Meadow Mushrooms

 Hello everyone!  This month the Creative Challenge at Lavinia Stamps is Mushroom Magic.  I created a card using several mushroom stamps from Lavinia along with the Bluebell stamp and Twisted Vine.  Of course, I had to add something with wings, so Dragonfly made a cameo as well. 

This background was made on the gel press with a combination of Distress Oxides and Brushos. Everything else is stamped in Versafine Claire inks.  I used my Prismacolor pencils to add some dimension.  Once again, what you can't see in this picture is the glittery shimmer of the Sakura gelly roll pen I used for highlights and dots.  I tried to capture it in the picture below.  Please forgive my poor lighting.

I will be entering this card in a couple of challenges which I will list below.  Thanks for stopping by! 

Challenges: 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge - Mushroom Magic  

Fairy Stamper Hugs Facebook Challenge

Small Dwellings by the Lake

Hello everyone!  I wanted to share a card I made after watching a video demonstration from Tracey Dutton at Lavinia Stamps.  I loved the color and composition of her card and tried to recreate one for myself.  I didn't have the exact stamps or colors, but I got as close as I could. 

This is a slimline card that fits into a standard #10 envelope.  The background is a blend of distress oxide inks.  The rest is a combination of Versafine Claire inks and CTMH dye inks.  I used some Inktense pencils for the reflection.  What you can't see here are the dots of the Signo gold glitter pen. I can never capture the shimmer in my pictures. 

I'll be entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is anything goes this week. 

Thanks for stopping by!

March Cards

 Hello everyone!  I just wanted to drop by and share some of the cards I made this past month.  These were all posted on Instagram and Facebook.  I'm a part of several crafty groups on Facebook, but the two I post most of my Lavinia makes are Lavinia For You and Fairy Stamper Hugs.  Both are great groups with an immense amount of talented people.  There is always something inspiring on those pages for the world of Lavinia Stamps.   Here are the cards I made this past month, with exception of Mr. Wallace's birthday greetings which was on the previous post. 

First up is Spread the Word.  That's what I envision these three are talking about.  Spring is here, spread the word. This little scene is all Lavinia Stamps, at least seven of them.  Scenes like this are fun to build for me. 

 

 

On this next card I thought I would try something new.  I used my dye inks from Close To My Heart to stamp my background and flowers.  The sentiment is an old CTMH stamp, but the rest is Lavinia. 

 

 

I carried on with the dye inks to make two more Easter cards with just dye inks.  They have an old fashioned feel to them to me.  All the stamps and stencils used are Lavinia except the sentiment, which is CTMH.  I had fun giving life to these little bunnies by layering inks and using prismacolor pencils to highlight and shade. 

 

Next, I had a go with a new stamp to me, Mideela.  I love all things winged, dragons included.  I almost threw this background away because I wasn't sure of the colors, but decided to stamp on it anyway.  Turned out with some unusual color, but overall I am pleased with it. 

 

 

 

This is one of my all-time favorites I think. I am not sure if it's the color or depth of scene, or that beautiful Forest Temple door.  It was definitely a more involved scene than others I had done before.  I used Versafine inks, dye inks, prismacolor pencils, white gel pen and a black fine liner pen to create this scene.   Again, this was a background I wasn't really happy with, but decided to try something new with is.  Glad I did.

Lavinia Stamps had a new release a couple of weeks ago.  In it was the star of this next card, the new Lilium set.  I love flowers, almost as much as fairies :)  I made a simple card with a simple sentiment.  I thought it worked out well.   The sentiment is one I typed on the computer, printed out, and cut down to be a strip.  I do this a lot.  You don't have to have a fancy program. I used Wordpad.  Type what you want to say, highlight the text in black, and the change your text color to white.  Voila!  Much easier than stamping on black cardstock and embossing.  Although, I do love to do that as well.

 

 

Here is another one of my favorites from this past month.  My butterfly doodle card.  I watched a video from Jo Rice where she used a stamp from Aall and Create to make a slimline card. I really liked the design.   I didn't have that stamp, but I did  have butterfly stamps.  I found a stamp from BoBunny I had never used.  It's a gorgeous butterfly and stamps amazingly.  I cut out circles on copy paper and used them as stencils to fill in with my dye inks.  I found some super old, retired background stamps from CTMH and threw those in there.  There are some wildflower stamps and then some doodling by me.  I sparkled it up (not that you can tell by the picture) using some gems and my wink of stella pen.  I may try to make more in this fashion. I really love how it turned out. 

 

While I had the same color inks and my circle cut outs on my desk, I made the next card.  Everything is Lavinia on this card.  This was not the direction I was heading when I started on this one, but somehow Lavinia stamps crept on my card.  Funny how they do that.  This is one of my favorite fairies, Spellbound.  This was the first stamping of my new Dragon Pods stamp, too.  It was something different for me, but I liked it.

 

Those are the cards I made for March.  Not as many as I would like to have made, but more than I usually get done, so I can't complain.   Thanks for stopping by!