Autumn Birthday

Good Morning

Here is another card I made using this new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Fall Foliage

So, here's what I did to create me card.

• I began with a piece of grid paper and placed the Fall Foliage stencil over that.  I inked it up with Distress Oxide inks in these colours; Ripe Persimmon, Vintage Photo, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Fossilized Amber.
• While that dried, I die cut the Grid overlay with some black cardstock then glued that over the leaves.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it with a circle die.  I glued it onto a larger black circle die cut.
• I glued my card front onto a white A2 card base and then used some foam tape to pop the birthday sentiment near the top corner.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish off my card. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters- FRAME IT

Paper Craft Crew- HELLO FALL

Crafty Gals Corner- ANYTHING GOES/OPTION FALL

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Circle tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Grid die (Amazon); foam tape; Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

Webby Leaf

Hello and Welcome

Meet another one of the newest releases for September from A Colorful Life Designs called

Webby Leaf

This unique looking leaf also has a bit of a Halloween/spider web kind of look to it.

Here is what I did to create a simple card.

• I placed the Webby Leaf stencil over a piece of white cardstock and using my ink dabbers, I simply pounced the brushes over the stencil with these Distress Oxide ink colours...Ripe Persimmon; Lumberjack Plaid; Rustic Wilderness; Cracked Pistachio; Fossilized Amber.
• While the ink dried, I took another piece of cardstock and scored it (it doesn't show up in the photo) to use as my card front front.
• Next, I fussy cut out the leaf and glued that over the scored card front.  I then glued that onto a piece of green cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I wanted a simple sentiment for the front, so I cut out one of the pre-printed sentiments and added it with some foam tape to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Webby Leaf

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Sponge ink dabbers (Amazon);

pre-printed sentiment (TE); Scoring Tool; foam tape

Beautiful Day

Welcome 

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

Meet one of the new for September stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Simple Leaves

A great stencil with a good collection of simple leaves to have in your stash.  

I paired it up with a fun stencil from last month called

Mid Century Half Circle Mask 

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and started by creating the overall background first. I placed the Mid Century Half Circle mask (August release) over my paper and inked it up with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  
• I lifted the stencil, shifted it sideways and inked again with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• Next, one by one, I used the Simple Leaves stencil to add the leaves by inking them up with some more of the Rustic Wilderness DOX ink until my card front was covered.
• Using my white Posca pen, I splattered over the whole panel then set aside to dry.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then dark green and then onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I cut out the pre-printed sentiment and glued that onto a piece of white and green cardstock.  I added it with some foam tape across the middle of my card front.

Here are the stencils I used:

SIMPLE LEAVES

MID CENTURY HALF CIRCLE MASK

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for your visit today.

Supplies

Stamps- none 

Inks- DOX

Paper- solar white; green

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes; 

Pre-Printed sentiment strips (TE); foam tape; white Posca pen

Fall Foliage

 

Welcome

It's been awhile since I have posted.  

The summer has been very busy but is going by way too fast.

Meet one of the perfect for Fall, new for September stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

FALL FOLIAGE

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock to use as my card front and stamped a script just along the side with some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the Fall Foliage stencil over my cardstock and using a mask to go around each leaf, I inked them with these different colours of Distress Oxide inks:  Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness and Rusty Hinge.
• I placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment along the side.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of red cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To add a bit of interest to the leaves, I used my black Posca pen and added some dots to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fall Foliage

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Time Out- THE MOVIES (sentiment- Robin Williams)

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Script (Penny Black); Words and Ideas (IO...Out of business)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes; 

low tack tape for masking; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Christmas Peace

Hello and Welcome

This month it is my turn to host the TLC (Technique Lovers Challenge) at Splitcoast Stampers.

The technique we will be doing this week is called:

RUBBER BAND STAMPING

It's a fun and easy technique to play around with and I have been wanting to start making some cards for the holidays.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by getting out my long acrylic stamping block and I wrapped some different width elastic bands around it in a grid pattern.
• I pressed the bands wrapped around the block onto my Speckled Eggs Distress Oxide ink pad and stamped over my white cardstock in a few different areas.
• I wiped off the elastics and repeated that process using some Salty Ocean and some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink until I was happy with the pattern covering my cardstock.
• I diluted some of the ink mentioned above with water and splattered my whole card front using a paint brush, then set aside to dry.
• Next, I created my snowflake.  I took a piece of acetate and pressed the DOX inks onto it, sprayed with water and dragged another piece of white cardstock through the wet ink and set that aside to dry.  
• I splattered the inky cardstock with my white Posca pen and then used that to die cut the snowflakes.  I also used a piece of silver shimmer paper to cut the stars for the centers of the snowflakes.
• I glued my elastic stamped card front onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto an A2 white card base.
• I glued one snowflake at the top and one along the bottom and then I used some foam tape to pop up the stars in the center of the snowflakes.
• I die cut the sentiment and added it to the center of my card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Mon.- LOTS OF LAYERS

Girlz Creative- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Papers- Solar white; scrap of silver shimmer

Accessories and Tools- rubber bands; long acrylic block; Funky Snowflake die (SSS);

foam tape; Peace die (Amazon)

Cat Sympathy

Welcome

Losing a beloved pet can really be a tough thing to deal with, so I've been creating some 'pet' sympathy cards this month using the new for July stencils from A Colorful Life Designs. 

This one is called:

PAW HEART

I paired it up with an older release called FUR

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Paw Heart stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink.
• Leaving the stencil in place, I put the Fur stencil over it and inked with some Black Soot DOX ink.  
• Next, I fussy cut out around the heart and added some dots using a black Posca pen.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it on black cardstock.
• I glued a piece of grid paper onto black cardstock, then white, then another piece of black and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I glued the paw over the grid paper and then I used some foam tape to add the sentiment into the corner to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Paw Heart

Fur

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- ONE THING

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- PATTERNS

Supplies

Stamp- Sympathy Sentiments(Penny Black)

Inks- Versamark; DOX

Paper- Solar white; grid patterned; black

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

white EB powder; white Posca pen; foam tape

So Many Happy Wishes

Welcome

Here is another card featuring our Mid Month release from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Mid Century Minimalist

I paired it up with a stencil from last month's release called 

PATTERNED NOISE

Here is what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Mid Century Minimalist stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted that stencil off, placed down the Patterned Noise stencil and inked that up with some Cracked Pistachio DOX ink.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment words from some dark blue cardstock 5 times and glued those together creating a stacked sentiment. I used the word outline to die cut right from the middle of the stenciled panel.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of dark blue cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment into the space I cut away with the word outline and added some silver gems around it.
• I used a scrap piece of the blue cardstock to die cut the string detail and glued that under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here are the stencils I used:

Mid Century Minimalist

Patterned Noise

My Discount Code for Your Entire Order from A Colorful Life Designs:

KarenFan10

Much thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Simon Says Monday- ADD TEXT

Just Add Ink- STENCILS AND DIES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES STENCIL WEEK

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White/blue 

Accessories and Tools- Stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Happy Wishes die (SSS); Twine die (Spellbinders)