Lavinia stamps September challenge.

Dear bloggers

Well, welcome to the September creative challenge for Lavinia stamps, the theme this month is ' if you go down to the woods '..... What will you see?

For full details please follow the link Below, for your chance to win a £40 gift voucher.
Septembers creative challenge. 


My first card was created using the following Lavinia stamps:

Zamira  [Used hair for grass as mentioned on Hocanda by Joe Rice]

Forest scene

Small Fairy chain 

I blended distress inks onto smooth white card, using twisted citron, cracked pistachio and mowed lawn. the forest scene was stamped with Olympia green versafine, the fairies and Zamira's hair were stamped with onyx black versafine.  Highlighted card with Clear gel pen.

 

For this card, I used the following Lavinia stamps.

Valko

Spooky tree

Mideela small

Dragon set

Fairy buttercups

I blended the distress ink onto smooth white card, twisted citron, gathered twigs, broken china,  peeled paint and tea die. Stamped Trees with fallen leaves Clair versafine ink, Valko and dragons stamped with onyx black versamark ink, buttercups stamped with lady bug momento ink.

Well done to everyone who entered last month, the entries were beautiful. Good luck for this month. Myself and the DT look forward to seeing all the fabulous entries for September.

Don't forget to take a look at  the Lavinia stamps facebook   page,  there are also two more pages with lots of inspiration for you to enjoy:

Lavinia for you

Loving all things Lavinia

Lavinia Stamps June Challenge

Hello Friends.

Welcome to June! Summer is on the way! so I thought we could hunt for a hidden garden!

Lavinia stamps would like to invite all the Lavinia stamp enthusiasts, along with all crafters that love stamping to participate in the June challenge, that has started today. The theme for June is Hidden Fairy. You could be the lucky winner of a £40 Gift Voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps shop.

You can enter the Challenge here: http://laviniastamps.com/june-challenge-a-hidden-fairy/


I have had a play with The Green Man stamp and I love Him.

I had an empty Crisp tin that I had been saving for this project,as I thought I would do a hidden Garden inside the tin.  To start with I stamped out the  The Green Man onto centura pearl card (plain side). using black versafine ink. Coloured the image using spectrum noir pencils. highlighted some areas with a white pen, then cut out image so I could decoupage it onto my tin. Next I cut a piece of card the same dimensions as my tin, then used the Tim Holtz wood grain stencil as I wanted the tin to resemble a tree stump. I used old paper, gathered twigs, rusty hinge, and forest moss Tim Holtz distress inks. I then stamped The Green Man onto my background, along with  Climbing Ivy and Small Mushroom stamps, to finish off the tree stump I used Oak leaf cutting files around the top edge, coloured with spectrum noir pencils, I then hand drew growth rings on an inked circle for the top,  made a signpost saying 'can you find the hidden garden' added a little flowersoft around base of signpost. For the inside  of the hidden garden I used the new Lavinia cutting files, Woodland,  wild mushrooms, Jade Fairy, I stamped out the wings From Fairy Shaylee then stamped the red squirrel and cut this out. Placed them on the inside of the lid, which is now the base, decorated this with flowersoft to represent grass and small flowers. I have really enjoyed making this project wish I had taken pictures at each stage, this is something for me to start thinking about. hope you like my project and i look forward to seeing all your lovely Creations good luck to all that enter the challenge

I have entered this project in the following challenge: 

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/week-20-anything-goes-polkadoodles.html

Lavinia stamps December challenge.

Good evening, crafty friends. 

The Lavinia stamps December challenge starts today. The theme for this month is Something Magical. 

I have made two projects to inspire you. 

I love the new spellbound fairy and small snail stamps, so thought I would use these, while thinking about my design, I thought it would be nice to use the chasing dreams stamp. This when I came up with idea to have the first project sprinkling fairy dust on the small snail, so he would grow quickly,so on my second project the fairy could go chasing dreams. Hope I have inspired you to have a go in the December challenge, where you could be the lucky winner of a £40 gift voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps store. What a great way to bring in the new year. Good luck and happy crafting. 

I have used the following stamps on my projects. 

http://laviniastamps.com/product/hill-border-thin-lines-lav418/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/snail-mini/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/moon/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/chasing-dreams/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/spellbound/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/willow/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/quuirky-mushrooms-lav413/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/zen-flower-3/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/zen-leaf-2/

I used distress inks for the backgrounds...

seedless preserves, and  dusty concord. Images stamped with black versamark. Highlights done with winkastella and white pen. The flowers were inked with versamark chalk ink perfect plumeria onto vellum.