cut using the Picked Posies set.
This range is currently on sale exclusively at Craftstash so if you like what you see then head over and check them out!
Steph here today and for this month’s Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post I wanted to use something with a matching die so I chose Uniko Originally Organic stamp and die bundle.
The main stamp in the set is so beautifully intricate and I thought it would be nice to team it with contrasting backgrounds using Uniko Background Blocks Diagonal Stripes, Horizontal Stripe and Rays.
For each card I stamped, coloured and die cut the Originally Organic image and on a different piece of card I stamped the background block. I die cut the Originally Organic flourish from the background block and inlaid the coloured image before adding a sentiment.
All three work really well with the background blocks. I think the last one is my favourite.
While I was clearing up my desk I then realised that the ‘waste’ pieces cut from the backgrounds above looked really cool so I stamped them with the Originally Organic flourish. I didn’t feel the need to colour them as the had the colour from the BB stamp. I kept these cards very CAS, and happily made another three very quick cards.
A very productive craft session and I’m pleased I was able to make three more ‘bonus’ cards and not waste any papercraft bits!
To make this card, I first die cut a white panel with a wonky stitched die on which I stamped the Large Background French Scrip.
On a piece of white card stock, I stamped the butterfly with no-line colouring ink and I coloured it with coloured pencils. Once finished, I stamped back the butterfly but this time with black ink and I heat embossed it with clear powder and I cut it with the matching die.
I also die cut some of the leaves from the Designer Dies Nature Treasures II Collection. I cut some in Vellum paper and others in white card stock. I also stamped and gold heat embossed some of the curly leaves.
To finish my card, I tied a gold thread around the French Scrip panel and I foam mounted it on the double white card. Then I glued the leaves and the butterfly with glue dots. A sentiment from the Simply Said Blocks set has been gold embossed and glued on the card.
For my second card, I used part of the MOD Background Builder Circles stencil and I played with the colours of the last Color Hues challenge.
To finish, I stamped the sentiment from Anniversaire Arts Décoratifsand I cut two out of four angles of the card so that it matches with the stencilled pattern.
Et voilà ! That's all for me today. I hope that you enjoyed the inspiration and thank you so much for stopping by.
Such a happy fun day, as not only am I at the Stamping Together Festival in Port Sunlight (keep an eye on my social media stories), it is also Release Day for the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II.
They are now available HERE on the website to purchase. But before you trip running over to the website, how about some more creative inspiration using them.
One more thing before you run, do not walk to purchase 😉 make sure to leave a comment here and on all the stops for your chance to win a £15 eGift Certificate to spend in store. You have until midnight Sunday 30th April 2023 to comment. The lucky comment winner will be randomly selected and announced shortly after.
Thank you for joining us this week and I hope you enjoyed all the creative inspiration.
Welcome to day three and the final of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different.
Today, it is just Izzy and Steph sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.
WOW! I know you'll agree with me how beautifully creative these are. I hope you've enjoyed the last 3 days as much as I have.
Which means, tomorrow is RELEASE DAY! These Designer Dies will be available on the website at 9am BST (and at Stamping Together Show at 10am) and we have our usual Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway here on the blog!
Welcome to day two of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different.
Today, it is just Anita and Julie sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.
I absolutely LOVE seeing the Brand Ambassadors creativity with new products and their pairings with previously released Uniko products. I hope you enjoyed seeing Anita's and Julie's creations as much as I did.
Join us again tomorrow when two of the other Brand Ambassadors will be showcasing these Designer Dies.
Welcome to day one of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different.
Today, it is just myself and Vintia sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.
Anita here wishing you a very Happy Easter Sunday. We've certainly had a glorious couple of days here in the UK so far this bank holiday weekend, Spring has definitely sprung! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend, however you're spending it.
Before I get started on my makes, I'd just like to make you aware of a 10% discount code that Bev is kindly offering on all orders this Easter weekend so if you do want to make a purchase, please do use the code easterspecial10 for a discount...
Ok, onto my cards, and I chose to use some of the great Flower Power stamp sets for these.
First up, a little emboss resist and ink blending...
I stamped the flowers and leaves from the Flower Power #3 stamp set in VersaMark ink onto some white cardstock and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I then ink blended with Distress Oxides before cutting with dies from the Designer Dies Flower Power #1 - #6 Collection. I adhered these to the card base, popping the flower heads up on 3D foam and then stamped the sentiment from the Flower Power #4 stamp set onto a die cut sentiment strip.
Next up I created a stamped floral background as my focal point...
These cute little roses and leaves are from the Flower Power #6 stamp set and the flower head is created with two-step stamping. So I stamped the solid image first in lilac and then over-stamped with the petals image in a darker purple. I then created a mask to stamp the leaves up against the flower heads. The sentiment, also from the same stamp set, has been stamped and heat embossed in white on a strip of purple cardstock. I then adhered the strip to the panel before die cutting the panel with a scalloped rectangle.
For my final card I watercoloured the flowers using watercolour pencils. Unfortunately, my camera has washed out the colour a little on this one...
On some Strathmore Bristol cardstock I stamped and heat embossed a few flowers at a time, these being from the Flower Power #2 stamp set. When stamping the subsequent flowers, I brushed away the embossing powder where it overlapped the already embossed flowers, this could also be done with a mask. I then painted the flowers using a wet brush and picking up the colour from the tips of the pencils. I made a die cut panel with an aperture and stamped the sentiment, also from the Flower Power #2 set, and adhered the floral panel behind the aperture, before adhering the panel to the card base using fun foam.
As you can see from these, the Flower Power sets are great for mixing and matching, and can used in so many ways. There are lots of floral elements and numerous sentiments in each set.
Crafty hugs to you all and very best wishes for a Happy Easter Sunday. Don't eat too much chocolate! Actually, on second thoughts...you only live once, eat that chocolate and enjoy it!
I'm back today with another Two For Tuesday to share with you, but first I have the randomly selected comment winner to announce from the recent June 2021 Stencil Release, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY we had HERE.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to join in on the hop and for all the lovely comments left. Thank you also for all the wonderful orders, I look forward to seeing Uniko stencil creations pop up on social media.
So, without further ado let's get to the winner. I used a random number generator to select the lucky comment after I went through and totted up. AND the lucky comment is...
Hi Bev. I just love what you have done with the Pure Floral Rose and with the Butterfly. Gorgeous colours and so skilled colouring. Can’t really decide which of them would be my fav if I had to choose – luckily I don’t have to. I’m so happy I found your products and this blog. At the moment I have only one big gorgeous Uniko stamp but when I need to refill my stash I know where to find what I need. Regards, Tiina a.k.a tweety.cardworld (on IG).
Congratulations Tiina!
Please send me an email (bev@uniko.co.uk) no later than10th July 2021, with your postal address to claim your prize.
For this first card I thought it would be fun to double up the large & small butterflies. I rarely reach to stamp on coloured card these days, so reached for my favourite trio of colours in my scraps box and got to stamping & die cutting. I added a little contrast by stamping the smaller butterfly on white card.
I haven't been one to jump fully on board with the slimline card, but in order to fit 3 larger butterflies on a card the slimline style was perfect. I added sentiments from the Simply Said Blocks series and some eagle eyes might notice something on this card?!
Next up I wanted to use the butterflies more as and accent to a sentiment. It's been ages since I inked up BIG & BOLD Hello and it seemed the perfect choice.
The bold hello is inked and heat embossed in clear sparkling embossing powder. I then stamped the trio of large butterflies and selectively coloured them in three colours using three shades of each colour. Super quick and simple colouring.
I finished off this almost one layer card with an accompanying sentiment from BIG & BOLD Hello stamped and embossed in white, popped up with foam adhesive and a trio of rhinestones.
It's been lovely inking up and playing with these older Uniko stamps & Designer Dies again. That's all from me today, thanks for stopping by today.
Wiebke here with a happy and colourful post to brighten your day!
It's also a happy bithday surprise for Beverley! I'm so
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY to have you in my life! 😘
I made this bunch of clean and simple cards in a really short time!
How I did it? By using all the "left overs" to create second cards!
The materials for all four cards are similar:
a self made rainbow-colour paper
made of multimedia paper (it doesn't warp as much as normal cardstock when it get's wet) & Ranger Distress Oxide Inks (and a blending brush or tool) & a clear iridescent embossing paste (just added a thin layer with a palette knife) To create this paper you'll need a bit of time, but below I have some alternative ideas!
the Big & Bold Happy Dies
fitting stamps - I used Big & Bold Happy, Happy Days and bee Happy (guess why! 😉)
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To avoid lots of glue-time for the thin areas I used adhesive sheets, but needed a bit of glue here and there anyway! For the first two cards I cut out the bigger "shadow" word of my sparkling paper first, then placed the smaller die on this hello and cut again to create the thin edge of the word. - This was the difficult part - to line it up exactly for an even edge! But with the help of some low-tack painters tape (I used the pink one from Tesa) it wasn't a real problem!
The rest was easy! To adhere the thin layer in the original shape and without wonky lines I used the other one as guide before I adhered it on a second cardbase. All sentiments were stamped in black ink. I love to use my stamping tool for these jobs - You can position all the stamps perfectly with the gridlines on the lid and you can stamp twice for a perfect black impression without any problems of missplacing! The black lines of the box are drawn with a thin black marker and and a T-ruler. The small butterflies I punched out of the scraps of the sparkling paper and placed them as a fluttering crowd above the word die cut.
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Here on the next picture you can see in the reflection, how much this selfmade paper is sparkling! (It's always hard for me to catch this with a camera.)
For the second two cards I directly cut out the smaller die of the sparkling paper. On the cardbase I brushed the same colours I used before to create the sparkling paper, but with a lighter hand for a softer, less intense shadeing. The more intense happy on a white shadow paper I placed there, added the two sentiment-parts and the card was finished!
The last card is made of the leftover again. I cut out the "frame" with a knife and a metallic ruler, rounded the corners by hand and adhered it on the cardbase. This time I used the cute bee insted of a sentiment - just as a "be(e) happy".
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Hope you like this idea of making quick'n'easy cards! Some more ideas to stretch this technique:
You needn't use a selfmade sparkling rainbow-paper. You can also use
a patterned paper or
a monochromatic shading
a paper with or without sparkling
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When you havn't a iridescent embossing paste, use
a sparkling embossing powder
a sparkling spray (maybe selfmade with some mica powder)
a thin layer of glitter glue or glossy accents (maybe with some glitter?)
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When you hon't want to make "happy" cards, use one of the other Uniko Big & Bold die sets! "wish" or "snow".
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Thanks for looking by today! 💓💛💚💙💜 Have a great and creative time and be happy!
Today I am sending you some happiness, good health and sunshine wishes your way. I know that all around the world we are struggling to deal with the craziness of everything. Stay strong, listen to your government guidelines and spend some time creating to take your mind off it all.
I thought I would pop by to tell you about a Uniko feature in the newest issue of Die-Cutting Essentials that came out on Thursday.
I am super excited to share a little peek at the feature I did for the magazine using the newest Uniko Designer Dies Kindness Blooms collection. This collection of dies coordinate with the previously released Kindness Blooms clear stamp set and were released last month during our 8th Birthday celebrations.
This is my favourite card I made for the feature. One because it was super fun to make and two it shows most of the dies in the collection AND it also shows how the tiniest die in the collection can be used in a different way to create a fun background.
Yes, I really did use the tiny circle die to die cut all those individual holes in the background! I've also used both the solid flower die combined with the detail loopy flower die combined with the coordinating stamps. All the details and instructions for this card can be found inside the magazine. You can buy the magazine online HERE.
I've not managed to create anything new with this clear stamp set just yet, but I hope to this week if time allows. However, I did receive this beautiful card through the post this past week from a lovely customer, Anne S, who is clearly enjoying combining the stamps and dies.
It makes my day to see customers and friends finding enjoyment and creativity using the products I design. It inspires me to create and gives me new ideas of how to use them! It delighted me even more to receive this prettiness in the mail, which I will display in the studio. Thank you Anne :)
One last thing before I sign off for the day, it's been a long one as I've not been sleeping well these past few days. Like most I am sure with all that is happening and on our minds.
Paper crafting, stamping, die cutting and making hand made cards is a wonderful therapy and distraction to all that is going on. So I thought that whilst Post Offices remain open here in the UK I would give you all a little discount code to use to treat yourself to something from the Uniko store.
Use Code happyspring10 during checkout.
Plus, with receiving the news yesterday that Happy Stampers Festival will not be going ahead at the end of April I have a lot of inventory and I am in need to create some space in the studio!
Thank you in advance for your support and custom. Each and everyone of you is truly appreciated.
