More fun with 13 @rts!

Oooh I haven't had this much fun in ages! 13 @rts, from Poland, is a new paper on the market and it is just awesome.  My last post I showed up a feminine girly page.  Today we're going deep into winter.  These papers are very versatile and a nice weight so that you can really apply the mixed media as I have done on this layout.  These papers are available now at the Flying Unicorn, here.

 Here in the south we really don't get much snow at all and you know after 5 years in Alaska and 8 years in Denver, CO, I miss snow in the winter!  Every once in a blue moon as they say, we do get the occasional freak snowstorm and that was what happened Christmas 2010.  It started snowing Christmas night and we woke up 12" of snow on December 26th. 

Nika was just an 8 month old puppy and being from Ocala, Florida, of course she had never seen snow before.  At first she was rather taken aback and looked at me like "what is that?".  But then with Chena by her side, she really immersed herself in the snow.  She and Chena chased each other all over the back yard leaping and jumping and really having a ball.  Of course I was out there with my camera trying to catch all the action.  This is a photo I got of Nika leaping through the snow.

 

I used a TCW mini mask and Golden fiber paste to create the snow splats.  Then I painted them with a snow cap dabber, topped and finally snow glitter.  I used an Alterations diecut fence th create my snow bank.  After cutting the fence I dabbed it with snowcap, then I took fiber paste and created the snow banks which I painted again with the snow cap dabber.  After that was dry, I painted it with Glitter snow and then sprinkled on some Diamond Dust for extra sparkle.  I added a few touches of icicle Stickles here and there.  The snowflakes were cut with a Martha Stewart punch and then covered with icicle Stickles.

 

These letters are foam that I coated with glue and then pressed into Diamond Dust.  Its a great way to give anything sparkle.  I also like to use it on flowers.

 

These leaves were cut with the ivy Cottage Cutz die and then I painted on Glitter Snow.  I helped it dry with my heat gun which caused the Glitter Snow to puff up a little bit and I think it looked more like snow as a result.

 

Supplies (highlighted products are linked to the Flying Unicorn store):

Patterned paper:  13Arts Frosted Life Collection:  Base-ColdWall, Large rectangle and strip-Winter Bricks, small rectangle-Stardust

Letters:  Pink Paislee Meringue covered with Diamond Dust 

Diecuts and punches: Martha Stewart snowflake punch; Alterations On the Fence;

Cottage Cutz Ivy

Flowers:    Prima Fleur Danseur Swan Lake;

Stickles:  Icicles

Mask:  TCW Mini Splats

Paint:     Ranger snow cap dabber

Other:  Diamond Dust; Glitter Snow; Golden Fiber Paste

 

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The Flying Unicorn introduces 13 Arts!!

 

 

I got my package of 13 Arts in yesterday and immediately sat down and started creating!  This is a new paper line straight from Poland and are they ever lucious!!  The papers are a nice heavy weight with such rich blended colors.  This collection is The Frosted Life and I must admit that I started thinking something snowy.  But then I was drawn to the feminine soft blues and pinks and decided to work on another layout for the wedding album I am making our niece.

 

 

I love how the soft pastels make a muted background for the bride's vibrant bouquet, these papers are a perfect match!  I used a Martha Stewart punch on the background piece and mounted that on a piece of white cardstock that I had lightly inked around the edges with distress ink.  I also painted the background with watered down whie gesso as I wanted to further mute the pink.

 

 

I made the two flowers using the Alterations mini tattered floral die.  I used white cardstock to cut the flowers and then heavily misted them with Fireworks London Fog mist and then inked the flower tips with Distress Weathered Wood.  I scrunched the petals and twisted with my tweezers then layered one on top of the other and used a Prima Monarch Diamond flower center.

 

That beautiful swirl is a ScrapFX flourish and it is sooo gorgeous.  We just got a new shipment in of ScrapFX so you might want to check it out as it tends to fly out the door!

 

 

I am having a real love affair with Stampendous Embossing Enamels right now.  I am using them on everything!  I used Shabby Pink on the ScrapFX chippy above and below I used Shabby White.  The application of the shabby white was kind of fun.  I took a Prima mask and some jasmine Mixed Media Inx and inked over the mask.  Then I covered it with the white embossing enamel.  I think it made for an interesting effect.  You don't really see the masked image so much but I love the white and gold flakes as it adds to the sparkle of the layout and for me a wedding layout should sparkle and shine!

 

 

Here's a complete supply list and links to the store:

Cardstock:      Bazzill avalanche

Patterned paper:  13Arts Frosted Life collection: diecut-Moondust, pink-frosted ferns, blue square-Stardust

Letters:  Pink Paislee Portfolio alpha stickers

Chipboard:  ScrapFXflourish Vcovered with Stampendous shabby pink embossing enamel

Diecuts and punches: WRMK Lucky 8 punch Fancy Scroll, Martha Stewart Swirling Lace,

Flowers:    handmade with Alterations mini tattered floral die, Prima Monarch Diamond centers

Ink:  Mixed Media Inx jasmine, Distress Victorian velvet and weathered wood

Paint:  Ranger snowcap dabber, white gesso

Other:  Stampendousshabby white and shabby pink embossing enamel, Prima mask, Kaisercraft laser cut wooden birdcage

 

 

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Bathtime for Chena featuring Gallivant from the Flying Unicorn Dec KOM

Having two standard poodles means I spend alot of time grooming.  They are such wonderful dogs but their hair does require alot of attention.  Bending over the bathtub giving them baths was really killing my back so Dick built a doggie bathtub for me from a RV bathtub and a sink base cabinet.  (There are doggie bathtubss available on the market but none that would fit into the space that I had available.) 

In addition to Creative Imaginations Gallivant papers, flowers, Kasiercraft wooden frame, Fabscraps chipboard crown from the December KOM, I added from my stash all the black swirls and the Dusty Attic Bathtime chippy.  The black corner & circle swirls are a transparency and the white leaves I made with clay from I think it was the Oct kit.

 

The Bath Time chippy is embossed with Stampendous teal aged embossing enamel and snowcap dabber paint on the bubbles and then I added frosted lace stickles to give the bubbles some sparkle and dimension.  I love love love the Stampendous embossing enamels, they look so great on chipboard and easy to apply!  I just dab on Stampendous Boss Gloss and then cover with embossing enamel.  YOu can find these products at the Flying Unicorn here.  I have to say the enamels are my favorite product discovery this year!

 

 

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Flying Unicorn Dec KOM - the feminine side!

Yesterday I showed you the more masculine aspects of the fabulous December KOM and today I want to show you the feminine side.  I mixed Fabscraps Marie Antoinette and Ruby Rock-It Mother Nature on these three layouts.  Our niece got married in August and I am making her wedding album for her.  Her wedding colors were aqua and pink so these papers perfectly fit the bill!

The background paper on this layout is Fabscraps and I love the bride and church steeple peeking out on the right, isn't that perfect for a wedding LO!  I made the roses from a Fabscraps punch out page !  The birdcage was fussy cut from one of the Mother Nature papers.  I love this picture of the bride and her sister!

 

The flower girls were so so cute!  I think they were 3 and 5 years old. 

One of my favorite products right now is Stampendous aged embossing powders and I've used it here on the Kaisercraft wooden frame.  I really love the look!

 

Sorry for the blurred out faces... this little girl was so cute clowning around while the photographer was trying to take a nice group shot, I concentrated on taking pictures of her while he was trying to get a nice group shot!  Again I've used Stampendous aged pink on the crown and the Dusty Attic flourishes.  That was a corner bracket that I cut up.

 

Be sure to stop by the Flying Unicorn store and check out the kit and addons. 

December Flying Unicorn kit

The Flying Unicorn December kit is, as always, packed with a fabulous assortment of papers and embellishments.  Feataured papers include Creative Imaginations Gallivant, Fabscraps Marie Antoinette, and Ruby Rock-it Mother Nature.  Our main kit always includes an off the page project and this month its Teresa Collins' Christmas Countdown Memory Mini Album.  You can buy the kit here, hurry they go fast!

I keep trying to convince everyone at the Flying Unicorn that I am a sweet angel, but you know they just don't believe me.  I offer this as proof positive, LOL.  I was in Ohio this past winter with my scrappy girl friends and we were at a gift shop that had these wings.  Well you know Jen (jrabs) always has her camera in hand and she tood this picture!  Thanks for this fun photo Jen!

This was the first LO I did with the kit and its my favorite.  I add the Dusty Attic frame which is painted with Liquid Pearls in biscotti and touches of Antique Gold Rub 'n' Buff.  I wanted the matting to be on top of the frame rather than underneath so I layered a piece of cardboard inside the frame and them adherred my papers to the cardboard.  I really like the effect.  I used MS's swirling lace corner punch to punch the circle.  The embellishment addon includes the Prima resin bird and Pink Paislee Artisan Element circle.  The letters and birdcage were in previous kits.

The Flying Unicorn strives to put together unusual kits with unusual things to stretch your creativity.  I love the 12 x 12 cork panel included in the kit and thought it would be a perfect background for this photo of a long abandoned farm house.  Again, thanks to Jen for this excellent photo that she took when visiting me,  I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil and Glimmer Mist to create the background.  the letters are heat embossed with Stampendous aged copper.  I used a Dusty Attic bracket frame from my stash and heat embossed it with Stampendous aged silver, then before the Embossing powder dried I added Stampendous Tarnished Mica Fragments.  I think it is a cool old look!
The flowers are from my stash.

 

Also included in the main kit is this great sandable cardstock, sanding brings out the clock details, I love this cardstock!   I had fun with the letters, first I inked them with Distress Walnut Stain, then I dabbed on Lindy's Cattail Copper Brown and touches of Lindy's California Poppy Gold.  Note that I said dabbed on, I have dabber tops on many of my Lindy's mists and you get a different effect from dabbing than you get from misting.  With dabbing, the color tends to pool and concentrate more.

 

Thanks for visiting, I'll have some more kit creations for you tomorrow and they will be completely different from these, I'll show you the feminine side of the kit.

It's here, the December Flying Unicorn KOM!!

Flying Unicorn

Proudly Presents

As 2012 comes to a close, we ponder with smiles and sometimes with tears the year gone by. We remember our time away whether a family vacation or in our thoughts and dreams.Photographs of that special occasion have captured a moment that will live forever in the heart and mind. Cherished moments, loved memories is why we bring to you today Ode to Yesteryear.

This months kit includes collections from Ruby Rock-It - Mother Nature, Gallivant by Creative Imagination and Marie Antoinette by Fabscraps

We could not let Christmas pass us by and our off the page project that is included in this months Kit of the Month is The Teresa Collins Christmas Countdown Memory Mini Album.

Though the kit is filled with lots of inspirational goodies, we have put together add ons that compliment the main kit

Creative Team Inspiration

Off the Page Inspiration

Build a Page

This month we are so excited to share with you Kelly's BAP that will give you step by step instructions to create this incredible layout on December 4th 2012 on the forums !

CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO THE BAP

You Tube Tutorial

In the main Kit of The Month we have enclosed as 12x12 Corkboard in order to get your creative mind thinking of the possibilities. We present you with an Inspiration Video Tutorial by Shona giving you step by step instructions on making this incredible Cork layout !

CLICK HERE TO TAKE YOU TO THE FLYING UNICORN YOU TUBE CHANNEL

Come join my challenge at the Flying Unicorn!!

It's Christmas time and I'm all about Christmas now so I have a great Christmas challenge for you this month at the Flying Unicorn.   It's really a simple challenge, not going to impose too may gotta haves and all that!  I want you to create a Christmas themed layout (yep gotta be a LO this month) using traditional red and green Christmas colors.  Oh but wait, there's one little hitch, you CAN NOT use Christmas papers, can be anything but Christmas papers.  Now won't that be tons of fun??!!!  Why don't you give this a try and post your creation here at the Flying Unicorn!

So just a couple requirements to keep things interesting:

1. Gotta have at least 2 patterned papers
2.  Must use Christmas red and green as predominant colors, you can also use any other colors you want.
3.  I think we need to see some flowers and ribbon, just 'cause I like them
4. And how about a shape other than a circle, square or rectangle.  So you could use a diecut, an oval, hexagon, lots of ways you can go here, a shaped tag........
5.  That's not too many gotta haves, I think, this will be fun!!

And of course the usual Flying Unicorn rules:

1. Must be new as of today and a maximum of 3 entries per person .
2. .Must be posted in this thread by 7:30 pm on or before December 30, 2012  (note the date, early because we will all be involved in New Year's Maggi hour on the 31st!)
3. Can not be used for any other challenge on Flying Unicorn.
4. Check back often to give love, receive love, just for love!
5. Winner will be chosen via random.org on the 30th of December around 8:00pm . You can win only one challenge per month - (we share the love here) and you have 7 days to email Alda and claim your prize by telling me the challenge you won and your full address
6. You must have lots of creative fun!

So you know I am in love with the G45 Birdsong collection and this little brainstorm of mine is a result of wanting to use that collection.  I am making myself a calendar and this is the December page.  (It may be a 2014 calendar cause this is the only page I have done so far, LOL!)  The vine is Petaloo Cantebury from the store and I added the poinsettias, they are a Prima promotional item I won a couple yrs ago.

Chipboard button in the G45 Song Bird collection.  By the way, if you want to use this collection to make you Christmas project, it is available in the store!!

More aged embossing powder on the DA chippy below!

Ok girlies, get out that red and green paper and let me see what you can do with this!! 

As always we have a fabulous RAK up for grabs by one lucky person.  Looks like some great Scrapcake papers!!  All you have to do for a chance to win is make a LO for my challenge!