Release Day!

Hello!

Today is the day that you can get your hands on Uniko's wonderful release.  I have a few more cards to share with you.....

 

First up I used the tree background from Uniko's older Background Builders set which goes perfectly with the cute tree from Essentially Christmas.  The gold star is actually the centre from one of Uniko's snowflake dies! 

 

Here I have used the Labelled Christmas as a centrepiece on a shaker card. I have covered it with glossy accents and added glitter.  It is popped up over a large Uniko snowflake in silver glitter with some frosty sequins in the shaker.

 

I decided to make a springlike card with the lovely little Uniko flower stamp from I Love Coffee combined with an older Uniko sentiment.  Stamped randomly it looks fresh and could be stamped in a range of colours.

We will be back again at the end of the month with a full DT blog hop!  In the meantime I hope you like the look of these stamps:

Essentially Christmas:




Jingle Bells:




Labelled Christmas:





I Love Coffee:




Head over to the Uniko Blog to see what the DT have made with these stamps.

See you again soon!

Sarah x

Uniko November Release Continued

Hello!

I am delighted to be back with some more cards made with this month's fab release from Uniko.  Today is the turn of Labelled Christmas which has a range of lovely circular festive sentiments.

I had time to make two quick cards:

On this card I stamped some Uniko snowflakes in the background and hand stitched a thread for my hanging ornament.  A bit of extra bling adds to the Christmas shine.

This card is very simple and uses non traditional colours.  I triple embossed the sentiment to create some shine and added holly from the Essential Christmas set.

These Christmas labels add a great element and are big enough to be a focal point too.

The stamps are available from Wednesday - giving you plenty of time to get your Christmas cards made!  We will be back tomorrow with some release day inspiration but in the meantime do check out what Bev and the UK DT have got to share with you. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Uniko November Release

Hello!

I am back with some more cards made using the fab November release from Uniko.  Bev designs great stamps all year round but her Christmas sets are amongst some of my all time favourites and these are no exception!

Today we are showcasing the Jingle Bells set.  I am looking forward to having more time to play with this gorgeous set but I whipped up 2 quick festive cards featuring the beautiful main sentiment:

I matted and layered up some American Crafts Christmas paper behind the central panel and black embossed jingle.  The bells are gold embossed and then coloured with gold wink of stella - they look very shimmery in real life! 

 

 

 

 

I love these bells - they are so sweet.  I popped this central panel up on a card base on which I had stamped two holly borders from Uniko's Background Builders - Christmas an older set but so versatile.

 

I hope you like today's festive cards.  These set contains really beautiful layering stamps which I will be playing with next!  Head on over to the Uniko blog to see what Bev and the DT have got to share with you :)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x

 

Uniko November Release

Hello!

Uniko has been showcasing a fab new release for November and I have been itching to get my hands on them!  They arrived yesterday morning so I have managed to sneak some crafting time in and play along with Bev and the DT.

Today we are sharing cards made with the lovely I Love Coffee mini set.  Whilst I don't drink coffee, I do love buying hot chocolates from the coffee shop and am mildly addicted to the takeaway cups :)

I loved this set so much that I made 2 festive cards as well.  I will use them to give the boys teachers coffee gift cards for Christmas.

 

I combined the coffee cups with a sentiment from the Essentially Christmas set - love this font!

I hope you check out the November release over at Uniko's blog to see what Bev and the fab DT have made. 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

  

Watercolour Blooms

Hello!

Just a quick post from me featuring a couple of cards that I made recently which I haven't got round to blogging.  They both use the SSS/WPlus9 set - Many Thanks:

 

First I went with one of my fave colour combos of yellow and grey.  It gives a lovely soft look.

 

On this card I used richer colours and popped the panel up over some patterned paper.  A few splatters and soft inking around the edge give this card more of a distressed feel.

I will link my second card up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge as part of their Thanks theme and I have also played along at SSS's Flickr Challenge for the first time in months.  It is Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

ATCAS #76

Hello!

I am back with our latest challenge at Addicted to CAS which is hosted by the lovely Anja with a code word of Hero.

I chose Santa as the hero on my card....well he obviously has super powers, right?!  Mainly I wanted to play with some new My Favourite Things stamps - I wanted to get this set last year so am glad that I have got it for this year's Christmas cards.

I hope you like my festive hero and check out the rest of the inspiration that the fab DT have to share with you!

Thanks as always for stopping by,

Sarah x

Cool Christmas

Hello!

I was inspired to make some Christmas cards with this week's Less Is More challenge to use paper piecing.  I combined some lovely patterned paper from Lawn Fawn along with Uniko's dove which is one of my fave stamps:

 

I silver embossed the dove on to patterned paper and the card base.  I combined it with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted. 

 

As I had paper left over I went with the same idea but used a banner die to create a bit of visual interest.

 

Finally, whilst I was playing with my Lawn Fawn paper I used it with this My Favourite Things Christmas die.  Backed with acetate it is perfect for a shaker card.  I added a Uniko snowflake in the middle.  This is an easy make which would work in a heap of different colours.

 

I hope you like the blue and silver combo for Christmas!

 

Thanks for stopping by,

 

Sarah x