A little stroll among the toadstools

I love creating art with Lavinia Stamps, Tracey Dutton produces some amazing stamps that make cardmaking fun and easy. I started by inking the background card, I used several shades of pink Distress Inks. I then used grey ink to stamp the Fairy Buttercups and the Ink Caps, this gave the illusion of a misty background.

Next I stamped the fairy (Make a wish), the bubbles and the Spotty Toadstools. I added Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in clear to the fairy, the dandelion and the bubbles.

Finally I coloured the Spotty Toadstools using Promarkers and a white gel pen to give the card a bit of a pop.

The strange thing was after I had finished the card I took a few pictures (three of which I have used here), I took the first picture about 24 hours later because I noticed the change in the sections painted with the Sparkle pen, almost like bleaching.

Fairy Happy Birthday

I really like Lavinia stamps but I very rarely use my collection. So my friend had her birthday last month and I decided to make her a nice card with fairies.

I started by spritzers a piece of white can with several mica sprays. After this had dried I used several different stamps to create my scene.

The first stamp I used was Freya, she is my favourite of all my fairies, but I might be bias because that's also my daughter's name.

Then I stamped the mini toadstools and the spotty toadstools, I masked off the smaller spotty toadstool on the left to give my card a bit of depth. I then coloured the spots white with a white gel pen.

I stamped the 'Have a fairy happy birthday' onto a piece of pink card and mounted it using foam pads.
Finally I added a bit of sparkle to Freya's wings, around the magic sprinkles, on the toadstools and on the greeting.

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