52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
Lavinia Stamps will be featured on Hochanda TV on Tuesday 23rd April 2019 at 11am and 3pm. This is a sample I have made for the show.
To create the background I sprinkled Brusho Gamboge and Emerald Green onto card spritzed with water. Once dry, I stamped the "Indra" butterfly, part of the "Let Your Spirit Take Flight" sentiment and the tag edges in Versafine Clair "Fantasia" shade of ink.
I coloured the butterfly with various products, including Signo Glitter Pens, Liquid Pearls and Distress Ink Pens. Finally, I added some sequins to give a sparkle/shimmer.
My late night play continued into the middle of the night when I made this card. I dragged out my old alcohol inks, which have not seen the light of day for over a year and created the mottled background on Yupo Paper.
I generally use my stamping platform when I stamp and I did come across a problem with using Yupo paper as it moves around a lot. I even used a bit of tape and extra magnets, but the Yupo paper wouldn't let go of the stamp.
I did find a solution by mounting the Yupo Paper onto cardstock. With a firmer base, it behaved better. I was then able to stamp the Lavinia Stamps "Moon Pods" and the "Express Yourself" sentiment in StazOn "Iris" shade of ink.
Finally, I added colour using Distress Ink Pens and added Liquid Pearls in a shade of "White Opal" to the Moon Pods.
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The last few days I have struggled to make anything worthy of sharing on my blog. Yesterday, five projects ended up in the bin. Today, I have tidied my workspace, I don't know whether this has helped, but at least I have managed to make this card.
I have used free stamps from the first special edition of the Creative Stamping magazine. I stamped the wreath in Versafine Vintage Sepia, coloured with a Distress Ink Pen. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine Clair "Verdant".
I made this sympathy card using the IndigoBlu "Colour Me Daisy" stamp, stamped in Versafine Ink. I've coloured it using Distress Ink pens. The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up set called "Sheltering Tree".
There are some stamps in my stamp stash that I have had for years and rarely tire of. This Pine Cone stamp - F31690 by Hero Arts is one of those.
Although I've had it for ages, I have not used it very often. I fell in love with the image, but wasn't really sure how I could use it to get the different colours. Scroll on more years than I care to remember and I now know how to achieve the look I was after!
The stamp is wood mounted, to achieve the look I was after, I removed it from the wooden block so that I could use it in my Misti. I used Distress Ink Pens to colour and then stamp the actual image. I then coated the stamp in Versamark and stamped the clear coat on top of the coloured image, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and then heated till set.
I used a moist brush and water colour pencils to colour the background of the cone and the actual pale blue background. I then stamped the sentiment, which is part of a Papertrey Ink set. Finally using a fan shaped paint brush and white Gesso, I tapped some dots onto the surface to replicate snowflakes. I also added a few frosty shimmer areas to the cone using a Sakura Gelly Roll pen.
