Flying Unicorn May Kit Reveal

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

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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Graphic 45's City Scapes Collection

I am so over the moon excited that I get to spend another year on the Graphic 45 design team!  It is definitely a dream come true to work with all their wonderful products.

Today I want to share a layout done with Graphic 45's new City Scapes collection.  This is a photo of my parents taken shortly after my Dad returned from Paris and WW II  so I chose  to use the Eiffel Tower cut-apart for that reason.  The city names all around the border represent many of the places that my family traveled with Dad and the stamp paper represents the many letters he wrote to my Mom when he was posted to places where she could not accompany him.  I love it when I can include symbolism in my layouts that have special meaning to me.

The City Scapes collection is currently available at the Flying Unicorn Store

I used two different Creative Embellishments flourishes with my Petaloo flowers.  I misted them with Lindy's mist for an antique look.  The title is heat embossed with Stampendous aged embossing enamel in aged spice.

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Cityscapes 12 x 12 collection:

Cityscapes

Grand Tour

Passport to the World

Well Travelled

Global Odyssey

Staples Key

Other:

Petaloo Burlap Blossoms Apricot

Colorbox Graphic 45 Ink Photogenic

Creative Embellishments Flourish 10

Creative Embellishments Flourish 15
Creative Embellishments Love Everlasting Words

Stampendous Aged Spice Embossing Enamel

Lindy's Mission Bells Brown Mist

13 Arts Ayeeda Mist Chalk Black

Crate Paper DIY Shop letter stickers

Petaloo flowers and Mother's Day cards.

Hi Petaloo friends!  Maggi here with a couple of Mother's Day cards for you.   Whenever I make something for my Mother I am reminded of being a small child and how she always proudly displayed my things.  Now, I am really amused that it makes me so happy  that she still displays the things I make her all around the house, just as she did when I was a child.  My Mom is the best and I'm so lucky that she is still going strong at 94!

I made this first card with flowers from our burlap collection and  Authentique's Utopia collection.   Love how these bright pink blooms go so well with the papers.

I nestled a cord bow from our Fancy Trims line underneath my flowers.  I think it adds a

 nice festive touch!

Here you can see the "step" in the card.  These are my favorite cards to make 'cause I love how the stand up so nicely.  Here's a link to a template for this card, if you'd like to make one yourself.   

Petaloo Supplies:

Mini Burlap Flowers Antique Red 1208-250

Fancy Trims - Pink 1483-130

Leaves from Dogwood x 24 Canvas 1211-207

Authentique Utopia Collection:

Bundle 6 x 6 paper pad

Rejuvenate 12 x 12 paper

Other supplies:

Ivory cardstock

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I made this card from Graphic 45's Children's Hour collection and dressed it up with Petaloo burlap and velvet blooms..  The Mom is this image sure has a lap full of kids!  Reminds me of both my grandmothers as they had 7 and 8 children.  I can't imagine, LOL!!

I like to nestle hydrangeas underneath larger blooms. They are great for filling in tiny spaces.

Petaloo Supplies:

Burlap Blossoms x 4 Ivory 1200-200

Chantilly Velvet Hydrangeas Apricot

Graphic 45 Children's Hour Collection:

Ephemera Card 4501259

May Collective 4501230

Patterns and Solids Paper Pad 6 x 6

Here's a pretty tag to put on that special present for Mom.  I combined Botanica blooms, dogwoods and some fussy cut elements from Graphic 45's Time to Flourish collection to make this tag.  The wide strip of pink burlap is from Petaloo's Fancy Trims that come in oh so many fun colors.  Be sure to see all the colors.

Petaloo Supplies:

Dogwood x 24 Canvas Pink 1211-211

Botanica Blooms x 4 Fuschia 1102-102

Fancy Trims Burlap pink 1483-130

Other Supplies:

Graphic 45 Time to Flourish collection:

March Flourish 

May Cut Apart 

Stickers

Prima Tag

RRR pink ribbon

Beaded trim from Hobby Lobby

Thanks so much for visiting today and a very special thanks to all the Moms in the world.  Your job is so often a thankless task.

Mother's Day card from the Flying Unicorn Store April Kit.

The Flying Unicorn April KOM features Prima's beautiful Tales of You & Me papers.  The gorgeous floral images are just perfect for making Mother's Day cards.  I especially love the vintage image from one of the design papers that I used on the front of my card.

Take a look at my video for complete instructions to make this card.

Video link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPZo02ftgU

Supplies from the April KOM:

Tales of You & Me Collection:

Beauté Cachée 990848

Contes de Toi et  Moi 990817

Kaisercraft white roses dyed with several red mists

Other Supplies:

French vanilla cardstock

Olive green cardstock

Ribbon

I Am Roses (largest flower)

Dies Used:

Spellbinders Card Creator A2 Valiant Honor

Spellbinders Decorative Labels 8

Spellbinders Romantic Vines

 Thanks so much for visiting today!  

Maggi

Visit our NEW Store!

Are you visiting the Tallahassee area soon?

Stop in and say hello!

Plan a day trip! Crops -Classes-Fun

926 North Monroe St

Tallahassee, Florida

Tel: 850.270.6366 Toll Free 800.231.7119

Visit the Flying Unicorn Store! www.flyingunicornstore.com

Let's Recycle in Honor of Earth Day with Graphic 45

I am loving G45's new DIY Craft Paper!  It is perfect for your home projects because it is a big sheet of paper and wraps all the way around without having to piece your paper.  Yay!  If I am not scrapping, I am cooking, so it's a natural that I create things for the kitchen.  To celebrate Earth Day I created a kitchen utensil holder from a used Pepperidge Farms Pirouette cookie tin in my favorite color, red.

This would make a great gift for a wedding shower;  just add a few kitchen utensils and,  voilà, a beautiful handmade gift. 

Tip:  Use matte medium to protect, and strengthen your handmade items that you'll be using everyday.  And for those fabric flowers?   Just spray them with a little Staingard.

 I used a combination of fussy cut paper flowers and Petaloo Botanica blooms to embellish my tin.

Take a look at my Snapguide to see how easy this project is.  You can do this in just a couple of hours.  

Check out How to Make a Utensil Holder From a Recycled Cookie Tin by Maggi HARDING on Snapguide.

Petaloo and Authentique join together for a fabulous bloghop!

I love when we get to bloghop with other manufacturers and this month Petaloo and Authentique are bloghopping together.  I love how Petaloo's gorgeous blooms coordinate so nicely with Authentique's new Utopia collection.  Be sure to stop by both the Petaloo  and Authentique blogs for a chance to win some great prizes!

I used a Creative Embellishments chipboard frame to really focus on my cutie pie great niece and then used lots of layers from the Utopia collection to make it pop and finished it off with two great Petaloo floral clusters.  I added fussy cut leaves, also from the Authentique papers, to give my clusters the perfect finish.  The bow is tied from Petaloo trims and I love how it looks with the flower layers!

Petaloo's dogwoods layer so nicely around and under other flowers.

Isn't this quote just perfect for my photo?

Petaloo Flowers

Mixed Texture Layers x 12 Amber 1257-203

Sugared Minis Gold/Sienna 1131-124

Dogwoods x 24 Canvas Antique Blue 1211-253 

Burlap Trim - Teal

Authetique Utopia Collection Kit 

 Freestyle

Felicity

Enhancements

Succulent 

 Life Cards

Bundle 6 x 6 pad

Components Die Cut Accents

I sure do appreciate you stopping by my blog today.  Thanks so much!