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