Uniko Happy bee Day

By
This is my first play with some new stamp sets by Uniko which my OH surprised me with last year after I had been watching Bev's demos on the How To Craft Network event to showcase smaller brands.  Uniko are also celebrating their 11th birthday this month and I'm joining with their Birthday Card Link Party with this card.


The background pattern stamp is apparently inspired by the Mid Century Modern design movement (1933-1965) of which I know very little about but I do like the clean lines.  I added glossy accents to some of the dots.  The honeycomb heart is raised up on foam pads and colour blended with watercolour pens.  The little bee was stamped on the panel and again on vellum, cut out and adhered with the wings free to move.


There are lots of little stamps in the bee set to make up your own pattern/design along with different sentiments.  I chose 'bee' to signify 'Birthday'.  I'll hold my hands up and say I did make a mess of the sentiment "bee" after stamping which is why that part is now in black, fussy cut and adhered over the top!  I'm okay with the final look thankfully!
I've used -
13.5 cm sq white card blank
Uniko stamp sets - Bee Happy &
Background Blocks Mid Century Modern
Mix of Versafine & Distress Oxide ink pads
docrafts Artiste watercolour pens

Linking up with -
Uniko Let The Celebrations Begin 🎉             Stamping Sensations February challenge anything stamped
                  



Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. crafty-stamperMonday, 13 February, 2023

    Fabulous card love the pattern stamp and little Bee
    Carol x

    ReplyDelete
  2. crafty-stamperMonday, 13 February, 2023

    Hi Steph just popping back to say-Thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations
    Carol DT x

    ReplyDelete
  3. As.I.Do.Rodos.Monday, 13 February, 2023

    This is a brilliant cheerful card Ginny
    My Blog As I do Rodos

    ReplyDelete
  4. brendaMonday, 13 February, 2023

    Really like this Steph, the grid gives a real retro feel and then the Bees and heart add dimension, thanks so much for sharing your pretty card with us at Stamping Sensations February challenge.

    B x

    ReplyDelete
  5. EmmaTWednesday, 15 February, 2023

    Fa-bee-lous card, lovely design and the stamps look brilliant.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Rajani RehanaWednesday, 15 February, 2023

    Beautiful blog

    ReplyDelete
  7. Grenouille GreetingsSaturday, 25 February, 2023

    I love the modern feel of this delightful card. I should say it's all quite Bee U tiful! Thank you for coming to play with us at Stamping Sensations this month. Hugs, Lesley

    ReplyDelete
  8. MortiCraftWednesday, 01 March, 2023

    Love this Steph! Great matching of Uniko products and a great layout. ❤️ Thank you for joining us celebrate Uniko’s 11th Birthday! X

    ReplyDelete
  9. New CreationsSaturday, 04 March, 2023

    You did the best use of the grid stamp, so creative, love how you combined all the stamps too! Thank u so much for joining to celebrate Uniko's 11Th Birthday!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Neets BSaturday, 04 March, 2023

    So much lovely detail on your card, I love the combination of products. Thanks so much for liking up at Uniko, Anita x

    ReplyDelete
  11. Julie BSaturday, 04 March, 2023

    Great fussy cutting of the bee word, I thought for a moment that we had a new die that had passed me by! Thanks for helping to celebrate Uniko's birthday. :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. SmilynStefSunday, 05 March, 2023

    Congrats! What an awesome card.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for taking a moment to visit ... I read and appreciate every comment you have time to leave. Steph x

Popular posts from this blog

Autumn Days

By
Image
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, looking forward to the rich colours of the changing leaves, squirrels busy collecting fallen acorns, fungi raising their heads above ground and seeing sunflowers still in bloom.  This card was made for a September birthday. I made my own background panel (pictured below) with two distress oxide inks smooshed on it before dry embossing with a layered leaves stencil. Stencilled on top of the raised embossing with various dye inks then used the second layering stencil to just ink the tops of the acorns.  Panel matted on burgundy cardstock.  Wanted to use a recent sale purchase of an Apple Blossom die set which creates a circular shaped puzzle centrepiece and chose a sunflower patterned paper from a recent magazine along with the same burgundy cardstock for the frame.  Once paper pieced back together this was mounted on the background panel. The fungi and butterfly are printed transparency images which were gifted to me, these I've ...
Read more

Woodware Birthday Grid meets Distress Oxides

By
Image
My first post for 2019 and I'm sharing a card made with some new purchases ... I've finally bought some Distress Oxides so had a play and created an inky background.  Using three colours (spiced marmalade, cracked pistachio & squeezed lemonade) I decided to do a combination of inking on and through a stencil mask with a bit of water spritzing as well.  I quite like that the colours stay on top of each other without affecting the colours underneath and it's definitely a lovely chalky finish. Another new purchase was the Woodware birthday grid stamp by Jane Gill, I do like the grid arrangement of all the sentiments leaving two spaces so you can add other images to suit.  I've added social media type die cuts as this is a card for a male who's always on his mobile phone 😊.  Final touch was randomly stamping a filmstrip down one side and adding #smile in the corner. I've used -  5x7 white card base Distress Oxide Inks on  Clarity Stencil Card Th...
Read more

100 Birthday Wishes

By
Image
Made for the uncle of a crafting friend celebrating his 100th birthday who still enjoys a bit of gardening.  Card Making Magic's Spring Garden stamp set that came with issue 119 of Creative Stamping seemed ideal to use and I also wanted to have lots of colour so what better than a rainbow background. Distress oxide inks were brushed over a stencil to create the abstract background then water drops flicked over to create some interest.  Gardening images stamped in brown ink directly onto the panel with masks used so the hand tools could be stamped behind the flower pots.  Images were coloured with a mixture of polychromos, metallic pencils and gel pens with added white gel pen highlights. Number 100 stamped in green ink with a bracket below again with some white gel highlights ... a topiary sculpture maybe?  White embossed sentiment on the same colour card as the matt layer. I've used - 6x6" white card base Issue 119 Creative Stamping covermount Claritystamp abstract ...
Read more