Allsorts Challenge # 627 - Magical Worlds

 Hi Crafters,

It's time for a new challenge to start at Allsorts

This week we'd love you to show us your

MAGICAL WORLDS

Here's a peep in to mine :o)

This is a shaker ATC, one of a set of four, I'm going to enter these in a swap.

It's difficult to take a photo with the glare from the acetate but I hope I managed well enough for you to see the details.

Hopefully you can see better here.

Recipe

Background was created with Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders

(Aqua Lagoon, Scarlet Mist & Aubergine Dream)

Silhouette image is a Crafters Companion 'Fairy Dust' Die

Frame - Cottage Cutz Stitched Rectangle Die

The sentiment which was a magazine freebie was stamped on to vellum with VersaMark clear embossing ink and heat embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Viola Lavender Blaze Embossing Powder

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Love To Craft - #59 ATG

Creative Artiste Challenge - #72 ATG Mixed Media

Fab n Funky - #526 Go Girly

Aud Sentiments - #276 ATG + Sentiment

More Mixed Media - ATG Opt. Purple

Our prize this week is a Fairy Stamp and Stencil from Lavinia Stamps

                      

Lavinia Stamps Winifred Fairy and A5 Stencil  

I hope you have fun creating your magical worlds and I can't wait to visit your blogs to see them too. For more inspiration from the rest of the design team pop over to the challenge blog HERE.

Lorraine

xXx

Deep in the woods...

Hi Crafters,

I'm sharing another fairy card today, I made quite a few while I had the ink and stamps out.

Lots of perfect pearls shimmer spray and glitter to create the magical atmosphere.

Recipe

Various Stamps - Lavinia and Sheena Douglas

Distress Inks

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Spray

Glitter

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Butterfly Challenge - #68 Fairies, Elves, Gnomes and Pixies

Unicorn Challenge - #16 Add Some Glitter

I'm so glad you could join me today, this is such a busy time of year for us all.

Take care,

Lorraine

xXx

Fairy Dust

Hi Crafters,

Just popping in for a quick share with you of one of a series of cards I've been making.

Using some Lavinia, Inkylicious and Sheena Douglas stamps, which work together beautifully, I have been creating a number of fairy themed cards.

Recipe

Lavinia Stamps - Fairies, Toadstools and Seed Heads

Sheena Douglas Stamps - Grass and flowers

Magazine Freebie - Sentiment

Distress Inks

Perfect Pearls Spray

These are so much fun to make and I have so many different coloured backgrounds in the making too. The combinations of Distress Inks are never ending.

After I stamped the seed heads I dabbed them with water and took off some of the colour to make them paler and more defined against the background.
Also it was a pleasant change from the plethora of Christmas cards I have made of late :o)

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Butterfly Challenge - #68 Fairies, Elves, Gnomes and Pixies
Crafting From The Heart - #139 ATG
Brown Sugar - #227 ATG
Creative Fingers - #121 ATG
Allsorts Challenge - #392 CAS
Noor Designs - #25 Sparkle
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #47 ATG

Thank you for joining me today and see you soon,

Lorraine
xXx

Sharing an Oldie on Friday

Hi Crafters,

It's been a while since I joined in with Erika and shared an old crafty make from the past so here's my card to rectify that.

It's not mega old but one I made about a year ago.

Recipe

Stamp - Tree Goddess Luna - Lavinia Stamps

Distress Inks

Foliage Stamp -  Sheen Douglas

Sentiment - LOTV

Glitter

Well that's it from me today, more crafty makes tomorrow and Sunday, please join me if you can.

Lorraine 

xXx

A is for Angler

Hi Crafters,

I've been getting inky over the Easter weekend and this is what I've created using my Distress Inks and a variety of stamps.

Recipe

Distress Inks for the background

Versamark Onyx Black Ink foreground Stamping

Memento Green Inks

Woodware Angler Stamp and Sentiment

Various Sheena Douglas Stamps

Lavinia Stamps

Marianne Corner Die LR0143

I created the background by tearing a piece of paper and using the jagged edge with my inks for the mountains and water. The clouds were inked using another piece of card that I had cut to shape. Then it was just a case of over stamping the foliage and Angler image. I'm quite pleased at how this turned out.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cardz 4 Guyz - #113 Something Beginning with 'A' (Angler)

Unicorn Challenge - #7 Clean & Simple

One Crazy Stamper - March ATG

A lovely day in Norfolk today, cool and windy but the sun is shining beautifully. It certainly makes me feel happier - plus I have managed to get three lines of washing dry and that somehow makes me even happier - sad house wife I guess :/

Hope you are having a great day too.

Lorraine 

xXx 

Fairy Wishes

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are enjoying your Easter weekend.
Today I thought I would share with you another card made using my distress inks and a selection of stamps. I created the background with Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Chipped Sapphire and Dusky Concorde DI. The main spiral verse stamp is a favourite one of mine from Lavinia Stamps, the others are from Kanban, Inkylicious and some magazine freebies that I have had for a while. These have been stamped with black archival ink and heat embossed.

Challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - #41 ATG

OSAAT - #233 ATG with Nature

Crafting From the Heart - #53 ATG

Creative Fingers - #74 ATG

 

I hope you like my little fantasy scene card, I will have to make another one with just Lavinia stamps for it to be eligible for their challenge but that is one for another day.

See you all soon,

 

Lorraine

Playing with my Distress Inks

Hi Crafters,
I've been playing with my Distress inks and some fairy stamps today and this is what I have made.

Recipe

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concorde and Black Soot.

Black Archival Ink and Clear embossing powder

Brilliance Ink - Platinum Planet

Lavinia Stamps - Fairy, mushrooms, spiral sentiment and verse

Magazine Freebie Stamp - Butterfly swirl and flourish

Glamour Dust

 

I began by inking my cardstock and spritzing with water, then when dry I stamped the images embossing each one as I went. The silver spiral sentiment doesn't appear to show up in the photo's very well but in real life it does. I just matted the finished piece on to silver mirri and then black cardstock to frame it.

Challenges

Lavinia Stamps - #2 Bright and Beautiful

That Craft Place - ATG

Crafting From The Heart - #46 ATG

TTCRD - ATG

Sister Act - #93 ATG

Creative Fingers - #67 ATG

 

I'd like to say a warm welcome to my new followers both on Google and Bloglovin, it's lovely to have you here and I hope you enjoy what you see.

It's busy, busy, busy for me today I have some DT work to do and a few orders to complete and then I shall fit in some commenting along the way. Have a great day one and all!

 

Lorraine