Hi everyone, I’m sure you won’t be too surprised to hear that I’m still playing with my new Lavinia stamps from last Saturday’s visit to the Dreamatorium. When I first saw the array of new sunflower stamps, I immediately imagined a profusion of them bobbing around in a summer meadow scene, so that’s exactly what I made!
I cut a piece of stamping card 6.5” x 4.5” and created a soft inky background by brayering Elements inks directly onto the card (having run off the excess first on spare card) then spattering with water. I stamped the sunflowers at various heights and coloured them with Zig pens, then added sparkle with Wink of Stella and accents with white Posca pen. I stamped some meadow flowers, field grass and a couple of dragonflies to fill the scene, and coloured the flower tips with white Posca and Wink of Stella. I stamped the sentiment onto separate card, cut out, edged and attached, then matted the finished piece onto a teal border and 7” x 5” card blank.
Once again this card is quite sparkly, which the photos don’t capture very well.
Stamps: Lavinia Open Sunflower, Sunflower 1, Sunflower 2, Wild Summer Flower, Field Grass, Fairy Bugs, Heartfelt Verses;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Atoll, Green Parrot); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Avocado, Sand Dune); Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens; Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white).
Challenges I would like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps & More #496 - Make Your Mark (2nd entry)
C.R.A.F.T. #759 - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals’ Corner #269 - Fill In the Blanks: “… in July”
(Sunflowers)
Creative Aunts #103 - Summer (2nd entry)
Ellibelle’s Garden Party #5 - Anything In or From a Garden
FarmQuest General Store #30 - Anything Farm or Country Goes
Four Seasons (July) - Summer (2nd entry)
Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #7 2025 - Birthday (2nd entry)
Lavinia Creative Challenge (July) - Once Upon a Time (2nd entry)
(Once Upon a Time a girl visited a Fairy Festival in a Dreamatorium … she fell under a spell, purchased magical sunflowers … and crafted happily ever after lol!)
Love to Craft #87 - Anything Goes
Mix It Up #78 - Anything Goes with option Mixed Media
Outlawz Monday Greetings (July) - Happy Birthday
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #264 - H is for Hot, Hot, Hot!
Try It On Tuesday - Summer Blooms
Word Art Wednesday #706/707 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)
I’m really enjoying playing with these sunflower stamps as they really are the essence of summer …and I also bought all the sunflowers in the new collection I can’t promise that I’m done with sunflower cards quite yet!
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
6 comments:
Beautiful work with this lovely sunflower stamps and of course the other meadow florals and grass in the background. I can see why you needed to get these stamps.
Gorgeous Summery card -love the beautiful sunflowers.
Carol x
What a beautiful creation Pauline! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Four Seasons Challenge Co-Owner
Beautiful card Pauline! I love the summer feel of these sunflowers. I can tell that you really took a lot of time and attention to creating this. I can see the sparkle too. Someone will love getting this card. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We really appreciate you!
Ja, Sonnenblumen gehören zum Sommer. Sehr hübsch deine Karte. Danke fürs zeigen bei uns Kreativtanten. Herzlichst Kirsten 💜
This is gorgeous. You have put those stamps together so well. Such a lovely garden scene and the sparkle will make it even more special in real life xx
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