Li’l Cottages

Hi everyone, I mentioned in a previous post that last weekend I took delivery of a few of the new Lavinia Christmas stamps, and today I’m really excited to share my first card where they are the primary focus. I didn’t like all of the stamps in this release but I have concluded that I am totally in love with the little cottages.... they really make me think of Alpine lodges and are are just adorable for making Christmas scenes. I also think the lamp post is wonderful for scene building, and Annie and Edward have definitely grown on me … so for once (fairly unusual for me) I’m  actually thrilled with how a card has turned out! Here it is.

I started by stamping my little cottages and lamp post, adding paper masks as I went along. I then added a torn paper mask to the bottom half of the card to form a snow line, and created my night sky and a halo of light around the lamp post by blending Elements inks. With the masks still in place I then stamped a variety of fir trees behind the cottages using 1st and 2nd generation VFC - I already own a number of Lavinia fir tree stamps so didn’t feel it necessary to buy any of the latest ones. 

I removed the paper masks and added more snowdrifts by blending Elements inks, then coloured the cottages and lantern with Zig pens. I stamped holly in 2 corners to frame the scene and coloured the berries with red Uniball and Stardust pens. I added white Posca highlights to the holly, lamp post and Annie and Edward, then added snow to the cottage roofs, windows, trees  and lamp post using Posca pen topped with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. I also added Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to the snow drifts, and Wink of Stella to the lantern and its halo, Annie and Edward’s lanterns and the cottage windows. I find that the 2 sparkle pens are different shades which have different uses - the Spectrum noir pen is more silvery and “frosty”, whereas the Wink of Stella is a warmer, more golden shade which is ideal for twinkling lights. 

Finally I added a little shadow shading beneath my figures, stamped sentiments, dotted Posca snowflakes in the sky (no random spattering on this one!) then edged the piece with dark blue marker pen and matted onto silver mirri card and a card blank.

Here’s an angled picture but sadly it doesn’t capture the sparkle at all … probably down to the miserable grey weather we’ve been having!

Stamps: Lavinia Meadow Cottage, Woodland Cottages, Street Light, Annie & Edward, Fir Tree 1, Christmas Tree Group, Small Pine Trees, Christmas Greetings;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Dark Denim, Violet Chalk, Della Blue, Sundance); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Rainforest, Twilight); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Signo Uniball pen (red); Sakura Stardust pen (red); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #116 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Allsorts #806 - Christmas (2nd entry)

Aud Sentiments #319 - Glitter and/or Christmas + a Sentiment

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards - Holiday Themed (3rd entry)

Craft Rocket #120 - Christmas/Winter (2nd entry)

Creative Moments #264 - Winter - HONOURABLE MENTION

Daisy Chain #91 - Christmas and/or Winter (2nd entry)

FarmQuest Country Christmas #14 - Anything Country Christmas Goes

Festive Friday (November) - Christmas

Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Time to Sparkle (3rd entry)

Little Red Wagon #781 - White Lightning (weather related) - FEATURED

Merry Little Christmas #59 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Moving Along With the Times #172 - Sparkle (3rd entry)

Peace On Earth #75 - Anything Christmas Goes

Try It On Tuesday - Sparkle All the Way - TOP 5

We Love Stamping (November) - Christmas (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #673/674 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

I think I’ll have to make a scene along these lines for my December calendar page, and I’ve also got one or two ideas for simpler designs featuring the cottages so I can crack on with completing my Christmas cards. Until then, take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Snow Globe

Hi everyone, yesterday a delivery dropped through my letterbox of some of the new Lavinia Christmas stamps, plus a couple of older stamps I had wanted (Holly and Fairy Foragers) and my first ever set of sticker stencils. I was keen to play straight away, and wanted to try making a snow globe scene inspired by a Jo Rice tutorial. 

My snow globe was quite a bit bigger than the original as I used my own circle stencil rather than the Lavinia sticker stencil circle, plus the scene I wanted to create needed more space. Here’s the result, using a mix of new, new to me and existing stamps.

I cut a square of white stamping card, and created the snow globe by blending Blue Atoll Elements ink through a circle mask. I added a moon and snowdrifts using more Elements and masks, then added the snow globe base using my new sticker stencil and blended Scorched Timber Distress Oxide. I stamped the Christmas tree in Shady Lane and Portobello VFC, then Annie and the Fairy Foragers in Nocturne. I stamped some holly on the snow globe base, then coloured the tree baubles, fairy wings, holly berries and lanterns using Sakura Stardust pens, and also outlined the snow globe to add sparkle. I added some white Posca highlights, then stamped a sentiment and matted the panel onto a blue frame and card blank. I replaced the circle mask and added Posca spatters for snow inside the snow globe … as usual my spattering went a bit awry with 2 large dots landing on Annie’s head and legs so I had to do a bit of remedial work with a black fine liner! 

Finally I stamped, fussy cut and attached a teeny sentiment tag and added a tiny bow … I had a bit of trouble with that as I don’t now use ribbon very often, and the glue dots I always used to use to attach bows were MIA, then I thought I’d use a drop of silicone glue (also rarely used) and it was solid as a rock! However I got there eventually! Here’s an angled picture to show the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Christmas Joy, Annie & Edward, Fairy Foragers, Holly, Christmas Greetings; tag sentiment - LotV (retired);

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Blue Atoll, Violet Chalk); Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Scorched Timber); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Shady Lane, Portobello, Twilight); Sakura Stardust lens (purple, turquoise, yellow, red, clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Lavinia sticker stencils set 9 - Moon Jars, Circle Masks, Mini Hill Masks;  Press To Impress Circle stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps and More #480 - Die Cuts and Stencils

Allsorts #806 - Christmas

Art Impressions #391 - Under the Dome

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards - Holiday Themed (2nd entry)

Country View Challenges (November) - Winging It (2nd entry)

Craft Rocket #120 - Christmas/Winter

Crafter’s Cafe #313 - Anything Goes with option Fantasy (3rd entry) - TOP 3

Crafty Catz #682 - Anything Goes with option Add Some Ribbon or Twine

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (November) - Use a Stencil with option Make It Sparkle or Shine - TOP 3

Heart’s Quest FantasyChallenge #11 2024 - Anything Goes Fantasy (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Time to Sparkle (2nd entry)

Let’s Craft and Create #213 - Anything Goes + Use a Bow - TOP 3

Moving Along With the Times #172 - Sparkle (2nd entry) - TOP 5

Paper Funday #71 - Anything Goes with option Tag(s)

Stamping Sensations (November) - Make It Magical (2nd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - Make It Magical (3rd entry)

We Love Stamping (November) - Christmas

Word Art Wednesday #673/674 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

I’m hoping to get a few more Christmas cards made using the new stamps in the near future, so watch this space!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Dancing Till Dawn

Hi everyone, today I would like to share another page for my 2025 Lavinia calendar. Having started last week with the Witching Hour for October, I decided to go back to the beginning and start with January. My scene is based on the concept of the dawn of the New Year - the fairies are having their New Year party in the wintry fairy glen, dancing ‘til dawn while music plays and fireworks erupt in the night sky!

I cut a piece of stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5cm and first created my landscape hills and sky by blending Distress Oxide inks whilst using a circle mask and various hill masks. I then stamped the fairies in the centre using Nocturne Versafine Clair, and built up the scene with the small dwellings and various fir trees stamped using Medieval Blue VFC, masking the hills where necessary. I added Basil & Bibi and Tilly & Tango dancing and playing the flute, then used various dandelion heads and teeny snowflake stamps to make some fireworks in the sky, stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with various WOW embossing glitters. I coloured the fairy wings and house windows with Sakura Stardust pens, added clear Stardust pen highlights to replicate the moon’s reflection, and added white Posca highlights to the fairies, houses and trees. I then added a few more finishing touches, shading my silhouette figures with a Stabilo white pencil, adding Spectrum Noir sparkle pen highlights to the snow, and grey grounding to the figures. Finally I blended graphite Elements ink around the edges to frame the scene, ready for attaching to my calendar page. 

Typically for me I messed this up near the end as my Zig pen grounding didn’t blend out well for some reason, and the Elements I applied round the edges smudged at the bottom so I had to cut a few mm off the bottom edge and the blending still isn’t great …. but having spent over 3 hours on this project it’s going in the calendar now!! 

This scene is exceptionally sparkly, not least due to the glitter embossed fireworks - here’s an angled picture.

Stamps: Lavinia Dancing Till Dawn, Fairy Fir Tree, Fairy Fir Tree 2, Red Pine Small, Christmas Tree Group, Small Pine Trees, Small Dwellings, Basil & Bibi, Tilly & Tango, Fairy Dandelions, Dandelions, Snowflakes;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Della Blue, Dark Denim, Graphite); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Medieval Blue); Versamark; WOW embossing glitters (Petalicious, Fruit Tingle, Midnight Dream, Metallic Silver Sparkle, White Twinkle); Sakura Stardust pens (yellow, pink, purple, turquoise, clear); Posca pen (white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Stabilo pencil (white);

Tools: Lavinia acetate Hill Masks, Mini Hill Masks, Circle Masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #805 - Magic of the Season (2nd entry)

(Magical New Year party during the 12 days of Christmas)

Alphabet challenge - P is for Party

Classic Design Challenge #10 2024 - Anything Goes with option Anything but a Card

Crafter’s Cafe #313 - Anything Goes with option Fantasy

Crafty Catz #681 - Anything Goes

Country View Challenges (November) - Winging It

Daisy Chain #91 - Christmas and/or Winter

Dream Valley #324 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Heart’s Quest Fantasy Challenge #11 - Anything Goes Fantasy

KraftyChicks #741 - Stamps

Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Time to Sparkle

Moving Along With the Times #172 - Sparkle

Stamping Sensations (November) - Make It Magical

Try It On Tuesday - Make It Magical (2nd entry) - TOP 5

Unicorn #104 - Christmas and/or Winter

Word Art Wednesday #673/674 - Anything Goes

That’s all from me for today, take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Iridescent

Hi everyone … wow, it’s November already - where is the year going to??  Christmas is now looming pretty fast and the Chrimbo cardmaking rush is definitely on! As luck would have it, Tracy Evans has launched a Christmas challenge on the Tracy Evans FB group with a wonderful prize of £50 to spend in her shop … a fantastic incentive (as if one were needed) to play with her Christmas stamps. 

Based on my previous posts you may be asking the question how many different ways can Tracy’s bauble stamps and stencils be coloured?? I can’t really answer that, but I can say that I haven’t done experimenting just yet!  I know it’s usual to create using as many different products as possible, but I hope I’m showing here it’s possible to achieve a number of different looks with the same stamps. So here’s one I made a couple of days ago but hadn’t published yet due to Hallowe’en.

This time I stamped my baubles with Distress Oxide ink which I spritzed to create a more marbled effect - I chose the colours to suggest an iridescent effect. I cut a 5” square of stamping card and stamped the baubles using three colours of Distress Oxide ink dabbed onto the stamp and then spritzed with water. I then coloured round one side of each bauble with more Distress Oxide, gradually building up the colour and then dragging out with a water brush. I filled some of the white space by dabbing more spritzed DOX with a piece of acetate, then added more depth to each bauble by adding shadow with a grey Inktense pencil.  

I stamped several mistletoe branches in two tone green VFC then added some background wording stamping in 2nd generation Bali Blue, and heat embossed the word “Joy” onto the largest bauble in white. I stamped the sentiment onto separate card and cut out, then placed to help me identify where to stamp the birds. I then added bauble strings and highlights using Sakura Stardust pen, white Posca highlights and spatters, then matted the finished panel onto aqua glitter card and my card blank. To finish I attached the sentiment and added a teeny coordinating heart gem.

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE18 Decorations, TE19 Mistletoe, TE22 Christmas Wishes, TE23 Winter Delights, TE30 Garden Elements;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Salvaged Patina, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Grass Green, Green Oasis, Bali Blue); Sakura Stardust pen (turquoise); Inktense pencil (Neutral Grey); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #116 - Anything Christmas Goes

Allsorts #805 - Magic of the Season

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards - Holiday themed

Double Trouble #178 - SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing (2nd entry)

Incy Wincy (November) - Anything Goes with option Christmas Card with a Hand Made Background

Krafty Chicks #740 - Anything Goes

Merry Little Christmas #59 - Anything Christmas Goes

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Simon Says - Celebrating 20 Years of Distress #SSS20YearsofDistress 

Tracy Evans FB Create, Share, Inspire (Nov/Dec) - Christmas or Festive Project

Word Art Wednesday #671/672 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

The Witching Hour

Hi everyone, I’m very late to the Lavinia Hallowe’en party as I think I have said previously that I don’t really “do” Hallowe’en, but I decided somewhat belatedly to buy a small selection of the 2024 Hallowe’en stamps so that I could decorate the October page of my Lavinia 2025 calendar. I’ve not had a Lavinia calendar before and I have to confess that it has sat in the cupboard since about July, so I recently woke up to the fact that I need to get a wriggle on to complete it before the end of 2024! My new Lavinia stamps and ink pads arrived on Tuesday so I set straight to work, mixing my new items with existing ones to create the October page. My concept was to incorporate both Hallowe’en and autumnal elements - here’s the result.

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I wasn’t brave enough to create straight onto the calendar page, so I measured up and cut a piece of stamping card 19.5 x 14.5cm. I started by creating a background with blended Elements inks, working outwards from light to dark. I then created some landscaping using hill masks and blended Elements, then started stamping. I started with Hattie the witch in the middle of the page, then added the castle, trees and cauldron all in Nocturne VFC. I stamped the moon using Morning Mist, then added the owl, bats, mini mushrooms and cat in Nocturne, and the magical mist and wording using lilac VFC. I coloured the castle windows, mist and Hattie’s dress with Sakura stardust pens, added white Posca accents and highlighted the scene with a clear Stardust pen to suggest moonlight. I then stamped a few autumnal leaves in various  shades of Elements inks, added some shadows with grey Inktense pencil, and blended darker Elements ink around the edges of the panel. 

This panel is very sparkly … here’s an angled picture.

Stamps: Lavinia Hattie, Willow the Witch (cauldron), Magical Mist, Far World Castle, Seasonal Tree, Skeleton Tree Scene, Brodwin & Maylin, Bats, Moon, Small Lanterns, Mini Jinx, Slender Mushrooms Mini, Leaf 1 Mini, Mini Maple, Witching Hour;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Sundance, Sahara, Russet Orange, Violet Chalk, Merlot, Mulberry, Graphite); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Lilac Bloom); Sakura Stardust (clear, yellow, orange, purple); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Lavinia Hill Masks, Mini Hill Masks, White Orbs stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

613 Avenue Create (October) - Anything Goes with option Lots of Leaves (4th entry)

Country View Challenges (October) - Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Crafting Happiness #198 - Bats

Creatalicious #282 - Anything Goes with option Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Creative Crafting Uncles #58 - Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Dragonfly Dreams (October) - Anything but a Card (3rd entry)

Dream Factory #133 - Hotel Transylvania (Hallowe’en) (2nd entry) - TOP 5

Fab ‘n’ Funky #603 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Hallowe’en and Other Occasions #19 - Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #197 - Boo! Eek! (2nd entry)

Inspired By … - Witch - WINNER

Make My Monday #237 - Spooky/Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Outlawz (October) - Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone with option Name Game (3rd entry) - WINNER

(I used P for Purple and Posca)

Papercraft #111 - Spooky Season (2nd entry)

Simply Create Too #205 - Hallowe’en/Hallowe’en Colours (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #255 - H is for Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Sweet Stampin’ - Hallowe’en

Try It On Tuesday - Make It Magical

I must admit I had been putting off decorating my calendar as I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, but having completed my first page which was a real labour of love I’m now feeling fired with enthusiasm to continue! So hopefully in amongst the Christmas rush there will be 11 more of these coming along over the next few weeks - watch this space! 

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Pastel Christmas

Hi everyone, I’m here with another Christmas card - this time a simple card in soft pastel shades featuring Lavinia Christmas trees.

I stamped a row of 3 fir trees in 3 pastel shades of Versafine Clair, then 2 more 2nd generation trees in between to suggest depth. I grounded the trees with a grey Zig pen, added some background stamping in the corners then stamped a silver star on the central tree. I highlighted the trees liberally with Sakura Stardust pen and the ground with Stickles. I stamped my Christmas word onto a separate card snippet in two tone, and added the masked word “Merry” from a different set, cut out and attached. Finally I added some white Posca snowflakes and matted onto a border of ombré glitter card and my card blank.

Here’s an angled picture to show the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Fir Tree 1, North Star Mini, Winter Magic, Seasonal Words, Christmas Greetings; 

Media: Versafine Clair (Hawthorn Rose, Very Peri, Lilac Bloom, Arctic, Baby Pink, Medieval Blue); Stickles (Stardust); Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Pisca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

ABC Christmas Challenge - U is for Unusual Christmas Colours (6th entry)

C.R.A.F.T. #738 - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar (October) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Crafty Catz #681 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Double Trouble #178 - SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing

Inkspirational #327 - Seasonal (5th entry)

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2443 - Anything Goes - HONOURABLE MENTION

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Christmas (3rd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #671/672 -  Anything Goes (3rd entry)

I was strangely a teeny bit dissatisfied with this card … with hindsight I wished I had left off the background wording and the balance of the sentiment isn’t quite right … but these things tend to evolve naturally so sometimes it just works out better than others! 

Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Christmas wishes, sent with love

Hi everyone, today’s card is another one using my bauble stencil, but this time I have coloured it rather than creating a little scene inside it. I took the opportunity to use my cute little bird with the wording “calm” and “peace” which I thought would work really well  for Christmas, especially with the addition of other positive Christmassy words.

I cut a 5” square of stamping card, and created the main bauble by blending Distress Oxides through the stencil and spritzing with water while the stencil was still in place. When dry I stamped the foliage using 2 shades of green VFC, and the 2 teeny baubles also using VFC. I added shading around the baubles with my new grey Inktense pencil (I don’t think I’ve really got the hang of it yet but will persevere!) and shading to the small baubles using Zig pens and white pastel pencil. I then added some sparkle to the paler areas of all 3 baubles with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen, stamped the bird in the bauble, and added some white Posca highlights and some 2nd generation background words. I matted the panel onto a black border and the card blank, drew my bauble strings and added some spatters, then stamped, cut out and attached the 2 main sentiment panels.

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE22 Christmas Wishes, TE18 Decorations, TE4 New Beginnings; AALL & Create #806 Fallen Leaves, #831 Sent With Love;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Grass Green, Green Oasis, Monarch, Charming Pink); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pen (white); pastel pencil (white); Inktense pencil (Neutral Grey);

Tools: Tracy Evans stencil SS06 - Bauble.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

12 Months of Christmas #115 - Anything Christmas Goes (8th entry)

ABC Christmas Challenge - U is for Unusual Christmas Colours (5th entry)

Crafty Catz #681 - Anything Goes

The Holly and Ivy #171 - Anything Christmas Goes (3rd entry)

Inkspirational #327 - Seasonal (4th entry)

Krafty Chicks #739 - All Occasions (2nd entry)

Path of Positivity #124 - Anything Positive Goes (2nd entry) - TOP PICK & DT DELIGHT

Rudolph Days (October) - Anything Christmas Goes

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Christmas (2nd entry)

Simon Says - Celebrating 20 Years of Distress #SSS20YearsofDistress

Word Art Wednesday #671/672 -  Anything Goes (2nd entry)

I’m currently considering the new Lavinia stamps that were launched on Thursday … of course I don’t need any of them, but since when has that stopped us crafters?? We shall see what happens …

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Bewitched

Hi everyone, this month’s Lavinia Creative Challenge is “Bewitched” … clearly in homage to Hallowe’en. I don’t really do Hallowe’en as I have no young children to send cards or treat boxes to, so I’ve never invested heavily in Hallowe’en supplies. I have actually extremely belatedly ordered a couple of this year’s Lavinia Hallowe’en stamps, primarily so that I can decorate the October page of my calendar, but they’re not here yet so I had to get my thinking cap on in order to sneak a last minute project in before the challenge closes! The upside is that there are also lots of other Hallowe’en/spooky themed challenges around right now to enter!

I decided to go for Mooch the cat being bewitched by the moon, and the scale of the scene I had in mind best fitted the dimensions of a tag - something else I don’t create very often! So I also had opportunity to bring into play a grungy tag die set that I bought a while ago when there was a promotional offer, but I hadn’t used yet.  Here’s the result.

I cut my tag from white stamping card, and the tag border from black linen card stock. I blended Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide on the bottom 1/3 of the tag, and Wilted Violet and Villainous Potion on the top part with a circle moon mask in place. I then  created the landscape with Black Soot DOX and my Mini Hill Masks, and stamped Mooch near the bottom. I added some softly blended Spiced Marmalade DOX inside the moon circle then stamped the moon over it using 2nd generation Morning Mist VFC. I stamped the castle at the edge of the tag, added some branches, mushrooms and a flight of bats. I coloured the castle windows with watered down Posca sparkle pen, and highlighted the scene with orange Sakura Stardust pen and white Posca. I blended Black Soot DOX all around the edges to add depth, and finally added some orbs using sparkle pens coloured through my White Orbs stencil and dotted with Posca pen. When dry I matted onto the tag border, punched a hole and edged with a teeny die from the same set, and added black glitter twine.

Here’s an angled pic to show the shimmery orbs.

Stamps: Lavinia Mooch, Far World Castle, Moon, Bats, Tree Branch, Slender Mushrooms Mini;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion, Black Soot); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist); Sakura Stardust pens (Orange, purple, clear); Posca sparkle pen (orange); Posca pen (white);

Tools: AALL & Create die #30 Taggletastic; Lavinia White Orbs stencil; Lavinia Mini Hill Masks and Circle masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Cardz 4 Galz #236 - Pick 3 of Purple, Orange, Black or Green - TOP 3

Country View Challenges (October) - Hallowe’en

Craft Rocket #119 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Crafting Happiness #197 - Moon

Crafty Gals’ Corner #260 - Anything Goes with option Make It Spooky 

Creatalicious #282 - Anything Goes with option Hallowe’en and/or use Black and Purple - TOP 3

Creative Crafting Uncles #58 - Hallowe’en - TOP 3

Daisy Chain #90 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (3rd entry) - TOP 5

Dream Factory #133 - Hotel Transylvania (Hallowe’en)

Fab ‘n’ Funky #603 - Autumn/Hallowe’en

Hallowe’en and Other Occasions #19 - Hallowe’en

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #197 - Boo! Eek!

Inkspirational #327 - Seasonal (2nd entry)

Lavinia Creative Challenge (October) - Bewitched

Make My Monday #237 - Spooky/Hallowe’en

Papercraft #111 - Spooky Season

Simon Says (Monday) - Spooky/Add Some Purple

Simon Says - Celebrating 20 Years of Distress #SSS20YearsofDistress

Simply Create Too #205 - Hallowe’en/Hallowe’en Colours

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #255 - H is for Hallowe’en

Tag Tuesday - Spooky Vibes - CHALLENGE FAVOURITE

Try It On Tuesday - Hallowe’en - TOP 5

Two Old Bats (October) - Anything Goes Hallowe’en

Unicorn #103 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (3rd entry) - TOP 3

I think that’s me all spooked out! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,