Lavinia stamps December mid month inspiration.

Good evening Everyone! 

Just a reminder that there is still time to take part in the December creative challenge. 

You could be the lucky winner of a £40 gift voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps shop. What a great way to start the new year. 

Please pop over to the Facebook page for full information. 

http://laviniastamps.com/lavinia-stamps-monthly-creative-challenge/

These are the distress inks I used. 

Dusty concord, Seedless preserves, mustard seed, Tumbled glass and salty ocean. Black versamark. 

The Lavinia stamps were: 

http://laviniastamps.com/product/guinevere/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/birds/

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

I used spectrum noir pens to color the rock. Winkastella clear pen to highlight the water. Cut the flourish on Scan n cut. 

 

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 

Lavinia stamps January challenge. Starry night sky.

Hope you all had a great Christmas, would also like to wish you all a Happy New year.

The January Lavinia stamps challenge has just started over on their Facebook page. 

http://laviniastamps.com/lavinia-stamps-monthly-creative-challenge/

You could be the lucky winner of a £40 voucher to spend on Lavinia goodies. 

Just click the lik above to enter an get all the info needed. 

Have fun creating, look forward to seeing all the January creations. 

My projects for the January starry night sky.

For this project I used seedless preserves, festive berries, dried marigold,peacock feathers, mowed lawn and soot black distress inks. Highlights with a silver glitter pen. 

The stamps I used were 

http://laviniastamps.com/product/seasonal-tree/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/tree-scene/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/fairy-wish/

http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stars-1.jpg

http://laviniastamps.com/product/secrets-are-hidden/

For this project I used Stormy sky and faded denim distress inks for the background. 

I cut two star shapes out on the scan n cut, then placed the white star over the navy star, stamped 

Moon fairy on a piece of the navy card twice. Then decoupaged fairy an wings. http://laviniastamps.com/product/moon-fairy. The star stamp that was used for the background was 

http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stars-copy.jpg

also used silver leaf in the background. 

Workshop Projects

Good afternoon. It's a cold but sunny day here in London. 

Had a wonderful day at Eileen Godwins workshop yesterday. Learnt a new technique that I've not tried before and really enjoyed making my projects. Was a very inspirational day. 

Great company as always with lots of crafty ladies. 

Also got to spend the day with a friend and my best buddy too.

 Thought I'd share my projects with you. 

This card was made using the Masterboard technique, which I love doing. 

The following two cards were made using the mica spray, brushos and cling film technique. Such an easy technique to do, think I'll be using it more often. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. 

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.

Lavinia stamps Mid month sample.

There is still time to participate in the Lavinia stamps November challenge. You could be the lucky winner of a £40 gift voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps shop. 

For this project I have used:

 http://laviniastamps.com/product/fox-2-peri/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/autumn-tree/ 

http://laviniastamps.com/product/lavender/ 

Cut out circle using stitched circle die,masked off the ground area, inked sky with tumbled glass and stormy sky distress inks. Used tumbled glass distress ink sparingly on ground area to give the snowy ground some dimension. Then stamped fox with memento ink. Masked of fox then stamped tree using second generation for shadow. Used lavender stamp at base of card.  Painted on shadows with distress inks then used white acrylic paint on a round pin head for snow. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges. 

http://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com.au/ 

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/week-46-anything-goes-polkadoodles.html

Lavinia stamps November challenge

The theme for the November Lavinia stamps challenge is: Let It Snow. The lucky winner picked at random will receive a £40 gift Voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps store.
For full details please go to   http://laviniastamps.com/lavinia-stamps-monthly-creative-challenge
We look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations.

Here are my samples that I have made to inspire you this month.
For my fist project I used,


http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Autumn-Tree.jpg
http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Trinity.jpg
http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/zen-snowflakes.jpg
http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/v_5.jpg

For this card, I inked the Background with Distress inks Broken china, Tumbled Glass,

Rich Cocoa Memento ink pad pad for the trees. Black versafine ink for the fairy.

Bahama blue memento ink for the snow flakes.   

For my second card I used

http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sacred-Tree.jpg

http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/zen-snowflakes.jpg

http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/fairy-1-final-copy.jpg
http://laviniastamps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/v_5.jpg

For this card I used Broken China, Faded Jeans and Tumbled Glass Distress inks.

Bahama Blue Memento ink for the snow flakes, some stamped on vellum, each snowflake highlighted  with wink a stella pen and a pearl added to the center of each one.

Fairy and tree, stamped with Black versa fine. wings were stamped onto vellum.

I hope my projects inspire you to come and participate in the Lavinia stamps challenge, andi look forward to seeing all your fabulous creations

Creative fingers. November challenge 1

 Good Evening friends.
 There is a new challenge over at Creative fingers
 Our  wonderful sponsors for this challenge are;
 Bugaboo stamps  http://www.bugaboostamps.com/
 Star Stampz  https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarStampz

 Please come and take part in our challenge,
 We look forward to seeing all your creations.
 http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

I have created a project to inspire you using
a bugaboo Digital stamp called Unicorn
http://www.bugaboostamps.com/Unicorn_p_2794.html




For this project I have used Spectrum Noir Pens
Colours used for the tail and main;
PP4,TB2,BT4,OR2 and CG1
For the Horn: CT2
Shadow on Unicorn: BG1 and blender pen
Grass and leaves: CG1
Flowers: CR2
For the background I used Broken china and worn lipstick Disstress ink
Tim Holtz butterfly and Tattered lace Border die
I look forward to seeing all your fabulous creations.