Lavinia & Amanda

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

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 ...

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 Febru...

Oh my goodness me... what an amazing day!  Friends, old and new, cake and fresh fruit salad, copious amounts of laughter and fun!   A room full of happy crafters!  And what did we get up to? I hear you ask... well check these out...!  Fantastic results from an amazing day!   We used white card... Black card... And craft card... nothing was safe near us!  What a giggle!  Come and join us soon!  Hugs and fairy wishes to you all xxx Mandy x

My goodness me, July came and went in a blink of an eye! Here we go again, a new month and a new challenge!  It's going to be another very busy month at Lavinia Stamps, the move to the new studio is complete and the new address is... So... here's my card for this month's challenge... I hope these inspire you to join in, you could win £40 to spend on Lavinia goodies!   NEWS FLASH (just in case you missed it!) OUR FIRST EVER SHOW... Don't forget to join us on  Hochanda  on the 24th August at 8am and then again at 2pm.  We  will be launching our BRAND NEW magical collection of Stamps and Scene-scapes.   There will be lots of amazing demos and some wonderful techniques, but ultimately ''something to suite everyone...!!!''  Please come and join us!    Don't worry if you can't join us, the full range of goodies will be on the  website  too!  Have a wonderful August and don't forget to join in the challenge. Fairy wishe...

Now don't forget, not long before the winner of the July competition is drawn.  You still have time to enter the Lavinia Creative Challenge, July's theme is 'Create a Landscape', there's only a week left!  I hope you like my samples... You can probably tell, I love scene building!  In fact... I know what I'm designing for this years Christmas Cards... but enough of that!  Go on, have a go, put your entry in before it's too late, I'd hate for you to miss it!  Please feel free to leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you!   Until next time... Fairy Wishes, and crafty hugs! Mandy xxx

Hi and welcome to a new month!  New month and a brand new Lavinia Stamps challenge has begun.  The theme for this month is 'Create a Landscape'.  There is a £40 voucher to be won!  Come and join in the fun, you have nothing to loose! Good luck! Congratulations to the June winner, Maureen Lamarre.  Fantastic card! I hope these card inspire you and get your crafting juices flowing... Enjoy your crafting and all of the wonderful stamps available at  Lavinia  Stamps! I'm really looking forward to seeing your work! Love and hugs, Mandy xxxx