A Christmas Canvas/card - Featuring Victorian Christmas by Prima and Frank Garcia

Prima's Victorian Christmas by Frank Garcia!

If you don't have this collection yet, go grab it up.  It's a Christmas collection and yet, once the holidays are over, you'll still be pulling this out and using the gorgeous non-holiday prints.  This collection has stripes and polka dots and music notes.  Can't get more versatile than that!!

Today I feature the paper with the music notes - the "B" side of the paper. 

This is a canvas/card that I made with a lot of dimension.   I put a variety of flowers in this card you can can see a good array of the collection.  

I am also gluing a card to the back of this to turn it into a card. It doesn't even have to be a canvas.  It can stay a card and you can frame it. 

This collection has such rich warmth - perfect for a vintage flair.  I actually used the 12x12 papers here because I wanted a pattern that was bigger than the 6x6 pad.   I also have one of Prima's newly released stencils as a background.  

Scroll down a bit further and I'll show you how I made the base of my canvas/ card.  But first a few more close ups.  I'll even show you where you can still grab this collection. 

 OK so here's how I made this:

I started with some heavy white gesso and a stencil placed onto the "B" side of this piece of Victorian Christmas paper - the music notes side. (Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un e Carte de Noel).

I used the heavy gesso because it tends to stay bright white.  I find that molding paste often doesn't keep it's initial bright white color.  When I want white - I'd like it to stay white, ya know what I mean?   

And this is how the stenciling turned out.  I cut around it once it was totally dry.  Pretty, right?

Next I decided to make it a bit more dimensional.  I backed it with cardboard and cut the cardboard out. 

To add the Santa image from the Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un Chant de Noel paper, I simply placed the Santa image behind the stenciled circle and all is perfect!

From there, I mounted this to my card, canvas or cardstock and finished embellishing.  You can add flowers anyway you like, but to me, the construction of the base is the most important to understand. 

In my flower clustering, I used one main anchor flower and then add filler.  Filler in this case are the floral berries from the collection as well as some pine punches and little snips of gold trim and red holly leaves. 

Thanks for looking and stopping.
Best of all, you can grab this collection right here at the Flying Unicorns store.

Prima Products:
Victorian Christmas Collection can be found right here
583460 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Midnight  Kiss
583415 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Holiday Lights
583491 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers - Sleigh Bells
990534  Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un Chant de Noel
990497  Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un e Carte de Noel
991050 Prima Frank Garcia -Memory Hardware - Cours Mirabeau Floral Lace
582845 - Prima Stencil 6x6 Doily 1
961442 - Prima Finnabair Heavy Gesso - White

Other products:
Gold Braid Trim
Cardboard
Floral Berries
6x6 canvas board

Christmas Card Featuring Prima's Victorian Christmas by Frank Garcia

Prima's Victorian Christmas by Frank Garcia!

If you con't have this collection yet, go grab it up.  It's a Christmas collection and yet, once the holidays are over, you'll still be pulling this out and using the gorgeous non-holiday prints....stripes and polka dots?  Can't get more versatile than that!!

This is a card that I created for my parents.  I put a variety of flowers in this card you can can see a good array of the collection.  

This collection has such rich warmth - perfect for a vintage flair.  I actually used the 12x12 papers here.  I also have one of Prima's newly released dies as a background.  

Scroll down a bit further and I'll show you how I made the base of my card.  But first a few more close ups. 

Frank added some gorgeous edges to the flowers in this collection.  Some have "sugared" edges with beautiful chunky crystals on the edges,  Other are outlined in festive gold glitter. 

OK so where can you snag these papers?  At the Flying Unicorn of course. You can find the collection right here. 

So these are the layers I started for the base.  I used a kraft colored pre-folded card because the warm kraft is such a great complimenting neutral for this collection. 

I framed up the card like this:

Next I added a strip of texture - some neutral burlap. 

And this is how I used the Prima Doily Die cut. I used it as more of a circle border.  Added cardboard over it for some dimension.  

I'll follow up with a few more close ups of the floral cluster.  I love the large flower as a gorgeous anchor piece.  My fluster is then filled in  with  the smaller ones and snippets of the sprigs. 

Thanks for looking and stopping.


Prima Products:
Victorian Christmas Collection can be found right here
583507 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Poinsettia Kiss
583446 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Rudolph's Nose
583415 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Holiday Lights
583491 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers - Sleigh Bells
990510 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un Calendrier de L'advent
990480 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Pere Noel
572785 Prima Metal Die

Other products:
Trim
Floral Berries
Burlap

Merry Christmas Wood House Home Decor- with Simple Stories and Blitsy

Create some holiday home decor 

I created some simple festive and bright home decor for the walls to celebrate the joys of the season.  Blitsy and Simple Stories Clause & Co collection helped too ( of course). 

I'm up on the Blitsy Blog today showing all the details and step by step instructions on how I assembled this wood house.  

Get Started Shopping at Blitsy today right here

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Flying Unicorn - Small Art Big Passion Wreath Card

Small Art Big Passion...from the Flying Unicorn

This is a cool little mini-kit packed with all the fixin's that you would need for a full month of card making, tag making and all the other small projects that may tickle your fancy.  It's got the most current products that you still demand but just small sized papers. 

This just happens to be my favorite kit each month because I like making cards. 

You can find the kit selections right here starting the last day of every month.  They do sell out super fast because we are the Premier kit  to have. 

BUT the best way to make sure you can grab the kit monthly is the pre-sale option that starts the 20th of every month.   Alda, Queen of the Unicorns (owner of the store), offers the kits at pre-sale starting the 20th and running for 48 hours only. You have the luxury of seeing the kit elements and deciding if it is a good fit for you.  

So let me talk a bit about this particular card.  The die is from Darice and I thought it would be great form a festive Christmas card. The die was included in the Small Art Big Passion kit.   Great cool bonus.    

The papers this month are from BoBunny Juliet collection.    I accented them with some seam binding and floral berries.  

Thanks for stopping by and check out the pre-sale.  You won't be sorry!!

Products:
Flying Unicorn Small Art Big Passion
BoBunny Juliet collection 6x6
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Cardstock
Seam Binding ribbon
Floral Berries
Darice Die