Woodside View

Hi everyone, here I am again with another Christmas card using the new Lavinia release. After my previous effort I started thinking about using the little cottages with the gate and fence …. and lo and behold Jo Rice published a Youtube tutorial for a lovely simple design featuring exactly those things! I really liked Jo’s layout so I basically followed it, substituting a different fir tree as I don’t have the new one, changing the colours a bit and adding some framing mistletoe and a heart. 🩷

I cut a square of stamping card and stamped the cottage, then masked it and created the moon, sky and snowdrifts using blended Elements inks with circle and mini hill masks. I stamped the fence and gate and the fir tree, then removed the mask and coloured the cottage with watercolour pencils which I blended out with a water brush. I stamped the little heart dangling from the eaves of the cottage, then added Posca and Signo pen snowy highlights which I also topped with sparkle pen to add some glimmer. I stamped the sentiments which I also topped with Posca “snow”, added some sprigs of mistletoe to frame and added white Posca snowflakes before matting onto a dark blue frame and card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Woodside, Fairy Fir Tree 2 (Small), Gate and Fence, Fairy Charms, Mistletoe, Christmas Greetings;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Della Blue, Violet Chalk); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Acorn, Rainforest, Grass Green, Hawthorn Rose, Medieval Blue); W H Smith watercolour pencils; Posca pen (white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear);

Tools: Lavinia circle and Mini Hill masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown (November theme) - Sparkle

ABC Christmas (November) - W is for Watercolouring (2nd entry)

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards - Holiday Themed (4th entry)

Creative Moments #264 - Winter (3rd entry)

FarmQuest Country Christmas #14 - Anything Country Christmas Goes (3rd entry)

The Holly and Ivy #172 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Krafty Chicks #742 - Christmas (2nd entry)

Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Time to Sparkle (4th entry)

Little Red Wagon #782 - Wintertime  (2nd entry)

Peace On Earth #76 - Anything Christmas Goes

Sisterhood of Crafters - Landscapes

Word Art Wednesday #673/674 - Anything Goes (6th entry)

I think I’m going to make a little batch of these … according to the weather forecast this could be the view from our windows I the UK when we get up in the morning!

Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,