Unicorns and Valentine's

I'm on the Poppystamps blog today with this cute unicorn cards. The latest releases are here and I used both unicorn sets. The happy unicorn is large, measuring 4" x 4" when put together. Of course, this big guy can be cut from brown and/or black paper and turned into a horse. The wings and horn are separate dies in this set and can be left off if you like. Make a whole stable of horses and put them at the bottom of a scrapbook page.

I started by using a homemade cloud stencil in the background and inking around the edges with alternating colors of Distress ink -- pink and purple. Then I cut out the big unicorn from white cardstock and lightly inked the edge of the unicorn with purple ink and added a little cheek blush with pink ink. I die cut the edges of the big unicorn so I could end up with hooves and a nose from glitter cardstock. I layered these little parts onto the white unicorn. I wanted a selection of pinkish purple papers for the mane so I cut this die out of four different colors of cardstock. I hand cut along the perforated lines in the mane for all four colors, and assembled the 3 bottom colors onto the pink base color. I used this same trick for the tail. I'm glad the perforated look remained when I reassembled the parts.

Next, I cut the wings and the horn from white glitter cardstock. Next I reached for the Whittle Hearts dies and cut 2 small hearts. Then I used the Unicorn Kit heart die and cut out 1 larger heart. I cut out small wings from the Unicorn kit and added them to the hearts. I layered everything onto my pink and purple cloud background, using foam adhesive for the flying hearts. I next added a few gems, and trimmed the edges of my scene so I could mount it to a piece of purple cardstock. I finished up by adding a stamped sentiment from the Unicorn Kit. 

This will be a birthday card for a particular young girl in my family, but it could just as easily serve as a Valentine's Day card. 

Thanks for looking and I hope you get a chance to be crafty today.

Ingredients:

CS: Stampin' Up! Whisper White (unicorn), Gina K Pure Luxury 110 lb (base), Memory Box 6x6 paper pads Vibrant Violet and Berry Red

Dies: Poppystamps Whittle Rainbow Unicorn Kit, Whittle Happy Unicorn die set, Whittle Hearts

Stamp: sentiment from the Whittle Rainbow Unicorn Kit

Ink: Versafine black