Uniko Challenge #41

Hello crafty friends it's that time again when we are announcing our latest challenge over at Uniko and The theme for this one is Masculine with the optional twist of  'Father's Day' and here's my card using the following Uniko sets; but not twisting this time:
Sweet Baby, BG Block - Half Tone and Simply Said for the 'welcome' sentiment

Over at Addicted to Stamps and More it's their 'Make Your Mark' challenge so I'd like to pop this on in there as well as Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where it's a little bit of sparkle so hopefully my sequins will count!

... and I can't resist a two-fer so while the sets were out I did a girlie one ... NOT for the challenge at all; just for the fun of it. I replaced the half-tone BG with the Doodle Flower one and coloured the centres with Promarkers.

... and it's a 'PINK' challenge over at Addicted to CAS so I'm popping this little feminine version in over there!

As always there's plenty of fantastic creations by my fellow teamies, so why not head over to the Uniko blog HERE to check out the links and pay them a visit! I'm sure they'd appreciate it!

                                                       

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Hannelie of Desert Diva who is one of our previous Uniko Challenge winners and an OUT-standing card maker. Do pop along and visit her blog and leave a friendly word and some love.

You have until Friday, 23rd June to link up to the challenge and all the details you need about prizes and how to play can be found over at Uniko HERE

As always thanks for calling by my blog today and I hope you feel inspired and will play along with us!

Uniko Challenge #40 - Reminder

Hi there, I'm back with a little reminder about our current challenge over at Uniko and the theme for this one is Spring with the optional twist of 'Easter'

This time I've teamed the Originally Organics with the Additions set that was recently released and done a little 'spot' colouring using pencils. I've used the same sentiment combo as my original challenge card; Simply Said Birthday and Some Bunny to do the Easter twist! 

As always there's plenty of fantastic creations by my fellow teamies, so why not head over to the Uniko blog HERE to check out the links and pay them a visit! I'm sure they'd appreciate it!

You have until Friday, 21st April to link up to the challenge and all the details you need about prizes and how to play can be found over at Uniko HERE

As always thanks for calling by my blog today and I hope you feel inspired and will play along with us!

Uniko Challenge #40

Hello crafty friends it's that time again when we are announcing our latest challenge over at 
Uniko
The theme for this one is Spring with an optional twist of Easter
Here's my card using one of the older but stunningly beautiful florals: Pure Florals - Gerbera. This would have to be my favourite Uniko bloom and although it's perhaps a little earlier in the year for Gerbera flowers here in the UK I've coloured it using Spring colours and to keep with the Easter twist I've combined a sentiment from Some Bunny with the 'Happy' from Simply Said birthday.

As always there's plenty of fantastic creations by my fellow teamies, 

so why not head over to the Uniko blog HERE to check out the links

and pay them a visit! I'm sure they'd appreciate it!

What's more we have 2 of our previous winners at Uniko Guest Designing for

this challenge. Their cards are real beauties so I hope you'll pop along and

pay them a visit. Here's the links you need for Marianne and Milka

You have until Friday 21st April to link up to the challenge and all the details you 

need about prizes and how to play can be found over at Uniko HERE

As always thanks for calling by my blog today and I hope 

you feel inspired and will play along with us!

Uniko Challenge #39

Hello friends, it's time to introduce you to our first challenge of 2017 over at
Uniko and it's an Anything Goes with the Optional Twist of LOVE
The Challenges are slightly different this year so please read on for the details but first here's my card using the beautiful Marvellous Mehndi set which I've  heat-embossed repeatedly in gold on red cardstock to create a background panel. 

Don't forget to pop across to the main Uniko blog HERE where you'll see 

snippets of my fellow teamies creations and links to their personal blogs too 

We're also joined by one of our previous winners this month;

Izzy of Izzy Scrap

is our Guest Designer for this challenge and I hope you'll pay her a visit

and leave some friendly feedback on her stunning cards.

Here's the all important prize information and you have until 

Friday, 24th February to play along and link up to the challenge.

Main Winner Chosen By the DT

 £25 eGift Certificate

Random Twist Winner

 £4 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of the Winners Choosing

Random Uniko Stamps Winner 

£4 In Stock Clear Stamp Set of the Winners Choosing

      Top 3 Chosen By DT - 150 Loyalty Reward Points

As always thanks for visiting my blog today and I'll catch up with you again soon. 
Have some crafty fun!

Uniko Challenge #32 - Reminder

Hi there friends I'm back with a little reminder for you as you've still time to enter our latest challenge at Uniko where the theme is 
Masculine Cards - With the option of Father's Day

Here's my card and I've used some inky blending with Distress Ink

in Peacock Feathers, a frame from Paper Smooches and the Sweet Baby

and Simply Said sets from Uniko to create my shaker card.

I hope you'll play along with us and all the links to my fellow teamies blogs

and details of prizes and how to win them can be found on the main 

Uniko blog HERE

We also have Tanya of Little Art Cottage who is our Guest Designer

for this challenge having won last month's challenge. I do hope you'll

head over to her blog and check out her awesome creations. 

It's an Anything Goes week at Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge

so I'd like to pop my card in there too.

Thanks as always for calling by and I'll be back tomorrow morning

with details of the latest challenge from Less is More. 

Uniko Challenge #32

Hello friends!
 It's time to announce this month's challenge over at Uniko and we are looking for  Masculine cards with the option of Father's Day!

Here I've used Background Builders Lattice and the Strike a Pose set

I love how the sentiments are on a film reel and I don't know why I 

don't use this set more often as it's got such fun and versatile stamps.

I hope you feel inspired to play along and there's more inspiration from

my fellow teamies on the main Uniko blog HERE plus you'll find 

all the details of prizes and what you have to do to win them!

We've also got a fantastic guest designer who won our challenge

last month and that's Tanya of Little Art Cottage I hope you'll pop 

across to her blog to leave some friendly words of encouragement.

As always thanks for calling by my blog, have fun and I'll be 

back tomorrow with details of the latest challenge from Less is More.

Uniko Challenge #27

Hello friends, it's time to announce the last challenge for 2015 over at Uniko today and our theme is
Christmas with an optional twist ... CAS
The latest release of sets from Uniko was last week so what better way to showcase them a little more but use them for our challenge which is what I've done, using Jingle bells  and Labelled Christmas.

Despite being a CAS girl at heart I've not exactly twisted on this one

but I wanted to create a background using those gorgeous poinsettias 

from the set and accessorised with some gold foliage. 

I hope you feel inspired to create and don't forget there's loads 

more gorgeous designs from my fellow teamies at Uniko HERE

You'll also find details of the challenge prizes too! 

Edit: You can tell it's THAT time of year ... I forgot to mention

our fantastic Guest Designer Duo for this challenge ...

I'm so excited to announce them ... we have Shona from Twine Around along 

with our winner from last month's challenge; Jen from The Other Fickle Pixie.

They've both made super-cool CAS cards for today so hope you'll 

pop along and leave some love on their blogs!

Finally I'm heading over to Simon Says Stamps - Wednesday Challenge

with this card as the theme is Christmas this week

Thanks as always for calling in today and I'll be back tomorrow

with challenge details for Less is More and Addicted to CAS a little later!

Uniko - Challenge #25 Reminder

Hi friends I'm here with little reminder of this month's challenge at
Uniko
The theme is Autumn with an optional twist of thanks and  you have until Friday, 2nd October to enter.
Here's my card using both new and original Natures Treasures sets with a sentiment from Pure Florals: Gerbera.

Once again there's more stunning makes from my fellow teamies

at Uniko and details are on the blog HERE plus we have the awesome

Ardyth of Maskerade and Pauline of Craft ObsessionObsession

are helping us out this time again so hope 

you'll stop by their blogs with some lovely comments. 

Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow

with the latest challenge from Less is More.

Uniko - Challenge #25

Hello friends,  just a little confusion here! 
Amidst all the excitement of new stamps on offer at Uniko this week  we've also got the latest challenge to introduce which is 
Autumn with an optional twist of 'Thanks'  

I've 'twisted' using another sentiment from All Occasion Sentiments #6

plus a little embossed leafy image from the set we are introducing today;

Natures Treasures II

I hope you find a little crafty time to join in this month's challenge

as there's prizes to be won of course and more superb inspiration from

my fellow teamies on the Uniko blog here plus all the details you need to enter!

... what's more

We are rolling out the 'red carpet' in true celebrity style for another

 A* talented crafter who is joining us as a guest designer this month!

I'm in AWE at being in the line-up with Ardyth of Maskerade  

as she offers such incredible inspiration with every card.

Pauline of Craft Obsession, another superbly talented card maker

is also joining us as a guest designer this month.

 I hope you'll pop across to both of their blogs to show your appreciation.

Thanks as always for calling by and I hope you'll call back

tomorrow for the latest challenge at Less is More followed by 

the full reveal, release and blog hop of the Uniko sets.

Uniko Challenge #23

Morning crafty pals it's time for a new challenge over at 

Uniko

and this month we are looking for Black and White

with an Optional Splash of another colour

I've used one of the latest release sets: Pure Florals Cosmos

and 'splashed' with shocking pink!

We've 2 super duper talented ladies guest designing for us this month

so please check out their blogs and leave them some friendly feedback

First up is one of my fellow teamies at Less is More, 

Anita of Neet & Crafty & secondly, JulieB from Handcrafted by Jules

I'm sure you'll have seen their brilliant creations in blogland, so to see their GD

cards and more inspiration from the DT why not head over to the Uniko blog HERE 

I hope you like what you see and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow

with a new challenge for Less is More too!

Uniko Studio - Challenge #22

Morning Crafty pals I'm here with a new challenge for Uniko 

along with a little Uniko news which you may or may not have heard!

Bev has been busy re-designing and re-branding the Uniko website 

so I hope you'll get time to take a good look around the new fresh look 

site HERE - there's even a brand new loyalty scheme for customers and 

as a result the challenge prizes have changed a little!

So ... read on for more details!

For this month's challenge we've got 

Anything Goes: optional twist - Masculine card

If you do 'twist' then there's an additional random draw - details below

Here's my card using several Uniko sets: 

Background Builders: Circles

All Occasion Sentiments #2 'Happy'

Simply Said Birthday 'Birthday'

I hope you get chance to play along and do remember there's more fabulous

inspiration from the design team; details over on the Uniko blog

AND, here's the important prize stuff you can look forward to if you join

 The Design Team will select a winner who receives a £10 gift voucher for Uniko

Our Top 3 will receive 50 Loyalty Reward Points added to their customer account.

The winner of our random draw for those who used a Uniko stamp 

will receive 150 Loyalty Reward Points added to their customer account.

The winner of our random draw for those who twist with us (masculine card) 

will receive 100 Loyalty Reward Points added to their customer account.

Before you race off to play we've got some additional inspiration from 

our guest designers for this challenge

Anita, My Papercraft World and Melissa, Honeybeelane

 If you've never visited their blogs before then please do as they have 

immense talent and I'm sure they'd love a friendly comment.

As always thanks for stopping by today and I'll be back 

tomorrow with another challenge from Less is More

Bye for now!

Uniko Studio - Challenge #21

Morning Crafty pals it's time for a new challenge at 

Uniko Studio

The theme is Flowers which ties in brilliantly with the

latest Flower Power set, released earlier this month.

We also have a birthday girl on the Design Team

 Beverley (Owner & Designer of Uniko) was celebrating yesterday

so this card will hopefully have found it's way to her door.

Card Recipe:

To begin with I've created a delicate wash using Tumbled Glass DI

onto Tim Holtz water-colour card before heat-embossing the outline florals

with Hero Arts Clear Sparkle embossing powder. 

The flowers are painted in Scattered Straw, Worn Lipstick and Wild Honey.

A 'Happy' die from Hero Arts is inlaid into the circular panel and then mounted on 3d foam.

 The 'birthday' is from Uniko Studio: Classic Numbers set

I hope you'll get chance to play along and do remember there's more fabulous

inspiration from the design team; details over on the Uniko Studio blog

We've got some extra super talent for this challenge too from 

Jane, Purplejetlovescrafts and Carol, JustMeC

These 2 ladies are loyal Uniko Studio followers and certainly

know how to showcase the sets so if you've never visited them before

please make sure you do and leave them some love.

As always thanks for popping in to view my cards

and I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge from 

Less is More

Bye for now!

Uniko Studio Challenge #20 - Reminder

Morning Friends

Today I've a little nudge and reminder for the 

Uniko Studio Challenge

The theme is - Things with Wings 

and you have until 8am GMT on Friday 1st May to link up.

Here's my 'winged' card for you.

So my New Years resolution was to enter the Merry Monday

Christmas card challenge every week to alleviate the stress

of rapid Christmas card making in December.

Guess what ... I didn't enter last week!!! 

Arrrgh! I couldn't find vintage Christmas in my stash!

So I've made one here instead ... am I forgiven?

Card Recipe:

Uniko Studio: Peace on Earth & Simply Said Christmas

Distress inks, sponged then splattered & flicked with water!

I'm hoping it looks like a winter night sky with snow at the base

Our talented Guest Designers for this month

Elaine from Craft-E-Place and Michelle from Amusing Michelle

have each produced a reminder card along with the Design Team

so please head across to the Uniko Studio Blog for full details 

and how you can win some fabulous prizes.

Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow 

with the latest challenge from Less is More

Uniko Studio Challenge #20

Morning all it's time for a new challenge over at  Uniko Studio
Now did I hint about a possible theme in my revisit post? I knew there was something going on!!!
Anyway we are looking for  Things with Wings
so here's my card, using BRIGHT Butterflies and  some Hero Arts Ombre inks and although I've had them a few weeks now this was my FIRST experiment with them. The sentiment is from the Simply Said Birthday set.

Before you put ink to paper please pop across to the Uniko Blog HERE

for more inspiration and a sneaky peek at the DT cards.

We also have two very talented crafty guests designing this month

Elaine from Craft-E-Place and Michelle from Amusing Michelle

Your seriously NEED to pop across and check out their blogs

they are both AMAZING and would love a comment if you are passing.

So before you head off to grab your 'winged' stamps here's

 the details you need to be in with a winning chance of some prizes ...

The DT will choose a winner to receive a £20 Gift Voucher for 

Uniko Studios plus be invited to Guest Design for our next challenge.

The DT will also choose a top 3 and all will receive a £5 gift voucher.

If you do use a Uniko stamp we'll use the random selector

to select our £10 gift voucher winner

You have until Friday May 1st at 8am GMT to link up.

Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow 

with the latest challenge from Less is More

Uniko Studio Challenge #19

Morning all it's time for another challenge at Uniko Studio.

BUT ... first of all I'd like to introduce you to a new member of the Design Team

 Sarah Gray of  Funky Fossil Designs

she's hugely talented and if you've not already visited her blog you NEED to!

So onto the challenge details ... and the theme is

 Anything Goes - with the option of the sketch below

... and if you do use the sketch there's the chance of an additional prize 

as your card will be entered into a random draw for a £10 Uniko Studio voucher.

Here's my card using the sketch very loosely!

I was blown away by the stunning flowers in the photo inspiration

over at Fusion - it's a challenge I love to enter but sometimes there

just isn't enough hours in the week but this time it had to be done!

The Beautiful Blooms II set from Uniko seemed the perfect choice.

Before you race off to ink up those stamps please drop by 

the Uniko blog HERE for more details and links to the Design Team.

They'd all love a comment and I'm sure you'll be impressed with their cards.

We are also very lucky to have TWO Guest Designers for this challenge

Amy and Emily

If you zip across to their blogs I'm sure you'll find more fabulous inspiration.

Are you still with me?

Because here's the details you need to be in with a winning chance ...

The DT will choose a winner who will get a £20 Gift Voucher for Uniko Studios 

plus be invited to be a Guest Designer for our next challenge.

The DT will also choose a top 3 and all will get  £5 gift voucher.

Time to get stamping. You have until Friday April 3rd at 8am GMT to link up.

Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow

with the latest challenge from Less is More

Uniko Studio: Challenge #18 Reminder

Hi Blog buddies I'm back with a gentle reminder 

as there's still time to enter the current challenge over at

Uniko Studio.

It's a birthday themed one and isn't that what we are best at?

So don't delay, craft away, link up and play!

Card Recipe:

Uniko Studio: Beautiful Blooms II, Simply Said Birthday

& Classic Numbers

Doodlebug: Design Paper

Gems from Papermania and a Winking of Stella to the flowers

Don't forget to pop over to the Uniko Studio blog for more inspiration 

from the Design team

We also have a fantastic Guest Designer this month too

Tracy (In My Creative Opinion)

Please stop by their blogs and leave some encouraging feedback

Here's the challenge details you need to be in with a chance of winning ...
The DT will select a winner who will receive a £20 Gift Voucher for Uniko Studio plus an invite to Guest Design for our next challenge.
The DT will also choose a Top 3 and each will receive a £5 Gift Voucher.
It's not essential but if you do use a Uniko Studio stamp then your card will be entered into a randomly selected draw to win a £10 Gift Voucher.

Thanks as always for stopping by and looking forward

to more crafty inspiration from you this week.

I'll be back tomorrow morning with my Less is More

post and another new challenge for you to get your teeth into.

Uniko Studio: Challenge #18

It's time for another Challenge at Uniko Studio  and in line with the latest 'Birthday' release stamps you may guess the theme!
BIRTHDAYS
and we all love those so come on join in and have some fun.
This year I've a few 70th birthdays to prepare cards for so here's  the first one for my M-I-L from the kids.

Card Recipe:

Uniko Studio: Balloon Bash, Classic Numbers

& Strike A Pose (previously released)

MFT Die-Namics fishtails flags

You won't want to miss out on any super duper inspiration from the 

DT so please check skip over HERE for more details

We also have the amazing, super talented, wonderful 

Tracey McNeely of In My Creative Opinion guest designing this month

so please pop across and see her take on the challenge.

Here's the challenge details you need to be in with a chance of winning ...
The DT will select a winner who will receive a £20 Gift Voucher for Uniko Studio plus an invite to Guest Design for our next challenge.
The DT will also choose a Top 3 and each will receive a £5 Gift Voucher.
It's not essential but if you do use a Uniko Studio stamp then your card will be entered into a randomly selected draw to win a £10 Gift Voucher.

Thanks for stopping by and I'm so looking forward to seeing 

your creations. We had such a wonderful response to last month's 

challenge so lets see if we can beat it this time. 

2 FOR 1 CHRISTMAS CARDS

Happy Tuesday and hope your week is going well. I'm back with another non-traditional coloured Christmas card. I was very resourceful when making this and used the snippety bits and bobs  to make a second card!
The colour combo of black, white and pink is one of my favourites  so thought I'd try it out for Christmas 

I'd like to enter the current Uniko Studio Challenge 

'Anything Goes with / without the Sketch'

I've tried to keep to the basic sketch and used a few Uniko products too.

I'm also entering this at Timeout Challenges (2nd entry)

as I've used sparkle and embossed my sentiment in white 

   

Card Recipe for both cards: 

Memory Box floral die

Uniko Studio snowflake die

MFT Die-Namics sentiment strips

Sentiment: Uniko Studio

Pink Pearlised card - Grosvenor House Papers

Glitter Card: DCWV

This card is basically the same but using all the left-overs 

from the Memory Box die so I'd like to enter this one

at Pixies Snippet Playground

and a second entry for Inkspirational

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and I'll be back soon.