Uniko Revisit: Stunning Snowflakes

Hello friends, have we got an icy, crisp, and wonderfully Christmas revisit in store for you over at Uniko this month. Bev has asked us to  'dig out', dust down and bring the Stunning Snowflakes sets back into the limelight! I can't think of a better time to showcase these beauties in the run up to the holiday period ... so here goes!

I recently bought some of the new sets of Altenew inks and I wanted to play  around with some different colour combos that I wouldn't normally put together  at Christmas or ever! Looking at them now though it's as if I've just dipped in  for the Uniko trademark colour scheme when that never crossed my mind! LOL! 
I started out by creating a BG of Stunning Snowflakes with a few extras to  accessorise from other Christmas sets. The sentiment is from  'Labelled Christmas'  set (released last year) mounted on fun foam against a die-cut snowflake also by Uniko. 
I'd like to link this one up at a couple of Holiday challenges ... Kylie's 12 days of Christmas Card challenge
I'll be joining Kylie tomorrow so hope you'll pop back then and pay us a visit

and Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge  ICE INSPIRATION

Having recently joined in with Tracey McNeely's 

and with all the bits and bobs on my desk I decided to make some extra gift tags to match this card!

... and one more - slightly 'less busy' example using the same flakes!

For this one I heat embossed the the Stunning Snowflakes with silver pearl

EP onto vellum. There's a torn edge on one side and a turquoise piece of vellum 

to trim the panel on the left. The sentiment from the Stunning Snowflakes set is also 

heat embossed onto turquoise vellum before mounting on card and 3d foam.

To finish a few gems from my stash.

I hope you like how I've showcased this beautiful set and there's plenty 

more fun designs by my fellow teamies with links on the Uniko blog HERE

As is the tradition there's a blog hop giveaway; the prize being the featured set

or a gift card to the same value. You have until Sunday, 18th December to leave 

your comments and be in with a chance of winning a prize.

Here's the order and if you get lost along the way just head back to Uniko

Bev

Deborah

Jane

Lindsey

Rahmat

Sarah G

Sarah P (that's me)

Before I leave you to hop here's the image of the set and as always thanks

for visiting my blog today and I wish you lots of luck on the hop!

Less is More Challenge #306

Morning friends, are you ready for another challenge from Less is More? Are you all Christmassed out with festive challenges? 
This week it's our 'dreaded' ONE LAYER CARD week and the theme for this one is Outlines so you can go festive or not - however you please so long as it's clean and simple and on the one layer! 
Here's mine and it's a two-fer using the same image on both from the recently released  Marvellous Mehndi set by Uniko but heat embossed on different cardstocks.  I can't decide which I prefer ... what about you?
The sentiments are from the very newly released Most Wonderful and Simply Said II

It's the 'holiday' challenge over at Addicted to Stamps & More

so I'd like to head over there with this one 

Also Kylie's 12 Days of Christmas Cards HERE

I'm delighted to be sharing a card with Kylie on Monday so 

hope you'll pop back and pay us a visit then!

Don't forget to head over to the main Less is More blog HERE where you'll find all the links to my fellow teamies blogs and catch  up on their wonderful outline cards too.
Hope you'll play along and have some fun.

ICY LOLLIES AND CHRISTMAS ....

Happy Saturday all and thank you for your lovely comments about the 200th celebration of LIM  and my new Auntie status! Unfortunately I'm in a tizz with days and dates at the moment  and in fact my sister is booked in for this Tuesday (9th)! What a dummy I am but your comments are much appreciated. So onto this week's challenge and ... I dread asking if you are ready for Christmas ...  as I'm still frantically cutting and sticking to make my  Christmas cards for this year and  wrapping presents - haven't even started!!! This week we have a colour challenge for you at  Less is More  ... so if you are disorganised like me you could twist  these colours around for Christmas as I've done! Here's my cards

Card Recipe

Uniko Studio: Snowflake Dies & Sentiment (heat-embossed on vellum)

Cuttlebug: Embossing folder

Gems from my stash

I'd like to enter this card at

Kylie's Christmas Card Challenge

(in case you don't know, Kylie recently did the artwork for my 

blog header, signature and water mark and she also administers

several challenges including Addicted to CAS & Addicted to Stamps

A quick edit here thanks to Sandie who reminded me the 

Uniko Studio challenge is still live so I'm going to

Head over there to enter this one.

Having received some new goodies from the latest Uniko Studio 

release I couldn't wait to try them out so this card uses the following sets:

Simply Said Christmas

Background Builders Vines - Winter Additions

Rustic Christmas 

Dies: MFT Die-namics pierced rectangles

Spellbinders nesties - labels

To add the essential Christmas bling I've added

glossy accents, wink of stella and pearls

I'd like to enter this one at Addicted to Stamps & More

where it's a Clean & Simple week

This is a really cheeky, CAS and quick one for mass production!

Using Mama Elephant: Landscape Trio dies for a 'pelmet' effect

a strip of foil card from DCWV

Uniko Studio: Simply Said & Rustic Christmas sets

Doodlebug sprinkles and gems for baubles

I'm going to pop this one in at Simon Says Stamp

where the theme is Christmas / Holiday card

I'm creating Christmas cards like a maniac now as you can tell!

This one uses some other Uniko Studio images from last year's 

Christmas set: Peace on Earth

I've used the same technique as shown a few weeks ago here

using glossy accents to resist the Distress Inks

 A little bakers twine from my stash and matted using 

MFT Die-namics pierced rectangles.

I'd like to enter this one in the Merry Monday challenge

which features birds this week.

Last but not least

I've used 'snippets' of glitter and textured cardstock to create the

diagonal striped panel, word die and sentiment from Clearly Besottted

with gems from my stash.

... and as I've used 'snippets' it would be rude not to head over

to Pixies Snippet Playground if I've time to dash in under the gates!

Well you certainly enjoyed the celebrations challenge last week 

full of AMAZING creations and superb inspiration.

Amongst your comments and blog posts there were some very special

and heartfelt words about Less is More. It made me feel quite emotional

reading them and so honoured to be part of the team despite not having 

been here from the start as a lot of you obviously have.

Thanks for your continued support and looking forward to 

this week's 'icy' creations on your blogs.

Thanks as always for stopping by