Lavinia Stamps Acorn Abode Card

Today, I decided to dip into some of my Lavinia Stamps, making this card.  I've used a mixture of older and newer stamps. 

I started by stamping the Lavinia "Acorn Abode" stamp in Versafine Clair "Acorn" brown ink on to a piece of white card.  I then stamped it again on to a post-it note, fussy cut the image to use as a mask and stuck it over the original stamped image.

Using Versafine Clair "Avocado" green ink, I stamped the Lavinia "Forest Leaf" stamp.

Keeping the original mask in place, I then placed the Lavinia"Dynamic" stencil over the stamped area and used Versafine Clair "Sand Dune" light brown ink through the stencil.

Next, using Versafine Clair "Acorn" brown ink and second generation stamping, I stamped the Lavinia  "Winter Spice" verse down the left and right hand sides of the card.  Once dry, I used Versafine Clair "Sand Dune", "Avocado" and then "Acorn brown ink to colour around the image.

I used the Lavinia Stamps "Hill Mask" with Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to create a landscape behind the acorn image.  I added shadow depth using a 2B pencil, also drawing some grasses.

Finally, I used a mix of Derwent Inktense pencils and Distress Oxide Inks, both applied with a brush to colour the image, adding highlights of Posca and gold coloured gel pen.