Let Your Spirit Take Flight ... and More Sweet Honeysuckle

Hi everyone,

Today is the last day of the Lavinia website monthly challenge ... and I realised much to my horror I hadn't made a single entry!!  I decided to put that right before it was too late, and seeing as this month's theme is "Blossoms Blooming" I made one of my favourite type of Lavinia cards, which is a meadow scene.

I think this type of scene particularly suits DL cards, and they are also ideal for trading three ATC's, but I was hampered as I didn't have any DL envelopes. I put that right last time I was out shopping, so now I'm ready to go.

I cut a panel of white stamping card and created a smoosh background with Distress Oxide inks, then used a circle mask and blended more DO on top to make a sun. I created some grounding using a hill mask and DO, then stamped a variety of flowers + a butterfly using a mix of colours of Versafine Clair and 1st/2nd generation stamping. I coloured my poppies and butterfly with Sakura sparkle pens, and also highlighted the outline of the sun and the flowers. I also added some “wisps” of mist with white pastel pencil, but they are hardly visible on camera. Lastly I stamped my sentiment, then edged the panel with black Promarker and matted it onto teal pearlescent linen cardstock and my card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Dandelions, Garden Poppy, Group Poppies, Field Grass, Silhouette Foliage Set, Mini Flutter,  Let Your Spirit Take Flight;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Twilight, Warm Breeze); Sakura sparkle pens (yellow, turquoise); white pastel pencil;

Tools: Lavinia hill and circle masks;

Heart gem from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Colour Crazy #20 2022 - Anything Goes with Colouring (2nd entry)

Crafty Catz #596 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Dare 2B Artzy (May) - Flowers (3rd entry)

Get Creative #111 - Use Flowers (3rd entry)

Path of Positivity #101 - Anything Goes Positive  (2nd entry)

Shopping Our Stash #471 - Make Mine a Tall One

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Sparkles #152 - Floral Frenzy (3rd entry)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Time Out #214 - Word Prompt 

Try It On Tuesday - Butterflies

Word Art Wednesday #545-546 - Anything Goes

I would also like to share today a set of three ATC's I made for the May challenge over in the FB group UK Stampers Forum, where the theme is Sweet Things. I played around with a few ideas involving cupcakes and baking but nothing seemed to come together, so I decided to go with sweet smelling rather than sweet tasting, and  did what I had wanted to do since making my Allsorts DT card for last Saturday... which was to make ATC's in the same style. I have entitled these "Sweet Honeysuckle".

. I cut three pieces of card slightly smaller than standard ATC size, and lightly stencilled them with my brick wall stencil and Distress Oxide ink. I then stamped and heat embossed my honeysuckle and bee, and painted with Posca sparkle pens dabbed down and picked up with a fine paintbrush. I didn't really have a suitable sentiment, so I used my individual alphabet stamps to create the word "sweet", then cut out and matted on top. I edged each panel with black Promarker and then matted onto standard ATC-size pieces of rose gold card stock, before finishing with some pink and gold Posca pen spatter dots. As usual it requires an angled pic to really show the shimmer...

A closer look at each ATC

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Stamps: Lavinia Honeysuckle, Bee Mini; sentiment - Hobbycraft mini alphabet;

Media: background - Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Spun Sugar); Posca sparkle pens (pale pink, red, orange, green); Versafine Clair (Nocturne); clear embossing powder; Stickles glitter;

Tools: Crafters Companion brick wall stencil from "Life Happens" set. 

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #11 2022 - Anything Goes

A Tiny Craft #9 - ATC's - Flowers (2nd entry)

ATC's With a Heart - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Crafts Galore Encore #99 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Fab 'n' Funky #552 - Anything  But Square

Mixed Media Lovers #13 - Anything Mixed Media

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2221 - Anything Goes

River of Creativity #13 - Not a Card (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Not a Card

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge #5 2022 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Time for a cup of tea and some TV now!! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,