Birthday wishes 3

  Hi all me again... .

Me again, so sorry to keep posting so many cards, just on a roll sometimes and can't stop myself.

For this Birthday card I used the following products

DL size ivory card base with brown mat

Lavinia Stamps - Lillium, Heartfelt verses and magic surrounds us

Versafine clair Portobello, Warm breeze and Fallen leaves

Elements - Truffle 

Kuretake clean colour pens Aqua tones

Glossy accents

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Magic by Moonlight 5

 Hey everyone

I am back today with a tag I made last night using, yes you have guessed it, Lavinia stamps lol

For my project I used

6 inch tag

Versafine clair Nocturne and Avocado

Elements Lime punch and Dark denim

Lavinia Stamps - Celeste and Wild leaf corner

Sakura gelly roll startdust clear pen

Sakura Fluorescent Moonlight yellow pen

White and Aqua posca pens

White pastel pencil

Stickles - golden rod, lime green and cayman

Lavinia Earth green crafting yard

Thank you for visiting me

Elaine xx

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Quick and easy with Inkylicious 4

 Good evening all

I made two quick cards yesterday and two more tonight

  For these I used the following products for the top two

Ivory and White A6 cards with orange and deep yellow matt/layering

Stripe stamps unknown brand was in drawer without packaging

Inkylicious stamps - Friends, Wild cow parsley and Oriental Awakening

Elements inks - Sahara, Sundance and Russet Orange

Versafine Clair - Nocturne

For these I used 

A6 cards with purple and green matting/layering

Distress oxides 

Stripe stamps unknown brand was in drawer without packaging

Inkylicious stamps Watercolour poppies

Sentiments unknown brand

And finally another two quick cards

A6 cards with teal and red matt/layering

Inkylicious stamps - Wild Cow Parsley, Gratitude stamp set and Poppy Silhouette

Stripe stamps unknown brand was in drawer without packaging

Elements Paprika, Bermuda and Mermaid

Versafine Clair - Nocturne

Black fineliner

Thank you for coming on over to see me

Elaine xx

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Birthday wishes

 Hi all me again

I was asked to make a Birthday card for a friend - so guess what I did lol.

I wanted to keep it quite minimal - well I tried!

I used the following ingredients

7x7 inch card base with teal mat/layering

Elements ink mermaid

Distress inks - aged mahogany and peacock feathers

Modeluez watercolour pencils - aqua and pink 

Lavinia stamps - Heartfelt verses and Luna Lights

Lavinia stencil - Pebbles

Sakura gelly roll stardust clear pen

Glossy accents

Thank you for popping over to say hi

Elaine xx

Flower Fairy 9

 Happy Sunday to you all

I have been playing around with inks, paints, brushos and dinkles making backgrounds and ended up throwing them away as they turned out like mud lol. Just wasn't my day for that. I ended up going with the flow using the following ingredients

A5 card blank (A4 folded in half) with brown and deep yellow mat/layering

Lavinia Sticker Stencil set 7 - the bottle

Elements inks - Sundance, Sahara, Truffle, Henna, Greensleeves and Lime punch

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Lavinia stamps - Dandelion, Flora set, Forest moss, Fairy Foragers, Three dancing fairies and Flower Fairy

Rose gold gilding flakes

Golden rod and Sandstone stickles

White pastel pencil

Water splats

Thank you for visiting me again

Elaine xx

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Some see weeds 5

 Hello again to all you lovely fellow crafters

I have made another to post today and I used one of my fave Lavinia stamps - Dandelions

Here are the ingredients

8x8 card blank and 6.5 square front panel

Elements ink pads - Russet orange, Sahara, Sundance, Lime Punch and Greensleeves

Versafine clair - Nocturne

Lavinia stamps - Open Dandelions and Tall dandelion

Water brush to bleach out the flowers to prepare for colouring

Kuretake clean colour pens Orange, red and yellow

Black sharpie

Thank you for coming on over yet again

Elaine xx

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Magical orbs 4

 Happy Saturday to you all

Hope you are all well.  

I put this one together today and I hope you all like it.

Ingredients used

DL cardbase with navy front panel and teal mat/layering

Versafine and pan pastel titanium

Lavinia stamps - Fairy Foragers, Fairy orbs, Quinn, Fairy Toadstool, mini leaf 5 and slender mushrooms mini

Versfine clair Nocturne

Stickles Cayman and unicorn

White and Aqua posca pens

glossy accents

Thank you for visiting me again, really appreciate it

Elaine xx

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This is magical 6

 Hi everyone

This is my card for today and it started off by using a gel press print a few days ago.  It had been sitting there no knowing what I was going to do with it and then the light bulb moment - quite a plain simple card using some of my favourite stamps

The ingredients I used are the following

DL size card with black and bright pink mat/layering

Elements inks Confetti, Sundance and Graphite

Versafine clair Nocturne

Lavinia stamps - Zemira, Fairy Foragers, Fairy orbs, Creeping vine and mini Maple

Yellow and orange Kuretake clean colour pens

White pastel pencil

gold foil

glossy accents

Thank you for coming on over

Elaine xx

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Happy Everything...... 8

 Happy days to you all

I was inspired by one of Amanda Branston's tutorials.  I had already made one using bright colours but wanted a muted design to send to a friend. 

I used the following ingredients for my card

8x8 inch square card with light and dark grey mat/layering

I painted the random circles using brush and Kuretake Gansai Tambi paint set Graphite

Versafine clair Nocturne

Versamark

WOW Silver, clear sparkle and white embossing powers 

Lavinia stamps - Field grass and Wild Summer flower 

Sentiment unknown (had it a long time and lives in a drawer which believe me is a mess lol)

Thank you for visiting me today, really appreciate it

Elaine xx

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Oh how wise is he !!! 8

 Hello everyone, hope you are all good 

Last night I broke out into uncharted water by colouring Erwin using Gansai Tambi Watercolour paints.  I was totally inspired by Amanda Branston and never directly copy anyones design however this time there was no other way I wanted to change Amanda's design .

For this project very minimal products were used

8.75 x 6 inch card base with brown and grey mat/layering

Versafine clair Nocturne and Fallen Leaves

Graphite Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints

Lavinia stamps - Erwin, Wise owl and Brave and Loved

Thank you for visiting me today

Elaine xx

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Orbs = Magical 4

 Happy Monday to you all

I made this card without knowing where it was going.  I started off with one my favourite fairies - Rue. The rest just happened and what was great I used fern heads, never before seeing the light of day

I used the following products

DL size card with orange/black mat and layering

Vesafine clair - Nocturne and Twilight

Elements Inks - Russet Orange, Paprika, Confetti, Dark Denim and Graphite

Lavinia stamps - Frn Heads, Spanish Moss, Field Grass and Rue

Lavinia Feather Leaf stencil

Water splats

White gel pen - orbs in water splats

Stickles Golden Rod

Sakura Gelly roll stardust clear pen

Yellow sparkle and Aqua green posca pens

Circle mask

White pastel pencil

Thank you for visiting

Elaine xx

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Buttercup bees 6

Hello everyone, time for me to post yet again

I have been sorting out my offcut of card drawer.  Yayyy I salvaged 3 pieces of card

I also used one of my stamps I have never used so that was a bonus

Okay here are the ingredients used

DL size card with sunshine yellow and black card for mat/layering

Lavina stamps- Bee mini and Fairy buttercups

Versafine clair - Nocturne, Verdant and Cheerful Joy

Elements - Truffles, Sundance and Sahara

yellow sparkle posca pen

Stickles Golden Rod

Sakura yellow fluorescent gel pen

glossy accents for the bees bodies

water splats

Thank you for coming on over to say hi

Elaine xx

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Secret Garden Fun 7

 Hi all

Just wanted to share this card before heading to bed.  I promise this is the last for today - was on a roll.

Here are the products used for my project

DL size card with black and yellow Mat/layering

Background made using Lavinia Boblong gel press

Elements inks - Confetti, Paprika Sahara, Sundance and Russet Orange

Versafine clair - Nocturne

Lavinia stencils Tall Leaf mask and Honeycomb

Lavinia stamps - Secret garden sign, Fairy Foragers, Dancing fairies, Forest Flower and Nia

Gel pens red, orange and yellow/gold 

Orange, yellow and white Koh-I-Noor pastel pencils

Koh-I-Noor Brown water colour pencil for the garden sign

Lots of glossy accents for the folowers over the gel pen colouring

Wink of stella to blend the water colour pencil on the sign

Golden Rod stickles

Sakura Gelly roll stardust pen - Clear

Thank you for visiting me

Elaine xx

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