Glitter & Gems - Lavinia Stamps Challenge

Hi Everyone

A very big welcome to my new members, I am so pleased you have taken the trouble to join my blog.

Don't you just love Autumn? The beautiful colours of the trees and the nice weather we are having so far but shhhh don't speak too soon.

This month the Challenge over at Lavinia Stamps is Glitter and Gems which you can see here .  I hope you have all seen the new stamps which can be seen here.  Maybe you have already bought some?  If so come over and join us and you could win a huge £40 worth of stamps just by entering.

REMEMBER - you do not need a blog to enter - you can e-mail your entry here

Again this month I have used the lovely Mushroom Dwelling and fairy buttercups and also used the very popular Fairy Couple.  I created the background using Distress Inks, a stencil and water.

My second sample has a background made using Brushos and the picture is  Make A Wish.

I hope you can see that I added glitter to her wings and gems on her hair.

Have a good month and good luck to everyone entering the Challenge.  Kx

Have you Seen ...?

... the new release from Lavinia Stamps?  There are some great new stamps which can be seen here.  There are also some fantastic sentiments in a lovely font.  Today is the start of the new Challenge which you can see here over at Lavinia Stamps.  Remember you have a chance to win a huge £40 worth of stamps just by entering.

IMPORTANT - you do not need a blog to enter - you can e-mail your entry here

Here are my samples for this month - HOT, BRIGHT COLOURS - Simple!

For this tag I used Brushos for the background and used two of the new stamps Make A Wish and Fairy Buttercups.

For this card I used the Bleeding Tissue technique which you can see behind the die and the rabbits.  I love these rabbits - I wanted to give the impression of peeking in at them with this card.  The rabbits are called Midnight Meandering and I used the Fairy Buttercups again and also Willow.  The words Best Wishes are part of the new release.

I hope you can join us.

Thanks for looking.  Kx

Retirement Card

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Hope you are having a great August.

We have a colleague who is retiring this week and I have made this card for him.

I have used a JOFY stamp - this is a mini stamp, about the size of a credit card but just perfect for this retirement card and coloured with Copics.  I have used an embossing folder which I thought looked a bit like waves.

Hope you like it. Kx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Anything but a Card

Hi Everyone

First of all, congratulations to Barbara Cleggett who won the July Challenge - a very worthy winner. Remember the prize is £40 worth of Lavinia Stamps and you can enter here.

For anyone who has not entered yet - why are you waiting?  This month you do not have to be a card maker - in fact you need to make anything but a card - an exciting challenge.

Here is my sample this month - a canvas.

I used acrylic paints for the background and modelling paste through a couple of stencils to add some interest to the corners.  For the main image I have used the beautiful Mushroom Dwelling.  This stamp is new to me and I have to say it is a dream to use and colour - I love, love, love it!  I also used the very versatile stamps - willow and zen leaves.

Hope you join the challenge and good luck! Kx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Flowers

Hi Everyone

I hope it is a lovely day wherever you are.  Welcome to another new month and a new Challenge over at Lavinia Stamps.  Remember by entering the Challenge you stand a chance of winning a huge £40 worth of gorgeous Lavinia Stamps and this month's challenge is Flowers.

For this card I used Brushos as the base and stenciled with Distress Inks dusty inks and added some black soot.  I used the lovely Fairy pods and used a white pen to bring out some definition.

For this card I stamped and embossed the new Background script stamp for the back ground and used different colour Brushos to make the backgrounds for the dandelions.  Simple but very effective.

Hope you have a good month and thanks for looking. Kx

June Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Any Colour

Hi Everyone and welcome to my new followers.  I really appreciate your support.

First of all a big well done to Clare, a very worthy winner in the May Lavinia Stamps Challenge.

This month's Challenge is Any Colour so come on everyone get your stamps out and enter.  We had a record number of entries in May so let's see if we can get even more in June.  Remember there is a huge prize of £40 worth of Lavinia Stamps.

My samples for this month:

This is a canvas sheet which I have mounted on to card.  I used the bleeding tissue technique in green and orange and stencilled in yellow.  The Lavinia Stamps I have used the beautiful fairy "Sky" and for the border I used Zen leaves and the sentiment is Have a Fairy Happy Birthday.

 



 

For my second sample I have used very watered down distress inks for the background on watercolour paper having previously put some gesso in the middle for extra texture.  This technique was shown to me by my best mate Eileen Godwin.  The Lavinia Stamp I used for this one was Zen thistle.  I added some Treasure Gold but this does not show up very well.

 

Hope you like my makes and join the challenge this month.  Thanks for looking.  Kx

May Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Pink or Blue

Hi Everyone, does anyone else wonder where April went?  I hope you managed to get a chance to join in the April Challenge - a very worthy winner for a really great challenge.  Another month and another challenge over at Lavinia Stamps and this month it is pink or blue so I do hope you will be able to join in.  Remember you do not have to have a blog as we accept e-mail entries.  The prize for the winner is £40 worth of Lavinia Stamps.

This month I have one blue one and one pink one to show you:

For this one I have used the Zen butterfly and yes it is one of my favourites.  The background is made with Brushos and it looked a bit like a butterfly so I felt it was crying out for a butterfly stamp.  I also used the flowers from Leaf Trail.

For this card I used distress ink Picked Raspberry which I put on with a brush and then used a stencil to add the pink bubbles.  I used my very favourite fairy stamp Giselle and added some Stickles to her wings.  I used the bottom of Creeping vine and zen leaf to decorate the  bottom and the top.

Hope you will be able to join us for this month's challenge.  Good luck and have a great Bank Holiday weekend.  Kx