Uniko - 7th Birthday Blog Hop & Linky Party

Hey there friends are you ready for some birthday fun?

Uniko is celebrating it's 7th Birthday this month and we're inviting you to join our Linky Party and Design team Blog Hop which will be open throughout this month, closing on 28th February at 11.59pm (GMT).

Here's my card using the Chrysanthemum Stencil and a couple of sentiments from the Birthday Sentiments set.

All you need to do is visit each of the team following the links below and comment on their birthday cards and if you want to join the linky party too then create a card using Uniko products as the main focus and link it up.

All the details you need about prizes and how to link up can be found on the Uniko site HERE so what are you waiting for!!!

Let's hop along and have some fun. Here's the order to follow but if you get lost along the way just head back to Bev (Uniko) at the top.

Bev
Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie
Linda

Lindsey

Rahmat
Sarah G

Sarah P - That's Me!
Wiebke 

Good luck and thanks for calling by. 

Uniko - 6th Birthday Treasure Hunt!

Hi there, we're having a Treasure Hunt Hop over at Uniko to celebrate the 6th birthday of this wonderful, UK-based little stamp company. Over the 6 years Uniko has produced 104 clear stamp sets between 2012-2017. 
As well as providing some exciting inspiration using some of those 104 sets the aim of our Treasure Hunt Hop is to add a little extra fun to your day by asking you to hunt out the NAMES and YEARS of RELEASE of the 12 featured stamp sets in the blog hop. 
Joining Bev and the Design Team in the HOP are some awesome Special Guests, with each person having been assigned a particular stamp set to feature in their post. Easy-peasy eh ... just jot down the stamps and year of release for all 12 sets and email the list to Bev! You could be one of our lucky winners.
So let's get started as I've 6 cards to share (1 for each birthday year ... and because I got carried away with the birthday fun!) I'm showcasing a set from May last year called: Background Blocks: Doodle Flower
     These first 2 were heat-embossed in white onto coloured cardstock, with the flower centres coloured using coloured pencils. I've also added some little dots on all my cards for some extra detail. 

Next up the Background Block was heat-embossed in gold before colouring the flowers with Promarkers, with a couple of flower heads fuzzy-cut to use as embellishments around the frame.

The next 2 have the Background Block heat-embossed in white onto vellum then adhered onto water-coloured panels. The vellum softens the colour of the watercolours and adds a little elegance I think!

This time I've added some colour-coordinated pearls, from my stash, to the flower heads

Last but not least ... let's get this party going with a nice and easy panel created by stamping the Background Block twice then colouring some of the detail in brightly coloured Promarkers with a

wide sentiment flag popped up on 3d foam for dimension and to hide the join between the 2 blocks.

Additional items used on my cards are: 

Waffle Flower: 'celebrate' word die

STAMPlorations: 'Happy' word die 

MFT Die-Namics: Insta-Frame Die & Fishtail Flags Stax

Uniko Sentiments: 'Let's Party' / 'Your Day' / 'Birthday' - from a soon to be released set of birthday sentiments 

I hope you've enjoyed my inspiration with this set and here's the Blog Hop list to follow. Details of prizes can be found on the main Uniko blog HERE so head on over there for the information.  

Bev
Carol 

Deborah 
Izzy 

Jane 
Julie
Lindsey

Rahmat
Sarah G

Sarah P - That's Me!
Wiebke

Enjoy the party and have some fun!

Catch up again soon.

 

Happy Birthday Sandie!

Morning friends and it's another birthday post! This one's for another special blog buddy who is celebrating a BIG one this year!  I'm sure you'll all know Sandie of London Days but if not head across to her blog  as you are missing of treat of CAS delights!
In honour of Sandie's special day, Kylie of Happy Little Stampers,  Kylie is Addicted to Stamps, Addicted to CAS and Addicted to Stamps & More has kindly agreed to host a linky party for 2 weeks to give us all chance to  make a card for Sandie and link up to the party. I hope you'll join us
HERE
To be honest Kylie has been so busy moving house that I wasn't sure she'd get round to hosting the party plus my idea for Sandie's card coincided with the  theme at this week's Addicted to CAS challenge so my 'actual' card for her can be found HERE but just for good measure I thought I'd make another one using bright, breezy and cheery colours to celebrate the occasion!

This one uses the Sunburst set from Clearly Besotted using 

Ranger Dye Inks and a white embossed sentiment from Uniko.

Congratulations Sandie, have a fabulous birthday and here's wishing

you many happy returns and a wonderful 50th year.

Thanks so much for calling by and enjoy the party!

Happy Birthday Sandie

Morning Craft buddies ... no your watches aren't wrong! I'm sneaking in with an early post before  Less is More goes live to let you in on a little secret ....
We have a blog buddy birthday to celebrate today for Sandie of London Days 

Sandie and I have become quite close 'cyber' friends since ending up on 2  design teams together, but as well as these teams she's the administrator  on loads of others. While we are all busy cutting and sticking  she's organising challenges, blog posts, badges, photos and  generally keeping us all in the loop and organised.

So behind her back ...  the queen of challenges and watermarks Kylie Purtell  'little' me and funky and fabulous Sarah of Funky Fossil Designs got our heads together to organise a linky birthday party  in honour of this super talented, fun, and special lady. 
Here's my card for Sandie and it's cringe-worthy! I made it for a GDT post but couldn't bring myself to use it a few weeks ago. I seem to have lost the knack (if I ever had it) of using patterned papers and layers BUT just for a laugh with Sandie, who equally dreads patterns and layers  here it is ....
The sentiment says it all!

I then decided to add a few more elegant and CAS touches ;-)

just for the fun of it and here's the revised version winging it's way to Sandie!

We'd like to invite you to join the party fun and help to make Sandie  feel extra-special on her day by making a card and linking up at the party.
Here's the link and it's hosted at Kylie's blog  Kylie is Addicted to Stamps  because she's brilliant at this kind of thing ... and ... Sarah and I 'crushed' her until she said YES! Linky Party Link
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my post and hope you'll join our birthday party for Sandie soon.
I will be back later with details of the Less is More Challenge  so you can turn over and nap for another hour!