Hi everyone, today I would like to share another page for my 2025 Lavinia calendar. Having started last week with the Witching Hour for October, I decided to go back to the beginning and start with January. My scene is based on the concept of the dawn of the New Year - the fairies are having their New Year party in the wintry fairy glen, dancing ‘til dawn while music plays and fireworks erupt in the night sky!
I cut a piece of stamping card 19.5cm x 14.5cm and first created my landscape hills and sky by blending Distress Oxide inks whilst using a circle mask and various hill masks. I then stamped the fairies in the centre using Nocturne Versafine Clair, and built up the scene with the small dwellings and various fir trees stamped using Medieval Blue VFC, masking the hills where necessary. I added Basil & Bibi and Tilly & Tango dancing and playing the flute, then used various dandelion heads and teeny snowflake stamps to make some fireworks in the sky, stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with various WOW embossing glitters. I coloured the fairy wings and house windows with Sakura Stardust pens, added clear Stardust pen highlights to replicate the moon’s reflection, and added white Posca highlights to the fairies, houses and trees. I then added a few more finishing touches, shading my silhouette figures with a Stabilo white pencil, adding Spectrum Noir sparkle pen highlights to the snow, and grey grounding to the figures. Finally I blended graphite Elements ink around the edges to frame the scene, ready for attaching to my calendar page.
Typically for me I messed this up near the end as my Zig pen grounding didn’t blend out well for some reason, and the Elements I applied round the edges smudged at the bottom so I had to cut a few mm off the bottom edge and the blending still isn’t great …. but having spent over 3 hours on this project it’s going in the calendar now!!
This scene is exceptionally sparkly, not least due to the glitter embossed fireworks - here’s an angled picture.
Stamps: Lavinia Dancing Till Dawn, Fairy Fir Tree, Fairy Fir Tree 2, Red Pine Small, Christmas Tree Group, Small Pine Trees, Small Dwellings, Basil & Bibi, Tilly & Tango, Fairy Dandelions, Dandelions, Snowflakes;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Della Blue, Dark Denim, Graphite); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Medieval Blue); Versamark; WOW embossing glitters (Petalicious, Fruit Tingle, Midnight Dream, Metallic Silver Sparkle, White Twinkle); Sakura Stardust pens (yellow, pink, purple, turquoise, clear); Posca pen (white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Stabilo pencil (white);
Tools: Lavinia acetate Hill Masks, Mini Hill Masks, Circle Masks.
Challenges I would like to enter:
Allsorts #805 - Magic of the Season (2nd entry)
(Magical New Year party during the 12 days of Christmas)
Alphabet challenge - P is for Party
Classic Design Challenge #10 2024 - Anything Goes with option Anything but a Card
Crafter’s Cafe #313 - Anything Goes with option Fantasy
Crafty Catz #681 - Anything Goes
Country View Challenges (November) - Winging It
Daisy Chain #91 - Christmas and/or Winter
Dream Valley #324 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)
Heart’s Quest Fantasy Challenge #11 - Anything Goes Fantasy
KraftyChicks #741 - Stamps
Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Time to Sparkle
Moving Along With the Times #172 - Sparkle
Stamping Sensations (November) - Make It Magical
Try It On Tuesday - Make It Magical (2nd entry)
Unicorn #104 - Christmas and/or Winter
Word Art Wednesday #673/674 - Anything Goes
That’s all from me for today, take care and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
20 comments:
They are certainly having fun celebrating the turn of the year Pauline, very magical, thanks for sharing at Allsorts and Stamping Sensations challenges.
B x
The mice and fairies are having a wonderful time dancing and partying until dawn! Fabulous background scene and spectacular fireworks, a wonderful page to start your Calendar.
xx
Thanks for joining in at Stamping Sensations and Crafty Catz Challenges.
Fabulous Magical scene and love all the beautiful stamps.
Carol x
Thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
Carol DT x
A beautiful and magical scene for the start of the year on your calendar - so much of interest to see
oh wow think I would love to9 keep January all year , thanks for sharing at Crafty Catz
What a perfect page for January, the firework theme is a fabulous idea and it's so beautifully done!
Thanks so much for sharing at Allsorts challenge!
Awesome calendar idea and the fairies having a New Year celebration sounds magically delightful! You've created a masterpiece of layered details throughout the scene! Thanks for sharing your great January calendar page with Heart's Quest Fantasy!!! --Becca
Hi Pauline,
what an amazing page to your calendar.
Love that wonderful scene you have created and of course lots of sparkle too.
Thank you for joining the MAWTT Challenge.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L DT
Hi Pauline
What a fabulous project to be working on. I love the scene you have created very, very much. Definitely full of sparkle and fun, as all new year parties should be.
I can't wait to see what you create for the rest of the calendar.
I hope all is well with you.
You have been posting some fantastic creations during my absence.
Love and hugs
Jules xx
Simply spectacular! A wonderful start to your year. Xxx
A wonderful magical scene for your calendar.
Wow! I gotta say that your project is gorgeous! I love your coloring and the idea of having it on a calendar. Thank you for playing with us at the Alphabet Challenge. I hope you can join us again soon.
Debbie, DT
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A fantastic magical scene, your calendar will be a fantastic project for the whole of the year. Thank you for sharing with us at Try it on Tuesdays.
Yvonne
A fabulous calendar page Pauline, it's such a happy scene with the dancing fairies .
Thanks for sharing with us at Try it on Tuesday, Avril xx
What a wonderful Calendar page. I love the scene and what a nice every day scene to look at. So glad you shared over at Alphabet challenge
What a fun calendar Pauline. I like the celebration and the fireworks. This is perfect for our TIOT challenge. Thank for joining us. hugs-Erika
Wow, what an awsome calendar page. Lavinia stamps are just divine. Thank you for sharing and joining in this month at The Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge.
Karen DT
Beautiful scene. Beautiful stamping. Thank you for joining at Stamping Sensations.
What a lovely calendar. Thank you for joining in at MAWTT.
Best wishes
Ang
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