Magical Orbs

 Happy Sunday all

All day yesterday nothing worked for me - ideas not coming to fruition.  Today I managed to put this together

For this is I used the following products

5x7 inch card base with purple and navy mat/layering

Lavinia Stencil Leaf trails

Lavinia stamps - Foliage set, Swing bed large, Quinn, Orbs, Magic surrounds us, mini leaf 5 and Flower mini

Elements - Violet chalk, Mulberry and Dark denim

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Monarch, shady lane and Hawthorne rose

Glossy accents

Purple and Magenta stickles

Water splats for appearance of tiny orbs

Taffy liquid pearls dotted over the water splat orbs and tiny flowers

White gel pen

Sakura gelly roll stardust clear pen

Thank you for visiting me today

Elaine xx

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Be Creative

 Hi all, happy Friday to you all

I have had these stamps for quite a while and just felt the urge to use them - so I did

I used the following products

Ivory Card blank 8.75 x 6 inch, teal and brown mat and layering

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Elements ink Mermaid, Russet orange and Truffle

Stamps by Me - Be the Best 

Splattered using the inks with water and fan brush

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Home is where the heart is

Hi all, hope you are well

I watched Eileen Godwin on You tube and found a fabulous tutorial using Forest temple and she inspired me to have a go 

Items used 

5x7 inch card blank with teal and brown layering and matting

Lavinia stamps - Forest Temple, Pipin and Mini leaf 5

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Twilight, warm breeze and Bali Blue

Distress oxides - Victorian velvet and stormy sky

 Lavinia Stencil - buds

Polychromo pencils - browns, ochre, red, blue, lime green, orange and yellow

Brown and white pastel pencils

wink of stella

Thank you for visiting me again

Elaine xx

Thankful

 Hi all

I am almost done sorting out my Lavinia stamps and about to start other makes however before doing so I have put together a card using my poppy stamp - again lol

For this I used the following products

DL card with Navy matting

Elements inks - Russet Orange, Sundance, Mulberry, Dark Denim, Della Blue 

Versafine clair - Twilight

Inkylicious stamps - Poppy Lea and Gratitude stamp

Red and purple pencils of poppies

Circle mask

Black foil and glossy accents

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Meadow of poppies

 Hi all, hope all is good with you

I have been spending so much time sorting and tidying my craft room and the minute I make a clear space it is filled again lol. 

For my project today I used the following items

DL size card with 2 red and 1 navy matting/layering

Inkylicious Stamps - Watercolour poppy and Poppy Lea stamp

Elements Dark denim

Versafine clair - Nocturne

Distress Oxides (background) Fossilized amber, salty ocean, Crackling campfire

Kuretake clean colour pens dark and light red to colour flowers I had bleached them out enough to lighten them before laying the colour down

water splats

Black foil for poppy centres

Glossy accents for the main poppy - star of the show

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Christmas Holly

Hi everyone I am back with another project for our latest challenge over at Peace on Earth Christmas.  Here is a moodboard below to give inspiration, So many options can be derived from it

I chose to use the pinecones as inspiration for my card

I have used the following ingredients for my project

Lavinia Stamps - mini Holly, Fir cone branch and Christmas Greetings

Versafine Clair Pinecone and Rain Forest

Wow Metallic Platinum Sparkle Embossing glitter

Brown gel pen on pine cones

Wink of Stella

Sakura Gelly Roll sparkle clear pen

Red posca pen

Thank you for visiting me today and I do hope you pop on over and join in with our fun challenge at Peace on Earth Christmas

Hugs Elaine DT

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InkyLicious Poppies

 Hi all and Happy Saturday

I have been sorting out my Lavinia stamps and rehousing them a different way.  Am a third through and started yeaster and been at it all day.  I have had enough right now as it has been 2 days since making anything so I stopped what I was doing and pulled out all of my Inkylicious stamps (another set of stamps that are crying out to be rehoused, they will have to wait their turn lol) I decided to use just the one stamp and it is one of my favourites  I love Poppies

Anyhow here are the ingredients I used

DL card with lilac and navy matt/layering

Versafine clair Nocturne and Twilight

Elements - Olive, Dark Denim, Della Blue and Russet Orange

InkyLicious Poppy Silhouette

Lavinia Butterflies

circle stencil and masks

Lavinia Feather leaf stencil

Water splats

Sparkle posca pens - orange and yellow splats

White gel pen

Glossy accents red poppy

Ice blue foil poppy centres

Thank you for visiting me today

Elaine xx

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Forest Friends

 Hi all 

Happy Wednesday to you all. I fancied creating a scene today so |I did

I called this ''Forest Friends''

For the scene I used the following products

8x8 inch card base with Brown mat

Lavinia stamps - Secret garden sign, Fairy Path, Wild hares small and large set, Tree den, Tree stem, Druids Inn, Spanish moss, Climbing Ivy, Fairy Foragers,  and Whimsical hares

Elements ink - Della blue, Blue Lagoon, Pine, Olive, Greensleeves and Lime puch

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Rain forest, Fallen Leaves and Shady lane

White gel pen

White pan pastel

Black, brown, orange, green and yellow pastel pencils

Stickles - Candy Cane and Golden Rod

Yellow sparkle posca pen

Thank you for joining me today, appreciate it

Elaine xx

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Lilies for today

 Hi all

Another post for today and something really different.

I felt like colouring so out came a large flower stamp

For this card I used the following

7x7 inch Ivory cardbase with brown matt

Stamps by me - Be the exception

Versafine clair - nocturne

Kuretake Zig Clean colour Real Brush pens - orange 070, Dark Yellow 057, Pale yellow 05, Mid green 46 and Shadow pink 203

Thank you for visiting me

Elaine xx

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Flutterbies, flutterbies fly away

 Hi all Happy Wednesday

I enjoyed making yesterdays card so much I thought to myself - Hey why not make another - so I did! I did change it up a bit with colours/elements ie butterflies and extra floral

I used the following

8.25x6 inch A4 sheet folded in half with pink and lilac mat/layering

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Lilac bloom, Monarch, Hawthorne rose and shady lane

Elements Green sleeves, Della blue and violet chalk

Lavinia stamps - Butterflies,Tia, Swing bed large, Mini Leaf 1, Flowers mini and Magic surrounds us

lilac/pink 177 Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils

White pastel pencil

Wink of stella

Water splats

Thank you for visiting me again

Elaine xx

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Just relaxing

 Happy Tuesday to you all, hope all is good with you

This morning before heading to work I put this one together after watching one of Tracey Dutton's You tube tutorial. 

For this one I used the following

5x7 inch card with teal mat

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Bali Blue, Charming Pink and Shady lane

Elements Lime punch and Bermuda

Lavinia stamps - mini flutter, flutterby mini,Tia, Swing bed large, Mini Leaf 1, Flowers mini and Magic surrounds us

Teal and light blue Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils

White pastel pencil

Wink of stella

Water splats

Thank you for coming on over, makes my day

Elaine xx

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Some see a weed

 Good evening, morning or afternoon dependant on where in the world you live. 

For this card I used the following products which are all Lavinia

DL size card with black and orange matting and layering

Low tack masking tape to protect the top of card

Versafine clair Nocturne and morning mist

Stamps Orchard grass, Open Dandelion, Dandelions, Tall dandelions and Some see a weed

Dinkles - lime green, deep yellow and orange

Stickles- lime green and golden rod

Thank you for viewing my card - really appreciate your company

Elaine xx

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Fairies Dancing

 Hi all

Today I pulled out one of my stamps I had not used before - Dancing Til Dawn

Card is a DL size with green mat

Stripes made using ruler , brush and various Distress Oxides

Lavina Pebbles stencil

Lavinia stamps - Dancing til dawn, Fairy Happy Birthday

Elements inks Sahara, and greensleeves

Stickles Lime green and golden rod

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Sad Occasion

 Hey I am back and so sorry for posting another for today

This one was requested by a neighbour - another sad card for a sad occasion.  I made a couple of these sometime last year and love the design

For this I used the following products

DL size card

low tack masking tape for the border

Elements - Sundance and Sahara

Versafine clair - Nocturne

Lavinia stamps - Flora set, Heartfelt verses, Bluebells, Orchard grass, Fairy bells, Meadow blossom and Open Dandelion

Kuretake clean colour pens - orange and yellow

black sharpie for edging

Thank you for coming on over

Elaine xx

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Clean, Simple and Elegant

Hi me again with a couple of simple cards

I just felt like using something different and used my Daisy B stamps with Inkylicious sentiment.  Two of my grandaughter's birthday's are looming

Ingedients used

Daisy B - Ribbon Hat Lady and Chic Lady

Inkylicious sentiment - Be beautiful

Versafine clair - Nocturne

Kuretake clean colour pens Crimson red

Glossy accents for heart and lips

Thank you for visiting me again

Elaine xx

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A star in the offering

 Happy Sunday all

Hope you are all well. I started this one last night and stopped as I could not get my brain to work out where I was going with it.  Worked it out this morning though!!!!

I have called this one ''A star in the offering''

I used the following ingredients

8x8 inch cardbase 

Purple and navy mat/layering

Front panel background made using gel press and splattered with water

Versafine clair - Nocturne and Twilight

Elements - Mermaid, Mulberry, Dark Denim

Lavinia stamps - Rory, Mini Leaf 5, Raven, Star Cluster, Dancing Fairies and Mini North Star

Hill Mask and Feather leaf stencil

White gel pen

White and yellow pastel pencils

Stickles - Golden Road, Cayman and Purple

Glossy accents

Sakura Gelly Roll stardust pen - clear

Thank you for coming on over today

Elaine xx

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