Welcome to our very first Newsletter

Thank you for your patience on our very first news letter.

We intend making this a regular feature to keep you up to date with the latest designs and developments here at Lavinia Stamps – and in the stamping world in general!

For those of you who haven’t seen our new product ranges ,you can view them in our New Products section on the website.

Exhibitions

As you know we attend many shows throughout the year,  the next one for us is Artstamps Wales held at Glyndwr University Sports Centre, Wrexham.Please click here for more details.                                            www.artstampsexhibitions.org.uk .

After that, The Big Stamp and Scrap booking show held at Alexander Palace, please check the website out if you would like more information on this show www.bssbs.co.uk .You can see all our other shows we are attending if you click here    full list of all the events here

If you are out and about at these events we would love to see you, so come and visit out stand.

Readers Gallery

One of the most popular features on our website is the Readers Gallery. There are some truly amazing cards that people have made, why not join them and send your master pieces in? we would love to see them.

Tips

Don’t forget to check out our “Top Tips” I know that some of you struggle with the Brayer Roller, read the Top Tips and just keep on practising

Craft Stamper Magazine

Keep your eyes peeled for the October issue of Craft Stamper i have an article on ”Autumn Scenes” with a step by step that i am hoping you will all enjoy.

You will need this pack of three stamps to complete this card.

I have also used a pack of smaller leaves to pop in between as you can see from the picture below, but this is totally optional, you could in fact use other stamps just to fill in the spaces.

This is the final image, amazing what a bit of  colour can do.

So look out for the article and you too can make a card like this one, along with many other examples celebrating the colourful aspects of Autumn.

New Designs

During August  we will be  designing a new range of stamps, more Fairies, more Scenic, more Christmas….i hope,so by September fingers crossed i will have them available to sell on the website and at our future shows.

……And Finally

Thank you for all  taking the time to read our very first news letter and here’s hoping of many more to come

Hello,

Just to remind everyone we are now off to the Newbury show, so we wont be around as from Wednesday the 30th until Tuesday the 6th July. So if you place an order during this time  i’m sorry, but it will not be posted untill we are back sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As for any of you that maybe attending the show then hopefully see you there.

Thank you

Harrogate.

Sorry to let all my customers down who intended to see us at Harrogate in  September with Craft work cards, unfortunately there where no spaces for us this year, i can only apologise for this but keep checking the  Exhibition dates out for any new shows that we may be doing.

Thank you

Hi There,

Just thought I would mention we have a whole new range of stamps due to go onto the website in the next week….check out my Gallery and see what you think….

Click onto Latest Products and you can view them.

Hi Everyone,

Just to let you all know we are at Edinburgh as from the 4th of June and will be back on the 15 th June, we will be attending the Artstamps show held at the Corn Exchange on the 6th and 7th June, the rest of the time we will be taking a break in this magnificent city along with our son, a break well needed.

So just to let you know if you are placing any orders with us they will be dispatched just as soon as we get home,thank you and maybe see some of you in Edinburgh,

Take care

Tracey and Kevin

Lovely landscapes by Lynne, it appears that Lynn has really mastered this technique, thank you for sending them in.

Both images are embossed with black sparkle embossing powder on the pre-prepared backgrounds. These were made as part of a mini workshop by Paddy at Paddy’s Stamping Place.
The pink one has ink applied using cut’n'dry foam, which was then stamped with a rollagraph and text and gold pearl paint stencilled through a snakeskin stencil.
The green one has a small flourish stamped with versamark then coloured pen was put on crinkled cellophane, spritzed with water then used to apply colour to the glossy card. It was then stamped with a rollograph.

Thanks for sharing that with us Sarah, i just love the texture on the background

Jackie has sent in a lovely card,

Jackie has stamped the Thistle in Adirondack Twilight Purple and then mounted it on a floral purple card which compliments the Thistle beautifully,

Thank you

I have had a few people contact me regarding the technique of Brayering and  a few of you experience lines on your card,and have tried everything to get rid of them  some of you have had to walk away in pure frustration…….,i do sympathize i am a little like that with computors….Anyway its down to one simple thing TO MUCH INK ON THE ROLLER , once you have inked your roller up make sure the area that you are using on your roller is completely covered, then on a scrap piece of A4 paper take the ink back off three or four times the length of the scap paper, so there is no surface ink on the roller left, now you can start using the Brayer on your card.

if youwant a stronger colour just repeat the above process dont be tempted to put a whole load more ink on, you wil just end up in one big mess……..

Your card is important i use matt card but it still needs to be very smooth …no texture almost silky.

Use a one way movement…..not backwards and forwards.

Its really that simple…. if anyone has any other questions please email me,and i will do what i can to help,

in the mean time i hope this helps some frustated people out there……

xx

Just a quick reminder to let everyone know we are away from the 15th to the 19thof April, so if you are placing any orders with us, i am sorry but they wont be posted out to you till we get back on the 20th of April,

Thankyou

Tracey x

This lovely card was sent in from Kim, and heres how she did it.

Thanks Kim

I masked out the fairy and moon on the stamp and inked just the starswith embossing ink, then removed the mask and stamped and silver embossed the stars. Then I masked out the embossed stars and stamped the fairy and moon with versafine imperial purple. I stamped a second image onto a post-it, cut out the moon just inside the line and stuck the mask over the moon. I then brayered the top part of the picture using an Adirondack Wildflower rainbow pad, then using torn paper I did mountains at the bottom with Adirondack Eggplant. The mask was removed to reveal a white moon. Finally I added the Orchid stamp to the top and the fern leaf to the bottom. I used mini gems and glitter to embellish, and a dragonfly brad. The picture is mounted on two shades of purple. Couldn’t have done it without your lovely stamps!