Merry FaLaLaLa

Welcome

Here's another fun card for Christmas featuring this great stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called;

Cozy Knit

Here's what I did to create my simple CAS card.

• I placed the Cozy Knit stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil and placed the piece into my Misti to stamp the Christmas Words stamp using some black Versafine Clair ink.
• I die cut the sentiment with some blue and glued that onto the white word shadows.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of blue and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment over the background.

Here is the stencil I used:

Cozy Knit

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

KarenFan10

Hope you are ready for the big day and thanks so much for taking the time to visit!!

Supplies

Stamps- Christmas Words (IO...out of business)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia);

TE Blending Brushes; Bold Christmas Words dies (Amazon)

Stenciled Paper Weaving

Good Morning

Today's card features some paper weaving using this fun stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Tribal Fabric

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

• I placed the Tribal Fabric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and using the same stencil, I inked again but this time with some Picked Raspberry DOX ink.
• Next, I took both stenciled pieces and cut them into strips. Using the strips, I simply wove them together to create the background. 
• I die cut the sentiment with some orange cardstock and then again with white cardstock.  I glued those together offsetting them a bit to help make the sentiment more visible.
• I glued the woven panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of orange then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added the sentiment across the front and some orange gems around it.

Here is the stencil I used:

Tribal Fabric

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking the time to visit.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

die (TE); orange gems

Merry Little Christmas

Welcome

This month at A Colorful Life Designs, instead of new releases we are revisiting some of our favourite stencils.

I chose to combine 2 for my card called:

Stitched Harlequin and Diagonal Stars

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

• I decided to make a modified MINI SLIMLINE card so here are the measurements that I cut my white card base.  Cut at 7" x 6" and score at 3 1/2".
• I placed the Stitched Harlequin stencil over another piece of white cardstock and inked that up with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.  I lifted that stencil off before doing the next steps.
• I took the Diagonal Stars stencil and masked around one of the stars and placed that into the middle of my stenciled panel.  I inked that up with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I repeated the star on the other 2 sides until I had 3 across the front.
• Used the eraser on the end of a pencil, I added some dots and then added more dots with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and then die cut it out.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of blue before adding it to the white card base.
• To finish my card off, I added the sentiment with some foam dots and then 3 navy gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Stitched Harlequin

Diagonal Stars

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- WINTER RELATED

TIC TAC TOE- BLUE/ FREE/ STENCIL

Crafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

CRAFT- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Sentiments (Photoplay)

Inks- DOX 

Paper- Solar White

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

pencil eraser; white Posca pen

'Orange' You Glad It's Christmas

Good Morning

No new releases from A Colorful Life Designs this month but so fun to revisit the 'Oldies but Goodies'.

Today I'm using these stencils:  

Triangle Fade and the Stitched Harlequin 

I decided to go totally non-traditional for this one. 

I found this roll off sheet that I had done while Gel Plate printing so that was my starting point. 

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

• I began by placing the Triangle Fade stencil over the roll off print and inked it up with some Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted that stencil off and laid the Stitched Harlequin stencil over the pattern and inked again with some Black Soot DOX ink.
• Next, I added some white dots with my Posca pen to brighten up the background a bit.
• I set that aside to dry while I stamped and die cut the sentiment.
• I glued the dried stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock but I didn't have any orange to match, so I took a piece of white cardstock and rubbed my Abandoned Coral ink pad over it and splattered with my white Posca pen. I used that to border my card front and glued that onto a 4 1/4" square card base.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to add the sentiment and I put 3 little black gems under the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Stitched Harlequin 

Triangle Fade

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:

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- CHRISTMAS

Let's Craft and Create- VINTAGE FEEL

CRAFT- CHRISTMAS/ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White (Prism) 

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

white Posca Pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; foam tape

Greetings for the Season

Good Morning

Today's card features an older stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Tribal Fabric

Such a unique and interesting stencil to play with.

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

To begin, here are the measurements for my card.

I decided to make a Side Fold card using the stencil so I began by prepping my card base.  Here is how I did that:

- Base: cut a piece of cardstock 9 3/4" x 4 1/4"

- Score the base at 4 1/4"\

- Stamped Panel Front measures 3 3/4"  

- Side Panel measures 1 1/2" x 3 3/4"

** MY STENCILED PANELS ARE A BIT SMALLER AS I ADDED A BORDER AROUND**

• I placed the Tribal Fabric stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Salvaged Patina and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.
• I cleaned the stencil off and then masked just the center area with the lines on it and inked again with more of the Cracked Pistachio DOX ink, creating a grid effect for the trees.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the tree line and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I cut the panel into the sizes mentioned above and glued them onto a white card base.
• I stamped the sentiment and then glued it onto a green die cut circle.

Here is the stencil I used:

Tribal Fabric

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Make My Monday- CHRISTMAS TREE

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are our Game- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Christmas Tags (Avery Elle); 3 Pine Trees (Nellie's Choice)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Infinity Circle die (HA);

white Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Sunny Flowers

Welcome

I had fun playing with an older released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Sunny Flowers 

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

I decided to make a modified mini-slimline card so here are the measurements I used:

Base:  cut @7" x 6 1/4"

Score @ 3 1/2"

• I placed the Sunny Flowers stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink into the flower centers and then I added some Picked Raspberry to the rest of the flower.
• Next, I used an eraser on the end of a pencil to add some dots using the same colour of inks just to fill in some of the open areas.
• To brighten up the whole design, I used my white Posca pen and added dots to the eraser circles and to the flowers.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment from a scrap piece of embossed white cardstock and rubbed over it with my Picked Raspberry DOX ink pad.
• I die cut the sentiment 4 more times with white cardstock and glued them all together to create a stacked sentiment.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white, then pink cardstock and then onto the white card base.
• I glued the sentiment into the corner to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used;

Sunny Flowers

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- J IS FOR JUST ONE WORD

Simon Says Wed.- USE DIES

Beautiful Blossoms- ANYTHING GOES/OPTION MOOD BOARD

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

white Posca pen; Thanks die (TE)

Holiday Time

Hello

I hope your holiday planning is going well, it's such a busy time of year.

Today, I am revisiting this wonderful stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Triangle Fade

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

• I placed the Triangle Fade stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Salty Ocean and some Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink.
• I used the design of the pattern and cut along the edges to give the zig zag edges.
• I took the stenciled panel and placed it into my Misti to stamp the trees over the background and then splattered with my white Posca pen.
• Next I took another piece of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment along the bottom edge.
• I added some foam tape to the stenciled and stamped trees piece and added it along the middle section of my card front over the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 2 black gems beside the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Triangle Fade

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafty Calendar- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Girlz Creative- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Creative Knockouts- WINTER WONDERLAND

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Sentiments (SBC); Pine Trees (Nellie's Choice); Trees (IO)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White (Prism)

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); white Posca pen