Lots of birthdays!

 Hi everyone!

There are lots of birthdays happening at the moment, including Bev at Uniko,

who designed this birthday scramble stamp which is so versatile.

Allsorts challenge blog is having a huge 17th birthday celebration,

where I’ll be entering this …..

I’m trying to use the lovely papers I have in my stash…you know, the ones that are too good to use!

All the papers are retired SU, always lovely quality.

I’m hoping you can see the gold veins….its lush and vibrant.

This one is slightly darker. I coloured them with SU blend pens in different greens.

Coordinating SU cardstock used for the card base.

This one is bright white and silver foil, (the camera does lie🙄),

Coloured with blue SU blends, placed on a turquoise card base.

Lastly a thick speciality SU cardstock with silver foiled stripes, which I used as the card base.

All the papers started out 12” x 12”

I stamped it with silver embossing powder, then layered onto a silver foil card snippet.

It was a fairly quick and simple card making session for upcoming male birthdays.

Do join in the celebrations at Allsorts Challenge #850,

where there’s an abundance of fabulous prizes!

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Background Blocks Birthday Scramble

 Hello there, today I’m sharing a couple of cards using a new to me stamp from Uniko,

Background Blocks Birthday Scramble.

It’s as fabulous as the Christmas one, easy to colour in, paper piece etc.

One of my friends avoids colouring in as she is never happy with the end result,

so these cards are an alternative way to add colour…

Onto the Birthday Scramble stamp, inked in black,

I stamped balloons in shades of greeny blue, (or bluey green 😃),

using Uniko Balloon Bash, layered onto lost lagoon cardstock (SU).

This one I’m taking to the All sorts challenge #849, monochrome or AG

I used Uniko stencil Abstract Triangles to colour this one, using SU inks in blue, green, orange, purple.

The piece of white card I used didn’t quite fit, 

so I added a couple of strips of blue and orange top and bottom.

I’m taking this to the Snippets Playground #532 

as the white topper was a big scrap, and the strips were skinny scraps!

I often forget to visit My NBUS, where we can share our new stash,

and both the scramble and balloon sets are new, never before used,

so I’m taking this to NBUS challenge #86

Here’s a pic of both….

Allsorts are having a birthday celebration soon….so do share the news..

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Mid century modern tree

 I saw Bev of Uniko make a modern Christmas tree, and decided to try one.

My craft room and my mind are in a bit of a mess with Christmas crafting, and family stuff,

so I wanted to make it quickly. 

It didn’t go quite to plan, but I ended up using scrap copy paper to mask a triangle,

then stamped Background Blocks Mid Century Modern.

Ink blended the shape, added a gift for the tree base from Mid Century Modern Christmas 

I added sparkly Opal Rounds from SU, and some old red ribbon,

after die cutting with a large tag die from Studio Light.

I couldn’t decide on a sentiment.

I’m entering Tag-along and ATC challenge (red and green)

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Uniko baubles

 A card experiment with some geometric designs from Uniko, to create Christmas baubles.

I saw someone else’s design using these stamps, but do you think I can find it?!

I used Flower Power 1 stamps for the “poinsettias” at the corners, and on one bauble.

The strings and circles were from Uniko’s round in circles.

Sentiment from Inkylicious Christmas Wishes.

We Love Stamping is asking for red and green, do join in if you can, there’s always fabulous prizes,

and lots and lots of wonderful inspiration.

As it’s the first inking up of all the stamps, I’m popping over to MyNBUS.#81

Have a good weekend

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Flower Garden Trio from Uniko

 I was delighted with this new to me Flower Garden set from Uniko

(Originally Organic Flower Garden)

The owner Bev and her team always come up with fabulous designs to inspire.

Incidentally she has a free postage and special offer this weekend HERE.

This one uses the Arch dies from SU to make a shaped card.

I blended an inked background after stamping in green.

Coloured with blend pens.

I used the arch die cut waste (frame) as a mask to blend a background.

I stamped the big flower offset, and stamped and fussy cut extra flowers to place on top.

As I used white offcuts for this, I’m popping over to the Snippets Playground, 

although I forgot to take a picture of my snippets 🫩

I do like a square card, and this time I used masking tape to create the background,

adding the big flower as before.

I added gems to all, embellishments lift a card, and most will go through the post.

Here’s all three, that were fairly quick makes.

As this is the first time using this set, I’ll also take the square card to My NBUS #81

Enjoy your day

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Spot the difference with Uniko…

 Hello, hope you’re doing ok.

I treated myself to quite a few a couple of Uniko stamps recently.

Here’s a couple of cards using one of the Flower Power series.

I do like pinks and purples, this was for a friend who loves purple.

I love Uniko background stamps. This one’s a bit art deco.

I added some detail using a small dot stamp, and some gems

The flower and leaves were stamped and die cut using white scraps of card.

They stamp beautifully, such clarity.

This one is similar, but I know some of you like to spot the difference….

I’ll take this one to the Snippets Playground, where another fabulous prize is up for grabs.

Snippets Playground #519

Hopefully I’ll see you on the swings!

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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FMS Uniko Wonderful Day

 I’m having a play with some new to me stamps from Uniko, 

this one is Wonderful Day, which happens to be discounted at the moment….HERE

It has some fabulous sentiments too, and lots more images.

I wanted to try a clean and simple card, and saw the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge #704

I used peach, pink, blue and yellow inks. I did alter the position of the sentiment,

mainly because I hadn’t noticed it on the sketch, silly me 😂🙄

I hope you have a good week

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Christmas Scramble

Uniko have produced a lot of inspiring new products recently,

and I couldn’t wait to get this stamp which immediately shouted 

paper piecing and fussy cutting, which I love, (I can hear some of you groaning 😂),

but equally you could colour, glitter, heat emboss, doodle, zentangle etc.

I got out a Christmas paper pad, stamped the image in black on 9 sheets,

then cut out the letters, leaving a small border around each.

I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the whole image, and added some rhinestones.

I had enough paper left over to use as a mat behind it.

So now, when I get a few minutes to spare, I can make eight more!

This would be a great one for using up all those paper snippets you can’t bear to throw away!

Do skip over to the Snippets Playground 

for more ways of using up those bits &pieces lurking in your drawers!

I’m entering the  Snippets Playground #513

There’s another fabulous prize, and you can cool off in the paddling pool!

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Big and Bold Snow

 Hello again,

We have some relief from the hot weather, and the garden is glad we had some rain too!

I have another Christmas card today, using Uniko Big and Bold Snow

I stamped the background in three blue colours (one or two are a green blue),

mounted it onto navy card then onto white base card.

I love the bold sentiments…..dashing stamped in navy, mounted onto navy card.

Snow outline also navy, the inner blended with the same inks as before.

I’m entering the following:

UNIKO has a fabulous challenge, with some great giveaways.

NBUS, #76 as I’ve not used this set before, even though I’ve had it a while.

Christmas kickstart #100, “round”, hoping snowflakes fit, but I’ve also added three round gems.

Christmas cards all year round, blue

12 months of Christmas, anything goes 

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Big Bold Joy

 I’m back with my second Christmas card of the year….

I should be nearer 20 but my target has slipped somewhat!!

It was a chance using a new to me stamp set from Uniko,  Big and Bold Joy.

They are celebrating their 13th Birthday, a perfect time to treat myself to a few new sets,

and enter another fabulous grand prize draw.

There’s also a couple of other blogs I like, so decided on Allsorts “shades of blue”,

and We love stamping CAS themes. It often helps my mojo to follow a theme, do you find that?

The inks I used are SU night of navy, (you have to trust me “joy” is navy, although it looks black 🙄),

misty moonlight, coastal cabana, azure afternoon, blueberry bushel.

I also used a stencilled background recently made with the snowflakes stencil,

and I added stars from Mid Century Modern. 

The bottom left one is wonky and too inline with top left star 🙄, but hoping you won’t notice 😂.

Inside I used their Christmas Wishes set……utterly gorgeous fonts!

I’m hoping this fits with the Uniko celebration

Allsorts #817 shades of blue,

and We love Stamping CAS or AG

Little Red Wagon #795 winter blues

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Uniko 13th Birthday Celebration

I don’t usually do more than one post, but I wanted to share these while I had time.

 I needed some quick birthday cards for January, mojo missing after all the Xmas ones,

so I picked a couple of Uniko stamps, that I was able to just highlight parts of.

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Block Party Birthday with Blue sparkly pen

Framed Balloons with Metallic pens

Block Party with White pencil

Do visit the Uniko Studio to enter a fabulous competition to win a prize bundle.

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Snowflake duo

A couple more for the Christmas box…

 I used some of the new In Colours from SU for this first one.

Uniko snowflake stencil and sentiment, Gummiapan snowflake die.

Masked either side of the central panel, added sparkly gems.

Entering Peace on Earth Christmas #71….anything goes

Uniko stencil again, and their sentiment, and old SU snowflake frame,

cut from white glitter paper, added gems.

Inked using blue pink purple, the sentiment being the focal point.

Taking this to the Allsorts Challenge #796…getting sentimental 

Another two for the box 😃

Lesley

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Rudolph Day Yay

 I’m so happy that Helen has taken up Rudolph’s reins, so that we can continue to be inspired to make our Christmas cards throughout the year.

The new site Rudolph Days Challenge is HERE

Maureen did a fabulous job of running this challenge for so long, for which we are all so grateful.

So here’s my card

This was meant to be a relatively quick and simple make 🙄

The technique challenge from 52 Christmas card Throwdown, which gave me this idea was….

I still had the Uniko stencil out, which I thought would give the effect without too much masking.

I’m trying to use up neglected stash and had some card blanks with a slight texture.🙄🙄

This did not help with the stamping, but I persevered, getting numerous stamp sets out to fit my sections.

Stamps now piled up on my desk from SU, Clarity, Cardio 🙄🙄🙄

I still had to mask off bits, and wipe ink off the stencil after stamping,

 to prevent it transferring.🙄🙄🙄🙄

My final challenge was getting a decent photo in this dim and dismal light! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

This was my first photo attempt, before trying numerous positions and lights.

Do visit these challenges for lots of inspiration and without the eye rolls 😂

Rudolph Days February Challenge

52 Christmas card Throwdown,

The holly and ivy Christmas challenge #156 anything goes

Addicted to stamps and more #462 Christmas 

Roll on spring!

Have a good week

Lesley

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