Summer Moon Flowers

Hi everyone, this month’s Lavinia Creative Challenge is Summer Moon, and I hadn’t yet got round to entering so I thought I’d better get a wriggle on before it closes tomorrow. It also gave me opportunity to play with the new release flower stamps I treated myself to a couple of weeks ago and a new-to-me fairy… I didn’t buy any of the new Lavinia fairy stamps but did get this older one called “Dragonfly Keepers” which I have been wanting for some time.

I brayered three colours of Elements ink onto my square gel press, spattered with water and took a print. I cut the result down to a 13.5 cm square, then blended more Elements ink round a circle mask to create a moon. I stamped my fairy, focal flowers and grasses, and coloured the flowers with Inktense pencils topped with Wink of Stella to add sparkle. I added some hanging foliage at the top, coloured the fairy wings and lantern with Sakura Stardust pens, and added some white pastel pencil highlights to the fairy. I outlined the moon and added silvery moonlight highlights with a clear Stardust pen, and created some yellow sparkly orbs using my White Orbs stencil. Finally I added some gold Posca highlights, stamped and attached a sentiment (masked from a larger sentiment), and matted onto pale pink card stock and a card blank.

This is actually an extremely sparkly card - here is an angled picture to capture some of the shimmer.

Stamps: Lavinia Dragonfly Keepers, Flower Divine 2, Flower Divine Set, Field Grass, Leaf Creeper, Deeper than the Ocean;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Dark Denim, Della Blue, Confetti); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Avocado, Shady Lane, Rainforest, Medieval Blue); Derwent Inktense pencils; Sakura Stardust pens (clear, yellow, pink, blue); Wink of Stella; Pastel pencil (white); Posca pen (gold, white);

Tools: Lavinia Circle Masks, White Orbs stencil; Gel Press square gel plate.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #790 - Flowers (2nd entry)

Crafts Galore Encore #125 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations (July) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Country View Challenges (July) - Stencil Magic (2nd entry)

Heart’s Quest Fantasy Challenge #7 2024 - Anything Goes Fantasy

Lavinia Creative Challenge (July) - Summer Moon

Simon Says (Monday) - Add a Sentiment - WINNER

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Beautiful Blooms

We Love 2 Create #6 - Anything Mixed Media Goes (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #657/658 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

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

Hugs,