Happy Saturday! A quick post today to share Uniko Studio's Super Free Saturday info!!

There is a super trendy digital collection download that is now available for FREE over on the Uniko website! See the image below. Isn't it fun?!?!

Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to create something to share with you today (being a new mom of twin boys keeps me VERY busy!), but a few of the other design team members have! Check out the links to their blogs below! Enjoy!

Aimes

 Amber

Erika

Gayatri

Uniko Studio Challenge #1 - Hello!

Hello! Welcome to a very special day. It is the kick-off of the first official Uniko Studio Challenge!!

That's right, there will now be a monthly challenge on the Uniko Studio blog where you can participate to show off your wonderful stamping skills using Uniko stamps! Here are the deets:

The Challenge Rules:

• You have until August 14th 09:00 UK time, to link your card up on the Uniko Studio blog
• Winners will be announced by August 17th (one random winner & the top three spotlight)
• Please add the Uniko Studio Challenge badge & link back to the challenge 
• If you don't have a blog to link back to the challenge, don't worry. Just use "USC"+ as your tag. For example, for our first challenge use "USC1"
• Showcase any Uniko Studio product: clear stamps, dies, digital pattern paper, digital cut files, or digital stamps. If you haven't purchased any Uniko Studio products, fear not. Plenty of freebies here.

The Prizes!

• A £10 Gift Certificate to the Winner & Guest Design Team spot on the blog & for the next challenge
• Top Three Spotlight

Ok, enough business talk, lets get onto the craftiness! It's all about saying HELLO this month. A special Hello to all the Uniko Studio customers and fans! Bev from Uniko Studio and the Design Team would love for you to participate in this first challenge as a way of saying hello to all of us and the other Uniko fans out there! If you play along, please also include a fun fact about yourself so we can all get to know each other a little better.

My fun fact: I am a new mom of twin boys! Just last month, I gave birth to two adorable little boys who have brought us so much love ;) My hubby and I are so thrilled to be parents. We are incredibly blessed!

My card is below. It's pretty straightforward. The silver wisps and the blue leaves are from Nature's Treasures I, and the sentiment is from All Occasion Sentiments #1. A few rhinestones finish it off.

Be sure to see what other beautiful creations the rest of the design team has for you! ENJOY the inspiration!!!!

Uniko Studio
Aimes
Amber
Gayatri
Nicki --------THAT'S ME!
Ren-Yi
Stacey

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Studio - Nature's Treasures I, All Occasion Sentiments #1

Cardstock: PTI - Rustic Cream
Ink: SU - Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue; Tsukineko - Brilliance: Starlite Silver
Other: Spellbinders Oval Die, Sequins - Joann's, Dimensionals

Uniko Studio Blog Hop - Label Love: Thank You Revisited

Howdy! Welcome back for another Uniko Studio Blog Hop. This month we are revisiting an older set - Label Love: Thank You.

A reminder that if you hop along to each designer's blog and comment, you will be eligible for a chance to win the featured stamp set!! You have until Sunday at midnight to leave your comments.

Here's my card I've created to showcase this awesome set. I love how you can mix and match the different Thank You sentiments with the medallion stamps. So many possibilities!

Below is the rest of the hop participants. ENJOY all the inspiration!!!!

Uniko Studio
Aimes
Amber (It's Amber's Birthday today...make sure to leave her some bday love!!)
Erika
Gayatri
Nicki --------THAT'S ME!
Stacey
Taheerah

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko Studio - Label Love: Thank You, Background Builders: Round in Circles

Cardstock: PTI - Soft Stone, White; SU - Going Grey
Ink: SU - Lavender Lace, Groovy Guava, Cool Caribbean
Other: Stickles, Spellbinders Circle Dies, Dimensionals

Uniko Studio June Release Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to another FUN blog hop to celebrate Uniko Studio's June Product Release!! In case you're wondering, the full June product release was on June 11th, and the blog hop was postponed until now to give the design team some time to work on their projects since many were having some much deserved vacation time with family!! If you'd like to see Beverley's blog post with all the new products, check it out here!

I'll keep this short and sweet so you can continue on to the rest of the DT blogs! Enjoy the creations! All supplies are listed at the end of the post.

I'm entering both birthday cards into the CAS-ual Fridays CFC:107 challenge - Hunger Games (projects with arrows).
The orange, yellow, and green flower bday card is being entered into the Moxie Fab World: Tuesday Trigger: Scene in Tangerine! I was inspired by the colors of the inspiration photo :)

Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Scene in Tangerine

Are you ready to see what the other Design Team members have cooked up?! Be sure to join along in the FABULOUS Blog Hop! You have until midnight Monday July 1st to leave a comment on each blog below to be entered for a chance to win the ENTIRE June Release and a few extras!!

Today also happens to be a Super FREE Saturday. To get your free downloadable digital stamp, check out the Uniko website!

Be sure to come visit me again this week as I'll have another project or two to share with you using Uniko's new stamps!!!

Uniko Studio
Aimes
Amber
Erika
Gayatri
Nicki --------THAT'S ME!
Ren-Yi
Stacey
Taheerah
Jen Nelson (June Guest Designer)

Supplies - Happy Birthday:

Stamps: Uniko Studio - Accent Essentials: Arrows, All Occasion Sentiments #2, Background Builders: Chevrons

Cardstock: PTI - Rustic Cream
Ink: SU - Real Red, Taken with Teal; Staz-On - Black
Other: Rhinestones

Supplies - Congratulations:

Stamps: Uniko Studio - Beautiful Blooms I, Pure Florals: Chrysanthemum (sentiment)

Cardstock: PTI White
Patterned Paper: MME
Ink: SU - So Saffron, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze
Other: Dimensionals

Supplies - Happy Birthday:
Stamps: Uniko Studio - Flower Power #2, Accent Essentials: Arrows
Ink: PTI - Orange; SU - So Saffron
Other: Dimensionals, Rhinestones

colourQ Challenge #192

I have several Father's Day cards that I'll need this year, so I thought I'd join in on a challenge and get started on them.

This is my first time participating in the colourQ challenge! I really love the color combo this week, and it's perfect for a Father's Day card!

Here's what I came up with. I created the sentiment in Adobe Illustrator and printed it on white cardstock. The patterned paper is die cut so the sentiment shows through. The arrow stamp is from the Square Prints Papertrey Ink stamp set by Maile Belles. The sentiment panel is popped up with foam tape, and a button with twine finishes it off!

Thanks for stopping by....I'd love to hear your feedback on my creation!

Supplies
Stamps: PTI - Square Prints
Cardstock: PTI - White; Stampin' Up! - Certainly Celery
Patterned Paper: MME - Moments
Ink: Stampin' Up! - Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze; TH Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass, Pumice Stone
Other: Spellbinders Circle die, PTI White Button, Divine Twine, Foam Dimensionals

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

It's time for the Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop Challenge! One of my favorite flower sets is Rosie Posie. I don't think I could ever get bored playing with this set. It is just gorgeous ;)

I chose to use the Purple Bouquet Builder photo above as my inspiration and color palette.

All the flowers and the two large leaves are die cut. The smaller flowers are popped up with foam tape. The "thanks" sentiment is from the Mini Blooms set.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies
Stamps: PTI - Rosie Posie, Mini Blooms (sentiment)
Cardstock: PTI - White
Ink: PTI - Royal Velvet; Stampin' Up! -Almost Amethyst, Regal Rose, Handsome Hunter, Brocade Blue
Other: PTI Rosie Posie dies, Foam Dimensionals

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Moms out there! I hope you are enjoying your day doing something you love. This is my first Mother's Day, as I'm expecting twin boys in the next few weeks! :)

I finally got a chance to use a stamp set designed by one of my favorite stamp designers, Maile Belles. It's the Happy Hydrangeas set. I used it for all three MD cards, all with similar colors, but different layouts. I'm very happy with the way they turned out! What about you? I'd love to hear feedback!

The Rock 'n Roll technique was used for the blooms, and the diecut is adhered with foam tape.

The light purple blooms are diecut and adhered with foam tape.

The oval frame and ribbon are diecut and adhered with foam tape.

Supplies
Stamps: PTI - Happy Hydrangeas
Cardstock: PTI - White
Ink: Stampin' Up! - Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Lavendar Lace; PTI - Royal Velvet
Other: PTI Happy Hydrangeas dies, PTI Buttons, Scoring Board

Uniko Studio Pure Florals: Gerbera Blog Hop & Challenge!

Time for some stamping goodness today! The Uniko Studio Design Team has created some beautiful cards to share with you today. We are revisiting a stamp set that was released last year: Pure Florals-Gerbera! To start the hop, head on over to see Beverley's creation on the Uniko Studio blog. There are TWO prizes up for grabs this month!

If you comment on each DT members' blog, you'll have a chance to win a UNIKO STAMP SET OF YOUR CHOICE!!! How can you pass that up?!? ALSO, you'll see on the Uniko blog that Beverley is hosting a challenge. After hopping along to see all the design team members' cards, pick a favorite that you'd like to CASE, create your project, post to your blog, and link it up in the challenge post!! You do not need to use Uniko products for the challenge, but we would love to see them if you have them! You'll have 1 week to enter the challenge, and the winner will receive a £20 Uniko Studio gift certificate (about $30 US dollars)!!! I can't wait to see the entries for this challenge!

Ok, now on to my Gerbera card. I stuck to my typical CAS style. The flower is just so beautiful it doesn't need a lot of other things to take away from it! The white card base is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The white panel is popped up and has rounded corners, the stamped leaves, and the sentiment. I stamped the flower on a separate piece of cardstock, fussy cut it and popped it up for dimension. That's it!! A very simple card to make ;)

Pure Florals: Gerbera Stamp Set

One more bit of news - the Uniko shop is currently having a sale that ends today at midnight UK time. Not only that, but there is FREE SHIPPING IF YOU SPEND OVER £50 ($76 US dollars)!!

Here is the list of designers for the blog hop:

Uniko Studio
Aimes
Amber
Erika
Gayatri
Nicki -------THAT'S ME!
Ren-Yi
Stacey

Supplies - Card 1:

Stamps: Uniko Studio - Pure Florals: Gerbera

Cardstock: PTI - White
Ink: Stampin' Up! - Purely Pomegranate, Mellow Moss; Staz-On - Black
Other: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Textile; Dimensionals