Believe in Magic {Scrapy Land #117}

Happy Wednesday and Happy July!  It's time for a brand new Scrapy Land Challenge.  Did you know that not only does Scrapy Land sell dies, they also sell Lavinia stamps and pattern papers? I'm loving these new stamps and today I created a three dimensional framed piece using dies and stamps.

The following products were used:

Lavinia stamps: Stars Miniature, Quirky Mushrooms, Believe In Magic, Eden
Dee's Distinctively: Mini Cardinals 1 (this, this, and this would also work)
Spellbinders: Deckled Mega Rectangles Small (any type of rectangle would work, or you could also create your own deckled frame using this Frantic Stamper die set.
Elizabeth Craft Designs: Happy Frame

I started out by stamping Eden into dark blue cardstock with VersaMark and then heat setting her with white embossing powder that has sparkly glitter added to it.  Next I masked the Quirky Mushroom stamps so that only one would stamp.  I stamped with VersaMark again and heat embossed with a bright green yellow embossing powder that also had glitter in it.  (The photo looks like it has tiny holes, but that's the way the glitter reflected off my camera lens).


I wanted my sentiment to be arranged differently than the stamp....so I cut it apart.  Normally I would try to mask it, but the way this stamp was designed and what I had in my head wouldn't let me do that 😲.  I heat embossed my newly created design with the same sparkly yellow green embossing powder.

I also stamped the (now) single word "Believe" in VersaMark randomly in the background to create a type of watermark.  When you let it dry naturally, it automatically drys darker that cardstock (love that!).

Next up, I die cut the bird and colored it with Copics. (Yes, I know that's not exactly what a cardinal looks like, but we are in a fairy world with this project 😁.)  After it was colored, I added a small pop dot to the back, so it would appear that he is perched on the mushroom and she is reaching out to pet him.

For the frame around the image, I used Spellbinders die and die cut the middle out (and saved for a later project).  Next I randomly stamped my stars around the frame and embossed them with a sparkly yellow embossing powder.

Then I began to make my 3D frame.  I played around with the die until I had it the size I wanted and then put it together.  I didn't want the top edges to be plain cardstock, so I took a border die and die cut a "stencil".  I added Distress Oxides through my newly created stencil to finish up the frame.  Finally, I adhered the focal image to a piece of patterned cardstock and then adhered this to the back of the 3D frame.  Now it's ready to be displayed - or given as a gift.  I haven't decided yet.😀

Now it's your turn to play along with us for the Scrapy Land Challenge #117.  The theme is always Anything Goes using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells.  You can find the list of all the products here.  You have until July 14 to play along and have a chance to win one of two $10 gift certificates to do some shopping at Scrapy Land!

If you are loving the Lavinia stamps as much as I am, come back tomorrow for another project I created using different Lavinia stamps 😊.

Until next time.....