It’s February, and Love Is In the Air!

Hi everyone, here I am back again with a second post today - anyone looking for my Heart’s Quest Fantasy Challenge guest DT post, please see here.

Towards the end of last year I started decorating a Lavinia 2025 calendar, which is a really fun though very intricate and time consuming project. By the end of the year I had completed 5 of the 12 pictures, meaning I need to complete the remaining ones this year before a particular month rolls around and I need to turn the page over! The first missing one was February, and for one reason or another I had kept putting it off until I finally sat down to it at 4:30pm on January 31st!! Talk about last minute! However I managed to get it finished in time and here it is.

I can’t photograph the whole calendar page as the calendar is now in use, but the illustration for February is of 2 hedgehogs so I decided to make that the focus of my picture, which I wanted to reflect both a romantic and wintry theme. 

I cut a 19.5cm x 14.5cm piece of stamping card and created a heart by blending Della Blue Elements ink through a stencil (the colour is pretty faint … methinks I need to replace that inkpad as it is very well used!). I edged the heart with stamped mini leaves in Arctic and very Peri Versafine Clair, then stamped some teeny snowflakes alternating between Medieval Blue VFC and Platinum Planet Brilliance ink. I stamped the 2 cute hedgies from the Wallace family inside the heart then added some landscape with blended Elements ink using a Mini Hill Mask. I added a few background trees in various shades of blue VFC and a dangling heart Fairy Charm. I stamped the sentiment in Medieval Blue then added some random scattered hearts in Hawthorn Rose. To finish I edged the panel with Dark Denim Elements and a dark blue marker pen, and added a few white Posca highlights here and there. 

Stamps: Lavinia Wallace Family, Small Pine Trees, Christmas Tree Group, Fairy Charms,  Snowflakes, Mini Leaf 1, Group of Hearts Mini, The world is full of beauty (retired);

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Della Blue, Dark Denim); Versafine Clair (Very Peri, Arctic, Medieval Blue, Pinecone, Hawthorn Rose, Nocturne); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Press to Impress heart stencil; Lavinia acetate Mini Hill masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps & More #485 - Diecuts and/or Stencils

Classic Design Challenge #1 2025 - Anything Goes with option Winter Fun  (3rd entry)

Country View FB Challenge (February) - Romance or Friendship

Crafty Animals #91 - Include an Animal

Crafty Calendar (February) - Hearts

Creatalicious #285 - Anything Goes with option Love Is In the Air (2nd entry)

Dream Valley #329 - Use Pink or Red

Four Seasons (February) - Anything Goes Winter

Heart’s Quest #70 - Include a White, Pink or Purple Heart

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #201 - Hearts Galore

Outlawz (February) - Anything Goes In a Card Free Zone

Papercraft Challenge #114 - Winter Wonders

Path of Positivity #127 - Anything Goes Positive (4th entry)

Pearly Sparkles #104 - Love Is In the Air

{PIN}spirational #322 - Quilt of Hearts

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Sweet Stampin’ (February) - Love

I’m definitely hoping that I will manage to get on with my calendar during the next month … that was a bit too close for comfort!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,