Flying Unicorn proudly presents their March kit ...

We are so excited to bring you our March 2014 Kit of the Month. We begin with our MAIN KIT and the INCLUDED off the page project.

You get the latest and the greatest in the main kit to get your creative mojo flowing and we will always include an off the page project ( OTP) that will inspire and sometimes challenge your inspiration- but always creative fun! Our March kit is filled with creative goodies that will excite

Your Passion. Your Art !

Just take a look at some of the amazing inspirational projects from the creative team :

Welcome to the Mixed Art! Our new add on kit will always come with a canvas and a variety mediums, mists, tools that compliment that main kit.

Here are a few amazing inspirational projects by the Flying Unicorn Creative Team

Our Mixed Passion add on kit if filled with flowers, ribbons, trinkets and more. Jam packed with embellishments that compliment the main kit.

Small Art. Big Passion is exactly what this new add on kit is filled with. Papers that are on a smaller scale that will compliment the main kit and embellishments that are scaled to compliment the main kit or to entice you to create cards, tags, atc's and so much more !

Our educational creativeness explodes this month 

with amazing creations and tutorials by Shona and Erica !

Join Shona on March 4th, 2014 - In our BAP forums to create and play in our art journal using the kit of the month !

Join Erica on March 6th on our You Tube Channel where she show us a step by step tutorial in creating an amazing layout!

As you can see we have filled our March kit and add on Kits with so much creative awesomeness - CLICK HERE - to get yours now - Remember there are no sign ups - they are sold on a first come first serve basis and once they are gone they are gone !

Don't miss out ...

Burlap and lace ...

Yep, a swap that I was playing along with on Facebook ... make a tag and somewhere on your tag use burlap and lace.

So that's what I did ... I used burlap and lace.

And this wee creation, well actually, it's a big tag, a huge tag really ... well this wee treasure should have now arrived safely in the land of Oz ... to my swap partner.

Hope she likes it.

I left the back totally blank - I did think of covering it but just in case my swap partner decides to gift it elsewhere, I thought best to leave it, just in case ...

and a close up or two ...

and as you can see, the sewing machine has been used ...

I had a real play putting this together

and whilst I wouldn't normally play with yellow, I loved these papers

So there you have it ...

It's the first time that I have played along with the tag swap with this group and I had a blast putting this together.

Can't wait until mine arrives and everyone does the show and tell thing.

Wonder what the next tag swap entails.
Happy creating
CYA

Playing with 13 Arts sprays ...

You can find it in the Flying Unicorn store here.


Now that gorgeous oval canvas that was plain old white when it arrived, well it is no longer.

It now look like this ...

It has been gesso'd, it has been sprayed, it has been stenciled/masked with texture paste and modeling paste and it has been sprayed and sprayed and sprayed again using 13 Arts sprays.

Gosh those sprays are truly rich in colour and if you are lucky enough to get your hands on them, 

spray a little water on top of them and watch the colour change and then, well then spray them with a little white spray and ooh-la-la.

This canvas has what would appear to be a gazillion seed beads on it [not included in the kit].

Those little suckers bounce somewhat when a bottle is knocked over ... hmmmmmm ...

I know this from experience.

I have to say, I played somewhat with this canvas and in the end, 

I really love how it turned out.

You can see that I have used those butterfly stamps again ... these stamps came from the Cardabilities sponsor for February and you can find them here ... and I've stamped them on transparency using Staz On ink and hand cut them out.

I've lightly scored them and adhered with hot glue gun.

Happy creating everyone.

Flying Unicorn and 13Arts Team up - Win Daily Prizes

         Flying Unicorn and 13Arts Team Up

The Flying Unicorn and 13 ARTS are teaming up together this month to give you 13 Days of 13 ARTS. 13 ARTS has so many amazing collections and fun mixed media products to play with…and you guessed it…the Flying Unicorn store carries them! 

13Arts paints can be found here
13Arts Mists can be found here
13Arts Water inks are found here
13Arts Mixed Media Gels and Paints are found here
13Arts Paper Collections - All is Love
13Arts Paper Collection - Faces of Spring 
13Arts Paper Collection -Timeless

There are prizes to be won EVERY DAY of this fun filled pairing. 

OK who wants to win a gorgeous prize pack!!  Rules are simple:  All you have to do is head on over to the 13 ARTs Facebook page, like them and share the “project of the day”. They will choose a winner the next day! You can do this between 7 am est and 9 pm est for each of the 13 days. Days will alter between the Flying Unicorn and 13 ARTs Facebook pages, so keep visiting both of them to increase  your chances of winning!

Sketch No. 93 ... Reveal time ...

We have a brand new Team and a  New Sponsor:
This month we have a  new Sponsor here at Cardabilities.  

Chapel Road Stamps ( Division of Class Act Stamps) 

Rubber stamp Company from Ontario, Canada is sponsoring our reveals on both blogs for the month of February. 

Visit their website here:

Like them on Facebook here and tell them Cardabilities sent you!

Welcome to Chapel Road Art Stamps.  At Chapel Road you will find our stamps are suitable for all types of stamping purposes. Our stamps are offered either unmounted or mounted ( rubber only) or cling mounted. Which means they are already put on cling cushion and cut out for you to use with your acrylic blocks.

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 Here is what is up for grabs should you happen to create a project with Sketch #93 and link using our linky system.

Set of 5 Cling Mount Rubber Stamps.

you have until Feb 26th to link your project to have the chance to win the giveaway from our Sponsor.

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The Sketch: 

Now quite a few of you know that I love creating with butterflies, in amongst other things ... and I was [and still am] ooh-ing and aah-ing over these stamps.

Yep, I was sent these gorgeous stamps to play with ... oops, create with.

Beautiful ... they are, truly ...

and my card ...

Voila 

and I've used Staz on ink and the butterfly stamp has been stamped on to transparency and I've cut around the image and lightly folded to ever so slightly score the butterfly and put adhesive under the crease/scored edge ...

A close up of the layering ...

and another one ...

look at that gorgeous butterfly ...

Hope you find time to be a little creative and whip up a card and of course, upload it to the Cardabilities blog.

Happy creating.
CYA
M

Cardabilities Design Team

It's getting closer ... to that very first reveal, well to my very first reveal ... a wee tad excited ...

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  The design team for February through April ...

  
  

  Agata Seńko

• Ganna Gruden
• Ilona Zbieg
• Leah Cornelius
• Lynn Darda
• Michelle Frisby [that would be moi!]
• Marcia Dehn-Nix
• Marta Duda
• Marzena Ziuziakowska
• Monika Jakubowska
• Olga Kovalchuk
• Rose Miller
• Sara Castelo de Carvalho
• Stacey Schafer
• Stephanie Severin
• Teresa Horner
• Vicki Dutcher

I 'heart' you ...

Remember at the start of the month when Flying Unicorn released their February kit of the month ...

I shared this wee treasure with you ... well to be honest, there is nothing 'wee' about it ...

It's fabulous ...




Well have to say it looks nothing like that now ... it is no longer naked ... we have colour ... yep, we surely do.

and because I can ... get ready to view all those closies ...

there are a few of them ...

a closer look at that texture ...

there's a few layers going on ...

hmmmmmmm ... a whole lot of texture and layers going on ...

check out those black hearts, they are chalk board hearts ...

that cluster again, because I can ...

and another one ... why not ...

and once again, in its entirety ...

In the Flying Unicorn store you will find the Maya Road clocks, the flowers, the mesh ribbon, Prima resins and I've used a mix of Lindy's sprays and glimmermists and let's not forget the 13 Arts mists in the kit.

Underneath the gesso, there are three layers of tissue - that came in the box that my kit was in ... there are a trillion seed beads, and that is giving this heart a whole lot more texture, there's modeling paste as well and you can see a few wee spots/areas of a pinkish paint popping through - a 13 arts paint in the store ... and I've also used one of the blue 13 arts paints as well.

The 'odd' choice in spot colour, let's just say my first attempt at playing with this heart was a total disaster and was never, ever, going to see the light of day.

But I'm now happy with the way it has come together ...

Happy creating everyone.
CYA
M