Miniature fairy card

Fantasy fairy card

Hi everyone!!
Today I'm going to show you how I made this fantasy fairy card. I'm afraid I'm a little obsessed with using the Lavinia stamps at the moment. I just love the fact you can make really quick striking cards.




Start off with a 4x4inch thick good quality card.
You will need a glass place mat or I highly recommend purchasing a messy mat from Wilco (this is a large thick plastic mat that you can wipe clean)
Dab your ink on the messy mat - for this I used Picked raspberry and peacock feathers.
Spritz with a mini mister and lay card in the ink.
If you find the ink hasn’t covered all the white card just lay it back in the ink. 

Once satisfied use a piece of kitchen towel to dab off any excess ink. 


Using a circle mask flick the ink away from the mask with a sponge to create a moon affect. For this I used wilted violet. 

I like to use this cracked paper effect stamp to give the background abit of extra texture. Using the wilted violet ink pad just randomly stamp where you you mind like the distressed look. You don’t have to be neat with this and you can always stamp areas again if you feel it needs more crackle. 


You can now stamp your main scene. For this I used black versafine Clair to stamp fairy foragers, dandelions and hanging lanterns. 


Now mount your topper onto a piece of black card measuring just slightly bigger than your topper, then onto a pre-scored 6x6 cars blank. 

Stamp the hanging lanterns and dandelions on the corners and add abit of glitter to the centre of dandelions and a little on the lanterns. 


Shopping list

Lavinia stamps -

Fairy foragers 

Dandelions 

Hanging lanterns

Distress inks 

- Picked raspberry

-Peacock feathers

- Wilted violet

White card

Black card

6x6 Card blank

Black Versafine clair ink pad

Cosmic shimmer glue

Glitter

Water spray 

I was able to purchase most of this list from a lovely little craft shop in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. If your in the area make sure you pop into  

Noble Crafts

Lavinia wolf card

Lavinia Stamped Maka wolf card

Manged to get a couple of inky backgrounds done this evening. I decided to use the lovely Maka wolf on this one.

I started off by dabbing ink on the messy mat using picked raspberry and peacock feathers.

Spritz with a fine mist of water. 

Take a piece of card measuring 4x4 inches (I would recommend using a good quality thick card - i.e 300gsm) 

Lay the piece of card in the ink and push down to spread the ink around. 

Lift to check. If there are areas where the ink hasn't covered lay the card back into the ink and repeat until you're happy with the coverage. 

Once your satisfied use a piece of kitchen towel to remove any excess watery ink.

Cut out a circle that can be used a mask. Hold in place and using your sprong and wilted violet drag the ink away from the mask to give a moon affect.

Create another mask by tearing a piece of scrap card. This is to create your horizon line. Again drag the ink down away from your mask. 

Ink around the edge of the card to give it abit more definition.

You can now start stamping. For this I used black VersaFine Claire - Has to be the best ink pad!!!

Start by stamping Maka.

Stamp the little mini dragon in front of the moon.

Then take Sebastian the seahorse. Now I get this probably seems an unusual stamp to use - but, your not going to use the whole stamp. Just ink the edges up along Sebastian's back and stamp along the bottom edge and slightly up the edge of your topper. This gives the effect of spooky branches in the foreground. 

Stamp the forest spruce stamp along the top edge of your topper.

Cut and mount your card topper onto a piece of black card just slightly bigger than your topper.

Mount both pieces onto your card base. For this I used a pre-scored 6x6 white card.

Stamp the forest spruce across the top left corner of the base card and the star burst stamp in the bottom right corner. Allow the ink to dry and dab a small amount of ink (wilted violet) into the centre of the star burst. 

You can now add glitter to your desired areas.

Shopping list

Lavinia Stamps

- Maka

- Forest spruce

- Star burst set

- Sebastian the seahorse

- Dragon miniature

Distress inks 

- Picked raspberry

-Peacock feathers

- Wilted violet

White card

Black card

6x6 Card blank

Black Versafine clair ink pad

Cosmic shimmer glue

Glitter

I was able to purchase most of this list from a lovely little craft shop in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. If your in the area make sure you pop into Noble Crafts