17 September 2022
Fay loves Fall
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15 May 2022
Bluebell Woods
Happy Sunday lovelies. It's a rather wet and stormy day here but I don't mind I like listening to the thunder just not when I'm on my own.
Anyway, I am behind sharing all my makes with you so I have a backlog to upload on here but for today this is my latest card I've finished. Again it features lots of Lavinia Stamps I'm sorry I do seem to be a little obsessed with them at the moment.
So my background was made with distress inks that I'd smooshed onto my glass craft mat and spritzed with water and then dabbed my white card into. This was dried thoroughly and then I just began making my scene up I was aiming for a bluebell wood. I didn't achieve the depth I wanted in my card but by the time I'd added all the highlights and everything I think it's a keeper. Anyway, it was all coloured with Inktense pencils and soft pastels and lots of highlights added to the flowers, leaves and trees with Posca and Sakura gelly roll pens.
16 February 2022
King of the Forest
Hello lovelies and a very happy Wednesday to you. It's been a little while since I've popped anything on here so I'm putting that right today. My crafting time of late has been a little erratic what with work and just general life but I have squeezed some craft in when I can.
So what better way to get back into the swing of sharing my makes than to show you my latest card using some Lavinia Stamps images. My background was made using a mix of Tim Holtz Distress Ink sprays and mica sprays. I painted the moon using a Lavinia stencil and acrylic white paint and once dry used some soft pastels to add shadows so it wouldn't appear so flat. The only thing I definitely knew when I started the card was I wanted the fabulous stag to appear in front of the moon and the rest of the card sort of just came together by playing with some tree stamps.
15 August 2021
Mushroom Forest
Hello lovely people and a very happy Sunday to you. I have a few cards I haven't shared on here yet. I must admit I'm guilty of sharing on my Instagram page but my poor little blog gets a tad neglected. I always think to myself "I'll do that later" and then never do. Do folks even read blogs anymore? or is it all Insta and TikTok now? I don't know but for now I shall make an extra effort to update here as well.
So my latest is another card and it's fairy themed again. I just love my fairies lol but then you know that. I think I shall call this one 'mushroom forest'. I've used Lavinia Stamps images and stamped in Versafine Clair ink. My background was made with lots of blending of Distress Inks and a Lavinia Stamps template for the moon. I coloured the spotty mushrooms with Inktense pencils and those that were 'solid' images I used some soft pastels and Sakura metallic gel pens to add light accents. All in all I love how it came together.
2 August 2021
Falling Flowers
Happy Monday lovely crafty peeps. Hope you are all doing okay and staying safe in this somewhat crazy world of ours. Well we have been in isolation for the past 10 days as my son tested positive for Covid. I'd just received his NHS letter through too to book a vaccine jab typical really. We have been very lucky though and he only felt unwell for a few days so they were very mild symptoms indeed. So what do you do when you can't go anywhere ... you craft of course!
I was having a little looksie through some of my stash and I came across an older Bildmalarna stamp and I'd forgotten just how cute they are. I coloured her up with my copics to compliment the papers which I also found amongst my stash and must be years old lol!
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19 June 2021
By the light of the silvery moon
Happy Saturday lovely crafty peeps. It's a very quick drop in from me today as I'd like to share one of my latest cards made using Lavinia Stamps and distress inks.
As I've mentioned before I'm very new to making backgrounds and building scenes it's a complete learning curve for me not just the placement of everything but also the colour blends of the inks. I've listed under my card the inks I used to create the background and I've got to say this combination is going to be a firm favourite of mine.
So let me share my card. I've used lots of mediums on here. Obviously distress inks blended out for the background. I created the moon with a Lavinia template and then gesso and soft pastels. All of the Lavinia Stamps were stamped using Versafine Clair inks in various colours to compliment the background and out came my Sakura Stardust pens and Nova metallic markers to highlight some of the foliage images and add like little flowers. Finally, everything was flittered with a little microfine glitter especially the wings of the fairy. I'm rather pleased with my bat flying across the moon too. I don't have masses of Lavinia Stamps yet but I wanted something to be like flying across the sky/moon so I used my mini Sycamore £1 stamp, stamped it but didn't stamp out the stalk part and altered it slightly with my black fine liner pen to look like bat wings and a little head and ears and I've got to say I just love it!