Lavinia Stamps February 2020 Monthly Challenge "Beneath The Moon"

On the first of the month Lavinia Stamps has a new monthly challenge theme.  The challenge theme for February is "Beneath The Moon".  

You can enter the challenge up to five times per month.  If your name is randomly drawn after the 25th, you will win £40 of vouchers to spend on lovely Lavinia goodies.

This is my first sample for this challenge.  I decided to go for a different look creating a grid background to highlight a gorgeous selection of stamps.

To create the background grid, I used plain white card and "Squeezed Lemonade" Distress Oxide Ink, applied across the card using a blending tool.  I then applied a circle mask to one side of the card.

Using a striped stencil, I used low tack tape to hold the stencil in place over the yellow background, making sure that it is positioned straight.  I then used "Spiced Marmalade" Distress Oxide Ink with a blending tool to create stripes over the yellow background.

I gently lifted the tape and stencil, then repositioned it at a horizontal angle to stripes already created on the card.  I then applied "Picked Raspberry" Distress Oxide Ink, again with a blender.  Gently lift off the tape and the stencil to reveal the grid and remove the mask.

I then moved on to the stamping.  I positioned the main stamp "Josie" the fairy, with the dandelion over the moon and then stamped the image using  Versafine Clair "Chianti" dark red ink.  Using the same ink, stamped the sentiment "Every Dream". I also created the landscape that "Josie" stands on using the torn edge of a piece of copy paper with the Chianti ink.

To create the foliage frame around the base of the card, I used the "Vine" Stamp, stamped in Versafine Clair "Acorn" brown ink.  I then stamped the "Mini Berry", which is part of the pound stamp section in "Tulip Red" Versafine Clair ink.  

Finally, I added some gold highlights to the vine leaves using a metallic pen and some gentle gold shimmer to the fairy using a Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

Lavinia Stamps - Design Team Samples for August 2019 Hochanda TV Show - Oona

On what is possibly one of the hottest days of the year and I have been making a Christmas card - how wrong is that!

The reason for creating Christmas cards so early in the year is that Lavinia Stamps will be launching some of their new collection of stamps on Hochanda TV on 22nd August 2019.

For this sample, I have used a Brusho background I created some time ago.  I my haste to finish the card I forgot to write down what Brusho Paints I had actually used, but from looking at the colour flecks, I feel there is definitely some Gamboge in there.

I used the Lavinia Stamp "Willow Arch", stamped three times to make a wreath shape.  I stamped the three sections using Versafine Clair "Chianti" shade of ink.  I then used two shades of Arteza Brush Pens to colour the wreath (Current Red and Wine Red).  Using the same Versafine ink, I stamped the fairy called "Oona" and the berries around the edge of the wreath, the "Mini Berries" are in the Lavinia pound stamp section.

I used a gold Sakura Gelly Roll Pen and a white Posca Pen to add highlighted areas to the card.  Finally, I stamped the sentiment, cut it to size and stuck into postion on the card.