Lavinia Stamps & Brusho Heart

Good morning, how are we at the end of August already?? I hope you've had a great summer. This MDF heart is my final Lavinia Stamps & Brusho project....................

I stamped the Creative Expressions Crackle stamp onto watercolour card with clear embossing ink & heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I painted that piece with Lemon & Turquoise Brusho, blending the colours slightly to get a hint of green in places & another piece with Rose Red Brusho.........

I glued the larger piece to the heart & trimmed it to fit, then stamped on the Lavinia Stamps Bubbles with a blue permanent ink.............

I stamped the Spotty Toadstools onto the piece of red card with Versamark ink & heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I cut them out & glued them to the heart. 

I edged the heart with Cobalt Blue Inka Gold & added a scrap of ribbon from my stash.................

                             

Thanks for all the kind words about our Lavinia Stamps & Brusho projects this month, there are still a few more to come before the end of the week. 

The Lavinia Stamps blog challenge runs until Saturday night, so there's still time to get your entries in. 

The September classes are this coming Friday, you can get the information in this blog post & on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page - look for the Events section. There are a few places left, email Lisa - lisabaker1@btinternet.com -  to book yours.

Have a great week.

Kirsten

Believe In Magic

Hi crafters, hope you've all had a good week.

Today's card is a take on a mixed media and inspiration I took from the web, I put my own interpretation on it and used some of the techniques we've learned over the last couple of months at Lisa's workshops, so there's Brusho's, stamping, stencilling, a bit of texture paste and some paper piercing.

 

I used a 7 x 7 white card and cut a black mat then a white mat used for the background.  I decided to use a different technique for the Brusho's this time so I spritzed my blending mat with lots of water and peppered the Ultra Marine and Yellow over it until it looked nicely covered.  I then carefully laid the white mat card over and pressed down gently until I was sure the whole card was covered, again carefully lifted it off and mopped up all the excess water.

Then I took the Imagination Craft Bubble Stencil and randomly covered areas of the card using Adirondack Stonewash.  Next step was to stamp some decoration using the same ink pad and Hobby Art Decorative Background again randomly on the card.

 

I chose the Lavina Stamps I wanted as follows:

Luna using Versafine Black Onyx

Lavinia Spotty Toadstools using Versafine Black Onyx and Water Colour Pencils

Lavinia Willow and Hobby Art Decorative Background using Distress Ink - Mowed Lawn
Lavinia Random Foliage from my stash using Distress Ink Victorian Velvet

 

So Luna was stamped first, so as to get the position right.  I stamped one large Toadstool and two of the small onto separate white card and cut then out.  I also stamped Luna again and just cut out her wings.   Then used the Imagination Craft Leaf Swirl and placed it on the card spreading the Transparent Paste through in the areas I wanted. (I should have used the white paste, however I'd run out, more explanation below)

 

I glued the Toadstools into place before stamping the undergrowth, then coloured in using watercolour pencils.  I glued the wings on to Luna then water coloured those too.  To get the little berry's I used a border punch I have that has lots of little bubbles, drew a spiral on each before sticking them on the branches and coating them in Stardust Stickles, which I also used on the Toadstools.

I painted the leaves with Silkies but here is where I said I should have used white paste, because trying to paint the transparent leaves was very difficult because I couldn't see so I went over the lines slightly :o( 

 I punched a few little dragon flies and it was done.  I hope it wasn't to hard to follow but if you do want more information either ask me in the comments or tap me on the shoulder at the workshop :o)

Here's the finished card again with a close up too:

Thank you for dropping by again and see you soon
Love Jan -x-

 

Lavinia Stamps & Brusho Wall Hanging

Good morning, hope you've all a nice weekend, the weather was certainly gorgeous. The first of my Lavinia Stamps & Brusho samples for this month is a wall hanging................

There are three layers to the wall hanging; a square of chipboard covered with patterned paper & crumpled tissue paper, a piece of die cut chipboard painted with white gesso & Sweet Poppy Pearlescent dimension paste applied on top through a Pronty stencil & finally, an MDF heart painted with black gesso first, then Imagination Crafts' Crackle Medium brushed over that & Cobalt Blue Brusho mixed with white gesso over the crackle............

The chipboard pieces were painted with layers of Cobalt Blue Brusho mixed with water, drying in between layers to build depth up the colour...........

When they were thoroughly dry, I edged everything with tiny amounts of 

black gesso on a baby wipe, glued the three pieces together with 

Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue & added splatters of Brusho Blue Shimmer Spray.

I painted a piece of scrap watercolour card with Yellow Brusho & stamped the Spotty Toadstools on top with Onyx Black Versafine, heat embossed with 

clear embossing powder & cut them out. 

I painted the waste from a piece of Anna Marie die cut A4 Trellis card with Yellow & Cobalt Blue Brusho, stamped a few of them with the Limor Webber Rugged Edge stamp set & edged them all with Black Soot distress ink..............

I stamped the quote from the Stampendous 'Life Words' stamp set onto a die cut circle of black card with Versamark & heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I attached two mini hinge clips to the top & tied a piece of ribbon from my stash to each one............

                                   

That's it from me for now. You can see photos from Friday's classes in 

this blog post & on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page. 

The theme for the new blog challenge is, of course, Lavinia Stamps & all the information can be found on the challenge page. 

Have a great week.

Kirsten