Flying Unicorns January Kit of the Month

The January kit from the Flying Unicorn has a fresh pop of color to usher in the new year. Start your year on a fun and festive note. Without further adieu, we offer you our January "Your Passion. Your Art" kit of the month.

Main Kit Includes : Papers—13@rts Secret Letters Two of each—Remember Me- A letter to you—Dear Friend—Written Stories—My Memories—One sheet Little Secrets—EMBELLISHMENTS- !3@rts 6x6 mask Beautiful Moments Notes, Prima Flowers 583330, Stickers Secret Letter, Lace Stickers Prima 572303,Secret letters laser cut words, Prima Stamp Music notes 960803, 24” trim, 13@rts mist— Dirty Pink, Chalk ink Old Road, Flying Unicorn Adornments, Wood Laser Cuts by Prima

January is a month to start a'fresh. This month, we have the perfect "Off the Page" piece to help keep everything around you fresh as well. Included in every main kit is this handy coaster set.

From the beginner to the avid mixed media artist our Mixed Art add on kit will surely please you. Our Mixed Art kit will always come with a canvas and mixed media art supplies to advance your skills as an artist.

The Mixed Art includes: 8x10 Black Canvas Board, Prima Cling Stamp Creating in FaithEve 980672, 13@rts clear gesso, 13@arts silver glitter paint, Prima cold pink mic powder, 13@rt Mists—Pastel dirty pink, pastel Black, Chalk Grey, 13@rts adornment, 13@rt mask words.

Flowers, vines,and embellishments oh my! Our Mixed Passion is a collection of everything pretty to add to the Main kit or the add on kits. The colors and embellishments will enhance your Kit of the Month creations or it can stand alone and you can create something magical on its own! So turn up the music, make some tea and lock your self away while you create some art!

All things pretty is what our Mixed Passion Kit is all about. This month it includes: Petaloo Textured Elements Petaloo textured blossoms, Prima pink leaves, Botanica Pink Blossoms, Botanica Floral Ephemera Gray.

Our Small Art Big Passion is all about the love of making cards, tags atc's and anything in between. From Stamps, flowers, paper, embellishments and pretty things in between! These yummy goodies will enhance any of the kits or stand alone .

This month our kit includes : 6x6 Paper Pad Secret Letters by 13@rts, Metal Embellishments Prima 583514,Dahlias by Petaloo, Lace Word Stickers by Prima, Say it with Crystals 1 yard trim, Flying Unicorn adornments, resist tags by Prima, Shabby Chic Treasures by Prima 891510.

We are thrilled to present great free tutorials, techniques, videos and Build a Page using our Kit of the Month to help you grow in the passion of your art. So stay tuned there is so much more to come in the next week!

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so do not delay in getting yours!

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Make A Watercolor Canvas with Distress Inks - Blitsy and I Will Show You How

Watercolor Mixed Media Canvas Without Using Watercolors 

 Are you interested in trying a watercolor technique without investing in a set of watercolors?   I have an easy way to try a technique on canvas that will give you the look and feel of watercolors just by using water reactive inks.  

I also add some other fun mixed media elements into this soft and flowing canvas. 

I'm up on the Blitsy Blog with a fun, easy, and fresh feeling project to try in the new year. 

There is a quick video showing all my techniques posted right on the Blitsy Blog. 

You can see the quick 6 min video right here. 

Look What You Can Do With Prima Color Bloom Mists

Look What You Can Do With Prima Color Bloom Mists

Prima's  Color Bloom Mists were coordinated with paper collections, but they also are great used together with warm richness.  My canvas sentiment says, " Be Yourself.  Everyone else is taken."  A quote by Oscar Wilde.

I love this project because I used a lot of texture by integrating Prima's micro beads and crystals.  The best way to adhere them to a canvas or page is by using  Prima Art Basics - Soft Matte Gel.  You just slather the clear Matte Gel Medium on the project and sprinkle the beads, sequins or glitter right on.  The gel dries clear and the project has a rich texture finish. 

Here is a horizontal view to show you how dimensional this project is.  

And a close up to show just how pretty those micro beads are paired with the crystals. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Prima Supplies:
580308 Prima Color Bloom Mists - Berrywine
580261 Prima Color Bloom Mists - Mustard Yellow
962739 Prima Art Ingredients - Glass Glitter - Violet
962586 Prima Art Ingredients -Micro Beads - Bronze
579807 Prima Timeless Memories Trinkets
961596 Prima Art Extravagance -Glitter Set - Luminous
564476 Prima Flowers
576127 Prima SIIC - Ocean
961428

Other Supplies:
Canvas 5x7
Seam Binding
Ribbon

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