The Flying Unicorn proudly presents their May kit ...

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!!

From layouts, cards, tags, mixed art and so much more...

Get excited and enjoy what the creative team has done with the Flying Unicorn May 2016 Your Passion. Your Art Kit.

Layouts

“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.

Suddenly, you know you are alive.”

Cards

“In a daily life, reach out to others with sacred act of saying ‘hello, a smile, word of encouragement….”

Tags

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

Off the Page

“My soul is full of longing

for the secret of the sea,

and the heart of the great ocean

sends a thrilling pulse through me.”

Mixed Art

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

― Émile Zola

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Pinks, greens and and a little white

A little creativity using the gorgeous Country Rose collection from Kaisercraft.

Apart from creating with purple tones, my next favourite colour scheme involves pinks, greens and whites.  It's such a fresh, clean and refreshing colour combination.

Have to say, when I saw these papers they had to be added to my stash.

All sorts of flowers - that were just sitting in front of me whilst I was playing.

Stamens, muslin [cheesecloth], gesso, a little layering.

And on these tags I went with the star shape as well.

Add a little corrugated card [ex pizza box packaging] between the layers for height.

Live, love, laugh - sounds good to me.

Happy creating everyone.

CYA

Michelle

A little creativity for the Flying Unicorn

Hi everyone and welcome to my 'Today Post'.

I am sharing a little creativity using the gorgeous Riddersholm Design papers from their Newport collection.

First up a mini pizza box using the pinks and browns in their 'Newport' range, this one is their 'Gobelin' paper.

There are numerous tutorials on how to make a mini pizza box and I have always used this template.

It's quick, it's easy to follow, it's easy to remember and more importantly, if you use a heavy weight 12x12 patterned paper, just like this one, you can whip up two mini pizza boxes from the one piece of patterned paper.  Bonus!!!!

When I make my pizza boxes, I always make a band to slide over my pizza box to keep it closed.

I've cut a piece of paper 1 1/2"wide, 12 inch long piece and then I have used my lace doily edge punch and punched along each edge and then cut another strip of paper, not as wide as the other, inked the edges and adhered to the punched edge strip.

I've used a score board and scored along the band to wrap around my pizza box and then adhered the edges together to join them.

I've then used a piece of corrugated cardboard as the base, adhered to the strip band and built up an embellishment cluster using twine, muslin [cheesecloth] and foliage and topped it off with some gorgeous Petaloo forget-me-not blooms.

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Let me share another project with you.  This time a little creating with the gorgeous blues in the Newport range.

Did that whet your appetite a little?

Let me share ...

I have used a Kaisercraft wooden polaroid frame as the base, actually I have used two frames.

One I have painted a charcoal grey and the other a lilac colour.

I've applied two coats of paint, let them both dry naturally and then I have lightly sanded the edges.

I have cut two pieces of this paper.

I've sandwiched a heavy piece of corrugated card between each layer.

So it really is quite thick.

And then I have embellished and layered.

A Kaisercraft clear butterfly, corrugated cardboard, blue cotton, Petaloo Botanica bloom, leaf and pearls, a little muslin [cheesecloth], some miscellaneous blue flowers and some Flying Unicorn metal adornments. To finish the cluster, a gorgeous butterfly.

And a beautiful quote ... typed it up, cut it into strips and inked the edges.

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Using the gorgeous blues again, this time using the 'Beach' paper.

A boxed card.

Sometimes you make a card and it's a little bulky [okay, in my case, most of the time] - this one is popped inside a wee open ended box.

And to finish off - you knew I would be sharing a tag [or two].

I have used one of the Prima flower dies and cut two flowers, scrunched them up a little, added a small piece of corrugated card between the layers for height, cut out a little foliage, layered that in amongst the layers with a little muslin and a few strands of pearls wrapped around in a circle

Happy creating everyone.

Until next time,

CYA

Michelle

From the Flying Unicorn store :

Riddersholm Design 'Newport' collection - Gobelin

Petaloo forget-me-nots
Prima dark bark ink

Riddersholm Design 'Newport' collection - Compass
Kaisercraft clear butterfly stickers
Petaloo Botanica bloom
Petaloo berry clusters
Prima ink

Riddersholm Design 'Newport' collection - Beach
Prima metal dies
Kaisercraft clear butterfly stickers
Petaloo Botanica blooms
Prima dark bark ink
Kaisercraft clear butterfly stickers

Catching up with long lost friends ...

I have been away the last few days at a scrapping retreat and I had an absolutely fabulous time catching up with friends that I hadn't seen in ... ummmmmmm ... cough, cough ... far too long.

I caught up with some of those 'online imaginary friends' that have been friends for a few years now and are no longer, just 'online imaginary friends', but friends in real life now too.

The scrappy world and the online world that was once such a vast world - well I guess it still is really - but wowser, it really has brought so many people together.

Technology really is incredible.

Now when one has been away playing with papers, oops, being crafty, one really should probably have more to share than perhaps one has ... now that could be as a result of laughing, talking, a little more laughing, eating, sleeping, laughing - all of the above.

Over the coming days though I do promise to share a little crafty stuff - so hopefully you will stick around and swing by and visit and say hello.

You never know, some of that crafty stuff might just need to be sent away, to bring a smile.

Now that's a thought.

First off, let me share a double easel card ... 

I had a wee play with this gorgeous Prima paper ...

and these fabulous Prima metal dies

and voila ... I made this ...

and a wee close up ...

Happy creating everyone.

For all your crafting supplies, visit the Flying Unicorn store.