Lavinia World - Every Dream Starts With A Wish

Welcome, everyone, and a special shout out to my newest follower Corry!

I hope this finds you well and appreciating the smallest of magical moments.
Those precious moments usually appear where we least expect them!

It is time for a new
Lavinia World Challenge!

Details of our Lavinia World Challenge: A Winner receives

a $15 gift certificate to the Lavinia World store. Submissions can be placed either on our Lavinia World Challenge blog which has an ANYTHING GOES theme using ANY brand clear or rubber stamp - no digitals. Or you may play in our friendly Facebook Group called Anything Lavinia if using ANY Lavinia Product in your creation. Either way, we enjoy seeing your artwork!

Store -- Facebook -- Challenge -- Instagram

Today's story 

revolves around the fairy who is picking up the pieces of a bloomed out flower. Like we all do, she is dreaming of the new beginnings at the same time that "things" appear to be falling apart. 

It's a simple card using Love as the catalyst.
This Love is represented by our heart-felt endeavors.
Green represents the promise of new growth.


White Glittered paper holds the recessed delicate heart frame. Bright Meadow Green Glitter is on the scallop heart frame. The Fairytale LAV389 image is stamped with Verdant VersaFine Clair and heat set with clear EP. Every Dream LAV573 was stamped with Rain Forest Versafine Clair and heat set with clear EP that has glitter in it:

Dimension and Embossing Powder - clear EP on the fairy, and clear EP that has glitter on the words. The Green glittered frame around the outside of the card is popped up with a die cut green fun foam piece:

Glittery Wings pick up the colors in the journal-style sentiments:

If you play in our Challenge BLOG, you may participate using any brand of stamp, as long as it is clear or rubber - not digital.
So let's see your beauties!

Products Used:

• Lavinia World Fairytale LAV389
• Lavinia World Every Dream LAV573
• Lavinia World Verdant VersaFine Clair
• Lavinia World Rain Forest Versafine Clair
• Mowed Lawn Distress Ink
• Embossing Powders: Clear with Glitter and Clear Detail
• Glitters: Green Opaque, Dark Salmon Opaque, Pale Semi-Transparent Salmon
• Dies: Tonic Studios Lovely Arch Squares Die Set, QuicKutz Lifestyle Nesting Hearts and Nesting Scallop Hearts,
• Paper: SU Shimmer (I don't see the shimmer though), Green, Salmon, SSS White Glitter cardstock (for heart frame).
• Green Fun Foam to pop up the green frame and heart.

I am submitting this card to The Fairy and The Unicorn Challenge 1/29

Wishing you a great day!

Anything Goes at Jan's Digi Stamps #5

Greetings, Sweet Blogging Friends!
So glad you are here. There is a little freebie gift for you at the end of my post.
It's time for our ANYTHING GOES Challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps where a $10 store credit is given to a winner every challenge!

and

JDS is having a Design Team Call.

Details HERE.

Facebook - Shopping - Pinterest - Challenges

Jan's TEA TIME set is brand new, and has so many possibilities. I have used the Birthday Cup and the Single Sweet Pea flower to make my card:



The tea time set comes with colored options as well as Black and White. My images have been colored with Copic Markers.

After die cutting, the interior portion was inked while the die remained in place:

A slit was cut along the rim of the tea cup, so the fussy cut flowers could be placed inside the slit:


A "table" was inked in place, and the flowers placed in the slit, with dimensional adhesive popping the flowers up:



The table top and green panel were distressed with the same ink:


Close Up of dimension:


The entire white panel is popped up on this very simple, yet pretty card:


Interior:

FREEBIE SENTIMENT

I have made a freebie digital sentiment for you in an unusual layout. 

NOT for commercial use, please. 

Use it on any of your projects, including projects involving any design teams you might be on.

Click on the image to bring it to full size, then right click and do a SAVE.

Enjoy!

Products Used:

• Jan's Digi Stamps "Tea Time" set
• Spellbinders Detailed Scallop 5x7 Rectangles
• Green, Pink, Express-it White papers
• Copic Markers, Distress Inks

Challenges I would like to play in please:

1. **NEW**Classic DT Open Challenge was hacked so the DT created a new Challenge blog called Classic Design Challenge. With the new blog, the team has decided to make it Open to ALL CRAFTERS, not just design team members (lucky for me since it is one of my favorite challenges, and I am resigning from all but one DT next month). The new Challenge has the same wonderful designers, the same caring recognition of crafters, and same talented inspiration. Please visit them and become their follower so we can return the favor for their hard work.  Challenge #1 Anything Goes 2/1
2. ScrapyLand #129 AG using SL dies (Spellbinders Detailed Scallop 5x7 Rectangles) 1/14
3. A Bit More Time to Craft #107 Anything Goes 1/15
4. Dies R Us #136 AG using DRU dies (Spellbinders Detailed Scallop 5x7 Rectangles) 1/15
5. Allsorts Challenge #553 Soft Pastels 1/11
6. Sweet Stampin Challenge (Jan 4) New Stash (the stamps are all brand new, and so is my freebie digital gift to everyone - please take it as a gift!) 1/11
7. Crafty Friends #126 Something New (the stamps are all brand new, and so is my freebie digital gift to everyone - please take it as a gift!) 1/18 
8. Seize The Birthday #180 "Layer It" (white layer is popped up, and the flowers are all popped up)
9. Classic Design FB Challenge (January) AG 1/31

Happy New Year Hugs,

Lavinia World - Let Your Spirit Take Flight 2020

It's a brand new year, and a brand new decade! I'm looking forward to my new journey in 2020 which involves many changes.
It is my greatest wish that 2020 is promising for you as well,
and that good health and love meet you in your endeavors.

Today's FAIRY STORY:

Appropriate to my New Years Promises,
these scenes reveal the act of letting go of the old ways (of being-ness), and grasping new ways as our spirits take flight!

Wanna come fly with me?

And now you know it is time for a new
Lavinia World Challenge!

Details of our Lavinia World Challenge: A Winner receives

a $15 gift certificate to the Lavinia World store. Submissions can be placed either on our Lavinia World Challenge blog which has an ANYTHING GOES theme using ANY brand clear or rubber stamp - no digitals. Or you may play in our friendly Facebook Group called Anything Lavinia if using ANY Lavinia Product in your creation. Either way, we enjoy seeing your artwork!

Store -- Facebook -- Challenge -- Instagram

Today's story revolves around Josie Fairy who is setting herself free from old impositions and thoughts.

By The Way - these cards were planned as Clean and Simple - HA! 
Foiled again!

First, we need to create a scene. this involved cutting the sentiment into three pieces. Now it can be used in different ways:

The images were inked up with Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair and heat set with white detail embossing powder. A before and after is shown below where Faded Jeans Oxide was applied to the background stamp using a blending tool to make the edges softer:

Boo-Boo Time!

Not caring for the soft color, I decided to use something darker, and forgot to use with the applicator - so YOU GUESSED IT - it came out with the square edge showing! I learned for the other two cards. Ink the background up, and then use the applicator to soften the edges:

I also wanted the fairies to have more dimension. Using a finger dauber and the same ink colors but with Distress Ink only, the images were highlighted:

It really does make a difference. While it may appear to be too dark, it looks pretty after the backgrounds are stamped:

The sentiment is naturally distressed with "fairy dust" (those are not embossing powder messes - giggle). Because I wanted the details of Josie's wings to show, a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen was used to adhere transparent pink glitter to them. The pen was also used to make dots on the dark leaves of the floral spray with the same pink glitter. The little "spirit" taking flight is also highlighted with pink glitter:

The next card does not have the images highlighted with ink, so there is not the same dimension. This one has a blue frame. My die-cutting errors are covered up with a floral spray - no one can see the mistake:



Her wings were "painted" with glue instead of the glue pen, so the glitter is heavier and masks some of the image detail. Other elements are glittered, too, because who can pass up glitter? More is DEFINITELY more here. While you can see that "rigid" straight line, you likely would not have noticed it had I not mentioned it as a boo-boo in the beginning:

This one is my favorite with those amazing pink leaves and darker halo around the images. The photography is a little funky (dark) but it is a lovely card:

If you are making a card that has a rubber or clear stamp on it, please upload it to the BLOG Challenge site for a great opportunity to win a gift card to the store! The members in our Anything Lavinia Facebook Group are very helpful and supportive, so check it out for more ideas.

Thanks for stopping by!

Products:

• Lavinia World Let Your Spirit Take Flight LAV523
• Lavinia World Josie Fairy LAV491
• Lavinia World Background Script LAV372
• Lavinia World Faerie Spells LAV582
• Inks: Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair, Faded Jeans Distress Ink, Weathered Wood Distress, Faded Jeans Oxide, Chipped Sapphire Oxide
• Dies: Tonic Greek Temple Layering Die Set, SB Bitty Blossoms (blue frame), Memory Box Chloe Stem (blue frame), Spellbinders Foliage Shapeabilies (blue frame), Spellbinders Leaves So Very Gorgeous (white frame pink leaves), Cottage Cutz Greenery 4x4 (blue leaves)
• Other: White Detail Embossing Powder, Bubblegum Pink Glitter, Clear Glitter, Lavender-Blue cardstock, white cardstock

Challenges I'd like to support please:

1. **NEW**Classic DT Open Challenge was hacked so the DT created a new Challenge blog called Classic Design Challenge. With the new blog, the team has decided to make it Open to ALL CRAFTERS, not just design team members (lucky for me since it is one of my favorite challenges, and I am resigning from all but one DT next month). The new Challenge has the same wonderful designers, the same caring recognition of crafters, and same talented inspiration. Please visit them and become their follower so we can return the favor for their hard work.  Challenge #1 Anything Goes 2/1
2. ScrapyLand #129 AG using SL dies (please see my list of dies above) 1/14
3. A Bit More Time to Craft #107 Anything Goes 1/15
4. Dies R Us #136 AG using DRU dies (please see my list of dies above) 1/15

Fairy Hugs,

Encouraging Words to a Would-be Butterfly - Lavinia World

How crazy the weather is this Christmas Season! We yo-yo between being above average, to below average! This morning we awakened to the 30s, something that usually happens in January and February. Those of you in the northern hemisphere seem to be having a lot of unusually severe weather for December as well!

I wish you the very best this Holiday Season.

Today, my Fairy is having a heart-to-heart discussion with Christopher Caterpillar on the importance of letting go to become a butterfly.

Did you know Letting Go is Magic at work?

Thanks to Vicki who has inspired me to do the same!

And now you know it is time for a new Lavinia World Challenge!

Details of our Lavinia World Challenge: A Winner receives

a $15 gift certificate to the Lavinia World store. Submissions can be placed either on our Lavinia World Challenge blog which has an ANYTHING GOES theme using ANY brand clear or rubber stamp - no digitals. Or you may play in our friendly Facebook Group called Anything Lavinia if using ANY Lavinia Product in your creation. Either way, we enjoy seeing your artwork!

Store -- Facebook -- Challenge -- Instagram

Today's project features Twilight Fairy and Christopher Caterpillar:

I've received a few questions about how I put my fairy scenes together, so here is a mini tutorial for how my colors are chosen, and how to add the "layers" of inked images for dimension.
Please click on the photos to enlarge them:

The fun sentiment comes in a straight line, but I cut my stamp into three pieces and used it that way:

Above: notice the before and after with the words and the highlighting using the Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel in White. The Gel pen really makes things come alive! (around fairy, leaves, caterpillar, fern heads, butterfly wings)


The border was distress with Nocturne Versafine Clair ink, and heat set with black EP that contains glitter. Making a frame around the edge of the scene gives a finished look. I also used an old Martha Stewart border punch for the edges - one white and the other black, for visual interest:


Thanks for popping by - looking forward to seeing your pretties in the challenge!

Products Used:

• Lavinia World Let Your Spirit Take Flight LAV523
• Lavinia World Fairy Bugs LAV471
• Lavinia World Flutterbies LAV556
• Lavinia World Christopher Caterpillar LAV504
• Lavinia World Twilight Fairy LAV469
• Lavinia World Vine LAV165
• Lavinia World Fern Heads LAV470
• Lavinia World A6 Water Mist Lavender Paper
• Lavinia World Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel in White
• Lavinia World VersaFine Clair inks in Cheerful Yellow (under white EP), Fantasia PurpleMedieval Blue, Nocturne, Morning Mist
• Other: Distress ink Shaded Lilac, MS punch lace trim, Black Glitter EP, White Detail EP, Lavender Mica EP

Playing in the following fine challenges:

1. Classic DT Open Challenge #12 AG DT 1/1 sep post
2. Pammie's Inky Pinkies #1950 AG 12/22 sep post

Stamping Hugs,