June Is Bustin’ Out All Over!

Hi everyone. As regular visitors to my blog will know, I have been decorating a 2025 Lavinia calendar. I started back in October last year, creating the pages out of order as the mood took me, and by the end of the year I had only completed 5 pages! Since then I have been completing the pages as and when, but today was the first time I arrived at the start of a month with the page not yet done … so I had to sit down this afternoon and get a wriggle on! The illustration for June is of Bumble and Hum, so I based my page around that … and here it is! 

Please excuse the poor picture - the direction of the late afternoon light is all wrong but I want to post today … maybe I’ll update the photo tomorrow!

I cut a piece of stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5cm and created a background by blending Elements inks with a brush. I then built up my floral scene, using a variety of colours of Versafine Clair and lots of masking when inking to enable me to stamp the flower heads and stems in different colours. I added Bumble and Hum hovering above, and coloured them with Sakura Stardust pens. I coloured the group poppies with Stardust pen and the tips of the Wild Summer Flowers with white Posca pen, and added white Posca highlights to the poppies and other flowers. I added some white heat embossed dandelions last so they would come to the fore, then stamped my sentiment and  added a couple of stamped dragonflies. Finally I edged the finished piece with blue marker pen and attached to my calendar page.

Here is an angled picture to show the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Bumble and Hum, Wild Summer Flower, Garden Poppy, Group Poppies, Dandelions, Fairy Dandelions, Lavender, Field Grass, Fairy Bugs, Let Your Spirit Take Flight;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Atoll, Green Parrot, Pine); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Strawberry, Lilac Bloom, Arctic,Shady Lane, Avocado, Blue Belle); Versamark; WOW Opaque superfine embossing powder; Sakura Stardust pens (yellow, orange, red, clear); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Favourite Type of Embossing (and why) - TOP 3

(I love heat embossing as it really makes images pop!)

Beautiful Blossoms #29 - Anything Floral Goes (4th entry)

Creative Inspirations (May) - The Great Outdoors (2nd entry) - TOP 3

DL.Art (June) - Anything Goes

Dream Valley #337 - Hand Coloured Image (2nd entry)

Ellibelle’s Garden Party #3 - Anything In or From a Garden (3rd entry)

Fab ‘n’ Funky #617 - Add a Sentiment (2nd entry)

FarmQuest General Store #28 - Anything Farm or Country Goes (2nd entry)

Krafty Chicks #770 - Anything Goes (2nd entry) - TOP PICK

Lavinia Creative Challenge (June) - Flower Festival

Outlawz Anything Goes In a Card Free Zone (May) - Anything but a Card

Path of Positivity #131 - Anything Goes Positive (3rd entry)

{PIN}spirational #326 - Summer Sky

Simon Says (Monday) - Emboss It (2nd entry)

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

Sisterhood of Crafters - Flowers (3rd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - Things With Wings

Word Art Wednesday #700/701 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

I’ve only got 3 more months of the calendar to complete now (July, September and November) … though it probably won’t be long before the 2026 calendar is published! I think I’ll have to try to get a bit more organised with that one!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,