Lavinia Mid Month Reminder

Good afternoon friends. 

Wow we are half way through February. There is still time to participate in the Lavinia stamps challenge. You could be the lucky winner of a £40 voucher to spend in the Lavinia shop. 

Here is my mid month sample to inspire your creativity. 

For the background I have used distress inks. Chipped sapphire, faded jeans, wilted violet and black soot.

 I have used the following stamps. 

http://laviniastamps.com/product/climbing-ivy/  

http://laviniastamps.com/product/field-grass-2/

http://laviniastamps.com/product/maple-leaf/

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

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

I used the fairies from the following cutting file

http://laviniastamps.com/product/star-gazing-cf/

I look forward to seeing your entries. 

Creative fingers February challenge number 1.

Good morning crafty friends. 

Wishing you all a fabulous Friday. 

The creative fingers challenge has started today the theme is anything goes. Please visit the blog for more details. http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/challenge-124-and-winners-122.html?m=1

The Sponsors for this challenge are Rick St John. I choose the owl from Jason and the argonauts. 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/250044820/owl-from-jason-and-the-argonauts-digital?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=owl%20from%20jason%20and%20the%20argonauts&ref=sr_gallery_1

I Coloured the image with the following spectrum noir alcohol pens. CT1,CT3, GB3, DR3, DR5, TB2, PP4 and a blue sukura jelly roll pen. 

I used a clarity stencil and brushos for the background, used yellow, purple and orange brushos. 

The "don't let life ruffle your feathers" and feather stamps were free from a magazine. 

Good luck in the challenge, looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations. 

Lavinia stamps February challenge.

Good morning.

It's the first of February, the Lavinia stamps challenge starts today. The theme for this month is full moon. 

The winner picked at random will win a £40 voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps store. For full details on the challenge please visit the Lavinia stamps Facebook page. 

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

I look forward to seeing your creations this month. 

I have made to cards to inspire your imagination. 

Card one.

The first card was a distress inked background using chipped sapphire, stormy sky, faded jeans, tumbled glass, broken china, black soot and old paper distress inks. 

The reflection on the water was made using a ripple effect embossed acetate, I dapped it with a moonlight silver dew drop ink pad. 

The stamps I used on this card were:

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

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

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

Card two. 

Distress ink background using, seedless preserves, festive berries, dried marigold,peacock feathers, mowed lawn and soot black distress inks. Used gede guilding paste with silver mirror leaf in the background too. Stamped the tree onto acetate, the moon and the badger were stamped onto card and embossed with  Honeydoo silver sparkle embossing powder and cut out. Then placed on card. 

The stamps I used for this card were: 

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

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

http://laviniastamps.com/product/badger/

Lavinia stamps Mid month sample.

Good afternoon. 

Wow! We are half way through January , there is still time to participate in the Lavinia stamps January challenge. The theme this month is starry starry night.  The lucky winner picked at random will receive a £40 gift voucher to spend in the Lavinia stamps shop. I'm looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations. 

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

I have made a card to inspire your imagination, 

For this card I used Alchol inks and yupo paper, two craft items I've never used before, I did enjoy working with these mediums. 

For the background I used Denim ink on a felt pad and swiped from side to side. 

For the rocky grassy area I used steam, citrus and a small amount of purple twilight alcohol ink squeezed on to a felt pad any dapped it over the bottom part of the card. It's fascinating to watch the reaction to the paper. I then stamped the  http://laviniastamps.com/product/fairy-lodgings/ and http://laviniastamps.com/product/vine-new/ images with black archival ink.  The star stamp http://laviniastamps.com/product/stars-1/ was stamped with a dew drop white ink pad. Also used this stamp for the card background. 

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.