Layla’s Magic Surrounds Us by Tom McCormack
Design Team member Tom McCormack has conjured up this magical card using Layla, one of our three lovely fairies launched this week as part of our Spring Extravaganza.
Follow along with his step-by-step instructions below.
And you can follow Tom’s crafting adventures on his Facebook Page
The Products I used…
Speckled Egg, Crackling Campfire, Kitsch Flamingo, Rustic Wilderness
Versafine Clair
Multifarious White Card cut to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾”
5” x 7” card blank
Piece of black card cut to 4 7/8” x 6 7/8”
Eco Glitters, Christmas Tinsel
The Lavinia Spring Collection of new stamps
(Layla, Magic Surrounds Us, Small Trees, Bramble, and Thistle)
Lavinia Stamps Stencil
The Steps in creating Layla’s Magic
(click on the first image to view as a slideshow)
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- Create a border with low tack stencil tape along the edges of the card.
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- Using circular movements with a blender, apply each distress ink colour to the multifarious card, as seen in the card. I used a piece of scrap paper to make sure not to get fingerprints on the card while blending.
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- Place a small acetate circle mask on the card where you want a moon, secure the elegance stencil over the card, and apply crackling campfire through the stencil using the blender of your choice.
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- Remove the elegance stencil, leaving the acetate circle mask in place.
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- Using a blender smoothie, apply warm breeze in outward strokes from the centre of the mask.
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- Using Nocturne, ink up Layla, and the small trees in turn, and stamp.
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- Using Warm Breeze ink up Magic Surrounds Us, stamp off on scrap paper, then stamp across the moon area, creating a second generation stamp impression.
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- Remove the low tack stencil tape.
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- Ink up the bramble stamp in warm breeze and stamp once on the right side of the card, and once coming downward on the left. Ink up the thistle stamp with Nocturne, and stamp going up on the left side, and downward on the right side of the card.
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- Using some tape mask off the bottom half of the verse, while inking up in warm breeze, stamping on the top centre section of the card, clean the stamp, then mask off the top section, and again ink up with warm breeze and stamp the lower half on the bottom centre section of the card.
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- Add highlights through the hair and winge with the copper sparkle pen, when adding along the edges of Layla, apply in small lines and then smudge into the stamp, to add a magical feel of the glow from the moon.
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- Using a fine liner (0.05) with a ruler, add a border around the scene, stopping and starting the lines, where the bramble and thistle stamps come onto the scene area.
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- Using warm breeze on a smoothie blender, apply in circular motions around the edges of the card, upto the scene area, leaving a little halo of white around the scene to help it pop.
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- Using a glue pen, add some areas for fairy dust around Layla, coming down towards the trees, then cover with the Eco Glitter, Christmas Tinsel, be aware that some of the glitter may stick to the versafine clair.
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- To finish the card, attach to the black card, and then to the card base
I hope you enjoy this step by step tutorial and would love to see your take on it.
Tom x