Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Berry Branch


Hi everyone, here I am again with another card using one of my new Lavinia stamps, from my visit to the Dreamatorium on Saturday. Initially I wasn’t going to purchase the ‘Berry Branch’ stamp, but then I saw that amongst Jo Rice’s gorgeous demo samples she had made a couple of Christmas cards with it, so I was inspired by that. Here’s my card, using the new stamp with some older Christmas stamps.


I cut a 6.25” x 4.25” piece of stamping card, and stamped the street lamp. I masked the lamp then created my snowy landscape with Mini Hill masks and blended Elements ink, and blended more ink using a circle mask to create the twilight sky. I stamped the branch several times using Pinecone VFC then stamped berries here and there, and also added Annie and Edward looking up at the lantern. I coloured the berries and lantern with Inktense pencils, and  the branches with Zig pen, then added some Wink of Stella to the lamplight for sparkle. I stamped the sentiment then added white Posca snow to the branches, lamp and sentiment, and highlights,, to the berries and figures with Posca and Stabilo pencil. I added some spatter Posca snow and when dry, matted the finished piece onto a red border and 7” x 5” card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Berry Branch, Street Light, Annie and Edward, Christmas Greetings;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Della Blue, Dark Denim);  Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Pinecone); Inktense pencils; Kuretake Zig Clean Color Watercolor pens; Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Wink of Stella; Posca pen (white); Stabilo pencil (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #124 - Anything Goes Christmas
613 Avenue Create (July) - Anything Goes with option Any Holiday
Art Impressions #407 - Spritz, Spatter and Paint
Aud Sentiments #327 - Christmas In July + a Sentiment 
Craft Rocket #127 - Christmas In July
Creative Artiste #117 - Anything Mixed Media Goes
Daisy Chain #98 - Christmas In July
Double Trouble #195 - 3-2-1 Recipe
(Thing 1: Include AT LEAST 3 colours, 2 hard stamped images and 1 sentiment
Thing 3: Include shimmer/spatter)
Everybody Art #582 - Christmas in June
Fab ‘n’ Funky #620 - Christmas In July
FarmQuest Country Christmas #22 - Anything Country Christmas Goes
The Holly and Ivy #187 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)
Merry Little Christmas #63 - Anything Christmas Goes
Peace On Earth #91 - Anything Christmas Goes
Simon Says Monday - Fun With Paint
(I don’t have much in the way of paint media, but I DO love to spatter with my Posca paint marker!)
Sparkles Christmas #174 - Sparkle and Bling
Sweet Stampin’ - Christmas In July
Unicorn #111 - Christmas In July
Word Art Wednesday #706/707 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,

1 comment:

Joanne said...

That is such a beautiful card!