Lavinia Stamps "Sugar Pine Cones" Christmas Card

 

Another night where I can't sleep, so decided to get up and craft, making this card.

I started with a white piece of card, adding several spritzed Distress Oxide Inks to the surface of the card, using a heat gun to dry each colour before adding another.  The colours I used are: Saltwater Taffy, Fozilized Amber, Tea Dye, Old Paper Vintage Photo and Rusty Hinge.

I then moved on to the stamping.  I have used Lavinia Stamps through out, stamping in Versafine Clair Inks.  The colours of inks I have used are: Pinecone, Acorn and Shady Lane.  The stamps I have used are:  Starpine, Sugar Pine Cones, Fir Cone Branch, Cedar and a sentiment from the "Seasonal Words" stamp set.

In the background area around the word "Peace", I have used the Lavinia Stamps Honeycomb stencil with "Sunflower" Ranger Archival Ink.  I have edged the card using "Rain Forest" Versafine Clair Ink and added highlights to the stamped areas using a gold gel pen.

Lavinia Stamps "Owl in a snow storm" tag

Today, there isn't a new tag prompt from Karen Telfer.  So I decided I would make another version of the Day 7 tag.  I followed the same colouring for the background, but changed the stamping.

Stamping in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink in both first and second generation stamping, using Lavinia Stamps "Large Owl" and "Gip".

I chose to stamp the Lavinia "Fir Cone Branch" in Versafine Clair "Pine Cone" dark brown ink.

I added snow to the branches and splatters to create the snowflakes using Dr Ph.Martin's bleed proof white paint, using a metallic gold pen for the eyes of the owl.

Here are the two Day 7 tags together.

Day 7 of "Karen Telfer's 24 Days of Tags Challenge 2022"

It's hard to believe that I have made a whole week of tags, part of Karen Telfer's "24 Days of Tags 2022" challenge.  If you would like to take part, here is her tutorial fon her Facebook Group.

I've more or less followed Karen's instructions to the tee.  I added an extra embossed "Fir Cone Branch" and added snow laying on top of the fence posts. I also decided to leave out the snowflakes.  I liked it as it is.

The stamps used are by Lavinia Stamps, using their "Pheasant" and "Fir Cone Branch" stamps. The pheasant was stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

For the embossing I used the Wow! Clear embossing ink pad, Wow! White Embossing Powder and an antistatic bag.

Distress Oxide Inks used on the tag were:  Mustard Seed, Candied Apple, Tumbled Glass and Blue Print Sketch.

For the snow, I used Dr Ph. Martin's paint to splatter and paint the snow on the fence post.

It's interesting when following the tutorial of somebody else, as sometimes, I find myself saying to myself that "I would do it this way"! and working against my natural grain sometimes seems very strange.  An example of this was stamping/embossing the fir cone branch.  If it were me, I would have used clear embossing powder and stamped and embossed first thing, before any ink hit the page.  So I guess what I am saying is that we all work in different ways, some may work better than others, but we all get to the same destination in the end.

Lavinia Stamps "Fir Cone Branch" embossed card

Well, I seem to be on a bit of roll with my card making today.  Here's another one! 

For the central image, I've used the Lavinia Stamps "Fir Cone Branch", stamped in Versafine Clair "Acorn" brown ink.  I have used the same ink to stamp the "Just For You" sentiment, which is part of the "Heartfelt Verse Stamp Set".  I used a water colour pencil to colour the fir cones and then die cut into a stitched edge square.

I had a rummage through my basket of embossing folders which I sadly don't use often enough.  I cam across one with holly leaves, which I think came free with a magazine, that I thought would be a suitable background.  I die cut a larger square, again with a stitched edge.  Popped it in the embossing folder and ran it through the Big Shot.  I then assembled the card.  I used foam pads to elevate the central fir cone area and also added some gold shimmer to the fir cones and branches using a gold gel pen.