January 2026 Reveal, Release, Brand Ambassador Hop & Giveaway

 Hello everyone!

Happy Sunday!

It's officially here: the January 2026 Release is available on the Uniko website.

First, a little formal introduction...

Background Builders: Mid Century Modern £11.50

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

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Block Party Love £11.50

Copyright Uniko Ltd 2012 - To Date

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As you can see, how versatile all these awesome designs are! Perfect for Spring and Valentine's cards!

So, my take on these :

Card 1

For my first card, I am showcasing Layered Bauhaus Spring background Builder stencils.

For my card panel, I used Kitsch flamingo, Majestic violet, Evergreen bough and Prize ribbon Archival inks. The sentiment is from the Big & Bold Love stamp set.

Card 2

This card works for a Heart Day and is a card to tell someone how much you love them! I love the quarterly hearts, so many variations you can use.

First, on a white card panel, I used Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Twisted Citron, Mermaid, Lagoon, and Wilted Violet DO inks.

Then I flipped the stencil, and I applied Unicorn Dreams Texture paste. I love the pastel look.

To finish off this card, I settled on the large outlined sentiment, "Happy Heart Day," from the You Are the Outlined Sentiments stamp set. I love the font, and I really liked how this sentiment filled up the card a little more with the playfulness of the textured background!

Card 3

This stamp set has stolen my heart! This set contains a mix of fonts, styles and different sizes of sentiments, my favourite now till date!

I love the striking black with just a pop of colour.

This is a one-layer CAS card. I watercolored the Bold Be Mine sentiment and xoxo word using my ZIG watercolor brushes. And highlighted the hearts, lips and rose in red.

For a softer impact, I added a vellum scalloped heart over a red heart as an embellishment.

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Be sure to head over to the Uniko blog and hop along with Uniko Brand Ambassadors for more inspiration.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Natalie

Steph

Vinita (me)

This January's new release will definitely bring sweetness to any project!

Be sure to comment along the way for your chance to win a £20 eGift Certificate to spend in store. The winner will be announced on Monday, 9th February 2026.

Happy crafting!

Introducing... Block Party Love Stamp

 Hello everyone!

Happy Friday!

Welcome to the final day 4: Introducing the Block Party Love stamp from Uniko!

The stamp set is so amazing with retro vibes and can be used in various techniques and styles. I love the various and cute elements included in this set with super stylish fonts! Perfect for making large and quick cards in one go!

Let's have a look at it in action.

On a textured white card base, I stamped the full set using the Wow Opaque Bright White EP, except the lips and heart image and heat-embossed it. Then I blended kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry and barn door DO inks in an ombre look to highlight the stamped image.

The lips and heart image is stamped using Wow Carousel embossing glitter, heat-embossed, and fussy-cut, both parts. I mounted it in the space using double adhesive tape. I watercoloured some of the images using a pink glitter water brush.

Don't you love the outcome? It's so cute!

Now, time for more inspiration by Uniko Brand Ambassadors at Uniko.

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Natalie

Steph

Vinita (me)

All the products will be available at 9 a.m. GMT, and we will have our release day hop tomorrow.

Happy crafting!

Introducing... Stencil - Ink & Flip Heart Pattern

Hello everyone!

Happy Wednesday! 

Welcome to Day 2: Introducing Ink & Flip Heart Pattern stencil from Uniko, a new addition to this beautiful series!

Today's card features the Ink & Flip Heart Pattern, as we approach Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day pattern card with geometric elements and symbols!

Let’s have a look at the stencil in action…

This card is also fit for the masculine Valentine. It's giving an impression of chocolate in heart shapes. It is great as a plain textured background, and I really love the colour combo on it and fun to create with a variety of colors.

I played with Walnut stain, abandoned coral, salvaged patina, and Speckled egg DO inks. And highlighted this panel with a vellum die cut heart and xoxo die cut sentiment in glittery silver complete this beautiful card.

I hope you enjoyed this card!

Anita

Bev

Izzy

Julie

Natalie

Steph

Vinita (me)

Thank you for joining us today, and I hope you will come back tomorrow for the next product introduction. All the products being introduced will be available at 9am GMT on Saturday, 31st January.

Happy crafting!

Gingerbread men and coffee this Christmas!

Hello everyone!

Happy Friday!

I fell in love with this great card full of delicacy!

I stamped a pair of coffee cups using jet black archival ink and ground espresso distress ink, and clear embossed both before drying them for some shine. Now watercolored the bottom part of the cups and fussy cut both the cups. 

Die cut some snowflakes and gingerbread in chocolate brown, and some glittered green pine boughs.

 

I embossed a white panel in half with a Christmas sentiment.

Now I decorated my panel with all these elements, as well as some tiny gold stars and tiny hearts.

Some close-ups:

It's hard to lift a card as beautiful as it is sweet!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Cardstocks: Kraft, chocolate brown and whisper white CS

Glitter sheet: Light green

Stamps: Hello coffee stamp set from STAMPlorations and sentiment is from Holly Jolly set from Little Birdie Brand

Dies: Pine boughs from Poppy stamps; Christmas Dies set of 3, Christmas set of 5 dies and Christmas trees from DMC brand

Embossing Folder: stars from Itsy Bitsy

Archival Inks: Jet Black

Distress Ink: Ground espresso

Embossing Powder: Clear from Tim Holtz brand

ZIG real brushes

white gel pen

Embellishments: little stars and hearts from DMC Brand

would love to join these fun challenges:

https://letssquashit.blogspot.com/2022/11/lets-squash-it-challenge-26-make.html

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2022/11/2022-fall-winter-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2022/11/hot-beverages.html

https://girlzcreativecrafts.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-31-kerstwinter.html
https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/abc-christmas-challenge-w-andor-x.html

 

Lifetime of Vintage (Romance) Love!

 Hello everyone!

Happy Monday!

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." - Elinor Glyn

Today's project is inspired by this awesome quote!

When one hears the word romance thought of love! Love just makes everything better.

Romance is most certainly an ardent emotional attachment between people, but it can also be the beauty and love you show to yourself. Romance can exist in the sweet, mundane, everyday sorts of things you do for yourself and for others.

Adding everyday romance to your life by getting fresh flowers, spritzing on your favourite fragrance, wearing things you adore and feel wonderful in, singing aloud to your favourite songs, enjoying a cup of coffee or tea from a beloved cup, enjoying your life full of laughter, making your life feel special and divine and making each day have a bit more sparkle to it.

Romance your life and turn that everyday dust into your own, golden haze. You are worth it! Live like there is no tomorrow!!!

https://www.morethanwordschallenge.com/2022/05/announcing-our-april-2022-winners.html

So here I representing my journal page Vintage love!

Hope you enjoyed the process!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Cardstocks: Whisper White CS

Paper Pack: Wanderer Collection 6"x 6" from CrafTangles

Stamps:  People of India from CrafTangles; Alphabet sets from Studio g

Stencil: Quilted Hearts from CrafTangles

Dies: Heart Wreath, Leaves and Flowers set of 5 from Craftadda

Liquid Watercolors: Evergreen, oh fudge from CrafTangles

Texture Paste: Gold from CrafTangles

 Sticker Rolls: Pretty Plaids  from CrafTangles

Element Pack: Vintage Tags 1 and Vintage Ephemeras 1 from CrafTangles

Transparent Sticker sheets: Journal words 1 from CrafTangles

Mixed Media Essentials: Foil Magic from CrafTangles

Gilding flakes: Golden Dust from CrafTangles

Distress Oxide: Hickory Smoke

Crochet Trim: Collection I from Inspired By Stamping

Wood Veneer: People, arrow and camera from 

Jute burlap, jute thread and corrugated people saying, textured  glittered sheet from my stash

Would love to join these fun challenges:

https://www.hndmd.com/articles/craftangles-monthly-challenge-2022-april- I reused a burlap piece from a jute cloth, and a corrugated sentiment from a banner tag

https://www.morethanwordschallenge.com/2022/04/april-2022-main-challenge-vintage.html

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-i-love.html- I love Art Journalling these days!

https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2022/04/april-stamp-of-moment.html- The moment my fave stamp is People of India

https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-57-and-winner-of-challenge-56.html

Winter house

 Hi and welcome!

Happy Saturday!

Today's card is inspired by a winter night scene with a new loving home.

https://christmas-craft-creations.blogspot.com/2022/02/winners-post-january-stencilling.html

The cute house is so adorable and really stand out against the winter snow stencilling background.

 For the background, I started by masking the area and blended some distress inks. I applied some embossing paste using a stencil. For the house, I stamped it in archival ink and watercolored it.

 The windows and snow on the house were coated with some liquid shimmer watercolor to add a bit of shimmer which is a really pretty soft silvery-pearl look. Die-cut some trees and added that house with foam tape with some Smoke hearts. Added a very thin strip of navy blue CS stripe on both sides.

The sentiment is from another stamp set and fits nicely in the available space.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy crafting!

Supply List

Cardstocks: whisper white and navy blue CS

Stamps: House image-You make my heart spin set from MFT stamps; sentiment is from In This House stamp set - Technique Tuesday

Stencil: star-field stencil from Newton's Nook

Dies: Winter trees from Crafters Corner

Distress inks: tumbled glass, stormy sky, faded jeans, blueprint sketch, black soot

Archival ink: shadow grey

ZIG watercolor brushes

Liquid shimmer watercolor: shooting star from CrafTangles

Tonic studio Glass Media Mat from CrafTangles

Texture paste: white from CrafTangles

Would love to join these fun challenges:

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-ag-with-stamping-and-option-add.html

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/week-659-add-heart.html

https://christmas-craft-creations.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-challenge-stencilling.html

https://aaacards.blogspot.com/2022/01/aaa-cards-challenge-206-moodboard.html

https://colorfuloptions.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-2022.html

https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-77-winter-wonderland.html

There's always time for tea!

Hello to all!

Happy Friday!

I am so excited as the fun has already begun at Winter Fall / Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2021 hosted by Talented Amy and the team!

Each morning I started my day with a cup of ginger masala tea. I love waking up in the morning and sitting down with a hot cup of tea before beginning my day!

When I saw this stamp set from Uniko I recently added ut into my stash. My mind started imagining all the possibilities with this set and couldn't wait to use it!

This is the first card that I made for this coffee lovers hop. I love the colors and artistic look I used on this card.

I made different patterns on my cups. I started by stamping the three-cup in all and heat embossing using opaque bright white EP. Fussy cut them all On the first one I added some DO ink and added some pattern with a sentiment, heat embossed in metallic gold.

On the second cup I applied some acrylic chalk paints with my palette knife and added a heat embossed heart in white.

And on the third one, I applied some DO ink and added some splatters using a stencil.

Now on my focal panel I slightly added some stripes in very fade pink ink.

And added that panel to my card base adhered all the stacks of cups with dimension.

I stacked the cups. added some hearts and finished off with placing a die-cut border before placing the cups.

I think it's time for another cuppa tea. I will be posting a couple more cards from this set in the next few days.

I am hoping these artistic cups have cool look and brighten your day and inspire your creativity today!

Happy crafting!

Supply list

Cardstock: Snippets of Whisper White CS

Stamp: I love Tea clear stamp set from Uniko; Timber transpareate texture stamp from Prima

Stencils: Texture splatters from Memory Box; stripes from Tim Holtz

Dies: Rectangles from tattered lace die set; from DCAM store

Embossing powders: Opaque bright white; Gold Rich Pale from WOW

Distressed Oxides: Crushed olive and Picked raspberry

Distress inks: Abandoned coral, blueprint sketch, ground espresso

Chalk Acrylic paints: Texas blue from crafting fly; Buttermilk and Mango crush from Itsy Bitsy

Ink blending brush

Glossy accent

Heart Droplets: from Crafters Corner

Would love to play these fun challenges:

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2021/11/2021-fall-winter-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2021/11/caffeine-fueled-paper-play-3/

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2021/11/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-153.html