Lavinia Stamps Feather Leaf and Fairy Bell Card

Inspired by Karen Telfer's Tag 5, I made a card using similar techniques. 

I used two new masks by Lavinia Stamps, the acetate circle masks and the acetate hills masks for the circle and the land shape.  

I used Distress Oxide inks in "Tumbled Glass" and "Cracked Pistachio". 

I stamped the Lavinia "Fairy Bell Stamp Set" in Wow! embossing ink and then in their white super fine powder and then heat set.

I used "Stormy Sky" Distress Oxide Inks to edge the circle and then used the Lavinia "Feather Leaf" stencil with "Tumbled Glass" and "Stormy Sky" Distress Oxide Inks.

I used a white Posca Pen to create the snowflakes.  I then used the Lavinia "Snowflakes" stamped in "London Fog" Memento grey ink.

Finally, I used a Simon Says Stamp set for the sentiment, from their "Tiny Words Christmas" set.

Lavinia Stamps - Small Hare Set, once upon a dream

I realised today that it seems ages since I pulled out my Lavinia Stamps to have a play.  To be honest it felt a bit odd, almost like I didn't know what to do with them.  I've not felt like that for a very long time.  Never-the-less, I got stuck in and made this card, using a little story I had in my head making this card.

"Once upon a dream, there was a giant coloured feather tree, that stood tall and proud, looking across the Kingdom of Hare"!

I coloured the background using "Peacock Feathers" and "Weathered Wood" Distress Oxide Inks.

I stamped the Lavinia Feather in an assortment of Versafine Clair ink colours (Medieval Blue, Charming Pink, Fantasia and Summertime).

I created the landscape by dragging ink over the torn edge of a piece of copy paper and then stamped the hares, which are part of the Small Hare Set.  

I then stamped the sentiment and the Fairy Bells on the right hand side.

I added some highlights and colour with Posca Pens.

Lavinia Stamps "Wild Hares and Fairy Bells" card

Oh the joy to have a distraction like crafting.  It's fabulous to immerse yourself in it and forget about all the horrible things that are happening across the world at the moment.

Tidying up some of my gelli plate prints, I came across a small piece which had to be used or binned.  I opted to use it.  It was a sort of beige/golden sort of colour, so not much of it actually shows on this card, but you can get a glimps of it on the sun area.

I used two of the new Lavinia Stamps sets.  "Wild Hares" and "Fairy Bells" both stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.

I used the torn edge of a piece of copy paper to create the landscape in two shades of ink: black and grey.

I masked off the sun area and used assorted Distress Inks to create the colour. 

I used a black fine liner pen to ground the hares and to add some tufts of grass to the foreground.