Mystical Moonlit Meadow

Hi everyone, I recently saw a tutorial by the lovely Jo Rice, and it reminded me that I have been  rather neglecting my Lavinia stamps lately, plus the fact that I have most of the Brilliance metallic dewdrop inks Jo used and don’t play with them very often …so I thought I would CASE her card and have a go at making something similar. 

Here’s my interpretation.

I cut a 13.5cm square of black card, and blended Brilliance Moonlight White ink through a circle aperture mask with a small blending brush to create a moon … I love this effect! I then stamped various flowers and grasses using Brilliance gold, silver, copper and white inks … a partially different selection of flower stamps from Jo, and I used silver rather than platinum Brilliance ink as I don’t have the platinum, so I brightened up the scene by adding a few grasses stamped in white. I then added some stars by dotting white gel pen, blended some more white ink with a small brush to create some mist, highlighted my moon by edging with Sakura Stardust pen, and edged the panel with Brilliance copper ink. Finally I matted the finished piece onto matte gold card stock and a 7” square card blank onto which I had already stamped a birthday sentiment.  

Stamps: Lavinia Wild Summer Flower, Fairy Dandelions, Nigella Damascena, Field Grass; sentiment - Visible Image You’re a Classic;

Media: Brilliance Dewdrop pigment inks (Moonlight White, Starlite Silver, Galaxy Gold, Cosmic Copper); Versafine Clair (Nocturne); Sakura Stardust pen (clear); white gel pen. 

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Allsorts #732 - Anything Goes with option Birthdays (2nd entry)

Crafty Catz #641 - Anything Goes

Flower Challenge #81 - Use Your Favourite Flower

(I struggle to pick a favourite, but I do love dandelion clocks and cow parsley which I think looks very like the Wild Summer Flower stamp).

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2323 - Anything Goes

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Flowers (3rd entry)

Use Your Stuff #486 - Flowers

Word Art Wednesday #599/600 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

I loved the effect of the moon on this project, but wasn’t very satisfied with my Brilliance ink stamping as I found it to be less crisp, and the silver was quite faint; however it was good to try something a bit different and it has given me a few new ideas for future projects.

That’s all from me for today - take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,