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Creating a beautiful card using alcohol inks by Tracey

Today in quick crafts we use a crafters favourite… Alcohol inks!! Watch as Tracey takes you through a wonderful technique on creating a stunning background using alcohol inks. She also demonstrates how you can get the most use out of your Yupo card 😯 We hope this helped

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Ariel Casts a Spell on October by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here again from the Design Team. Thanks so much for popping in and joining me today, where we are going to create a magical piece of art. I am going to use our beautiful fairy, Ariel, and let her cast her spell to transform a pumpkin (the mini urchin stamp) into the magnificent Pumpkin Carriage. I will add

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Meadow wishes by Lisa Taggart

In this tutorial, Lisa explores the versatility of the Elements ink pads and demonstrates how to create a watercolour effect. She also shows how a landscape can be built up by selecting part of the stamp. Click here to follow Lisa’s papercraft adventures.

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Thistles at Sunset by Emma-Jo

This week it’s time to Have A Go at making this truly vibrant card using the Spellbound Fairy Stamp. 🧚‍♀️ There’s a flame coloured Dinkles background with a touch of Mica Minerals. Some stamping fun with Fairy Pods, Glow Flowers, Thistle and Vine Branch…ooh and some Posca Pen accents too. I hope you like it and that you can join

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Through the Trees of Hope and Courage by Jo Rice

Hi everyone Jo here, thanks for popping in today. I do hope you are keeping well. Today I thought we could have a play at creating a design suitable for this month’s Challenge. Through The Trees. I am going to use the Acetate circle mask with some Elements inks to create my backdrop, then stamp the Trees of Hope and Courage.

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Create a stunning winter scene in minutes

Create a stunning winter scene in minutes By Amanda

Amanda shows us a few different techniques using the NEW Kuretake pens to create a magical winter scene… It’s getting to that time of the year when us crafters like to start preparing our winter cards, so here’s how you can create one in minutes with these simple yet stunning techniques.

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Cheryl Tomline is our Guest Design Member for August

Hello everyone, I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have asked to be your guest DT this month. I started my Lavinia addiction, did I say addiction 😂, journey a little over 18 months ago after needing a change of direction in the world of art. For the past 10 years I was mainly a resin and a

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Star Gazing in September by Jo Rice

Hi everyone, Jo here from the design team. Thanks so much for popping in and joining me again. Today I have a lovely design for the September page in our Lavinia Calendar using the beautiful Star Gazing fairies along with some autumnal foliage. This is a very versatile design and we have so many different stamps and colour pallets that

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