Fabulous Friday - Welcome Natalie Seddons 🎉

Happy Fabulous Friday.

I'm absolutely delighted to be kicking off the weekend with a welcome to the Uniko Brand Ambassadors post. 

I know you will, but please give a warm welcome to Natalie Seddons.

I've know Natalie for quite a few years now and always been in awe of her colouring skills. Natalie has worked colouring and creative magic with Uniko products. 

Here are some of my favourites...

Spring Botanicals Daffodil

Organically Zesty

Mid Century Modern Baubles

Now, I will hand you over to Natalie for a little introduction and a new card...

Hi I’m Natalie aka momma sedds and I’m very excited to be joining the Uniko team. I’m currently on maternity leave and trying to craft away whilst the little one naps! 

I started card-making back in 2011 but I’ve always been colouring and creating away. As soon as I found Copics and Distress inks I really found my style and they are my absolute favourite medium to work. 

I hope you like my creations and I can’t wait to share them with you!

Just look at that beautiful poinsettia. One day I'll be able to have the patience and colour like this. Now, it wouldn't be a Fabulous Friday Welcome without a website discount. 

From 9am today, Friday 24th October - 23:59 Sunday 26th October I have an automatic 15% off all orders on the website 🎉 

No code necessary, discount will show during the checkout process. 

Thank you for stopping by the blog today & happy shopping!

Crafty Hugs

Pretty Poinsettia Postage Collage - 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways Day 11

 

Happy Wonderful Wednesday.

Welcome to day 11 of the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways. Today I am sharing a pretty poinsettia card using Pure Florals Poinsettia which was brought back from retirement and reintroduced last year.

And I've paired it with a non Uniko product collection from Waffle Flower Crafts, their amazing Postage Collage Collection. 

Yep, I couldn't resist any longer and purchased a basics collection which includes the Postage Collage Dies, Postage Collage Block Stencil and two mini stamp sets, Royal Mail and Postage Collage.

Let's have a look at the card I created.

I die cut the postage collage and then used the block stencil to add the colours. I chose Honeysuckle, Poppy and Cranberry and I wasn't precious over the colours mixing a little into the shapes.

I then placed the die cut and stencil into my stamping platform. I placed the poinsettia stamp as best I could covering as many of the shapes. I had to repeat stamp about 3 times to get a full image, especially along the inside edges of the stencil.

I added a couple of the accents from the small Postage Collage and Royal mail stamp sets and added the Peace On Earth sentiment from Pure Florals Poinsettia. I did add a little sparkle to the poinsettia centre using a gel pen. 

This was a fun first mash up of Uniko and the Waffle Flower Crafts products and I have more ideas waiting to be tested. 

If you fancy watching this card being made I have a short over on YouTube HERE.

Before I go, the giveaway. Be sure to leave a comment by 31st July 2025 for your chance to win the Pure Florals Poinsettia I've used on this card. If you are the lucky winner picked randomly from comments left across Uniko’s social media and already own the products, an alternative will be offered. 

Winners will be announced first week of August 2025.

Crafty Hugs

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Quick Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas! 

Hopefully everyone is in full Christmas mode now but don't panic if not. I have used Uniko's Background Builders Christmas 2018 stamps to create some fairly quick cards (the heat embossing makes these a take a little longer but you could reduce time by simply stamping with ink instead).

Here I lined up four of the stamp strips and carefully inked and stamped them one at a time. The sentiment is from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments stamp set. 

This card took only slightly longer to make than the last as the striped stamp was used twice so it had to be cleaned and repositioned between colours.

On this card I have used clear embossing powder over the red and green ink and gold embossing powder for the centre strip but of course you could just use the ink and leave out the heat embossing. The sentiment this time is from the rereleased Uniko Pure Florals Poinsettia stamp set. 

Following on from making my last card I discovered that I had red and green embossing powder in my stash (doh!) so I made the card again using these rather than ink and clear embossing powder, changing the rotation of the background builder strips. 

Hopefully these have helped if you are a little pushed for time or behind in your Christmas card making.

Much love

Steph x

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Thursday Tags

Bonjour !

Izzy here. I hope you have enjoyed the last release because today I'm taking this opportunity to show you some more inspirations with it. 

As Christmas is very close, I decided to make, not cards, but tags for gifts. 

The two first tags are made with the Framed - Fairy Lights clear stamp set.

 

I simply die cut a tag in a white card stock, I stamped and I black heat embossed part of the Fairy Lights on as well as a sentiment, then I coloured all the lights with coloured fine liners and I added a red ribbon.

For this one I combined the Fairy Lights with the Jolly Christmas set. 

I stamped and I white heat embossed the lights on a black tag and I coloured them with coloured glitters as I've already done it when introducing this set.

On a piece of white card stock I stamped Santa and I coloured it with coloured pencils.

To finish, I put some glitter on Santa too and I foam mounted it on the tag.

The second set of tags is made with the Background Blocks - Snow Flurry and the Christmas Pop clear stamp sets.

For this tag I used both sets together. I die cut a tag in a Kraft sheet thenI stamped and I white heat embossed the Background Blocks - Snow Flurry on top. 

On Kraft paper, I stamped in black the trees from the Christmas Pop set and I fussy cut them.

I stamped the sentiment (Background Builders - Winter Wonderland) on a black strip and I white heat embossed it.

To finish, I flat adhered the sentiment and the trees on the tag.

Here I combined one of the trees together with the Quilted stencil. I die cut a tag in a Kraft sheet then I used the stencil with white ink.

I stamped and I white heat embossed the tree on a piece of red card stock and I fussy cut it.

To finish, I foam mounted the tree on the tag and I added a red and white thread.

For the last tag I stamped the Background Blocks - Snow Flurry with a ombré blue ink. 

In a glitter white paper, I cut the gorgeous Sparkling Snowflake, and I flat adhered it on the tag.

For the third set of tags, I used the beautiful Pure Florals - Poinsettia. As far as I remember, it is one of the first stamp I ordered at Uniko and I still love it so much !

Here I combined the poinsettia with the Background Blocks - Falling Snowflakes. I stamped it and I white heat embossed it on a piece of Vellum then I used a tag die to cut it. I also cut the same tag in a white card stock to put it behind.

On a Bristol paper, I stamped and I black heat embossed the poinsettia. I used pink Zig Clean Color Real brushes to colour it. 

As the real poinsettia is a large stamp, I cut the center of the flower and I arranged some petals around so that it fits the tag.

On a black strip of card stock, I stamped and I white heat embossed a sentiment.

To finish, I glued the sentiment and the poinsettia on the Vellum tag.

Here I combined the poinsettia with the Background Blocks - Layered Stripes that I stamped on a white tag with Lightening Black ink. 

I stamped the poinsettia on a white card stock, I coloured it in red with coloured pencils and as for the previous tag, I cut the center of the flower and I added some petals that I coloured in green.

And last but not least, I made a tag with the new stamp of the Big & Bold collection.

As the name suggests, Big & Bold - Joy, I wanted a cheerful tag with lots of colours.

So I used here the Wonky Stripes stencil with lots of coloured inks to make the background.

Once dry, I stamped in black the word Joy and two little images from this set and I heat embossed them with glittery embossing powder.

Et voilà ! As you can see, there's a lot to do with the last new release but also with the Uniko products you already have. 

Thanks for joining me today and hopefully I've given you some inspiration to prepare your Christmas all in beauty !

Have a lovely day and thank you for stopping by.

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Pure Florals Poinsettia

Morning all Julie here with another festive idea. I'm helping out at Sparkles challenges again this month where their theme is Christmas Florals, so I thought I would combine it with a Uniko Brand Ambassador post.

When I saw the theme I knew exactly which stamp I was going to use, the fab Uniko Pure Florals - Poinsettia, so happy that Bev has reintroduced it. I was unsure about what design I would use until I stumbled across a You Tube video by Michelle Short CASEing Therese Calvird and the rest as they say is history! Here's my CASE of a CASE!

In the video, Michelle used some pretty marbled DP but I didn't have any, so decided to make my own using alcohol ink and Yupo paper, I used what inks I had including Valencia, Flamingo, Dandelion and Coral, with a little bit of gold foiling. Whilst the alcohol ink was still tacky, I dabbed a piece of used gold foil over the panel, just enough stuck to give a little added texture. 

In both their cards, the outlined blooms form the front of the card but I didn't go down that route. Have you come across Ardyth's LIMES mnemonic for CASEing, COPY and SHARE everything? Here's a link to her video where she explains her ideas, I found it really helpful.

I loved the bold black outline on white of the blooms, the marbled paper, gold pearls and bold sentiment. I left out the front panel bit but used the layout and a gold on black fussy cut sentiment instead of a die cut one. The rest was pretty simple, two large images, black on white, fussy cut and mounted over the inky panel. The Uniko stamped sentiment was embossed with gold EP on black card before being fussy cut. The sentiment was popped up with foam tape and some silver crystals coloured with yellow Copic marker were added to the centers to complete.

That's it from me for today, hope I've given you yet another idea on how to use this fab stamp set.

BA Inspiration: Mixed Media Christmas Tree Trio

Hello everyone!

Happy Thursday!

Vinita here! Recently I was going through my stash and rekindled my interest in Silver glitter paste. Because of the paste opacity, a thin layer makes it more opaque and visible the underneath color. Talk about the drama! 

So I thought it would be the perfect use for a new stencil release Christmas tree trio recently at Uniko.

It looked complicated but was easy to make. 

Here are step-by-step instructions with pics:

On a white panel, I placed my Christmas Tree trio stencil and drew the outlined trees one by one as shown in the above pic.

Once again, I put my stencil to ink my solid outlined tree using mowed lawn DI in between all these trees one by one.

It appeared like this as shown in the above pic.

I ink-blended the rest of the space using forest moss, crushed olive and mowed lawn DI. I outlined my trees using a green acrylic marker for more interest.

Now it's time to decorate my trees and the background. I added some confetti using DI.

I used my beloved Posca white pen for snowfall in the sky. Stamped the sentiment from the Pure Florals Poinsettia stamp set. To finish it off I wrapped a thread around the trees. 

Hope you all enjoyed this!

Happy crafting! 

Saturday Spotlight - Pure Florals Poinsettia

Happy Weekend.

Today I thought I would put Pure Florals Poinsettia in the spotlight. I started colouring this poinsettia during the week and finally I got to finishing it last night. 

As you know I am not an expert at colouring, I'm far from it. But now and then I like to dabble and have a play.

I decided that it would be less daunting to colour if I stamped the poinsettia onto a pink card stock base. So I had a look through my stash and found this old Stampin' Up! card. I'm not 100% sure what the colour is but it's a soft pretty pink. 

I stamped the poinsettia in C9 Cranberry ink and set to colouring using my Prismacolor Pencils. I used PC292 and PC195 and white for the centre. 

After I'd finished colouring, I decided to add a little detail and fussy cut along a few petals. I trimmed the card to fit my white card base and adhered using foam tape.

To finish I added a sentiment combination from the set onto a strip of white card and cut ribbon tails into one end. Lastly adding a few Cranberry enamel dots.

Before I go I thought I would share a couple more cards from the archives and the Pure Florals Poinsettia Pinterest page. 

On this first card I stamped the poinsettia in black onto white card and created this partial fussy cute panel, colouring the centre of the flower with gold ink. I then adhered the panel to the red card base using foam tape.

On this second card I went for a classic red, white and kraft colour combo. I heat embossed the poinsettia on red card and then die cut it using a circle die, layering it with this fun loopy scalloped die which is an old one from Papertrey Ink. Before layering on my card I added a layered ribbon banner. 

Lastly I am sharing this first card from the original release of Pure Florals Poinsettia. Here I simply stamped the flower on two shades of red card. I fussy cut the bottom layer and then for the top layer I partially cut the flower out to add depth and dimension. I finished with another of the sentiments and white gel pen to the centre of the flower.

That's all from me today, I hope you have enjoyed this little spotlight feature on Pure Florals Poinsettia.

Crafty Hugs

Bev

It's Beginning To Look Like... Reintroducing Pure Florals Poinsettia

Hello & Happy Wednesday.

Myself, our Guest & the Uniko Brand Ambassadors are here to get you over the mid week hump with the second of FIVE product introductions for our October/November Release. If you missed the first you can catch up HERE.

I think this is the one many have been waiting for. Today I am delighted to be reintroducing, Pure Florals Poinsettia.

Pure Florals Poinsettia originally made its debut in November 2012. It was one of the first Christmas clear stamp sets I released here at Uniko and is back by popular demand!

Another delight is we have a wonderful Guest Brand Ambassador joining us for this release. If you follow me over on Seven Hills Crafts and their blog you may be familiar with Natalia. Natalia's style of paper crafting and card making always WOWS me, so I was delighted when she said yes to creating with some Uniko stamps. 

Let's have a look at what Natalia and the Brand Ambassadors have created using Pure Florals Poinsettia.

Natalia 

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Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

This clear stamp set has a classic festive elegance to it and I think this hop really shows the beauty this set has to offer. 

I know you'll be seeing more of this in the coming weeks as I crack on with my Christmas card making! I'd love to know what you think. 

Until tomorrow, 

Crafty Hugs

Brand Ambassador Christmas Card Inspiration

Hi, it's Julie here with a little bit of Christmas inspiration at Uniko.

Whilst trying to come up with some different ideas for Christmas cards, I remembered this card using a turnabout stamp and it also reminded me of this card I made a couple of Christmases ago.

Here is my take, using some Uniko goodies.

Using a black, A6 side folding base card and after giving it a healthy going over with my anti static pad, I arranged some foliage radiating from the centre of the front panel. I used the large solid stem from Sweet Broom and the small spray from Season of Beauty, then infilled with part of the evergreen bough from WinterFoliage. 

Using my Misti, I stamped with Versamark then heat embossed with white EP. Flipping the card 180', I repeated the process. To fill in the other corners I placed the same elements on the card front but had to carefully mask off some of the stems so that they didn't overwhelm the centre and repeated the process of stamp then emboss. There was a slight gap in the centre which I filled with some small evergreen boughs from the Background builders: Vines Winter Additions.

On a panel of Vellum I stamped the Merry Christmas from Festive Sentiments and embossed with red EP, then added a die cut thin frame before adding it to my base card. It looked a tad empty, so added a couple of punched holly sprigs before adding Nuovo drops for some more a festive finish to the base and vellum panel.

My second card uses the Background Block- Scandinavian Christmas stamp. 

The different images on this stamp reminded me of decorations on a Christmas tree, so I decided to make a card along those lines.

Here is the end result.

To begin, I took a scrap of acetate my OH was throwing away, and made a stencil by die cutting a simple tree shape.

Using my MISTI, placed an A6 red card base under the stencil, secured it with the magnets and stamped the image with Versafine and used some fine gold EP to heat emboss. The sentiment in the same gold EP is from the Pure Florals Poinsettia set. When finished, I noticed there was a mark in the card stock along one edge, so although I wanted it to be a OLcard, I had to trim the panel down and add it to another base card. Waste not want not! I also decided to add some Fired Brick and Vintage Photo DI to give my red card stock a little more richness

Hope I've given you some inspiration for those Christmas cards you need to make. Happy crafting.