Old Classic

Welcome

Today's fun card would be perfect of one of the guys in my life.

So meet just one of the new stencils for September from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Quarter Moons

It worked great for creating a background for the car.

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

• I placed the Quarter Moons stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked the middle with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink and the edges with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I stamped the car onto a piece of cardstock that I inked with some Salty Ocean DOX ink, clear heat embossed it and then added some white details with my Posca pen.
• I placed the stenciled card front into my Misti to stamp the sentiment along the bottom.
• I glued the card front onto a piece of white, then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I fussy cut out the car and added it over the middle of my card front.

Here is the stencil I used:

Quarter Moons

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:

Simon Says Mon.- INSPIRED BY MUSIC (Cars)

Seize the Birthday- EMBOSSING

The Male Room- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- Classic Cars (Amazon)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

white Posca pen; clear EB powder; foam tape; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Dotted Leaves

Good Morning

I had fun playing with this new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Dotted Leaves

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

• I began by die cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Postage Collage die and I masked off each section.
• I placed the Dotted Leaves Stencil over the die cut and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wiped the stencil off, repositioned it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.  I repeated that process one more time and inked with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I lifted the stencil off and leaving the masks in place, I rubbed some Ripe Persimmon ink around each one of the cut out framed sections
• Next, I used some red cardstock to die cut the 'THANKS' letters and glued that onto the white word shadow.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card to finish it off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dotted Leaves

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- INSPIRED BY MUSIC  

(California Dreamin')

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- DOT and/STRIPES

Cardz 4 Galz- STITCHING REAL or FAUX

(faux...faster and easier)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Postage Collage die (Waffle Flower); 

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape; Markered Messages die (Concord and 9th)

Sympathy Card

Good Morning

This newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs worked great for creating some sympathy cards.  

So today meet the new stencil called

Leafy Heart Frame

Here is what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Leafy Heart Frame stencil onto the paper along the bottom edge.  I inked it up with some Distress Oxide inks in these colours:  Rustic Wilderness, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and Fossilized Amber. 
• I lifted the stencil off and flipped it to stencil the top of the panel using the same colours as mentioned above.
• I removed the stencil and placed the panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued my stenciled card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then red and then green and finally, onto an A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Leafy Heart Frame

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Word Power- ANYTHING GOES

CAS on Sunday- FALL

Alphabet Challenge- K is for KEEP IT SIMPLE

Supplies

Stamps- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios)

Inks- DOX, Versafine

Paper- Solar White

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

black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

No Words

Welcome

It's not easy to create sympathy cards, but I need to add some to my stash.

So today I am playing with the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Leafy Heart Frame

Here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Leafy Heart Frame stencil over a piece of white cardstock and picked out some Distress Oxide inks in Fall colours.  
• Next, I randomly inked with Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness until all the leaves were inked. 
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment across the middle of the heart.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of red cardstock, the onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Leafy Heart Frame

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- NATURE

Make My Monday- FUN WITH STENCILS

A Place to Start- ANYTHING GOES/option- LEAVES AND CIRCLES

Supplies

Stamps- Inside Out Sympathy (Catherine Pooler)

Inks- DOX, Versafine

Paper- Solar White

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

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

People Like You

Welcome

Today's card features the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Circle Moon

So, here's how I created my card.

• I found this background in my stash that I had done on my Gel plate.  It had some blue inks on it and I thought it looked like clouds, so that was my starting point.
• This stencil has 2 parts included to overlap one another. I placed the top of the Circle Moon Stencil over the background and inked it up with some Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil and moved it down to the detail portion and inked again but this time I used some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of blue and then onto an A2 sized white card base.
• I cut the pre-printed sentiment and added it along the bottom with some foam tape.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circle Moon

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:

Alphabet- KEEP IT SIMPLE

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES

Craft Rocket- DOTS/and or STRIPES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Gel Plate, brayer, Pre-Printed sentiment (TE)

To a Special Person

Good Morning

Today's card is all ready for Fall and features the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Filigree Leaf

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

• I began by getting out my Gel Plate and I pressed my Mustard Seed and Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink pads directly onto the plate. I used my brayer to blend the colours and placed the Filigree Leaf stencil onto the plate.  
• Next, I rubbed over the plate with a scrap piece of paper, then took the stencil off and rubbed over it with my white cardstock to pull up the print.
• When it was dry, I put the stencil back into place over the print and inked with some Ripe Persimmon, Lumberjack Plaid and some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink, filling in the open areas left behind when I took the print from the Gel Plate.
• I removed the stencil and splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I stamped and die cut the sentiment on some white cardstock.
• I glued my card front panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then red and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• The final step was to add the sentiment using some foam tape over the middle of the leaf.

Here is the stencil I used:

Filigree Leaf

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

KarenFan10

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Four Seasons- FALL SEASON 2025

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

The Male Room- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamp- With All My Art (TE)

Inks- DOX, Versafine

Paper- Solar White

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer;

Blending Brushes; White Posca pen

Happy Hooray!

Happy September!!

There is a crispness in the air and the kids are going back to school.  

A new month also means a new lineup of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs, some great Fall inspired designs.

Today's card features one of the new release called 

Quarter Moons

I thought I'd use some Fall colours so here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed the Quarter Moons stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted to add interest to the design, so I left the stencil in place and put the Bauhaus Circle Mask stencil (last month's release) right over it and inked again with some Lumberjack Plaid DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto white, then yellow and finally onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I added 3 black gems around the sentiment to finish off my card.

Here are the stencils I used:

Quarter Moons

Bauhaus Circle Mask Stencil

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

KarenFan10

Thanks so much for taking a look today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Allsorts- BIRTHDAY or ANYTHING GOES

Stamp and Fun= Creativity- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studio)

Inks- Versafine, DOX

Paper- Solar White; Coloured cs

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

black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); clear eb powder