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Ginger Having a Hoot in July by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here. Thanks so much for popping in for another Mindful Monday. Today, we have a wonderful calendar page design to make you smile, featuring Ginger the Owl and those cheeky little mice. The clean and simple background is made using Elements ink and we’ve added colour using the fabulous Clean Colour pens. […]

Blending With the Kuretake Clean Colour Pens

Kuretake demonstrator Helen Pritchett continues her introduction to the company’s Clean Colour watercolour pens. Working on the Lavinia Hot Pressed Watercolour card, she uses the pens to colour a stamped image of the wonderful Bayleaf Cottage. During the tutorial, she also demonstrates the versatile Kuretake Embossing Pens, using them to add some sparkling finishing touches […]

Introducing the Kuretake Clean Colour Real Brush Pens

Helen Pritchett is an established UK demonstrator for the Japanese Kuretake Company who has been producing high-quality pens and paints for over a century. Lavinia Stamps have just started stocking these exquisite products, and today, Helen will be introducing the Clean Colour Real Brush Pens and demonstrating how beautifully these smooth-flowing brush pens glide effortlessly […]

Astrid in the Magical Fairy Garden by Emma-Jo

I was inspired by a Welsh Myth of Blodeuwedd (please forgive my pronunciation) She was made from flowers by Wizards. (The story is much better really). I liked the idea of Astrid being happy and at one with the flowers. For this card I’ve used 7×7 Multifarious Card, Elements, Posca Pens and Bruynzeel Watercolor Pencils. The […]

Dandelions on a Dinkles Background by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here again. Always lovely to spend time with you. For today’s Technique Tuesday, we are going to have a look at our new Mop Up Brushes and use them to create a stunning background with Dinkle powders. These brushes are fabulous and come in 3 sizes. I will be using them on […]

Fairy Lantern in June by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here from the Design Team. Thanks so much for popping in for another Mindful Monday. I hope you enjoyed our Fairy Craft Festival as much as we did. Today I am going to share a lovely design with you, perfect for the June page in our 2024 Calendar, or for a journal […]

Patience by Lisa Taggart

For this tutorial, Lisa features a selection of the new release stamps, and demonstrates a number of mixed media layering techniques using Dinkles, PanPastels and Pens. We learn how to create the bokeh blurred vision effect, the importance of masking, and how to create colour harmony. She used the following stamps: Erwin, Vine Branch, Forest […]

Owl in Full Flight. A Brooch by Emma-Jo.

In this tutorial we create an owl flying in front of the Sun. Then we magically shrink it and gild it with wonderful metallic flakes and foils to create a rather expensive looking brooch. There’s stamping, a little posca painting, cutting, shrinking and foiling in this video, which of course equals = great fun! Hope […]

Fairy Foragers and the Forest Flowers by Rosemary Rogers

Design team member Rosemary has created this lovely colourful card featuring our old favourites, the Fairy Foragers, admiring the glittering seeds of the brand-new Forest Flowers. For the stamped images she used Versafine Clair in Nocturn, Morning Mist and Medieval Blue; and for the background, it was the Dinkles Powdered inks in Pink, Amethyst, Sea […]