Good evening crafty friends.

welcome to 2021, hoping this year is a good year for everyone. 

Its time for the January Lavinia craft challenge. The theme is: A winters night. 

You could be the lucky winner of a £40 gift voucher, to spend in the Lavinia gift shop.

For full details please visit the Lavinia challenge page.

My first sample for January includes a step by step tutorial,

This is my second step by step tutorial for Lavinia stamps.

Thought I would do another one to welcome 2021.

The team at Lavinia have put together lots of

 videos and step by step tutorials for you to enjoy.

 

I’m using Magnus as my main stamp for this card

He is gorgeous.

The Lavinia Products that I used, were…

Magnus

Brodwin       

 Large Red pine  

Small red pine

fairy fir tree 

 Fairy fir tree 2

                                            

Step 1.

Using a 17 cm square piece of multifarious card, gently blend blueprint sketch, faded jeans and chipped sapphire distress ink into the card leaving center of the card quite light with colour. 

Step 2.

Mask off bottom of card with low tack masking tape. (You can do this before inking, I’m going to be using acrylic paint as snow effect so masked of after inking.) 

Step 3

Using Blue Belle, Rainforest and Monarch versaFine Clair ink. Ink up fir tree stamps using alternating colours stamp across card varying heights a little bit. 

Step 4

 Blend Dusty Concorde distress ink at top of card. Dry ink with a heat gun or let dry naturally, before next step. 

Step 5

Once ink is dry, stamp red pine trees with versamark ink and gold embossing powder. I stamped one large red pine tree and two small trees in the foreground. 

 Step 6

I sprinkled a little gold embossing powder at top of card to give a bit of shimmer, then Highlighted all the trees with Gold pen. 

Step 7

Pour some acrylic paint onto your mat, spray with a little water and mix. Using a round makeup pad, gently dab base of card with the sponge, covering whole area to look like snow. You can get some nice texture in the paint.  

Step 8

Stamp Brodwin with Onyx black ink in top left-hand corner of card.

Step 9

Cut a piece of heatproof acetate 20 cm by 17 cm, place on top of your card, place Magnus on top of acetate to see where you want to stamp him on the acetate. The acetate will fold around the card and bellow out a little bit. Stamp Magnus with Jet black Archival ink, or onyx black Versafine ink, then heat emboss black embossing powder on top of this.

Step 10

Then with a fan brush, add a little more water to the acrylic paint gently tap brush to get a sprinkling of white paint to give a snow effect, do this on the card and the acetate. Highlight Magnus with a white pen. 

Step 11

Make a 1cm fold at each end of the acetate. Place double sided tape on the back of the card, stick down one side, then stick down other side of the acetate to the card, this will leave a bow effect in the acetate. Then mount card onto black and white layers before finally mounting onto 8” card.

Have fun crafting. if  i have inspired you to have a go at making this card, 

would love to see it. 

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful 2021.

Take care, stay safe.

Rosemary