… for a very important date!
Hi everyone, what with one thing and another I’ve neither had much time nor motivation to make my September calendar page, so for the first time ever the first of the month rolled around and it wasn’t ready! ☺️ I finally managed to get myself into gear though yesterday afternoon, so here it is. This page is inspired by a previous autumnal card I made here, with a few changes to reflect the bigger space on this page. I particularly wanted to incorporate toadstools into the design, as they are the printed illustration on the page.
I cut a piece of stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5cm, and created a background by blending Sundance, Sahara, Russet Orange and Paprika Elements inks, working outwards with increasingly darker shades. I edged the panel with Spectrum Noir Harmony dye ink in Bordeaux to add depth, then began stamping. I stamped Tree Goddess Luna using Nocturne VFC, then a variety of Toadstools at varying heights and some trailing oak leaves using Pinecone. I then added in some landscaping and a harvest moon using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, hill and circle masks. I then stamped some falling leaves in various autumnal shades, and masked the tallest toadstools so I could stamp background trees using Portobello VFC and autumn text using Sand Dune. I added a couple of loved up hedgies and a heart (a nod to our wedding anniversary this month) plus an owl flying across the moon, then coloured the toadstools and leaves with Zig pens and the fairy wings with Sakura Stardust pens. To finish I added some white Posca accents, then attached the finished panel to my calendar.
Here’s an angled pic to show the sparkly wings.
Stamps: Lavinia Luna Tree Goddess, The Wallace Family, Elfin Cap Cluster, Oak Leaf Flourish, Oak Leaves, Spring Trees, Brodwin and Maylin, Wild Foliage, Mushrooms Mini, Leaf 1 Mini, Single Heart Mini, Winter Spice;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Sundance, Sahara, Russet Orange, Paprika); Spectrum Noir Harmony dye ink (); Tim Holtz Distress ink (Vintage Photo); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Pinecone, Portobello, Sand Dune); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Sakura Stardust pens (Red, yellow, orange); Posca pen (white);
Tools: Lavinia acetate Hill Mask and Circle mask.
Challenges I would like to enter:
Colourful Options (September) - Warm Earth Tones
Crafts Galore Encore #151 - Anything Goes
Crafty Animals #109 - Include an Animal
Creative Inspiration #42 - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations (September) - Hello Autumn
Four Seasons (September) - Fall
Heart’s Quest #87 - Anything with a Heart Goes with option Red Hearts (2nd entry)
Heart’s Quest Fantasy #54 - Anything Fantasy Goes
Lavinia Creative Challenge (September) - Harvest Moon
Love to Craft #94 - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap #181 - Anything Goes
Moving Along With the Times #193 - Four Legged Friends
Outlawz Anything but a Card (September) - Anything but a Card
{PIN}spirational #341 - Orange, Red, Brown and Yellow
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Stamp It
We Love 2 Create #8 2026 - Anything Mixed Media/Papercrafting Goes (2nd entry)
Word Art Wednesday #768/769 - Anything Goes
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
