Sunset Snowstorm

Hiya. I made another card using the Lavinia 'tree' stamp, but wanted to use more colours, so I made this one with a sunset. I added Nuvo Glitter drops to the tree, but they don't show up very well in the photo. They look lovely though, like glittery baubles, and they keep their 3D shape :)

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Pinspirational:

CAS on Friday: CAS Christmas
AAA Cards: Along the Edge
Lavinia Stamps: Snow at Christmas
Watercooler Wednesday: 

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes



Ingredients:
Lavinia stamp: Small Whimsical Whisps
Adirondack ink: Butterscotch, Cranberry, Denim
Nuvo Glitter Drops: White Blizzard
White gouache

Cat & Dragon

Hi! Here's a card I made with a mix of Lavinia digi stamps and clear stamps. The trees and toadstools are digis, so I layered the images, making the trees further back a lighter grey, and printed it out. I masked the moon to create the sky with ink dusters, colouring the moon in afterwards, and I used torn paper to mask the hills. Then I stamped the cat and the dragon. I had to go a bit heavy with the shadow under the cat, because I'd accidentally placed him on top of a toadstool, and you could see the dribbly fronds just underneath him - made him look like he had a leaky bottom. Nobody wants that! So hopefully I've hidden that enough with the very dark shadow under him!

 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Lavinia: 'All Hallow's Eve'
Just Us Girls: 'Light'
Come And Get It: 'Too Cute To Spook'
Crafty Calendar: 'Halloween'
City Crafter: 'What a Fun-ghi'
Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Make Your Own Background'
Creative Inspirations: 'Anything Goes'



Ingredients:
Lavinia stamps: Witches cat, Dragon
Lavinia Digistamps: Tree half (right), Tree half (left), Ink Caps

Adirondack Inks: Purple Twilight, Denim, Cranberry, Butterscotch, Meadow

Birthday card for my mum

Hi! Here's a card I made for my mum's birthday. It's a remake of a card I made a few weeks ago, but bigger, so I could add a cat :) I think it works better than the original, as it's less cramped.

I used ink dusters for the background, and Lavinia stamps, then added gold Woodware foil around the edges and on the fairy's wings. I coloured the cherry blossom with inks, and added Glamour Dust to the blossom.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Buds and Blooms'
Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes, Optional Birthday'
Creative Inspirations: 'Spring Spectacular!'
Sisterhood of Crafters: 'Stamped'



Ingredients:
Lavinia stamps: 'Fairytale', 'Cherry Blossom', 'Field Grass', 'Mimsy'
Artistry Ink pads: Apricot Nectar, Cranberry Crush, Hay Stack
Adirondack ink pads: Meadow, Cranberry
Versafine: Onyx Black
Woodware Fun Foil: Gold
Glamour Dust

Welcoming the Sunrise

Hi! Here's another Mother's Day card. I love this fairy image! Well I am a bit obsessed with Lavinia stamps in general, and intend to add to my collection at the NEC Hobbycraft Fair on Sunday... :D

I used ink dusters to create the background, and then stamped the images. I added gems to the dandelions, and Glamour Dust to the fairy's wings, although it doesn't show up very well in the photos.

I am entering this one in the following challenges:

Chocolate Baroque:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Sparkle & Bling'

Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Lavinia Stamps: 'Flower Fairy' and 'Dandelions 2'
Artistry Ink pads: Cotton Candy
Adirondack ink: Butterscotch, Cranberry, Terracotta
Crystal Parade clear gems
Glamour Dust

For my Favourite Second Cousin

Hi! I made this card for my lovely and very talented cuz (actually second cousin, after a bit of Googling). Inside, I wrote 'For my favourite second cousin', and then I worried that she'd mis-read it as second favourite cousin, as she is dyslexic and things get muddled up for her. So I added '- not to be confused with second favourite cousin!'. I think I over-think things. But anyway, she's lovely, and she makes beautiful jewellery.

I created the background with ink dusters, then stamped the images. I coloured the foxgloves with inks and a water brush, and then punched some tiny flowers from black card, and added gems to the centres.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Full Moon'

Tuesday Throwdown: 'Favourite Embellishment' - gems!

Cute Card Thursday: 'Florals'

Corrosive Challenges: 'Anything Goes'
Crafts Galore 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Fox 1', 'Lilly', 'Dandelions 2', 'Leaf Trail', 'Birds'
Adirondack ink: Butterscotch, Meadow, Aqua

Stampin' Up! Ink pad: Perfect Plum
Crystal Parade gems: Topaz

70th Birthday Card

Hi! My Mum-in-law turned 70 today! She loves fairies, so I made her this card. She's not overly happy about being 70 though, so I didn't put that on the card!

I used ink dusters to create the background, masking with torn paper for the hills. The stamps are all from Lavinia. I coloured the wings and blossom with promarkers, and used Clear Star gel pen to make the wings iridescent. I added glamour dust to the wing tips, flowers and dandelions, for some extra sparkle.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

City Crafter: "Fairy Tale Land"

Sisterhood of Crafters: "No Designer papers"

Crafty Calendar: "Things with Wings"

Dragonfly Dreams: "Summertime"

Lavinia: "Spring Blooms"

Little Tangles: "Anything Goes"

New Lavinia Stamps

Hi! I bought two new stamps at the NEC Hobbycrafts show in March, and this is the first card I made with them. I coloured the background with ink dusters on watercolour paper, and then spritzed with water to blend it a little. I coloured the flowers with promarkers, and used a Gelly Roll 'clear star' pen on her wings to make them shimmer.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Dragonfly Dreams: "Spring is in the Air"

Uniko: "Use Metallics" - the wings look metallic, so I hope that is ok for the challenge!

Twilight Fairy

Hi! I made this for a friend's birthday - she loves purples and fairies, so hopefully she'll like it!

I used a stencil from Clarity Stamp, masked the moon and used ink dusters and torn paper to create the landscape. I added the fairy, a stamp from Lavinia, and coloured her wings, hair and dandelion with an iridescent pen. I added a bit of detail to the tree with a silver pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: "Make Your Mark"

CAS(E) This Sketch: (Hope this counts, as the tree splits the image with white)

Inkspirational: "Blast from the Past" - 67 – purple with grey or silver

Crafts Galore: "Anything Goes"

The ABC Challenge: "Z is for Zero (No embellishments allowed)"

New purchases from the NEC Hobbycrafts Show...

Hi! I went to the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC last weekend with my best mate Linda (Crafty Distraction), and bought far too much stuff... I haven't had chance to try most of it yet, but here's a card I made using a new stencil from Clarity Stamps, and a new Lavinia fairy stamp:

 

I used ink dusters to create the background, coloured the wings and outlined the branches with iridescent gel pen, and added Stickles to her hair and the dandelion.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Craft for the Craic: "Something Glittery"

Crafts Galore: "Use a Stamp or Digi Image"

Magical Autumn (With Glitter & Stuff)

Hi! Here's another one-layer card for the Less Is More challenge, but this time with glitter and gems instead of embossing. I'm not sure the glitter shows up very well in the photo, but it's all over her wings, and on the tips of the flowers.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Less Is More: "One Layer - Autumn"

Lavinia: "Glitter & Gems"

Crafting When We Can: "Whimsical With Wings"

Clear It Out "Theme: Things with wings  Stash: Glitter"

Moving Along With The Times "Fairy Enough"

Unicorn Challenge!

Hi! There's a brand new challenge blog, here: Unicorn Challenge Blog, and the first challenge is "Mythical & Magical". Here's a card I made for it:

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps: "Hot Bright Colours"

Addicted to Stamps: 

Quirky Crafts: "Home Sweet Home"

CAS Colours & Sketches 2

Hi! This is my 2nd week of being a guest designer for CAS Colours & Sketches, and this week's challenge was a bit tricky for me, a good challenge! Here's the sketch:

Here's the card I came up with:

I masked the circles one at a time and used ink dusters to colour them, to represent the moon and night sky. Then I stamped the Lavinia Moon Fairy image, and added more stars above. I added Glamour Dust to her wings and the stars.

I layered this on top of card stock that I'd coloured deep blue with ink dusters, to match the sky.

 Thanks for visiting!

Lavinia Flowers & Sparkles

Hi! I've been playing around with some Lavinia stamps I bought years ago, and have made a couple of cards with them. I've added gems to the flowers to add some sparkle.

The colours for this one were inspired by the current Color Throwdown challenge:

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps: "Add a Flower or Flowers"

Clear It Out: "Theme: Colour-Purple   Stash: Purple things"

Sweet Stampin': "No Designer Paper"



Here's the second card I made, in different colours:

These colours were inspired by the ColourQ challenge:

I'm also entering this card into these challenges:

Sisterhood of crafters: "Birthday"

4 Crafty Chicks: "Clean & Simple"

Lavinia Stamps and Watercolour Pencils

Hi! I love Lavinia stamps, and have had lots of fun trying to make backgrounds with ink dusters and brayers (I can't get on with brayers at all!). However, I borrowed some watercolour pencils the other day, have been having a play around, and I love them! I'm still working out how to use them, but I had a go at a background scene, and I love how easy it is to blend colours together.

Anyway, here's what I came up with:

I put the hills, moon and sky in first, then stamped all the images. Then I added a shadow under the castle, and coloured in the tree. I've left if without a sentiment.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps 'Any Colours You Like'

Friday Mash-up 'Watercolor fun!'

Create a project with "Watercoloring".

Create a project using "the Sketch".

or Mash it Up! and create a "Watercolored Project using the Sketch".

Loves Rubber Stamps 'Anything Goes'

Fairies & Glitter

I got a few new Lavinia stamps recently - I'm still so obsessed with Lavinia stuff! Here are a couple of cards I made with my new stamps:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
By the Cute and Girly Challenges: Cute and Girly
Divas By Design: Make it Girly

I'm entering the last one in Crafts and Me: Something New

Card for a Lake District Mountain Rescue search dog handler

I was asked to make a card for one of the brave mountain rescue dog handlers in the Lake District. She wanted a card with trees, and preferably a black labrador. I haven't got a stamp for a lab, so I printed off a lab silhouette, and then used Lavinia stamps and ink dusters to create the rest of the card. This is what I came up with, before layering it on a card:

I sent the pic to my friend, to see if it was the sort of thing she wanted, and she loved it! But then she said... would it be possible for the dog to have a rescue dog jacket on?

After the initial panic of how to do this, I found a photo of a rescue dog wearing a jacket, and printed it off at the right size for the lab silhouette. Here's the dog with his coat on:

I layered the image on charcoal card and then onto a a green card that matched the green ink. I forgot to take a photo of the finished card, but my friend said she was very pleased with it. I hope her Mountain Rescue friend will like it :)

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
The Crazy Challenge: Without Design Paper
The Squirrel & The Fox: Anything Goes
Tip Top Tuesday: Fur or Feathers

Addicted to ink dusters & Lavinia stamps

To justify buying even more Lavinia stamps at the NEW Hobbycraft Fair in November, I'm trying to get planty of use out of the ones I have already:

I'm entering this one in these challenges:
Divas By Design - Fairies & Fantasy
Crafts & Me - Favourite Colour (Mine is purple!)

I'm entering this last one in the Crafty Pad - Floral challenge