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

Mothers Day Card and Envelope.

Hi crafty friends. 

Beautiful day here in London, hope it's good weather for you too. 

I am really enjoying my crafting lately, enjoying doing lots of different techniques, so I thought I would enter some new challenges, and try for a few Design teams. So I can share my ideas with others. 

Thought I'd share the Mother's Day card that I made my mum this year. 

She's not been very well for quite some time now so I made a card that I thought might brighten her day.  

Very happy when it brought a smile to her face. 

Inked background of with Tim Holtz distress inks, pickled raspberry, twisted citron and squeezed lemonade. Highlighted with a gold and white pen. 

Stamps used were designs by ryn and lavina stamps. 

Stencil in background was a sweet poppy stencil. 

Hope you like the card. 

I'm entering this project for creatalicious challenge. #90 Mother's Day. 

http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/challenge-90-mothers-day-for-special.html

Little patch of crafty friends challenge #33 anything goes. 

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.co.uk/

Creative fingers challenge #108 anything goes. 

http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/