Ink & Flip Masculine Inspiration Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Hello everyone!

Happy Sunday!

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend!

Time for the Uniko Brand Ambassador Blog Hop with Masculine Inspiration!

The Uniko owner, Bev, started creating and launching these Ink & Flip stencils in August 2023. And come up with so many creative styles with one layer and more with geometrical patterns! But shamefully, one of the very BIG brand copied two of the designs going to be launched in August. Kindly support small businesses 😡

Here I started using an Ink & Flip Delightful stencil in action.

I used Mermaid Lagoon, Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxides, and Faded Jeans Distress Ink to create the delightful diamonds in blue tones. And stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment.

I stamped and watercoloured my organic flowers using Candied Apple Distress Ink and added some white dots using a gel pen in the centre of the flowers. I fussy cut all the flowers and placed them on the background.

Here is the list to join the blog hop:

Anita

 Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita (me)

Be sure to leave a comment on all blogs or on social media for the chance to win your choice of Ink & Flip stencil till 6th July 2025.

Happy crafting!

Have a wonderful day!

Spring/ Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2025

 Hello everyone!

Happy Friday!

Uniko is a Proud super sponsor of the Spring/ Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2025 hosted by the talented Amy! 

Be sure to start at the Coffee loving paper crafters!

Today, all the Uniko Brand Ambassadors are joining with coffee and tea theme inspirations cards to share with you!

Here is my coffee card for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop in Muscular style. I made it using the I Love Tea stamp set.

First, I created a number background with a distressed look using the Alphabet Solid stamp set using Distress inks. 

I stamped my teacup image on a piece of white CS, I left uncolored it along with a tiny flower branch from the set and fussy cut them. The sentiment is also from the same set. I adhered them all using double adhesive foam tape.

Be sure to hop along the links below and leave a comment for and chance to win a £25 e-gift certificate to spend at Uniko. The winner will be announced on Monday,  June 2nd 2025, on the Uniko Blogspot.

Bev

Izzy

Julie 

Steph

Vinita (me)

Hopped along and linked up your projects at Coffee Lovers Paper Craft blog!

Happy crafting!

Celebrating 13 Years - Introducing Stencil Geometric Happy Birthday Day 1

Hello everyone! 

Happy  Sunday!

So today is the start of the New Release with a bang!

It is a beautiful Geometric Happy Birthday stencil. Perfect for Masculine cards, so quick and easy to make!!!

Here is my take on the stencil.........!

It is a 6"X6" white base card. I stencilled the geometric Happy Birthday sentiment in rainbow colors. I used salvaged patina, squeezed lemonade, abandoned coral, barn door, carved pumpkin, crushed olive, wilted violet, and picked raspberry DO.

I also added wonky stripes to match the Birthday sentiment using the wonky stripes stencil.

I love the Big, bold and beautiful look of the sentiment!

For more inspiration, take a look at Uniko.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie 

Steph

Vinita (me)

All the new products will be available from Friday 28th Feb.

Happy crafting!

June Masculine revisit

 Hello friends!

Happy Monday! 

Today I am at Uniko Blog with some new inspirations!  

I love this nautical stamp from Uniko, it is perfect for creating Masculine cards! 

Card 1

I inked the bottom edge of the card using Background Blocks splatter in various blue inks. Then, I created waves in circles using Background Builders" Round in circle stamp set and placed the Yacht in a wavy sea.

The compass stamp and a sentiment finished the card with simplicity!

Card 2

For this card, I came out of my comfort zone and created this simple card with a mix of patterns.

I created the bottom edge using Round in circle stamp set 2 times leaving some space to fill the red color in between. 

I stamped the Yacht and paper pieced it to create the pattern and placed a pattern paper strip on a red space too and was pleased with the result! The sentiment is from the same set.

Have a wonderful day!

Happy crafting!

MAY/JUNE Mini Reveal, Release and Blog Hop day with a giveaway at Uniko!

 Hello everyone!

Finally, Today is a release day with such fabulous products this time at Uniko!

I am so excited to showcase my cards using this new release with a unique concept that can be used in many ways!!

The newest Stencil: Flower Power #4 with heart-shaped petals in between made it so pretty, even it can be combined with the outline flower image with the Flower Power #4 clear stamp set!

The second one is the Bauhaus Blocks Clear Stamp set, featuring 5 blocks with sentiments and perfect for a Masculine card!

And the last one is Layering Bauhaus Blocks Builder having 3 layers. It is so versatile and easy to create with your own imagination and designs! You can create some unique patterns, CAS style even some complex geometric designs too with masking techniques!!

Assembled stencil design:

And time for some inspiration now.

Card 1

I combined the Flower Power stencil #4 with Nature Treasures die set and love the final outcome! Here are the steps of the masking technique and how I created this!

I used distressed inks and oxides for my color combination with a soft color palette.

And even added double hearts petals only with some dots for my flower Mandala and added some vellum leaves with a sentiment on a circle and voila done!

Card 2

The second one is using Bauhaus Blocks stamp set

For this, I removed only the sentiments and kept all the blocks for my card design, heat embossed it with Wow metallic rich Gold pale EP and watercolored the blocks using ZIG water brushes. And added the sentiment from the same set and adhered this panel to my card base.

Card 3

The next is using Layering Bauhaus Blocks Builder stencil. By using these stencils you can create so many graphic designs too!!

I used DO inks here and overlayed all 3 stencils one by one here. And added the sentiment from the same set, love the modern style font.

Card 4

This one is my favourite one and I love the final result I have achieved.

You can see the versatility of this stencil using only one layer of the stencils. 

Love the modern graphic look, isn't it!!

I made a grid first with my pencil as shown in the below pic.

Now masked my stencil to achieve my imagination for the bird patterns. I inked my grids with DO inks.

See the outcome. I added bird legs with watercolor brush, added a dot for the eyes and at the top created a sun. Finally finished it with a sentiment from Yes you, You are clear stamp set.

Don't you excited to create yours now.........!!! 

I am sure you are.......hurry and purchase yours before out of stock!

Be sure to leave comments on all blogs to win the entire release.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita- that's me

The winner will announce on the Uniko Blog on Saturday 10th June'23.

Bev will be live on the Uniko FB page tonight at 7 pm BST for the demo of how to use these stencils.

Supply List

Stamps: Bauhaus blocks, You are, yes you, Just because Clear stamp sets from Uniko

Stencils: Bauhaus blocks layering stencils, Flowe power #4 from Uniko

Die: Nature Treasures II from Uniko

Distress oxides: salvaged patina, mermaid lagoon, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, barn door, wilted violet, squeezed lemonade, rusty hinge

Distress inks: cracked pistachio, lucky clover, mermaid lagoon

Versafine: Onyx Black

Memento: Danube Blue, dandelion

Wow EP: Metallic Gold Rich Pale

The Adventure Begins!

 Hello to all!

Happy Saturday!

A Masculine theme card with a nautical version!

The background is created by a Gelli plate, distress inks and a brayer on a watercoloured panel. 

Added some water droplets to look more realistic for a cloudy sky and ocean scene. It is the first time I used the Gelli plate and love the results, made work more interesting with textures.

Now I used a sea waves stencil and applied an embossing pad using sponge dauber and heat embossed using Midnight dreams glitter powder for texture and giving a nice amount of movement!

Using Opaque bright white EP stamped the ship image. Added some seagulls because no trip to the ocean is complete without them flying by! Adhered the panel to a white panel. Tied a jute twine.

Now die cut some bamboo sticks, some seaweeds out of vellum sheets, navy blue CS, light blue CS and a Lighthouse, a ship wheel.  First I adhered silver coloured metal net and added all the elements along with a sentiment.

Supply List

Cardstocks: Whisper White CS, Navyblue CS, watercoloured CS

Vellum sheet

Stamps: Coastal stamp set from Inkadinkdoo; Lot 0005556 Stamp and cut set from Sizzix

Dies: Lighthouse from Poppy stamps; Stitched circle from Peekaboo designs; Bamboo sticks from Die-namites; leaves from Impression Obsessions

Stencil: Sea waves from Delta Creative

Distress Inks: salty ocean, faded jeans

Memento ink: Danube blue

Embossing Powders: Opaque Bright White and Midnight Dreams from Wow

White gel pen

Jute twine from Tim Holtz Ideology

Gelli Plate and brayer is from the Itsy Bitsy store

Would love to enter these fun challenges:

https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2021/04/challenge-45-and-winner-of-challenge-44.html

http://wowembossingpowder.blogspot.com/2021/04/teals-aquas-bluesoh-my-april-challenge.html

http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-showers.html- Inspired by clouds and ocean in the third pic to make my nautical scene!

https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-stencil-challenge.html#more

https://www.hndmd.com/articles/craftangles-monthly-challenge-april-2021/

https://nordsalten-hobbyklubb.blogspot.com/2021/04/194-bruk-stempler.html

https://kreativtanten-challenge.blogspot.com/2021/04/52-punkte-oder-streifen-dots-or-stripes.html
http://scrappelyst.blogspot.com/2021/04/grublis-for-april-geometriske-former.html