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Saturday, 31 January 2026

Uniko January Release Day, Bloghop and Giveaway

Hooray, it's release day at Uniko!!

As of 9am GMT, you can now purchase all the wonderful stencils and the Block Party stamp set.

To celebrate we are, as usual,having a blog hop and a bit of a GIVEAWAY! But first here are a few more ideas using the new stash.

Here is a very simple card using Bauhaus Spring Blocks stencil combined with the original Bauhaus Blocks stencil.

Stencil - Layering Bauhaus Spring Blocks £10.75

www.uniko.co.uk

Simply an A6 panel of white card covered with a mix of both stencils, cut at a jaunty angle and a simple sentiment from the Bauhaus Blocks stamp set. I only used 3 colours of Distress Oxides, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean but achieved a darker green where I used the blue over the green!

Next is a card made using the Ink n Flip Heart pattern stencil.

Stencil - Ink & Flip Hearts Pattern £4.50

www.uniko.co.uk

Yet another of my Gelli plate pulls, cut with a square die and mounted on yet another Gelli plate pull, Abandoned Coral and Worn Lipstick DOx and mounted onto a 41/2" square, white, card base.

The heart in the center is from Block Party Love, stamped and embossed before being fussy cut out. Mounted on a fancy die cut white circle, The Greetery, this was attached to my panel with foam tape. A few leftover die cut red foil hearts complete.

Onto our new Ink n Flip Butterfly pattern stencil.

I was having far too much fun playing with my Gelli plate and stencils and ended up with a pretty lilac background used in this card!

Stencil - Ink & Flip Butterfly Pattern £4.50

www.uniko.co.uk

The background uses a mix of Wilted Violet and Chipped Sapphire Distressed Oxide, as do the butterflies. This time I've stamped the outline image from Butterfly Serenade, which the observant of you will have realised is a perfect match for the stencil butterfly! I used a sparkly silver EP and some sparkly silver card to frame my sentiment from my Doodle Flower stash! I still can't get over how pretty these Gelli print panels are, even if it wasn't intentional!!

Finally this card.

Block Party Love £11.50

www.uniko.co.uk

Here is another simple make using one of my Gelli plate prints and the Block Party Love stamp. This time white heat embossing over a Scattered Polka Hearts stencil print background on white then a panel of matching Distress Oxide pulled from my Gelli plate a few times to get some depth of colour. A very quick and easy card.

So that's all from me for the moment but please don't forget to leave some love here and at the other stops on the hop for a chance to win some Uniko goodies, details on the Uniko blog.

Happy hopping.

Bev

Julie -you're here

Be sure to comment along the way for your chance to win a £20 eGift Certificate to spend in store. Winner will be announced Monday 9th of February 2026.

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Friday, 30 January 2026

Introducing Block Party Love

Good morning. It's the final day of introductions for Uniko's January release.

Today we are introducing a stamp in the Block Party range and as it's almost Valentine's Day what better theme than LOVE!

This is a very simple card, where I've stamped the image with black ink, then heat embossed with clear EP over another of my Gelli plate panels. It uses the previously released Scattered Polka Dot Hearts stencil and a couple of Distressed Oxides, Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral blended onto my Geli plate. I then added the stencil, took a print then removed the stencil and took another pull, which is what you see here. The first pull toook awat the ink from the open part of the stencil to reveal a white heart and a soft pink background.

Finally, I trimmed my panel, mounted it on a slightly larger piece of black card and then onto an A6 white note card.

That's my idea but why not check out the rest of the team, links below.

Bev

Julie - you're here

See you back here same time tomorrow for the full reveal!

Thursday, 29 January 2026

Introducing Ink and Flip Butterfly Pattern Stencil

Good morning, time for another Uniko introduction.

Today we have another of Bev's fun and fab Ink n Flip stencils, Butterfly Pattern. It's from the same stable as the Christmas snowflake and tree stencils. Use sinularly or for an all over pattern, just flip your stencil to complete the butterfly. Here are a couple of ideas I came up with.

This first card uses the French Script stamp embossed with Silver EP to create a resist to the stencilling.

I used a couple of Distress inks to create an all over pattern, blending Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet in a soft romantic pattern. You can just about make out which halves were done on each pass, but with this flip design you could equally go with a pait of contrast inks or even textures. A fussy cut sentiment embossed in white on black completes.

THe contrast between the two halves of the butterfly are a bit more obvious on this design.

I used the same colours of DI but the background was a final pull on my Gelli plate, giving it a soft mix of the same two colours. This time I die cut the panel with the large English Country Garden butterfly die which I then stamped with a mix of both DIs before placing it back into the apperture on a few more die cuts. The sentiment from the English Country Garden set completes.

So what have the rest of the BAs done with their stencils? Why not click the links to find out?

Bev

Julie-You're here

I'll be back tomorrow for the final intro tomorrow morning, see ya!

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Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Introducing Ink and Flip Heart Pattern Stencil

Good morning and welcome to day 2 of the introductions for Uniko's January release.

Today we are focusing on another Ink n Flip stencil design, Heart Pattern.

I had quite the play with this stencil creating lots of panels with my Geli plate. These two cards came from just one of them!

I have to admit that I got a bit carried away playing with my Gelli plate, even if I haven't worked out why it's marked! To start, I chose a selection of Distress Oxides to blend onto my plate, Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, and Picked Raspberry. I think my first pull was a mix of Abandoned Coral and Picked Raspberry, followed by my stencil and a panel of copy paper, I wasn't going to use this pull. Once the stencil was removed, I added a panel of white card and took a print. The resulting print had a ghostly outline of half the pattern and a lovely textured background. I then went back in with my now clean stencil and added some Worn Lipstick to the ghost pattern then flipped and added what I thought was Candied Apple, to complete the heart pattern. However it wasn't, it was Vintage Photo on my brush so I had to carry on and complete the panel, I quite liked the end result, not brown but a bit rusty red!!

To make these two cards, I die cut a 4 x 4 panel from the stencilling, then with an assortment of different sized heart dies. At first I thought about popping up the hearts but liked the look of the appertures when overlaid on another Geli plate pull, definitely Candied Apple with a touch of Worn Lipstick. A larger panel this time of Abandoned Coral and Worn Lipstick was the added to a 5 x 5 white card, followed by my heart panel on the red. A simple gold embossed sentiment, Everyday Spring Sentiments and some gold mirror dots complete.

The die cut hearts from the first panel were mounted onto some matching red fun foam ones and added to a Geli plate panel which I'd made with the Scattered Polka Hearts stencil and mounted on some gold mirror card. A fussy cut gold embossed sentiment from Wonderful Day and more of the gold mirror dots completes.

Two different looks from the one panel!!

Anyway that's a couple of ideas, but what have the rest of the ambassadors been up to? Check out their blogs for for ideas, links below.

Bev

Julie- You're here

See you back here tomorrow for more stencil inspiration.

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Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Introducing Layering Bauhaus Blocks Spring Stencil

Good morning. Today is the first reveal of Uniko's January release where Bev has designed another of those fab Bauhaus stencils. This one is called Spring, it can be used on it's own or in a combination of the other Bauhaus blocks stencils.

My first card uses just the Spring Block stencil and some letters from Alphabet Outlined.

As with other Bauhaus Blocks stencils it is a 3 stencil set which you can use to build up a grid pattern. I made a few errors whilst stencilling it for the first time so decided to save the OK squares by cutting them out and reassembling them onto a panel of white copy paper in a 4 x 4 grid. The inks used here are Distress Inks, Barn Door, Worn Lipstick and Aged Mahogany. I added some glossy accents to a few of the squares before adding my letters to spell LOVE, the small heart conveniently nestling in the center of the O! Mounted on a slightly larger panel of white inked around the edge with Barn Door DI, then added to a 5 x 5 white note card on foam pads.

My second uses a combination of the Spring Blocks and the regular Bauhaus blocks stencil.

This time I used Altenew inks, Vineyard Berry, Heart Beat and Pink Pearl. The inked panel was cut down and added to an A6 side fold card and the speech bubble die cut, Mama Elephant, was stamped and heat embossed in gold with a sentiment from Falling Hearts Serenade and tiny hearts from Balloon Bash. This was added over the stencilled panel with foam pads.

Why not check out the rest of the Uniko team to see what they've done with this fab new stencil?

Bev

Julie -you're here

We'll all be back tomorrow with another introduction, so until then bye!

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