Lavinia Stamps "Indian Flourish" Card

It's a grey and rainy day here on Anglesey, so an ideal time to craft!  I hope the weather is kinder to you where ever you are.

I used three shades of Distress Oxide Inks, using Squeezed Lemonade, Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet. for the area where the feather would be.  I then used Squeezed Lemonade through the Lavinia Stamps "Splendour" stencil for the background patter.  Edging the card in the same yellow Ink.

I used Versafine Clair "Twilight" dark blue ink to stamp the feather by Lavinia Stamps called "Indian Flourish".  I used sections of the same stamp to stamp the border.  I stamped the sentiment, part of the Lavinia Stamps "Heartfelt Verse" stamp set and inked the edge of the card in "Twilight" dark blue ink too.  To finish, I added detail to the feather using a gold coloured gel pen.

Lavinia Stamps "Indian Flourish" on a "Dinkles" Background

Recently, Lavinia Stamps have released a new product called "Dinkles", they're a little similar to Brusho but are a fine powder, rather than being granular.  Initially, I thought "I'm not going to buy these'!  But of course I got sucked in and orderd the set.  They have been sat on my craft desk for almost a week waiting to be used, so today was the day that I gave them a try. 

I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with the Dinkles or how I was going to use them, so decided I would spritz a piece of card with water (both sides so that it didn't curl), then poked holes into the lids of the Dinkles, like I did with the Brusho all those years ago and then gently tapped a little of the powder out.  I used two colours "Amethyst" and "Magenta".  

Initially, I put a very tiny bit of powder onto the spritzed surface, but knew I wanted a little more colour, so added another spritz of water then tapped a little more powder on.  I then used my heat gun to dry the surface.

Once the card was dry, I ran an anti-static bag over the surface then stamped the Lavinia Stamps "Indian Flourish" feather on to the card.  I quickly coated the stamped image with Wow! Silver Embossing Powder and heat set.

I cut the card down to an appropriate size and then added a stamped sentiment, using the Lavinia Stamps "Heartfelt Verse" stamp set in Versafine Clair "Charming Pink" ink.