Lavinia Expects Some Snow!

It's time for the new challenge at Lavinia today, and the theme this time is 

Let It Snow!

I got out my masking fluid, flicked it over my card and waited for it to dry. I then stamped my Spring trees, dobbing some masking fluid over the edges of branches to look like snow was settling.(Dobbing really is a technical term ;)) After the fluid had dried, I inked my background before rubbing off the now rubbery fluid, leaving the white of the cardstock showing through. The sentiment is from seasonal words set. 

The masking fluid came out again for my second card.I stamped my background using various trees and added snowflakes to my card base before adding my fussy cut cat to my window frame.

A sprinkling of glitter was added to both cards!

I'm using these cards for the following challenges:-

CSD, Winter,

CCC101, Cold Outside,

CM, Embossing,

HJCC, Embossing.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Snow And Sparkle With Lavinia

The new theme starts today at 

Lavinia Stamps Challenge.

"Snow and Sparkle."

It's a great one for all of you Lavinia lovers that want to get some Christmas cards made!

I flicked masking fluid over my card before inking up my night sky and stamping Santa and his Reindeer

 (Christmas Night)

 onto the freshly fallen snow lol!

 I did have a bit of a laugh when I'd rubbed of the dried masking fluid and it revealed a few rather large snowballs instead of delicate flakes. Oh well!

There's a great randomly picked prize as always, a £40 voucher to spend in the Lavinia shop where you can now treat yourself to some of the gorgeous new 

Celtic Dream Dies!

A blog isn't essential as email entries are also accepted.

 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

AFC, It's cold,

Artistic Stamper, Christmas is coming,

CHC201, Sparkle,

Little Claires, Christmas,

LIM196, Non traditional Christmas colours.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.

There's Snow On The Hills.

It's flippin hot ! In my crafty cabin it's reading 30 deg and what am I doing? Playing at making snow lol!

After yesterday's playing with masking fluid, I thought I'd try another LIM card, this time using the masking fluid for the reason I bought it, creating snow! 

I didn't go as heavy with the colour as perhaps I should have so the snow flurries aren't quite as pronounced as perhaps they should be but I can see me using this technique lots for this Christmas. 

Looking at the photo, maybe the stickles are still a little damp.

I'm going to have a look through my stamps to see what else I could use to create a snowy scene!

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

CASOS12, Christmas in July,

CWWC48, Christmas in July,

TCC178, Shaped,

CHNC133, Trees,

LIM128, One layer, shaped.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

A Couple Of Firsts!

 Evening, it's me again. Wasn't sure if I was going to share this or not but it contains a couple of firsts for me so if I didn't share it, you wouldn't know if  I ever get any better with practice lol!

It's the first time that I've used white embossing powder, or sea foam white to be prezact  lol! , I've been meaning to open the pot for ages but kept forgetting, then yesterday I saw the lovely Eileen's card  boy oh boy is this lady talented! Anyway, when I saw the LIM theme this week, I came up with this idea. The other first for me was using masking fluid, I stamped, embossed and coloured my butterfly, painted masking fluid over it so that my colouring would be safe when I sponged distress inks over the area. I then used the negative of my die cut to ink the centre of my flower. I can tell you it's fun removing the dried fluid to reveal the butterfly again, if you've never used it before,  check this out, this lady is the queen of masking fluid!

I'm using this card for the following challenge:-

LIM128, One layer shaped card.

I do wish that I'd thought to add some shadowing around the wings to help "pop" the butterfly from the flower, oh well, maybe next time!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x