Hi everyone, this week it was time for me to get busy again to make my Lavinia April calendar page, and this month I managed to complete it with a day to spare - woo hoo! I was racking my brain trying to think of something slightly different from my previous springtime calendar scenes whilst incorporating the bunnies that illustrate the page, when I suddenly had a mini brainwave! I’ve always thought that the flowers which form part of the fairy stamp ‘Moments Like These’ look rather like open tulips, so I decided to use the fairy but also incorporate the flowers into the foreground too - a lot of very fiddly masking was required there, let me tell you!
I cut a piece of white stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5cm, and created the background hills and sky by blending Elements inks using hill and circle masks. I then stamped the fairy, masking the flowers and stems with low tack tape, then stamping them using appropriate colours of Versafine Clair. I stamped the Spring Trees on the right mid foreground, and used the matching small foliage stamp to give them a cloud of green leaves. I stamped the tulips from ‘Moments Like These’ in the foreground in various colours, then added the bunnies. I added a little foliage amongst the flowers and hanging foliage top right, and a flight of geese. I coloured the fairy wings with Sakura Stardust pens, and added white Posca and Stabilo pencil highlights to the scene. Finally I thought that the centre ground still looked a tad bare, so I stamped the Secret Garden sign, then stamped again onto kraft card, cut out and attached before attaching the finished panel to my calendar.
Stamps: Lavinia Moments Like These, Spring Trees, Vine Flourish, Flower Pots, Wild Hares (large), Ducks, Secret Garden Sign;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Atoll, Pine, Lemon Drop); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Avocado, Hawthorn Rose, Cheerful, Summertime, Portobello); Sakura Stardust pens (pink, yellow, orange); Posca pen (white); Stabilo pencil (white).
Challenges I would like to enter:
Beautiful Blossoms #39 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)
Card Concept #225 - Spring Flowers
Creative Crafting Uncles #75 - Spring and/or Easter (2nd entry)
Creative Moments #280 - Bunnies and Blooms (2nd entry)
Fab ‘n’ Funky #634 - Easter/Spring
Four Seasons (April) - Spring
Lavinia Creative Challenge (April) - Faerie Glen
Love to Craft #91 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Love to Scrap #178 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Moving Along With the Times #188 - Anything Spring
Mix It Up #82 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Outlawz Anything but a Card (April) - Anything but a Card
Papercraft #128 - Joy of Spring (2nd entry)
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes
Sparkles #198 - It’s Springtime! (2nd entry)
Sweet Stampin’ - Spring or Easter
Word Art Wednesday #746/747 - Anything Goes
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
14 comments:
Beautifully done Pauline, those flowers do look like tulips, a peaceful and pretty spring time scene using some lovely stamps.
Thanks for joining in at Fab'n' Funky and Sweet Stampin' Challenges.
Chris
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It must be difficult to come up with something different for each month year on year if you do several calendars but you've made an excellent choice here with this beautiful secret garden.
Beautiful Spring scene, love the secret garden and all the beautiful stamps- and the flowers do look like open tulips.
Carol x
A lovely Spring page for your Lavinia calendar.
Happy Easter xxx
You created such a beautiful spring scene with a wonderful mix of Lavinia stamps. Love how it turned out!
Lovely calendar page . Thanks for joining us at Fab'n'Funky. Pat K x
This is another beautiful calendar, page, Pauline! And you’re right, the flowers really do look like tulips, so I’m so glad you went with those. The whole page is lovely! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We appreciate your participation!
What a beautiful (and perfect) April calendar scene! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Four Seasons Co-Owner
A perfect scene for the month of April. Thanks for joining us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge and we look forward to seeing more of your lovely designs soon.
Donna xx
Beautiful Blossoms Challenge
The Pick 3 Challenge
Paper Funday Challenge
Inspiration Station Challenge
Such a beautiful Spring Fantasy for April! Lovely colors making for a blooming scene! Thanks for sharing with us at The Outlawz Anything but a Card. Katrina
Super make
Kathyk
A lovely magical scene for your calendar, she's one of my favourite fairies, love the coloured flowers, they look like tulips, perfect for spring.
Avril xx
This is such a pretty scene, I love the fairy! Thanks for joining the Sparkles Monthly Challenge.
This is so sweet. Thank you for joining Outlawz ABAC
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