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Happiness is a Poppy by Jo Rice

Today Design Team member Jo is going to show us how to create a card design using a floral topper and then extending the landscape to create an exquisite multi-layered design. This is such a lovely technique, and we hope you will have a go and craft along with Jo.  Have fun. You can catch […]

A Woodland Wreath card design by Jo Rice

 Hi everyone, Jo here again, thanks so much for joining me. Today we are going to create a simple wreath design using some ink and the Woodland Fern stamps. We will use the fabulous new Small Pixie Houses to add some detail and create a scene around them. Liquid pearls and chalk Pastel pencils will […]

Quinn Shares Some Love by Karen Telfer

Hi everyone, it’s Karen Telfer from the design team here and today I am going to share a simple card with Love. I don’t know about you, but life seems a bit of a whirlwind at the moment, so I decided to create something calming and relaxing.  The lovely Quinn fairy offers her hand to […]

Cahoots by Eleana Evans

Ash is sitting in the moonlit bluebell woods waiting for his friend Brodwin the owl. What have they have been up to, I wonder? Design team member Eleana Evans used Elements on a Gel Press to create a background for the trees.  Bruynzeel watercolour pencils were the perfect choice to colour some of the trees […]

Nicola Simpson is This Month’s Guest Member of the Design Team

  Hello, I’m Nicola, farmers wife, mum of two adult boys and former primary school worker.  I’ve been into arts & crafts for as long as I can remember an interest I inherited from my mum. I originally began card making over 20 years ago but as family life and work began to take over […]

Basil And The Forest Inn by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here from the Design Team. Today we are going to be creating a magical design using our New Forest Inn stamp. We will be using some Elements ink pads and a white Pearl Pan Pastel to create some atmosphere. This is a great project broken down into simple steps so that it […]

Stag in the Morning Mist by Leanne Harris

Hello, I’m Leanne Harris, and as this month’s guest designer I’d like to share with you this step by step tutorial. Creating a misty scene is actually quite a simple process and any stamping errors can easily be disguised with your mist. So, here we go… Step by Step I hope that you enjoyed this […]

The Dancing Mice and a Block of Cheese by Karen Telfer

Today, Karen, from our design team has taken our new musical mice and given them a block of cheese upon which to dance and play. More of Karen’s crafty projects can be found on her Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube pages. The Products Used Musical Notes Small Musical Notes Large Tilly and Tango Minny and Moo Word Stamp Creativity […]

Website outage, Saturday 26/03/2022

Website outage, Saturday afternoon. The Lavinia Stamps website was unavailable for some 40 minutes on Saturday due to a misconfiguration of our web hosting company’s SSL status. We were not hacked and at no time was any data compromised. The issue was resolved within 20 minutes of us contacting the web host. We were not […]