Uniko May Release - Introducing Pure Florals: Lily

Just wait till you see the final introduction stamp set to Uniko's new release. It has the WOW factor for sure.

This image is such a tease! The lily totally rocks and is an exciting addition to Bev's Pure Floral series.

Here's a card that reveals a little more:

Are you swooning?  It's such an amazingly gorgeous stamp and it's huge! So all I did was stamp, colour and leave it to speak for itself.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Pure Florals Lily
Ink: Versafine, onyx black
Promarkers: ivory, leaf green, rose pink, burnt orange; Spectrum Noir Colorista, orchid

My second card is also very CAS and features another of the wonderful scripty font words included in this set. I stamped the lily using a purple ink as I knew I wanted to use this as one of the colours on the petals.

If you love colouring you're going to so want this stamp set!

 
Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Pure Florals Lily
Ink: Versafine, onyx black; SU, wisteria wonder
Promarkers: ivory, burnt orange, pear green, lilac

Are you getting excited? Only one more sleep until all the new Uniko release release is revealed in its entirety. And of course the Uniko DT will be having a blog hop and you'll get the chance to win the entire release. Woot! Woot! See you tomorrow then!

Thanks for your time today, so pleased to have you visit. And keep crafting! 

Happy Little Stampers - May Christmas Challenge

This year is disappearing so quickly, so now's a really good time to get your Christmas on and head over to the new Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

Here's my card:

I started by masking the whole card apart from a central circle and then placing a smaller circle mask in the middle of it. I then stamped randomly using the splatter stamp from Mixed Media Fun.

I lifted the masks and stamped the poinsettia which I coloured using 'new to me' Chameleon pens. I'm thinking the green leaves worked out better than the red petals and I have to admit I'm not finding these pens as easy to use as I thought I would.

Supplies:
Stamps: HLS Christms Joy & Mixed Media Fun
Inks: Versafine, onyx black; SU, cherry cobbler
Pens: Chameleon, grass green, crimson red, black
Embellishments: Bling Bling gems

There are lots of ways to use masking on cards and I'm sure you'll be inspired by the techniques used by the rest of the HLS Christmas team - you can find them all here.

Thanks for looking today, I'm enormously grateful as I know your time is precious. And keep crafting!

Uniko May Release - Introducing Happy Succulents

Mmmm! Swoon! Today sees the introduction of Uniko's new release - Happy Succulents - you are so going to love it!

My first card pays homage to the colours of succulents and uses the largest stamp from the set.

As I love this set sooooo much I've kept things CAS and let the stamps do the WOW!

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Happy Succulents
Ink: Versafine, onyx black
Promarkers: fuchsia pink, tea green, grey green

My next share also uses the largest stamp from the set, but this time I've chopped it up and used the more floral colours of pinks and creams. 

Once I'd cut out all the elements I decided to allow bits to poke out above and to the sides, just loved how it looked! Gorgeous scripty 'happy' in this set, going to become a favourite - well actually it already is!

 
Supplies:
Stamps:Uniko, Happy Succulents
Ink: Versafine, onyx black; SU, melon mambo, cucumber crush
Promarkers: primrose, pale pink

Are you feeling your purse strings loosening? Well wait until you see what's coming up tomorrow in the final introduction from this release! But I'm getting ahead of myself - you'll be wanting to check out the rest of the Uniko DT introductions to Happy Succulents and see if they've revealed some different bits to me. Follow this link and start your voyage of discovery.

Mega thanks for sharing some of your time with me today, always gives me a lift to see you've visited.  And keep looking and crafting!

Uniko May Release - Introducing Background Blocks Doodled Flower & Horizontal Stripe

Here I am today with the first introductions to the new Uniko release. And a bit of a bonus there are two new stamps to show today.

    

Both of these stamps belong to the Background Blocks series and just as it says on the tin they're great for using as backgrounds.

First I'm sharing a couple of cards I made with Doodled Flower:

I stamped the image twice and then cut three strips and added the colours. I added a blue horizontal strip and a die cut greeting to finish off my card.

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Background Blocks Doodled Flower
Promarkers: arctic blue, azure, china blue, indigo blue
Die: Lawn Fawn, hello
  
For my next card I used nearly the whole block and added distress ink on top using a sponge applicator. I'm wondering if any of you have noticed the schoolboy error that I've only just spotted?  I'm only pointing it out so that you don't make the same mistake - mmm the hearts are upside down.

I added a vertical strip and an embossed sentiment from Explosion Additions to finish off my card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Background Blocks Doodled Flower, Explosion Additions
Inks: Ranger distress, picked raspberry, mustard seed, spiced marmalade; Versamark, clear
Embossing: Ranger Superfine, white 

     

My next two cards use the other new stamp in the Background Block series - Horizontal Stripe. This is such a useful stamp and for my first card I paired it up with I Love Tea.

I stamped the stripes onto card and adhered it to black cardstock before die cutting a tag shape. I then over stamped the stripes with the sentiment. I stamped the tea cup onto a scrap of card matching the floral colours to the stripes, cut it out by hand and popped it onto foam pads to add dimension.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Background Blocks Horizontal Stripe, I Love Tea
Inks: SU, sweet sugarplum; Versafine, onyx black
Die: MFT Die-namics, Stitched Traditional Tags 

             

My last card uses both the stamps being introduced today. I chose a rainbow of colours for the stripes and used my stampin' write pens to ink up the stripes. I kinda like the way using pens doesn't quite give full coverage and adds the illusion of texture.

I added a snippet of doodled flowers with the centres filled in with nuvo drops and a sentiment from Simply Said to finish off my card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Background Blocks Doodled Flower & Horizontal Stripe, Simply Said
Ink: SU, stampin's write pens, real red, pumpkin pie, daffodil yellow, mossy meadow, pacific point, blackberry bliss, rich razzleberry
Embellishments: Nuvo drops, English mustard
           

Well that's all the introductions finished for today. If you'd like to see more  - and I know you would - pop on over to the Uniko blog to find links to all the other DT blogs where you can feast your eyes! Have fun!

Thanks for looking today, I've loved having your company. Be sure to come back again tomorrow when I'll be sharing cards made with another new release set - you're going to love it!

And keep crafting! 

Uniko May Release - Sneak Peeks 3 & 4

I'm back today with a sneak peek at the other two sets in Uniko's May release. Are you ready? Here goes:

 

 A floral with a difference, but you'll have to wait and see!

 

One of Bev's signature style of floral stamp sets, absolutely glorious and beautiful.

OK, so having got your curiosity roused please come back tomorrow for the first introductions and some cards to tease you even more.

Thanks for looking today.  And keep crafting!

Uniko May Release - Sneak Peeks 1 & 2

I've got a couple of little peeks at the upcoming Uniko May release to share with you today

Here's the first:

 

 Wait till you see the full reveal, I can guarantee it's not what you'll be expecting!

 

Bet this one has got you intrigued too!

There will be a peek at another two sets tomorrow, then on Wednesday we begin introducing each set individually followed by the full reveal and release on Saturday 6th May. Best start saving your pennies, you're going to love them all!

Thanks for looking today. And keep crafting!

The Memory Nest - Make It Monday #87

A super new sketch to play with and a brand new challenge starts today over at The Memory Nest.

It's great to have a sketch with the opportunity to add more than one photo and I used up a bunch that I took on one of the first opportunities to spend a day in the garden without coats this year.

I added three little clusters of ephemera, one for each photo and filled the centre space with some stickers. If you're wondering what he's pointing at he'd spotted a tiny little beetle crawling through the sand.

The project life card spot from the sketch also became my title for the page and really influenced my colour choices as it was the first thing that I got out.

And who doesn't love bubbles! Seems to have an everlasting fun element for kids and grown ups too!

Supplies:
Papers: AC Amy Tangerine, Oh Happy Life
Embellishments: Simple Stories, So Fancy words; AC Dear Lizzy, washi tape paper; AC Shimelle, die cut cardstock shapes; AC Remarks, Garden of Goodness; Fancy Pants, puffy stickers; SU enamel shapes, flirty flamingo 

Want to see what the rest of The Memory Nest DT have created with this sketch? Sure you do! Check it out here.

It's be so fun having you drop by my blog today, thanks so much.  And keep crafting!