52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
It seems ages since I have had a play with my Lavinia Stamps, so decided today was the day to put that right.
I had a small off-cut measuring 3"x3" of the background where I had used a wash of acrylic chalk paint to build up the colour, so decided to use that, rather than have it hanging about.
The colour shouted water scene to me, so I went with that theme. I stamped the tall "Seaweed" in Versafine Clair "Verdant".
I then stamped the seahorse, which is part of a set called "Sea Creatures" in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.
Using Versafine Clair "Warm Breeze" ink I stamped the "Mystic Swirl", the "Twisted Vine Set" and the hanging "Fairy Hive Set".
I used a white Posca Pen to add highlights to the air bubbles and a Sakura gelly roll pen to add a little sparkle to the seahorse and the fairy hives.
I've used one of the gelli plate backgrounds I created the other day for the base of this card. I then Distress Oxide Inks in the shades of Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint throug a Funky Fossil stencil called "Fish Background" to create the whole background look.
Using Versafine Clair "Warm Breeze" shade of ink, I stamped "Sebastain the Seahorse" and the baby seahorse which is from a stamp set called "Sea Creatures".
Using two shades of Versafine Clair ink, "Verdant" and "Shady Lane", I stamped the "Seaweed" in the foreground.
I then inked the edges of the card using the Versafine Clair "Shady Lane" for the lower half and Distress Oxide "Broken China" shade of ink for the top section.
Finally, I used a white Posca Pen to add highlight areas to the seahorses and a metallic gold pen for areas on the seaweed.
I am entering this into the July 2019 "A Place To Start" challenge which has an anything go theme for the month.
The cards that I have been making recently are full of colour using lots of different inks. Today I took things back to basics and let the stamps do the talking by stamping on a plain white background in black Versafine Ink.
The stamps I have used on this card (with the exception of the sentiment which is Stampin' Up) are all Lavinia Stamps. I have used Seaweed 2, Fairy Barnacle, Zen Plant and Sea Creatures.
I've had a bit of a play with stamps and ink today, but my heart wasn't really in it for some reason. But I did make this tag.
I started off with brayering Distress Oxides, then lay a damp mask/stencil (called Time Tunnel by Visible Image) over the top. The wet surface reacts to the inks so that it gives lighter areas. I then dried the surface with my heat gun.
I then used the Lavinia "Indian Flourish" stamp to the lower area of the tag. The circular area is something I had worked with previously and didn't use, so I was able to stamp the fish from the Lavinia "Sea Creatures" set, adding white dots with a Signo pen. I then stuck it to the middle of the tag.
I grabbed a tag that I had started months ago and abandoned as I wasn't happy with it and decided to try to make something with it.
The background had splatters of Distress Inks on it, so I decided to work with what I had stamping fish using the Lavinia Stamps Sea Creatures and Shoal of Fish" stamp sets.
I then used some Brusho to paint in extra colour around the stamped images. Finally I added some white and silver areas using a Signo pen.
I have not really dipped my toe into manufacturer challenges, but this month I decided to have a go at the Lavinia Stamps Challenge, with a theme of "Sunset Pinks".
Lavinia Stamps are known for their fabulous fairy images, so instead of going down that route, I thought i'd spin it and do an underwater sunset instead.
I created the shaded background using Brusho paints/colours. I used four Lavinia stamp sets on this project, stamped in either "Black Onyx" or "Smokey Grey" Versafine Ink or Memento "Grape Jelly". The stamps I used are Seahorse (LAV496), Indian Flourish (LAV495), Shoal of Fish (LAV432) and Sea Creatures (LAV170). I also used a white and metallic gold coloured Signo pen. I added a few pearlescent sequins to add a little shimmer too.
