12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Day 12

 

 

           Hello & Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Inspiration & Giveaways - Day 12

Join me over HERE on the Uniko YouTube Channel for the final day of this festive series. This week I am giving fresh inky love to a popular favourite, Pattern Building Christmas Tree.

This is one of those stamp sets which doesn't look very inspirational as a set in its packaging. But once you see it in action, it all makes sense! 

Although I have used it just for festive cards today, it's also a set that is versatile for lots of occasions with the variety of patterns it contains.

I've shared a similar card before, but the Christmas Folk Snowflake strip makes a great frame for a shaker card...

I accented the frame with holly leaves and berries from Winter Foliage and a sentiment from Christmas Wishes. 

You'll have to watch this weeks video HERE to find out what this weeks giveaway is and how to enter. I can't believe that it's come to an end so quickly. However, I do have a bonus video next week, Friday 15th December. I will also be announcing the winners of all 12 Giveaways. 

Thanks for joining me today. Crafty Hugs

What's Hot & Restocks!

Hello & Happy Friday!

I thought I would share a couple cards using some of the hot products from the last couple of weeks. Christmas seems to top the list with Pattern Building Christmas Tree and the Designer Die Sparkling Snowflake topping the list, so that's what I chose to get creative with.

First up, I decided to make a slimline card and I paired the Designer Die Sparkling Snowflake with Snowflake Serenade.

Snowflake Serenade is perfect for slimline cards and to stamp it cascading down. Here I stamped in black and heat embossed with my favourite Stardust EP. I then used two shades of Aqua Copic Markers to colour the holly leaves. 

The Sparkling Snowflake die cut was cut from Aqua card I had in my off cut stash box and I used a VersaMark pen around the edges to heat emboss with the Stardust EP. I've adhered the die cut with foam adhesive, as I have the sentiment from Christmas Sentiments.

Next I wanted to give some fresh creative love to Pattern Building Christmas Tree.

It wasn't intentional at first, but it turned out to be a repeating theme of stamp & embossed elements with stamped and fussy cut elements.

I think it turned out quite fun! I used the same Stardust EP and also Nuvo Drops for the string of lights. I love the colours and slight domed effect the Nuvo Drops give.

Just the two cards from me today, but I know I will be back with more to share soon. 

The other hot products are Paw Print Hearts. Sympathy cards are always a tough one and when I've looked there isn't a huge amount of pet sympathy products.

Plus, stars and geometrics in general are always a popular 'go to' for masculine cards, so it's no surprise that Background Builders Seeing Stars has been a hot product since it came back in stock.

And lastly, but by no means least our Mid Century Modern collection of products are still a popular choice. I might just have some things up my sleeve in relation to this collection, so keep your eyes peeled 😉

The following restocks are due back in the studio next week and are currently available on back order over on the website. 

Background Blocks Scattered Polka Dots

Bee Happy

Christmas Sentiments

Christmas Wishes

English Country Garden Butterflies

Framed - Floral Vines

Paw Print Hearts

Pattern Building Christmas Tree

Simply Said Blocks

I will be sending a newsletter when they arrive. 

Have a wonderful weekend.

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Pattern Building Christmas Tree

Morning All, 

Steph here with my Uniko Brand Ambassador Inspiration post for August. My apologies for not managing to do a BA Inspiration post in July, time ran away with me as July is the busiest month of the year with birthdays, Carnivals and anniversaries. 

So on to today's post and I decided I wanted to get on board with the wonderful Christmas cards I've been seeing all over the Uniko blog in July. I was going to use one of the Christmas themed background builders sets but then I remembered the more recently released Pattern Building Christmas Tree stamp set and I thought it would be perfect for the cards I had in mind. I've tried to use the set in a different way so that you can really see how versatile this type of set is.

For this first card, I die cut a circle from copier paper and laid this onto my stamping card before selecting various stamps from the set and inking up in different colours. I simply moved the circle mask each time I wanted to create a new bauble. I used the straight line stamp for the 'string' and the tree frond for the top of the bauble. Even the 'Merry Christmas' sentiment is from the set but I did add the 'Happy New Year' from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments stamp set. 

For my second card I used up some scraps of coloured card and stamped or heat embossed the Pattern Building Christmas Tree stamps across them before die cutting into squares or rectangles. I added thin strips of black card across these to look like ribbon on presents. I stamped the sentiment in the top right hand corner but the card looked a little blank so I stamped the trees from the (now retired) Uniko Christmas Pop stamp set. (If you wanted to try and recreate this card but don't have the Christmas Pop stamp set, you could use the Uniko Christmas Pop Trio stencil instead). 

For my third card I threw all the patterns plus some more created using Uniko Background Blocks Diagonal Stripes, Uniko Background Blocks Pinstripe and Uniko Background Blocks Nautical Stripes. I cut all the patterned pieces to the same size and arranged them onto a large green square before adhering to the card front. Finally I stamped the sentiment from the Uniko Christmas Sentiments stamp set, die cut into a circle, backed onto a green scalloped circle and adhered to the card front. 

I have kept all the designs flat as I post a lot of my Christmas cards and with the price of everything seeming to be going up, up, up, I wanted to make sure my postage costs weren't ridiculous at Christmas time! 

I'm hoping this has got you all in the mood for some Christmas crafting!

Much love

Steph x

Festive Friday - BA Inspiration using Rustic Wreath

Good morning and happy Festive Friday!

Anita here, and it's certainly strange making and sharing Christmas cards in the middle of a heatwave (which we are currently experiencing here in the UK) but if it inspires us to make a start on our festive projects then why not.

Today I have three makes, all using the Rustic Wreath Clear Stamp Set, along with a few other Christmas products.

So first up is a project using the stamp set, purely stamped in a traditional design...

On a die cut panel I stamped the main wreath image, first in a dark green shade, before then filling in with the smaller images - the pine cones, twigs and berries.  The sentiment was stamped below and heat embossed in gold.

For this next card I've combined the Rustic Wreath Clear Stamp Set with a couple of other products from the Uniko Christmas range...

On a piece of white cardstock I inked through the Christmas Folk Snowflake Stencil using Distress Ink in Old Paper.  After leaving it to dry and applying some anti-static powder I then stamped the wreath centrally in VersaMark ink and embossed in gold.  I die cut the panel using a stitched rectangle die and adhered it flat to the card base.  To finish I heat embossed the sentiment, from the Pattern Building Christmas Tree Clear Stamp Set, in gold on some red cardstock, trimmed it down and popped it up on 3D foam.

My final card combines the Rustic Wreath set with stamps from two other festive sets...

On the card base I stamped the wreath randomly in red ink before adding the baubles and bows which are extra little stamps in the Rustic Christmas Clear Stamp Set.  I created the strings to join the bows and baubles using a black fineliner pen.  I used a curved border die to cut some red cardstock and stamped the sentiment from the Big & Bold: Merry Clear Stamp Set, which was heat embossed in gold, before this was then adhered in position and trimmed to fit the card base.

Well, that's all from me today.  I hope I've provided you with some inspiration for your festive projects.  Oh, and don't forget, for the entire month Bev is offering 10% off Christmas products over at the online store! 

I'm off to go and sit in front of a fan for a while!

Stay safe, everyone.