On the first of every month, Lavinia Stamps announce their new monthly challenge theme. For December 2019 the theme is "Snow At Christmas".
If you enter the challenge, (you can enter up to five times), and your name is randomly drawn after the 25th of the month, then you win £40 of vouchers to spend on lovely Lavinia goodies.
For my Design Team sample card, I started by stamping the "Small Fairy Fir Tree" and "Small Fairy Fir Tree 2" in Distress Oxide Inks, in the shades of Iced Spruce and Weathered Wood.
Using the torn edge of a piece of copy paper, I created the landscape using Versafine "Smokey Gray" and Distress Oxide "Tumbled Glass" inks. I masked off the spotlight/moon area and edged it with the Versafine "Smokey Gray" ink too.
I stamped "Oona" the fairy in Versafine Clair "Twilight" dark blue ink. Using the same ink, I stamped the "Spirit of Christmas" sentiment, broken up into two separate lines.
For the snowball by the hand of "Oona" the fairy, I stamped one of the "Bubbles" in Versafine "Smokey Gray" coloured ink. Using the same ink, I stamped two of the "Fairy Orbs", to create the impression of a snowman.
I drew on the face and scarf of the snowman, colouring the scarf in a bright red shade of ink.
For the arms of the snowman, I used part of the "Fern Branch" stamped in Versafine Clair "Twilight" ink.
Around the fairy, I added some stars using a pound stamp, stamped in Memento "London Fog" grey ink.
Finally, I grounded the trees, snowman and fairy using pencil shading. I added a touch of sparkle by using a silver sparkle Signo pen.
