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,
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