Lavinia Stamps "Wallace" Birthday Card

I made this card for my nature loving friend.  I have already given her the birthday present, a hedgehog hibernation house for the garden, so I decided the card had to reflect that gift somehow.

For the large "Happy Birthday" sentiment, I have used a "Hobby Art Ltd" stamp set called "Greetings for Friends - CS158D", stamped in Wow! embossing ink and coated with a Wow! silver coloured embossing powder and heat set.

For the small corner image, I have used three Lavinia Stamps sets.  I stamped one of the hedgehogs from "The Wallace Family" stamp set in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.  

I then stamped the "Lavender" and the small lavender stamp from the Lavinia "Flower Pots" stamp set in two shades of Versafine Clair, using "Shady Lane" green ink for the stems and "Monarch" purple ink for the flower heads.

I grounded the hedgehog and flowers using "Weathered Wood" Distress Oxide Ink, applied with a paint brush. I then gave the hedgehog body some colour, using "Frayed Burlap" Distress Oxide Ink.  I painted on some grass too, using "Mowed Lawn" Distress Oxide Ink.  

Finally, I added some dots of pink and purple Posca Pen to give the impression of flowers in the grass.  Then mounted the card on to a piece of grey paper and then on to a white card blank.

Lavinia Stamps "Lavender - Just for you" card

Here's a quick card I made this morning using a couple of Lavinia Stamps. 

I started with a 5x5 card blank.  In the bottom right hand corner I started to stamp the Lavinia Stamps "Lavender" using Versafine Clair "Shady Lane" for the stems and "Purple Delight" for the flower heads.  I multi stamped in both first and second generation stamping.

I lay the Lavinia Stamps "Waffle Stencil" over the top of the stamping, applying "Shadow Grey" Archival Ink through the stencil with a blending brush, keeping the stencil design close to the stamping and fadeing out towards the top and the left.

To ground the stamping, I used "Mowed Lawn" and "Weathered Wood" Distress Oxide inks, slightly diluted and applies with a paint brush.  When dry, I used a 2B pencil to make the area a little darker in the shadow areas.

Lavinia Stamps "Lavender" Hope Card

I've been away at the caravan for a few days, so there hasn't been any crafting.  I find it surprising how I get out of the rhythm of creating, when I've had a few days away.  This was the third attempt at this card, for some reason the first two were just not right!

For this card, I have used a selection of Lavinia stamps and stencils, starting with two shades of Archival Ink (Butter cup and Bright Tangello), applied very lightly through the Lavinia "Dynamic" stencil, blending out towards the edges of the card.

I then lay the Lavinia "Honeycomb" stencil over the top, applying "Sky Blue" Archival Ink very lightly in a few areas across the card surface, again blending out to the edges, so that none of the stencilling is obvious, but you just get a glimpse of the designs.

I stamped the Lavinia "Lavender" in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.  I added a few tufts of grass to the base using a black fine line pen.  

I used the torn edge of a pice of paper to create the landscape using Verafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.

I then stamped the word "Hope", which is part of the Lavinia "Blessings" stamp set, in Verafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

I mounted the image onto a piece of grey paper then on to a white card blank, before adding a few touches of white Enamel Accents above the flowers.