Lavinia dandelion card with mooch

Hi everyone!! 

Hope your all keeping safe and well. 

So just recently I’ve been playing around with my new gel plate and thought I’d do a post showing how I used it to make this card. I must warn you I’m still learning so bound to make  a few mistakes along the line! 

I inked the gel plate with fossilised amber using a brayer.  Spread the ink evenly over the gel plate.

Using a fan shaped brush splatter the brushos over the gel plate. I tried to splatter larger moss green along the bottom of the plate. Then lightly splatter the moss green, rose red and yellow ochre over the rest of the plate. 

Now place your pre cut card on the plate and apply pressure to pick up the ink. 

I cut some masks out of an old plastic wallet that was falling apart to create my horizon and moon masks. You can use ripped card but as I seem to make so many I wanted to make something that would last. 

So I started with bundled sage  distress inks -  place the mask where you’d like your horizon line and drag the ink away from the mask with your applicator.  Then go over it with fired brick.

Place your moon mask in the centre and again drag the ink away from the mask using fired brick. 

Apply a small amount of ink around the edge of the card.

You can now start building your scene. For this I used fairytale fairy, mooch, willow and dandelions. Each of these were stamped with versafine clair black ink. 

I wanted a few extra floating dandelions so I inked the  one circled at the bottom and randomly stamped a few extra. 

Using fired brick destress ink I then stamped a few extra willow branches and dandelions. 

Add a few white highlights with the white Sakura pen to the cat and fairy. 

Then add some glitter. For this I used quickie glue pen to apply cosmic shimmer glitter sparkle  shaker (silver rainbow)

I applied the glitter to the wings and the tips of the dandelions. 

This glitter is so lovely it’s so super fine. I’m sorry it’s really hard to see in the photo. 

I then drew a black border around the edge with a sharpie pen and mounted it onto a 6x6 card. 

                                       

Shopping list

Lavinia Stamps -

Fairytale 

Mooch

Dandelions

Willow

 

Distress inks 

- Bundled sage- Fired brick

 

Oxide inks - Fozilised Amber 

 

White card

6x6 Card blank

Black Versafine clair ink pad

Cosmic shimmer glue

Cosmic shimmer Glitter silver rainbow 

Gel plate Brushos 

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

Owl card using crafty individuals stamp

Hi Everyone 

Hope you’re all keeping safe and well!! 

As I seem to have some extra time on my hands thought I’d try create some blog posts. 

I started off by stamping and embossing the owl in the centre of a piece of card measuring approximately 14cm square so it’ll fit onto a 6x6 card.

You will also need to stamp out another owl on some scrap card and cut it out - this is to mask your owl while you create your inky background. You’ll also need a largish circle for the moon. 

Place your owl mask over the stamped image and lightly ink a blue background. For this I used Tim Holtz distress inks. 

Now with your owl mask still in place position the moon in the centre of the card. Using the same colour apply slightly more ink to darken the blue sky. 

Using a fine mist - spray the whole background (again making sure your owl mask is in place)

While the card is wet carefully tap midnight blue pixie powder over the sky area and a small amount over the moon. 

If you find the powder hasn’t reacted with the water lightly a spray some more water. 

Dab off any excess with kitchen roll. 

You can then dry the card with your heat gun this also helps to straighten the card slightly. 

Using a slightly darker shade of blue - ink around the edge of the card. 

Then place the moon back in place and drag the ink from the centre of the moon and flick outwards to create a darker halo. 

I wanted to add a little bit more colour so went round the border again with wilted violet. 

Now time to colour your owl. 

For this I used the Arteza watercolour pens. 

I then stamped the trees in the background. For this I used the tonic stamping platform. I haven’t been using it that long (in fact I actually borrowed this one from my mum to see how I get on with it before I buy) 

This is really good if you need to go over the image to touch it up. Sometimes it’s really hard to get a nice clear stamped image when working with pixie powders. 

I stamped this tree twice. 

Now stamp the tree the other side again using the stamping platform. 

As you can see the trees aren’t quite as tall as I wanted them so I touched up the area at the bottom with a dry paint brush and the same ink pad I used to stamp the image. Just dab the ink in that area to create the filled in shape you require. 

Stamp the birds in the background. 

Now I’ve almost run out of black card so I’m being a little tight here - using a ruler and sharpie, draw a thickish line around the edge. 

Now mount onto a pre scored 6x6 card. 

And you card is complete! 

Shopping list

Set of free stamps from creative magazine issue 83 - made by crafty individuals. 

Black ink pad - VersaFine Clair 

Wow embossing powder

Distress inks

Watercolour pens 

Cosmic shimmer pixie powder - midnight blue 

Card 

Glue 

Paint brush 

Sharpie and ruler

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.