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A Story To Be Told

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Happy New Year to you all!   Come and join in with the new challenge over at Lavinia Stamps; this month the theme is “A Story to be Told”.  I’m sure we all have a story or two following Christmas and the New Year!   I hope my card “Timeless Beauty” helps to encourage and inspire you to join in this month’s Challenge.     Audrey Hepburn once said “for beautiful eyes  look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words  kindness, and for poise walk with the knowledge you are never alone.” Alura  is a beautiful stamp to colour; once you start you’ll be amazed at the details you will find.  She truly is a timeless beauty! I have also used  Whimsical Wisp  and the wonderful  See a Fairy  script in the background.   Firstly, I used a white wax crayon to create the white highlights on Alura once she had been stamped in Clair Nocturne (Versafine black).  The white crayon acts as a resist for the ink.  Don’t worry if the wax marks look dirty or makes the ink look like it’s smudged.
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Beat the Mid Month Blues

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We’ve reached the middle of our Stamping with Blues Lavinia Stamp Challenge, and have you remembered to enter?  Go on, give it a go... it’s sure to banish those mid Month Blues!    All the entries will feature in a special gallery and one lucky winner will be chosen to win a Voucher for £40 worth of Polymer Stamps. I love  Giselle  and this beautiful I vy Boarder  Stamp. Come and join us and add your entry to the  Creative Challenge     Good luck! Love n hugs, Mandy xx
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Beautiful Baubles from Lavinia Stamps

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How beautiful are these?  I adore the designs and the quality of the baubles is perfect; they are crystal clear! Check the designs and sizes out  here , they are amazing!  Quick and easy to make too!  Have fun! Love Mandy xx
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Stamping with Blues

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It’s the start of a new month and a brand new Lavinia Stamp Challenge.  This month is “Stamping With Blues".  All the entries will feature in a special gallery and one lucky winner will be chosen to win a Voucher for £40 worth of Polymer Stamps. I hope my “Blues” card helps to inspire you. Click  HERE  for more inspiration. Now... no excuse,  get out those inks, paints, brushos, and pencils and join in the fun.  My card showcases  Sebastian the Seahorse  and the beautiful  Feather ,  which stamps will you choose?   Have fun xxx
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‘Sunset Pinks’ June Lavinia Stamps Challenge

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Can you believe it’s June already?  My goodness where did that go?   A new month brings with it a new Lavinia Stamps Challenge... this month’s theme is ‘Sunset Pinks’.  The challenge runs until the 25th so get creating and enter your project, you could win £40 to spend on more beautiful Lavinia Stamps!  Enjoy, have fun and the best of luck to you! Xx Luna  is one of my all time favourite fairies; goddess of the trees! To emulate a forest I used the beautiful new  Feather  stamp.   I find that the amazing little Pound Stamps finish off the scene beautifully; I’ve used  Stars 2  on my card.   I found the soft  Distress Oxides  perfect for this sun set scene, I wonder what you will choose?  So come and join us for this month’s  Lavinia Stamps Challenge ! Good luck!  Amanda xxx
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It's April! Well the “showers” are winning on the weather front so far!  I might even trade my car for a boat!  This month’s Lavinia Stamps competition is all about ‘Flowers and Folidge’.   My card is mahoooosive!  A Mandy made card (I do love making large cards) so the dimensions are 26.5cm x 16cm!  I used a mixture of Lavinia’s wonderful, unique stamps.  I have used  Fairy  Dandelions ;  Honeysuckle ;  Vine  and See  a  Fairy The background was brayered  Distress Oxides Bundled sage, and Iced Spruce.   I stamped the Fairy Dandelions using V ersafine Clair  Morning Mist (grey), the Vine and the Honeysuckle were stamped with Versafine Clair Rainforest. I ‘bleached’ the Honeysuckle images using my waterbrush and kitchen paper.  Once this was dry, I coloured the flowers using coloured pencils, one dark and one lighter reds (always apply the light colour first).  I finished off the flowers using a White  GellyRoll  pen.  So... Don’t forget, join in, and have fun.  Who knows, your entr
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Wonderful Workshop ~ January 2018

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My goodness, a full class and a head full of ideas!   We started our day with a double whammy!  We used a stencil in two ways, one (very conventional) ink through the stencil.  Then, without cleaning the stencil, we spritz the ink surface and dropped our card down onto it and pull off a watercolour style print.  A further print could be pulled too!  This is what the team made..   Beautiful results!  We then moved onto something just a little different.  I was asked if we could have a go at Distress Crayons, so this project became a bot of a sampler... We blended, coloured on dry card, then wet card, painted with them, faux bleached through a stencil (cheers Maggs!) it was fun and very different!  Finally, with Oxides in hand we made a three layered card.  I love this look, and it seems the team did too!  It’s amazing how different they look using different colours!  Lots of fun! I’m looking forward to the next class, 24th February already!  Thank you for joining us!  Love n crafty hugs
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