So Happy

Welcome

This fun little card was created using the new stencil called:

Circles Galore

from A Colorful Life Designs.

Lots of possibilities with this one, but I decided to keep it really simple.

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

• I placed the Circles Galore stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.  I was left with a fun panel of dotted circles.
• To add more interest, I took the eraser on the end of a pencil and added the dots in these Distress Oxide colours; Ripe Persimmon, Abandoned Coral and some Peacock Feathers.  
• I glued my square stenciled panel onto a piece of blue cardstock and then onto a white 4 1/4" square card base.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and die cut it out.  I die cut a blue circle slightly larger and glued them together before adding them to the middle of my card with some foam tape to pop it up.

Here is the stencil I used:

Circles Galore

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- HAPPY NEW? (stencil)

Simon Says Wed.- SOMETHING NEW

Alphabet- 'S' IS FOR SQUARE

Simply Clean and Simple- USE SOMETHING NEW (stencil)

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Tags (Avery Elle); pencil eraser

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar White

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

Infinity Circle dies (HA); Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

A Little Winter Blessing

Hello and Welcome

I must admit, winter is not my favourite time of year but I love snowflake themed projects, so I decided to embrace that feeling with this card I made using a newly released stencil for January from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Falling Dots

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

• I cut a square piece of white cardstock and placed the Falling Dots over my paper then inked it up with some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink.
• I lifted the stencil off, cleaned it and then turned it sideways.  I inked again but this time I used some Salvaged Patina DOX ink to give the background some colour variation.
• I took the stenciled piece and placed it into my Misti to stamp the large snowflake right over the middle with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I stamped the sentiment in my Misti and then die cut it out.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock, then blue and then onto a 4 1/4" square white card base.
• I popped the sentiment over the snowflake with some foam tape.

Here is the stencil I used:

Falling Dots

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- HAPPY NEW? (stencil)

Simon Says Wed.- SOMETHING NEW

Simon Says Mon.- SOMETHING NEW

Alphabet Challenge- 'S' IS FOR SQUARE

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Winter Blessings (TE)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Solar white

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

TE Blending Brushes; foam tape 

Friends Close at Heart

Good Morning and Welcome

Today's card features a lovely new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Coneflower

I did some masking and changed it up a bit to get this bright and happy design. Stencils are so great and versatile for creating your own designs.

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

• I began by masking around the large coneflower with some low tack tape and then I placed the Coneflower stencil into the bottom corner of my white cardstock and inked it up with some Ripe Persimmon and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.
• I moved the stencil to the top right hand corner and repeated that process.
• I cleaned the stencil off and masked around the flowers to add the leaves around the flowers.  I inked that up with some Cracked Pistachio and Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled card front into my Misti and stamped the sentiment along the side.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of dark pink and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I added 3 black gems just under the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Coneflower

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

KarenFan10

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Beautiful Blossoms- ANYTHING FLORAL GOES

Girlz Creative Crafts- ANYTHING GOES

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- FREE IS GOOD (black gems)

Supplies

Stamp- Side by Side (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; black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Bring on the New Year

Good Morning

Here is another card I made for the New Year using one of the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Interconnected Circles

I layered it up with an older stencil to create this fun background.

So this is what I did to create my card.

• I began by placing an older stencil called Stitched Harlequin over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the Interconnected Circles stencil sideways over the first inking and inked with some Salty Ocean DOX ink.
• I removed that stencil and stamped over the circles with the little starburst.
• Next, I die cut a star right from my stenciled card front and then I die cut a larger one from some navy cardstock and glued those together after I stamped the sentiment over the smaller star.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of white cardstock and then navy and then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the star back into place, matching up the pattern.

Here are the stencils I used:

Interconnected Circles

Stitched Harlequin

Happy 2026 and thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look!

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

KarenFan10

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING NEW

We Love Stamping- ANYTHING GOES or ANYTHING NEW

Stamping Sensations- I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE SOMETHING BEGINS WITH 'B' (Blue)

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle); Amazing (SSS)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar White

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

Star die (SBC); foam tape

Happy New Year Wishes

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!

Today's card is the first for this year.

It features just one of the newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called 

Interconnected Circles

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

• I placed the Interconnected Circles stencil over a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.
• Next I placed the background into my Misti and stamped the snowflake into one corner, turned the card around and stamped again in the other corner with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink.
• I randomly stamped the little snowflakes over the background with more of the Peacock Feathers DOX ink to add more interest.
• I stamped the sentiment into the bottom corner with some Verasafine Clair ink.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of light blue cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base and added the blued gems to the middle of the snowflakes to finish off my card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Interconnected Circles

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

KarenFan10

May 2026 bring you much happiness, health and be filled with many blessings.

Adding my card to these challenges:

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

Simon Says Mon.- SPARKLE AND SHINE

Everybody Art- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Supplies

Stamps- Let it Snow (Visible Image); Merry Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Solar white

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

TE Blending Brushes; blue gems

Happy New Year!! 2026

 

Wishing you a wonderful Happy New Year filled with great memories and many blessings.

Congrats~ Bargello Technique

Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) at Splitcoast Stampers.

My challenge is to make a card using the 

Bargello Technique

Everyone has been so busy with their Christmas festivities so I thought this Technique was a very simple, achievable one to try.  So many possibilities with it as well and a good chance to use up some of those scrap pieces of designer paper you may have in your stash.

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

• I began by looking through my scrap papers that I never use and found 4 that I thought would work together.
• I cut them into 3/4" strips and glued the strips onto a piece of white cardstock side by side of each other being sure they were all touching. 
  
• I let the piece dry, then cut the strips in the opposite direction, again 3/4" wide so each strip had the patterns on them. (hope that makes sense)
  
• I glued them, one at a time onto another piece of white cardstock, offsetting the pieces like putting together a quilt pattern. There are many different ways you can create a pattern by just moving the strips into different positions.
• When I was happy with the pattern, I glued the piece onto some white cardstock and then black and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I die cut the sentiment with some black cardstock 4 times and glued them together, creating a stacked sentiment.  I cut the word shadow from a piece of white and glued them together.
• To finish my card off, I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment over the middle of my card.

Thanks a lot for coming to take a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ADD A SENTIMENT

Cut it Up- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Papers- various dp's (unknown)

Accessories and Tools- Congrats die (TE)