Sniffles on a Tuesday

Morning everyone, 

I hope today finds you well. 

I seem to be full of a head cold, with a thumping headache, so it will be 

a slow day in my craft room. 

Karl has promised to make me a coffee though , so it’s not all bad. 

I hope you had a lovely weekend. 

We had a fabulous workshop on Saturday. 

We created 4 Christmas cards, one of which is a pop up type perfect for a gift voucher.

It was such a lovely, creative morning with friends. 

The beauty of these online classes is that they can be viewed as catch up videos. 

A couple of our crafty friends joined in during the afternoon and one lady on Sunday. 

Speaking off Sunday, We took the boys out for the morning as Adam was working 

It was a wet start to the day but the sun soon appeared.

We even found some deer. (No dinosaurs thought ! ) 

Today I have a new YouTube video to share with you 

It will be on the Lavinia YouTube channel plus my own at 5pm. 

Here is the link 

https://youtu.be/akKGgMEAhPY

I hope you enjoy it. 

Have a lovely day, whatever you are doing. 

Take care all. 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx

Bay leaf Cottage

Good morning everyone, 

I do hope your Thursday has started well. 

I have already been on grandma duties, boys up dressed and safely delivered to nursery. 

Although Jenson did say

‘No nursery, grandmas house today ‘

So I may just get a phone call later…

Today is the day that the new Lavinia stamps are available on the website. 

So I have another sample to share with you. 

This one uses the largest of the new lodge stamps.

Bay leaf  Cottage. 

I started by stamping the cottage in black Versafine Clair ink and on water colour card. 

Next I used my Elements ink pads to create the sky 

Followed by some land. 

I then used my watercolour paints to add more detail. 

I do love the rich colours. 

I adore the new silhouette foliage stamps, so I added these. 

Next some highlights and shadows. 

Plus the little charms .

These little Fairy charms are such a great addition to our collection .

Here is a closer look at the cottage.

So many possibilities with these new stamps. 

Thanks for joining me, and I hope you have a lovely day. 

I must get on as I have a long list of jobs to do before 

picking the boys up at 5pm. 

Take care all 

Love and hugs 

Jo xxxx

Garden Poppy

Good morning all, 

Another wet dog walk here, 

how is the weather for you today ? 

I can’t believe it is Wednesday already, this week really seems to be flying.

Today I have another little catch up video to share with you. 

I have used blended inks as my background and then a few of the new Lavinia stamps. 

You can find the video here 

https://youtu.be/WzGq6vXjqIw

I do hope you enjoy it. 

Here is another design using this beautiful garden Poppy stamp 

Simple stamping and some brusho powders 

Finished off with that beautiful Lavinia sentiment .

Have a lovely day, 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx

Pipin and the Mistletoe

Good afternoon everyone, 

I hope your day is going well. 

It has been raining here in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire all day. 

Eric has had 2 wet dog walks so far. 

Today I have a video on the Lavinia YouTube channel. 

I have been asked for some Festive cards that aren’t the usual Christmas designs and that don’t have snow on them. 

So this is one of my designs. 

I hope you like it. 

Obviously it could be altered and used for any time of the year. 

You can find the link here 

https://youtu.be/OpHOkZl3zvU

Thanks for popping in 

Love and hugs 

Jo xxx

New release stamps

Good afternoon everyone 

I hope your day is going well. 

Firstly can we welcome a new follower and friend. 

It is so lovely to have you join us on here,,

Pull up a chair and grab a brew. 

I am just popping in to share a double spread journal page with you. 

I have used some of the new Lavinia stamps..

Soon to be released 

I had such a wonderful time creating this 

I started with some stamping 

Followed by some water colour painting 

Plus some more detailed painting 

Then more fabulous new stamps 

A stencil 

And some finishing touches 

I really enjoyed creating this. 

I do hope you like it too. 

Thanks so much for popping in 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx

Live a sweet life

Good afternoon everyone, 

I hope Monday finds you well and that you had a lovely weekend. 

Our family wedding was such a wonderful occasion and Harriet looked really beautiful. 

The rain managed to stay away and it was lovely to see so many people again. 

It was vary hard though as Mikey and Fran couldn’t join us as they had tested positive for Covid. 

I am just so glad that they have both had their jabs so at least they only had mild symptoms…

Today I have another recent Aall & Create sample to share with you. 

As you know I just love creating Clean and Simple card designs. 

These fabulous Janet Klein frogs really make me smile. 

I started with a stencil background…and I used a couple of shades of green. 

Next came that sharpie edge. 

Followed by some washi tape. 

I stamped my images, added some colour and then cut them out. 

I used watercolour paints as I wanted quite a bright look to this design. 

When I had assembled the design, I couldn’t resist adding a crown. 

Janet is so good and many of the stamp sets have little accessories on them, and yes, 

Hey presto , I found a crown.

Here is a closer look 

Another fun design. 

I must say he actually reminds me of the way of couple of guests looked at breakfast yesterday, 

Not me, I must add.

Thanks so much for joining me 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx

Be Brave

Good morning everyone. 

Well we made it to Friday 

Although it is Friday the 13th. !!!!

I hope you day has started well and that you have a lovely weekend planned. 

We have a family wedding tomorrow. 

It will be so lovely to see everyone, except, I haven’t got a thing to wear…

Nothing fits me anymore (except elasticated waist trousers ) 

And there isn’t anything suitable around, grrr

So I have an emergency bin bag at the ready. 

The weather forecast for the Peak District is rain…

Deep joy

It just gets better 

Hey hoo…

But I am so pleased that wedding can go ahead…and the main thing is that 

Harriet and Rob have an amazing day 

They are such a wonderful couple.

Today I have another All and Create sample to share with you. 

Again using some fabulous Janet Klein stamps, 

You know how I love looking for different ways to use the stamps. 

I just couldn’t resist some tightrope walking .

I started off by creating the sky using one of Janet’s stencils. 

Next I added some flowers. 

Followed by some washi tape to add grounding. 

I stamped my images, added some colour and cut them out. 

I added some black elastic and wound it around the trees, before sticking everything down. 

Some shadows and highlights just add the finishing details 

I thought the Be Brave sentiment complemented the whole design. 

Another fun, happy card. 

Thanks for joining me,

As always take care. 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx