Lavinia Creative Challenge "Create a Landscape" - July's Mid Month reminder -

Hello .....


Here's my Mid Month shout out for The Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge "Create a Landscape"

I just want to remind you that there is only 14 days left for you to get those entries in before we start all over again with a new challenge ..... So come on get those creative juices flowing and you never know it could be your turn to win the £40.00 Voucher that is up for grabs .....

Here's another of my Cards I created and I hope this lends you some inspiration into entering the Challenge .....

The Stamps I have used are .....

Zen Butterfly
Orchid
Wild Flowers
Field Grass
Time to reflect

Well that's it folk until next month .....

Take care and enjoy yourselves and of course this beautiful weather .....

Loads of love
Marianne xxx

Bee and Butterfly Cards ..... Ohhhhh and The Umbrella Man .....

Hello again

Thought I would blog my Cards that I made at Eileen's July Workshop .....

We have a lovely Day creating some really super Cards .....

For once I managed to nearly finish some Cards as I am a little bit of a slow Coach, lol and just love faffing around adding the finishing details ohhh and if I haven't mentioned before I love Fussy Cutting .....

That Barbara Cleggett made some super Cakes but my favourites were those Viennesse Whirls and I must admit I was a little "Piggy" and I have two .....

My Crafty Buddy Archie Maisey came and we had a lovely day creating some Cards using Brusho's and Distress Inks ..... A little dab of Texture Paste, Some texture Stamps and Stencils .....
I learnt fast this time that a little goes a long way with the Brusho's and I managed to keep them a bit under control, lol ..... for a change ...., I don't usually do White Spaces as I love Colour and you can guarantee I usually put colour all over the card but today I managed to well for 3 Cards control myself .....

I used various stamps being .....
Chocolate Baroque Bee Stamps
Finnabair Butterfly Stamps
and of course the all time favourite Tim Holtz Umbrella Man .....

Well here they are and I must admit I was a little chuffed with them all .....

Hope you like them too .....

 

Well it's been an age since I did any blogging for anything other than my DT Cards for Lavinia ..... and I must admit I so enjoyed using some different stamps too !!! ......

I'll try to do some more very soon ...... I promise ..... :0)

Loads of love and take good care of yourselves
Love Marianne xxx

New Lavinia Creative Challenge for July - "Create a Landscape"

Hiya .....

Wow .... That's another couple of weeks that have just flown by ..... I'm sure their right in what they say "The older you get the quicker the time flies past" and boy does it !!! .....

Well yes you've guessed it ..... it's that time again for the start of a brand new Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge and for July the theme is "Create a Landscape" ..... A voucher for £40.00 will go to the winning entry to spend in the Lavinia Stamps Webshop ..... Lavinia Stamps

Here's the link to the Creative Challenge so you can unpload your entry here ..... Creative Challenge

I must admit it took me a while to conjure up and create a picture in my mind of what I was going to do and finally I came up with the ideas of a Bluebell Landscape and a Poppy Field Landscape ..... I was quite pleased with how they turned out and I thought for a change too a "Triptych" Card was called for which was extra work but I really enjoyed doing them .....

Here's my first Card "Bluebell Landscape" and the stamps I used are listed below .....

Fox 1 - Kernal
Fox 2 - Peri
Mustrooms
Spring Trees
Three Field Mice
Snail
Zen Leaves
Hop, Skip and Jump
Bluebells
Small Stones

And here's my second Card "Bluebell Landscape" and the stamps I used are listed below .....

Group Poppies
large Poppies
Wild Poppies
Poppy Pods
Small Stones
Field Grass
Flowers Miniature
Pheasants and Fence
Sky
Mooch

I know I used a variety of stamps but I felt it was a must for the impact ..... but if these inspire you to create something like them then of course you can use some of the other stamps you may have .....

Oh well that's it for now but remember I will be back Mid Month with a little reminder and with another Card that luckily I have already created, lol ..... I'm off to start on the next Challenge and yep you have to wait till next time to find out what the Theme will be .....

Take care and remember keep crafting .....
Loads of love
Marianne xxx