Happy 7th Birthday Uniko!

Happy Friday ......

And welcome to February.  Pinch and a punch for the first of the month!

January's all done and dusted.  We've had birthday's, a wedding, and even some snow. We've booked a holiday .... for 2020!!! and we survived the Burn's Night celebrations last weekend ..... only just though!  All I'm saying is ...... we had a great night.  There were bagpipes and haggis, a wee dram or two, and Hubby was even reciting poetry.  And that was before the cocktails!!!

But we're into February now and it's a very special month over at Uniko Studio ....... it's their 7th Birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday to you, 

Happy Birthday to you, 

Happy Birthday to Uniko ..... 

Happy Birthday to You!!

To mark this very special occasion Bev and the Design Team are celebrating!  We're having a Birthday Blog Hop and Linky Party ....... so you can all join in the fun.

All you have to do is create a birthday card and link it up to the Uniko 7th Birthday Linky Party post on the Uniko Blog ...... easy!
It can be any style you like, you can use any products your like although it would be nice to see you using your Uniko stash (digi's included) and if you do, then you have an extra chance at winning one of the fabulous prizes on offer ...... but more about those later.

How about some inspiration .......

I've used one of the stamp sets from the last Uniko release for this pretty CAS design.  It's called Wonderful Day and is made up of some pretty florals to layer, and some great sentiments.

I started with the sentiment first, stamped onto a piece of white card using a gold ink .....

Then I stamped the flowers using various stamps from the same set, along with different colours of inks.
Once I was happy with the layout I die cut a stitched cirlce around the sentiment, cutting into some of the flowers too

I then used foam pads to lift the circle and give a little dimension to the card.

You can see that I over stamped some of the flowers using the co-ordinating outline image of the petals, and the gold ink.

The little added dots you can see are from the Uniko Birthday Bash stamp set.  I love these little filler stamps as I call them,  they're perfect for adding little accents to your card, great finishing touches, when you just need that little something.

I stamped them first in gold, then overstamped in green, slightly shifting the stamp a little to give a shadow effect.

I also followed the design through onto the inside of the card too ....

The rest of the Uniko Design Team have also been busy creating Birthday cards.  Continue on the hop for more fabulous inspiration.  You can find a full list of stops at the end of this post.

I mentioned prizes earlier.  Well ..... there's lots of ways to win

• create a birthday card and add it to the Linky.  There will be a main winner, chosen by the Design Team who will win a £35 Gift Certificate
• there will be a random winner chosen from those of you who use Uniko products on your cards.  They will win an in stock, Uniko Clear Stamp Set (any value) and they can choose which one
• a Top 4 ...... chosen by the DT will win an in stock £10 Uniko stamp set of their choosing
• and a randomly selected comment from all those left on the Blogs in the Blog Hop will win an in stock £5 Uniko Clear Stamp set of the winners choosing 

Go on ..... why not join in the celebrations.  The linky will be open until 23.59 (GMT) on 28th February 2019, and all the winners will be announced on March 1st.

Follow the list below .......... Happy Hopping!

Bev
Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 
Julie
Linda (that's me!)

Lindsey

Rahmat
Sarah G

Sarah P
Wiebke 

Thanks for popping by .... enjoy the rest of your day and have a great weekend.

Cheerio until next time .....