BLUE XMAS - Flying Unicorn

Hello Scrappers,

Id like to share with you today my latest xmas layout.. Im not a fan of red and green.....I tend to go for other colours at xmas.....so when Bo Bunny bought out snowfall a few winters ago I was in heaven.....needless to say its been in my stash since then and I have been real hesitant to use it, cause once you use it, its gone!

I found a gorgeous chippy of Santa with his six white boomers, ( white Kangaroo's) from the famous Australian xmas song...six white boomers! So had to use it!!!!!

I used the dusty Attic xmas tree, and followed a tutorial done by Rachiebabe from SB.COM

I fractured the 3 layers of the tree, gessoed, and used white icicles as the snow drifts and decorated with a few blue and silver POP beads.

My Santa sleigh, I used Versa colour ink, Dimensional magic to give it dimension and Mica fragments.....My Boomers are White ink covered in Starburst stickles...... 

I dont have snow photos, this is Australia and our xmas days are usually over 30 degree celcius.....so I borrowed a picture from google and used that....

 

 

 

 



VINTAGE FRAME REVIVAL

Hello Ladies,

 

While out shopping recently I stopped by the charity store, I love these places, lots

of treasure to be found for not much cash.....and lots of vintage clothes to cut up!

I bought a vintage photo frame from St vincents de paul.....$2 it had no glass....but lovely timber. I made this little canvas using a canvas corp burlap canvas from the FUL store, some embellies from my past kits and a few bits of vintage lace.....once I had the burlap canvas ready, I glued it down to the backing plate on the photo frame, and viola.....ready to hang.....vintage style!



 

Have  a crafty week!



A Blue Xmas with the Bubbachooka AKA Mish

Hello Ladies, and Welcome to my little post today.....Well Xmas is just around the bend and wow it got here fast this year....

Im not sure everyone is the same, but Im over red and green....I bought myself aa green tree but thats it, everything else is other colours this year.....So id like to share with you a couple fo tags that I have made using my fav scrappy colours, Blue and brown. Yep a Blue xmas!!!!!

This first tag has 8 layers....yep 8. I used a Prima tag that you can find in the FUL store, the 8.5" ones, and added a layer of Prima Journal tag, and some lace, a chippy flourish and frame and topped it off with a wooden Kaiser Reindeer! ITs teal and brown with lots of lace ribbon.....I inked the words in two tone and finished them off with dimensional magic....I used dimensional magic on the reindeer as well.

This next tag is a little more "vintage" I used the same size tag, but this time I used my cuttlebug to cut out the Tim Holtz "Noel 25" and two toned them with inks and dimensional magic again, then I pulled apart a cheap xmas card from last year, ripped off the plastic frame, that had a distinct vintage feel and put a vintage image of xmas underneath.....I topped this off with some little blue Petaloo blooms.....

and lastly I made a little ATC from the scraps on my bench afterwards....I love this old Bo Bunny paper, it was their Xmas release a few years ago and I loved it, Im almost sade to use it....hmmmmm Scrappy Hoarder......thats me.

I hope all you ladies out there have a Scrappy Xmas and find loads of new stash under the tree, and while most of you celebrate in the bitter cold and snow ( ya lucky ducks) think of us Southern Hemisphere Belles sweltering in 40 degree Celcius heat, dishing up cold meats, cold seafood and salads! Hoping like crazy it isnt so hot your flip flops ( we call them thongs) dont melt on the driveway!

FLYING UNICORNS SILENT AUCTIONS

 

Let the bidding begin!

Our silent auction to help Best Friends Animal Society has begun! For your viewing pleasure we are showcasing bits and pieces of the different lots that can be won by you (as long as you are the highest bidder!) Click on over to the forums, bid for your favorite lots, and you may be lucky in not only helping an incredible charity, but getting some amazing goodies as well!

Open up your pocket book and your heart and let the bidding begin!

You can also help us reach our $3000.00 goal this month by:

• Donating directly - every dollar helps! 
• Join our 1000 upload challenge and load your finished projects in our forum gallery! 
• Create a fur baby project and load it in our forum challenge

From the Flying Unicorn Creative Team and myself, we thank you each and one of you for supporting Flying Unicorn Gives Back !

FLYING UNICORN BLOG HOP

Every year in the month of November, Flying Unicorn sponsors "Flying Unicorn Gives Back." This year, we've chosen a nationally recognized charity, Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.

For each project that is uploaded to our forum gallery, Flying Unicorn donates $1.00 to a maximum of $1,000 and. we've always reached our goal. With your help this year we will again.! Flying Unicorn also donates 5% of all sales during the month of November to the charity. Finally, do not forget to mark your calendars for our Silent Auction November 8th - November 16th .We have set up the Flying Unicorn page on the Best Friends site where monetary donations can be made as well to help us reach this years goal of $3000.00 in charitable donations.

https://secure.bestfriends.org/page/outreach/view/personalFR/FlyingUnicorn

Best Friends' mission of No More Homeless Pets tries to place dogs and cats who are considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spay and neuter programs. Since its inception, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to approximately 5 million a year. There has been much progress,but there is still much more to do. Best Friends made national headlines with

their intensive efforts in rescuing so many animals in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina..

In honor of Best Friends, and the November Kit of the Month -Hear'ts Twilight - I would like to share with you the extra special project I made using the Kit of the month :

 

 

 

This is my Gorgeous Bella, she was a rescue, and she was almost dead from a severe beating

when found, I rescued her and Love her dearly!

 

So hop on over to Alda,s blog and get started on your journey..

 

http://flyingunicornllc.blogspot.com.au/

 

Heart's Twilight is now available with an amazing and fun off the page creation- take a look:

Do not forget to join Alda and Shona this month with their process of making the below layouts. Alda will show you step by step on our You Tube Channel, while Shona has done a complete Build a Page for you all!

WAIT! There is a little more before you hop on over to Alda,s blog

Want to win a Cameo-Silhouette?

Every $5.00 donated to Best Friends via our donation page will give you a chance to win!

Additional details can be found on our forums.

So now you have found me,  hop on over to http://scraptravelbark.blogspot.ca/ for some additional eye candy fun and thank you for your support in giving back !

Flying Unicorn Blog Hop 31st October

Hello scrappy sisters

 

The flying Unicorn is having a Blog Hop!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

and even better, ( I know hard to beat) its to benefit Animals! double yay!!!!!

 

I cant think Of a more wonderful way to show your love for your furry friends, than to blog hop!!!!!!

I cant wait for you all to hop along!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

and here are my furry babies.....

 

 

WCYDW - WITH BUBBACHOOKA AKA MISH FROM THE FLYING UNICORN

Hello ladies today id like to share with you how incredibly easy it is to create a mixed media canvas like my one called Monroe.

Things you will need with you before you begin

Canvas

Clear drying glue like PVA or Mod Podge

paint brushes

Lindys stamp gang flat fabio colour pack ( FUL store)

lots of trinkets and embellies ( FUL store )

Studio 490 Gold texture paint ( FUL store)

Gesso ( FUL store)

your imagination and a photo of choice if you want.

The first thing I did was gesso the canvas and attach my photo, in this case Marilyn Monroe....

Then I set about adhering all the embellies and placing them where I wanted, 

this is where your creative license comes in, be mad, be adventurous be extreme!!!!!!!

In the next shot you'll see my placement of my trinkets and chippies and bits and bobs.

there is even a piece of broken gate hinge from Hubbies garage, you can use anything!!!!!!! 

 TIP: ONCE YOU FINISH GLUING YOUR EMBELLIES ON DO YOUR SELF A FAVOUR AND GIVE YOUR PHOTO ( IF YOU USED ONE) A COAT OF PVA OR MOD PODGE.....YOULL SEE WHY!

 Then you get to play with gesso......yay....the fun grubby part, I love this part, makes me feel like Michealangelo....

As you can see I covered every square inch, make sure everything is covered...

THEN YOU GET TO GET REALLY REALLY GRUBBY! YEEHAH!

now  you colour your creation, I used the Greased Lightening pack from Lindys Stamp gang from the FUL store, I foundit the best, only because it was my FAV colours! You can use what you like and theres plenty to choose from in the Store.......Alda has Dylusions and they work well......

so you spray your colours and mist to your hearts content!

Now this is where I got kinda worried, Hmmmmm its to light, its not bright and shiny and not vibrant!!!!! What did I do wrong? nothing!!!!! dope me hadnt finished the last step! once you have left this to dry

you now get to PVA or Mod Podge EVERYTHING!!!!! TIP,use different brushes for different colours, as the glue will add moisture to the colours and they will run.

Now remember when I said cover your photo, that was because I gave poor old Marilyn a squirt fair in the Kisser of Rizzo red.....DOH!!!!!

But seeing that it was over the top of the PVA, it wipes right off!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!

So now once you cover it with the Glue again you get this:

My finished canvas.......ready to hang or display.

This technique can be used in many different ways, full canvas's or part canvas's, ATC's or even Tags.

I have used it a few times, with and without photos....

here are a few of my examples.

The Glamorously Gorgeous Miss Kitty!!!!!!!Steam punk style!

My Flying Unicorn Garden from my July reveal!!!!!

Everything here apart from my two wings was from the FUL store!!!!!!!!

I used the same Lindys colours over and over again!!!!!

And now, for my latest canvas, which you are getting to see for the first time!!!!!!!

My Depster!!!!!! My FAV man! in all his Glory!

This time I used the Texture Metallic paint from Studio 490 from the FUL store.

I love the metallic feel to this.....

Also this time, I added the use of stencils, I picked a few of my faves

and stencilled them using modelling paste.........

Where you see the purple, I spritzed with Lindys Rizzo red and then Zucco denim

red and lue makes purple! woohoo

I tried to show the metallic texture paint as best I could but  in daylight you cant see it thru my camera. so here are some close ups

I hope I have inspired you all to take the plunge into Mixed Media, Its fun, different and you can make the most amazing creations.....

So get creative...

Mish over and out!