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September Your Passion. Your Art Kit of the Month.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

The Flying Unicorn monthly, Your Passion Your Art kit is now bigger than ever - overflowing with all the goodies you desire with all our previous kits rolled into one GRAND collection...

ONE month, ONE kit.

The Flying Unicorn now includes papers, an "Off the Page" project, a mixed media collection, and all the coordinated embellishments in one kit, and at one crazy magical Price of 59.99!!

 

 

 

Get excited and enjoy what the creative team has done with the 

Flying Unicorn SEPTEMBER 2016 Your Passion Your Art Kit.

 

 

 

 

 

 Creations from the Design Team

 

 

 

 

 

Cards

 
Off the Page

 

and More ... 

 

Flying Unicorn Educators will be sharing free videos, step-by-step tutorials and tips.. so stay tuned and make sure to like us on Facebook so you do not miss out!!

Kits are limited

so do not delay in getting yours!

 

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I was feeling quite silly the other day and this is the result!  I truly adore these crazy dog stamps, they are ever so much fun.  while I was making this, I gave the dogs names.  Ha ha, that bulldog, well she's Petunia.  And below her is Fredrick, and then Poindexter and finally, Othello.  Now don't ask me how I came up with those names, it just happened!

I used a Prima icon tray that came in the August Flying Unicorn kit to make this dog house condo.  The tray was just perfect.  I made a roof from chipboard and affixed to the top.  I used water colors from a previous Unicorn kit to color these little sweeties and diecut vines and Petaloo flowers.  You can easily do this just using bits and pieces from you stash.

 

 

I put together a Snapguide tutorial so you can see how I built the roof.

 

Check out How to Build a Crazy Doghouse! by Maggi HARDING on Snapguide.  

 

 

Petunia:

 

Frederick:

 

 

 

Poindexter:

 

Othello:

 

 

 

 

SUPPLIES:

 

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz  Crazy Dogs Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Crazy things

Sizzix Framelits Die Set Crazy Things

Prima wooden tray packaging

Acrylic Paint - yellow, red, pink, purple

Water color paint

Whte gesso

Cheery Lynn Floral Bouquet kit B777 dies

Spellbinders Romantic Vines die

Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs chipboard, stickers

Green cardstock

Petaloo Mini Daisies peach

Miscellaneous Petaloo flowers

There will be a limited supply of September Flying Unicorn Kits available on reveal day, August 31, 2016.  To ensure that you always get a kit, order you kit early, details here.

 

Maggi

Wine Country - Layout with Shona and the August Kit

 

Hi everyone! Today I have a layout that I created with my Flying Unicorn August kit and fun Creative Embellishments chippys. I recently went cycling in wine country and these chippys were perfect for this project!

 

 

 

That super cute Grapevine chippy is finished with some Bamboo Leaf Spritz and Punked Up Purple Coloringz...they are so adorable.  

 I love the lace and gorgeous papers in this kit!

 

 

For my background behind the clusters I used some Shimmerz Well Blue Me Down Coloringz to add some shading.  

 

 

And to finish it all off I added some Penny 4 Your Thoughts and Giddy About Green Inklingz.

 

 

 

Products Used:
Flying Unicorn August Kit
Creative Embellishments Chipboard and stamp
Shimmerz Spritz, Coloringz and Inklingz
Petaloo flowers
13 ARTS beads
Gesso and Thread

 

September Your Passion. Your Art Pre Orders now open

The Flying Unicorn monthly, Your Passion Your Art kit is now bigger than ever - overflowing with all the goodies you desire with all our previous kits rolled into one GRAND collection...
 ONE month, ONE kit.

 

The Flying Unicorn  now includes papers, an "Off the Page" project, a mixed media collection, and all the coordinated embellishments in one kit, and at one crazy magical price of  $59.99 
& during Pre-orders FREE US shipping  
OR $10 credit toward international shipping on buy now or pay later kits. 

  

Our Pre-orders are open securing Your Passion. Your Art Kit!

 

Without further adieu we offer you  a  glimpse of our September kit and what is to come  August 31st ...

 

 

 

Pre-orders are open for 48 hours ... and this is your opportunity to get this one of a kind kit  at  59.99 plus  free shipping.*   

 

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August Kit - Encore - Best Friends - Time with You!

Hello Paper friends!

Thank you for letting me share with you another today post! 

For this layout I used our very own wonderful Flying Unicorn - Your Passion Your Art August Kit!

There was so much in the kit this month and it gives us so many options to work with. 

I actually wanted to use the sheet with all the details as the back ground but since I used all the fuzzy cut pieces on several projects I went and looked through all my papers and found a similar page to substitute. Since it only showed a small edge, problem solved. 

I made the edges wet of the pink page to make it easier to distress the edges. 

A friend of mine had gone to one of the latest Tim Holtz classes and came back with one of his newest stencils not for sale in the shops. She gave it to me, so I feel very lucky!  

I used it on this layout with a combination of Gesso and Modeling paste. Once dry I used 2 different prima stamps to bring in some more back ground details.

Now that the background is done it's time to start with the layers. I cut some pieces from the Lemoncraft - Just Love Me - 04 sheet and I had a piece left over from a Studio 75 sheet. Using the strips that were cut off the striped paper as part of the layering as well. Sliding in a doily and the new Snipart Chipboard pieces. The color scheme fits perfectly with the Prima - Garden Fable chipboard pieces, so I added some of those to my layout too.  

The flowers in the kit this month are a perfect match to all the colors in the paper. I love making these arrangements. It's the complete package. Love the little flowers. 

Adding the titles, some final touches like the lace and jute and the layout is complete.

Below is the list of used items:

Flying Unicorn August Your Passion Your Art Kit

Lemoncraft - Just Love Me - 03

Lemoncraft - Just Love Me - 04

13@rts - Winter Tales - First Snow

Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - Special Class Edition

Prima - Modeling Paste - 961411

Prima - White Gesso - 961442

Stazon - Jet Black

Prima - Finnabair - Book - 960964

Prima - Finnabair - Honeycomb - 960810

Snipart - Bubble Chipboard

Prima - Doilies - 584696

13@rts - Secret Letter - Chipboard Collection

Prima - Flowers - Quartzite - 586775

Prima - Flowers - Aire Collection - 549558

Petaloo - Burlap Picks - Lavender - 1204207

Petaloo - Burlap Butterflies & Blossoms - Lavender - 1203207

Prima - Garden Fable - Chipboard & More - 579074

Lace - Jute

 

Thank you very much for looking!

 

Have a scrappy day!

 

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"I Love this Moment" BAP August KOM with Heather

"I Love This Moment"

Today I am featuring  a Build a Page I made with the Flying Unicorn August Kit of the Month. This months kit featured the paper Collection Attic Dreams from Studio 75. Enjoy the video and the close ups.

Enjoy the video Process:

 

Thank you for stopping by today.

 

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Supplies:

Flying Unicorn August KOM.

Studio 75: Attic Dreams 02, Attic Dreams 6x6 Paper pack, Doily Stencil.

Prima: Resin Icons Fairies, Clear Stamp-555092, Art Basics-962975, Bricks Stamp-850463, Color Blooms Precious Stone-573812, Cobalt-573898 (KOM May 16), Summer Sky-573867 (KOM Feb 16) Crochet Doily-584054.

Petaloo: Fancy Trims Cream, Sugared Mini's Royal Blue (KOM Dec 15), Sugared Blooms Royal Blue (KOM Dec 15), Darjeeling Garden Rosette Cream.

Snip Art: Love this Moment, Background Bricks.

Ranger: Adirondack Alcohol Ink Sail Boat Blue, Distress Crackle Paint Clear Rock Candy, Distress Ink Hickory Smoke.

Stay-On: Midnight Blue, Cloudy Sky.

 

Creative wings

A big hello to our crafty friends around the world.

 

Let me share a little creativity.

 

Some home decor for your craft room.

 

 

Cut two paper hearts.

 

 

Stitch around the edges, but leave a gap so that you can stuff it with a little wadding to give it shape.

 

Then stitch up the gap.

 

 

Cut out a couple of flower shapes using a Prima metal die shape.

 

 

Tweak and manipulate the paper flower with your fingertips.

 

 

Build up an embellishment cluster on the right hand side, layering muslin [cheesecloth], stamens, paper foliage, flowers etc until you are happy with the end result.

 

 

Another closer look at that embellishment cluster.

 

I have removed the glass from the frame  and replaced with the same background patterned paper.

 

I have adhered two cotton reels to the frame to allow the heart and wings to sit up and out on the frame.

 

Adhere a set of feather wings.

 

Adhere your heart.

 

Add a sentiment to the left hand side.

 

Randomly apply gesso.

 

 

Happy creating everyone.

 

From the Flying Unicorn store :

FabScraps papers

Prima flowers

Prima floral die

Prima ink pad

Gesso

Cheesecloth

 

 

Happy creating everyone,

Michelle

 

 

 

Bloom, Grow, Thrive

"Bloom, Grow, Thrive"

Here is a layout I made using some of the the goodies that come in the  Flying Unicorn August KOM.

Lots of pictures today as I walk you through the process.

I always start out using Clear Gesso to prime my paper.

Yep I fussy cut, but I used some of the elements that come with the paper to added extra embellishments.

I fumbled around with the layout to see what looked good.

Using some color, I sprayed an painted the chippies.

I stamped the background to add some more detail.

I also added a flourish stencil, and mixed some Mica powder with some gesso to make a subtle blue paste for another stencil. And then back to the assembly.

 

 

 

Thank you for taking a peak.

Supplies:

Flying Unicorn August Kit of the Month: Lemoncraft Just Love Me 01, Lemoncraft Just Love Me 05, Prima Quartzite-586775, Prima Aire Collection-549558, Prima Stamp-555092, Prima Resin Fairies-573324, Color Blooms 2 Wild Raspberry-588779.

Prima: Stencil Cubes-960976,  Color Blooms Summer Sky (Feb 16 KOM)-573867 Color Blooms Soft Teal (June 16 KOM)-573782, Color Bloom 2 Spring Dandelion-588748, Pixie Dust Fixative-963590, Onxy-586751, Almanac Stamp-555146, Mica Powder Blue-962394, Mica Powder Blue Opal Magic-963545.

Creative Embellsihemtns: Flourish 2, Mini Ornate Title Frames, Flourish Word Set

Stmpin'Up: Bashful Blue Ink, Primrose Petals.

13@rts: Ayeeda Ink Silver, Ayeeda Gesso White.

DecorArt Gesso

donna Downey Segnature Stencils Flourish.

Ranger Embossing Dabber

Lindy's Tamp Gang Embossing Powder Angel Wings Sapphire

Matchboxes ...

Hi everyone,

It's time to share a little creativity with you all.  I recently purchased a new die cutting machine and it came with a few do-dads and one of those do-dads was a large matchbox metal die set.

Have to say that I am having a ball making up some new wee trinket boxes.

Here you go ...

 

and tucked inside this matchbox ...

A gift card as well.

 

And a special tag.

 

 

How about in a different colour scheme?

I really dug deep with this paper in my stash - a Prima paper from either 2009 or 2010.

Another special matchbox - open the drawer and you will find a matching tag.

A lined drawer.

Have to say, I love how this one turned out.

Nice fresh, Spring colours - a little colour in an otherwise dreary day 

- bear in mind it's the middle of Winter in my part of the world.

And Christmas will be knocking on our door soon.

Watch this space -  new advent calendar in the making.

Happy creating everyone.

From the Flying Unicorn store :

The Scrapcake paper pad

Heavy gesso

Prima floral metal die

Petaloo Botanica flowers

 

 

 

Kitchen ART with Shona

 

Hello everyone!! Recently we did a reno on our kitchen and I wanted to create some art for the walls…..this is one of the Canvas pieces I made. It is special as I used an old antique spoon and fork from my mom.

 

 

 

After the background was ready I added all the colors with yummy Shimmerz products. Glorious Day Vibez, Truffle Spritz, Hot Red Aqua Huez and Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz. Lots of fun Creative Embellishments chippys in the background also

 

 

 

Here are a few more close-ups. I just added the color with a spritz of water to blend them.

 

 

 

 

 

Smithsonian Exhibit ~ August Build A Page

Hi everyone!!

Today I'm sharing a mixed media layout, created with Flying Unicorn's August Kit of the Month.

I absolutely love that I can still see the background paper 'flowers' showing through the gesso!!

I did a lot of paint layers on the background.

Flowers and lace, oh my!!!

And I have a process video for you. Enjoy!!

 

 

Happy Playing!!

Lynne

 

Supplies:

• August Kit of the Month
• Liquitex - Gesso
• 13 Arts - Matte Paint Lavender and Cobalt
• Liquitex - Basic Paint Hookers Green
• Ranger - Archival Ink  Leaf Green and Jet Black
• Dr. Ph Martin's - Bombay India Ink Black
• Prima Paint - Opal Magic Green/Gold
• Kaisercraft - Script Stamp
• Prima Stamp - Brick
• Creative Embellishments - Mini Ornate Frames
• Petaloo - Burlap Flowers Pistachio
• Pink Paislee - Luxe Circles
• Fun Foam
• Bubble wrap & packaging for oranges (for masking)

 

August Off the Page project along with the canvas from the kit.

The Flying Unicorn kit always include and off the page project that is sure to put your creativity into motion!  The August kit includes an adorable little row boat for the OTP.  Also included in the kit is an 8 x 10 canvas, so I decided to combine the two to make a fun beach scene using Graphic 45's By the Sea collection.

 

I built a base for my sand with crumpled paper towels and plaster cloth which is a product that you soak briefly in water and lay over a structure, in my case paper towels, to create dimensional objects. When the plaster cloth dries, it is rock hard.  It's something I had from my model railroad days and its the easy version of paper strips and plaster of paris.  After than dried, I covered it with a thin layer of Viva Stone Art to create my sand.

 

 

 

 

 In North Carolina, our beaches have lots of sea oats and sand dunes so I made sea oats using a Spellbinders Cattails die and glued microbeads to create the seed pods. 

 

I painted the row boat white and then dirtied it up with some ink.  The paddles are just inked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies from the August Flying Unicorn Kit:

 row boat

8 x 10 canvas

 

Other Products

Petaloo Darjeeling Dahlias Teastained Spice1467-108

Petaloo Petites Teastained Spice 1465-108

Petaloo Mini Mis Teastained Blue 1462-103

Viva Stone Art

Plaster Cloth

Fish Net

Antique Copper microbeads

Spellbinders Cattails die

 

 

Maggi Harding

 

Be sure to visit the Flying Unicorn store for all your scrappy needs!

 

Heart & Soul - August KOM Layout

Hello Uni Friends! 

Sharing with you a layout made with our Flying Unicorn - August - Your Passion Your Art Kit. 

So how do we make a boy layout with all these pinks and incorporate the little gears we got in the kit. That was kind of the challenge set at the start.

The kit came with these beautiful paper collections. Lemoncraft - Just love Me & Studio 75 - Alice's Dream. They work so well together.

 

I chose my background paper from the Lemoncraft collection and my second paper from Studio 75. This one I tore into strips and layered them, adding some chipboard for padding. Distressing the edges some as well. 

The background needed a little something so I picked out a stamp set from 7 Dots and inked some parts of the paper. After this I mixed some Gesso with pink paint and used it on a stencil. I did not want the mixture to be perfect so the white and pink looked sort of unmixed. The same effect I used with the blue and a different stencil. The blue in this case was a spray of mist. 

Before I could go any further it was time to prepare some of my other products I needed for my layout. I used some mist on cheesecloth to give it some color and for the chipboard pieces I first needed to coat them with gesso. Once that was dry I used 2 mist colors on the chipboard pieces.  

Now it was time to assemble the rest of the layout. 

I used a chipboard piece from Prima to frame my photos. Put some lace under the edge of the paper and draped the cheesecloth across the page. The little gears found their place on either side of the photos. I can not believe this little boy is now a 23 year old man. How time flies. He's an engineer now. I cut 2 straws in little bits and used a few pieces, splattered some white gesso over the page and it was all done. 

Thank you so much for looking!

Below the list of used items:

Flying Unicorn - August Kit

Lemoncraft - Just love me 06

Studio 75 - Alice's Dreams 06

Prima - Heavy Gesso - 961442

Prima - Finnabair - Art Acrylics - Vintage Rose - 963200

Tim Holtz - Mini Stencils - Set 9

7 Dots Studio - Cold Country - Clear Stamps - SDSS0004

Creative embellishements - Mini Gears

UmWow - Heart & Soul

Prima - Flowers - Del Mar - Quarter - 577575

Prima - Color Blooms - Summer Sky - 573867

Prima - Color Blooms - Soft Teal - 573782

Cheesecloth

Shimmerz - Spritz - Caribbean Sunset

Straws

Have a scrappy day!

Visit our Store!

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