Uniko Flippin' Fabulous Ink & Flip Masculine Inspiration Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway

Hi there

Yes, I'm still here!  So sorry for the silence, it's been a busy couple of months so I've not managed to find time for any crafting but I'm back today to join in the finale of the masculine themed month with Uniko.

Today the team are showcasing the Ink & Flip stencils and giving them a masculine touch.

And, by visiting each of the Brand Ambassadors along the hop, starting at the Uniko blog, here, as well as commenting on our socials, you're in with a chance of winning an Ink & Flip stencil of your choice.  

I have two stencilled cards to share today, one using an Ink & Flip stencil and another using another stencil from Uniko.

Ok, here's my first where I've chosen the Ink & Flip Christmas Star as it offers a fantastic central focal point for any card...

I inked up both sides of the stencil, first in Pumpkin Pie ink and then with Dusk ink, which created the star and a darker green shade where the the colours overlap.  Next I stamped the sentiment from the Mid Century Modern Birthday stamp set in a darker blue, and then finished with the Background Blocks Linear image stamped in each corner in black.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Christmas Star
• Stamps: Uniko - Mid Century Modern Birthday; Background Blocks Linear
• Ink: Altenew - Pumpkin Pie, Dusk, Desert Night; Versafine Clair - Nocturne

And for my second masculine make I've used the Mid Century Modern Circles & Stars stencil...

This love using the shifted stencil technique with this stencil, it creates the illusion of so much dimension on a flat panel.  So I began with a dark orange panel of cardstock and inked through the stencil in a dark blue ink.  I then shifted the stencil slightly downwards and to the right and then inked through again with a white pigment ink.  This created the lighter blue and makes the original inking look like shadows.  I die cut the panel and adhered it flat to my card base then found an unused die cut circle in my stash so stamped the sentiment from the Mid Century Modern Everyday Sentiments set in black. The card was finished with some co-ordinating enamel dots.

Materials used:

• Stencil - Uniko - Mid Century Modern Circles & Stars
• Stamps: Uniko - Mid Century Modern Everyday Sentiments
• Ink: Altenew - Dusk; Hero Arts - Unicorn; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Die: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles; circle from stash
• Accents: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Tangerine and Blue Jeans Assortments

Thanks for visiting today and good luck if you comment along the hop.  

I appreciate you looking and plan to be back again very soon :)

Uniko May 2025 Non-Release Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Good morning!

Uniko have another blog hop and giveaway for you this month.  Bev gets so busy as she runs Uniko single-handedly so on the months where there isn't a new product release, she likes to mix things up a bit.

So this month she has challenged myself and my fellow Brand Ambassadors to choose a favourite or favourites from any of the 2025 releases to date and to share our projects in this blog hop.

By commenting along the way, you could be the lucky person that wins a £25 eGift card!

I found it difficult to pick just one product as my favourite, so I chose two, both of which happen to be layering stencil sets.

First up, I just had to ink up the Layering Picked Posies again...

I wanted to use the stencils to create a border so I found a scalloped stencil mask in my stash and used that to mask the centre of my card base.  I ink blended around the border so it had a definite edge but didn't want it to interfere too much with the pattern so used a very light hand.  I then inked through the various elements of the stencils to create the floral border.  I chose to fill the central area with a larger sentiment from the Birthday Wishes stamp set and then finished by adding a few co-ordinating jewels.

Materials used:

• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Picked Posies; Clearly Besotted - Small Scallops
• Stamp: Uniko - Birthday Wishes
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Salvaged Patina, Lost Shadow, Peacock Feathers, Scattered Straw, Tumbled Glass; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Accents: Little Things from Lucy's Cards - Jewels: Shimmer Pool and Lemon mixes

And as I loved the Layering Bright Butterflies, I inked them up again to create this one...

I inked up all three butterflies using the layering stencils and then fussy cut them out.  I used the Cloud 9 stencil to add clouds with white ink to the blue cardstock background.  I adhered all the butterflies to the card base, overlapping them and using some 3D foam for some dimension.  I finished by heat embossing the sentiment in white on a black strip, which is from the Originally Organic Flower Garden stamp set.

Materials used:

• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Bright Butterflies, Cloud 9
• Stamp: Uniko - Originally Organic Flower Garden
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Saltwater Taffy, Festive Berries, Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers; Versafine Clair - Nocturne; VersaMark; Hero Arts - Unicorn
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White

Be sure to leave some comments on the Brand Ambassador blogs or social media.  You can find all the links over at the Uniko blog, here.  By leaving comments along the way you will be in with a chance of winning the eGift card.  Bev will randomly choose a winner on 26 May 2025.

Thanks for visiting today and please do visit my fellow Brand Ambassadors, not only to comment, but I'm sure you can find some crafty inspiration from them.

Uniko April 2025 Release Day, Brand Ambassador Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Good morning!

It's release day over at Uniko and I'm here to reveal the whole release and share another card.

Here's the final card I made, combining elements from two of the new products...

I decided to go super clean and simple with this one.  I started by stencilling two of the solid leaf images from the Flower Fusion stencil set in three shades of Distress Ink and then stamped over these with the linear leaves image from the Originally Organic Flower Garden stamp set.  I die cut and mounted this on 3D foam on a larger co-ordinating green die cut from the same square dies set and adhered to my card base.  Finished the card with a greeting, also from the Originally Organic Flower Garden set.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Originally Organic Flower Garden
• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Flower Fusion
• Ink: Distress Ink - Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Dies: MFT Die-namics - Pierced Square Stax

So, now to reveal the new and reintroduced products in full.

First up are the two new stamp sets...Butterfly Serenade, a new addition to the Serenade series...

and Originally Organic Flower Garden...

Next, two new layering stencil sets, the first being Flower Fusion...

and the other...Spring Blossom...

And finally, a new addition to the fabulous Ink & Flip series of stencils...Ink & Flip Delightful Diamonds...

So, some great new products to inspire your creativity.

Be sure to leave some comments on the Brand Ambassador blogs or social media.  You can find all the links over at the Uniko blog, here.  By leaving comments along the way you will be in with a chance of winning some goodies.  All the details are on the Uniko blog post.

The products are available from the Uniko store now, here. 

Thanks for visiting today and for your lovely comments here and on my socials this week :)

Uniko April 2025 Release - Introducing...Stencil Layering Spring Blossom

Happy Friday!

It's the last of the introductions for the Uniko April 2025 release today and it's all about a new layering stencil set...Layering Spring Blossom.  This set has three stencils.

There are so many possibilities with this versatile stencil set...use the images individually or all together to create some really pretty backgrounds.

I got my Color Cubes out again for these and I love both these colour palettes.  I'll certainly be using these inspiration cards a lot more going forward, they really encourage you to combine colours you would never think to put together.  I've chosen colours as close to the suggestions as I can from what I have in my stash, I'd love to know what you think.

Here's my first card using the stencils and I've combined with a greeting from the Bauhaus Blocks stamp set...

I used all the stencils to build the background pattern and then cut down the panel with a stitched curved border die and trimmed it to fit my card base before adhering flat.  I then simply stamped the greeting in black along the curved edge and called it finished.  Lovely and clean and simple. 

And this was the Color Cube inspiration card I used...

Materials used:

• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Spring Blossom
• Stamp: Uniko - Bauhaus Blocks
• Ink: Memento - Cottage Ivy, Tuxedo Black; Altenew - Ultraviolet, Rubellite, Burnt Red; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Stitched Basic Edges

And a one layer, clean and simple card...

I began by masking off the edges of my card base.  I very lightly inked up my background, fading it out as I moved down to the base.  I then did the same with each element of the stencils, inking stronger at the top and fading the colours out at the centre.  I then finished with a greeting from the new Originally Organic Flower Garden stamp set, also new with this release.

And here is the colour palette I chose from my Color Cubes...

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Layering Spring Blossom
• Stamp: Uniko - Originally Organic Flower Garden
• Ink: Altenew - Emerald, Volcano Lake, Deep Iris, Pumpkin Pie, Memento - Desert Sand

Ok, that's all the introductions done.  I hope you love all these new products that Bev has designed.  Lots more creative inspiration is waiting for you over at the Uniko blog, here.  My fellow Brand Ambassadors are sharing some beautiful projects.

Please do pop back tomorrow to see the full release reveal and to find out about the Uniko Giveaway.  All the new products will be available tomorrow, Sunday 27 April 2025 at 9am BST.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Uniko April 2025 Release - Introducing...Originally Organic Flower Garden

Hi there

Continuing with the new introductions from Uniko.

Today we are introducing a new addition to the Originally Organic series...Originally Organic Flower Garden.  It works brilliantly with the existing products in the range too.

Here's my first card using one of the main images from the set...

I chose to stamp and heat emboss the image in white on some watercolour cardstock and then watercoloured the image using my Derwent Inktense pencils.  I die cut a stitched panel, stamped a sentiment, which is also from the set, and adhered onto a pink card base.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Originally Organic Flower Garden
• Ink: VersaMark; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Embossing Powder: Brutus Monroe - Alabaster White
• Watercoloured with Derwent Inktense pencils
• Die: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles

And my second card I used other images from the set...

I stamped the flowers first, then masked them before in turn stamping and masking the leaves.  I then coloured the images with Copics.  A greeting from the set was stamped in black and I finished with some pale yellow sprinkles.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko - Originally Organic Flower Garden
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Coloured with Copics
• Accents: Little Things from Lucy's Cards - Sprinkles: Cornfield Circles

As always, the team have lots more for you to see over at the Uniko blog, here.  I'll be back tomorrow morning to introduce another fantastic new stencil set.

And don't forget, all the new products from this release will be available to purchase from Uniko from Sunday 27 April 2025.

Uniko April 2025 Release - Introducing...Ink & Flip Delightful Diamonds

Hi guys

I'm back to share more newness from Uniko and today the team are introducing another, yes Bev has designed another, Ink & Flip stencil...this time Delightful Diamonds.

This is just one stencil, so it has no central focal design but it creates really striking backgrounds, or can be masked to just use part of it.

Here's my first card and I paired it with a sentiment from the Simply Said Blocks set...

For this one I began with a piece of white cardstock and I inked through one side of the stencil using Distress Oxide in Villainous Potion.  I then cleaned off the stencil and flipped it.  I then squished some of the same ink onto a mat and mixed it with some pearlescent stencil paste and spread it over the stencil to create the second part of the pattern.  It's hard to believe this paste is mixed with the same colour of ink!  I cut along the edge of the panel following the pattern and then adhered the cut piece to my card base.  It was then simply finished with a stamped sentiment.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Delightful Diamonds
• Stamp: Uniko - Simply Said Blocks
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Villianous Potion; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Paste: Sweet Poppy - Stencil Dimensions Pearlescent White

And now for my second card, also using a sentiment from the Mid Century Modern Birthday stamp set...

Now, I'm not going to lie...the inking of this one took me ages and I went through many post-it notes making off the different sections to ink blend each colour.  And I used a card from my Color Cubes as inspiration for this colour palette.  You can see this in the photo below.  I didn't have the exact shades to match but close enough.  I wasn't sure if this worked but liked it a lot more once I'd stamped the bold sentiment.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Uniko - Ink & Flip Delightful Diamonds
• Stamps: Uniko - Mid Century Modern Birthday
• Ink: Memento - Paris Dusk, Cantaloupe, Lilac Posies; Altenew - Polar Bear, Aqualicious; Versafine Clair - Nocturne

If you'd like to see more examples of projects using this new stencil, take a look at the Uniko blog, here.  My teammates are sharing some great makes.

I'll be back tomorrow to introduce another great new stamp set.

And don't forget, all the new products will be available from next Sunday 27 April 2025.

Uniko April 2025 Release - Introducing...Stencil Layering Flower Fusion

Hi there

It's the second day of the new product introductions from Uniko.

Today, the team are showcasing a new set of layering stencils...Layering Flower Fusion.

I love this set.  You can use all the separate stencils to build a background pattern or just select parts of it to create unique designs.

Here's my first card using the set and for this one I used all four stencils, and a sentiment from the new Butterfly Serenade set that was introduced yesterday...

This was super simple to create, I just used each of the stencils in turn to create the background design.  And I kept it a one layer card by stamping the sentiment in black over the background at the end.

Last year I treated myself to the Color Cubes by Sarah Renae Clark and this was the first time I put them to use to determine my colour palette.  I've have used them a few more times for cards I made for this release and will be sharing them in my upcoming posts.

Materials used:

• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Flower Fusion
• Stamp: Uniko - Butterfly Serenade
• Ink: Altenew - Evergreen, Warm Sunshine, Polar Bear, Misty Morning; Memento - Cottage Ivy; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Accents: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Bumble Bee Assortment

And for my second card I selected various images from the stencils to create a CAS design, using a sentiment from Simply Said Blocks...

I inked three of the flowers in two shades of Distress Oxide and then just one of the leaf sprigs, also with two shades of ink.  I also added the flower centres using the tiny dots in the stencil.  I die cut a stitched panel and stamped a sentiment against the edge, before adhering the panel flat to my card base.

Materials used:

• Stencils: Uniko - Layering Flower Fusion
• Stamp: Uniko - Simply Said Blocks
• Ink: Distress Oxide - Festive Berries, Saltwater Taffy, Dried Marigold, Peacock Feathers, Salvaged Patina; Versafine Clair - Nocturne
• Die: Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles

My fellow Brand Ambassadors have made some beautiful cards using this set, you can see more at the Uniko blog, here.  I'll have more to share tomorrow so please do pop back if you are able.

All the new products will be available from next Sunday 27 April 2025.