Spring Has Sprung!

Hi everyone, I haven’t been doing much crafting recently as I really haven’t felt in the mood, but I thought I’d better get a wriggle on as it is nearly time to turn over the April page on my Lavinia calendar, which is one I hadn’t yet completed. I really wanted to develop the theme of my March page here, using similar but different stamps including some of my recent purchases. I also took inspiration from my husband’s birthday card which I made a couple of weeks ago, so here is Herbalum Bob watering his pots in the spring meadow!

I cut a piece of stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5 cm, and created the landscape by blending Elements inks using hill and circle masks. I then built up the scene gradually using different shades of Versafine Clair, and masking on the wheelbarrow and pots and around the tree base where necessary. I coloured the tree and pots with Zig pens, then added white Stabilo pencil shading and white Posca highlights to the scene and also highlighted the sun and flowers with various colours of Sakura Stardust pen, to add a little sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Herbalum Bob, Tree of Hope, Tree Scene, Skeleton Tree Scene, Spring Trees, Oak Leaves, Wheelbarrow, Flower Pots, Thyme Pots, Dill, Bluebells, Bird Collection, Birds, Words of Spring;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Pine, Olive, Blue Lagoon, Sundance); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Portobello, Acorn, Avocado, Shady Lane, Bali Blue, Paradise, Blue Belle, Baby Pink, Lilac Bloom, Cheerful); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Sakura Stardust pens (clear, pink, yellow, turquoise, blue); Posca pens (white, yellow); 

Tools: Lavinia Hill and Circle masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

2 Sisters on the Blog #95 - Spring/Easter (2nd entry)

Ally’s Angels #92 - Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Galz #246 - Springtime

Crafts Galore Encore #133 - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals’ Corner #265 - Fill In the Blank: Fairy Tale … (pixie)

Creatalicious #287 - Anything Goes with option Easter/Spring

Creative Crafters #86 - Anything Goes

Creative Crafting Uncles #63 - Spring/Easter (2nd entry)

Daring Cardmakers - Celebrate Spring

Dragonfly Dreams (March) - Gardening (2nd entry)

FarmQuest General Store #26 - Anything Farm or Country Goes

Heart’s Quest Fantasy #3 2025 - Anything Goes Fantasy (2nd entry)

Krafty Chicks #761 - Masculine

Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone (March) - Anything but a Card

Outlawz Festive Friday (March) - Spring

Papercraft Challenges #117 - Spring Blooms (2nd entry)

Pearly Sparkles #105 - Anything but a Card

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Triple B (March) - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies (2nd entry)

Try It OnTuesday - Spring Fling (2nd entry)

We Love 2 Create #3 2025 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #692/693 - Anything Goes

Having made this spring scene has put me back in the mood again for crafting, so hopefully I’ll be back with another make soon.

Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,