Forest Flower

Hi everyone, today I would like to share the first card I made with a stamp from the latest Lavinia release which I bought on my recent visit to the shop … I absolutely love this mystical forest flower - it is one of my new favourites so I am entering this card into the monthly Lavinia Creative Challenge. I have also bought one of the new owl stamps, but I’m working up to that one while I decide what medium I will use to colour it!! 

The general look of this card was inspired by a card and tags I saw made by a lady in the Lavinia fans FB group, though as usual I changed it up a bit with different colouring of the flowers, different foliage and the addition of white orbs and green sparkle!

I created my background by blending 2 colours of Elements inks onto a square of stamping card, spritzing with water and dabbing with paper towel. I stamped the Forest Flowers and coloured them with Inktense pencils, then highlighted with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and white gel pen.  I masked a couple of the flowers and added some second generation background text stamping, then stamped some foliage in 2 shades of green. I added some light orbs using a Lavinia stencil and blending Brilliance white ink plus a dot of Posca pen. I finished with some white Posca dots rising from the flowers plus dots of green Stickles glitter, then edged with black and matted onto a 6” square card blank. I’ve left it without a sentiment for now as I quite like it as it is!

This card is incredibly sparkly when the sunlight catches it, but very difficult to photograph - here is an angled picture to show a bit of the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Forest Flower, Leaf Creeper, Faerie Spells;

 Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Violet Chalk, Lime Punch); Derwent Inktense Pencils; Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Verdant, Shady Lane); Brilliance pigment ink (Moonlight white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pen (white); gel pen (white); Stickles (green);

Tools: Lavinia White Orbs stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Beautiful Blossoms #7 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)

Crafts Galore Encore #113 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Creatalicious #263 - Anything Goes with option Bokeh Technique - TOP 3

Creative Crafters #66 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments #247 - Let It Shine (2nd entry)

Lavinia Creative Challenge (July) - Favourite Lavinia Stamp (4th entry)

Let’s Craft and Create #197 - Anything Goes with option Add Flowers (2nd entry)

NBUS #52 - Use your Never Before Used Schtuff

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2328 - Anything Goes (2nd entry) - WINNER

Word Art Wednesday #605/606 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Hope everyone is having a good weekend … take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,