Showing posts with label New Release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Release. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 January 2020

Uniko January 2020 Release Day

Welcome to the first release of 2020 at Uniko, there are 4 brand new clear stamp sets and one returning from retirement.

First up we have the newest addition to the Background Blocks series. 
This month Bev has designed, Background Blocks Scattered Hearts, a fun outline scattered heart pattern, perfect for Valentine's, Weddings, Anniversaries and more.


Background Blocks Scattered Hearts £5
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Next there's another in the BIG & BOLD series, BIG & BOLD Love. It features the large bold sentiment, accompanying sentiments and accent heart stamps.



BIG & BOLD Love £5
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Next a new floral stamp set, Hello Lovely. This clear stamp set features the Peony design from the popular Pure Florals Peony clear stamp set. Instead of the large single peony blooms that are in the Pure Florals set, Bev has scaled them down and clustered them together to form a beautiful bouquet stamp. 
This set is perfect for so many occasions.



Hello Lovely £10
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Next is the newest addition to the Sentiments Outlined series, You Are... Sentiments Outlined. A trio of sentiments for those special people in your life. Not just for Valentine's Day either, these sentiments are perfect for cards & projects to lift people up and spread some cheer all year long.


You Are... Sentiments Outlined £5
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Finally Bev has released the previously retired, Always & Forever clear stamp set. This clear stamp set first debuted back in December 2013 HERE. This set was designed to coordinate with Beautiful Blooms I and now has so many more creative possibilities with the Uniko products that have launched since it retired! 



Always & Forever £5
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So now it's time to show you some ways to use these fab new sets.

Here is my inspiration for you using Always and Forever.


This is a very simple card though it did take a few failures before I settled on this focal point, I'll blame it on the fuzzy head brought on by the flu!

One of my Christmas cards was from the talented Chrissie Stokes and I loved how she'd framed a simple image with an embossed die frame so this was my starting off point.
I practiced the design on a scrap of paper before doing the final panel, rearranging the hearts until I got the effect I wanted. The final design uses the small outline heart heat embossed twice with gold EP on a die cut panel, mounted on foam over my linen effect embossed square base card. The embossed square on the base card was made using one of a MFT pierced stacked square die set. The sentiment was stamped and embossed using the same gold EP.

Now it's time for a blog hop and GIVEAWAY!!!
To be in the chance of winning The ENTIRE January2020 Release! (4 clear stamp sets and 1 previously released clear stamp set). Simply comment along the blog hop, it's as easy as that! You have until Midnight 25th January 2020. The winner will be announced on 26th January. 

Julie  -that's me
Linda
Wiebke 

Happy hopping!

Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Introducing Mid Century Modern Florals & Mid Century Modern Background Blocks I & II

Morning.
It's day 1 of this month's release previews at Uniko.
The first set up is Mid Century Modern Florals.

Bev has gone all retro on this release, focusing mainly on designs influenced by her love of the MCM movement, you'll find more details about that here.
I might be showing my age here but they remind me of designs from my youth, such as Mum's dresses and wallpaper! 

Using a couple of the solid background stamps to create the ring of blooms, I then added detail stamps to each centre. A few high lights were added with a white gel pen and the leaves and stamps added with matching grey ink. On a die cut circle the Happy Birthday from Birthday Sentiments was stamped then added to the card.


My second card is a more masculine card using Background Blocks Mid Century Modern and a sentiment from the December release Wonderful Day.


A few homemade gems were added for a bit of colour and dimension, just dot some clear Nuvo Jewel Drops onto a sheet of acetate then let dry. Add Copic pen in the colour of your choice, peel off and add to your project when the ink has dried with a bit of Matt medium in this case. I prefer to use thid than adding directly as you cut down the risk of splodging and ruining your card!

Card three uses the second Background block and the Big and Bold Happy stamps and dies.

The stamp was inked with a pale ink and then coloured with Copic markers for a solid look, before the sentiment was added.
That's about it for today but don't forget to come back for more ideas tomorrow.
Here are all the new the stamps used today laid out in full.



Mid Century Modern Florals £10


Background Blocks Mid Century Modern £5


Background Blocks Mid Century Modern II £5

Check out the rest of the team as well as our GD Jenny from Crafting in the Country for more fab ideas.
Bev
Jenny GD
Carol 
Izzy 
Julie-that'll be me
Linda
Lindsey