Fairy Motherhood Card with Lavinia Stamps – Ink Blending & Scene Building Tutorial

The Quiet Magic of Motherhood – A Fairy Card to Celebrate Her Glow | Featuring Lavinia Stamps

Motherhood is a dance between strength and softness, light and shadow. It’s the gentle whisper of wings in the dark and the steadfast glow that guides us home. Today’s card is a visual poem—an ode to the magic, mystery, and quiet power of mothers everywhere.

This card was born from the idea that mothers are like fairies—often unseen in their full brilliance, but always working their quiet magic in the background. The glowing center represents a mother’s heart: bright, warm, and ever-giving. The layered greens are the forest of her responsibilities, the vines her unwavering care that reaches into every corner of life.

Supplies Used

• Multifarious cardstock (cut to 5.25" x 4") by Lavinia Stamps

• Stamps by Lavinia Stamps:

  • Bron

  • Vine

  • Mini Maple

•  Journaling Stickers, Sentiments 6 by Lavinia Stamps (gentle, beautiful, loved, courage, kind, blessed)

• StarBrights Eco Glitter, Mermaid Blue by Lavinia Stamps

• VersaFine Clair Ink Pads by Tsukineko:

  • Nocturne

  • Warm Breeze

  • Medieval Blue

• Distress Oxide Ink Pads:

  • Twisted Citron

  • Mowed Lawn

    
    

Other Supplies:

• White A2 Top-Folding Card Base (8.5" x 5.5", scored at 4.25" on the 8.5" side)

• Dark Teal Cardstock (cut to 5.5" x 4.25")

• White Cardstock (cut to 5 1/8" x 3 7/8")

• Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleed Proof White Acrylic Paint

  • (Alternative) Acrylic Chalk Paint, Snow White by Lavinia Stamps

• Ranger Ink Blending Tools

  • (Alternative) Stencil brushes by Lavinia Stamps

• Fan paint brush

  • (Alternative): Synthetic Fan Brush by Lavinia Stamps

• Sakura Quickie Glue Pen

• Pan Pastel in Titanium White

• Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencil - Black

• Ranger Distress Spray Bottle filled with water

• Black Foam Tape Strips

• Powder Tool

• Makeup/Glitter Brush (for glitter cleanup)

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Creating the Glow

   I began by cutting a piece of multifarious cardstock down to A2 size. Starting in the center, I blended Twisted Citron outward toward the bottom right. This glow is the heart of the card—symbolizing the warmth and love that radiates from a mother’s spirit.

   
   

2. Building the Canopy

   Next, I added Mowed Lawn from the edges toward the center, like the forest of motherhood closing in protectively around the child. I kept the lightest spot reserved for the fairy—like a child held close in a mother’s embrace.

   
   

3. Stamping the Heart of the Scene

   I placed Bron in the bottom right corner, seated in quiet strength. She represents the mother figure—watching, resting, yet ever-present. Around her, I stamped Vines and Mini Maple leaves with Warm Breeze Versafine Clair ink. The Vines are metaphors for nurturing—delicate tendrils of love and care that stretch far and wide.

   
   

   

   
   

4. Adding Dreamy Details

   With the fairy masked, I added water splatters to lift the ink like fleeting memories. I followed with white splatters using Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleed Proof White—symbolic of stardust or moments of clarity in the chaos.

   
   

5. Wings of Magic

   I traced the fairy wings with a Quickie Glue Pen and sprinkled on Mermaid Blue glitter. Like a mother’s strength, the sparkle is subtle yet unforgettable. I echoed this shimmer through the dots in the vines and leaves—reminders that love is in the smallest details.

   
   

6. Highlighting Words of Power

   Using Titanium White Pan Pastel, I added soft glows behind the words that would later be adhered to the card—like fireflies of affirmation lighting the path. These words—beautiful, blessed, gentle, loved, courage, kind—are the spellwork of motherhood. Quietly spoken, eternally true.

   
   

7. Framing the Light

   I deepened the edges with Warm Breeze and then with a touch of Medieval Blue, like twilight creeping in to frame the story. I shaded beneath the fairy with a Prismacolor black pencil to ground her—to show that even magical beings need solid ground to rest upon.

   
   

8. Words That Uplift

   I chose my sentiment stickers with care, removed their stickiness with a powder tool, and popped them up with black foam tape. These floating affirmations are like whispered mantras every mother needs to hear.

   
   

   

   
   

9. Final Touch

   The finished panel was mounted onto a white A2 top-folding card base, representing the fresh start each day brings in the journey of motherhood.

   
   

   

   
   

This card is more than paper and ink—it’s a love letter to the women who carry the world in their arms and still manage to sprinkle joy like fairy dust. They are the unseen architects of childhood, the quiet heroes of everyday magic.

🎥 Watch the Full Tutorial:

Catch the entire process over on the Del Bello’s Designs YouTube Channel and craft along with me!

Whether you gift this card to your own mother, a friend, or yourself, I hope it reminds you of the beauty in nurturing and the magic in simply being there.

Honoring the magic of moms, one card at a time.

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