Spooky Lavinia card

Jun17

Two weeks ago I attended a workshop @ In ‘t woefke. The purpose was to create fairylike cards using Lavinia stamps, but I felt like creating a spooky card too:

All stamps are by Lavinia, except for the sentiment, which is Stampendous.

I only had used this card size (100 x210 mm) a handful of times before, but I actually really like it, so I’m pretty sure I will use it more often in the future.

This is my entry for the following challenges:

Fairy wonderland

Jun2

Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge wants us to create a fairy wonderland. Here’s my atc:

Every fairy wonderland needs a bit of bling, so I added some Diamond Stickles:

Stamps used

Mushrooms, fairies, fairy dust: Lavinia
Fairy Frolics: Scrollswork
Greenery: Katzelkraft

Moon

Jan19

I’ve made a number of ATCs for a swap currently hosted on the ATCsForAll-forum. The theme of that swap is ‘Dictionary words’ and one of the dictionary words I chose to illustrate is the French word ‘Lune’.

Since ‘moon’ is also the current challenge theme @ Take a word, I’d like to enter the following atc into their challenge.

Stamps used

Fairies, stars: Lavinia

Shiny fairies

Aug12

‘Do you believe in fairies?’ is this fortnight’s theme over at ‘Fun with ATCs‘ and Hels over at ‘Sunday Stampers‘ wants to see something shiny. It was an excellent excuse for me to try out the new Brilliance inks I’ve recently bought:

Unfortunately, the subtle sparkle of the Brilliance inks is hard to capture on scan.

Stamps used

Fairies, flowers: Lavinia
Sentiment: Quietfire
Script background: Darkroom Door

3 flowers and fairy silhouettes

Jul17

The Less is more challenge focuses on 1 layer cards featuring ‘3 of something’ and the Cheerful Stamp Pad wants to see silhouettes. Here’s a fairy silhouette card featuring 3 flowers and 3 colours of Distress ink (Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Broken China):

I decided to create a matching envelope:

Thanks for looking!

Stamps used

Flowers, fairies: Lavinia
Sentiment: Quietfire

Glorious green garden atc

Feb16

The weather has been dreary the last couple of days, so I’m sure you don’t mind me sharing this glorious green garden ATC. As I live in the city, I don’t actually have a garden, but I’m sure if I had one it would not only be populated with insects, snails, butterflies or hedgehogs…

The resist background was made with wax paper.

This is my entry for the following challenges:

Gingersnap creations: Glorious Greens
Stampalot challenge: In the garden (I hope they don’t mind me entering an ATC!).

Stamps used

Fairies and butterfly: Lavinia
Flowers: Katzelkraft

Couldn’t resist the fairies…

Sep29

I couldn’t stop playing with my Lavinia fairies… This time, I stamped them on an alcohol ink resist background (or I put them behind an AI resist foreground on acetate).

For this technique, I applied several colours alcohol ink on acetate (you can also use glossy paper) using an applicator. I inked my bubbly background stamp with black Archival ink and stamped it onto the alcohol ink background. Then, I immediately wiped off the black archival ink using a cloth. This removes the alcohol ink that was underneath the stamped image and exposes the acetate or white glossy paper again.

This is my entry for Hels’ Simply irresistable challenge.

Stamps used

Bubbly background: Stampcamp
Fairies & butterfly: Lavinia
Flower: Katzelkraft
Snail: Artistic Stamper
Fairy Frolics: Scrolls Work

In the garden

Sep29

This month’s theme over at the Stamp Man ATC swaps is ‘In the garden’. In my garden, there are not only flowers, bugs and butterflies…

Have a look!

Stamps used

Fairies & butterfly: Lavinia
Flower: Katzelkraft
Snail: Artistic Stamper
Leaves: Art Journey
Fairy Frolics: Scrolls Work

Turquoise xmas card without xmas stamps

Dec8

In the Yahoo-group “Creatief met stempels” we were asked to create a Christmas card without typical Christmas stamps. That wasn’t too difficult for me, for that’s the way I usually create most of my Christmas cards.