Creative Challenge, Lavinia Stamps.

Hi, again. So this month theme is to Make It Bright. Using lovely bright colours and thinking of summer. Lavinia Stamps do monthly challenges where there is a theme and you can enter online with your design. The lucky winner will be picked at random and the winner will receive a lovely £40 gift voucher. Full details here: Creative Challenge 

For this challenge I used Simmi as you can use any colours for her so I made her bright with the Indian Flourish stamp. Then blended around the edges with the same colour. For this card I used the following:

A5 Card blank.
5" x 7" Ivory card.
A4 Ivory card.
A5 Black card.
Versafine Clair Nocturne
Versafine Clair Warm Breeze.
Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Glitter pen
Cosmic Shimmer Specialist Pearl PVA
Brusho's :
  Moss Green,
 Lime Green,
 Vermilion,
  Yellow,
  Turquoise
  Sunburst Lemon.
Lavinia Stamp Simmi
Lavinia Stamp Indian Flourish.
Creative Expressions Mini Smoothies.
Tim Holtz Stamping Platform.
Stix2 Perfect Layer Ruler.

With the 5" x 7" Ivory card. I roughly stamped Simmi in the middle with the Versafine Clair Nocturne. Then with a fine paint brush I started to colour her eyes with the Brusho's mixed with water. Blending the Vermilion and yellow together on the eyebrow. Turquoise for the the bottom of the eyebrow, eyelid and under the eye. Vermilion on the outer of her eye underneath. And mixed a bit of Yellow and Vermilion for the Inner part of the eye underneath. Used Sunburst Yellow to colour around the whole eye and decorations.

With the Indian Flourish I used Versafine Clair Warm Breeze to stamp around her eye. Then used a smoothie to blend the same ink around and coming in quiet deep into the middle.

I then matt and layered the card using my Perfect Layer ruler with another sheet of Ivory underneath, then Black card. I used the rest of the Ivory card to cover the A5 card blank. I then Used my glitter pen on the Indian Flourish on the dots and some of the swirls. On Simmi I sued the glitter pen for the dots on her eyelashes and for the dots underneath her eyes. The Cosmic Shimmer PVA was used on the dots on her eyebrow and above.

Thank you for stopping by 

and 

hope you enter into this month's Creative Challenge.

Good Luck.

Ellie 

xx

Jaylar and the Glow Flowers

Jaylar and the Glow Flowers.

Created this card as a bit of an experiment. I brought a new Brusho colour called Sunburst Lemon. Which is a very bright yellow, so I made a few background with it experimenting with colour and this background I loved as it was a grey background with water marks and this bright yellow in the middles. I also brought some Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles which is a Glitter Glue with a nozzle. So I wanted to see how they were and the glow flowers were perfect for using the glitter glue, plus I used some on the Spanish Moss hanging down. To make this card I used the following:

A5 card blank.

5"X 7" card blank.

White card for Matting.

A5 Black Card.

5" x 7" Gel Press

Speed-ball Brayer

Colorbox Storm

Brusho Sunburst Lemon.

Fan shaped watercolour brush

Lavinia Stamp Jaylar

Lavinia Stamp Glow Flower

Lavinia Stamps Glow flowers set

Lavinia Stamps Willow

Lavinia Stamp Wild Vines

Lavinia Stamp Spanish Moss

Lavinia Stamps See a fairy

Versafine Clair Twilight 

Versafine Clair Nocturne used on Jaylar

Creative Expression Mini Smoothies.

Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Star Twinkles

White Uni-Ball Signo pen. 

Sakura Gelly Roll Glitter pen.

The background was done using those products. I loaded up the brayer with ink from the Colorbox Ink Pad and and rolled it onto the gel press. I then flicked some water onto the gel press with the fan shaped brush. Mixed some Brusho Sunburst Lemon with some water and flicked that onto the Gel Press before I placed my card blank on top. With the cardstock on the Gel Press, I gave the back a rub to get the print of the Gel Press. When done I peeled off my cardstock Giving me my background for the card.

Before I stamp. I get the main stamps I want to use and peel them off from the sheet and lay them onto the card so it gives me an idea of how things are going to look. I also put my mask for the moon/sun down with the stamp sheets. Nothing worse than stamping and then realising you don't like it. When you are happy with it you then can start to stamp.

I always do my Moon/Sun first. I used Twilight and a smoothie to blend outwards from the disc. Giving me a nice shadow for the moon.

Now you can see the Moon/sun. Now to start creating my scene. With the single,large Glow Flower I stamped First then stamped Jaylar on top of the flower. I used the large Glow Flower from the set of two to stamp next to the Glow Flower. I used the Willow as Grass. Used the large one and used a second generation of stamping. ( Stamp it first onto some scrap paper then stamp it onto your cardstock to get a softer stamped image, so it looks like it's in the distance.) I then used the small one and stamped it at the bottom as soon as it was loaded with ink.

Stamped The Wild Vines at the top a then used the thin Spanish Moss with the Second generation of stamping. Did second generation of stamping for when I stamped the verse at the side of the moon as I didn't it so dark. I used the smoothie and blended around the edge with Twilight.

Matt the card onto the white card blank with the size you like. I used a Perfect Layer Ruler to do my matt for my card. Glued the black card onto the blank A5 card. Then Glued the Stamped card into position. Then I used the Sakura glitter pen for her wings by doing random dots on her wings and to go round the moon.With the Twinkles (Glitter Glue that gives dimension when dried.) I used it on the Glow flowers and on the Spanish moss as shown on the photo above. The white pen to add some white dots on the Spanish Moss and to highlight Jaylar.

Put it away laying flat so that the Glitter Glue had time to dry as it takes a while to dry.

Thank you for stopping by.

Hope to see you again.

Love Ellie.

xx