Lavinia Zen Butterfly, Gesso, Modelling Paste, Dutch Doobadoo Stencil and ~Twinkling H2O Paints

 

Hi Everyone

Today MJ has been playing with a couple of her Lavinia stamps from Tracey Dutton’s Zen designs.  They are gorgeous.  MJ likes a butterfly or two…you know what she always says ‘it’s not a mistake it’s a place for the butterfly…lol’!

She decided she wanted to get inky messy tonight whilst OH was again watching footy on the telly.  She loves it when footy is on as it is a legitimate time to craft.

 

MJ was thinking about the colours of the Dragonflies wings that fly about her pond so it had to be a mix of blues and greens.  To get the shimmer she got out her Twinkling H20 paints.  It’s not very clear from the photos but the sheen is amazing with these paints.

 

 

The Zen Butterfly is a gorgeous stamp to play with and when you put it together with Tracey’s other designs there are endless possibilities for your projects.

 

What MJ Used

Maimeri Gesso

Maimeri Light Modelling Paste

Dutch Doobadoo Stencil – Fabric

LuminarteTwinkling H20 Paints – Pear Blossom and Sapphire on Ice

Lavinia Stamps – Zen Butterfly and Zen Leaf 2

Black Archival Ink

 

What MJ Did

1. Cut a piece of white cardstock to fit your card and give it a very thin coat of gesso.  Dry with heat gun.
2. Take the stencil and secure it where wanted.  Using a palette knife, or something similar, spread light modelling paste thinly through the stencil.  Be careful when lifting it off that you don’t smear it (pop stencil and tool into water to clean straight away).  Dry with heat gun.
3. Now take paints and paint over background until you are happy with the colour blend.  Dry with heat gun.
4. Stamp the Zen Leaf design onto bottom edge of panel using the archival ink.  Dry.  Then colour this with the paints.  Set aside to dry.
5. Stamp the butterfly onto a piece of white card stock using archival ink.  Take paints and colour the image.  Once dry cut the image out.
6. Matt and layer the panel onto a card blank.  Add butterfly to finish.

A nice easy card project for you to have a bash at.  MJ just loves her H20’s again!

We hope you have been inspired.

Thanks for Popping By

xx

Lavinia Zen Tree Stamp, Light Modelling Paste and Kroma Crackle

 

Hi Everyone

MJ thought she was being really lazy and not posting something!…lol

So she decided to do a really quick and easy project for you using one of her favourite Lavinia Stamps – the Zen Tree.

 

What MJ Did

1. Take a card tag or similar and apply a very light scraping of light modelling paste.  Try not to cover the entire tag evenly as you want it to get some uneven texture.
2. Dry the paste with a heat tool.
3. Next take the Kroma Crackle and spread it thinly but evenly across the entire tag and dry as before.  The Krackle will turn white as it is drying.
4. Once dried completely use Archival inks in Potting Soil, Cornflower Blue, Red Geranium to add colour to the background and then Orange Blossom over all the colours to blend.  Dry.
5. Using Black Archival ink stamp the Lavinia ‘Zen Tree’ design centrally on tag base.  Dry.
6. Then add colour with pens (MJ used Spectrum Noir carefully so that she did not run into the Black Archival).
7. With a White Pen-Touch pen (0.7mm) add dot highlights on stamped image.
8. Finally using the Red Geranium ink go around the edges to finish.

 

 

What MJ Used

Maimeri Light Modelling Paste

Kroma Crackle – IndigoBlu

Wendy Vecchi Archival Inks –

Potting Soil, Cornflower Blue, Red Geranium and Orange Blossom

Spectrum Noir Pens – GB1, DG4 and DR6

Sakura Pen-Touch White (0.7mm) Opaque Pen

 

We hope you have been inspired.

 

Thanks for Popping By

xx

Lavinia Garden Spirit Stamp and Distress Ink Marker Pens

 

Hi Everyone

Well Mandy-Jane has been playing with her birthday present – a full set of Distress Ink Marker Pens….woooo hoooo!  Up to now MJ has been using her DI’s for almost anything she creates so wanted to play straight away to see that she could get same results and of course she did with her stamping.

She absolutely loves Lavinia Stamps and owns, well let’s say a few (!) and is always using them.  This time MJ chose to use the Garden Spirit stamp.  She loves the details of this one but was asked recently by a customer ‘But how would I colour her?’ – now MJ, she loves a challenge! So this is for Chris xx.

 

 

 

MJ first lay down around the outer hairline some Tattered Rose and blended it in towards the centre of the face using a barely damp paint brush.  Next she took the Vintage Photo and went around the edge of hairline where the original colour was added.  Blend in around the face.  She also added some Vintage Photo at the sides of the nose and inner corners of eyes.  Then back in again using the Tattered Rose and blended once more in towards the centre of the face. 

 

**it is better to add layers of light colours than to add one layer of a darker colour **

Very lightly she then went around the hairline with the Walnut Stain and blended in.  Take the Aged Mahogany (you do not need a lot!) and add some cheek colour.  Blend well!  The lips were coloured with Worn Lipstick and the eyes with Evergreen Bough.

MJ thought as she is the Garden Spirit that she would give her green hair.  This was a mix of Crushed Olive, Evergreen Bough and Iced Spruce. The flowers were done with Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord and Scattered Straw.

MJ is no expert colourist but this is how she likes to do it. 

We hope you have been inspired.

Thanks for Popping By

xx