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Manor House features Flying Unicorn -Week 4

Posted on May 22, 2012 by jenioc

Welcome! This is week 4, and our final week in our series of sponsorship of Flying Unicorn. Their Flower Fantasy celebrations have been going on over at Flying Unicorn http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html for the month of May, to celebrate the coming of the Northern Spring.

From the Flying Unicorn, “The Flying Unicorn is a US based online scrapbook store and kit club that not only carries many of the products you know and love, but also specializes in one of a kind, hard to find papers and products.”

“Manor House has joined with The Flying Unicorn to host a Flower Fantasy during the entire month of May and each week we’ll be posting a challenge in the Flying Unicorn Forums featuring flowers, lots of flowers! Our creative team and the Manor House creative team will share example projects to inspire your creativity and get you going on the challenges. Every week a winner will be randomly selected from the challenge entries to win a RAK of Manor House flowers! How cool is that?”

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This week brings the creative spotlight onto the world of tags. Aren’t tags such wonderfully versatile art pieces. They can be used as a card, they’re great for journalling on a scrapbooking layout, or just as an embellishment for your page. I know you’ll enjoy the collective creative works from Manor House’s Linda Langes and the team from Flying Unicorn.

First up are two from the lovely Linda Langes. Her first tag is soft and pretty with a touch of bling, in the light pinks and blues and greens.

“Remember” tag by Linda Langes

Products: Sprinkles

Linda’s second tag is bright and playful. Perfect for the Party Time flowers.

“Love” tag by Linda Langes.

Products: Party time

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Frank Garcia
http://magicscrapbook.blogspot.ca/
a member of the Creative Team at Flying Unicorn has created two lovely tags for this week’s challenge.

Here are Frank’s fabulous tags. His first one is in the striking masculine tones of yellow and brown. He has spritz the blooms to match perfectly.

Tag by Frank Garcia

Frank says, “Working with Manor House flowers has been a complete fun experience. These flowers are so versatile and great to ink, mist and distress. For the first tag I misted some of the wonderful Plain Jane flowers as well as a gorgeous Shimmers in snow with some gold glimmer mist, its amazing how well these lovely flowers absorb color, so amazing!”

Product: Plain Jane, Shimmers.

Frank’s second tag, using soft colours of pinks and purple has a gentle ethereal feel to it.

Tag by Frank Garcia.

From Frank,” For my second tag I used a more purple color palette with some darker colors, so to add a bit of pop I used some of the beautiful sprinkles flowers in pink and a gorgeous Country Lane flower in purple, really beautiful flowers indeed!”

Products: Sprinkes, Country Lane

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Maggi Harding
http://scraptravelbark.blogspot.ca/
PR Director from Flying Unicorn, has created two beautiful tags for this week’s challenge. Her first one, is so fresh and light in stunning lime elements.

“Joy” tag by Maggi Harding

From Maggi, “I’ve had a real garden in my scraproom this month with all the beautiful Manor House flowers I received! On this first tag I used the sweet Sprinkles flower in lime, they are the perfect size for tags and go perfectly with the Scrapcake My Private Happiness collection that I chose. It’s a simple pocket tag, I just fussy cut the scalloped edge and attached that to a tag I cut from another paper making a pocket to hold one of the precut tags in the collection. The smaller tag is the perfect size to hold a gift card and slip into the pocket.”

Products: Sprinkles- lime. The Scrap Cake: My Private Happiness.

Maggi’s second tag is truly inspirational. I just adore the way she has incorporated the stamped images with her pp and matched her Manor House flowers so beautifully.

Tag by Maggi Harding.

Maggi says, “I also used the Sprinkles flowers on my 2nd tag but this time I dyed them black and copper using alcohol ink so that the flowers would match my papers. The fun thing for me about this tag is that I stamped and embossed the Chinese characters that you see and they spell my given name, Margaret. I was named after an aunt and she traveled to China and brought back this stamp.”

Product: Sprinkles (misted)

From the Flying Unicorn Creative team, “Thank you Manor House for sharing your beautiful blooms with the Creative Team at the Flying Unicorn!”

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We want to thank Alda and the Creative Team from Flying Unicorn for their wonderful creations using Manor House products throughout the month of May and for sharing their inspirational talent. A special mention to Maggi Harding, PR director at Flying Unicorn for all her co-ordination of their Creative Team.

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Design team colour inspiration

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Manor House Creations

Hello everyone,

Thanks for calling in. Our designers were asked to create a project using the colours Apricot, blue, brown and green. As this scheme sounded a little hard to me, I was absolutely blown away by the amazing layouts our talented ladies have created.

Just take a look at this gorgeous creation from Jeni

‘What a wonderful world’ Layout by Jeni O Connor

Products used: Sugar & Spice, Shimmers, Ballroom – Waltz, The Tropics – By the pool, Nikita, Frangrance, Angelic.

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And now, Melinda’s floral masterpiece

“Our time together’ layout by Melinda Thompson

Products Used: Nikita, Christmas – Angelic, Sprinkles – Candle, Oak Leaves, Light Green Leaves, Grandmas Garden – Warmth.

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Finally, this lovely layout from Monika.

‘Vatten’ layout by Monika Martinson

Products used: Finesse, Shimmers.

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Manor House Creations sponsors Flying Unicorn

Posted on May 4, 2012 by jenioc

It’s May and it’s the month to celebrate flowers. As Australia settles into the frosted mornings of Autumn, in the northern hemisphere the signs of Spring are everywhere. What better way is there to join in the festivities of Spring than by spreading Manor House Creations flowers around the world.

To celebrate May, the month of flowers, Manor House Creations is sponsoring Flying Unicorn and joining in their blossoming activities.

http://flyingunicornforums.com/home.html

The first week of May is a layout challenge.

Here’s one from our own designer MELINDA THOMPSON who created this gorgeous guest layout just for The Flying Unicorn. Melinda has incorporated her fabulous, masking, misting and textured techniques.

Layout by Melinda Thompson.

Products: Sprinkles – lime, Nikita, Country Lane, Christmas Angelic, Leaves.

Next up is a stunning page from Flying Unicorn Creative Designer, Shona Keehn. Shona’s “Flower Fantasy” layout features an adorable photo of her daughter and grandson.

Layout by Shona Keehn.

Shona says she loves Manor House flowers and loves that she can mist them to match her layout. Shona displays here before and after blooms. She used mist to color “The Tropics” flowers orange and “Country Lane Quaint” olive.

Products: The Tropics, Country Lane- Quaint, Taneshia, Cutie Pies -lime.

We also have this beautiful, softly angelic page from Tracy Gregory. Tracy has positioned her sweet niece in a bed of lovely pink and white Manor House blooms.

Layout by Tracy Gregory

Flying Unicorn designer, Tracey Gregory had this to say about her Flower Fantasy layout: “This layout is of my dear niece, Vivien, on Easter day. Believe it or not my mom took this incredible shot with her phone camera. I knew when I saw it, I wanted to create an elegant layout and these Manor House beauties were just perfect. I really love the layers of fabric and delicate paper and how each petal is reinforced with pliable wire so the blooms can be perfectly positioned on your page.”

Products: Country Lane- Quaint, Enchanted, Sprinkles -lime, Shimmers, Christmas Star.

Drop in to the gallery at The Flying Unicorn to check out all the fabulous layouts using Manor House Creations to inspire you.

http://flyingunicornforums.com/home.html

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Posted in Competitions, Sponsorship and tagged Christmas Star, Country Lane- Quaint, Cutie Pies, Enchanted, Melinda Thompson, Shimmers, sprinkles, Taneisha, The Tropics. Bookmark the permalink.

Video class – Christmas tree with Rae Cooper

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Manor House Creations

Getting into the Christmas spirit? Rae has made this beautiful instructional video showing you how to make this shimmery white Christmas tree which would be a real eye-catcher sitting on your table or mantle piece. It so quick and easy too.

Enjoy!

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Cozy Christmas – DT inspiration

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Manor House Creations

Some varied and wonderful projects have been created by our DT team once again using the beautiful COZY CHRISTMAS collection from The Scrapcake. Soak up these for some inspiration.