Hi everyone. Many crafters seem to agree that the new Lavinia stamp “Christmas Joy” is perfect for batch card making, as it is so intricate and pretty that it makes a wonderful focal point for a CAS card without needing much more. I made a quick batch of 4 cards, all fundamentally the same but using different colours.
For each card I cut a square of stamping card and stamped the tree to one side, using Shady Lane Versafine Clair for the branches and Pinecone VFC for the base of the trunk. I coloured the trees by painting in flicking motions with watered down Elements ink in Olive, then added a wash of Wink of Stella to add some sparkle. I coloured the baubles using mostly Posca sparkle pens with Posca gold metallic pen on one tree, and stamped a star on top of each tree using Brilliance gold or silver ink and highlighted with Stardust pens. I grounded the trees using my clear Sakura Stardust pen, then stamped a sentiment on each one in an appropriate shade of VFC, and matted them onto coordinating card stock and a card blank.
Stamps: Lavinia Christmas Joy, North Star Mini; sentiments - Pink Gem; Visible Image Christmas Robin;
Media: Versafine Clair (Shady Lane, Pinecone, Nocturne, Twilight, Medieval Blue); Brilliance Pigment Ink (Galaxy Gold, Starlight Silver); Lavinia Elements ink (Olive); Posca Sparkle pens (Blue, Yellow, Red, Purple, Orange); Posca pen (gold); Sakura Stardust pens (yellow, clear).
Here is a closeup of a couple of them, which I am entering into a few challenges.
... and an angled picture to show the shine on the star and baubles.
Challenges I would like to enter:
Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards - T is for Tree
Crafty Catz #660 - Anything Goes with option Christmas/Winter
Happy Little Stampers : Christmas (November) - Anything Christmas Goes
Inkspirational #303 - Seasonal
Rudolph Days (November) - Anything Christmas Goes
Word Art Wednesday #623/624 - Anything Goes
Challenges I would like to enter:
Allsorts #756 - Colours of Winter
CAS On Friday #271 - Christmas
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #152 - Anything Christmas Goes (3rd entry)
Less Is More #497 - D is for Deck the Halls
My Time to Craft #521 - Got to be Christmas
(2nd entry)
Sheepski #80 - Getting Ready For Christmas (3rd entry)
Hope everyone is having a great weekend and not bankrupting yourselves in the Black Friday sales! Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
20 comments:
Fantastic collection of cards Pauline, the trees are awesome! I love the way you've decorated them with multi-coloured "baubles". Tied with a pretty bow or placed in a cute box, these would make a great gift! Love them.
Cheers,
Beccy
Lovely cards. Have a nice weekend, Ankie
Great selection of CAS cards love the beautiful tree stamp.
Carol x
Thank you for joining us at Birthstone Challenges
Carol DT x
I'll go along with the tehory on the new Lavinia tree, each of your cards look so pretty, thanks for sharing one at Allsorts. I bought the larger of the two but think I need the smaller one as well and the Catkins and......
B x
HI Pauline.
Happy Rudolf Days.
What wonderful cards and I love that tree stamped image such unusual tree too.
Thank you for joining the Rudolf Challenge.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L DT
Fabulous collection of Christmas cards, Pauline. I love this Lavinia stamp, it makes a lovely focal point. Clever idea to use green ink to fill out the branches. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge this week.
Liz xx
These turned out beautifully and lovely to see them in the different colour combinations.
OH WOW these are just awesome! They also fit a few of our other challenges (list & links below my name ... come check us out). Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Simply Clean & Simple challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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BEAUTIFUL CAS cards! I love the pearl dots you added to the cards, making them each unique even thought they are all the same...Its a great set for our challenge at AAA Cards this round, we love seeing you work there!
All of your trees look wonderful no matter what the colors! Great CAS design, thanks for sharing with us at Simply Clean & Simple.
Absolutely beautiful work Pauline those trees and the colours are top notch thank you for joining us at Allsorts
hugs
lolo x
That Lavinia tree stamp is a beauty and is certainly perfect for batch making Christmas. These look lovely xxx
Thank you for another fantastic entry for our red challenge at Colorful Options so a fantastic array of Cas cards.
Marie
A fabulous batch of cards, super design
Kathyk
A great cas card..very eye-catching and I love seeing the variations. Thanks for joining us at Inkspirational
OMGoodness gorgeous cards,
Thank you so much for joining us at Crafty Catz Challenge this week, we hope to see you in future challenges.
Keep it Crafty
Hugs Bridget CCDT
Love this clean and simple look. I always struggle with white space, personally, but you have mastered this one beautifully! Thank you so much for your inspiration and I look forward to more of your gorgeous work here at My Time To Craft
~Tamara (DT)
Wow what stunner cards!!! I love the crisp design; thank you for joining us at INk~
Beautiful Cards! I love the tree stamp.
Beautiful CAS designs - very elegant.
Thanks for joining us at the Birthstone Challenge Blog.
Helen x
DT
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