Hello everyone! I hope you are well!

As some of you may know I decided to take most of August off to recharge my batteries and survive the extreme heat. I certainly enjoyed the break. Still no sign of the cooler weather. I think September will be hotter than average here in Southern Spain.

This week’s video used some of the Halloween new release stamps from Lavinia stamps.

Halloween is definitely my favourite time to create atmospheric scenes. I did alter the playful pumpkin’s face in this piece so please note that it is not a new stamp!

You may find the video tutorial Here

I hope you find the techniques useful even if you don’t wish to create the whole scene.

In other news, although my public YouTube site will continue, I have decided to discontinue my YouTube memberships. This was a difficult decision particularly because it was very successful in terms of numbers of members and support. However, due to family commitments I felt that I couldn’t continue to dedicate the time necessary to do the incredible support justice. I will miss my members very much but I have decided to retain our dedicated Facebook group so we all can continue to share our creative adventures and I continue to see a fabulous group of blossoming artists!

The good news is that due to the many messages that I received concerning access to membership content I have decided to gradually release some member videos to my public YouTube channel. So watch out for those.

I also have decided to create more soft pastel paintings for my channel (without stamps) As this is where my current passion lies. I will do new Lavinia stamps tutorials from time to time but not every week as before.

I hope that you will continue to support me through these changes and keep watching. Thank you so much for your patience during August.

Much love, Lisa xx