More Midnight Magic

Hi everyone, today is the last day of April’s Lavinia Creative Challenge, so I am sharing a card that I made yesterday with that plus a few other challenges in mind (entered into that challenge without the sentiment).  I decided to try for the first time making a Lavinia scene with water and reflections … something I have been meaning to try for sometime but never got round to. Here’s the result.

I started by sponging 2 blue Distress Inks onto a square of stamping card for water and sky, using a circle mask for the moon - I don’t often use DI’s but decided I didn’t want the chalky look of Distress Oxides for this project. I then used a straight paper mask and hill mask with blended Distress Oxide to create my hills and reflection of them, them stamped my focal fairy using Versafine Clair. I stamped the reflection of my large trees using my gel press, then stamped the large trees. I stamped the owl, a few further trees using a mixture of 1st and 2nd generation stamping in dark blue, and their reflections using the gel press, then I used DI and a water brush to paint ripples in the water. I stamped some flowers and rushes in the bottom corner, then  highlighted the whole scene with Sakura Stardust pens and coloured the moon with my  Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.  I edged the card with black marker pen and matted onto a black border and my card base.

Here's the obligatory angled picture to show that this is another VERY sparkly card!

I did struggle bit with creating water and reflections  … I’m not sure that my colouring media are entirely suitable, and I also tried creating a reflection using my brayer but I didn’t get on very well with that so turned to stamping onto my gel press. I wouldn’t say my reflection is by any means perfect, but I did my best and I’m not too displeased with it for my first attempt. 

Stamps: Lavinia Tree Goddess Luna, Forest Scene, Tree Scene, Wild Summer Flowers, Silhouette Foliage Set, Grass, Brodwin and Maylin; sentiment - AALL & Create #340 Paint Your Dreams;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord); Distress Oxide inks (Black Soot, Hickory Smoke, Stormy Sky); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Twilight); Sakura Stardust pens (clear, blue); Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen (clear).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Country View Challenges (April) - Things With Wings (4th entry)

Creative Inspirations (April) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Double D - Things That Fly (3rd entry)

Lavinia Creative Challenge (April) - Magic at Midnight (2nd entry)

My Time to Craft #506 - Fantasy Creatures / Characters

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2316 - Anything Goes

Simon Says (Monday) - Make Your Mark

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Things With Wings (3rd entry) - WINNER

We Love Stamping (April) - Anything Stamped with option Real Birds or Animals (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #591/592 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

That’s all for today, but I’ll be back soon with some makes using some of the latest Tracy Evans AALl & Create stamps that fell into my online basket last week 🤣🤣 Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,