The Joys of Spring

Hi everyone, not sure where the past couple of weeks have gone to, but they have been so busy I’ve not done any crafting at all. However a good friend’s birthday is almost upon me so I thought I’d better get busy, and of course I also took the opportunity to play with a few of my new stamps from my visit to the Dreamatorium last Saturday.  As I mentioned in my previous post I only bought a moderate selection of the new Lavinia stamps which I thought would work with my existing stash, as I preferred to focus on getting more inks and sparkly pens! However I must admit I’ve already got my eye on a couple more which I managed to resist (temporarily!). Anyway, here is the birthday card for my friend, using a mixture of old and new stamps.

I created a large circle by blending the new Lemon drop Elements ink around a circle mask, then I stamped flowers around the edge of the circle. I masked the flowers then added Pris sitting on a swing which I coloured with Zig pens, and stamped a variety of the new Wild Foliage in 1st and 2nd generation Avocado Versafine Clair. I coloured the flowers using watered down Posca sparkle pens and edged the borders with Wink of Stella gold pen, then stamped the sentiment onto separate card, cut out and attached (the sentiment set is also new to me from the weekend). Finally I added a teeny stamped butterfly coloured with Sakura Stardust pens, and matted the finished piece onto black and yellow card stock and a 6” square card blank.

Here is an angled picture which attempts to show the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Pris, Swing, Moss Flowers, Wild Foliage, Fairy Bugs, Heartfelt Verses;

Media: Lavinia Elements ink (Lemon Drop); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Avocado); Posca sparkle pens (pink, orange, yellow, purple); Sakura Stardust pens (pink, orange, purple); Winknof Stella (gold); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Posca pen (white); Stabilo pencil (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

AAA Birthday #72 - Mythical

Ally’s Angels #92 - Anything Goes - RUNNER UP

Beautiful Blossoms #27 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)

Classic Design Challenge #3 2025 - Anything Goes with option Bunnies, Blooms and/or Butterflies

Colourful Options (April) - Colour Inspiration (pastels)

Crafts Galore Encore #134 - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar (April) - Feminine

Crafty Catz #691 - Anything Goes

Creative Aunts #100 - Spring

Do All Kreatives #100 - Spring Birthday

Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #4 2025 - Birthday 

Heart’s Quest Fantasy Challenge #4 2025 - Anything Goes Fantasy

Lavinia Creative Challenge (April) - The Joys of Spring

Let’s Craft and Create #218 - Anything Goes with option Add Flowers

Little Red Wagon #802 - C is for Circles

Love to Craft #85 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Love to Scrap #172 - Anything Goes

Mix It Up #76 - Anything Goes

Paper Funday #75 - Anything Goes with option Things Beginning with “B”

(blooms, butterfly, birthday greeting)

Sweet Stampin’ - Female Cards

Triple B (April) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

Word Art Wednesday #694/695 - Anything Goes

Here’s hoping I’ll manage to crack on now and get a few more cards made. I’m hoping to get one or two entries in for the special Lavinia “Dreamatorium” challenge using only stamps from the Dreamatorium collection, though as I have only a few of them that Will indeed be a bit of a challenge, and regular visitors here may have to put up with a bit of repetition!!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,