Moments Like These

Hi there, today I’m sharing a card I made for the monthly Lavinia online store challenge.  I felt inspired to make a spring themed card, not least of all to try out one of my newest Lavinia stamps “Spring Trees” - I’ve wanted it for a while and I really love it !

I started by die cutting a stitched square and stitched rectangle shapes so that I could create a layered card. I stamped and heat embossed the fairy, then created my landscape and sky by blending Distress Oxide inks and using acetate circle and hill masks. I added further stamped trees, flowers and various landscape elements using a variety of Versafine Clair inks, Distress Oxide and Brilliance pearlescent ink, then coloured the fairy wings and added highlights with Sakura Stardust pens. I also added a few “flowers” around the base of the trees and under the fairy using my Posca pens.I assembled the panels and attached to my card base - I don’t have any Lavinia sentiment stamps that really fit this card so I entered it into the Lavinia challenge before adding my sentiment.  

I actually had to make a goal-line save with this card, as after over 2 hours of work I was nearing completion when disaster struck!! I was happily stamping a row of bluebells using my stamping platform, inking the flowers in lilac and then masking the flower head with low tack tape to ink the stem in green VFC … until my concentration lapsed and I forgot to remove the tape resulting in a large blot of green ink!! Waaaah!! 😳 At first I thought it was irretrievable, but then I figured I had nothing to lose so I stamped a row of darker blue bluebells in the foreground, painted around the flower I had stamped over the ink blot with a very pale green Distress Oxide, stamped the flower again then added a few white dots. It’s not perfect but I think (hope) it’s now acceptable! 

Stamps: Lavinia Moments Like These, Spring Trees, Small Trees, Gate and Fence, Bluebell, Bird Collection, Birds; sentiment - Uniko Spring Botanicals Snowdrop;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Salty Ocean, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Bundled Sage, Rustic Wilderness, Fossilized Amber); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Pinecone, Shady Lane, Charming Pink); Versafine (Majestic Blue, Vintage Sepia); Brilliance Pearlescent ink (Pearlescent Lavender); Sakura Stardust pens (pink, yellow, turquoise); Posca pens (pink, yellow, white);

Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone dies - Duo-Stitched Squares and Duo-Stitched Rectangles; 

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #4 2023 - Anything Goes

Art Impressions #345 - Bloom Where You Are Planted (2nd entry)

Country View Challenges (February) - Be Sentimental (3rd entry)

Daring Cardmakers - Treat Yourself

(I treated myself to the gorgeous Lavinia "Spring Trees" stamp set)

Krafty Chicks #652 - All Occasions

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2307 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations (February) - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday #583/584 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Hope you have a great weekend whatever you're doing.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,