Happy tenth birthday celebrations!

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Regular visitors here will know that one of my favourite stamp companies is Uniko, based here in the UK. Well Uniko is celebrating ten years of fabulousness this month and the owner, Bev, has come up with a really fun way to mark the occasion by sending us all on a series of quests! The first quest is to make a birthday card using Uniko products, and this is what I came up with:

I used the Background Blocks Layered Modern Floral for this card, but only the flowers, not the leaves. The flowers image was stamped at an angle off the edge of a card panel in a deep red and I love how bold and happy they look!

 

Instead of the leaves that come with the set, I used the leaves on the Natures Treasures II stencil or a whole different look. Pale green ink was sponged into the smaller leaf images and I added a bit of yellow detail with a coloured pencil.

The sentiment was made with a combination of sets. The upper case 'Have a' and 'Birthday' words come from Wild, and the 'Wonderful' is from You Are, Yes You. Stamping Platforms have made it so easy to create our own unique sentiments out of different sets and it's fun to do!

CHALLENGES

I'm uploading this card to the Uniko 10th Birthday Linky as per the first quest; I'm also joining in at Allsorts where Wendy has chosen a theme of Anything Goes with optional red flowers; Stamping Sensations has an Anything Stamped Goes with the option to Use a Stencil so I'm playing along there; as well as Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge where Anything Goes.

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings but a quest that DOESN'T involve hiking off to Mordor and chucking a ring into a dangerous volcano is much more my kind of thing!

 

Sending hugs,