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Sunday 26 July 2009

Lavinia stamps



How annoying-the inside came on before the outside-I will never fathom this-ah well. Have managed to get the camera out and take some piccies. Since my discovery of Crafty by Nature in Farnworth , a real crafters craft shop with all sorts of bits and bobs, I've been playing with Tim Holz (I wish) and I got out some Lavinia stamps which seem to lend themselves to these kind of treatments.



I'm afraid I love to just mess about without actually completing a card but this time I was determined and an inside too. Why I've never used distress inks before I don't know but I really do have hundreds of inks. The colour I've used for the background is broken china and I've also sprayed it with Glitz Spritz desert moon endless sky (had this for years and it matches beautifully. I then sprayed again with water and recrumpled so that the spray ran a bit and then rubbed the crumples. If you want to know more about these techniques (bet you lot are already fully up to speed with 'em anyway) you should watch Jill Tuck of The Stampman demonstrate or better still nip over to America and pop in on Tim Holz-LOL. After ironing the paper I just inked the background stamp with broken china again and stamped the wording over the top. Fairy is coloured with Cosmic shimmers and Sakura stardust and I've added a bit of Stickles stardust.

As you can see the inside is slightly different with a bit of masking and no crumply wumply. Bet that distress ink would look good stamped over with brilliance inks as well.

Some heart shaped sequins crept in on some wire. I wound them around the brad and just to make sure they stayed there I tried out something else I thought I'd give a try-Pinflair glue gel. So far it's living up to its reputation -that's some more glue to add to the collection then wouldn't mind some more of those Lavinia stamps either.

Am off to practice my tri- shutter, cantilever and double slide cards now. If you want to see a lovely tri-shutter card hop over to Kaye's Crafty Place-don't land on a kangaroo.

8 comments:

  1. Hi Betty hope you're feeling better. love the card, the image is gorgoeus and I love the techniques you've used.

    Pat xx

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  2. This is great Betty. Not another TH fan....I can't bear it, you should get together with Kath (all that glitter blogspot), you can drool together, me, I'd rather have a cup of cocoa.... (well, unless george clooney is around)
    luv
    En xx

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  3. Hi Betty this card is wonderful, distressing inks is not something I have really got into but will now have to give it a go after seeing your wonderful creation.

    Thanks for the beautiful comment on my blog and the link sending everyone to mine, and yes watch out for the Kanga's. You must post your tri-shutter so we can see your fantastic results.

    hugs
    Kaye x

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  4. Me again Betty, pop on over to my blog I have something for you.

    hugs
    Kaye x

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  5. Hi Auntie Betty I love that fairy card you made and I hope you save it for my birthday!!!!!!!
    lots of love from SOPHIE xxx

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  6. Aloha Betty! Mahalo for visiting my blog. I like yours a lot. Love the fairy card!!! The sentiment is adorable, and so true. Visit me any time and get a bit of Hawaiian sunshine, LOL! Globe trotting via the net IS lots of fun. Keep up the great creative process and MAKE CARDS!

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  7. ALOHA BETTY!! Mahalo for visiting my blog - I really like yours! The fairy card is great. I really like the sentiment! It is so true.

    Feel free to visit me any time and get some Hawaiian sunshine, LOL! Yes, globe trotting via the net IS fun! Keep up the creative process and make cards!

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  8. Oh wowo! Betty!! this is brilliant!! I love Lavinia stamps, but so far they are only on my wish list! Fantastic card, may I 'clip it' and put a link on my blog? (It's a new gadet that can take stuff from other blogs if you find something you'd like to share with other people doing the same sort of thing)
    How did Harry Potter go? (we did the 'orange thing too,first tme we've used it!) Shame they have to miss so much out or even add things that didn't happen, but I guess no one's going to sit through a week long film!!!

    ((Lyn))

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